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VOL. X II.
A d ra rtia io f Billa Collteted Monthly.
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
N e w s of the W o r ld .
TERSE TIC K S FROM THF. WIRF.S
An I n t f r m l l i i " C o lle c t io n uT I t e m « F r o m
t h e T w o I le iiil« iilie r e i« P r c a e n te il
in it C o n ile n a e il F o r m .
British a n
Johannesburg.
within
40
miles
of
Mach lumber is going to Cape Nome
from Puget sound points.
Rioting in St. Loais grows worse.
Three meq and a girl wounded.
Ashland,
Or.,
lias
quarantined
against San Francisco Chinamen.
Republicans of Alaska denounce Gov
ernor llrady, and ask for his retirement.
Republican leaders do not favor
Senator Washburn, of Minnesota, for
vice-president.
Boer delegates w ill not be admitted
to the floor of the senate.
Their mis
sion is a failure.
The Iron Dyke mine, in Union coun
tv, Or., has been sold to Pennsylvania
parties for $85,000.
W illiam R. Hearst, of the San Fran
cisco Kxaminer, predicts the inaugura
tion of Bryan next spring.
Mexican government is still fighting
the Yaquias, additional troops being
sent to reinforce General Torres.
The war department refuses to ac
cept the resignations ol volunteer offi
cers now serving in the Philippines.
No municipal governments w ill be
organized in the hemp provinces of
Luzon until the rebels are driven out.
Fire today destroyed Reeves Bros.,
Boiler Works, at Alliance, Ohio. The
loss w ill reach $144,000, with $40,500
insurance.
Taylor and Beckham., w ill both be
candidates for re-election to the Ken
tucky governorship this fall, and a hot
election is expected.
Colonel Bethnne, while marching in
the direction of Newcastle, was am
bushed by a party of Boers and very
few of his force escaped.
Nathaniel P. H ill, former United
States senator from Colorado, one of
the wealthiest men in the state, is
dead at Denver, aged 68.
N EW BE R G ,
I.A T E R NEWS.
A ll the British armies are converging
in Johannesberg, and a big battle is
imminent.
Dick Croker says he believes Bryan
w ill beat McKinley. He does not con
sider Dewey “ in it .”
Chicago is afraid of the plague.
Coffee from an infected vessel found its
way into the city.
The secretary of war has awarded
the contract for the construction of a
breakwater at San Pedro, Cal., to the
California Construction Company, at
its bid of $2,375,000.
Arthur Rehan, brother of Miss Ads
Rehan and Mrs. Oliver Doud Byron,
died in Biooklyn, aged 38 years.
He
had managed many of Augustin Daly’i
theatrical road companies.
Timothy D. Blackstone, formerly
president of the Chicago & Alton rail
road, and one of the oldest and most
prominent railroad officers in Chicago,
died suddenly at his residence in that
oity.
Captain Page McCarthy, one of the
principals in the famous MoCarthy-
Mordeci duel, is dead, the result of s
long illness.
The duel, which took
place at Richmond, Va., in the spring
of 1873, was one of the most celebrated
since the civil war.
General Wade, who was directed to
proceed to the Northern Cheyenne In
dian agency, at Tongue river. Mont.,
and investigate the reports that the In
dians had the “ Messiah” craze, and
intended to rise against the whites,
has telegraphed the adjutant-general
that he could find no reason to antici
pate trouble. He says the Indians are
in bad condition, bot peaceable and
well disposed.
Commissioner Hermann, of the gen
eral land office, has issued an order in
structing superintendents of forest re
serves throughout the West to plant
suitable saplings and trees where por
tions of the forests have been destroyed
by fire. He is also making arrange
ments for the establishment of a tele
phone system, which is to connect all
the forest stations in certain districts
so that in the future in caBe of a fire
help may be summoned immediately.
Collector of Internal Revenne Lynch
is making preparations to establish an
office in Honolulu, the Hawaiian
islands having been added to the Dis
trict of California. The internal reve
nue laws go into effect in Hawaii on
June 14. All deputies at the Honolulu
office w ill be selected from citizens of
Hawaii. The stocks of beer, wines,
liquors, opium, cigars and tobacco now
in the islands w ill be inspected and in
ventoried. A.ter June 14 goods from
the United States mast he stamped be
fore being sent to the islands.
Grand Chief Arthur, of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, was re
elected at the convention at Milwaukee,
The United States supreme court de ¿Vis.
cided the Kentucky governorship case
General Warren occupied Douglas
in favor of Governor Beckham.
after heavy fighting and without sus
A bill to prevent interstate commerce taining any loss. The Boers have re
in convict made goods was passed in treated to the north.
the senate without division.
The w ill of the late Benjamin H.
Chinatown of Portland is to tie Howell, the sugar merchant, of New
cleaned up to prevent the possible York, disposes of an estate valued at
propagation of bubonic plague.
$1,500,000, and gives $15,000 to Brook
Two workmen were killed and 54 lyn charities.
injured at a strikers’ riot in Berlin.
The Methodist general conference at
One hundred and three arrests were Chicago, after considerable discussion,
made.
voted to abolish the time lim it on pas
Mataafa, one of the Samoan chiefs, torates. The result of the vote was re
thinks he has been treated shabbily by ceived with great applause.
Germany, and a revolt may occur at
Another note regarding the Ameri
any time.
can indemnity claim has been handed
to the saltan’s envoy, Terofik Pasha.
It is couched in more precise terms, in
sisting on prompt settlement.
Considerable California capital baa
been invested in an extensive mining
enterprise in Siberia and Manchuria.
Concessions for large tracts of land
have been obtained from the Russian
The postmaster general has suspended I and Chinese governments, and the work
Director-General of Post Kathlame and of development w ill soon begin.
appointed Fourth Assistant Postmaster-
A t the Kansas Democratic conven
General Brystow as acting director- tion, at Wichita, to elect delegates to
general of post in Cuba.
the national convention, in his opening
The Lodge amendment to the post- prayer, Kev. Dubber set the delegates
office appropriation bill continuing the w ild by the praying of the nomination
pneumatic service in cities where con and triumphant election of Bryan.
tracts have l>een made and appropriat The applause lasted several minutea.
ing $225,000 for the same was adopted
The water of a large lake near the
by the senate, 38 to 20.
town of Zapotalan, Mexico, disap
The Russian embassy has considers- I peared in a great fissure in the earth,
bly jertnrbed governmental and diplo- ! produced by an earthquake. The bed
matte circle: at Constantinople by in of the former lake ia now dry, and the
viting the immediate attention of the fissure can be plainly seen. It ia over
porte to the deplorable situation of i three miles long and from one to three
many districts of Armenia, resulting 1 feel wide. A tidal wave which swept
from brutal methods of collecting taxes in from the ocean after the shock did
little damage.
and from persecutions.
Filipinos lost 52 men killed in an
engagement at Agusau, in Cagvan
province. American loss, two killed
and three wounded.
Two cars of kerogene were blown up,
a car of bicycles smashed by a collision
on the Northern Pacific which occui red
about nine miles east of Spokane.
Berlin, with the approval of the
Nearly 3,000 Spanish prisoners still
kaiser, sent over 500,000 marks for the are held by the Filipinos.
famine sufferers in India.
The postoffice department has ap
Six thousand passengers for Cape pointed over 70 postmasters for Puerto
Nome are booked for May sailing! and Rico.
all berths are preengaged.
In the Klondike eggs are now selling
Miss Morgan, a San Francisco girl. at $120 a caae and beef at |1.60 a
Is the only woman among 600 art stu pound.
dents at the Beam Arts in Paris.
W illiam D. Hall, a St. Louis street
In New York city retail druggists car conductor, ia in active service, al
ha vs formed an association to com (eta though he has just passed his 80th
birthday.
with department stores.
1
¡STOP AT rhenoster L:
AND
TH E
O R IEN T.
.nd P o s s e s s io n s t h e S u b je ct o f D e-
b a t . In t h e Senate.
Roberts’ Infantry Delayed by
Unfordable River.
The steamers Geo. W . Elder and
Nome City sailed from Portland for
HIS CAVALRY IS FAR IN ADVANCE
Cape Nome with 750 passengers and
large quantities of freight.
At Pneblo, Col., a negro fiend who
had ravished and murdered two girls in
an orphan home, was lynched by a
mob.
C O U N T Y , OREGON,
CUBA
The village of Point Claire, 16 miles
from Montreal, Canada,has been almost
entirely wiped out by fire.
Two hun
dred people are homeless. No fatalities.
People in the neighborhood of Falls
Eight hundred Boers surrmdered at
City, Or., are terrified by the report
that a wild man is in the neighbor Vryburg, north of Kimberley.
hood. The man is believed to be A .
Plague in Honolulu has been effect
R. Handy, who went hunting over a ually stamped out, not recording a
year ago, and has not been heard from single case in 46 days.
since.
Recent injunction decisions have
Frederic A. Bell, who made a vast stirred np the labor unions, and they
fortune in the bituminous coal business urge concerted action.
in Philadelphia, and who wus subse
The auditor of the war department
quently president of the Buffalo Elevat
ing Company, is dead, at his home in finds it a big task to straighten out the
Madison, N. J., aged 55.
He leaves Cuban and Puerto Rican finances.
Twenty-two miners, 10 whites and 12
an estate valued at $25,000,000.
Fritz Meyer, a murderer, was put to Negroes, lost their lives 'in an explo
death in the electric chair at Sing Sing. sion in a coal mine near Raleigh N. C.
An Ohio statesman shot and killed
his wife accidentally by taking her for
a rat.
Y A M H IL L
B u t le r 's F o r c e s A r e F a c in g L a ln g a N ek -»
D o e r R e fe r e n d u m on th e Q u estio n
**f C o u tiu u iu g th e W a r L o n g e r .
London May 26.— Lord Roberts’ in
fantry advance iB delayed at the Rhe-
uoster river for a day or two by the
depth of the stream, which is not ford
able. The banks which are precipitous,
are 40 feet high. A pontoon and tem
porary bridge are under construction.
The railway had not been damaged to
any great extent between Kroonstad
and Rhenoster. The Transvaalers of
fended the Free Staters by destroying
their splendid bridges while retiring to
Kroonstad. They refrained from doing
this on the retreat to RheDoster, but
now they are destroying the railway
and bridges almost completely north of
the Rhenoster.
The British troops are in the form ol
a crescent, with horns 30 miles apart,
with General French’s cavalry on the
left, within 23 miles from the Vaal,
and General lan Ham ilton’s mounted
infantry on the right within 30 miles
Df the Vaal. The center of the cres
cent is aliout 40 miles lrom the Vaal.
Seventy or 80 miles to the left Lord
Methned is advancing upon the Vaal.
Boer telegrams say that 3,000 British,
with 10 guns, are near Vredefort, which
is close to the Vaal and close to Parys.
One correspondent refers to the ad
vance as a “ promenade.” Another de-
tcribes it as a “ Boer hunt.” The Free
Staters are pictured as “ bolting like
hares” at the first sight of the British.
The latter, according to the writer, do
not even find women and children, as
the fleeing farmers take their families
with them, in consequence of the re
ports current among the Transvaalers
that the British kidnap all children
over 12 years of age. The Boer rear
guard was composed of Russians, to
whom was committed the task of de
stroying the bridges. They also looted
freely.'
What the Boers are doing is an ab
solute mystery. The embargo of news
nut of Pretoria for the last 24 hours
has been complete. Such shreds of in
formation as the oorres]ioiidentsat Lon-
renco Marques have picked up do not
illnrninate the Boer designs and dispo
sitions further than that the movement
toward Lydenburg continues and that a
referendum on the question, of continu
ing the war iB going on among the Boer
fighting men. It may be a fortnight
before the results of this singular vote
are fully before the Transvaal govern
ment.
If the English view of Boer
discouragement is only half right, tha
Boers w ill vote to qnit.
GERMANY
C O M P L A IN S
A g a in s t K e a tr lc tlo n a on H e r K a p o rta ot
M a n u fa c tu r e rs .
New York, May 26.— A special to
the Herald from Washington, says: In
answer to the complaints made by the
United States against the restrictions
imposed U]>on American meats, Ger
many is complaining of vexatious regu
lations enforced with respect to her
manufactures.
Under the rule of the treasury de
partment, consular officers are required
to report on the composition of manu
factures imported from Germany into
the United States. The manufacturers
ire averse to communicating to foreign
consular officers the ingredients they
srnploy and the German government
has sustained them in their refusal to
do so. The Berlin authorities think
that the regulations might be amended
to as to remove the cause of complaint.
Action w ill not be taken by this govern
ment. however, until it learns the final
decision of the German legislature on
the meat inspection bill.
It is hirpad of the state department
that the bundesrath w ill amend the
bill so as to remove the prohibition
upon canned meats and sausage, which
the reichstag bill imposes.
There is no expectation among offi
cials that negotiations for a treaty of
reciprocity with Germany w ill be ra
mmed for some time.
S p e c ta c le in St. P e t e r 's . .
Rome, May 26.— There was a mag
nificent spectacle in St. I'eter’s today
in the occasion of the canunizaton of
lean Baptiste de Lazelle, founder of
the Order of Christian Brothers and
Rita Di Caaia, a nun of the Augustin-
ian order. The interior of the vast
Basilica was illuminated and adorned
with magnificent hangings, and the
building was filled with a great eon-
lourse of people, including all the pon
tifical dignitaries, diplomats and Ro
man nobilily. Pope Leo, attired in
bis state robes, was borne at the head
if an impoaing procession. A roar of
cheering rose from the multitude on
the pope’s approach, but the sppluuae
was quickly hushed by the guards.
R u ss ia n W a r s h ip s L a u n c h e d .
St. Petersburg, May 26.— The Rua-
lian battleship PoiledaaDd the Russian
cruiier Aurora were launched today in
the presence of Emperor Nicholas.
The czar also watched the keel laying
if two other battleships.
P r o b a b ly A g o n . l l l o 's W o r k .
Washington. May 26.— The Paris
iispatch of an insurgent victory in Ca-
tnbig is undoubtedly a Filipino acoount
if the battle which occurred on May
10, ami in which there were about 3C
American casualties
It w ill be re
membered that Agonclllo. the repre-
icntative of Agninaldo, is in Paris, and
! that he from time to time givee oat al
leged dispatches regarding events in the
I Philippines, which have always proved
| to be exaggerated accounts of occur-
unices that have been folly published.
Washington, May 26.—The duty of
the United States towards its “ island
possessions” was the subject ot heated
discussion in the senate again today.
Soon after the senate convened, Bacon
began an extended reply to the speech
of Platt, delivered yesterday.
His
rpeech was largely supplemental to that
which he delivered several days ago,
demanding an investigation of Cuban
affairs. His resolution, to which there
is little or no opositlon, under the rales
went to the committee on contingent
expenses.
The remainder of the afternoon was
occupied by Spooner in concluding his
speech on the Philippine question.
The debate which he arouqed took a
turn decidedly political, lie charged
the so-called anti-imperialists with
creating an issue which was not legiti
mate. Many of his statements were
controverted by Allen and Pettigrew,
and the controversy at times became
almost personal.
FU I D AY, J U N E
1, 19ÜO.
OIL IS EVERYWHERE
W A R N IN G
U n c le Sum S a y * t h e
TO
C H IN A.
“ B o x e rs "
Mua
S u p p res sed .
Even the* Air in California
Full of It.
DISTRICT IN SOUTH F UN
PART
P e tr o le u m W a s D is c o v e r e d S I* Y ea rs
A g o —S in ce T h a t T im e 700 V f t'lX *
H a v e lie e n Sunk.
The air in California, as well as the
gronnd, is full of oil. It is on the
street, in the bank, in the office— every
where. Valuable space in tlie local
papers is daily tilled with lurid de
scriptions of the fortunes that await in
vestors in shares of oil stick, and, in
deed, remote must be the district and
illiterate the domestic to whom the
dazzling pictures of fortunes in oil in
vestment are not as familiar us a twice-
told tale. An oil exchange has been
Washington, May 26.— The house formed in Los Angeles, occupying a
practically devoted eight hours today store room on the principal street,
to the consideration of the Alaska civil where for an hour a day the interested
government bill, but progress was slow. meet and advance or depress oil shares.
Two amendments of importance were Hundreds ot derricks are being estab
adopted. One of them authorized the lished beyond the original oil limits,
secretary of war to issue permits to ex and day and night the pumps are un-
cavate or dredge for gold below low- oeasingly pumping oil. For rugged,
water mark on the beach at Cape precipitous hills, that a few months
Nome. The secretary has heretofore ago were worth only a few hundred
issued permits, but the b ill as it passed dollars, oertitied checks for a hundred
the senate cancelled them. The house thousand are now refused and property
also struck out the chapter relating to la leased at fabulous prices. •
Thia condition is not confined to Loa
arrest and bail, which permitted ar
rests in certain civil actions. The con Angeles; from Sun Diego come reports
ference report on the Indian appropria of increasing oil findings.
Six years ago an enterprising individ
tion bill was adopted.
ual bored an oil well in I.os Angeles;
R U S S IA P L O T T I N G IN C O R E A . since that time 700 wells, each costing
$2,000, have been sunk. While some
F o m e n ts a R e b e llio n In O r d e r to G ain a of these have become exhausted, a
F o o t h o ld T h e r e .
great many are still running, and new
Victoria, B. C., May
26.— The wells are being dug at the rapid rats
Northern Pacific liner Glenogle reached of at least 100 a mouth. A procession
here yesterday morning, having defeat of tanks is ever on the move from the
ed the Victoria, of the same line, in u oil districts to the various city manu
race across the Pacific. She brings factories; electric light machinery
news that Russia is continuing her ag works and railway shops carry this val
gression in Corea, and reports publish uable fuel, 3 Mi barrels of which ia
ed in the Hong Kong press state that equal to one ton of soft coal. The
during the maneuvers a Russian war base of California oil is usphaltum, its
average gravity is about 15 degrees, it
ship fired a shot at a Japanese ship.
A serious rebellion has broken out is a thick, black oil, and one of tire
in Corea, for which Russian agents are best fuels yet discovered. Its by-pro
held responsible. It is believed in the ducts enter into the lubricating oil, the
Orient that Russia w ill offer troops to painters, printers and other trades, and
repel the rebels, and, once getting a the usphaltnm, after the oil has been
foothold in the country, w ill remain extracted, can be used for street pav
there. Announcement is made that ing; indeed, the ancient Mexican who
Russia and Coiea have entered into a inhabited these regions a bundled
secret treaty. Russia has met with years ago used it for roofing.
There is no surety as to the oost « (
armed opposition in Lioyang peninsula,
near Monken, having seven men sinking an oil well; a safe average may
be stated at $2,000. Going through
wounded by natives.
Chinese rebels in South China are soft sandstone, the borer has a conqiur-
arming several vessels with arms and atively easy task, unless he drop a
ammunition for them having been tool or break his tubing, when the cost
may be much increased. A t first the
seized.
The United States government steam product sold for $2 a barrel of 42 gal
er Antipole, wrecked on the northern lons, but went down to 35 cents, at
which period the ruilroad companies
end of Luzon, has been raised.
altered their engines to bnrn oil, for
A s k f o r an In ju n c t io n .
oil at that figure resulted in vast econ
San Francisco, May 26.— The only omy to them. After the engines were
development in the plague situation to changed to burn oil up went the price,
day was an application made in the ! so thut coal after all proved in some
United States court by the Chinese for cases the cheaper fuel. The price it
a temporary injunction to restrain the not likely to go over $1.25, and may.
San Francisco board of health ami Dr. in consequence of the recent discoveries
Kenyonn, the lederal quarantine officer, of new fields of almost unlimited ex
from interfering with the oommerce tent, go down to a nominal figure
and comfort of the Chinese quarter by agsin. Large storage tanka are built
establishing a quaratine on the pretext in Los Angeles, containing upwards of
that the bubonic plague exists in this 500.000 bar-els of oil. The average
oity. Jndge Morrow said that he did daily product in Los Angeles is about
not like to issue a restraining order in 5.000 barrels; nearly $2,000,000 per
so important a matter without giving annum, therefore, is (lowing into Los
the other aide a hearing.
For that Angeles county today from the sale of
reason he refused to grant a restraining oil alone, and about an eighth of that
order, but granted, instead, an order is paid to the workers at the pumps
to show cause why an injunction should and haulers of the portable tanks. A
not be issued. The order to show cause vast force is engaged in thn manufac
is returnable at 11 A . M. tomorrow.
ture of machinery for the • oil wells,
ami, in quoting these statistics in refer
C h in e s . P r o t e s t.
ence to widespread benefits of the oil
Washington, May 26.— The Chinese
industry, some odd thousand street oil
minister has received numerous tele- 1
brokers and dealers in oil company
grams from Chinese residents of Ban
shares must not be forgotten, for these
Francicso, asking him to have revoked
people subsist, temporarily at least,
the order that they shall lie inoculated
ujion the indirect oil output. One of
with the anti-plague serum. The situ
the moat interesting oil fields is that of
ation in Sun Francisco is very grave, i
Suminerland, in Santa Barbara county,
as the Chinese have a great fear of this 1
where wells have been dug out in the
treatment, and serious trouble mav
ocean below high tide, and wharves
ensue if it M continued. The minister
are ron out from the shore upon which
commented upon the fact that the
the pumping machinery is placed.
whitee are not being treated, and ex- I
When we consider the fact that the
pressed the opinion that this was not
export oil trade of the United.States ia
fair.
decreasing; that the total shipments of
1888 were 80,000,000 barrels less than
I n G e rm a n Nninon.
Berlin, May 26.— The disquieting those of 1887, the discoieries of new
news frotfl Samoa, through English oil fields and the attending excitement
channels ia discredited here.
The in California w ill tie gratifying. It
Berlinger Tageblatt, commenting upon opens np a prospect for the Asiatio
it, says: “ This is merely additional trade that this country w ill undoubted
evidence that the English continue in ly take advantage of; the Russian and
triguing in Samoa.” The Lokal An- Bornean oil w ill hnve a coin|>etitnr in
aeiger prints correspondence from California; freights to the Oi ient from
Samoa, describing the situation there as San Francisco w ill lie considerably
less than from Philadelphia,— Mining
“ satisfactory.”
and Scientific Press.
R io t « I b r r a «« lB .
Portland, May 27.— E. B. Cowan
tells the Oregonian that people need
have no fears about the Baker county
mines, as the district has made better
returns for the amount so far in vested
than any mining region in the United
States. Mr. Cowan spokeot a 10-stamp
plant that nets its owners $20,004) a
C h a r g e d W it h K m b e s s le m e n t.
Carbondale, 111., May 26.— W. T. month. In addition to the mines thi t
Wykea, of thia city, waa arrested late sre being regularly worked, a vast
last night in St. Louis, charged with amount of prospecting and developing
the embeizlement of $5,000 from the is going on. In all respects the min
firm of Whitney A Co., of San Fran ing future of Eastern Oregon is much
better than Nome, Mr. Cowan thinks.
cisco.
Berlin, May 26. — Riots have oc-
curted repeatedly within the last few
days at Stolb, in the province of Pom-
erania, 1’russia. Cavalry was sum
moned and attacked the crowd, and a
score of persona were injured.
On a farm in West Virginia there is
an apple tree wbich ia eight feet five
Washington, May 26.— Representa
inches around.
in 1880, 85 bushels
tive W illiam Alden Smith, of M ichi
of apple* were gathered from it, and
gan, gave a dinner tonight at the Hotel
sold at the apple house for $60.
Th*
Gordon to the Boer commissioners.
tree is 75 years old and still bearing.
Several members of congress were pres
ent. Webster Davis, in a speech at
A newsboy in North London, Ind.,
the end of the dinner, expressed in a was sentenced to s week in jail for cry
moat emphatio way his views, declar ing false Dews on the streets.
What
ing that the whole people of the wonld become of the newsboys ol Chi
United States believe in the cause of cago and New York should such a rule
liberty wbich waa represented by the prevail in those cities.
sueots.
B o o r R n f o y i K n U r t a la c il.
NO. 28.
Washington, May 28.— The United
States government has taken a hand in
the suppression of the “ Boxers” in
China. Minister Conger has been in
structed by the state department to in
form the Chinese government that the
United States government expects it to
stamp pat promptly and thoroughly
this society, and to provide proper guar
antees for the maintenance of peace and
order, and the protection of the life
and property of Americans in China,
all now threatened hy the operations
of the "B oxers.” There is no indica
tion in the instructions as to the course
that w ill be pursued by the United
States in case the Chinese government
fails to observe the warning conveyed
in this communication. Mr. Conger ia
acting on parallel lines with the repre
sentatives of every European power at
the Chinese court, bnt has not joined
in anv concert of aotion.
S TR IK E
S Y M P A T H IZ E R S .
C au sed A n o t h e r R i o t In St. L o u ts —A t*
te m p t to B lo w U p a C ar.
St Louis, May 28.— Sympathizers ol
the striking street car men were again
the medium of a riotous demonstration
today, and as a result another name was
added to the long list of wounded.
This afternoon, as a car on the Jefferson
avenue line, running south, approached
Sullivan avenue, it was attacked by a
crowd of men and boys. Several shots
were fired at the car. The policemen
on the oar returned the fire, and in all
about 100 shots were exchanged. Reter
Wells, a patrolman, who was riding on
the front platform, was hit in thb left
arm pit, the bullet producing an ugly
wound. It is not known who fire l the
shot, as the crowd scattered as soon as
the men on the oar drew their revolv
ers. It was rumored that two men in
crowd were shot, but they could not be
found by the police.
The differences existing between the
management of the St. Lonlis &
Suberban Hallway Company and the
union men in its employ were satis
factorily adjusted thia afternoon and all
danger of another strike has been avert
ed, at least for the present.
Twenty-two miles of the Transit
Company were In operation today, bnt
few cars were running.
At 6 A. M. an attempt was made by
somebody unknown to blow np a oar
on the Spaulding avenue lino of the
Trunsit Company. The wheels of the
first car struck something that explod
ed with a loud noise, and lifted the car
two or three feet into the air.
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P u r s u in g t h « R e b e l L e a d e r In
N o r th e r n L u zo n .
Manila, May 28.— Major Marsh,
with a battalion of the.Thirty-third in
fantry, and Colonel Hare, with another
part of the regiment, while scouring
the country northeast of Bangned, re
port they struck the trail of a party ol
Filipinos traveling in the mountains
and believe they are escorting Aguin
aldo. Major Marsh ia continuing pnr
suit across an exceedingly difficult
oountry, lieyond telegraph lines.
Sergeant Barry and four privates of
company B, Twenty-seventh regiment,
have rescued the daughter of the presi
dent of San Mateo from some Ladrones,
who had ahdncted her. Afterwards 12
Ladrones ambushed them, killing the
sergeant. Three privates stood off the
hand until reinforced. Seven Ladrones
were killed.
Lieutenant Elliott, of the erniser
New Orleans, died recently at Cavite
of appoplexy, resulting from a sun
stroke.
L o o t e d th e C h a rle s to n .
Seattle, May 28.— Daring the last
voyage of the Chnrruca from Aparri,
according to the Manila Freedom, the
steamer touched at the island where
the Charleston was wrecked, for the
purpose of taking on a number of
beeves.
Several American civilians
were passengers on the ship and they
seized an opportunty to go ashore.
Ruins of a house larger and more dura
ble than the cottages of the natives at
tracted their attention. While passing
through the place they stumbled across
the searchlight of the erniser Charles
ton and numerous other artioles, in
cluding a splendid case of surgical in
struments, the property of the Charles
ton’s medical officer.
No arms were
found among the loot, and the supposi
tion is that If any of them fell Into the
hands of natives they were taken across
the mainland whore tha labels might
use them.
D is o r d e r s In I s l e o f J e r s e y .
London, May 28.— Serious trouble ia
threatening between the British and
French residenta of St. lfeliera. Island
of Jersey, owing to the pro-Boer atti
tude of the latter.
There have been
several collisions, and this morning
troops were forced to charge with fixed
bayonets to prevent the demonstrators
from invading the French quarter.
Thirty arrests were made. The French
consul has reported the situation to the
British foreign office, with the result
that the latter has wired to the gov
ernor, Lieutenant-General Sir Edward
Hopton. holding him personally re
sponsible for the maintenance of order,
Ijermany w ill bring China to time,
the empress dowager having violated
her promise never again to allow notor
ious Li I’ing Hang, enemy of Europe,
to hold an otfioa.
▲ddreaa, « u n n i Nswbsrg. «r a g s * .
IBOERS LOSE HEART
Kruger Admits That Situa,
tion Is Very Grave.
ASKS BURGHERS WHAT TO DO
t t I s F e a r e d T h a t I f th e D u tc h H a v e a s
X i i u « a T h e y W i l l D e s tr o y th a
J o h a n n e s b u r g M in es.
London, May 28.— When Lord Rob
erta wrote his first dis[>atch on Trans
vaal territory yesterday, shortly before
2 o ’clock in the afternoon, be waa III
miles from Johannesberg and 77 miles
from Pretoria. Hia immensely superior
forces had passed the Vaal river, their
last great natural obstacle, at three
points.
The Vaal baa a curve ol 80 miles on
the west to Zand Drift on the east.
The concave of the current is toward
the Free State.
Thus Lord Roberts,
advancing along the railway, waa in a
position to Btrike any part of the cres
cent by shorter lines than those by
which the Boers oould reiuforoe the
threatened )iointa. The Boers retreated
almost without a show of defense.
General French and General Hamilton
apparently did not fire a shot.
Of Lord Roberts’ immediate force 11
men, belonging to the Eighth mounted
infantry, were the first to ford the
river. They came upon a Boer patrol
looting at Vieljoen's Drift, and a skirm
ish lasting 10 minntes followed.
Three hundred Boers tried feebly to
hold the Yereeniging colliery, but weie
dislodged. Major Hunter Weston and
Lieutenant Earl rode in advance of
Lord Roberts 40 miles inty a hostile
country to try to ent the railway be
hind the Boers before the Vaal was
crossed, but they were too late.
The Boer rear guard is at Moysrton,
10 miles south of Vereenignig.
Their
main body is moving toward the K lip
river hills that cover the south side of
Johannesberg.
W hile Lord Roheits’
30.000 infantry, 20,000 horses and 150
guns are moving on Johannesberg and
Pretoria, tbiough a parched and desert
ed country, the sitnation at the Trans
vaal capital, as it was last Fiiday, is
thus described by an observer, who
sent his message by private hands to
Lourenco Marques yesterday:
“ The situation, both from a military
and a political point o( view, has be
come very critical. President Krnger
yesterday admitted for the first time
that matters are very grave. The Boer
determination is to trust everything to
a last stand on the Gats rand mountains,
to the north of Potschefostroom, where
8.000 Kaffirs are digging trenches. To
that point every available man and gnn
has been sent.
“ The whole of the western border of
the Transvaal from end to end is de
fenseless, and General Badtm-Powell
can march,in when he likes.
Lord
Roberts, on the other hand, w ill en
counter the greatest resistance.
The
Boer endeavor is to lore the British
into appearing to threaten Johannes-
beig with attack, an exonse thus beiDg
given them (or the destruction of prop
erty. The Transvaal government w ill
not date destroy the mines and property
without an excuse.
Muoh dynamite
has been sent down the line, and 160,-
000 cases lie ready at Znrfontein, near
Johannesberg.
“ General Louis Botha and General
Lucas Meier have pleaded for the pres
ervation of property. Both are large
landed proprietors and (ear confiscation,
but they have not received satisfactory
replies from President Krnger.”
N rvs I S ta tio n a t San D le g a .
Ban Diego, Cal., May 28.— Captain
Field, of the United States steamer
Ranger, ha* received orders from
Washington directing him to make
soundings in the bay and recommenda
tions as to whether this ia a suitable
location for the establishment of a
naval coaling station, and further to
advise whether one is needed here.
The work of surveying the harbor w ill
lie begun immediately. The minimum
depth of water w ill be reported, and
also the cost of the necessary land, if
the government does not already own
land near where the bunkers would be
located.
T h e W i l t A f r ic a T r o u b le ,
Accra, May 88.— It is reported that
three European officers were killed and
Captain Aplln and 100 Hanaera were
wounded in a recent effort by the Lagos
Hausers to break the investing lines of
tribesmen at Kumassie. The Ashanti
loss is reported to have been great, as
the flansers had three Maxims engaged,
although themselves greatly outnum
bered. Three hundred Ashantis are
said to have been killed in a previous
action. The rising ia ptill spreading.
Paper
H ill
darned.
Milwaukee, May 29.— The Flambeau
Paper Company’s m ill and warehouse
at Perk Fall* burned today, entailing a
loss of $200,000. The property is well
insured. Tb* town was without ade
quate fire protection, and at one time
was thought would b* totally wiped
out.
Assistance from Medford ami
Abbotsford prevented the spread of the
fianies lieyond the paper company’s
plant. Included in tba loss are two
paper machines, valued at $40,000 each.
S u icid e o f • P r ie s t .
Niagara Falla, N. Y ., May 18.— An
unknown priest, supposedly from New
York city, committed suicide tonight
at Whirlpool rapid*.
He descended
the elevator, and, after having his pic
ture taken, walked out on a rock, threw
his hat and cane back of him, and,
waving his right hand dramatically,
■booted “ Good-bye,” and leaped into
the rushing waters.
He ordered tha
pictures sent to M. J. O ’ Donnell, New
Yoik, who is said to bo pastor of St.
A ndrew '* church.
T h a T o a i a K in g O b je e ta .
Auckland, May 28.— The king of tba
Tonga islands objects to th* claoa* of
thn treaty between Great Britain end
the island government relative to the
British protectorate. Th* king doaiiaa
a protectorate only against foreign
powers, and inalata upon the kingship
of himaelf and hia descendants. Com
missioner Thompson refuses to moke
any concessions and a deadlock la tb*
result, bnt hopes or* entertained that a
solution of th* difficulty w ill ha