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Newspaper Page TextIAS TBSXI TIMES TBI CIICULAT1C OF ANT FAPIB IN TBI COUNTY. TBS OFFICIAL AND LEADING PAFES OF GILLIAM COUNTY. CONDON mrnnini bats. rCBUMlD IT1HT TMIMDIY T ....$). A. PATTI80M..., Idltoi nd Proprietor, Jl W f Mat One iqnare , i l w hi onu Ooe-oiiutwr eolnma-.. 10nkall colamn. ... .. , I to par nth FOm ooiamu ,,.,10 W r noulk ana locals will h than M H na aw M lasarBea and WH or Um thanv attar. ' legal m ani irffl la all mm k akargsd at til sarty ertwinc Uom, M ! CHaCltlPTION ItATKSl On year (In dvnc),.-.,. II noi ld In adranc .,.... J 00 hrr uioil(Ii..,.,...m.... ,Mua W lllgle OuplM ,... M CONDON, GILLIAM CO., OUEGON, ; THURSDAY, FEBBUAIIY 8, 1900. NO. 48. YOL. IX. aa4aUtoThfftalTtt to lualah GLOBE EVENTS OF THE DAY LATER NEWS. Epitome of the Telegraphic priation bin. The Boers at Sternberg are hard preened. The house passed the Indian appio- News of the World. TKUSK TICKS FROM THR WIRES Aa fatrtlng Collection f Items from tli Two llenil.pheree I relented In Coudod Farut. ' HER BIGGEST ARMY Plague at Honolulu ia under control, Dawson evil-doer are forced to saw ood. v - General Buller'l position Is becoming precarious. ' Purveyors are now at work on the ' Oregon Midland railway route. A big steel mill was wrecked ia Pittsburg by a boiler explosion. A bill was introduced in congress to provide mining laws (or Cape Nome. Money is now ready (or the purchase of the Balemjtrt., federal building site. Census Supervisor Kelly has left for Alaska to enter upon bis duties there. Owing to a split in the National League, Baltimore may lose her base ball club. j ! An attempt to rob the Missouri, Kan sas & Texas railway train at liolden, Mo., was frustrated. The United States transport City of ' Pueblo and Senator have arrived at . . Ban Francisco from Manila V i Near Corunna, Spain, a torpedo boat, - name aud nationality unknown, baa been totally lest, with all on board. Quarantine officer la Han Francisco are adopting stringent measures to pro tect that port from the butonlo plague. The Union hotel, at Revalstoke, B. C, was totally destroyed by Are, the blase originating in tlte furnaoe room. The German steamer Remus has been wrecked near Aarhans, Denmark, where she was bound. The captain and IS men periled. Colonel Charles F. Williams, com mander of the United State marine corps at Mare Island, died suddenly ot hemorrhage of the stomach. Sick" Haworth, sospectud murder er f Night Watchman Bandali, at v - Kaysville, Utah, attempted to commit suicide at gait Lake by bleeding. Robert FiUsimmons now claim be . was drugged when he wa whipped by P - James Jeffries for the championship of the world at Coney Island, last June. A runaway electric car on the Day ton tc Xenia traction road, at Dayton, . - p., left the track at a sharp curve and ' wan demolished, killing three persons. ' An American sooutlng part? of the Twenty-fifth was caught In ambush by :. Filipinos and an officer and three men ' killed. Insurgents lost 40 In killed and wounded, Beuator William Goebel,-- of Ken j tut ky, was shot and seriously wounded by a erased Kentuckian, two shots pas lug entirely through I e Democratic loader' body. People ot China are said to take Imperial changes with great equani mity. William Jennings Bryan will accept , the Populist nomination for the presi dency. Lord Pauncctote will retire as am bassador of Great Britain to the United States, April 1. The interstate commerce commission has sued the Northern Pacific to en- , , force disregarded laws. , . ' Senators are said to want no change ' " in the manner ot their election. The house favors popular vote. . Dundonald'a forces, for whom fears were entertained, are safe on the south bank of the Tugela river. '"' Five business men of Walla Walla were victimised by a smooth foiger, who cashed bogus checks. The Prinoe Regent ol Bavaria has conferred the Order ol St. Michaels, first-class, on Dr. Nanscn, the explorer. In Cincinnati, Charles Barlruff, a tanner, killed bis wife, his son and his daughter and then tried to set the house on fire. A funeral train, arranged by the Southern Paolflo, will convey the re mains of General Law ton aud Major Logan to the Eaut. James II. Britton, ex-mayor of St. Louis, and for mnuy year one of the leading bankers of the Went, died at Ardley, N. Y., aged 88. Captain C. II. Stockton, president of the naval war college, says: "Com mand of the sea on our North raclflo coast aud the wetora of the western basin of the North Paoino should be In our bands in peace and war time. This can only be effected by readiness of a nronor and eufflolent naval force either on the spot, or to be furnished from the Atlantic through an un tramelled canal. In addition to - this, and ready tor combining, should be the available forties normally attached to the Philippines and the water about China, Japan and Oovca. In other words, the Paciflo ocean, from Samoa northward, should be within our control." The transport Manuens be arrived at San Franuisoo from Manila. ( W. J. Bryan spoke to an audience ol 9,000 people at Ghioopee, Mais. Cardinal Gibbon commend congress (or it action In the Robert case. Nielsen, of Minneapolis, lowered tho two-mile skating record of 6:61 to 6:83, William Stanley Ilaaeltlne, the ma rine artist, la dead in Rome, aged 64 year. A serious riot occurred ia Porto Rico during the parade of two political parties, - Chicago trades-unionist in the Fed eration of Labor denounced Governor Taylor, of Kentucky. The president ha lisued a proclama tion fixing a tariff of duties and taxes for the island of Guam. The passengers and mall brought from Honolulu by the steamer Austra lia were released from quarantine. The strike at Cramp' shipyard, which ha been la progress since Au gust, ha been officially declared off. Wm. Goebel, the contesting gover nor of Kentucky, is dead from the re sult ot the bullet fired by an unknown assassin. The British government ha contract d with the Philadelphia & Reading Railroad Company for 1.000,000 torn of coal. Fire in St. Loul destroyed four blocks, causing a property loss o! 1,600,000. One man was killed and several Injured. A reward of $5,000 has been offered fur tlte arrest and conviction of the per son or persons who made the attempt on tlte life of William Goebel.. General Kobbe baa occupied the is land ot Lamar and Leyte. In the fight at Cathalogan 10 Insurgent were killed aud the Americans captured five cannon, with their artilleryman. Secretary R. ita, of the Transvaal re Diibllo. say that the Boer have never abused the white flag, and that the Rrl'lith murdered women, children and Amrican citlaena at Derdepoort. The value of property captured by Ad mlral Dewey's fleet la Manila bay has bean estimated by the board of ap praisal at 1326,141. The largest items in the statement are: "Ship and boat nnioment. 1341.664; ordnance mate rial!. S14.294. and fuel, 120,668 The amiralaal wa called for aa evl deuce in the luit brought by Admiral Dewey for the award ot prise money The Boers credit divine providence with their TugeU victory. No river and harbor bill will be pre sented at this session ot congress. The British parliament has reassem bled. No disorder waa manifested. Alexander Dunsmulr, the coal king of the Pactflo coast, died in New York city, aged 47 year. Service In commemoration of the martvrdom ol Charles I, ot England, were held in Boston. The transport Missouri, en route to San Franciaoo from Manila, baa 17 in- an aoldier alioard. Fire destroyed the business portion of the town ot Wlnlleld, Kan. Hun dred of people are homeless. Lieutenant Winston Churchill de scribes the battle of Splonkop aa th hardest fight of the South Ahicau war. All I quiet in Samoa., The natlvet are more settled than at any time since the disturbance between the native factions. The sheriff ot Colfax, Wash., hai offeied a reward of $500 for the capture of Clemens, the murderer of a man named Roland. A special dispatch from Cape Town savs 160 American scouts, who arrived there as muleteers, have enlisted in the British toroea. A cold wav Is prevailing east of the Rocky mountains. The temperature it eight degree below aero at Chicago and six below at Omaha. The Fergu Printing Company, ol Chtcairo. one of the oldest printing houses in the city, was thrown into the streets for non-payment ot rent. Great Northern omolala and em ployea' grievance committee held A conference and It in announced there will lie no strike, all difference being settled. Governor Taylor declare that a state ot insurrection now prevails in Ken tuoky. He has ordered the legislature adjourned, but the Democrat have re (used to oley bis edict. R. V. Wilson ha beeu arrested in San Francisco on the charge of having embeaxled a package containing $000, while he was asent tor the Great force Northern Express Company at Frank' tin, King county, Wash. Lee Gonit, a Chinaman of Fargo, N. D., who alleges St. Louis is his home, tppealed today from the United States ouurt to the secretary of the treasury, ind wa released on bail. He was the first of the 70 Chinamen charged with violating the exclusion aot, to be heard by the courts. . Over aoo.ooo British Soldiers to Fight the Boers. " 8ECRETABY WYKDHAM'S FIGURE? Only Eighty Thousand Ma of Thl Vara Mow at tb FrontAc tivity mt Navy-Yards. THE PLAGUE SITUATION. 4rol London. Feb. . Mr. Wyndliam'i remarkable declaration in the house ol common that Great Britain will have in a fortnleht 180,000 regulars In South Afrloa.7,000 Canadian and Australians and 20,000 South African volunteers, is received with wonderment. VI tin total ol 818,000 troops, with 452 gun, all are now there with the exception oi 18,000 that are afloat. Beyond com parlaon thi 1 the largest force Great Britain baa ever put into the field. At the end ot the Crimean war she bad craped together 80,000. Wellington, at Waterloo, had 85,000. Mr. Wynd-. ham' ieech wa the strongest de fense the government nss yet put lor ward as to what has been done and 1 being done. : The general tone ol tne moming paper ia that hi figures will astonlBh the country. Roughly speaking, oniy 80,000 men are at the front. Ten thousand other have been lost, and 10,000 are shut up at Lady smith. Ex cluding these there are 70,000 troop who have not yet been la action, in addition to thoee at sea. Why so many effectives have not yet been engaged ia explained by the, lack ot land transportation and the organl nation of supplies, to which Lord Rob erts is devoting his experience and Lore Kitchener his genius for details. I seem a though the weight of these mantes must destroy the equilibrium which now holds the British forces sta tionary wherever they are In contact with the Boer army. Lack of transport and organisation will not explain adequately why, when generals at the front request re- enforcement, they get them in ratner mall numbers. Knowledge is slowly penetrating to London that large garri on must be kept in Cape Colony to hold down the Cape Dutch, who, as very one knows, outnumber the Brit ish resident there three to two. Cable scraps received during the last 13 hour do not further illuminate the military operation. Various inde pendent oorresjiondenta confirm tne report that General Buller told 111 troop January 28 that be hoped to re lieve Ladysmlth within a week. It la believed in some trustworthy quartet I that be la again assailing the Boer line. A further list ot casualties published by the war olliee bring the total from the crossing of the Tugela to the aban donment of Splonkop to 1,985 officers and men. Exceptional activity at the navy yards continues, but a correspondent of the press learn that this is chiefly new construction and refitting work. Three hips will be commissioned at Devon port this month. Some unpleasant criticism oi tne war office baa been caused by the dis covery that the sights of Lee-Enfield carbines are defective. Old carbines have been supplied to the outgoing Fourth brigade ot cavalry. CROSSED THE AISLE. Effort Takaa at lionolula to Chek tha DImm. San Francisco, Feb. 8. The steamer Australia, seven days from Honolulu, arrived today and report that up to the time of her departure, 41 death from plague bad occurred, and there wa a total of 52 cases. The Australia had on board 176 passengers, the larg est number which ever came to this port on a aingle iteamer from the Hawaiian island. In an effort to stamp out the plague, It wa deolded to burn one of the block in Chinatown. The fire wa started, and it gained inch headway, that the fire department could not control it. The flame spread rapidly irom one block to another, and toon the whole Chinese quarter waa destroyed. Hard ly a house was left standing in the dis trict. The Chinese and other' resident of the district fled from their borne in terror, and were unable to aave much ot their effect. A a result of the destruction of the Chinese quarter, 7,000 people were rendered homeless, and they are now living in tent. The fire destroyed 13 blocks,, bonnet ed by Knkul, Queen and Nunan streets. The most notable bnlinmg tmrnea was the Kaumakakpili, a prominent land mark, and the moet comfortable edlflce of it kind in Honolulu. It contained a large pipe organ, valued at $5,000, The steauiship Iroquois rendered val able aid. She put out two line of hose which saved the Honolulu iron work. SHUT OFF ONCE MORE TREATY WITH THE SULUS. Senate Would Not Hear Petti. grew's Abuse. WAS MET BY A POINT OF OEDEE All) Coneladed HI Arralaamaat af goarotary Oag Iadlaa School QuMtloa ia th Hob. Washington, Feb. 6. An effort by Pettlgrew, of South Dakota, to discuss the Philippine question in the senate today wa of no avail, as he wa met by a point of order which took him front the floor. He bad gotten only so far a to charge that the great Journal of the country would not publish the facta concerning the Philippine war. Subsequently be offered another reso lution ou which he will speak next week. Allen, of Nebraska, concluded bis apeech in the arraignment of Secre tary Gage because of his transaction with the National City bank of New York. He bad previously introduced a resolution providing for an Investiga tion by the senate qf the treasury de partment, but objection to ita consid eration sent it over until next week. The house today devoted it attention to the Indian appropriation bill. It iK- n.gTnWtiTe PI io for indiln. .cWU, wb taken off and placed in the quarantine ianr.ted bv Fitter- station at Angel island, where they will IbUjr, af ranajrlaala, Ipoke la Favor af Elpaa.lo. Washington, Feb. 8. Representa tive Joseph Sibley, of Pennsylvania, who attained great prominence in the 64th congress by his earnest champion ship of free silver, assailed his Demo cratic colleagues today for their oppo sition to expansion in a speech that made the floor and galleries roar. WD ley had recanted hie view on free silver, and Is now generally out ot line with his colleagues on the Democratio aide. He Insisted today that ex pan Ion waa an original Democratio doo trine promulgated by Jefferson, and adhered to by Madison, Jackson, Tyler, Polk and Buchanan. In eloquent lan guage he pictured the destiny ol the United States carrying tne arts oi peace and the story of the cross to the remotest corner oi the globe, bioiey received an Impressive demonstration when he closed. The remainder of the debate today was uninteresting. if toucueu me Questions of mediation in the Trans vaal, lynching In the South and the jury law in Hawaii. rot muon pro gresa waa made in tne innian appro priation bill, whloh waa under on V sideration. . f r,l remain tin wraomm According to advice from Honolulu, the transport Asteo. which left thi port for Hilo. with 400 mule and horses, mav not attempt to land her cargo at Hilo. Lighter would have to be employed, aa the wharf there can not accommodate the Artec. At pres ent the weather conditions are inch that the horses cannot be landed safely, and it is expected that the At tec wil have to return to Honolulu There wa a small riot at the deten tlon camp at Honolulu the night of the 83d, owing to the refusal ol the author' ities to allow the Japanese to burn a lot of new lumber for fuel purposes, and liecause they were restrained from burning a new cottage in which one of their number bad died ot the plague. The arrival of the reserves ended the troubles, and a careful watch 1 being kept, a the Japanese are exceedinlgy sullen and some have armed themselves with clubs. Affairs at Hilo have auieted. and no more trouble Is expected. Affair la Japaa, Yokohama, Jan. 15, via San Fran cisco, Feb. 8. The event of this week ha been the arrival of the . United States transport Grant with the rorty eighth regiment, U. 8. V. (colored), on hoard. In consequence of the break- Ina out of the plague In Honolulu, the Grunt waa obliged to put in here for coal. Permission having been granted by the authorities, a dress parade of the regiment was beia uim afternoon ana a great crowd - witnessed the unusual spectacle of an armed body oi American nldierv landing noon the shores of Janan. , The entire disappearance oi tne nlasue from Kobe and the occurrence of no more sporadic cases in other part of the empire, ita ravage being no confined entirely to the city ol Osaka, is a fact attracting much attention. In tha later city it haa assumed its moet daneerou form, that of lung attack, and baa thus become the very breath of pestilence. In spite of this, however, only 89 cases have occurred there, an effort wa inaugurated by Fitzger ald, of New York, to permit the secre tary of the interior to contract with schools for the education ot Indian children where the goevrnment lacka facilities. No appropriation ia made for contract schools in this bill. It ia claimed that the present Indian school facilities are inadequate. HOBSON'S THOUSANDS. Mop la tk WltaasM tor Proeatlaa Clark Cm.. Washington, Feb. 6. When the sen ate committee on privileges and ele Hons met today, Campbell, represent lag the memorialists in the prosecution of the charges against Senator Clara, of Montana, in connection with hia election to the United States senate, announced that he had three more wit nesses to examine, thus deferring the besinninff of the presentation of the defense. The first witness waa Frank E. Wright, cashier of a bank at Lewiaton, Idaho. Wright was questioned concern ing the accounts of State Representa tive Long and State Senator Hobson, the latter being president of hia bank. He aaid that prior to the meeting oi the legislature. Long had owed the bank S400. and Hobson had owed it $22,000. Long had paid hia note in April, and Hobson paid hia in May but. both with checks. The account transcripts were placed in evidence. The one of Hobsop'a case showed tnat in April last a letter waa received from the Continental National name oi Chi cago, advising the Fergus County bank of a credit of 125,000 in Hobeon'a be half. Hobson waa then in London, but the witness did not think be had gone to London with Senator Clark. Hobson had never told him where he obtained the $25,000. On croea-ex aminatton, the witness said that Hob- was considered a wealthy man. worth about $300,000 or 9400,000. He knew that he had sold some mine in London, but did not know whether the $25,000 waa derived from this sonroe. SOUDANESE TROOPS REBEL, San Francisco ha a dally paper prlntod in Chinese. Joseph L. Mayers, state senator of Ohio, from Coshocton, walked to the capital from his home, a distance ot 100 milos, to show his independence of railroads. ' Cltixens of Dickinson county, Kan., have organized a rellof association for the purpose of sending corn to for free distribution, in the stricken district, India famine- A newsboy of Philadelphia waa ar rested under the blue law of 1784 and fined four dollars lor selling news paper on Sunday. 'Admiral Schley, who waa recently made a thirty-second degree Mason, has been a member of the fraternity I lines his twenty-first birthday. A law just passed In Norway makes iirli ineligible for matrimony unless Itliev can show certificate of (kill ia Booking, knitting ana pinning. Nearly the entire morning hour in the senate today was oooupied by Allen, of Nebraska, la the disousslon of the remit of Secretary Gage, concerning hi transactions with the National City hank, of New York. Daniel, ot Virginia, then aeuverea an extended speech on the pending financial measure. He vigorously opposed the propostion that the country should go to the gold standard. Daniel M. Kandsdell, ol Indiana, and Charles G. Bennett, ot New York, were sworn In aa ergeant-at arms and secretary of the senate, respectively. Chrd With forging Bond. New York. Feb. 8. Julius Sohroc tor, ot Forest II 111, N. J., waa arrested in thi city today on a warrant onarg ins forgery, on complaint of Laden berg, Thalmann Co., banker, who charge Sehroeter with forging tends ot the state ot Virginia. Upon these alleged forgeries ot Virginia bonds, amounting to $100,000, it is charged that Sehroeter luooceded in obtaining loan amounting to $68,000 from the Importer' A Traders' National bank and Ladenberg, Thalmann St Co, Boor War la Illlaols, Chioaao. Feb. 8.A special to the Times-Herald from Danville, 111 , says: Frank Specht, a German, who haa English wife, and William Shoemaker, an Englishman, with a German wife, eot into an argument over the Boer war laat nlnht. The injured are: Frank Kimnht. stabbed three time witn a nib'hfork: may die. William Shoe- maker, badldy beaten and scratched; Mrs. William Shoemaker, scratched and hair torn out; Mrs. Frank Specht, badlv bruised and scratched, At the beginning ol the iracas, tne women stood valiantly for their own nationality, but aa the fight progressed each forgot country and fought for her husband. When the police amvea, Specht was unconscious and bleeding profusely, while the women were tear ing at each other's ciotnes ana nair, R.iai rrloadly to England. New York, Feb. S. A dispatch from Zurich states that the reporta that Meuelik ia arming are untrue, and that the negus has rejected French and Rus sian counsel to attack the r.ugll&h from the rear. Meuelik in November last re ceived an extraordinary ambassador sent to him by England, with the mmatest honor. He held any number ot conference with the English envoy, at which llerr lis, hia Swiss adviser, was present. The negus wi highly deliuhted with the result of the nego tiations and loaded the embassy with costly presents for the queen. French and Russian diplomat are dissatisfied at the turn which thing have taken. English influence in Abvssnia is steadily increasing. Men elik will not visit Paris. He takes the frreatest possible interest in the con struotion of theDjlnouti-narrar railway Missionary Killed By Chinos. Taris, Feb. 8. -A dispatch from 8rloa Tronbl Likely to oecar I'ppor EgTPt. Paris. Feb. 6. A dispatch to the Havaa new agency from fjairo con firms the report that a rebellion had occurred among the Soudanese troop in Khartoum. It say: '."There la much anxiety here." There have been many grave incidents, notable the growing discontent in the Egyptian Pmtdant Bond All th Comspoadana to th Sonata. Washington, Feb. 6. In compliance with a resolution of inquiry, the presi dent ha sent to the senate a copy ol the report and all accompanying paper of Brigadier-General J. C. Bates, in relation to the negotiation of a treaty of agreement made by him with th sultan of Sulu, last August. In reply ing to the request the president says: "The payment of money required by the agreement will be made from the revenue of the Philippine islands, un less congress shall direct otherwise. Such payment are not for specific ser vice, but are a part of the considera tion going to the sultan, tribe or nation under the agreement, and they art stipulated aa subject to the action ol congress, in conformity with the prac tice of thi government from the earliest time in it agreement with the vari ous Indian nation operating and gov erning portion of territory aubject to the sovereignty of the United States." General Otis in transmitting the treaty, August 27, says: "The attitude of these people bat been a subject of apprehension for sev eral months, and by this agreement, 1 believe, the apprehended pending dif ferences are happily adjusted." Secretary Root, in a reply dated October 27, tells General Otia that "the agreemnet is confirmed and ap proved by the president, subject to the action of congress, and with the under standing and reservation, which should be distinctly communicated to the sul tan of Snlu, that thi agreement is not to be deemed in any way to authorize or give consent of the United States to the existence of slavery in the Snlu archipelago. At the same time when yon communicate to the sultan the above mentioned understanding, the president desires that yon should make inquiry aa to the number of personi held in slavery in the archipelago, and what arrangement it may be practicable for their emancipation." In hi instruction to General Bates, under thi direction, General Otia savs: "It ia believed that the market price of slavea in the archipelago ia insigni' Scant, ranging from $30 to $90, Mexi can, and that in some instanoea own' era will be pleased to grant freedom to their slavea if they can escape tne burden of supporting them. General Otia continue to the effect that the character of the domestic slav ery existing in the archipelago differ greatly from the former slavery institu tionoftbe United States, the slave becoming member of the owner' family.. General Bates, in hia report, stated that when be first asked to aee the sul tan, the latter sent hia greetings, say ing he could not come to the general, be cause he had boil on hi neck, and could not put on hia coat, but that he would recognize the protection of the United States, requesting aa a favor that he might hoist hia own flag alongside that of the United 'States. The sultan' brother went to Jolo to meet General Bates, and the sultan afterwards joined bim. General Batea states in thi con nection that the Sulua are very jealous of their institution of slavery. In hia original instructions to Gen era! Batea, General Otia instructed him to push to the front the question of sov' ereignty, and told him he could promise for the United States not to interfere with, but to protect, the Moroa in the free exercise of their religion and cus toms, social and domestic, and to re spect the right and dignities of the sultan. In return they must acknow ledge the sovereignty ' of the United State. He also instructed General Batea that it waa important that the United State should occupy the prin cipal distribution center of trade, and that Siasei, the capital, should be occu pied by our troops at no distant day. FOUR- BLOCKS BURNT Property Worth $1,500,000 Destroyed in St. Louis. ONE KILLED, SEVERAL INJURED (a tha loUiart of tha Retail Bectlor th City Lo Wr DUtrla- ' atd Among Many. A Hair-Mlllioa-Dollar Fir. Dayton, O., Feb. 5. Early this morning a fire, the result of a boiler explosion, in the tobacco warehouse of J. P. Wolf, threatened for a while to do immense damage in the manufactur ing district of this citv. The fire waa arm, which haa reached to a mutiny finally gotten nnder control, not how- in two Soudanese oaiiauons. io guv- evOT befora fUny 1500,000 worth ol ernment has sent Colonel Wlngate to property was destroyed. The principal parle with them. I losers are: J. P. Wolf & Sons, tobacco The army complains 01 paa treat- merchants; E. Bimm Sons, grocers; ment and the secret dispatcn 01 r-gyp- Benedict, cigars; Dayton Paper Novel tian troopa to Boutn Airica. n appears t. Company certain that 10 Maxim and a large Nightwatchman Snedinger wa over assignment of saddle have gone to Dur- by smoke and lound unconscious ban, and a number oi jcngiisn omcers by tiremen. Several firemen were and civil functionaries have obtained bajiy iroxen, and Fireman McCoy wa unlimited furlougn to go to ooutn nUrt( probably by falling walls, Africa, wnicn 1 oeuevea to do a urenou of Egypt' neutrality. The govern ment ia alarmed at the Attitude of the black troop, and haa asked the k he- dive to intervene. The latter ha sent a letter urging obedience, but anxiety nevertheless continues. Egypt ia al most denuded of European soldier. Hay tend Boor Fund to Traasvaal. Washington, Feb. 5v -Secretary Hay haa received the sum of $3,760 col lected by the St. Louis Weatllche Post and transmitted to the department of state by Mr. Pretorloua, to be used for the benefit of the widow and orphans of the Boer soldiers. The secretary haa forwarded the money by the mail to Adelbert Hay, United States consul at Pretoria, to be turned over to Presi dent Kruger for the purposes specified. The action ot the state department, it ia explained, applies only to contri butions for charitable objects. Short Mall Root to Noma Washington, Feb. 5. The poetoflioe Poking savs: The report of the death I department baa directed that a snorter of Emperor Kwang Sn ia not confirm- mail route, entirely within American ed. The dispatch adds that the safety of foreigners is not threatened, but that an English missionary having been murdered in the province of Shang Tung, the British, American, territory, shall lie established to oor municate with the Cape s-" field. This will be from Kuunal, on the coast, via Nushagok and St. Mich ael, and will be several hundred Liquor TraHe la Maaieo. City ol Mexico, Feb. 5. The press continue to denounce the growth of the liquor traffio in Mexico, and ascribes to the increasing consumption of ardent spirits in various forms, the augmented mortality and crime. The Methodists here, headed by Bishop Mo Cabe and Rev. Dr. Butler, have begun a campaign against intemperance and the local Catbolio journals are exhort ing thelt readers to arouse themselves to prevent the country from becoming a prey to ale holism. It ia reported that the government will endeavor by means ot publio action to aid the tem perance movement. Traasport Ohio Arrive. San Francisco, Feb. 6. The trans port Ohio, 87 day from Manila, arrived here today. The Ohio brought 150 bodies and two passengers. Colo Waved Bxanitnatloa. Boston, Feb. 8. Charles H. Cole, formerly president of the Globe National bank, and who is charged : rith embezzling and misappropriating 1 900, 000, the property of the bank, waived examination today, and waa held in $50,000 bonds for the grand jury ot the district court, which aita 8t. Louis, Mo., Feb. 6. Property to the estimated value of $1,500,000 wa burned today, the greater part of four block of building and their content . between Third and Sixth street and Franklin avenue and Morgan street, in the heart of the retail section, being destroyed. One fireman wa killed, nine other member ot the fire depart ment were injured more or lesa seri ously, and five or six citizens ware hurt slightly. None ot the injured will die, aa far aa known tonight. The loss on both building and stock of good is approximately $1,500,000. Definite figures are ex ceedingly hard to obtain. There were six retail concerna which were heavy losers. The remainder of the loss it divided in varying proportion among a score or more of small shopkeepers or firms. Only two concerns suffered lost of over $ 1 00,000 Penny St Gentles and Schaper Bros. The buildings in which the two concern were housed were owned by the Mary K. Knox estate, and nere erected at a coat ol $165,000. Penny & Gentles' toes, which is cov ered entirely by insurance, is estimated at $135,000. Schaper Bros.' loss 1 es timated at $100,000. These two con cerns occupied about half the block on the west aide of Broadway, outh from the corner of Franklin avenue, and the building were entirely destroyed. The rest of the block on the west side of the street is taken up by the build ings occupied by the Famons dry good store, whose loss waa comparatively alight. On Franklin, just back of Penny A Gentles, the building occupied by the Fuch Millinery & Cloak Company suffered a loss on the stock of $40,000. The store occupied by D. Crawford "A Co., at Broadway and Franklin avenue, was entirely burned, with a loss on buildings and stock of $70,000. The People's Housefnrnishing Company, at 814 North Broadway, waa completely wrecked; loss $50,000. At 813 North Broadway, Deere Bros." store, niied with a stock of 5 and 10-cent goods, sustained a $33,000 loss on buildings and stock. The fire swept through the block from Broadway to Fourth street and burned all the buildings from 837 to 809 North Fourth treet. These build- -ings were old three and four story structures, some occupied aa tenement! above and stores below, while othen were vacant. Here the St. Louii Dressed Beef & Provisions Company, Herboth Mercantile Company, the Schisler-Cornelia Seed Company, and three small stores, suffered an aggre gate loss of $65,000, while the losses on buildings amounted to, fully $45,. 000. Among the firms and individuals that suffered heavily from the fire are " the following, whose places of business were on the east aide of Fourth and west side of Third streets: A. Nasse, wholesale grocer; Plant Seed Company; Krenning Glass Com pany; Bassett'a plumbing establish ment; McLain & Alcorn Commission Company; Bueller Block Commission Company; elson yistiuing uompany; Hake & Sons Commission Company; George A. Benton, produce; Bauei Flower Company; Shaw & Richmond, produce. Their losses aggregate thous ands of dollars and are partly covered by insurance. Late tonight John Cnmmlngs, pri vate watchman of Penny & Gentle, was arrested and la being held, pending an investigation into the origin of the fire. He was taken into custody as the result ot a statement by a woman room ing opposite, to the effect that she bad seen a man answering the watcbman'i description, lighting matchea in the store previous to the fire. Cummingt denied having bad anything to do with it, and states that he was at honit when the fire broke out. Wa, Goebel I Dead. Frankfort, Ky., Feb. 6. The bullet fired by an unknown assassin last Tues day morning ended the life of William Goebel at 6:45 o'clock thi evening. The only persons present at the death bed were Mr. Goebel'a sister, Mrs. Brawnecker, and his brother, Arthur Goebel, of Cincinnati, who haa been in constant attendance at Mr. Goebel '1 bedside, and Dr. McCormack. ' Justus Goebel, a brother, who has been hurry ing from Arizona as fast as steam would carry in a vain hope of reacbirjg his dying brother in time for some tokeu of recognition, arrived 40 minutea too late. French, Italian and German minister. miie. shorter than the present one by I March 80. Benjamin E. Smith and have addressed a note to the foreign office asking that measures be taken by the Chinese authorities tor the safety ot missionaries. .itk.v.Lnnvlv.. Th finit trin Ueniamin waiiB, or jjoswu, wero ao- ni m.la next March. The ery- I cepted aa .urieties. Cole was brought made next waron. ine serv- ; " , " ; . ... - ' a.AUA x...lw In lannaav fwm 1 sm Intra. Ill All -,a fatal ice over this route will be continued j -,--, vuom) Da ., next winter. I lee. Cal. Hasletln. th Marlue ArtUt. New York, Feb. 6. William Stanley Hazeltine, the marine artist, la dead in Rome, aged 84 years. He was a native of Philadelphia. Capt. Sigsbee, the hero of the Maine, and who will take charge of the naval intelligence bureau on February 1, ha purchased a house in Washington. HIS Katlous at Mareklnf. Mafeking, Feb. 6. Siege ration ol bread and meat have only now been en- forced. Oats intended for horsi-s are now saved to supply the troopers, if needed. Tinned milk and matches are commandeered. Liquor is scarce. Hot Weather la Bano Ayr. Buenos Ayres, Feb. 6. One hun dred and two sunstrokes were officially ; reported in this city yesterday. tl Una temperature I wa 120 In the hade. .- ? f )