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VOL. VIII.'
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News, of the World.
TKKSK TICKS FROM TUB WIRES
An Intr.tlng Gollaelloa of Kama Fraaa
tha Two Homl.pharaa Fraaantad
la Ooadnd Form
Tha bittlsihlp Iowa lis arrlteJ at
Fratioiaoo, It ia axiMioted aha will
b aent to Manila wltb mppliea for
Dewey. " ' ,
Tha Amerioin lomeg in kilted and
wounded in tha went Ittttla at Ma.
nila, i officially given at 960, and tba
loeana ol tha lnsnrgenta at 4,000. :
&en, domeiwill arrive in Havana
in a few day, wbera ha will meet Sen.
ator Proctor, aud aid in carrying out
hi protniee to disband tha Cuban
army, i -r , ' j
In tha New York aenembly a reaola
tlon nrglnir the unieatlng ol Qongraa.
man-elect ltoberU, beoauae of bia itlen
tlfloation with polygamy, waa adopted
by a viva voce vote.
Bepi-eeentatlve Stalling, of Ala
baraa, haa introduced in the faouea a
bill to author! tha president to ap
point General Wheeler a niajur-general
in tha regular aimy.
Tha government force defeated and
aaptared the Colorado, who recently
revolted against Senor Cueato, tha
provtalonal prenitient of Uruguay.
Tranquility it now rvatoted.
Agono'iIIo, tba representative of tha
so-called Filipino govaumeut,. and who
left this country lor Canada, upon hear
ing of tha outbreak at Manila ia being
B!oaely watched by secret service da
tectivaa. . Agonal! to waa In. Montreal
at last report.
Mr. Botkln'i attorneys have given
notion of an appeal from the convlotion
and sentence ol lita Imprisonment re
cently pasaed upon bar, Jodge Carroll
Cook allowed 10 days' stay of elocu
tion, and SO days in which to prepare
a bill of' exception.
President McKlnley haa pronounced
sentence on Gen. Janan, recently tried
by oourt-roartial. The aentenoe waa
dismissal fronvthe army, but tha presi
dent commoted this to auspenaion for
ii yeara, which covers the time prior
to Eagao'e retirement in 1908.
The steamer Justin and Celtic, now
at Mara island, are being oveibauled,
and In a few daya will be ready to aail
for tba Philippines, ollowlng the sup
ply vessel Centennial,' which left on
the 6th. Tha Justin will cany coal
lor tha fleet aud tba Celtic frozen meat.
Bear Admiral Dewey haa captured
another schooner from Hong Kong load
ad with arm and ammunition Intended
for tha insurgent In tha Philippines.
It Is reported that the German consul
at Hong Kong waa concerned in tha
procuring and dispatob of tha arm ta
the Islands. . ,
Tha peace treaty was ratified by tba
sonata by a riQorlty of three votes over
tba required tlatee-fourihe. Tba treaty
was ratified without amendment,
Isaao Ofner.Ta' grocery man, doing
bnslneea in Portland, Or., waa held np
and robbed In hia store about 8:80 in
the avening by a lone highwayman.
Jobn M. Comstock, for 40 yeara
chief of tha euatoma division of tha
treaaury department, died in Washing
ton after an illness of several weeks.
A monster petition to Prusident Mo
Kinley and tba member ot tha Joint
high commission ia being signed, ask
ing tbeir assistance in souai ing the re
peal of the alien exclusion act recently
pasaed by the government of British
Colombia, In which tha Atlin mining
district ia located.
According to a recent dispatch, It
iron and steel sheet manufactories la
Pennsylvania. Ohio, Watt Virginia,
Kentuoky and Indiana, controlling an
aggregate annual output of 811.004
tons of steel and iron sheets, are pre
paring to consolidate. This action, it
ia added, ia made necessary by the com
bination of tin-plate plants, and U I
believed that the proposed consolida
tion will eventually ba absorbed by tha
tin-plate truit.
Local representative at Tacoma ad
mit that tha street railway system of
that oity are to be coniolidatod, with
Eastern capitalists in control. A com
pany with 11,000,000 capital has been
organiaed to operate all street-car and
furnish power to manufactories. A
water-power plant will be constructed.
Representatives of J. P. Morgan & Co.,
the Northern Pauiflo railway, Union
Pacific and tha O. it. & N., with local
men, ara Interested in tha dual,
Tha two highwaymen who for tha
past two months have been holding up
citiaoii and atoiea and terrorlaing all
Portland ara safely lodged in jull. One
of them, Harry Tntoy, was arrested by
Deteotlve Weiner, after a shooting
affray that I topped a passenger train
and roused a whole neighborhood. The
other, Dnva Merrill, fell into tha
hands ot Deteotlve Coidano and Ford
Bunday, and gave the information
which led to the capture of his accom
plice. Both are ex-con viots aud des
perate men,
Minor Mawa Item..
Tba town of Stilosboro, Ga., was
nearly wiped out of existence recently
by a tornado. No Uvea weia lost, but
several people were injured.
There is trouble la sight for all the
Chinese In the United Stutos. resulting
from toe total dlaappeaiance of Chinese
who were admitted to the country in
ordet to take patt in the trans-Miam.
sippl exposition. Inspector Jnutea
ritona, of the government act vice, la in
vestigating the situation,
CONDON
CONDON, GILLIAM
LATER NEWS.
The Spanish government ha decided
not to sell the Caroline Islands.
The secretary of war haa given order
for the mustering out of the Third regi
ment of immune, now stationed- at
Santiago and vicinity.
The fortification appropriation bill'
as It will ba recommended by tha com
mittee, canlea $4,744,198, as against
estimates of 113,101,198.
It Is said tha administration will
uphold Chief Justice Chambers, at
Apia, in hia selection of Malietoa Tan
us as king of the Samoan islands.
Tha secretary of war report that
sicknes in soma of tha American regi
ments In tha Philippines ia high as 1?
nor cent, but the avorage ia about 1 0
peroeut.
The leport of tha war investigating
ooumiaaion ia in tha hand of tba pres
ident, and tba commission ia dissolved.
During the investigation 600 witnesses
were examined. ; . - . j ;w
Many accounts of deaths from freez
ing are reported from the East. At
liloomington, Ind., J, W. Binklo, who
bus served several terms as sheriff, was
frosen to death while going to his
home. Near Dayton, O., Martin Duffin
ger suffered a like fata while feeding
bia bogs.
Tha Filipino Junta at Hong Kong
has issued a statement in which it is
claimed that tha American soldiers
precipitated tha recent battle at Ma
nila, and that tha bombardment of the
towns of Malate, Paco, Santa Ana and
Malabon eaueod tha slaughter of 4,000
women and children.
A contract haa been let for two II,-000-ton
steamabina for tba Pacific Mail
steamship Co. Tbey will be tba larg
est, so far built at an American ship
yard, their dimensions being greater
than those of tha Amerioan liners St.
Louis and St. Paul. They ara to ply
between Ban Francisco and China.
Tha supreme military court, ot
Spain, which has bad under considera
tion the loss of the Spanish squadron
at Santiago de Cuba on July 8 last, ba
decided to prosecute, in connection
with tba disaster, Admiral Cerveraand
Commandant Emillo Diaa de Moreu,
ex-captain of the destroyed cruiser
Cristobal Colon.
Chinese rebels are raiding Christian
churches and driving out miseionariee.
At Chang Vang and Llecbnan the Ro
man Catholio chapels have boon burned
and the houses of tha native church
members have been destroyed. Several
hundred children nnder the care of tha
Roman Catholios, ate aaid to have
been drowned by tba raiders near
Kueifii. .
There seema to be an idea in Paris
that Japan will make trouble for the
United fitatee by surreptitiously aiding
the Filiplnoa.
" Many of the recently disbanded Cali
fornia volunteers are enlisting in the
regular army, being desirous of going
to the Philippines. ;
' The controller ot the currency has Is
sued a call for reports of the condition
of all natioual banks at tba close of
business February 4.
' It ia reported that the executive com
mittee of tha Cuban assembly will! call
Gomes to account for accepting the
proposition from this government rela
tive to diabanding tba Cuban army.
A freight train on the O. R. A N.
waa wrecked near Corbett, Or., by
running Into a landslide. Tba fire
man and a tramp were Injured.
Fifteen car were piled up in a heap.
Duke 'd'Arcos, formerly Spanish
minister to Mexico is likely to ba legis
lated by tha Madrid government aa its
minister to Washington to exohanga
the ratifications of the treaty of peace.
Stanley Brewer, single, aged 80, waa
thrown under hia wagon, loaded with
wood, near Eugene, Or., and killed al
most Instantly. Ha waa found at mid
night with a wheel on hia back between
the shoulders. '
Wolff A Zwicker, tba Portland ship
builders, propose to build a floating
dry-dock capable of raising a 6,000-ton
teasel, providing tha state of Oregon
or the oity of Portland will guarantee
bonds to the amount of $360,000.
It ia reported from Washington that
the war investigating committee will
severely ciitioise General Mile on his
conduct during tba late war with Spain.
Tha committee will report that Milea'
statement about chemically prepared
beef Is not sustained by any evidence
before the committee.
Four happy Dawson ilea passed
through Skagway recently with a can
vaa sack of Ynkon gold that weighed
100 pounds dead weight, and which
came from French gulch diggings oc
Eldorado crock. They are all Canadian
citlsent and rlrat came to Alaska dur
ing tha popular Klondike rush of De
cember, 1897.
The steamer Moana Loa. which hat
arrived at San Francisco, brings infor
mation from Honolulu that it haa been
definitely determined that the wreck
on the Kahala coast was the tour-masted
steamer Nomad, Captain McAUep,
which sailed from Shanghai for Puget
sound in ballast 10 months ago. The
vessel was a new one, and belonged to
Hull Bros., of San Francisco. Captain
McAUep was accompanied on the trip
by his wifo, daughter aud thiee sons.
All ara undoubtedly lost.
A fatal head-end collision occurred
at 1 m lay City, Mich., on the Chicago
St Grand Trunk rallioad, In which four
persons were killed and seven were in
jured, v
R. 0. Judson, industrial agent of
the O. R, A N., returned from Buffalo
Hump, Idaho, confirms the news of a
wonderfully rick strike on the Cracker
Jaok claim, owned by Rnfua Hawley,
Flint & Co. The assays are the high
eat ever seen in that country, running
$3,809.68 in gold and $40.86 in silver.
CO., OREGON, TIIUItSDAY, FEIJKUAKY 16, 1899.
SALEM LEGISLATURE.
f ba Bill to Fix Intcraat on Loan. From
Bob sol Fund Roootnmltted Tha i,
atat Fair Appropriation.
In the Oregon senate Wednesday the
rote was reconsidered by which the bill
o tednoe interest on loans from the
State school fund was passed Tuesday
in order that the rate might be fixed
absolutely at 6 per cent, the bill as
passed authorising 8 per cent if it could
be obtained. It was deemed an objec
tion to leave the matter open to pos
sible brokerage arrangements. The
bill waa recommitted for amendment.
Dufui'a bill to extend the privileges
of the Soldelrs' Home to the wives and
widowa of old soldiers was lost, receiv
ing only six votes.
The following bills were passed: To
reduce the salary of the Wasco county
judge to $800 and that of tha treasurer
to $600; to do away with the necessity
of personal service or posting notice in
case of attachment of real property; to
areata the office of recorder of convey
ance for Polk county at a aalary of
$1,000 per year; to provide the man
ner of releasing sureties who may be
come disaatiailed with tbeir risk; to
provide that surety companies may sign
bonds; to cure defects in certain deeds
and judicial sales; to amend the law
to a to ret sr iot credits to the sheriff
in the tax list charged against him.
tt Fair Appropriation Kaoekad Oat.
The Wednesday forenoon session of
the house waa devoted largely to reports
ot committees and first reading of bills.
Twenty-seven committees made reports
and 68 tills were reported on.
The principal business to occupy the
time of the house in the afternoon waa
tba consideration of the general appro
priation bill. The house went into
oommittee of the whole and the varioua
itema were taken up one at a time.
The most important item knocked out
waa the atata fair appropriation, by a
vote of 29 to 30.
Other bills passed were! To pro
hibit the manufacture and sale of adul
terated commercial tertiliaera; to
authorise county courts to levy a spe
cial tax of 10 mills and a road poll tax
of $1 for the road fund; to prohibit the
sale of deer and deer hide from Anguat
1 to December 1; to give laborers in
mines and supply agenta furnishing
supplies a lien on mining property for
claims; to change tba time of court
terms in the second district; to fix sal
aries of county judges and to place the
clerk of the supreme court upon a sal
ary of $8,000 and give him two depu
ties at $76 and $50 per month respec
tively. In the Oregon senate Thursday,
Harmon'a registration bill waa passed
by unanimous vote. The merits of
the bill were discussed at length on
Mitchell's motion to recommit which
finally received only hia own vote. In
debate the expressions were generally
unfavorable to the Hill bill, which
passed the bouse a few days ago by a
decisive vote.
The pure food bill passed the senate
1'V a unanimous vote. There waa no
Objection to the main feature of the
bill, but a slight amendment waa
made so as to exempt from making an
nual re porta persons selling leas than
16 pounds of butter weekly; specifying
the number and the pay of employes
of the legislature, inoluding committee'
slerks, was passed without discussion,
only six voting against it.
Other bills passed were to incor
porate Eugene, Carleton, Burns, Prine
ville and Canby, the two last named
being houae billa.
Daly Behool Law.
Two Important measure came before
the Oregon senate Friday, and neither
reached, a vote. Amendments to the
Daly school law were discussed for halt
an hour, and the matter being diffloult
to understand, in ita present form, the
entire bill was ordeied printed again
with amendments. '
The bill to encourage the ne of wide
tire wagons on public roads waa passed.
Tha bill to repeal the section appropri
ating $5,000 tor the state fair was dis
cussed half an hour and then made a
special order for Wednesday morning.
The pure linaeed-oil bill waa lost, 13 to
11; the bill providing for the Torrens
system ot registering land titles passed
wltb only three negative votes; the bill
for an irreducible school fund in Doug
log oouuty pasaed without question;
the bill to reduce the salaries of the
county clerk, clerk of the cirouit court
and recorder in Multnomah county from
$8,600 to $3,600 each was passed.
New bills were introduced as fol
lows: To authorise the state school
land board to contract loans now out st
6 per cent Interest tor the future; to
provide for the appointment of three
supreme court commissioners.
Tha vote by which Stanley'a bill to
regulate tha practice ot dentistry in
Oregon waa defeated Thursday, was re
considered in the house Friday, and
the bill passed by a vote ot 84.
Two other important billa were
passed. One is an amendment to the
mining lawt to facilitate the building
ot ditchea and canals, of special inter
est to mining sections, and the other ia
a bill to withdraw oertain school lands
from publlo sale and reduce the inter
est on loans ot school funds in con
formity with recommendations of the
governor in a recent message to both
house of the legislature.
In the house Thursday the following
bills were passed: Senate bill provid
ing tor a separate board of county com
missioner for Clackamas county; to
authoiiee county courts and school dis
tricts to display flags on courthouses
and schoolhousus, to amend the coda
telative to the loan of school funds by
reducing the into, t rate to 6 per cent,
and providing for- foreclosure proceed
ings whenever interest beconiee in ar
rears six months; to regulate the bring
ing of sheep from one county to another
and diiecting inspection;
GLOBE.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY BILL.
It Fa.ad tha Oregon Hoo Almo.t
Unanlmoo.ly.
In the Oregon house Monday the dis
trict attorney salary bill was passed,
after amendment by the judiciary com
mittee, by almost a unanimous vote.
The bill as paused fixes salariea as fol
lows: First district, $3,000; second
distriot, $4,000; third district, $5,600;
fourth district, $7,600; fifth district,
$4,000; sixth district, $3,000; seventh
district, $3,000; eighth district, $3,600;
ninth distiict, $3,000.
Flagg's bill to require all executions
to be held at the state prison and con
ducted by tha superintendent of the
penitentiary was the first defeated, re
ceiving only 39 votes, but upon recon
sideration of the vote and a speech by
the author later in tha day it waa
passed by a vote of 83.
Blackaby'a bill to empower county
courts and clerks of school districts to
sell property and bid in for taxes waa
passed by 43 votes.
Other billa passed were: To limit
appeals to the supreme court in money
actions to amounts involving $200 or
more, and to give street railway coro-
panies the right of eminent domain; to
amend tba code relative to new trtala
so aa to nullify the plea of former jeop
ardy and to require street railway com
panies to provide cara with vestibulea
from October 1 to April I; to prohibit
the adulteration of candy; to require
the Oregon Railroad & Navigation
Company to fence Ita tracks between
Portland and Huntington; to prohibit
persons from running push cars or
band cara on railroad tracks without
the consent of the railway officials; to
appropriate $16,000 for bridging the
south fork ot the Nebalem river. This
bill came up on a reconsideration of
the vote by which it waa defeated Feb
ruary 3, when it received only 80 rotes.
The motion to reconsider carried by 83
votes and then the bill waa passed by a
vote of 83.
Grace's bill to extend the time in
which a laborer's lien may be H'.ui
from 80 to 80 daya and contractors
from 80 to 90 daya was defeated, aa
waa also Btillman'a bill to repeal eeo
tion 1890 of the code, providing for the
observance of Sunday.
At the night session the following
bills were pasaed: To regulate trivel
over county bridges; to repeal the act
of 1891 prohibiting driving or herding
livestock along public highways; to fix
the salaries of county treasurers so as
to inorease the aalary of the Tillamook
county treasurer from $250 to $550; to
fix the salary of tba sheriff ot Lincoln
county at $1,800 and salary of clerk of
county court at $1,350; to require the
signatures of householders to petitions
for saloon licenses instead of the sig
nature of legal votea aa under the
present law; to prohibit the sale of li
quor iu private boxes or booths of res
taurants; to amend the liquor laws so
as to require a license foi the sale of
any quantity, whether more than a
gallon or less.
Moody's bill to regulate the practioe
of horseshoeing in counties of 60,000
population and over and creating a
board of examiners to be appointed by
the governor waa anowed nnder by 80
negative votea aa against only 23
affirmative.
The Oregon senate Monday passed
nnanimoualy Joeephi's bill to make th
coat ot the maintenance ot insane per
sons chargeable against their estates in
certain caaea, and to provide for tha
transportation of insane patients to the
asylum in charge of trained nurse
from the asylum.
Other bills passed were as follows:
Charter of Dalles City (The Dalles); to
amend the oharter of the town of Du-
fur, to amend the law relating to ten
ancy in common , and abolishing joint
tenanoy; by request, to give preference
to honorably discharged soldiers and
Bailors in all public employment; to
amend the law so aa to make records ot
official court reporters piima facie evi
denoe, and to authorise the settling
and aigning ot bills of exceptions by
successors ot the trial judge; to require
Multnomah county to take the city of
Portland's lease of the steel bridge; ta
amend tha charter of Lebanon.
INCREASED APPROPRIATIONS.
Th Washington Legl.latnro Favorlag
tha Normal School.
The Washington house appropria
tion committee has increased the
Cheney normal school appropriation
from $25,000 to $31,000. and Ellens-
burg from $26,000 to $45,000.
In the houae Monday bills Introduced
were: For the publication of notices
by posting in counties of from the 10th
to the 89th class; for the relief of Mrs.
3. H. Btalil; relating to the sufficiency
and justification ot bail on bonds;
amending the constitution by permit
ting women to vote on a constitutional
amendment, granting suffrage to wo
men; relating to dyke districts.
During the afternoon session ot the
house Mr. Englebert occupied the
chair. Speaker Gule received a tele
phone message announcing that the
Paris treaty had been ratified by the
United States senate. The announce
ment wag greeted with hearty applause
by the house.
D.layed bjr Train.
Only 31 ont of 84 senators were pres
ent when the senate convened Monday.
Senator Wooding is sick with grip at
Seattle, and all ot the easl of-the-mountain
senators were detained by
trains being late.
Bills introduced were: Prohibiting
the organisation of corporations until
all bills and claims aie paid; amend
ing the revenue law by making person
al property taxes delinquent on 80
days' notice being given; permitting
acceptance of taxes on any part ot a
parcel ot land with reference to taxea
due on other parts of same property;
bouse bill, providing for the building of
ferriea to be operataed on lakes aa well
aa streams waa re-referred, because ot
objection to the condemnation lights
contained in tha old law, .
NO. 49.
ATTACK ON CALOCAN.
Tows Rod need by Combined Aa.anlt of
American Foroea.
Manila, Feb. 13. The American
forces at 8:'0 this afternoon made a
combined attack upon Colocan and re
duced it in short order. At a signal
from the tower of the de la Lome
church (United States signal station),
the double-tnrreted monitor Monadnock
opened fire from the bay with the big
guns of ber fore turret on the earth
works, with great effect. Soon after
ward the battery bombarded the place
from another position.
The rebels reserved their fire until
the bombardment ceased, when they
fired volleys of musketry aa the Mon
tana regiment advanced on the jungle.
The Kansas regiment, on the ex
treme left, with the artillery deploying
to the right, charged aorosa the open
and carried the earthworks, cheering
under a heavy fire. Supported by the
artillery at the church, the troops fur
ther advanced, driving the enemy,
fighting every foot, right into the town
line, and penetrated to the presidency
and lowered the Filipino flag at 5:30
P. K.
The enemy's sharpshooters in the
jungle on the right fired at long range
on the Pennsylvania regiment, but the
rebels were soon silenced by sharpnel
shells and the Pennsylvania remained
in the trenches. As the Americans
advanced they burned tba native
bouses. The rebels were mowed down
like grsss, bnt the American losses
were alight.
Frightened Filipino KnToya.
San Francisco, Feb. 13. On the
steamer from Yokohama today came
"General" E. Riego de Dioa and Senor
M. Rivera, who are Agoinaldo's special
commissoners to Washington. They
were very much disturbed when told of
the la'eet developments in the Philip
pines. '
England Want Warablpa.
Lima. Peru, via Galveaton, Tex.,
Feb. 13. Great Britain, it is reported
here :oday, bag offered to purchase tba
Chilian and Argentine warships. Senor
Carloa Walker Martlnes, minister of
the interior, haa demanded of the Bo
livian minister. Dr. Emeterie Cano, a
guarantee of the immunity of the lives
and property of the Chiliana in Bolivia
during the hostilities between Presi
dent A Ion to of Bolivia and the federal
ists, or insurgents.
MUST HAVE A CABLE.
President MeKlnley'a Xmi. to Caa
gr. Urge Action at TBI. Session.
Washington, Feb. 13. The presi
dent's message oa the Pacific cable,
transmitted to congress today, is aa fol
lows: -
"Ai a consequence of the ratification
of the treaty of Paris by the senate of
the United States, and ita expected
ratifictlon by the Spanish government,
the United States will come into pos
aession of the Philippine islands, on
the farther shores of the Paoirlc, the
Hawaiian islands and Guam being
United States territory, and forming
convenient stopping places on the way
across the sea, and the necessity for
speedy cable communication between
the United States and all the Philip
pine islands haa become imperative.
Such communication abould be estab
lished in such a way as to be wholly
nnder the control of the United States,
whether in time ot peace or war. At
present, the Philippines can be reached
only by cablea which pass through
many foreign countries, and the Ha
waiian island and Guam can only ba
communicated with by steamers, in
volving deUys in each instance of at
least a week. The present conditions
ahould not be allowed to continue for a
moment longer than ia absolutely nec
essary. The time haa arrived when a
cable in the Pacific must extend as far
as Manila, touching at the Hawaiian
islands and Gnam on the way.
"Under those oirenmatancee, it be
comes a paramount necessity that meas
ures should be taken before the close of
the present congress to provide such
means aa may seem suitable for the es
tablishment of a cable system. I rec
ommend the whole subject to the care
ful consideration of congress, and to
such "prompt action as may seem ad
visable. IN BLEAK SIBERIA.
Bodies of And roa Bad Party Probably
round Dlaeoyerod by Native.
Krasnoyarsk, Sibeiia, Feb. 13. A
gold mine owner named Monastrrschin
haa received a letter saying that a tribe
of Turgusoa, inhabiting the Timir pen
insula. North Siberia, recently in
formed the Russian police chief of the
district that on January 7 last, between
Komo and Pit, in tha province of Yen
iseisk, they found a cabin constructed
of cloth and cordage, apparently be
longing to a balloon. Close by were
the bodies of three men, the head of
one badly crushed. Around them were
a number ot instruments, the uses of
which were not understood by the
Turgusoa.
The police chief ha started for the
spot to investigate, and it ia believed
that the bodiee are those of the aero
naut Herr Andree and bis companions.
Mls.onrl Fruit Cropa Killed.
Nevada, Ma, Feb. 13. The peace
and aprioot crops of Vernon and Cedar
counties are reported killed today. The
loss is estimated at more than $100,
000. The weather is the coldest known
here in 80 years.
Trial Revision Bill Adapted.
Paris, Feb. 13. The trial revision
bill was adopted by a vote of 833 to
933 in te oliambet ot deputies. Late
this evening there was considerable
torment in the streets, oaused by the
shouting ot the rival parties.
Olathe, Kan., Feb. 13. Aunt Dicy
Dibbs, aged 80 years, was found frosen
to death id her home at Shawnee, hers
the bad lived alone for years. She had
apparently hurt herself by a fall and
was unable to call for help.
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DAKOTA ASYLUM FIRE
Sixteen Women Patients
Burned to Death.
OSE OF THE COTTAGES GUTTED
A Like Institution Waa Destroyed la
1 88S, Caoslng tha Death ot
Six Persona.
Yankton, S. D., Feb. 14. A most
horrifying fire ooourred this morning
at 3 o'clock at the state insane asy
lum, when one of the cottages was com
pletely gutted and caused the lose of
the lives of 17 women inmates.
The cottage bad stone and granite
walls with wooden interiors, and In
tended for laundry purposes. Owing
to the crowded condition of the main
building, 40 of the female patients were
placed here with the laundry in the
basement. The fire originated in the
diyroom of the laundry. Here there
waa a coil of steam pipes, and the
theory is that either fins particles simi
lar to lint settled on the pipes and ig
nited, or that clothes which were
thickly hung close by dropped on to
tbe pipes and were fired.
The fighting oi tbe fire was greatly
hindered by the loss of power. The
only source of water was an artesian
well, 400 feet distant, the pipes for
pumping which ran through the cot
tage. Tbe intense heat soon caused
the pipes to burst, thus leaving the fire
men withont power, and dependent en
tirely upon the direct pressure from the
tank. But two streams of water could
be thrown on tbe building, and these
did but little good.
Fifty-two persons were in tbe build
ing, 40 patients and 13 attendants.
The structure was three stories and an
attio high, and had two entrances.
There waa one atairwsy from the sec
ond and third floors, which led into
the main ball, thus giving but one
egress for those above the first floor.
Patients and attendants fled with ter
ror, great confusion resulting, especially
among those on the upper floors.
Many heartrending, scenes were enacted
as the inmates, clad only in their night
clothes and barefooted, rushed- down
tbe narrow flight of stairs, and finally
out into the snow. The temperature
waa 33 degrees below aero, and further
loss of life from freesing was prevented
slone by prompt work ol tba attend
ants from the main buildings. The at
tendants escaped, as did the others,
who were saved, with none of tbeir
personal effects, many losing all they
possessed. Portions of charred re
mains can be seen in the debris at tha
bottom of the basement. The four
walls of stone still stand, black and
grim, and will make the woik of re
moval dangerous, as a total collapse is
liable to occur without a moment's
warning.
Tbe institution was destroyed by firs
in 1883, when six lives were lost. The
pecuniary loss at today.'s firs is $18,000.
uninsured.
BURIED IN AN AVALANCHE.
Haay Italian Miner. Victim, of tha
Slide Eight Bodiea Recovered.
Denver, Feb. 14. Two mighty ava
lanches combining into one swept
down Cherokee gulch at 8 o'olock this
morning, carrying away a dozen or
more mine buildings, cabins and ma
chinery, and causing a great loss of life
and damage to mine property. ' How
many dead bodies lie in this great mass
of snow and debris will not be known
before spring. Eight dead bodies are
now at the morgue, two more persons
are known to be lost, and three have
been taken out . alive. The rescuing
party has only penetrated about 13 feet
into the mass ot enow and wreckage
piled up at the foot ot the gulch to the
depth of 16 feet.
Agonolllo Ordered the Fight.
Washington, Feb. 14. The follow
ing cablegram waa received at the war
department today from Otis:
"Manila, Feb. 14. Adjutant-General,
Washington: It Is reported the
insurgent representative at Washington
telegraphetd Aguinaldo to drive out
the Americans before the arrival of re
inforcements. Tbe dispatch was re
ceived at Hong Kong and mailed to
Malolos, which decided on the attack
to be made about the 7th Inst. The
eagerness of the insurgent troops to
engage the Americans precipitated the
battle."
fu.m. Strike Contlnne.
Colon, Colombia, Feb. 14. At a
conference held yesterday at Panama,
a representative ot the strikers declared
that the men were willing to accept
$2.30 a day in currency, but the rail
way officials declined to entertain the .
proposition. Fifty more laborers from
Fortune island arrived today on the
steamer Finance. The general situa
tion, so far as the strike is concerned,
is nnaltered. This end of the Panama
railroad is completely blockaded.
Gala la England.
London, Feb. 14. A heavy gale
swept the British islands yesterday and
has continued today, causing floods at
many points. Rivers have overflowed
tlieii banks, railways have been sub
merged aud there have been numerous
oasualtiea along the coast.
In reply to the representations of
Ambassador White, Germany has as
sured the United States that she will
investigate the oonduot of her agents
in Samoa, and should it bo shown that
they have acted in violation of the
treaty ot Berlin, she will recall them.
The chief officer and boatswain ot
the British steamer Martello, from
New York for Hull, England, were
killed and the qnarteruiuster aud a
seaman drowned, durmg a fuurfuj
torn recently, ... " .. '
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