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Address, asarme. Nevrberg. Oregon.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
A n In te re s tin g C ollection o f Ite m s F rom
t h e T w o H e m i s p h e r e s 1*r e s e n t e d
in a C o n d e n s e d F o rm .
General Maximo Gomez, from his
camp, 200 miles westward, near Nar-
ciso, has issued a proclamation to the
Caban army advising against disband
ing until the proceedings at Washing
ton regarding the pay of the insurgent
troops have been completed.
By the purchaee of a large block of
stockof the Culbarien railway, in Cuba,
L. Ruiz & Co., bankers, representing
English capitalists, have secured a con
trolling interest in that lire.
The
sanle men have also been large pur
chasers of the stocks of Sagua and Cien-
fuegos companies.
Tire monthly treasury statement of
tire public debt sbow6 that at the close
of business, December 31, the debt,
less casli in the treasury, amounted to
$1,129,176,286, an increase during tire
month of $1,702,799. This increase
is due to the delivery of 3 per cent
bonds of the new issue, previously paid
for.
A t Evansville, Ind., Minor Garrett,
Edgar Gardner, Elijah SooKi, Frank
Curl and W illiam Morris, boys ranging
in age from 10 to 12 years, were given
a public whipping iri tiie police court
for stealing some old wash boilers,
Their parents were given the option bv
Judge Winfrey of whipping the boys or
having them sent to the reform school.
Governor Roosevelt, Greater New
York’s new eXeuctive, lias estalbished
a code of rules to govern hie considera
tion and determination of applications
for pardons and commutations of sen
tence. He will not exercise executive
clemency in behalf of a man who ha*
been convicted of murdering or abusing
his wife, nor will lie pardon any hab
itual criminal. His mercy will be
shown only to those whose sentence
seems to have been severe or whose
commission of a crime was the result
of influence.
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A most remarkable wedding has
taken place at the village of Trail, O.,
four brothers being married to four sis
ters. The four knots were tied at the
home of the brides, who are the daugh
ters of a fainter named James Hooh-
etetter. Their ages range from 18 to
28, and the ages of their respective
husabnds vary only slightly.
Tire
grooms are fonr sons of John Summers.
The ceremony of marying the four
couples occupied almost an hour, the
same clergyman performing all. The
four brothers and their wives will live
within a stone’ s throw of each other.
A dispatch from Rome says a mob of
4,000 people had assaulted an internal
revenue sentry box, and stoned the
gendarmes around Niecemi, Sicily, as
a p otest against ex xmmiunication. A
number of persons were wounded,
John Wellmer, of Lafayette, Nicol-
lett county, Minn,was shot in the head
nnd hip by two tramps, to whom he
had given shelter. They hound Mrs.
Wellmer to a lounge w ith a clothes line
and escaped with Wellmer’s team.
The governor’s office at the state-
house in Springfield, 111., was entered
by parties unknown and $580 stolen
from a drawer. The crime is sai round
ed in mystery, as all floors of the build
ing are guarded by watchmen. The
theft was discovered by Colonel J. M.
Tanner and an investigation is pend
ing.
One of the most notable celehra-
tionns in the history of American col
leges was in commemoration of the
100th anniversary of Transylvania uni
versity, at Lexington. Ky. It was no
table on account of its many famoui
alumni, including Jefferson
Davis,
president of the Confederate states, and
Justice Harlan, of the supreme court
of the United Statos, scores of con
gressmen and men prominent in public
life.
King Charles has opened the cortei
gerares at Lisbou. In the course of his
speech from the throne, King Charlei
said that daring the war between the
United States and Spain, two friendly
nations, Portngal proclaimed, am), aa
was her duty, maintained strict and
absolnte neutrality. His majesty said
be greatly sympathized witli tiie czar’s
disarmament proposals, and made a
reference to tiie colonies which appar
ently disposes of tiie rumors of the sale
of Delagoa bay.
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NEWS.
At a fire which broke out in tiie Ho
tel Richelieu, at Pittsburg, Pa., three
guests lost their lives and five people
were badly tiurt.
A Paris paper says it learns from an
indisputable souroe that the court of
cassation is convinced that Dreyfus was
justly condemned.
Colonel Potter, special emissary of
General Otis to Ilo llo, reports that the
rebels threaten to burn the town if the
Americans bombard tiie place.
Governor Leedy, of Kansas, has com
muted tiie sentence of J. R. Colean,
who, while cashier of the Sate bank, of
Fort Scott, in 1895, stole $52,000 of its
funds.
Fonr dead, two injured, one of these
perhaps fatally, and the loss of proper
ty of the Southern railway to the
amount of about $25,000, is tiie result
of a wreck which oconried at Knox
ville, Tem/.
TO
Services O v e r
Tension Between England
and France Increased.
THUNDERER'S FIERY LANGUAGE
Crom er’«
P la in
W ord«
at
Khartoum -*
R h o d e s P la n s a C ape T o w n -
C a iro R ailroads
A DEAD
th e R em a in s
M ay bry.
of
London, Jan. 10. — A ll events seem
to work together in European politics
to increase tiie tension between Great
Britain and France. Tiie past week
has brought Madagascar and Egypt for
ward as irritants just when the mutual
irritability was subsiding. Even tiie
most conservative observers begin to
take a pessimistic view of tiie relations
A lieaviywind storm swept over the between the two powers. This in-
remote jF t io n of Scott county. Ark. jludes those who up to the present have
A td B o lA ^ fe. sclioolhonse was blown considered the belligerency tobe due to
down and ttiree pupils were killed, an 3upersensitivene8s upon the part of
other was fatally wounded, and a dozen France and to tiie unnecessary giuff-
or more sustained more or less injuries. ness upon the part of Great Britain in
A trcmendous^andslWe occurred near insisting on what she considers to be
Spence’s ¿ridge, on the Canadian Pa her rights.
cific railroad. A mountain which lias
Tiie past 24 hours brought the pub
long been an object of curiosity to lication of Madagascar blue book,which
travelers crashed into the Fraser river, was followed by a leading editorial in
damming it completely, and sending the Times denouncing France in lan
the water in torrents over the fertile guage so fiery for that conservative
Nicola valley. Tiie course of the river newspaper that Frenchmen are reading
was changed completely,
the two together and are construing
Tiie Sehastapool correspondent of tiie them as parts of a deliberate policy in
London Times, who lias been touring spired by one mind. Tiiat mind, in
S A N T I A G O ’S T R A D E .
in Eastern Russia for two mouths to the theory of the man in tiie streets,
is
Joseph
Chamberlain,
tiie
secretary
G e n e r a l W o o d ’ « R e p o r t S h o w s I t 1 « on
discover, if possible, soino evidence on
Other papers
th e In crea se.
the part of the Russian government to of state for colonies.
give effect to the disarmament propo may storm and scold and not be no
Washington, Jan. 10.—Tiie trade of
sals of Emperor Nicholas, says all his ticed, but when the Times becomes Santiago is already allowing a surpris
observations were quite to the contrary, abusive, foreigners interpret it as being ing giowth under American adminis
and that Russia is increasing Her m il the voice of the government. In the tration. General Wood lias submitted
present instance, some Englishmen a report to the war department, in
itary strength.
will place the same construction upon
According to late advio's from Daw its utterances, recalling how the Timos which lie states tiiat tiie policy of lion-
son, tiie United States government will led the “ no surrender’ ’ cry over the discriminative intercourse extended to
be called upon to relieve indigent min Fashoda incident, under evident in the vessels of all nations in Santiago
provinco has greatly facilitated tiie re
ers in tiie Klondike.
Tiie Dawson spiration.
establishment of commercial relations
Nugget says there is a strong move
One fact is certain, public opinion and lias been one of tiie chief features
ment omfoot at Dawson to send a rep in Great Britain w ill not sanction the
resentative to Washington for the pur- • government to swerve an inch to avoid in tiie restoration of comparative pros
pose of enlisting the United States war with France, thinking that if it perity in commerce, industry and agri
government in tiie cause of aiding in must come this is tiie best time to have culture.
Outward cargoes of sugar and other
remedying the great distress which it out.
products are being graudallv found fur
prevails among the miners of tiie Yu
Many people give importance to the shipping, but exportations from the
kon.
issuing of the Madagascar blue book mines of the province have contributed
A t the annual convention of the almost simultaneously witli tiie quiet the hulk of tiie exports.
Brotherhood of Steam Shovel and but unmistakable announcement at
“ The fact,” says General Wood,
Dredge Engineers and Cranesmen of Khartonm by the British agent there, “ tiiat the mines were put into opera
America, held in Chicago, resolutions Viscount Cromer, in his leruarks to tiie tion at an early date after tiie capitula
were adopted, urging congress to pass shiekhs, that Great Britain has set her tion of Santiago was important in
tiie Nicaragua canal bill and also that seal upon Egypt. If there was a doubt that tiie employment of large numbers
a law should be passed making eight in tiie minds of her European rivals i uf natives during a critical period was
hours a day’« work on said canal. Res that Great Britain intended to fore [ stimulated by the facilities for ship
olutions were also passed urging con close the mortgage upon which she lias ping ores.”
gress to pass the river and harbor Hill expended so much labor and blood to
Tiie division of customs and insular
at the present session of congress. Con secure, it must have been Bet at rest by affairs of the war department lias re
gress was also urged to create a labor tiie utterances of Lord Cromer, in ceived from tiie collector of customs at
‘ commission of three union men to see which tire word “ protectorate” was Havana, Colonel Lasker H. Bliss, un
that tiie laws in tiie interest of work written in large letters, though the der date of December 29, 1898, his re
ingmen were enforced on all govern government’s mouthpiece carefully ab port.
stained from using that incendiary
ment work.
Colonel Bliss says that the first seri
word. A more definite notice that ous embarrassment lie met with on tak
Senator Hale lias been renominated
Great Britain’s tenure of Egypt is per ing charge of tiie custom-house at Ha
tiy tiie Maine Republicans.
manent could not bo asked.
vana was caused by tiie fact that the
Hon. Joseph H. Choate w ill be onr
In the meantime an enterprise of tiie Spaniards had removed nearly every
next ambassador to Great Britain.
utmost moment in tiie furtherance of thing except tiie liaro walls and floors.
Dr. H. Seward Webb, president ol Great Britain’s domination in Africa is ¡ h first official step was to obtain a full
Cecil list of employes in the custom-house,
tiie Wagner Palace Car Company, is about to be consummated.
mentioned as successor to Senator Mor Rhodes, the ex-premier nnd alleged in their salaries and nationality, and next
stigator of tiie Jameson raid, and tiie information as to their general charac
rill as senator from Vermont.
so-called "Napoleon of South A frica,” ter and reputation for integrity.
Tiie fiist formal state dinner of tiie
is going to England to arrango for
Colonel BlisH says tiiat, as was to bo
season took place at the White House
pushing forward the Cape Town-Cairo expected, the soveral places in tiie cus
Thursday, when President and Mrs.
railroad, so long tiie dearest dream of tom house when he assumed charge
McKinley entertained tbs members of
imperialists.
A definite proposition were chiefly held by Spaniards, the to
the cabinet.
will be presented by Mr. Rhodes to tal numbor employed being 239. Tiie
A sensation has been created in Ger London capitalists for an extension of
problem tiiat confronts him, he says,
many by the publication in a Cologne the railroad from Buluwayo to Lake
is how to repair a house from founda
paper of an alleged conversation bad Tanganika. He does not pretend it
tion to roof without a material disturb
with tiie late Prince Rismaiok, in will be a paying investment from tiie
ance of it occupants and without in
which lie predicted the fall of the Aus start. Its importance for some years
terfering with their daily business.
trian empire.
w ill be political instead ot commercial, Under tiiis condition, lie remarks, lie
An American named Boynton, who and he hopes to persuade the British cannot of course begin by tearing the
is trying to travel around the earth government to smooth tiie way bv house down.
per cent interest on
without money, met witli a terrible fall guaranteeing
P i l g r i m a g e E n d e d in I l i o t .
into a chaBm while entering France by the bonds to cover the cost of construc
Paris,
Jan. 10.— The socialist annual
tion.
But
one
barrier
stands
in
the
night through tiie Pyrenees. He was
way, in the form of the Congo conven pilgrimage today to tiie tomb of Blan-
seriously injured.
tion, guaranteeing neutrality of tiie qui, in the cemetery of Pere la Chaise,
Another disagreeable consequence of
part of tiie continent abMit Lake Tang led to riots between rival partisans of
the late war has been presented to the
anyika, whicli even the autocrat of Henri Rochefort, editor of the Intrans-
government of claims from the cable
Rhodesia will find hard to force. Here igeant, and M. Juares, editor of tiie
companies
for
damages sustained
Many
Germany lias the veto on Great Brit Socialist Petite Repiililique.
through tiie suspension of their busi
ain’s advance, which she cannot he were injured, and tiie police made a
ness by the United States military ami
expected to waive without an indem number of arrests. The wreath intend
naval forces. The aggregate amount
ed for the tomb was trampled upon.
nity.
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of these claims cannot be foretold.
i i hi i
rgent«
R eap ect E u ropean «.
Madrid, Jan. 10.— Advices were re
ceived here today from a landing mer
chant at Ilo llo, to the effect tiiat agri
cultural operations in tiie vicinity of
Ho Ilo have not been interrupted, am)
that all the insurgents respect tiie Eu-
lopeans, both at llo Ho and on tiie
island of Negros.
P r e s e n t K e l * a « e o f P riaon era.
Madrid, Jan. 10. — Rios, the Spanish
commander, telegraphs from Manila
tiiat strained relations between the
Americans and insurgents prevent steps
being taken in favor of the release ot
the Spanish prisoners in the Philippine
lslanda. He adds that he will act in
that dilection aa soon aa it ia poaaible.
Sebastian Bach Mills, the well-
known composer and pianist, died in
Wiesbaden, Germany, aged 60 years.
r
vVTiie preliminary report of tbe Nice
-Tj*r na canal commission show* that it
II require about $135,000,000 to
Duild tbe canal.
Encouraging reports of the condition
cf affairs in Manila and Porto Rioo
reached the war department from tba
officers commanding the troops in those
department«.
Mrs. John Quark, aged 100 years,
•lied at her home near Galena, III.
APPROPRIATIO N.
A n ti-C iv il S ervic e R e fo r m e r « V ictoriou s
Iu iht« H o u s e .
Washington, Jan. 9. — Tiie anti-civil
service reformers scored a victory in
the house today. The executive legis
lative and judicial appropriation bill
was taken up for consideration, and
then, when tiie appropriation for the
TO ACT ON THE DEFENSIVE civil service commission was reached,
Evans nude a motion to strike it out.
This motion lias lieen made annually
for a dozen years or more, but invari
G en eral M ille r H a « Been O rd ered to
ably failed. But today the opponents
L a n d H I « T r o o p « a t I l o 11<?
of the law laid great stress on the fact
at Ouee.
tiiat they could not get a decisive vote
upon tiie proposition, and were there
Washington, Jan. 9.— Senor Agon- fore compelled to seek its nullification
cillo, who is iu Washington as tiie rep in this manner. Even these appeals
resentative of tiie Philippine govern failed to bring out tiie full strength of
ment, has asked to be recognized by the opposition, though tiie motion to
tiie United States as such, and to be strike out carried by a narrow margin,
accorded tiie same rights as tiie other 67 to 61. Tiiis was in committee of
diplomats. His request is now in the tiie whole, where no record was made
of tiie vote. Moody gave notice tiiat
hands of Secretary Hay.
Today, Dorn Sixto Lopez, the private lie would demand a record vote in the
secretaiy of Senor Agoncillo, visited house, where the friends of the civil
tiie state department, and presented to service law expoct to reverse tiro deci
the officials a letter to Secretary Hay, sion.
requesting, on behalf of Senor Agonctl-
Wtien the senato convened today the
lo, an interview for tiie purpose of ar resolution offered yesterday by Hoar,
ranging to present his credentials to calling on the president for information
President McKinley, and inquiring as to tiie instructions to the commis
when it would meet the convenience of sioners who negotiated tiie treaty of
tire president to meet tire Philippine l ’aris, together with all correspondence
representative.
and reports relating to their work, was
Tiie letter of Senor Lopez further laid before tiie senate.
Chairman
states tiiat Ire is instructed by Senor Davis, one of the commissioners, asked
Agoncillo, in view of recent develop tiiat it be referred to the foreign rela
ments, to urge tire advisability of an tions committee, but Hoar insisted
understading between the American that the senate had us much right to
government and tiie representative of such information as the members of
tiie Philippine people as to tiie rela tiie foreign relations committee, and
tions between tiie respective nations; that tiie president shonld determine
such understanding to be readied either whether tiro senate should have it.
at Washington, through the joint rep The resolution was adopted in secret
resentatives uf the two governments, or session. In support of tiie resolution
in the Philippine islands, in like man offered some time ago by Vest, in oppo
ner. Tiie letter concludes witli an ex sition to expansion. Cutlery delivered
pression ol tiie earnest iiope that the an extended speech.
friendly relations heretofore existing
At the conclusion of Caffery’ s argu
between the two nations may ever be ment, Morgan announced, on beliall
maintained.
of tiie Nicaragua canal committee, tiie
Accompanying tiie letter is a memo acceptance in modified form of the
randum setting for til tiie establishment amendments offered by Berry before
of tiie Philippine republic, and tiie the holidays to tiie pending canal bill.
provision for a detailed system of gov Tlio amendments were not passed uj>oii
ernment. From tiie facts submitted, by the senate.
says Senor Agoncillo, “ it will appear
tiiat tiie Philippine government is now,
MISSIONARY O U TR A G E .
and it lias been practically ever since
June 18, 1898, substantially in full C a t h o l i c F r l e n t B r u t a l l y T r e a t e d In a
C h ln ene V illa g e .
possession of tiie territory of the people
Berlin,Jan. 9.— Letters received here
it represents.”
from Kiao Chou, the German fortified
WILL F O R C E T H E ISSUE.
sctlement in the province of Bhang
Tung, China, give details of an outrage
f l f li ii t r a l M i l l e r H a n O r d e r « t o 1’ r o c e e d
upon Father Stenz, tlio German Cath
A g a in s t llo Ilo .
olic missionary, November 9 last. Tlio
Chicago, Jan. 9. — A special to the missionary was about to leave Tie-Tun,
Times-Herald from Washington says: province of Sluing Tung, owing to tiie
President McKinley has decided to anti-Christian feeling. Finding him
force the issue with the Filipinos. His self confronted by crowds of Chines«
Incision may resnlt in a battle at llo wlio were clamoring for the destruction
Ilo. It may lead to a lianassing war of tiie Christians, lie took refuge in a
with tiie natives of the Philippines. It Hut, but lie was dragged out, His cloth
is Imped and believed that such calam ing torn from liis hack, and lie was
ities will bo averted, but it leinaius for struck with sticks and pricked with
tiie insurgents to determine what tiie knives and lances and his heard torn
results w ill be.
out. Tiie Chinese threatened to flay
Tiie president has ordered General him alive. Tiie following day, his
Miller to land His tioops at llo Ilu. persecutors prepared to hang him by
Tiie order leaves tiie American com tiie wrists. Finally, a mandarin in
mander no alternative.
He is directed terfered in liis behalf, lint compelled
to be conciliatory toward the natives, him to leuve the district with a prom
but at tiie same time lie is instructed ise uever to return,
to use force, if necessary, to effect It ia
l l a v l a In Hnn F r a n c i s c o .
landing and establish himself in tire
San Francisco, Jan. 9.— Tiie United
desired camp. In oilier words, Gencr.
ill Miller is to act on tlio defensive. He States torpedo-boat Davis arrived today
will not tiie a gun unless attacked by from Astoria, via Tillamook, and after
taking on coal pioceeded to Mare isl
tiie Filipinos.
and. She proved to he a good sea bout,
S T E A M E R S M A Y BE C R U S H E D .
hut owing to the heavy weather along
tiie coast she did not attempt a greater
Y u k o n C r a f t W i l l B e In D a n g e r W h e n
speed than six or eight knots.
th e Ic e B reak«.
The Davis crossed out of the Colnra-
Seattle, Jan. 9.— News from Dawson bin about two woeks ago, but put into
states tiiat a number of Yukon river Tillamook to escape a storm.remaining
steamers will be lost when the ice there until Wednesday morning, when
breaks up in spring. Some were caught she again headed south. She was in
in very unprotected places, and can command of Captain Thomas F. Neill,
scarcely escape being wrecked.
The and Arthur Zwicker and J. E. Wolff,
Robert Kerr, of tiie Moran fleet, is of the firm which built the vessel, were
stuck fast on a bar 60 miles below in charge of the engine and boiler-
Circle City. Tiie lino steamer Arnold, rooms.
of tiie Alaska Exploration Company’*
A m b i t . . e i l o r t o Hu aat a.
fleet, was caught by tiie ice while fast
New York, Jan. 9.— A dispatch tc
on a bar some 30 miles below Foity-
the Herald, from Washington, says:
Mile.
A crack boat of tiie Empire line, the Tiie president has practically selected
Seattle, is stuck 12 miles below Circle William Butter, of Bhiladelphia, foi
City. Site is on a liar and ice is jam amhasaudor to Russia. Mr. Potter wai
med up all aronnd her. The Tacoma formerly minister to Italy, having been
and John C. Burr are ulso fast in dan stationed at Rome during tiie Harrison
administration.
His record daring
gerous positions.
that period Hus been caiefully exam
G om es* A m b itio n .
ined by tiie president ami Secretary
New Yoik, Jan. 9.— A dispatch to Hay, and lioth feel confident that he
tiie Herald from Havana says: A colo will satisfactorily fill tiie St. Peters
nel in tiie insurgent army says tiiat burg post.
Gomez recently sounded the armv on
E x p l o s i o n In S h i p y a r d .
his old ambition of uniting Cuba and
Loudon, Jan. 9.— A big boiler boing
Santo Domingo under one government.
tested in H ew itt’s shipboilding-yaidi
The wily old chief thinks tiiat tiie
at Barking burst today, nnd tiie super
United States can offer no objection to
intendent, engineer and eight otliei
this plan, which, if accomplished,
men were killed. Aliout 40 persons
would create a state strong enough to
were injured, some fatally. Tiie whole
absorb Hayti soon.
ship-building worka were wrecked. A
With this done, Gomez believes the
woman was found dead 800 yards from
foundation wculd be laid foi a republic
the scene i f the disaster. A number
which would soon take rank in tiie
of men aud hove are missing. Windows
Western world second only to tiie
half a mile away were shattered.
United States.
Hopes to Be Received Offi
cially at Washington.
D l « m l « « e d C adets.
I m m i g r a t i o n a t Han F r a n n l a r o .
Richmond, V a., Jan. 9.— News is
San Francisco, Jan. 10.— The report received from Lexington tonight that
of the immigration commiaaion for today the superintendent of the V ir
December shows that the total immi ginia military institute issued an order
gration into tiie port of San Francisco dismissing the entire first class of tiiat
was 420 persons, of whom 93 were fe institution, consisting of 35 cadets.
males.
There were 149 Japanese. The young men dismissed represent 12
Twelve assisted Japanese were deport states, and their offense was a breach
ed, amt 27 otirers were not admitted of discipline committed on New Year’s
who coold neither read nor write.
eve in tiie face of special warning.
■Eng l a nd W i l l
W a l r o m a Choate.
Loti don, Jan. 9.— The Daily News
Vancouver, B. C., Jan. 9.— W ith her
Boston, Jan. 10.— The owners of the rigging and decks covered with ice, the tiiis morning in an editorial welcoming
Lieutenant Commander Sumner C. Boston brig Mary Gibbs, Captain Hor steamer New England arrived in port the ex|wcted apfiointinent of Joseph f|.
Payne. United Statea navy, retired, ace Coombs, now 120 days out on a early this morning with a record catch Choate, of New York, as United Htatea
voyage from Newport News to Para, at tiie halibut banka riff t^ueen Char arnhassaitor to tii* court of Ht. James,
died in Ashville, N. C.
Brasil, have abandoned all hope of the
says:
James McDonald, aged 102, a resi vessel, although they still believe lotte ialanda. Tiie steamer had 180,-
"Englishmen will thank President
dent of Chippewa Fails, W it., died at there is a chance that the crew may 000 pounds of fish. Daring the three
month* the New England lias been en McKinley for his choice. Mr. Choate
St. Joseph’s hospital, Milwankee.
have been resened by some ship bound gaged this season she has brought to will have an easv and pleasant task.
A Pittsburg company haa received a either to the Pacific or to some remote port 600,000 pounds of halibut.
He comes neither to take part in a
contract,from the United States govern quarter of the globe. The Mary Gibbs
quarrel nor to heal one, but to foster a
ment to re-equip Morro castle in Hav carried eight men and a cargo of (60 | M eHicioe w a d the fir*t profession to cordial friendship into
atilt mors
which women were admitted in Koeaia. friendly cordialitv "
ana
too* of coaL
O I t m i I ’ p fo r L o tt.
NO. 8.
NO
Colonel
New York, Jan. 10.— A Herald dis
patch from Havana says: The body of
Colonel Maybry, of tiie First Texas,
rested in state in a tent near Lee’s
headquaiters at Uuena Vista on Thurs
day. Short services were held at 5
a’clock by Chaplain Watson, Generals
Lee, Keifer and Hasbrouck being pres
ent. The body was brought to Havana,
being escorted to tiie Almnndares river
by his entire regiment. It will go to
Miami on Friday to be forwarded to
Texas.
Adjutant-General Durst, of tiie Fifth
cavalry, is critically ill with malarial
fever.
Lee’s former forces are being lessened
day by day. Fonr companies now
doing provost duty in tiie suburbs have
lieen detached from His command and
ordered to report to General Ludlow.
When the American occupation took
place tiie membersof a lottery company
that was famous a few years ago in a
Southen city made an attempt to secure
a concession here. Local papers have
apparently lieen subsidized, hut Gen
eral Brooke declares tiiat so long as tiie
American occupation lasts lotteries will
be barred.
Smallpox lias become epidemic at
Mariana, and General Lee lias ordered
a number of infected houses burned.
Franklin Soott, a private of the One
Hundred and Sixty-first Indiana, has
the smallpox. Two hundred and fifty
nanigoes arrived on Thursday on the
transport Covedonga, and were turned
loose in a body.
I
13, 1899.
SOLDIER.
R e c o rd C m ch o f H a lib u t.
It.n l«.
tlH IR T IN IT «
R A T t ’A i
Oae Osiamo . . . _ ............ Twenty Dolían
Half Column ........................ Ten Dolía»
rre/eeeton.l Carda.......- ...........Oae Dallar
Itragl-g Natices w ill be Inserted al
tha rnteef Ten eeata «nr Use.
Representative Tongue, of Oregon,
PASSED T H E S E N A T E .
lias prepared an amendment to the bill
N
o
D
e
b a t e on D i s t r i c t o f C o l u m b i a B i l l
for codification of the laws of Alaska,
— F i r « » A p p r o p r ia tio n M easure.
now pending in the house, providing
for tiie licensing of main business con
Washington, Jan. 10.— A t a brief
cerns in the territory, and especially session of the senate today, the first of
tiie liquor business. Mr. Tongue eays the regular appropriation bills to be
that the Treadwell mines does not pay reported to the body, the District ol
anything iu the way of taxes to the sup Columbia bill, was passed. It carried
port of the territorial institutions, and a trifle over $7,000,000, and was passed
that from the region surrounding Jn- practically without debate. Tiie pres
neau about $6,000,000 in gold ia pro entation of a memorial from a camp of
duced annually, and does not contribute Confederate veterans in opposition to
In China the Yellow river floods a cent to tiie government.
the proposition of Butler of North Car
have destroyed the crops, and famine
The Havana afternoon papers sent a olina to pension ex-Confederate soldiers
has resulted.
Thousands of natives
was made the text by Allen of Nebras
are starving. Thousands of hungry thrill through the city with a report
ka for some remarks, during tiie course
that
a
torture
and
excention
chamber
and ragged refugees are moving down
of which he said tiiat Butler, in making
had
been
found
at
the
residence
of
the
the river in boats, only to find tbs
Spanish miltiary governor, adjoining his proposition, and the president, in
walls of the cities lower down closed
suggesting tiiat tiie nation care for the
against the starving hordes. The gov tiie palace. The papers declareed that
there the Spanish officials questioned graves of the Confederate dead, had
ernment appropriated 300,000 taels for
and murdered political prisoners. A c lieen carried away by their enthusiasm.
their relief, but less than one fifth iia*
cording to their accounts, the floor of
been distributed. It is claimed dis
The house was engaged all day on
tiie chamber was covered with dried
honest officials have pocketed the bal
blood, and its walla were indented witli tHe legislative, executive and jndiciacl
ance. A relief fnnd has been started
machete strokes. An excited crowd hill and completed it substantially as
at Shanghai. Rev. B. Craig Patter-
soon gathered outside the house which reported, except ibe items for tbecivil-
aon, of the Chian Kian mission,appeals
was last occupied by General Parrado. service commission, which went over.
to American friends for aid.
M in or . I t « .
G R A PH IC .
Advertidme Bills OaUeolad Monthly*
BATTLE ON TIIE NILE
Last
Dervish Chief Routed
by the British.
FIVE HUNDRED REBELS KILLED
F ifte en
Hundred
W ere
Captured—
L o g « on t h e B r i t i s h S i d e
W a s S m all.
London, Jan. 7.— Particulars regard
ing the recent battle on the Blue Nile
have been received in a dispatch from
Cairo to tiie Exchange Telegraph Com
pany.
Colonol Lowia, it appears, when h*
routed Emir Fedil, tiie last remaining
Dervish chief, killed 500 of his fol
lowers. and made many prisoners. The
emir, however, succeeded in escaping.
An official dispatch from Colonel
Lewis says that with a Soudanese
regiment he uttucked Fedil while lie
was crossing the N ile at tiie cataract
south of Ro8eirex (Reseres).
Tire
colonel’s force stormed the island on
which Fedil took his position, and
some severe fighting followed. Event
ually, Fedil tied with 300 followers
across tne river, where his force was
dispersed by tiie Maxim guns.
On tiie Britisii side Major Ferftuson,
six Egyptian officers nnd 18 men were
wounded, and 27 men were killed.
Cairo. Jan. 7.— Coioenl Lewis defeat
ed tiie Emir Ahmed Fedil on tiie Blue
N ile December 26. His position was
taken by storm and 1,500 derviBlies
wore captured.
P H IL IP P IN E
IN S U R G E N T S .
W i l l R esist the L a n d in g o f the
lca n « b y F o rc e o f A rm «.
Am er-
Paris, Jan. 7.— An official telegram
received by tiie Philippine junta her«
dated Manila, January 4, says Agui
naldo has gone to Ilo llo at the request
of the insurgents, there to place himself
at their head with a view to fighting
the Americans.
Tiie dispatch also gives facts as to
the antecedents of members of the new
Filipino cabinet. Tiie following have
accepted:
President of tiie cabinet
and ministerof foreign affairs, Mabini;
interior, Teodoro Handico, a oivil en
gineer, who was educated abroad;
war. General Balomero Aguinaldo,
consin of Aguinaldo, president of the
so-called Filipino government; finance,
Generul Trias, a close ally of Agui-
naldo;*public works, Gregorio Gonaaga,
a lawyer, foimerly Spanish attomey-
generul of lire V'isayus.
Tiie cabinet is described as homo
genous, every member being pledged,
according to these advices to resist lb*
military occupation of tiie Philippines.
Members of tiie Filipino junta her«
explain tiiat Aguinaldo did not run
away, Hut “ left Manila for the moun
tain region behind Cavite in order to
make secret arrangements fui bis voy-
avge to llo Ilo.”
Tire Filipino who furnishes this in
formation also categorically and spe
cifically asserts tiiat tiie latest tele
graphic advices declare if the Am eri
cans insist upon tiie occupation of
tiie principal cities by the American
troops, the whole Filipino tribe will
resist by force of arms.
SAN TIAGO
IS
SATISFIED .
T h e Custom « R ec eip t« W ill N ot B e Seat
to H avana.
Santiago de Cuba, Jan. 7.— A dis
patch was received from Havana today
saying that the customs reoeipts may
remain in Santiago. The effects ot
tiiis information are good, and paiticn-
larly so far as tho laborers are con
cerned. Senor Bacardi, the mayor, ha«
assured the laborers that all work now
in progress will go on, and, therefore,
there is not likely to be any imme
diate trouble.
Prominent Cubans emphatically as
sert tiiat if a Cuban government shonld
assume to issue such an order— concen
trating tiie customs receipts at Havana
—civil wur would break out iinmudi-
ately. It is lioped that a civil govern
ment may bo established in every prov
ince, distinct from the mle of the gov
ernor-general, who should be merely
tiie military chief of the island.
F o r .M frltorloiiN S e r v i c e ,
L ife Im p ris on m en t.
New York, Jan. 7.— A dispatch to
the Herald from Washington says:
Governor Roosevelt, of New York, ia
to receive tiie brevet rank of brigadier-
general lor gallant and meritorious
service during the battle of Han Joan.
A board of officers, consisting of Gen
erals Hwan and Boyuton and Colonel
Carter, adjutaut-gerieial, which had
lieen considering the question of tb«
officer* entitled to bievets for heroism,
have recommended tiiat Colonel Roose
velt be breveted. Secretary Alger haa
brought the recommendation to Ilia at
tention of tiie president, who directed
tne nomination of Governor Roosevelt
(or tbe brevet grade.
Madrid, Jan. 9.— Colonel Julison
Han Martin, who was in command of
the .Spanish garrison at Ponce when the
United Htatea troops under General
Miles landed on the island, and who
abandoned the place without resistance,
has been sentenced to imprisonment
for life. He will he incarcerated at
Ceuta, the Spanish penal colony In
Morocco, opposite Gibraltar.
Madrid, Jan. 7.— General Poliaveja,
ex-gowraor-general <*f Cuba and of tha
Philippine islands, ami Senor Silvela,
tha onnaeivative lead«*, have agreed
upon tha formation of a new cabinet,
and have been summoned hy the queen
recent. Tha early advent of the oon-
servativan la power ia regarded aa car«
lain.
M o r r ill* « Successor.
Montpelier, Vt., Jan. 9.— Governor
Hmith has tendered the place in ths
United States senate, left vacant by thr
deatli of Senator Morrill, to B. F.
Fifield. of thia city. Mr. Fifield has
not vet accepted.
Washington, Jan. 9.— The bouse
committee on Indian affair* today or
dered a favorable report on the bill
granting to the Kettle River Valley
road a right of way through the Col-
villa Indian reservation, Washington
N*w
bpan lsh C a b in e t.
Killed re a Frlreflxh».
New York, Jan. 7.— George Tyler,
24 years of age, waa killed in au im
promptu prize fight tonight In Jersey
City by Thomas Foley, aged abnnt 28
years. The two men had an nnnsatis-
factory boat a few days ago and decid
ed to settle it tonight. In tha first
round Foley landed a right awing on
tbe point of Tyler’a j.iw.
Tyler
Jropped, and aftei being oounted oat
wna taken to a hospital, where he waa
pronounced dead, lit« neck waa brokea.