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THE NEWS OF 1 WEEK F o r e i g n (¿rain C rops. BROKE A U N C LE SHAFT. The European crop reports of the S te a m s h ip P a r is C rossed t h e O cea n agrionltnral department, issued by the W i l l i O n e S c re w . chief statistician at Washington, shows that the crop of Great Britain baa been Southampton, Oct. 20.— The Am eri From All Parts of the New somewhat reduced in the north and in Statistical Agent Wilcox in can line steamship Paris, Captain W il Scotland by the persistent wet weather kins, from New York, October », World and the Old. • California. of September, which practioally ruined reached the dock in this city at 0 o clock most of the wheat then ungathered. this morning. fcbe reports that at 9 A. In the sontheru countries harvesting M., October 8, iu latitude 40 45 north, OF IN T E R E S T T O O U R R E A D E R S operations were completed before the IN D U S T R Y G R O W IN G IM P O R T A N T longitude 157 west, while going at a bad weather set in. and the wheat is moderate rate of speed iu calm of a finer m illing quality than has weather, her starboard tail shaft broke. Ail K In iiiirittc him I A c c u r a t e Deport t f The engines were immediately stopped S o n p r e h e u i l T » K e v l e w o f t h e I m p o r t been known for year». and a boat lowered and an examina t h e M a t i n * o r t h e F i s h i n g I.n <lu »tr* an t H a p p e n in g * o f the Pant W e e k A D ju s iiilte K ip losion * tion made, from which it was ascer t o l i e O b t a i n e d f o r t h e C' o ii iiu ik s tn .i C a lle d F ro m th e T e le g r a p h C olu m n*. A large qnantity of dynamite in a tained that the propeller had beeu magazine of the Dayton Coal & Iron San Francisco, Oct 21. — Williair. Gent-ml l.'arlos Ezeta lias taken quar jammed and broken. The shaft was Company, at Dayton, Tenn., exploded, A. Wilcox, of Washington, D. C. ters in Oakland, Cal., and says he is secured and the ship proceeded with prepared to meet hie enemies He im wrecking many buildings and destroy statistic«! agent of the United State one engine. There was not the slightest ing an electiro light plant, patting out commission of fish and fisheries, ha- uneasiness amongst the passengers over agines be ie being pureued by bired all the lights. The company store is a arrived from Oregon and Washington the turn of affairs, and the officers aeeaaaiiiH in the employ of Mr. Lopez, The debris was for the purpose of preparing a statis the minister from Salvador. Lopez as complete wreck. were all perfectly cool. blown a quarter of a mile. tical report of the fishing industry 01. sert« (hat the general ie a bluffer and ie The North German Lloyd steamship this coast. He has beeu industriously Fuerst Bismarck (which arrived in afraid to make a move. T e r r e ll M a k es a C laim . engaged in the pursuit of his in vestige The board of supervisors of Han New York October 9, bringing the United Htates Minister Terrell has Francism has appropriated $800 for lodged with the Turkish government a tions and inquiries in Oregon and news that the Paris was disabled), was the purchase of a supply of the Ooto claim for $40,000 indemnity on behalf Washington several weeks, and w ill sighted two hours after the ship had remedy for leprosy. It w ill be used of Mrs. Lenz, mother of Frank Lenz, devote the next month or two to th * got under way again. The Paris kept for the relief of the thirteen men and the Pittsburg bicyclist who was mur work of gathering data coneruiug the in the track of westbound steamers dur fish and fisheries of California. tw o women in the leper colony at the dered by ing the voyage iu order to be reported Kurds while traveling Mr. W ilcox says that for severs peathonee. The remedy ee far as tried aud to be able to request aid if needed. through Asiatic Turkey in 1895. years past the fisheries of the we.-t by the physicians has had good effect The weather was moderate aud fine coast of the United States had been throughout the voyage, except on two and many of the afflicted w ill recover. P e n a lly S w iftly Kxecu ted. growing in importance to such an ex occasions, when there were gales. No W eyler and bianco w ili be recalled. Miss Blanche Gray, a young lady of Premier Canovas w ill fall, and grave line family, of Atlanta, G a., was going tent that the United States fish com cause is assigned for the accident, but mission had deemed it advisable and it is thought to have been due to a flaw events w ill occur in Hpain, Madrid dis from a friend’s house to her sister(s, Tw o highly important that an elaborate and iu the shaft. The passengers stated patches say, it ie believed there, unless when a negro assaulted her. accurate report of the status of the fish they had a- pleasant trip and some ex the rebels in Cuba and the Philippine honrs later the negro was caught and ing industry here be obtained, and he pressed themselves as being sorry that islands are conquered within a month. hanged by a mob. has beeu sent here for that purpose the voyage ended. The Madrid press openly attacks Cano Hia report is calculated to prove of F r e ig h t T ra in s C o llid e. vas and W eyler because of their in C A U G H T IN T H E A C T . A head-end collision of freight trains great benefit to the commercial fishing ab ility to check the Cuban revolution. ______ * occurred on the Northeastern railroad, industries of the coast for the reason The steamer Arago went ashore just near New Orleans. W illiam Folcher, that it w ill show the need of more A T h i e f ' s N e w M e t h o d o f D u b b i n g t h e north of the Coos bay jetty and near M ails. engineer, and his fireman, John Alex- hatcheries and a more thorough stock where the wbaleback steamer Wet mine ing of the streams and inland waters of Kansas City, (Jet. 20.— \ daring anderia, colored, were killed. was lost. A ll that is left of the 1 robber of the mails was arrested here the coast states. steamer to be seen is two spars project P o r te 's D e m a n d D efu sed . He says it is highly probable that tonight by the postal authorities, aided ing up on the ocean beach. The vessel The embassies of the powers have the United States fish commission w ill by the local police. The culprit is C. w ill be a total loss. In an attempt to sent an identical note to the porte re decide to establish half a dozen new H. Hamilton, ailas Wallace, and land twelve people were drowned, fusing its demand that the right be ac hatcheries in California before long claims to have been employed lately at eight of the crew and fonr of the pas- corded of searching foreign vessels in for the reason that the fishing industry Los Augeles, Cal., as a stenographer. sengers. The tug Hunter and the life Turkish waters for Armenians. of the Paoific coast states, including The police authorities say the man has saving crew went to the rescue but Alaska, has grown until it ranks next beeu in trouble at Salt Lake and Den nothing could be done, owing to a K a n A s h o r e in a F o g to those of the New England and M id ver. Iu the latter place he was at one dense fog. The British steamer Palestrina, dle Atlanitc states in extent and im time an employe of the city. This The people of Albuquerqne, N. M., Captain Harder, ballast-laden fur Bal portance, while the value of the fishery eveuiiig Hamilton appeared at the union paid their homage to a trne hero at the timore, ran ashore in a thick fog near products is greater than in the South depot wearing the biass buttons and funeral of .lohn Braden, who sacrificed St. Johns, N. F. Hhe w ill probably He Atlantic, Gulf and Great Lakes states uniform of a railway mail agent hia own life to save those of women become a total wreck. steppnd Voldly up to a truck that was combined. and children. During a parade in that standing under the depot sheds, loaded P e a c e i n >1 a t a h e l e l a n d . M a g n e t i c P o w e r in A e r i a l N a v i g a t i o n . city Barden was driving an ammuni with mail sacks, and pulled down a Cecil Rhodes. Earl Urey, adminis tion wagon, the contents of which ex Boston, Got. 21.— An entirely new letter pouch, throwing it across his trator of the British Sonth Africa Com- ploded Sind set fire to the wagon. The scheme looking to aeriitl navigation arm and stepping into a waiting room. team started to ran, in the direction pany, and other officials had a final un and flight has been suggested by A. W. There he placed the pouch under an derstanding with the Matabele chiefs. of a crowd of women and children, but Kitsch, of this city, it is such a decid overcoat that hung upon his arm aud Mr. Rhodes announced to them that, Braden stayed at his post nntil he had ed departure from all the propositions walked out into the street. He would chocked the frenzied Hnimals, and then after yielding up their arms and those heretofore advanced for utilizing the have escaped but for Frank White, a of their number who had beeu guilty fe ll from the seat, burned to a crisp. atmosphere for purposes of transit us of murdering whites, the Matabeles to commftml serious attention from turf follower, whom he had kuown iu Albert Hence Downing, a highway must locate themselves in specified dis scientists and others to whom it has Denver, and whom he had taken into man arrested in Denver, Col., has con his confidence. White quickly noti tricts of the country. The principal beeu presented. fessed that he murdered Joel G. Ash fied the officers, aud a short time after Nitsob Is of the opinion that the wards Hamilton was arrested at his worth in that city and committed chiefs would be held responsible and numerous robberies, besides having would receive monthly salaries from subtle magnetic nttraition that holds hotel. He had cut open the sack and murdered a man in 1885 at Han Jose, the British Chartered South Africa the needle of the mariner’s compass was going through the letters which it Cal., and committed other crimes Company. The chiefs all agreed to with unswerving fidelity to the north contained when the officers broke into there. He promises to plead guilty to this proposition, and it is believed the can he utilized in a magnified form for his room. He had already extracted all the crimes which he has committed whule Matabele trouble is new at an man's convenience, profit and pleasure. several small sums of money. Accepting the theory advanced that and says he wants to be hnng. Down end. DUMPED IN T O T H E S E A . vast deposits of magnetic ore exist in ing it 45 years old, and was born in H a tc h e t M en are D oom ed . Poik comity, Missouri; his mother and The end of the highbinder days in the immediate vicinity uf the north sister live at Bozeman, Mont., and his Han Francisco has come. A dozen pole, and form there come themagnetio H o w t h e T u r k s in C o n s t a n t i i i o p l e C o t B i« l o f A r m e n i a n s . brother at Halt Lake. headquarters of the hatchet-men were currents distributed over the globe, and Baron Nicholas Knebitsky, governor destroyed, and the work of destruction that it is the attraction of this thus far- New York, Oct. 20. — Madji Kahsin of the Russian far seal islands, is in w ill be continued. The agent of the unbounded field that draws with inagio is a Christian Turk, who was one of Ban Francisco on his way to Washing consul-general overthrew the josses, power the needle of the comp ss, there the passengers on boaid the La Gas ton, where be inteuds to present, broke down the signs and dismantled is nothing, as he looks at it. to prevent cogne, which arrived todav. He comes through the Kussisn ambassador, the the headquarters where the hatebet- its being made of real service. "1 be to this country on a business trip. form of a new treaty between hia coun meu have been wont to meet, and the lieve,” said he, "th at magnets could be Through au interpreter, he told about try and the United Htates. Celestial desperadoes are now homeless suspended in the air of sufficient force the massacres of Armenians. He was It is expected that 10,000,000 salmon and hunted. This outcome is welcomed to counteract the resistance of the air, in Constantinople during the three fry w ill lie turned into the Columbia by all in Han Francisco, for another overcome the adverse currents and days’ massacres in August. During river this year. Of this number, 2,- virulent outbreak was expected at any move more or less rapidly toward the that time 30,000 Armenians, he said, north.” 000,000 w ill come from the Claokumas time in Han Francisco. were slaughtered throughout the em hatchery, 8,000,000 from Handy sta pire. Wagons filled with bodies were D o t tli** B e s t o f u M o b . H eld Up by W o m e n . tion, 8,000,000 from L ittle White constantly passing through the streets Westchester, Pa., Oct. 21.— Edward Halmou, and 2,000,000 from the bead Colonel Henry Hpielman, of New Brown, the negro who attacked Mrs. of Constantinople. Cartload after cart waters of the Clackamas. York city, a wealthy merchant and Thomas Johnson in a suburb of Coats- load of these bodies were dumped into the sea. The sight was a sickening It is believed that 25,000 persons are clubman, waa held up by two women v ille night before last, has been landed without the necessaries of life in Guay and robbed aa he was leaving the one, and what added to its horror was in jail. When the officer took the cul aquil as a result of the recent fire there. Union Leagne Club in Chioago. The the fact that in those wagons were prit to the railway station a mob sur Ten thousand persons have already left assailants of the colonel secured his piled the dead aud dying, and the rounded him and it was with the great the city, fearing pestilence w ill follow gold watoh and $20 in cash. Being feeble cries of the wounded for release est difficulty that he succeeded in plac the Are. Everything possible is being pursued by her victim, one of the could be heard coming from the carts, ing the scared negro safely on board done to relieve suffering among those women tossed the watch into Custom but the appeals were utterly unheeded. the oar. Before the train started who have remained. house place to avoid being caught with stones were hurled through the car Whether killed or wounded, all were The grand jury has indicted eleven evidence npon her. thrown into the sea. Kahsin says the windows thick and faast, and the pas directors of the Bank of Commeroe, of Americans had not been molested up sengers became terror-stricken and A n I n f a n t i l e C r o o k . N ew Orleans, which closed up last to date. They are leaving Constanti Dennis Myron, of Chioago, is only rushed iu all directions to escape the nople, fearing they may be attacked. month with a I om of $810,000. Cash flying missiles. One man was struck 11 years old, but be has been arrested ier de Blanc was also indicted for on the head by a stone and the whole L O S T H IS T E M P E R . faleely swearing to bank statements. fourteen times and is now under sen side of his face was laid open, while a The indicted directors are some of the tence to the reform school as a burglar. number of others received slight cuts A S p a n i s h Fe ll t o r A m i m e d b y a W a s h most important business men of the He grew up in that unsavory neighbor in g to n D isp atch . hood known as " L it t le H e ll,” and aud bruises about the head and body. community. In ifis annual report to the secretary about as soon as he wore trousers fell Madrid, Oct. 20.— Commenting np G ood N ew s for C aliforn ia Farm ers. o f war, General Greely, the chief sig into the companionship of thieves and Han Franoizco, Oat. 21.— There was on the statement contained in a dis nal offioer, says the m ilitary telegraph toughs. He helped a woman in shop a very lively day on the floor of the patch from Washington that President lines running tbrongh mountainous and lifting, and theu took up thieving on local produce exchange. Wheat is ad Cleveland intends to intervene in Cnba desert regions have been maitained in hia own account. vancing on heavy orders from shippers. in a manner tantamount to the recog excellent order. The commercial busi Three ships have been laden with nition of the independence of the insur T h * H h «r b u r n s K o lib e r a . ness over the lines has largely increas The Hherburne bankrobber confined wheat for Calcutta so far this month, gents, the Imparcial declares that ed, and the receipts now amount to in the Martin county jail. Minnesota, and continued large purchases for ship Hpain ought to demand a fnll explana one-twelfth of the cost of operation of has made a statement to the sheriff, ment in November and December to tion of the Washington government. the entire signal oorps. "Hhe cannot brook a threat over her December which has been verified, givin g his Australia were also made. An east-bound Union Pacific pas cents, and head,” continues the Imparcial, "even name as Lew Kellihan, and his home wheat advanced today 4 senger train was held up a short dis By what right does cents. December closed for a single day. as Rook Rapids, la., where his parents May 6 l, tance east of Uintah, Utah, near the reside. He gives his age as 21, and strong at $1.80,Vy, and May at $1.88 If. the United Htates define the time for month of Weber canyon, and about states that his brother who was killed Barley was also strong today, having Hpain to settle a question of her in eight miles from Ogden. No passen It mnst be was but 18 years old. The reading of advanced from 86' 4 for low point of ternal administration? gers were molested, the robbers con dime novels led to the commission of Heptember to 87 ‘ s cents high point to affirmed before the whole world that fining their operations to the mail and day. If grain continues to advance, the American government cannot im *Te crime. express oars. The baggage and express California farmers w ill enjoy a season pose any sort of terms upon ns.” oars were anooupled by the robbers and I it m a t * « W f i r * C r e m a t e d » A fter denouncing the United Htates' of unexampled prosperity. ran ahead of the train a few hundred fictitious neutrality, the Imparcial con There was a terrible casualty at the yards and both oars broken open. The house of J. F. M iller, of New W h at cludes as follows: I’ r o t f c t f i d t h e M ilia rs . robbers failed to open the safe in the com, Wash. The farmer and his w ife "T h e conduct of the United Htates Leadville, Colo., Oct. 21.— About express oar. Railway official* aay the were on a visit to a neighboring city 125 miners from Missouri, to work the w ill aronse international indignation, booty aeon red was a few mail bags, but and left their three children in the Bisen mine, arrived this afternoon. i f Hpain should remain alone in a con as a great portion of the mail waa cor care of Frank Boise, of Tacoma. The Over a thousand people abont the depot flict with the United Htates, Spaniards, respondence between banks, inclosing house took fire in some manner and jeered the newoomers General by their own elforts. w ill know how to exchanges and remittances, and alwaya the three children and Mr Boise were Brooks bad a large force of troops on mark the differences between the noble a good proportion of cash, the loss is found dead in the mins. Boise has a band to escort the men to the mine and defenders of their own property and the supposed to be of consequence. vile trafflekery at Washington.” w ife and children in Tacoma. prevent an attack on them. Five outlaws appeared at the ranch A H**a<l-Kii*l C o i l l n l o n . x 1 'r o m tn e n t M e d fo r d M an . of R. T. Brooke, an Englishman, whose Mrs. Panline O lievieri, aaacksewei, Orange. Tex., Oct. 20.— This morn Medford, Or.. Oct 21.— J. O. John place is near Tonkawa, O. T . , and met with a terrible death in the C ali ing a head-end collision occurred at the who is oonaidered wealthy. They fornia Italian Paste Company's works •on, one of Medford’ « prominent and trestle across Little Cypress bayon, 5 >, well-to-do citizen«, died at hia bouse in oalled Brooke to the door and com in Han FTaneisco. Hhe was wound * miles north of this place, on the South manded him to hold up his hands, aronnd a narrow upright shafting, tbia city last night, after an illness of ern Pacific, by which John Clanoy, of a few days. Mr. Johnson came to Med th eir apparent purpose being robbery. which waa revolving w!t:i greet veloc Unionville, la., was killed, and A. T. Brooke replied with ballets from his ity, and the struck against a stanchion ford in 1888 from Califoruia, aud had Toller, Houston, who was running the a large amount of property in this city revolver, and «hot two of Til» visit, r. every time she whirled aronnd. The west bound train, sustained a fracture dead and wounded a third. The un clothe* were wound up *o cloae to the and county. He was a member of the of both thighbones and a dislocation A. O U. W.________________ injured outlaws tied, carrying then body that it had to be removed in an of the right shoulder. wounded companions. The dead men almost nude condition. The right leg A fun with a little ear trumpet at (jueen Victoria has never witness«* I have not been identified, but are sup and both arm* were broken, end the tached is the latest device to aid the a session of the house of commons. | to belong to the Dalton gang. head had been ernahed by the blows. deaf. »«p o rt of th e SAM S T h ir d m ails A » . i tu > . ■uastar-Uenersi. 1 I Washington, Oat. 19.—The A Resume of Events in the report of the third assistuut t'Ostm""“* ! general for the fiscal year show*'?! Northwest. i t il expenditure for the ye*, 828,298, and receipts $82,4*J4,aos i J i ig a deficit of $8,125,088, or $j J?'l E V ID E N C E O F S T E A D Y G R O W T H 958 less than the deficit of the pt "J lug year. The expenditures do dude the cost, of carrying the » J S .w . G athersd in A lt the T e w ... ol over the aubaidizi-d i'acific roads O u r N e ig h b o rin g H ta te • — Im p ro v e amounted to $1,156,868. m ent Noted in «% II I «id ustrln s— D ragon. The speoial delivery servioe mad, I lucre-ise of 13 p--r cent in business i The tax levy for Clatsop county this year w ill he between 12 and 18 mills. mg the year, 4.184,827 letters being , k liverod. The average time requital The latest cleau-up of the Virtue for delivery was 17 minutes. Then” mine in Baker county, is estimated at profit ot the system was about $100,O m I $ 20 , 000 . Tae number of postage statur.1 It is expected that the distillery in stamped envelopes aud postal oath ¡¿1 Grants w ill be started up about No sued was 4,198,665,538, au inoreaseofl 7 per cent over the issue of thepiJ vember 1. For the fourth time in four years. vious year. The value of these issues! Crook county is the first comity to send was $79,1 i 8, 101, which is abont $7to,| I in its assessment roll to the secretary 000 more than the sales. The increase of second-class miurJ of state. There are now 701 pupils iu The mailed by publishers and news ageunl The total I Dalles publio schools. This is the was nearly IS per cent laigest number ever enrolled at one weight of matter thus mailed, paid nMI free, was about 849,000.000 pouodi I time in that school district. The business of registration wasalml The sheepmen of Grant comity met increased, the rate being a boat t a i l in Canyon City last week aud effected cent. The total number of pieces of | an organization similar to that of the mail matter registered was 15,108,33« f Idaho Wool Growers' Association. The percentage of losses was rednoed] In running a tunnel into the Black the ratio beiug about one in every it Republican mine on Frozen creek, a 000 pieces mailed by the public. tributary of Myrtle creek, the workmen Recommendation is again made for I have struck very rich ore, bearing cop a limited indemnity to the owners of | per and gold. registered matter lost iu the mails. A phenomenal pumpkiu vine was T Y P O G R A P H IC A L u n i o n . raised this year by a Dalles man. it covers a space as large as that between the fonr ooruers of intersecting streets N l n e - l l o i i r L t t l m r I . a w P a g * « « ! By the I C o n volition. iu The Dalles, says the Chronicle It bears twenty-two large pumpkins of au Colorado, Hpriugs, Colo , Oct. 19 - I average weight of twenty-four pounds, Today’s session of the International to say nothing of the small ones, aud Typographical Union was the most im hence has over 440 pounds of pumpkin. portant that has been held since the I Henry Kemino, of Farmington, in convention opened, four days ago. Washington county, was attacked one The business of the election of officers I day last week by a mad boar. He was and the consideration of the adoption driving the hogs out of a Stubblefield, of the nine-hour labor law ran the ses when the infuriated animal rushed sion late into the night. The election upon him aud thrust his tusks into for the offices of president, first vice- Kemiuo's thigh, above the knee, strik president and seortetary-treasurer were ing the bone and lacerating the mus all hotly contested. cles. If blood poisoning w ill not set The follow ing officers were chosen for »lie ensuing term: President, IV. in Mr. Kemino w ill recover. Ben Hagen, a farmer living near B. l*i csoott, uf Toronto, re elected; nee- Pendleton, came intu that city one day retary-treasurer, John W. Bramwood, last week with a load of wheat. While of Denver; first vice-president, Tbeo. descending Rourke canyon he found the Perry, of Nashville; second vice-presi straw that had beeu placed on the road dent, George W. Williams, of Boston; on fire. He was into the tire before he thir l vie opr, s dent, Hugo Miller, of discovered it. The banks were too Indianapolis, re-elected. The most important item of business steep above and below, so that be could not turn out, so he whipped up his transacted by the convention at to team and ran his horses all the way day's session was the passage of the through the fire. It was rather hot. nine hour labor law. Ail effort to puss and four sacks of wheat were set on fire au eight-hour law was defeated. The while the team was dashing through Uine-honr law has now to be voted upon by every typographical union in the flames Tons of fish are going to waste on the country, before its final adoption. the beaches in Uppertown and Alder- In 1888, snch a law paBed the interna brook, says the Astorian. Within the tional convention, but was defeated past few days millions of sardines have when presented to the various typo beeu thrown up by the high tides on graphical unions. the shore along the oity front, and it A P R E M A T U R E E X P LO S IO N . has appeared to spectators that some thing should be done towards packing t l v e M m K i l l e d i n a n A c c i d e n t le Ar- this magnificent article of food. The k a u ia is fish are as fine in quality as any ever Meua, Ark., Oct. 19. — Last eveniDg. put up in oil, and it would seems that a new industry of reuumerative and about 4 o’clock, at the camp of W. H. large proportions only awaits the eu Kennedy, about fourteen miles sooth of Meua, occurred a most disastrous ex- ergy of some practical man. nlosion. The men were working in 1 io«e rock, but they were obliged Jo W ash in gton . W ild fowl are plentiful on Willapa blast id order to handle it to advant harbor, and the run of silverside age. While using a steel drill to plant salmon over there has begun. A ll the a heavy blast, the drill struck a stone traps and nets are having tine catches. and a spark from it ignited the pow der, which caused the explosion, The United Htates circuit of appeals which threw dirt, rocks and men as far for the ninth district has decided iu favor of the city of Boutb Bend, in that as a hundred yards. The killed are: city’s case against the water company Denuis Murphy, foreman; J. Ryan, J. P. Limon, Jack MacDonald and Pat there. Laoy. W. J. Kennedy, the contractor, Bears are plentiful in the neighbor was standing close by and was found hood of the Coquitlam river, says the between two dead men, more dead than Vancouver News-Advertiser. A num alive. He had two ribs and a collar ber have been shot by Indians within bone broken. Some of the men were the past few weeks. buried so deep under rocks and dirt Waitsburg is now lighted by elec that they were not found till this tricity. The plant was installed by morning. Kennedy is in a serious con home capital and enterpirse. It has a dition. AU present were either killed capacity of 500 18-candle power lights, or badly hurt # and w ill be run by water power. T H R E E F IR E M E N K IL L E D . It cost Walla Walla county $500 to extradite and bring from the Indian C unite d t o D e a t h i n t h e B u r n i n g o f * territory Daniel White, a soldier, < liein ical W arehou se. charged with seduction, and then no Montreal, Oct. 1 9 — Three firemen case could be made against him be were killed and three badly injured at cause he married the girl. The big bear that is one of the fea a fire this afternoon at the chemical turea of interest at the Tacoma hotel, warehouse of Gilm ore & Uo. The fire broke loose from his chain last week] raged with great fury, owing to the and it required the combined efforts of combustible nature of a great portion the hotel force, 500 spectators, and of the contents of the building. The nearly a quart of chloroform to secure firemen fought courageously, and after an hour's work seemed to have the up him again. per hand. A t this stage the firemen The harvest of the cranberry marsh were distributed in all parts of the near llwaco w ill be about completed building, and were speedily drowning next week The orop w ill be between out the flames, when, with a terrible 8,000 and 8,000 barrels of berries this crash, the second floor gave way and season. Ho far, no frost has reached fell. The men below were crushed un this section, and the orop w ill be one der tons of timber and goods. Tbs of the largest, and the berries superior lose in 1100,000. to any yet gathered. The farmers around Colfax have be. gun seeding and the amount of fall- planted grain which w ill go in this year w ill be greater than that of anv previous year if the weather continue, favorable. The rise in the price of wheat is stimulating the farmers to in creased activity, and nearly every inch of antnmer fallow land w ill be planted by election time. Hteainship U m a t i l l a F lo a t««!. Seattle. Oct. 19.— A special to the Post-Intelligencer from Port Townsend says. Without especial effort the tug* Tyee and Tacoma today at noon dis lodged the steamer Um atilla from the b«ach on Point Wilson, where she wa* driven after striking a sunken rock in the straits two weeks ago, and the big vessel is now securely moored at tb# Union dock, in this city. The Yakima fair paid expenses and a few hundred dollars over. A ll purses Itiot« at G e o r«$ to w n . and premiums have been paid. » , ai,0 Kingston, Jamaica, O ot 19.- S * r'- the employee and most of the inci- ous not* are reported from George* denta! expenses The eimmisaioners towon. t ie capital of British Guiana worked hard to make the fair a success The polioe in trying to restore order were obliged to fire on the mob Thro* t h I ( * l . r, l POr* ° f ,he «upenntendent of rioters were killed and many wounded. th a ™ .""!7 P " " r fl,rm ">ows that at the end of the last quarter son,«™ The game of craps, aa now played, her 30 last, there were" .even m C “ ' i* said to be the invention of the n*‘ four men and three women. The <xwt groes. of supplies footed np $212.88, and the In ancient games of dice three weie inpenntendent's aaixry waa $ i80 invariably employed.