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Newspaper Page Textr-j THE OFFICIAL AMD LEADING PAPE1 OF GILLIAM COUNTY. HAS THUI TIKES TIE CilCULATlO' OF AWT FAPE1 IM THE COOWTT: iDTnnim bats. ' . rVIMMIO STMT TO V AID AT IV . A. PATTI90N.... Sdllor and Proprietor, PrefanttoTial MrtU... .jt pa VM oqnare QOnekalf eolsj a........ Pflu flalnaaB . I pet ami HMWMMt CBSCRIPTION RATES) A.. .... I am -.- . Mmm locals wUl k abar M M wi aw Srat laaaraa and I par Uas (III UTBI1VT,.IHHHI II not paid la advauot .... tl M yMMMttJ(4 11 00 KIM. Ill tuiiliia..,. ,. ....,....,. t M T.'e sioiith.. ,, ,,.,, (m,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, vU ( all w VOL. X. CONDON, GILLIAM CO., OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 19, 1900. iii nopiaa .. M ,, N NO. 19. CONDON GLOBE. O. B. A N. C. Tin Card. asumotv), 0BSOOMJ. Nw tin sard, Ukln tfact Susdtr. Febru ary llthi lurr swap. . S-Vla Hontlnt, 1-ar.... . ..,!: a. . f. Via Spokane, Imtm 1:Hp.a, II. It LeeaX Irtllhl, IVM...,...........7;W p. St, wssr soiim. Ns. 1 Portland, lfM,.,..,.......,..12:47. . 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Dtfl-i nty and Stator ( Portland arary morula teacept Sunday) ar. sad Tk ball ail a. at , arrlvlug ai dealiaa Una la e.pl list for eutgolog train. , PrlM Rata Uracil Reduced. W. C. ALU WAV. Ota. At, foot of Court iumi, Tb Dstlaa, O. iJo.IlAivL Kniiri Arllrumn I " Chlcoiio Malt Ukf, Itanver, 10 :S7 a. m. Portland Kl. MurUi.Ouialia, Hixvtai Kaiinai. 1 HI. t .Uf. at, Uiul,('liii'a(uiiil Kal. Atlanllc Hall l.abf. lMivr. t:4lavu. Kipivm Kt. Wiirlli.Oinalia, S ;4l a. ai. Kan.a. ll, Mi. liiiU.Culnatuaiid Kal. flixikan Mall Walla 4I-' 1:40 a, Klyr Uiii.Mpukana.MlH 10 17 p. u, imaHilU,MI. Paul, iMiliith, MUwan- k,ClilcanoAKaal l.-Wp.ai, 0eMlliklp. Ilp.a. All tailing datn liibji iii lo rlian- For Man Pranclaoo Mall vry i Jay.. bally Chmkla !' 4:00 p. in. Xi.Miinilay ttaamtr. Ki. Muiiday UUuni. . Matutday To Aitorla and Way 10. UO p. Hi. IjiiidliiK, :00.m Wllliawtt lr. 4:110 p.m. Li.Muuilar Ki. Miiolay Or'iron I'lly, Nw IwrM, Halwm, Intl. imnilmcB at Vr , ,. 'll"l"ll,,., 1:00. m. wlllimttt nd Vim. I:p. in. tun . Tlinr. kill Mian. Mon., V 1. nil Dal. , aud Krl. Urmou riiy, l)r luu, t W ay l.uU Ingi. ., :00 in. WillMMlt Rlrar. 4:90 p.m. Tum.. Thiir Mon., Wad. aud Mai. Portland lo Corral, auj Prl. II. A Way Laud lugi. If. Rlparl Inak mr, l.r.I-awLtoii l:HA a. in. Dally Dally Ulparla to Uwl.ton ,Ii,id, f. X. CftAME, Agent, ArUngUn, W. M. HURLBURT, tsaeral fast Asa I, rent, OA EVENTS OF THE DAY Epitome, of the Telegraphic News of thft World. 'I'ERSK TICKH VIM JtiK WlttF An Intarvatlttf Collartlim of Itm Prom th Two HiMlphrM PrN -nH 1 ; In Cnndnnwd Fontl, ' Boon have retired from fienekal. Britiah tormed and took the town ol liethlebein, Pewet rtstreatiug. . The emprem dowager enain bold the relgoi of governuient iu tlhlua. Three men were killed by the ezplo ion of a boiler at au oil work in A itorie, Oregon. The total camialtle of the Britiah, a k reralt of the Boer war, ap to date are 18,188 ottluert and men. St. Louie atreet oar atrikere again have their baaae ruuulug in opposition to the Tramit Company. The French ahip L'AqolUioe faal ailed from Toulon with 850 infantry and artillery for China. Mew York tailor are again planning a big Mtrlke. Contractor are violating agreements made eeveral year ago. Dr. Charles F. McDonald, the organ laer of onr poatal money order eyatem. died at Hamilton, Ontario, aged 71 Tear. Houtbern negroes may go to Hawaii. Plantation owners of the island will make them good offer with a view to dUpensing with the troableaotne Jap laborers. A plot to aisaiwinate Pretdeut Mo Ktnley baa lieen frustrated. It was eoncoctod by a group of 8nlsb and Cuban eouilrtors - who bad bead quarters in New York. George A. Morse, an aged and abso lutely belplea patient in the Agnew's Insane asylum, at Ban Joae, Cat., was lowly boiled to dntth In a bath in the men's ward of that Institution. He was placed In a bath tub, and after the hot water was turned on the attendant left the room fur a towel, forgot bis patient, and did not return until the imbecile was fearfully burned. A serious Are is paging on Bull moun tain, Kailroad creek and Pompey's Pillar, on the north side of the Yellow stone river, Montana. It is ettending east to the Muisel Kbell river, and is weeping the range like tinder, as everything is dry. A late report says that 20 head of horses belonging to Kamsey, of Hilliuga, were burned. Vast flocks of sheep are in great danger. Tien Tsln is hard pressed by 80,00l Chinese. Cubans are pleased at the withdrawal of American troops. fit. Louis street oar employe have renewed their strike. Chinese Imperial troops are defend ing the foreigners In Pekln. Chinese do not want religion and no amount of war can make them aocept it. i Battleship Oregon will not be sent to Taku again unless absolutely neoas aery. . It la said America la to have 11,000 men in the lores of 100,000 to be used in China. The steamer Rosalie arrived at Seat tle from Lynn canal, with $000,000 in Klondike gold. American trade will be injured If the power decide to make war on the Chinese empire. The Oregon must remain in dry dock 90 day. Hhe ha arrived at Che Jr'oo and will go to Japan at once. Li Hung Chang is again urging the power to intervene and establish a strong government in the Chines em. pire. George Ilorrick. is held at North Ya kima on a charge oi killing a aquaw on the reservation. Ha claims aelf-de fense. Kumoi 1 current that the Chicago A Alton, Kanaaa City bouthern and Un ion i'acitio railway will be amalga mated. Dr. Henry D. Cogiwell, a well- known philanthropist and prohibition ist, is dead at Ban Francisco, aged 80 yeai. Commissioner of Patents Duell i aid to be out for the nomination for governor of New York on the Repub lican ticket. ' Japanese laborer in Hawaii are dis contented. Plantation managers bsve oonceedod everything asked for and still they are not satisfied. Thm Annua... .! hllUi mill nf tl,. Illinois Hleel Company at Joliet, III., resumed operations aud nearly 1,000 men were put to work. ltussian, French and , German admi rals at Tieu Tain are said to have ex- pressed themselves as unfavorable t Japan's being given A free hand. Roy C. Gage, of Company 0, Third regiment, O, N. G., in their anuual encampment at Salem, was drowned in the Willamette river while bathing. Dnrlno tha lust IS vaara th rumnla. tlnn of Uarmanv ha lnonaaatl 14 nor cout, but the number of doctor in the . i i j . . , i . uerman einpirs naa lucreaaou no eaa than 60 per cent. If this ratio is kept np, any statistician can forsee the ' time when every German will be a ' doctor, and the whole German popula j tlon, having no patients on whom to practice, will have to ml, rate to fields where pbysioiaus are a shade less com mon. ; LAIkR NEWS. American athletes were successful at the Paris tournament. An all day fight between the Boers ana mi tun at riatkop resulted indeci lively, . The Russian minister at Pekin is sid to have been boiled to death by Boxers. Nine bouses were entirely consumed aud many other damaged by fire at uunsmntr, Cal. A German paper say the seizure of Klao Chou has caused the present trou ble with China. Fire at Durant, I. T., wiped out the greater portion of the town, causing a loo of 1100,000. K foreigners have been removed from the town of Wa Chou, China, and are safe at Shanghai. United States Senator John H. Gear. of Iowa, died at Washington City of near nutcase, aged 75 years. A large part of the bu tines district ol Preeoott, Arisona, wer burned, Musing a loss of (1,000,000, The steamer City of Topeka ai rived at Seattle flora Lynn canal with tie tween $760,000 and $1,000,000 in gold duat from Klondike. Twenty square miles of forests were bo n red by a fire started by a firecracki near Grab Gulch, Cal. The loss will be hundreds of thousands. General rain ha fallen over nearly all India during the past few days and the prospects are that crops have im mense. y improved. The famine area bus generally been benefitted. Eight-hour shift for all underground men at tb United Verde mine and an increase of . 10 per cent in wages for miners in certain portions of the miue were announced at Jeiome, Aris. Ad v leas were received from Sydney that tribal wars are raging at the Solo mon group. There baa been a fit-roe battle between the Marian (Boys) and Malata tribes. The losses on each side were heavy. Dynamite was exploded under a Transit oar in North St. Louis, and four passengers. were injured. A su burban car. the only union line In the city, aocidently ran into a strikers' Mm wagon and Injured 12 occupants. two seriously. Judge Thomas Ayer, of the United State court of appeal at St. Louis, baa banded down an opinion declaring that John P. Keese, the low Miners' Union official who wa sentenced to imprisonment in Kansas for violation of a strike injunction, was illegally restrained of hi liberty, and granted a writ of habeas corpus releasing him. Judge Ayer ruled thst the lower court erred In induing Reese under the in junction. William Abies, an old resident of Tacotua, oommitted suicide. Riob gold strikes have been made on th Koyukuk, some claim staked out yielding $4 to the pan. Robber held up an Illinois Central train near Paducah, Ky blew np the express car snd secured $10,000. Tb empress dowager has ordered th suppresaion of the Boxer and the protection of the legations at Pekin. A Pullman car was turned upside down near Redding, Cel., the nine oc cupants wer all more or lees injured, but none fatally. Thirty-six bodies, horribly disfig ured, bave been recovered from the hull of th steamship Saale, recently burned at Hoboken, N. J. County Commissioner Campbell, ol Spokane county. Waali., was killed by an O. R. & N. passenger train near Latah, Idaho. He was crowing the track In a buggy. A flood of gold is pouring in from Alaska. The receipts of the govern ment asaay office at Seattle in the fis cal year were $13,630,328. Thi month' recepts may exceed $0,000,- 000. The Chinese government 1 sorry for th recent outbreaks, but holds the powers blatnable. The empress dow ager srfya the attacks on Tien Tsin wei the result of the bombardment of Tieu Tsin. Savages of the Caroline islands at tacked a shipwrecked British crew, smiously wounding two of the Britiah, and were only , driven off when an American cattle dealer came to the rescue of the British. On the Baltimore St Ohio railroad. A deliberate attempt to wreck tbe Washington express, bearing $3,000,- 000 in gold to the subtreaatiry in New York, came very near being auocessfiil at Folsoin, a short dlstauce outside of Philadelphia. Th general freight agents of leading Western roads have formed an arrange ment for the pooling of buaineaa. Joint agencies are to be established at Kan sas City, Omaha and St. , Paul. A joint agent will be placed In charge of the trartl o at each of these cities. Colombian revolutionists, under Gen eral Juan B. Gonsales and Simon Chanx, have captured the city of 1'opa- yan, a capital of the department of Cauca. On the march to Popayan tbe revolutionist took all the cities near the Ecuadorian frontier, including the Paport Tunico. - . Robert Fitcsimmons will meet both Sharkey and Ruhliu next month. Gold hunter in Russia are governed by arbitrary laws, one of which com pel them to turn over all gold they may find to the imperial treasury, which pays the miner at a standard rate. This law may seem tyrannical, but it has one inestimable advantage no gold digger in Russia oan tell extra ordinary romance about tbe richness of bis claim when the official figures are there to stop blm. ALLIES DRIVEN BACK May Be Forced to Abandon Tien Tsin. position becoming untenable LI Baa Chaag Will Boraala at CaaUp Until IatoraatloBal Traap H Doft4 Taaa' fore. London, Jnly 16. The scanty cable dispatches received today add nothing to the knowledge in London of tbe Cbineae aituation. It is stated posi tively from Canton that LI Hang Chang will remain there until the al lied tioops bave defeated PrinoeTuan' forces, and will then go north to lend hi powerful aid in arranging term of peace, co-operating with Prnce Cbing, Ynng La and the other pro-foreign viceroys. For the present LI Hung Chang considers that be can best con trol and direct tbe viceroys from Can ton and also keep in check tbe turbu lent province of Kwang Tnng. All tb foreigner and misaionaris bav evacuated Wan Chan and hare arrived at Ning I'o. Large bodies of Boxers appeared at Wan Chan and threatened to exterminate tbe foreign er and Christians. They also distrib uted banners, badge and inflammatory anti-foreign appeals. Tbe Tien Tsin correspondent of tbe Express, telegraphing nnder date of July 9. asterts that th Chinese are daily driving in the allies. They have mounted, say tbe correspondent. 11 fresh guns in advantageous positions, with which they are now keeping clear tbe streets of the foreign settlement, the incessant ihooting rendering tbe neighborhood quite untenable. The Daily Mail's St. Petersburg cor respondent say that in the" last ix boors' battle outside of Tien Tain, the Cossacks captured six Krnpp guns and killed numbers of fleeing Boxers. The Chines lost 8,000 killed, including General Kekj : BOLD PLAN OF THE BOERS. Botha's Army I Trying to Kooaptaro froUrta. London, July 18. Lord Roberta dispatch, reporting still another un fortunate occurrence, throws a serious light upon th state of affair in South Africa. There baa been some com ment recently regarding the virtual absence of progress by tba Immense army nnder command of If J Rob erta, but few, could bar been found to believe that the scattered Boers were able to inflict such a defeat so near Pretoria. Instead of the surrender of all of th remaining Boers being imminent, a recent telegrams had hinted, it seems they have been msking a concerted at tempt to surround or recapture Pre toria, with ao much aucceaa that la tbe region which waa suppoaed to be paci fied, and in which no attack was ex pectd, they succeeded in inflicting a serious defeat, and capturing two guns and some 200 men. It is evident that General Botha baa considerable force, seeing that he ia able to pre Lord Roberta' lines at half a dosen points around Pretoria, from the springs to the southeast of the city northward to Mlddelburg and Durdepoort and theno southward to N Ural's Nek and Krug ersdorf. i Lord Robert omit to give th nam of th commander concerned, giving rise to the belief that worse remains to be told. Even it the mishap be not more grave than hi information at present implies, it proves that the situ ation is still serious, and that there ia no possibility of any troops being spared from South Africa for China, but on tbe contrary, it will still tak a long time to clear tbe country of the Boers. News has reached London that Lord Roberts has been suffering from a seri ous bowel complaint, and that Lady Roberts was hurriedly summoned to Bloemfontoin. ' Ganpowdar Plot In Pari. Pari, July 16. Inquiries are being made into what may possibly turn out to be a serious attempt to destroy the grand palace of the Champs F.lysee, Wednesday night. A watchman of cellars which were filled with package oases and a large quantity of other in flammable material overheard a con vernation between two men, leadiug him to believe that a plot was on foot to set fire to the building. The mis creants fled upon his approach. A aearch the next morning resulted in th discovery ol two hermetically aeal ed boxea filled with black powder. The chemical properties of thi pow der have not yet been diacloaed by tb authorities. Flro at Pittsburg. Pittsburg, July 16. Six coal and ice store houses, three stables, a frame dwelling, a number of outbuildings and six Pennsylvania freight oars wer destroyed by fir today at Sewiokly, a suburb of Pittsburg, Samuel Woods,a stableman, was burned to death, and eight horse were cremated. The loss Is $50,000. Th Garland Chemical Work at Rankin, Pa were burned at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon. The loss ia $100,000. The fire was caused by the explosion of a tank of chemical, but no on waa injured. Kloetrlo Btorui la Iowa. Dubnque, Ia., July 16. A terriflo eleotrio storm, accompanied by a rain fall of 1.72 inohes, raged here for three . hours today. Nellie L. toQuillman, aged 16, was killed by lightning. Tbe fourth street incline railway station , wai struck and shattered. It is be i lleved great damage was done In tb country. ' A good many men boast of their methodical habits who never have any. I thing but unpaid bill to file away. ENGLAND TAKES AN ISLAND. Ralasa Her Flag Om Nino, In th South Paelflo Ocoaa. Vancouver, July 14. The steamer Miowera, from Sydueyf today, brings news that Great Britain has added an other to bar island possessions in the Pacific. 11. M. S. Porpoise in June planting the liritiiih flag on Nine or Savage island, situs tod 800 miles north east of tb Tonga group. The princi pal product is copra, of which 700 tons are exported annually. Tbe terms of the British protectorate over Tonga have been modified as a re sult of conference between Basil Thompson, the British representative, and the longa king and chiefs, when an agreement waa signed by which no treaty is to be made without Great Britain's consent. In case of the Ton ga government being in need of assist ance, it is to apply only to tbe British government and not to any other power. Upon the return of H. M. S. Porpoise from Tonga, the commander reported that Falcon island, which disappeared in 1898, has again appeared. The shspe of the returned island is like a whale's back, and it ia considered to be a serious danger to navigation. Falcon Island is said to owe its disappearance and reappearance to submarine vol canie activity. Ita location ia aouth west of tbe Friendly inlands. , Advices from Apia say that the little island of Nitifu, or Hope, has been completely devastated by a disastrous hurricane which swept away 800 houses. Thirty-eight natives were killed. Tbe coooanitt crop was entire ly destroyed snd the natives are report ed to be on tbe verge of starvation. ' Bandit Attack M.xleao Train. Mexico City, Mexico, July 14. A daring train robbery took place Tues day night near Chihuahua, on the Mex ican Central. After the train side tracked to let a passenger train pass it, it was found that the spikes on the sid ing bad been pulled out. The train was derailed and the train crew at tacked by a dosen bandits. Many shot were fired. Meanwhile the pas senger train arrived and the crew, tak ing in the situation, pulled back to Chihuahua with the crew of tbe freight train. With a force of police and rur ales tbe passenger train returned to tbe scene of tbe hold-up. The robbers had broken into several freight cars and carried away booty. Tbe police and soldier started in pursuit, and one robber waa captured with some booty. Thus far thi is the first train hold-up on record in Mexico. A Marvaloa Baeap. Accra. Gold Coast Colony, July 14. Sir Frederick Mitchell Hodgson, gov ernor of the colony, who recently ar rived here, after having been besieged at Knmaasie by rebellious tribesmen, and privations to which he baa been subjected, in the course of an inter view said be considered his escape the most marvelous on record. He attri buted its succem to the secrecy main tained concerning th route chosen. The carrier who accompanied him be came so weakened by starvation that everything was abandoned and the party subsisted upon plantains. Tbey endured great hardship. Fortunately tbe rain were not heavy. Had it been otherwise all would probably bav suc cumbed. Lady Hodgson plockily shared all th danger and privations. Fartonaha Saapandcd. London. July 13. There ia consid erable comment here owing to an ad miralty order suspending tbe further granting of furloughs to crew of the ship belonging to the channel and re serve squadrons. The order is reported to be connected with the manuevera ol the French fleet in th channel. Chol.ra la India. Simla, July 13. Cholera ha ap peared in severe epidemio form at Kohat, 25 mile south of Peshawa. Two hundred and seven cases and 77 deaths occurred among tbe Sepoys and camp follower between July S and July 9. The prospect for tbe monsoon is slightly more favorable. Tbe orders for General Wade to start for the scene of the threatened Indian uprising in Minnesota have been coun termanded, as the secretary of the in terior baa received advices from the Rainy Luke region that affairs have quieted down and that there is no longer any reason to apprehend trouble from the Indians. Now Frolght Transport. San Francisco, July 14. The new freight steamer Califoinian, with a ca pacity of 8,000 tons, has been charter ed by the United States government to carry freight to Manila. The Strath gyle, a vessel of equal sire, will also be loaded at ouce with store for the Pbilipdines. . Ovaamlta Voder a Uouao. Williamsburg. O., July 14. Un known persous placed dynamite under sue corner of the residence of Henry Wilson, just west of here, early this morning. The room above was wrecked by the explosion and William Wilson, a 10-year-old boy, was killed. Miss Kate Tucker was severely injured. Tha other occupants of the house es caped injury. , London, July 14. Tbe war office announces that General Buller reports that 059 prisoners released by Boers bav arrived at Ladysmith. Charged With Murder. San FrauoUoo, July 14. Charges looking to the trial by court-martial have been preferred with Colonel Long against Captain Charles T. Baker, of the United State transport Sumner. The cause of the complaint is that Cap tain Baker caused the death of Henry B. Ryan by confining him In the "brig" or prison aboard ahip, while he waa ill. In consequence of this a charge of murder ia preferred against Captain Baker. BIG FIRE IN PRESCOTT Losses Aggregate More Than $1,000,000. MANY HOMELESS AND PENNILESS f rliMtlpal Baalnoaa Portion of tho Tows IMtroyed Merchant Beady for Baalaoa la Tent. Fresoott, Aria.. July 17. A scene of great desolation and a feeling of deep est gloom pervades this town today. All that remain of the principal busi ness portion of the town is tottering walls and pile of charred and burning debria. Tb Are, which started at 10:46 o'clock last night, waa not under con trol until 8 o'clock this morning, when tb fighter went a considerable dis tance in advance of the flames and blew np tbe buildings on th south side of Goodwin street, preventing tbe fire from crossing that street. Tbe most conservative estimates of the total losses are from $1,000,000 to $1,500,000. Tbe burned district embraces five blocks, in which were located the prin cipal mercantile houses, both banks, both telegraph offices, the three news paper office, four hotels, and - every saloon and restaurant except one in the town, beside scores of private resi dence. To add to the prevailing gloom, a high wind baa prevailed All day, sending smoke, dust and burning embers la every direction, requiring tbe greatest vigilance to prevent an other outbreak of tbe flames, r Owing to tbe chaotic condition existing today, it is impossible to obtain an accurate account of the loss or individual insur ance. From interviews with insurance agents, tho total insurance does not ex ceed $350,000. At daylight this morning team were at work hauling lumber to tbe public plasa, and this evening it is covered with tents and temporary frame build ings. Tbe occupants will be ready for business tomorrow. Both banks have secured temporary quarter and wilf be open tomorrow. Tb Basbford-Bur-meiater Company will be open for busi ness tomorrow in their warehouse, two blocks from the plaza. -, Hon. W. A. Clark, of th United Verde Copper Company, who waa visit ing the works at Jerome, wired a draft for $500. All the sufferers from the fir are provided with food, shelter and clothing, and it ia not thought any outside assistance will b required. The only business booses remaining in the town are Goldwater Bros., A. Blumberg and Mr. K. R. Blaine, dry goods; Joseph Dougherty, T. W. Otii and J. I. Gardner, grocer, and W. W. Rosa and W. P. Coviiland, drug store. The express offic and poatoffic were both out of the fire limits, bnt tha latter bad a close call. All tb mail and effect were ready to move at a moment' notice. The offioe of the supervisor of census for tbe territory waa located in the Prescott National Bank building, and contained all the official statistic of the census of the territory, but they were removed to a place of safety. ' ' Tb Western Union opened it offic this morning in a grocery store, and the Postal ha opened an offioe at the railrojj depot. The electrio light pole and wire wer in the burned dis trict, and tbe town will be la darkness nntil they can be replaced. The com pany also owna the telephone system, and lose more than ball ito instru ment. Many citizens who yesterday were comfortably fixed are today homeless and penniless, a number losing both their business places and their resi dences. An army of carpenter have been busy all day putting up tempor ary structures, many of which have been completed and will open for busi ness tomorrow. Of the three printing offioe in town 11 that was saved wa about 80 case of type by th Courier. The destruc tion of the other wa complete. J. C. Martin, proprietor of tbe Journal Miner, saved only hi books. Included in his loss wa a Mergenthaler linotype, installed in tbe offioe only three months ago. The two paper have already made arrangement for continuing pub lication, although bnt little insurance waa carried by either. Most of the heaviest losers will rebuild at once. Th origin of th fire wa unknown until this evening, when it was learned ' that a man rooming over the bottling work wa lying in bed reading by candlelight when a piece of loose paper en the wall caught fire. He ran out to give tb alarm, and befor other ' reached the plac th fir waa beyond control. ., Mere Bala lot Tea as. Dallas, Tex., July 17. Northern Texaa ha been deluged by rain for more than 1 2 hours, and th indie-, tion are that the storm has only be-, gun. The downpour at Dallas waa tor-. rlfio. Streams are swollen ana train are delayed because of washout. I Youngstown, O., July 14. Th sever storm last night caused a aud-' den rise in Mill creek, sweeping away a bridge and washing out railroad tracks, causing damage amounting to 50,000. loO.OO Frail Fire la California. Newcastle, Cal., July 17. Fire' to day destroyed all the fruit bouse and leading business houses of th town, Th loss will exceed $100,000. Over 100,000 boxea of fruit wer burned. Th Southern Paoifio Company wa th heaviest loser. Their los in fruit in oar and rolling stock ia itlmated at 5,000. . . Som woman amount to nothing out lid of their church. HUNDREDS BURNED. OH Tank Biplodad Scattering Oil Oeof Throng of People. New York, July 18. A special from Boston to the Herald says: By the explosion of an oil tank in Somervill last niirht nearly a hundred persons were more or less injured, add early this morning two were reported dead. Many of the injured are in th Cam bridge, Somerville and Massachusetts general hospitals, while others wer taken to houses near the scene of th explosion. In the ysrd of the Boston St Main Railroad, near tbe old McLean aiylum, among more than a thousand freight cars filled with coal and general mer chandise, were three oil tank of th Union Oil Company. When on of th ear caught fire and made a blase' that could be seen all over Somerville. ban tireds of people flocked to ' the yards. The Somerville firemen arrived prompt ly enough, but bad to carry bos through all kind of place, while the fire burned brink ly and the crowd drew closer and closer. It ia eatimated that con after tb fir .etarted fully 1,000 persons ware in the freight yards, and scores of the most daring were on top of freight car near the fire. . Suddenly there was a rumbling noise. On great iheet of flam shot into tb air, and a huge oil tank which bad been on a car went up on end, scatter ing blazing oil in all directions. Tb huge tank of oil, on of three, on a many cars, had exploded. The burn ing oil fell upon men, women and chil dren in the throng, who shrieked with pain and terror. Six men on top. of one box car were thrown to the ground With their clothing on Hie. Men and women, with their garments bnining, ran about the yard in terror. Som were so badly burned that they 'drop ped. Those who were not on fir help ed them, and Were themselves burned. Meanwhile the railroad men wer performing acts of heroism. The oil tank which bad exploded was on a car between two others, and those were ia danger of going up st any minute. A locomotive was backed in and started to draw out the train. A railroad man ran np, threw a heavy sleeper beneath tbe wheels of tbe burning tank, the coupling broke, the car stopped and th oil tanks were separated. Fifteen persons were taken to th Somervill hospital. - Joseph Hayden, of engine company No. I, wbo waa standing on the oil tank at the time of the explosion, died early this morning. KETTELER IO BLAME. Won Id ft Call Additional Gnard fei tho Legations. New York, July 16. A d rptach to the Herald from Berlin says: A letter has just been published her? from Lieutenant von Loesch, attach of tbe Gorman legation at Pekin . II la dated May 29, and abowa that the early failure to increase the guard of the various legationa was du to th action of th late Baron von Ketteler. ; The letter states that after tbe first attack by the Boxers on th Pekin- 1 r -1, ; 1 .1 . . -ttn.. f u A , .U T . 1 1 1 Jm I , ,. BU1TOkaUf Ul .ITO ministers was held to decide - whether additional troop should be sent for to protect th legations. Baron von Ket teler was very much opposed ' to this being done, while the "French minister was very much in favor of this course. Tbe latter was, however, overruled by his colleagues. M. Pkhon waa so hurt by this refusal to ask for guard that be wept. ' 1 Another factor that led the minister Ao teach this unfortunate conclusion was tbe desire of the diplomatic corps to take their usual summer holiday and it waa feared that if additional troop wer sent for they would not b ble to do so. Later on, a the Boxer movement la- creased, a second conference of minis ter was called, at which it was re solved to bring detachments of afleast SO men to guard each legation. A Runaway Freight Train. Redding, Cal., July 16. Last night, when a freight train bound for Oregon, drawn by two engines, waa climbing tbe heavy grade above Upton, a coup ling gave way, and 80 oars, loaded with fruit, started back. They passed through Sisson seemingly at the rat of 70 miles an hour. Half a mile be low Sisson is the Pioneer Box Factory. Here seven of the oars broke loose and pitched over than embankment. "Tb others continued on their mad course. At Big Canyon, three mile below Sis son, tbe runaway train again parted, some of the cars flying tbe track and being dashed to pieces. The other half dozen continued over a high tres tle around a loop and finally shot off tbe rails below Mott, aftei running 10 mile. All the timbers are in splin ters. Fortunately, no trains were en countered by tbe runaway. Bobbers Caught In tho Aet. Marsballown, Ia., July 16. Four men were caught in tbe act of robbing Mason Whitebill's general tor at State Center today. A number of olti sens surrounded the building, and a pitched battle ensued. Ben Whitehill, one of the proprietors, was sbof In tha leg. One of tbe robbers wa also wounded, and with on of hi associ ates was captured. The other two es caped. ' Political success, like anything sis, depends almost entirely on the amonat of rustling a man does. Snrgeen for Capo Nome. Washington, July 16. Aa a result f a conference today between Assist ant Secretary Talyor and th officials ' of th marine hospital service, two ad ditional surgeons have been ordered to ' proceed at once from San Francisco to Seattle, and theno by boat to Cap Nome, to aiiist iu stamping out th smallpox now epidemie at that plac. When a woman dislikes a man, it 1 ber favorllt mod of abus to charge that b leads dual IU.