W A S H IN G T O N
THE NEWS Of THE WEEK
In Qninoy, 111., five fatalities by
fro w n in g or otherwise occurred in
forty-eight hours. James MoLean was
killed by an accidental fa ll from the
roof of the Kicker National bank; Her
bert Harriaon, a school teacher, Fred
erick Gross and Fred Uaumgarten, sons
of prominent citizens, were drowned
in Bear oreek; George Betero, another
youth, was drowned in a pool south
of the oity limits, and hia two brothers
were saved only with great difficulty.
Pennsylvania was visited by a disas
trous hurricane, resulting in loaa of life
and property.
Steeples were blown
from ohurches, adjoining buildings
were orushed, houses were unroofed,
and trees broken off or torn op by the
roots.
Great havoc was oaused by the
heavy rainfall.
Tw o lives were lost,
thirty-six injured, some fatally, and
property damaged to the amount of
$100,000. A boarding-house near Cecil,
Washington county, waa washed away
and ita occupants, fifteen ooal minors,
were drowned.
Seven of the bodies
have been reoovered.
Eight are still
missing.
New s cornea from the Washington
state Republican headquarters that the
state convention w ill probably be held
at Tacoma, some time between August
16 and September 16.
Hon. Samuel Layman, a prominent
and well-known Oregonian, died at hia
home near Woodburn from the effects
of injuries which he sustained tome
weeks ago by falling from a cherry
tree. Mr. Layman waa 69 y ean of age.
A meeting of representatives from
the large foreign banking-houses was
held in N ew York, to oonsider plans
for the protection of the treaanry gold
reserve.
It is understood a plan was
arranged to ease the exchange market
until the crop movement starta the
balanoe in onr favor.
A San Francisco dispatch aays: Ed
w in B. Webster, the young paymaster
who was recently court-martialed at
Mare Island and found guilty of a
oharge of embeazlement. does not in
tend to abide by the judgment of the
oourt. He w ill appeal to President
Cleveland for clemency before the
navy department shall have an oppor
tunity to paBH upon the recently found
▼erdiot
Three members of the revolutionary
committee have juat arrived in Athena
from Crete on a special mission.
In
the course of an interview they made
the follow ing statement on an author
ity of their committee: “ W e wish to
aay it has been decided that we must
have granted to us the demands we
have sent to the sultan or elae we shall
fight. The powers must either give us
autonomy or see us crushed. Should
onr demands be negleoted, then within
fifteen days of July 16, the dste at
which they were made, we shall break
the armistice.”
Advices from Hong Kong say that
Imperial Chinese troops were recently
sent to Lanohou to suppress the Mo
hammedan
rebels, who
had riaen
against the authorities.
The rebels
sorrunuded the Imperial troops and
■mm to have totally annihilated them,
although tha imperial troops were bet
ter provisioned and equipped. There
were 6,000 troops sent to subdue the
rebels and all are either killed or miss
ing.
The rebels are now mad for
blood, massacreing all in authority,
k illing and pillaging on their triumph
ant march through the oountry.
T w o cable oars broke loose at the
top of the Ninth-street incline in Kan
sas City, and dashed down the declivity
into the Union depot sheds. The grip
oar and those on board «soaped injury,
but the trailer was thrown from the
track just Inside the elevated shedtand
literally smashed topiooes.
Several of
the oooupanta of this oar were badly
hart.
Am ong them ara George D.
Fearon, ot Kansas City, and his two sis-
tara, Mrs Gay and Miss Fearon, both
of N e w York. Mrs. G a y suffered an
inju ry of the spine.
CON
S h e r iff* « C o n u u iiilo n .
The judgment of the lower court
was reversed by the supreme court of
Washington in Olympia, in the oaee of
W alter H. Soderburg, appellant, vs.
K ing oounty, respondent. This action
was brought by the plaintiff as as
signee of divers persons, judgment
debtors in various foreclosure proceed
ings. olaiming to be entitled to the
surplus arising from each foreclosure
O F I N T E R E S T T O O U R READERS
sale. There was d o redemption in
any case and the plaintiff in each no
tion became the purchaser.
It appears
p r a h e m lv e R e v ie w o f th e Im p o r t
that the amount claimed as surplus
ant H a p p e n in g ;« o f t h e F a s t W e e k
was the sum claimed by the sheriff as
C a lle d F ro m t h e T e l e g r a p h C o lu m u i*
fees and commission,
in conducting
It 18 rumored that the Turkish gov sales the sheriff paid into the connty
ernment contemplates an issue of paper treasury several amounts under the
mistaken belief that it was his dury to
money.
dednot a commission from the amount
In Victor, Colo, .fifty pounds of giant
bid in each instance.
There were
powder exploded, causing 15,000 worth
thirty-fonr causes and the aggregate
of damage.
Many people were out by
amount claimed (9,004.84.
glass, but none killed.
H o w a O u a rre l E n ded.
In Bed alia, Mo., Mart Crawford, a
section foreman on the Missouri Pa-
In Cincinnati, shots were heard at
oifio, was hanged by a furious mob for the residence of W illia m T. W iley, a
the attempted rape of a 16-year-old girt. ladies’ tailor and furrier, on West
The socialist congress, which met in Fifth street. Mrs. W iley was found
London, proved to be a noisy gather bleeding from six ballet wounds, and
ing. Scenes of violence were enacted her husband was unconscious with a
and a free fight was narrowly averted. bullet hole in his temple. The woman
died on the way to the hospital.
The coming year it is said wines w ill W ile y 's wound was superficial,the ball
oome high, owing to the failure of C al glancing off the skull.
The oonple,
ifornia's grape orop.
Little wine w ill after frequent quarrels, had separated,
be exported from the golden state this but began to live together again about
season.
three months ago.
W iley says his
A New York dispatch says Senator w ife shot him. He then seized the
H ill is now in favor of a third tioket. weapon and fired at her.
The information, it is said, oomea di-
A n 1 1 - Y e a r - O ld B o y M u r d e r e r .
mot from a personal friend of the sen
In Chicago, Harry Rudolph, aged
ator, who ia a prominent Democrat
11, struok two blows with bis puny
A stockman named John Lawrence
fists, and his opponent, Grover Han-
was found dead upon the range near
Ben, aged 9, fell dead at his feet.
The
Union, Or., with a bullet in hia head
lads were having a boyish qnarrel, and
and a pistol lying a few feet away
It
yoang Hansen started to run. Rudolph
ia supposed that he committed suicide.
followed in swift pnrsnit, catching the
The trial of the Sooth African raid- lad near the curb, and struck him in
era has ended in London, and Dr. the face and abdomen. Little Hansen
Jameson has been given a sentence of covered his faoe with his bands, fell
fifteen months imprisonment without backward, and expired.
Yoang R u
labor.
The others received light sen dolph was locked up.
tences.
From All Parts of the New
World and the Old.
COUNTY
H ATC H ET.
DE 6 S E D
A M E R ICA N S
D IS P ATC H ES .
Shot
Tw o young people were killed in a
railroad crossing accident in Lancaster,
Pa.
The Republican national committee
has decided to open the campaign this
week.
W illiam Henry Smith, late general
manager of the Associated Press, died
HE T O O K D ESP ER A TE CHANCES
at Lake Forest, 111.
Three people were drowned near
Wheeling, W. Va., while trying to
T h e S h e r iff, B iu g le h a n d e d , W e n t A f t e r
cross the Ohio in a scull.
t h e H i g h w a y m a n , a n d B .-o u g h t H im
The Northwest has again been visited
D o w n , b u t D ie d lu
th e
A tte m p t
by a disastrous Btorm. Much damage
Nevada, Cel., July 29. — Sheriff was done to crops in Michigan and
David Douglass went out yesterday to Ohio.
search for a highway robber.
Not re
It is reported that a race war has oc
turning and his horse and buggy being curred about 15 miles east of Jasper,
found tied np half a m ile from town, Fla., in which six men were killed and
this morning a searching party went seven seriously injured.
ont. The sheriff and the robber were
A Loudon dispatch from Constanti
both found dead about a mile from
nople says the latest news received is
town and only a few feet from each
that the prosperous villages around
other.
Five chambers were empty in
Van have been destroyed and every
the sheriff’s revolver and he was snot
male over 8 years of age killed. The
through the heart, in the right eye and
through the hand. The highwayman total killed is placed at 12,800.
The strike at the Brcwn hoisting and
was also shot three times through the
heart, in the abdomen and hip. The oonveying works, at Cleveland, O., in
robber bad a rifle, but it did not ap augurated nine weeks ago, which caus
pear to have been nsed.
It is thought ed several bloody riots, has ended, a
Douglass was killed by a pal of the settlement between the company and
dead robber. There is great excitement the employes having been reached.
over the affair.
Several parties iden
The present outlook for hopgrowers
tified the dead robber as the man who is not encouraging.
Reports from
held np Polioenian Gibson and Charles Silverton say that growers expect to re
Sladky, of San Francisco, near here ceive only about 6 or 6*2' cehts a pound
about two weeks ago, and who is sus for this year’s crop, at which price
pected as the person who has commited many w ill not go the expense of hav
other robberies in this section of late. ing their hops picked.
The bloody work took place some
Among the speakers who w ill take
time yesterday afternoon or last even the stump for tbe Populist ticket will
ing. There have been a number of be Senator Butler and ex-Chairmau
bold highway robberies lately, all evi Taubeneck, E. V. Debs, Robert Schil
dently the work of the same man. He ling, of Milwaukee; Senator Allen, ol
has worked without assistants, but his Nebraska; Senator Peffer, Mrs. Rob
j capture seemed impossible, although erts, of Georgia, and many others, .n-
the sheriff and his deputies made every eluding Coxey and Carl Brown.
effort to oatch the thief.
Finally,
In N e w York two young men had a
Sheriff Douglass determined yesterday
to attempt the capture of the highway discussion as to the relative merits ol
man alone. The sheriff started with a two actresses of their acquaintance
horse and baggy, accompanied only by To decide their controversy they foughl
T h a B a llo t T h ie v e s .
The city council of Taooma, in spe his dog. Nothing was heaid from the a battle-royal on the roof of a handsome
cial session, offered a reward of (1,000 sheriff daring the day, but when no Riverside residence. The referee de
for the arrest and conviction of the word was received after nightfall, his clared it a draw after they had pum
thieves who stole the ballots of four ; friends grew uneasy, especially as the meled each other to their satisfaction
preoincts from the vault at the city dog came back alone late In the even
A Philadelphia dispatch says: In
hall.
Mayor Fawcett has offered a re ing. A t daybreak today a large party formation received from Stanley undei
ward of (200. The evidence thus far of deputies and friends started in search date of June 9, proves conclusively tbal
secured indicates that the breaking into of the sheriff, tracing him to W ells' the ship which foundered off that lo
The cality May 14 last was the Philadel
the vanll was started about two weeks ranch, two miles from town.
ago, and finished between last Satur horse and bnggy had been found near phia clipper, City of Philadelphia, and
W ells' tied to a tree last night. Tbe that Captain Johnson, his wife and
day night and Tuesday morning.
horse had evidently been there several family, one passenger and a crew num
G e n e r a l G e o r g e W . .lo n e « D e a d .
honrB. The vehicle was owned by bering in all twenty-five men, perished.
General George W . Jones, the oldest Sheriff Douglass and was easily identi
surviving ex-United States senator, fied today. This aroused the fear of
S W E P T ON T O DEATH.
died at his home in Dubuque, Ia., aged tbe searchers, who divided into small
92. He represented as a delegate to parties and covered the surrounding
» C lo u d b u rs t I d
congress the territory now inolnded in country thoronghly. Abont 10 o’clock, F i f t y L iv e s L o s t
C o lo r a d o .
Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan and the half a mile from where the horse had
Denver, July 28.— The torrents oi
West, except the Pacific coast.
He been tied, in the woods back of W e lls’
He was water which rushed down the canyons
was the state’s first senator, and was ranch, waa found the sheriff.
prominent in national affairs, especial dead, bnt he bad got his man. Not upon Morrison, Golden and othei
ly of the Northwest.
five feet from the sheriff lay the dead mountain towns of Colorado last night,
were caused by a terrific mountain
body of the mneh-songht robber. ,
C r ip p le C r e e k M tage H e ld I'p .
storm, which extended hundreds oi
FOR
A
B U R G L A R miles or more from Boulder, where the
The Cripple Creek stage was held np M I S T A K E N
near Grassy, five miles east of there,
A ll down the
C h ic a g o M a n S h o t a n d K i l l e d b y H I , damage was blight.
by three masked men, who obtained
range west of Dtnver, almost to Pu
S o n -in -1 .a w .
twelve gold watches and (600 in caBh.
Chicago, July 28.— Daniel Shroyer, eblo, the storm swept its destructive
The passengers inclnded thirteen men
i a well-known resident of Park Ridge, way.
and two or three women. The latter
it has been impossible, thus far, tc
was shot and killed early this morning
were unmolested by the robbers.
A
by his son-in-law, George E. Pottin- fully explore the devastated district,
posse with bloodhounds is on tne trail
ger, a prominent Chicago real estate but it is believed that when a full in
of tho highwaymen.
man, who mistook him for a burglar. vestigation has been made at least fifty
The shooting took place in Pottinger’a lives w ill be found to have gone out
F r a n c l i l « « G ra n te d .
Ingleside
avenue.
Mr. during the progress of tbe storm.
The council of the town of Castle | honse in
A t Morrison and Golden tbe torrent
Rock has granted to H. Orcnard a thir I Shroyer had been a guest at the Pottin-
tore away buldings, uprooted trees,
ty-year franchise for the construction ger home for several weeks. Mr. Pot-
washed out long stretches of railroad
of a water and sewer system.
The tinger was aronsed at 3 o’clock this
tracks, swept away bridges and spread
water w ill be taken from a mountain morning, and, thinking burglars were
annihilation through the towns.
Id
stream about two miles below town, | abroad, took bis revolver and started to
He was about to enter work was as brief as the warnings it
and carried to a reservoir on the rook | investigate.
gave were inadequate, and almost be
south of town, to an elevation of abont 1 the kitchen, when he saw the form of
a man approaching, and. raising his fore the citizens knew what had hap
ninety feet above the town.
revolver, fired. Tbe man gave vent to pened the floods had passed, leaving
C o n s u m p t iv e M ilc h C o w s .
a startling exclamation and Mr. Pot- only deadly Bilence and signs of devas
M ilk Inspector Dockery,
of Ban [ tinger recognized his father-in law 's tation everywhere.
A ll that could be done in the dark
Francisco, says fifty per cent of the voice. The bullet struck Mr. Shroyer
oows which supply milk for San Fran- in the groin and he died in an hoar. ness and oonfusion was done by the
oisoo are consumptive, and w ill have Pottinger is almost distraoted, and his rescuers. Men, women and children
were extricated from dangerous predic
to be killed. There are 6,700 oows w ife is prostrated.
aments, let down from the roofs oi
owned by the dairies of the oity, and
A D o g '« D e v o t io n .
floating bouses, helped out of trees and
of these fully 8,000 are diseased, and
San Francisco, July 29.— The doleful
drawn out of the very whirl and death
the m ilk from them is unfit for use.
w hining of a dog near the Scandina
of the torrent.
vian plat, in Lanrel cemetery, attract
F o r A S e c o n d C o n v e n tio n .
As far as ascertained, the following
ed the attention of Mrs. S. C. Oyer yes
A t a meeting of the gold-standard
is a full list of persons whose live!
terday afternoon. She took a path
Democrats, held in Chicago, it was de
were lost in the great floods that swept
leading to a clump of bushes, when a
cided to hold another national conven
down upon the towns of Morrison and
small fox terrier ran toward her. She
tion not later than September 2.
A
Golden, in the foothills near Denvei
tried to pet the dog, but the animal
last nigh .
meeting w ill soon l>e held in Indianap
kept out of reach. Not seeing any
olis to deoide on the place.
The dead at Morrison are:
Mrs
thing, she turned away, bnt the dog
Moses M iller and three children, and
followed her, finally pulliug at her
T w o B o d ie s F o u n d .
child of J. C. Longnecker, of Morrison;
Skamokawa, July 27.— The body of skirts. She turned once more and the Mrs. A. S. Proctor; Robert James
dog,
a
pace
or
two
ahead,
led
the
way
Frank Peterson, one of the unfortun
Proctor, 5 years; Grace Proctor, 7
ates who. with Mrs. A. R. Crosby and into the brush. A few steps farther years; Edith Proctor; Mrs. T. F
and
she
was
startled
to
see
the
body
of
Charles Newell, drowned May 12 last,
Casey; James Casey, 10 years; Edith
near this point, was picked up by the a man. She leaned over and saw that Casey, 8 years; Mamie Casey, 7 years;
he
was
dead.
The
dog
cuddled
down
seine st T.
K. Johnson's seining
Anna Casey, 6 years; Clara Casey, 3
ground yesterday morning.
The re and licked the faoe of the corpse. years, > ra. Anthony Heress; Eugene
Mrs.
Oyer
at
once
left
the
place
and
mains were naturally very much de
Heress, 7 years; Mabel Heress, 2 years;
composed, and were only recognized by notified the superintendent of tbe ceme Josephine Heress. 6 years; Carroll
the clothing and shoes. This is the tery, who in turn notified the morgue. Heress, 4 years; Thomas McGangh, 21
first appearance of any of the ill-fated W hen the wagon reached the spot the years old. A t Dayton, a cousin of Mrs.
young people. They were supposed to dog was still by the side of hia late Casey and Annie Hansen, 20 years old,
Deputy O 'B rien and Messen
have been washed out to sea by the master.
a servant of tbe Proctors, were killed.
heavy freshets. Another body was also ger McGinnes took the receiver and
Fatally injured: A child of J. C.
picked up near Brookfield, about tile started to lift the body. The dog Longnecker.
same time, but those who saw it say jumped at them and had to be driven
The dead st Golden are:
C. A.
W hen the body was placed on
it is not that of yonug New ell, but that away.
Johnson; Mrs. A. A, Johnson; Mrs.
of a man who had not been in the the receiver the dog jumped in and had J. F. Edwards.
water more than a week
The remains to be lifted out. Tbe dog followed the
A ll the Denver people who perished
of young Peterson were buried here to wagon some distance, but was finally were campers at Bear Creek canyon.
lost. There were no papers or any
day-
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thing on the body that wonld lead to There were many more campers in that
Gisss in oven doors is a new contriv its Identification. Tbe deceased was a vicinity. Some reports say that when
ance.
It enables cooks to watch the man apparently 60 years old, with a Bear oreek canyon is fully explored it
w ill possibly be found that no less
food without opening the doors.
short chin beard and grayish hair.
than fifty people periehed in the flood.
A C o llisio n l-r o b a b lo .
Sheriff and Robber Found
Dead in the Woods.
T h e b n < l llfllc e r a H la iu e d .
The latest theory regarding the sup
London, Jnly 29.— The board of in
posed loss of aome of the coast-bound
quiry has decided th..t the loss of the
fleet off Cape Horn Is to the effect that
steamship
Drummond
Castle,
off
two of the vessels have been in colli-i
Dshant, Jane 16, resulting in the
aion. The British ship Anoaloa, which
drowning of about 250 persona, onjy
has just arrived at Cape Town from
one passenger end two seamen being
the Sound, reports that, on A pril 97, in
saved, waa due to the fact that she was
latitude 66 south, longitnde 63 west,
not navigated with proper stamanlike
the abandoned hall of the British ship
care In view of the prevailing condi
Gowenbank was sighted. The derelict
tions.
looked like it had been in ooUision I
Tha ropes on a first-class man-of-war
The masts were gone end the headgear
scat shout (3,000.
carried away.
A Resume of Events in the
Northwest.
e v id e n c e
N , w i
of
lia t h .r ..!
steady
In
Our Neighboring
A ll
Ik s
grow th
Tow ns
of
S U t e « - Improve-
n ,ru t N o te d In A l l I n d u s t r ie « —D ra gon #
The smoke from forest fires in the
Cascades is bo thick around Pendleton
that tbe Blue mountains can no longer
be seen.
Assessor Howell, of Linooln oounty,
has completed the field work of assess
ing, and is now at work making up
the assessment roll.
Seven-year locusts are numerous
ab o u t Canyon City, in Grant county,
and the merry music of their wings
can be heard all day.
Mrs. Catharine Irvine, who died at
Salem last week, was one of the first
women married at The Dalles, having
gone there from Indiana in 1853.
The high water of laBt month in U n
ion county is said to have destroyed
many young prairie chickens, as the
breeding grounds were in many places
overflowed.
Elmer Hansen, of Adams, brought
into Pendleton last week the first of
this year’s wheat crop in this connty.
and sold it to Mr. Byers for 40 oeuts a
bushel.
It ran 58 ^ pounds to the
bushel.
A carload of fat hogs was shipped
from Elgin last week. This is the first
shipment of hogs made from there for
some time, because of the dull market.
Most shipped last week sold for two
cents per pound.
J. McCarty, in attempting to board
an ont-going freight train in Baker
City last week, fell across tbe rail, and
several cars passed over his left foot,
which was so badly mangled that it
bad to be cut off.
as
EXECUTE o ]
F i l i b u s t e r s by
Cuba.
a— -
Key West, July 29.-Tw.lv« *
filibusters recently landed in <>.
the steamer Three Friends h«,/
killed by the Spaniards, ttorni
letters reoeived here. They »
ed near Havana.
A small hsaT„
surgents were in waiting aB,|
arms to the mountains. vVhil«
lug they were discovered by,;—
column.
The filibusters fled ¡ 3
forost and for four days Wt)r4 *
food. On the fifth day, alter, "
died of heat and exhaustion |
some insurgents who nB(j—
guide them to a place of safet, -
after meeting the aconta the/«,
a Spanish column and were (»
scatter.
G abriel O ffall and Louis Pina
Key West; James Floyd, of Co)¿
O., aud Pearce Atkins, whose nu
are a Jacksonville family, are ■
the killed. The names of the,
killed have not been heard. The '
members of the expedition react
insurgent camp.
R EG IS TR A TIO N
FRAUD:
t V lio lo e a le V io la t io n o f the Lav f
F r a u o ia o o C ity Hall.
San Franoisoo, Jnly 29.—Cr
able signs of fraud have been i
ered in the registration at the
office in the oity hall, and i| «
been found that many of the s
applicanta for placea on the ¡
boarda resorted to falsehood to-
themselves eligible.
The fm
registration were discovered byi
trar Hinton’s deputies, and tbiJ
eries concerning the precinot apis
was made by men employed ¡
Democratic and Republican c
under the supervision of Msi ¡f
and T. J. L. Smiley. Donbtlea
wrongdoing of the same kind ‘
disclosed. The grand jnry'i u
was oalled by the election i
era today to frand already asee)
Mr. Smiley said there were pet
cases of men having registered
dents in precincts wherein the;
The nuusual drought has killed all live, so as to get appointed on -
the salmon berries, raspberries, and tion boards.
other wild bernes along the Necan-
W O R K O F WRECKE sl
nicum, in Clatsop county, so that the
bears, which in the summer time live
principally upon these berrieB, have L a id T r a p f o r Pasflenger
C a u g h t a Freight.
been induced by huDger to come very
close to men's habitations, looking for
Sun Franoisoo, Jnly 28. —An
food.
was made to wreok a pa«
The Grant s Pass Courier says: “ The on the Southern Paciflo, near Sr
scarlet fever, which carried off three day, bnt instead, a local freight:
patients on the Anton Rose ranch on was toppled over a fifty-foot ■:
Tbe engineer, drew
William s creek, has been corraled, and ment.
the danger of spreading the virnlent brukeman were badly but nol
disease is now almost past.
The citi hurt. Three cars went ora
A rail had been pli
zens petitioned the oonnty court to ap engine.
point quarantine officers, but no law when the engine struck it it
oould be found justifying the measure. lifted off the track and sent'
Superintendent Risque, of the Virtue steep embankment. It il
mine, in Baker county, has let a con intention was to wreck the;
tract for supplying the mine with 5,000 train due two hours later. Tbs,
cords of wood. The contractors are P. are John Edwards, engineer; L
Basche and Cato J. Johns.
The con Hurd, Brakeman Wright
immediately
tract price is abont (20,000. The wood road company
is to be delivered by January 1, 1896, wrecking train to the scene i
and Basche & Johns w ill put a force of of detectives is ínvestigs*-
men to work in the timber without wreck and scouring the oouxijj
ture the miscreants. Had lb*
loss of time.
ger train gone over, tho loa:
The Willamette Hopgrowers' Asso
wonld have been large, si the
ciation met in Independence recently,
a dangerous one.
and decided that at the next regular
meeting, which comes on the 1st day
IN A NARROW GOt
of August, the members would con
sider the advisability of picking hops
llr u s li W it h M a ta h e ls e Is tin
and also the price to be paid this year.
mn>.
They also extend an invitation to all
London,
Jnly
28.—The
hopgrowers of Dallas, Buena Vista and
surrounding country to be present at Buluwayo dispatch has be®
that time, and join with them in dis by the Chronicle:
Nicholson’s patrol, 300 she
cussing all matters of interest.
yesterday checked in a ntrw^
W a N liin g to n .
the north of the Matoppo hit!
G. W . Corning, of Olympia, died in to Laugns’ stronghold,
that city last week at the age of 81. in great strength occupied u
He was born in New York.
liable position, and they
The Populist party of the state of equipped with rifles and Mfc
Washington w ill hold its state conven The straightness of their r
tion at Ellensburg August 12.
remarkable.
The Cape "boys” (with *>,
A. B. Weed, of North Yakima, says
the Yakima hop crop w ill probably not patrol) cleared the neighborly
of the enemy, killing t 0 -
be more than 5,000 bales this year.
rebels, but a gallant attempt
The cost of “ experting" the books of
passage was checked by » !
King county w ill be not less than (6 ,-
from tbe caves studding lb*u
000, and the highest estimate is (21 •
delivered at close range.
000.
Nioholson lost but five h*
The county treasurer and auditor of
Thurston county have been directed by two Cape “ boys” in s f*»|
He therefore withdrew his '
the comimssioners to invest the sinking
returned to the camp.
fund of (8,000 in state warrants.
The connty commissioners of Linooln
county w ill this fall submit to the
voters a proposition to move the county
seat from Sprague to Davenport.
A
M O T H E R ’S
D r o w n e d l l « r T » n rhllSree ^
t o F o i l « « TH«»-
The farmers of the Kennewick valley
Camden, N. J ., -Inly
are busy cutting their second crop of Hermann, 80 year, Ora^S
alfalfa, and the yield is good. They Fourth street, drowned her
find a good market for their hay among children and tried to dW” 1
the sheepraisers.
night in the Delaware n**
The Ocosta mill is no more. A ll the the hands of one child •**)
machinery has been taken ont and the other and took a l*rl*
shipped to Cosmopolis.
Over (75,000 bolic acid.
Then.
has been lost in attempting to operate each arm. she leaped
the mill at Ocosta.
boatmen saw her jump-*?
The total loss by fire in the city of her ont of tbe water «<
Spokane has been less during the last down for the third time
Domestic troobW
twelve months than during any pre live.
When
vious similar period since the paid fire wish to die.
husband heard of her
department was established.
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The eldest son of H. H. Spaulding, tempted to commit
of Almota, was dragged by a runaway his throat, bnt the poll* •
team through a barbed wire fence the weapon from his hand*
other day and hia clothing completely jured himself. H® , -
torn from him. He was scratched from
The oldest national t o
head to foot, but not so deeply but that
il the that of I ,en®*' E
his wounds w ill soon heal.
been in nee «ince thef**
Hogan Johnson, of Riverside, in P a
V io le n t S to r m « In I’ a r i« .
A M o d e » * '» !
cific oounty, put a rope around a bull's
Paris, July 28.— Violent storms oc-
Philadelphia,
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neck and started to lead him home.
curred in this region tonight, immense
On the way the boll made an attack H all, 22 years old, ■ ■
damage having been caused by wind
upon Mr. Johnson from the rear, goring jumped from the J*(*”
and rain
The lower quarters of the
him m the back and trampling him un into Delaware bay.
oity have been flooded and several cas
der foot until he was nearly dead. One from an excursion,
ualties are reported.
H all *9
horn penetrated the lung, entering the recovered.
at a local
body about five inches. Mr Johnson's student
F i n . K i l l e d a t D e lh i, In d io .
... . .
1 l... oSfl*
Bombay, India, Jnly 28.— A rsilwsv right arm was broken in three places
and
from
his
hips
down
he
is
one
m
au
collision has occurred at Delhi by
He i. 62 year. old.
which fifty persons were killed and in of severe bruieee.
jured.
but it ia thought be w ill P o rtly re
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