VALLEY RECORD SUPPLEMENT, ASHLAND, ORE , MAY 2, 1901
CRIMES ANO ACCIDENTS.
THE TROUBLE IN CHINA.
Tn the Harrison street, Chicago, police
station courtroom, just after court had
adjourned, Richard D. Houghteling
drew his revolver and began tiring at
Policeman William Messenger, who had
arrested Houghtelliug on a simple
charge and was afterward released.
Other policemen joined in the shooting,
tiring probably 50 shots, and wheu
Houghteling fell in the hallway lead-
ing to the courtroom he was pierced
With five bullets.
Both Houghteling
and Messenger will die.
Q. R. Smith, a druggist and capitalist
of Santa Ana, Cal., was struck on the
head by a boulder falling down a moun
tain in Bjar canyon. His skull was
split from the top to the base. He was
brought home in an unconscious condi
tion and died shortly afterward.
L. P. Hummer, on trial at Alma,
Wis., for illegal banking, pleaded guilty
to the charge of receiving money wheu
the bank was insolvent, and was sen
tenced to a year’s imprisonment.
Two fires which occurred simul
taneously at Marysville, Cal., destroyed
the baru of Ed Cumiskey, two adjoin
ing cottages, the Granite Livery Stable
and damaged several other buildings.
The Evening Democrat office was flooded
with water and the stock and machinery
badly damaged. The total damage will
reach over $¿0,000.
Of the five miners entombed in the
Rosebud mine at Aurora, Mo., two were
rescued alive, one was found dead and
the other two are supposed to be lifeless.
In a fire which destroyed a livery
stable and three residences at Houston,
Tex., Job Corpping, his wife aud three
children were burnt to death and sev
eral others injured. A negro was ar
rested on the charge of having started
the tire to get ri-veugo on his employer
for having discharged him.
The engine house and boiler-house of
the Dorothy coal and coke plant of tire
American Steel and Wire company at
Latrobe, Pa., were destroyed by fire.
It is feared that several miners have lost
th< ir Lves. The tire will throw more
than 400 miners out of work.
Count von Waldersee st nt the follow
ing dispatch, dated Peking, April 2T, to
Berlin: "Three engagements occurred
on April 23 and a fourth on April 21 at
the Great. Wall between four columns
under General Ketteler and the Chinese
troops under General Liu. The Chinese
' were everywhere defeated, and alter a
stubborn resistance were forced back
I over the wall, being pursued as far as
Kukuan.”
The following cablegram from Li
Huug Chang, dated Peking, April 25,
was received by The Christian Herald:
"Very serious famiue spr ading over
the whole province of Shansi. Over
11^000,000 population affected. Urgent
relief necessary. Conditions warrant
immediate appeal.”
The expedition from Paoting-fu has
leen entirely called off and the French
troops have been ordered to return to
their original station. The only casual
ties suffered by the expedition were two
German soldi rs killed.
They were
members of a scouting party who weal
far beyond the border.
A baud of Boxers, estima led at 1 >00,
is operating 20 miles south of Paotiug-fu.
It has raided three villages within a
week and threatens to massacre the
Christians in that vicinity, many of
whom have fled to Pooting-lu for refuge.
A similar state of things exists in the
Maucheug district, northeast of Pao
ting-fu.
In order to escapo responsibility the
empress dowager of Chinn has appointed
a board of national administration,
which will hereafter pass upon iuternal
aud foreign matters affecting the empire.
The represt utatives of Great Britain
aud America are endeavoring to induce
the powers to decrease their pecuniary
demands on China aud substitute com
mercial agreements for a portion oí
their claims.
WASHINGTON NOT l -S-
The estrangement which existed be
tween Austria and Mexico, dating back
to the days when young Max iniliau of
Austria -ought to gain a foothold in
Mexico and lo.t his life in the adven
ture, is at an end, as each country is
about to send a minister to the other.
Attorney-General Km x, acting under
instructions from the president, pur
poses to institute immediately pnxeed-
iugs to recover some of the money which
former Captain O. M. Carter of the
army obtained from the government in
connection with frauds growing out of
improvements in Savannah harbor.
f rank Oleson, cashier of the defunct
Scandinavian-Amen an bauk of What
com, Wash., was arrested in Seattle ou
ti warraut charging him with receiving
deposits when he knew the bank was
insolvent. J. S. Staugroom, assistant
cashier, was arrested in Whatcom. H.
St. John Dix, the president of the in
stitution, is said to be in London trying
to raise funds to help out the bauk, but
a warrant has been sworn out for his
arrest on a change similar to that on
which the cashier aud a.-sistaut cashier
have been taken into custody.
A disaster at Sunrise City, Alaska,
involving a loss ot 20 lives, caused by a
snowslide, is reported by the steam-hip
Sei.aior, wh ch arrived at Port Towns
end. Many more live-would have been
io.-t had it not been tor the tact that
.ju-t previous to the slid« the people were
iioustd by several .-hocks of earthquake,
winch were so severe that many ot the
occupants ot the destroyed houses were
piejared. Those who e.-< aped the ava
lanche are practically destitute, having
u > food, clothing or shelter.
Oswald Otteadortfer’s foo.ow legacy
was distributed to the employees of the
Staats Zeitung of New York, of which
paper he was the proprietor.
The
“( had » running sore on my breast for
money, according to the will, was to be
over a year.” savs Henry R. Richards of
divided among all iho employees, from Willsev- lile, N Y., and tried a great many
the office boy to the managing editor, remedies. but got no relief until I used
who had worked .-tor one year on the Banner Salve After using one-half box,
paper. Eacn employee received a sum 1 was perfectly cured I cannot recom-
ruen.i it too highly ” T. K. F oltos
which amounted to ‘¿3 per cent of his
annual salary.
Th« old rolfablo— Tbo W m MI j Oregwntan.
Edward J riexcoii, one of the be-t
iuuwu insurance men in the west, shot
himself, in < be prest nee of two of his
friends, in his room at the National
hotel, Cripple Cretk, aud will die. As
he tired the shot he said: “I have gone
seveu years without touching a drop. I
cannot face my wile and father now.’’
He is a sou of William F. Sexton of Sau
Francisco, general adjuster of the Fire
man's Fund Insurance company, aud
lived with his wife at Denver.
The grain elevator wued by Johu J.
Badeuough, at Rockwell aud West
Madison streets, Chicago, was destroyed
by tire. Loss ou building and contents,
$200,000.
Harry Davenport, the well-known
American actor, and Phyiis Ruikiu,
daughter of McKie Rankin, presented
themselves to a Loudon registrar and
asked to be married, but that official
wbuld u it comply with the request
without documentary evidence touching
their l.ves in America. Cable messages
lor the necdiui papers wore at once dis
patched to New York, and on their
urriv,.l in England the knot will be lieu.
Janies Callahan was, at Omaha, de
clared not guilty ot complicity iu the
kidnap.ng ot Edward Cudahy, Jr. The
judge said it was impossible for him to
understand how 12 intelligent men
could have arrived at such a verdict
after listening to the testimony. “This
jury,” said the judge, "is discharged
without the compliments of the court.”
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