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Uocnprahanalva Review of th Import
ant Happening! of the Fait Weak
t olled rroin the Telegraph Column.
A pMWogiHT train on the Burlington
jmnped a trestle near Omuha, and five
people were injnnsd, one futally.
William Dbb, of Union, Or., hat
received the Maul prize for raining the
Urgent table beet for 1806. The oon
tent waa open to all growera In the
United State and Canada. Tlie prize
conniHted of a 150 draft. The beet
weighed aeventecn pounds.
Borne boya while hunting near Peta
lunm, Cul., ahot a pigeon on a tree,
fcnd the bird dropped with a broken
wing. A meMuige tied to the bird
wing proved that it came from Walla
Walla, WttHh., lour day previous.
The note whh addreKHed to a Ban Fran
ciaoo firm.
Important pnpera ehowing the
amount due the Pucillo roada sinking
fund, on aooount of gubaidiea paid the
Pacilio Mail Bteanndilp Conipuny, have
apparently been lout' The senate
adopted a resolution calling for them.
Tho atsting aeeretary hag replied that
they cannot be found.
The Columbia river aalmon puckerg
held a meeting in Atoria for the pur
pone of fixing the price to be paid for
Mtlmon during the coming aeaaon. It
Wiia decided to offer 4 cent a pound,
and a communication to that effect wan
aent to the Fihermen'i Protective
Union. The union met later, but no
action waa taken in the mutter of the
cannerg propowtion.
A thousand warring Pole, in Bay
City, Miclu, were determined that Fa
ther Bogacki hIiouI.I not omciate a
their priet They attacked the par
nonage of fit. Btaninlaua' church, and
atormed it for over an hour. They do
molinhcd tho eilitloe and one man waa
ahot and aeveral others wounded with
clubs. The priest finally surrendered
and the police quelled the riot
A Chicago paper any that President
elect McKinley will select Colonel John
Hay, of Washington, as ambassador to
Oreat Britain. Colonel Hay has been
secretary of the legation at Pans,
Vienna and Madrid and waa often
charge d'affaires ad interim at each of
these capitals. In Hayes' adminstra
tion lie was first assistant secretary
atate. Hay was one of President Liu
clon'g secretaries.
Sir Charles Tupper at a dinner in
London is Quoted as saving: "I feel
great admiration for the United States,
but do not desire to possess their insti
lutions. I feel that there is greater
security under British institutions for
life, property and liberty. Canadians
are greatly flattered at the desire of
the United States to possess Canada
but so deep is their loyalty and
united are the Canadians that theques
tion is impossilbe. " The speech of the
ex-premier wag received with great ap
plause. .
In answer to Senator Mitchell's re so
lution on the Yaquina and other im
provements in Oregon, the secretary of
war has reported that tne matter nau
been referred to Captain Fisk, and that
considerable correspondence had ensued.
Captain Fisk is endeavoring to ascer
tain the best method of proceeding
with the project. The work on the
Willamette river litis been ordered, and
the Yamhill locks are in the condition
of the Yaquina project. Evidently
there has been delay in the matter,
which may be continued for some time.
The Pacific cable conference will
meet within a fortnight in London to
sign the report already agreed upon. It
is semi-oflloially stated that the report
unanimously recommends that a cable
be built, as it is practically feasible
and commercially and politically neces.
sary. There is some difference of opin
ion regarding the relative share of ex
pense to be borne by Great Britain
and the colonies concerned, but the del
egates have agreed finally to recommend
that less be paid by Ureat lintnm ami
more by the colonies than originally
considered necessary. The sum nHked
from Great Britain is understood to be
eonsidored financially feasible by Secre
tary Chamberlain.
A band of masked regulators went
to the house of C. W. Reddick, a few
miles west of Newport, Idaho, and
called him to the door. They seized
him, dragged him outside, took him a
short distance from the house and gave
him a terrible beating with horsewhips
and switches. His condition is critical
The alleged offense of Reddick was im
proper attentions to a married woman
of the neighborhood.
It is stated that O. P. Huntington
has a corns of engineers in the field
making a preliminary survey for a rail
road from Port Alvarado, south of Vera
Cruz, to the port of Salina Cruz on
the Pacific, and that, if he can secure
advantageous routes, he will ask the
government for a concession for the
purpose of operating the line in oon
neotion with Pacific Mail steamers, do
in( away with the Panama route.
WORSE THAN REPORTED.
rlbl Atroeltle, la Oaaaabaeos.
New York, Jan. XI. Antonio
Aguierro, a member of the Havana pro-
dune exchange, arrived here on the
steamer Orizaba, from Havana. He
was a resident of Guanabaooa.where.ao
cording to recent reports from Havana,
atrocities were commiteed by the Span
ish troops under Colonel Fondeveua.
Senor Aguierro when seen last night
said:
'The reports which reach the
United States of the state of affairs in
Guanabacoa are far from telling the
whole truth. Colonel Fondeveila has
instituted a reign of terror at the place.
His name is well known to the Araeri-
. , i a i J
can press as tnat oi ine mosi oiooa-
thirsty officer of General Weyler's com
mand. He is a favorite of the captain
general and has been appointed military
commander of Guanabacoa, just across
the bay from Havnaa.
"Fully 600 families have leit the
town and moved into Havana since his
taking charge. People are taken from
their homes and killed with machetes
in the outskirts of the town. The
world is then made to believe that such
people were leaving their homes to join
the rebles, who swarm in the neigh
borhood. I know of thirty-nine persons
who have thus been done away with,
Even honest Spaniards are shocked
at Fondeveila's acts. One of the honest
Spaniards warned me that my name
was on the list with more than 200
more kept by Fondeveila as men
marked by him for secret execution as
rebel sympathizers. Being a thorough
ly neutral man and having good mends
among the Cubans and Spaniards anae,
I! II I (ME II
Senate Canvassed on Interj
national Conference.
CAUCUS WILL BE HELD SOON
I managed to obtain my passport for
the United States. I owe my escape
from Fondeveila's clutches to my8pan.
ish friends, toward whom- I feel the
greatest gratitude. "
THE FUNDING BILL.
Debate Opened by Repreaantatlve Pow
er feature of the Bleaaure.
Washington, Jan. 11. The Pacifio
railroads funding bill, which is con
sidered the most important piece of
legislation which will come before con
gress at this session, came up today in
the house, under a special order, which
allows two days for general debate and
one day for amendments and debate
under the five-minute rule, win pro
vision for a final vote within fonr
days. There was a great deal of in
terest in the measure, and the members
jave all the speakers close attention. A
huge map of the roads, with their feed
ers, was hung on a frame erected in
the area in front of the speaker's ros
trum, and served to illustrate many of
the points made. There were only four
peakers today Powers of Vermont
the chairman of the Pacifio railroads
commission, who opened with an ex
haustive two hours' argument in sup
port of the bill; Hubbard of Missouri,
the minority member of the committee,
w ho has charge of the opposition, and
Grow and Bell, who spoke respectively
for and against the measure.
The Senate' Action,
Washington, Jan. 11. The Repub
lican and Democratic steering com
mittee today decided to make the Pa
citio railroads funding bill the order of
business in the senate after the free-
homestead bill. The Republican com
mittee. with Senator Allison, its chair
man. present, was in session for an
hour, w hen Senators Gorman and Cock-
rell were called in as representatives of
the Democratic committee. There was
no opposition in either committee to the
proposition to give the bill considera
tion, and to place the time for hearing
at as early a date as practicable. - The
agreemet was made only conditional
upon the passage of the bill through
the house. If it fails there, it will not
be considered in the senate. No at
tempt will be made to provide for the
consideration of any other bilL
The Mora Claim. t
Washington, Jan. 11. The senate,
in executive session, has adopted a reso
lution instructing the committee on
foreign relations to investigate the pay
ment of the Moar claims. The reso
lution was introduced by Senator
Chandler, and instructs the committee
to ascertain, among .other things,
whether the settlement, providing for
the payment of $1,800,000 on aooount
of the claim, was a fair one. It also
directs the committee to ascertain
whethor the payment of the claim in
volves any issuance from this govern
ment as to the attitude this country
would maintain in the Cuban insurrec
tion. Alrehlp Invented In Plttabarg.
Pittsburg, Jan. 11. Charles D. De
forest, a Pittsburg inventor, who has
been interested in the stories about the
alleged California airship, says he has
a flying machine that will fly. Yester
day he exihibted a model which flew
across a field. He believed the airship
should be built on the principle of a ;
bird's flight, and his model, looks like
a large hawk or eagle. He was oareful ,
Jo arrange it so that the body of the
bird woum lioid sumoient gas 10 mane
Tbs afeaaure Provld That the free
, Idenf, Shall Appoint five or Rtor.
PeUgat Compensation 100,00ft.
Washington, Jan. 1 1 Senator Chand
ler baa practioally made a canvass of
the senate on the proposition of an in
ternational conference on silver, and
concludes that there will be no opposi
tion worth the name. Still, the bill
will not be introduced in the senate
until it is accepted by the Republican
caucus, as the committee was instruct
ed to report to the caucus. The lan
guage of the bill is substantially as fol
lows: ; .
"Tli at whenever the president shall,
after March 4, 1897, determine that
the United States should be represented
at any international conference, called
either by the United States or the gov
ernment of some other country, with i
view of securing internationally a fix.
ity of relative yalue between gold and
silver, by means of a common ratio be
tween those metals, with free mintage
at such ratio, the United States shall
be represented at such conference by
five or more delegates, to be selected
by the president. For the compensa
tion of said delegates, together with all
reasonable expenses connected there
with, to be approved by the secretary
of state, including the proportion to be
paid by the United States of the joint
expenses ol such conference, the sum
of $100,000, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, is hereby appropriated.
It is understood that the Republican
caucus to formally decide upon the bill
will be held next week.
A NEGRO MONSTER.
Caapar,
SEVEN NUNS PERISHED.
Barnlag a
lot Their Live In the
Convent.
Ottawa, Jan. 8. The convent of the
Ursuline nuns at Roberval, on Lake St
John, about 130 miles north of Quebec,
was destroyed by fire, which broke oat
at 6 o'olock this morning, and seven
Sisters are known to have perished in
the flames, while about fifty inmates
had very narrow escapes. Were it not
that most of the students of the con
vent had gone home for the holidays,
the loss of life might have been
greater. The students were to have re
turned tomorrow. Ordinarily there are
about thirty inmates in the institution.
and about fifty pupils.
The village has no water works, and
the work of saving the contents was
therefore made difficult, while the
flames had made such heavy headway
that their extinguishment was an im
possibility. Many of the nuns and
pupils slept in a dormitory on the
fourth floor. There is a fireproof tower
near this, but the rapidity with which
the flames spread prevented the nuns
from reaching it. They were smoth
ered by the smoke.
Several nuns were badly burned in
trying to extinguish the fire. The
convent and the school are nothing but
a mass of ruins. Just how the fire
started is not known certainly, but this
being the Feast of Epiphany, it is sup
posed that a lighted candle near the
cradle of the infant Jesus ignited the
draperies and floral ornamentations.
The fact that all parts of the convent
were uncompleted caused the fire to
spread more rapidly. The convent was
a stone building, five stories high, and
of 120 feet frontage, and was built
eight years ago. The Ursuline nuns
of Quebec,' by whom it was first con
trolled, are the oldest order in Canada,
and it was in a cavity made by the
bursting of a shell within their oonvent
at Quebeo that General Montcalm was
buried after his death upon the Plains
of Abraham.
THE LOUD POSTAL BILL.
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Resume of Events in
Northwest.
the
EVIDENCE OF 8TEADY GROWTH
tho Ontlaw. Add rear Mur
der ta Bis Record.
Mayesville, S. C, Jan. 11. Simon
Cooper, the negro outlaw who shot and
killed another negro and wounded seV'
eral others at Magnolia a few days ago,
and for whom there is a reward of $100
offered by the governor, added more
murders to his record this morning,
near Magnolia. Cooper entered the
house of Ben Wilson about sunrise, and
demanded the nse of Wilson's buggy,
which was refused. The monster then
picked up an ax and split Wilson'
head open. He attacked Wesley Wit
son, the son, and murdered him in a
like manner. Cooper then murdered
Mrs, Wesley Wilson with the same
weapon, after which he struck down
negro who had approached on hearing
the noise, and left the ax sticking in
the negro's head.
As soon as the news of the shocking
tragedy reached Sumter, the sheriff
organised a posse of men, chartered a
special car -and came to Mayesville,
where reinforcements from this town
and the surrounding country awaited.
Word reached the sheriff here that
Cooper had been seen within two miles
of Sumter. The sheriff divided the
volunteers into several posses and sent
them in different directions, but Cooper
was not found.
t The Wilsons were white people of
high standing in their community.
Ben Wilson was about 80 years old, his
son 40 and Mrs. Wesley Wilson 85.
Two children have been left orphans.
Up to this hour the murderer has not
been captured, but it is almost impos
sible for him to escape. If captured
his fate will be a most terrible one.
Embalmed In WhUhy.
Cynthiana, Ky., Jan. 11. Charles
Bramlett, aged 80 years, died January
4. He owned several plantations in
Harrison county, and had been a pros
perous man all his life. At a low esti
mate he was worth $100,000. He was
peculiar in nothing but ideas of his own
burial. He was a great reader, and
perhaps drew his notions of his own
interment from the histories of ancient
Egypt.
About fifteen years ago he hired a
stonemason to make him a sarcophagus
of blue Kentucky limestone, whioh is
more durable than the hardest marble.
At the same time he bought a barrel
of the best old Bourbon the state could
produce and ordered that at his death
the whisky should be poured upon his
body, after it was placed in the stone
coffin. The sarcophagus was then to
be hermetically sealed and placed i n a
grave near his residenoe.
All his directions have been followed
and he was buried today. It required
a number of strong horses to carry the
body in its heavy receptacle.
d the
Days ol
Powerful "X" Ray Machine.
Pittsburg, Jan. 11. The powerful
"X" ray machine constructed by Pro
lessor R. A. Fessenden, of the Western
university, was exhibited tonight be
fore the Academy of sciences and arts,
at Carnegie hall. Professor James
Keoler, of the Allegheny observatory.
the machine buoyant enough to elevate 'in .telling of the wonderful tests to
...! i..i i.. a which the machine has been put, said
filling the model with gas he attached
a rope to it. As soon as he released
the model it started skyward until the
put,
it had already thrown a ray of light
through four inches of solid iron, and
he thinks later it will be developed so
end of the rope was readied. Deforest " win pierce six or eigni inonea, uu tama tnat u gave way aiwgeiner yes
has made a number of publio tests of ! intimated strongly that it may be util- terday, and her eondition is said to be
hit model mi all were suooeisful I inspestion of armor-plate, i hopeless.
Ban After Tarn
Spirited Debate.
Washington, Jan. 8. The Loud bill
to amend the law relating to second
class mail matter was passed by the
house today, after two days' of debate,
by a vote of 144 to 105. The opposi
tion to the bill made a strong fight
against it. The most important provi
sion of the bill denies to serial publi
cations admission to the mails at one
cent per pound rates. The provision
is as follows:
"Thift nothing herein contained
shall be so construed as to admit to the
second-class rate publications purport
ing to be issued periodically and to
subscribers, but which are merely
books or reprints of books, whether they
be issued complete or in parts; whether
they be bound or unbound; whether
they be sold by subscription or other
wise, or whether they purport to be
premiums or supplements or parts of
regular newspapers or periodicals."
The bill also denies to newspapei s
the "sample-copy" privilege, and the
privilege enjoyed by news dealers of
returning unsold publications at the
second-class rate.
The only other important change in
the present law provides that publish'
era whose publications are admitted at
second-class matter shall be required,
before depositing such mail matter in
the poetoffioe, to separate the same into
United States mail sacks or bundles by
states, cities, towns or counties, as the
postmaster-general shall direct
Cnbn In the Benata.
Washington, Jan. 8. The speech of
Call' on Cuba in the senate today served
as the medium ior making puouo a
letter, giving a graphic description of
the Cabanas fortress at Havana and
the surroundings of the American citi
zens imprisoned there. The circum
stances surrounding the letter attracted
marked interest to it, as Call said it
came from a public man of high stand
ing in the United States, who would
shortly occupy a place in the legisla
tive branch of the government The
letter dealt with the immediate pres
ent, and described a visit made by the
writer and General Lee to Cabanas
fortress only seven days ago. It told
of the pitiful condition of the prison
ers, some of them Americans, includ
ing Julio Sanguilly, and a young man
who was the companion of Charles
Govin, the American newspaper corre
spondent, killed in Cuba. The recital
of these prisoners was given in full.
During the day the senate passed
house bills amending the laws relating
to timber culture and authorising bre
vets to acting or retired officers of the
army or navy. The joint resolution
requesting the British government to
pardon Mrs. Maybrick was indefinitely
postponed. The bill exempting set
tlers on publio lands from paying the
original government price fixed on the
lands was debated. Pettigrew and Car
ter spoke in its .favor, but a final vote
was not reaohed.
Th Fright Craied Her.
Oakland, Cal., Jan. 8. Sheer fright
deprived Jennie Jurgensen of her rea
son and she was brought here for treat
ment Miss Jurgensen was scared by
some friends the other day in the carry
ing out of a joke, and it so affected her
Ma a Gathered In AU the Town ef
Onr Neighboring Stmt ImprT-i
mantKoted la All Indnatrlaa Oregon.
The John Day flouring mill, having
ground up all the wheat in sight, is
now Idle.
Marion county's assessment for 1898
has already cost $7,000, and the end
is not yet, says the Statesman.
A colony of Illinois people will
leave that state in March or April, to
settle in the southern part of Yamhill
county and the southern part of Polk
county.
Fred Kemper, of Pendleton, who won
a eaynse at a raffle the other day, gave
the beast back to its original owner and
treated him for taking the eaynse off
bis hands.
Engineer Dillman, of the Astoria
railway, ssys that there are 400 men
at work near Rainier and the Clats
kanie, and that two big dredgers are
being run night and day.
Henry Boccbolz, a prominent citizen
of Tamarack, Uamtilla county, is burn
ing cbatooaL It takes five days to .
burn a pit and be has to watch it
day and night, and camps by the pit
The Wallowa stage waa wrecked
last week by an accident on Wallowa
bilL There were three passengers that
day, but they got out to walk lost be
fore the stage started down the hill, so
that nobody was injured.
G. W. MoKinney, of Brownsville,
last week butchered a hog that dressed
823 pounds, from whioh be rendered
150 pounds of lard, and the Browns
ville Times asks if any Willamette
farmer can beat the reeord.
Mrs. James Crosby, of Monmouth,
Or., has a family Bible, printed in
Edinburgh, Sootland, that has been
banded down in the family for several
generations; crossed the ocean to
America, and now lies on the center
table of Mrs. Crosby. It is prized very
highly, end is still in a state of good
preservation.
The body of a white man washed
ashore on the beaoh about half a mile
south of the month of Hunter'g creek,
in Curry eounty reoently. The ooro
ner's jury waa unable to identify the
body, and found a verdiot of death by
drowning. The body waa that of a
man about six feet tall, with very
small hands and feet, and weighing
about 180 pounds.
During the storm in November, Otto
Kohler shipped 8,600 sheep from The
Dalles to Columbus, Neb., and arrived
there in due time, losing only four
sheep on the trip. Mr. Kohler writes
baok that he is feeding his sheep at
the farm of Nio Blazer, an nncle of
John Blazer, of The Dalles, near Co
lumbus, where he gets shelled corn for
twelve oents a bushel, and other feed
at corresponding low prioes.
Washington.
Jabes Cowlea, an old oitisen of Clark
county, died at hia home near Wood
land last week.
The Ellensburg city council has
made a reduotion in the salaries of city
officials that will amount to $30.
The 8pokane street oar company's
receipts during the year have averaged
$30 a day more than last year, says the
Spokane Chronicle.
A farmer of Cow City lost 4,000
bushels of potatoes by the November
freeze, and a Toledo man lost 1,000
bushels. There seems to .have been a
heavy loss all over Lewis oounty.
Blackleg is making its appearanoe
among the cattle in Kittitas eounty.
Mr. Otis Hyer, stockman and farmer,
says that three of his neighbors bsve
lost from six to ten head of cattle, eaoh
caused by this disease.
The state treasurer haa Issued a oall
for state warrants on the general fund,
numbered 13,491 to 13,785 inclusive,
amounting in the aggregate to $31,
651.49. Interest on these warrants
will cease after January 7, 1897.
The Washington State Historical So
ciety at Taooma has filed articles of in
corporation. Their purpose is the col
lection snd preservation in substantial
form of objects of traditional and his
torical interest to the state. Their
main headquaters will be in Taooma.
Alfred Snyder, 70 years of age, and
one of Seattle's pioneer residents,
died the other night at Port Blakely,
where he went some time ago to act
as tallyman at the big milL Mr.
Snyder has always been held in high
esteem by the older residents who
knew him well, and his death is muoh
regretted.
Harry Parlin, a brakeman on the O.
R. St N., was taken to the hospital at
Walla Walla last week, suffering from
a scalp wound infiioted by a coupling
pin. He was standing beside the drew
head when the cars oame together in
such a manner as to throw the pin in
the air with great force. The pin
struck him a glancing blow on the
head, and bounded ten feet higher.
Had it struok him squarely it probably
would have killed him instantly.
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