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MORO, S H E R M A N
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
A u I u t« r ea ti n g C o lle c t io n u f I t e m s F r o m
th e T w o H .a ih p h e r .a P r e te x te d
la a C o a d e a s e d F o r m .
The hospital-ship Missouri baa ar*
rived at Furtreaa Momoe hum Havana,
with 212 sick soldiers.
One thousand United Statea m ilitia­
men will take part in the queen’s birth­
day celebration lU.Kingsl<>n, OnL
The sixth annual convention of the
Association of Railroad Air Brakemen
ia in session in Detroit, with about 100
delegatee present.
The Britiah house of commons re­
jected the bill providing for the com-
pnlaory reinstatement of Irish tenants
evicted aince 187V.
A miner has reached Dyaa, Alaska,
who claims to be the survivor of a
party of three, two of whom were mar-
derd by Chilkat Indians near the vil­
lage of Klukwan. The men killed
were Sidney Vance, an Englishman,
and Chalres Ericksen, a Swede.
In the battle between the revolution­
ists under Pando and President Alon­
so’s army, near Oruro, Bolivia, 200
were killed. General Pando occupied
Oruro without confusion.
President
Alonso, with a small body guard, ia a
refugee at Antofagasta, bay of Morena,
Chile.
Ensign Monaghan, who was brutally
killed at Apia. Samoa, was born at
Chewelah, Wash., in 1878. He was
educated in private schools of San
Francisco and Portland, and in Gon­
zaga oollege. a Jesuit institution of
Spokane. His father is now a resident
of the latter city.
The Maryland Steel Company at
Sparrows Point, has received an order
for 75,000 tons of 67-ponnd steel rails,
for the Chinese Eastern railroad. The
mills are working day and night on a
large order of similar rails for the
trans-Siberian road, of which the
Chinese Eastern will be aoontiuuat'on.
Prospectors who have arrived from
Alaska bring news that there are at
least 400 prospectors on the Edmonton
trail between Dease lake aud the Hod­
son’s Bay post on the Liard river, moat
of witorn ate in destitute circum­
stances. Many of the men are said to
he Buffering from scurvy and frost
bites. The sick cannot receive proper
medical attendance, and many are
dying.
The Cleveland carpenters’ strike was
settled by compromise.
The American Smelting & Refining
Company organized in New York by
electing directors.
The Cuban railway strike has ended.
Trainmen, afraid to lose their jobs,
surrendered without condition.
President Barrows, of Oberlin ool­
lege, announced the anonymous gift of
550,000 for building and equipping a
chemical laboratory.
At Bridgeport, Conn., Dr. Nancy A.
Guilford pleaded. guilty to man­
slaughter. and was sentenced to 10
years* imprisonment.
The ratifications of the peace treaty
have been exchanged. Bellamy Storer,
now minister to Belgium, will be the
new minister to Spain.
The Victoria trades and labor council
protests against the importation of 20
men from Pennsylvania to work on a
steamer at Lake Bennett.
The president has appointed Law­
rence Townsend, of Pennsylvania, to
■ntoeed Bellamy Storer as United
States minister to Brussels.
In a scuffle for possession of a rifle,
Albert Pemberton, a private of the
Twenty-fifth infatnry, was killed at
Fort Logan by a comrade, Peter Horn.
John E. O’Brien, chief of the Santa
Fe fire department, was instantly
killed by the California limited train
as it was passing through the yards in
Topeka.
Ex-Secretary Whitney baa organized
a trust in New York to control electric
transportation.
It is said the trust
will in time extend its operations to
the Western cities.
Two thousand miners who went out
at Danville, III., last week, have de­
cided to lay the matter before the state
arbitration board, and will resume
operations.
Five ohildren of Ole Peterson, of
Viborg, Turner county, South Dakota,
were poisoned by eating wild parsnips.
Two are dead, one dangerously ill, and
two will recover.
John D. Sims and Leonard Hale
were drownvd at Shorebar, Cal., on
the north side of Feather river. They
attempted to croee the stream in a can­
vas boat, which npeet.
The private bank of L. P. Hnnsner
and McKinaie. at Alma,Wis., has been
closed by order of the state bank ex­
aminer. The bank owes depositors
|60,0J0, and nas very little cash on
hand.
LATER
NEW S
President McKinley was entertained
at a dinner given by Associate Justice
Gray, of the supreme court.
The Canadian Pacific railway’s
roundhouse at Fort William, Manitoba,
was destroyed by tire. Seven new Mo­
gul engines were ruined. Total loss
about |80,000.
An order for 37,000 rifles of light
power has been placed by the Mexican
government in New York. The order
ia the largest one in this country by a
foreign power in the last 25 years.
Herr Pulack, a well-known engineer
and electrician, has discovered, 6aya
the Vienna corespondent of the London
Chronicle, a means of telegraphing
60,000 words per hour over a single
wire.
While the Denver fire department
was working to extinguish a fi<e at the
Pintsch gas woikz, an explosion of gas
occurred inside of the building, injur­
ing eight men, all connected with the
department
The British house of commons has
passed to a second reading the bill in­
troduced by Chamberlain, empowering
local authorities to advance money to
enable occupiers to acquire ownership
of small houses.
Mrs. Catherine Woods, aged 74
years, was burned to death at Sacra­
mento, and a 4-year-old grandson was
so badly burned that his recovery is
doubtful. The child dragged a lighted
lamp from a table.
Walter Gray, aged 60, assistant
bookkeeper in the subtreaeury at St.
Louis, was arrested for embezzling
1 700. He admitted having taken the
ruonev, to get medical attention for
his crippled child, aud intended later
to tej ay it.
The Twenty-first United States in­
fantry, the famous Indian fighting regi­
ment of early days, and later very ac­
tive participants in the Cuban cam­
paign, have departed from San Fran­
cisco for the Philippines on the trans­
port Hancock.
During election riots at Bilboa,
Spain, 26 persons were wounded. Pop­
ular feeling runs high in Valencia and
surrounding districts. There was a
serious affair in the town of Portos,
province of Tarragona, where the offi­
cial candidate being beaten, the munic­
ipal officials fired guns at the crowd,
injuring a number of persons.
A Presbyterian Sunday school has
been established in Havana.
Sarmeinto, a Brazilian village, has
been destroyed by an earthquake.
Three persons perished.
S. W. Ginstead, a Humboldt, Nev.,
bank oashier, committed suicide. His
accounts weie <10,000 short.
Mrs. Ida Ewing, charged with hav­
ing murdered her sister in-law, Mrs.
Lizzie Ewing, was acquitted by a
Maryville, Mo., jury.
The schooner Mary Bidwell, that left
St. Michaels, Alaska, in August last,
for Alaska ports, has been heard from
at Port Clarence, waiting to sail for
the south.
Arrangements have been completed
whereby President
McKinley will
push an electric button which will
start work on the San Pedro break­
water.
Vice-President Hobart, who Is sick
at Washington, is holding the gain
shown last week. He is able to par­
take of more hearty food, and sits up
about half an hour daily.
The Americans plan to trap Agui­
naldo by sending troops via the sea
route to the north of him. Then he
will be between two lines of Ameri­
cans, and it may besult in his capture.
A verdict of <5,000 damages against
T. J. Carson, a Kentucky racehorse
breeder, in favor of W. F. Singleton,
photographer, who was shot by Car­
sons, was returned at Lexington.
By the explosion cf a sawmill boiler,
near Chippewa Falls, Wis., Lem Wil­
cox, John Brisnois and William Olson
were killed and Engineer P. A. Briggs
and four others were injured.
Naval orders posted at Washington
announce the promotion to the rank of
rear-admiral of Sampeon, Schley and
Farquahar, the latter commandant of
the Norfolk navy-yard.
The Madrid official gazette con­
tains a royal decree appointing the
Duke de Arcoe to be Spanish envoy ex­
traordinary and minister plenipoten­
tiary to the United States.
»
The United States consul-general at
Berlin, Frank Mason, has revised fig­
ures showing that in the last three
months there was an increase of
<4,807,034 in the exportation to the
United States from Germany.
The 26th annnal meeting of the na­
tional conference of charities and cor­
rections will be held in Cincinnati
May 17 to 23. Every state in the
Union will be represented except per­
haps Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Utah
and Washington.
In order to controvert the claim of
the Washington agricultural depart­
ment that German toys contain certain
poisonous dyes and paints, the German
minister of commerce lias ordered an
investigation to be made in all the toy-
making centers of Germany with a
view of gathering evidence to the con­
trary.
By the will of Edward Austin, of
Boston, Harvard college receives <500,-
000 and the Massachusetts institute of
technology <400,000..
Representative Landis, of Indiana,
has had one of the ball windows of his
house at Delhi fitted with glass from
the Maria Teresa.
An ingenious mechanical device
k J Ia .”
Dr. Richard Garnett, the keeper of pastes labels on 100,000 cans in ten
printed books in the British mueenm, hours. Down a chnte rolls a ceaseless
says there are about 2,000,000 books in procession of cans, and each can picks
tip a label as it passes.
the museum.
Miner News Item«.
,
The Tennessee legislature has passed
a bill making all contracts entered into
in the state payable In any legal ten­
der.
A popular actress, Lolo Banzoila,
shot herself on the stage of a theater at
Vienna, exclaiming: “ ’Tis love that
EXPECT GOOD SEASON
Salmon-Fishing on the Co
lumbia Has Opened.
A MOST PROPITIOUS
OUTLOOK
P r ic e « A r e
E x c e p t io n a lly H ig h ,
a H e a v y R u a I« L o o k e d fo r
—S o m e S t a t is t ic s .
au«
Astoria, April 17.—The fishing sea­
son opened at noon yesterday, and pre­
parations have been made by both fish­
ermen and cannerymen for handling
the largest pack put up on this river
for years. An unusually large num­
ber of boats went out, and every can­
nery is prepared to begin opeiations on
a large scale at once, and, with the ex­
ceptionally good prices prevailing for
both raw and canned salmon, e.ery in­
dication points to a most successful
season.
As to the run of fish, of course, noth­
ing can be foretold, hut under natural
conditions some decided results should
be obtained fiom the artificial propa­
gation that has been carried on moie
or less successfully on the Columbia
river and its branches during the past
few years. Last season a few of the
fry turned out from the hatcheries in
1896 returned to the river, and thia
year the returns should he largely in­
creased. While the work of artificial
propagation on a systematic basis lias
but just commenced on the Columbia,
still it has been carried on to some exi
tent since 1895, and during that time
nearly 70.000,000 young salmon have
been placed in the river and its tribu­
taries. Statistics gathered by the fish­
eries committee of the Progressive As­
sociation show tiie amount of fry from
the several hatcheries to be as follows:
In 1895 a n d 1896—
C la ck a m a s.................................... ..................... 3,687,000
K a la m a .................................
..............
4, (XX), 000
T o ta l.................................... . .....................
In 1896 a n d 1897—
C la c k a m a s................................. .....................
K a la m a ........................................ .................
C h in o o k ................................ ........ .....................
7,687 000
8,842,000
2,300,000
1,000, (WO
T o ta l............................................... .............12,142,000
In 1897 and 1898—
U pper C la c k a m a s............................. ............. 5,045,000
S a lm o n R iv e r .................................... ............. 1/216,600
K a la m a
................................
............. 3/40,000
C h in o o k ................................_............ ......... ¿ooo.'ooo
•
T o ta l.......................... .........................
29 910 600
In 1898 a n d 1899—
C O U N T Y , OREGON, F R ID A Y , A P R IL
V ic t im
of
schemer .
a
C a p ta in J a c k C r a w fo rd L o s e s H is F o r ­
t u n e In a K le n d ik e V e n tu r e .
San Francisco, April 19. — The
Chronicle says: Captain Jack Craw-
ford, the “ poet scout,’’ left here one
year ago to work the properties and
look after the mining interests of the
Klondike, Yukon & Copper River Com­
pany in the frozen gold fields of Alas­
ka. Now he is sorry be went.
According to a letter received yes­
terday by General R. H. Warfield, the
“ poet scout” has lost the little fortune
he possessed, and has been turned
adrift by the company because he has
refused to send out fictitious aud glow­
ing acoounts of the richness of tlie
company’s claims.
The company is incorporated under
the laws of Montana, with a capital
stock of <12,000,(8)0, divided into
1,200,000 shares e< the par value of
<10. Frank H. Vrooman, a Chicago
clergyman, is president and general
manager. Among the directors are
United States Senator John L. Wilson,
ef Washington: Astistant Secretary of
War Meiklejohn, ex-United States
commissioner of pensious, and others
of equal prominence. These directors
aud all the various stockholders, ac­
cording to “ Captain Jack,” have been
sadly victimized by President Vroo­
man, who, it is alleged, misiepre-
sented the value of the properties.
PR A IR IE
F IR E S .
L o ss o f L ife a n d P r o p e r ty In C b ste r an d
B r o w n C o u n t ie s , N e b r a s k a .
Omaha, Apiil 19.—A Bee special
from Broken Bow, Custer comity, says:
A fierce tire, which started in the sand
hills, is raging northwest and west of
town, consuming everything in its
path.
Tom Morriseey, of Eureka Valley,
was caught while trying to remove his
horses irom the stable, and was con­
sumed with the stock. John Koch
started to return to his home from
some haystacks which he had been
trying to save, and was burned to
death.
A dispatch from Ainsworth, Brown
county, says the country is lit up with
huge prairie fires, and thousands of
dollars’ worth of property is being de­
stroyed.
E L E C T IO N
R IO T S
IN
S P A IN .
T w e n t y - S ix P e r s o n s W o u n d e d a t B ilb o a
—P o p u la r F e e lin g B u n s H ig h .
Madrid, April 19. — During election
riots at Bilboa, 26 persons were
wounded. Popular feeling runs high
U pp er C la ck a m a s R iv e r ....................... .... 2.930.0M in Valencia and surrounding districts.
Fatidy R i v e r ............................................... ... . 6.50,000
There was a serious affair in the town
L ittle W h ite S a lm o n R iv er.................. ..... 1,791,056
K a la m a .......... ..............................
.... 6,000,000 of Portos, province of Tarragona,where
C h in o o k ............................................
.... 800,000 the official candidate being beaten, the
T o t a l...................... .....— .............. ........... 19,699,69» municipal officials fired guns at the
crowd, injuring a number of persons.
L O C A T E D IN A D R E A M .
The newspapers have announced that
Don Jaime, son of Don Carlos, the
An I n v e s t i g a t io n
P r o v e d T h a t Mr«. Spanish pretender, is on his way to the
B a u d er* « " H u n c h " W a s S t r a ig h t.
Pyrenees.
The latest indications as to the re­
Chicago, April 17.—Mrs. George
Baude*, whose husband deserted her sult of the eleotions are that the minis­
at Quincy, III., last September, has ters w ill have a large majority.
located tiim through a dream. Bauder
W a r lik e T a lk o f B e r lin e r P o s t .
spent last night in the county jail as
Berlin, April 19.—The Berliner Post
a result. Mis. Bauder applied to Jus­ grows sensational today in reference to
tice Hall for a warrant, telling the fol­ the Samoan situation. Referiing to
lowing story:
the reichstag bill to appropriate 260,-
After her husband left her she moved 000,000 marks to build a canal be­
to St. Louis, where her mother-in-law, tween the Elbe and the Rhine, it says:
whom she had never seen, lived. She
“ In consideration of the present im­
introduced herself as a fortune-teller, pudent affront offered to Germany by
and told the elder woman the details England, it w’ou'd be more expedient
of her son’s life. Mrs. Bauder, sr., to spend the money demanded for
then admitted that he was in Chicago. building canals for the equipment of a
The deserted wife then moved to large fleet which would be able to de­
this city, bat conld find no trace of her fend German honor when insulted.”
husband. On Wednesday night, how­
The Post never before expressed un­
ever, she dreamer) she saw him at friendly feelings toward England.
work in a bicycle factory near an im­
M iss o u r i R iv e r F lo o d .
mense building. That day she passed
Niobrara, Neb., April 19.—For the
Tattersall’s, and recognized it as being
the big structure of her dream. Search­ first time since the great flood of 1881,
ing the neighborhood, she soon found the Missouri river lowlands are almost
The banks
the bicycle factory. Satisfied that her completely submerged.
husband worked there, she secured the were full all yesterday, with heavy ice
warrant and visited the place with a running and with a south wind blow­
deputy.
Bauder was soon located. ing, which about midnight changed to
At first he denied his identity, but northeily aud sent the ice and current
later confessed he was the woman’s over Nebraska farms. The residents
husband. He wili be given a hearing have not yet been driven to higher
land, but boats are in readiness to res­
this afternoon.
cue them, should it be necessary. The
packet steamer Last Chance, moored at
W IL L T O U R T H E W E S T .
the month of the Niobrara river, is a
A b I n t e r e s t in g T r ip P r o v id e d fo r t h e total wreck.
P r e s i d e n t ia l P a r ty .
Chicago, April 17.—United States
Senator Thomas H. Carter, of Mon­
tana, is at the Auditoi ium Annex. He
ia en ionte to Butte, Mont., from
Washington. He said Piesident Mc­
Kinley is going to make a tour of the
Western stater, daring the month of
July, and that his stop in Chicago was
for the purpose of arranging a few de­
tails for the president’s sojourn in the
city.
The plan as outlined by Senator Car­
ter provides for an interesting trip for
the president. Accompanied by Mrs.
McKinley and a considerable number
of intimate official associates, he will
leave Washington about July 15. He
will make a quick trip from Washing­
ton to Chicago, but from Chicago west
to the Yellowstone Park the trip will
bo slow, and a few speeches may be
made.
At the Yellowstone Park the entire
praty will “ rough it” for a number of
days, traveling by stage.
After leaving the park the presi­
dential party will visit some of the
principal points in the Western states
and then make a quick return journey
to Washington.
T h e S a m e O ld F i g h t .
Columbus, O., April 17.—Colonel
Bryan, on his way to New York to
speak at the dollar dinner, in an in­
terview tonight said:
“ It is a sure thing that the fight in
1900 will be made on precisely the
same great monetary issue as four
years ago. The silver plank will stand
just as it was, ratio and a ll.”
It is believed his speech in New
York will in reality open his campaign
fur 1900.
T w o D o lla r s to t h e P o u n d .
Spokane, Wash., April 19.—News
reached the office of the Virtue Consol­
idated Gold Mining Company today
that a strike had been made in the
Collateral claim near Baker City, Or.,
which runs <2 per pound. This is the
richest ore ever taken from the mine.
The Collateral adjoins the famous Vir­
tue mine. The pay streak is 16 inches
wide.
T h e P r e s id io R io te r s .
San Francisco.April 19.—This after­
noon the investigating officers discov­
ered the culprits who so nnmercifnlly
beat King near the Presidio yesterday.
They are known as Clark, Shorty and
Miller. All efforts to discover the per­
petrators of the incendiarism were un­
availing, after 190 men have been ex­
amined.
-
B lix x a r d In S o u th D a k o t a .
Deadwood, S. D., April 19.—For the
past 36 hours a terrific blizzard has
been raging in all parts of the northern
hills. The snow, driven by a fierce
wind, is blinding. The weather is not
cold.
At Rapid City snow com­
menced to fall at noon, and snow and
rain at Spearfish and Coster.
21, 1899.
LAWTON IS MANILA I
R EB ELS
TALK
PEACE
C o m m is s io n W ill B e A p p o in te d to C o n ­
fer W ith O tis.
Expedition Returns From Its
Sortie Into the Country.
ITS
PURPOSES
ACCOMPLISHED
F i lip in o I n s u r g e n t s la t h e L a k e R e ­
g io n G o t a T a s t e o f A m e r ­
ic a n P o w o r .
Manila, April 18.—Major-General
Lawton’s expedition to the Laguna de
Bay district re-embarekd last evening,
anchored for the night at the head of
the river Pasig and leached Manila
this morning, bringing all the men and
the captured insurgent boats. Its ob­
jects, namely the capture of the insur­
gents’ boats and the distribution of the
proclamation, emphasized by a lesson
of American power throughout the lake
region, have been attained. General
Lawton Immediately began prepara­
tions for an important expedition on
land. There has been no fighting on
the lake for three days.
Lawton returned to Manila according
to orders from Otis. Lawton deolares
that America needs 100,000 men to
pacify the Philippines. He says that
with the present force he conld go
through all Luzon, but to maintain
government the United States must gar­
rison all the towns. It has not the
men, therefore the need of a large
army.
All the towns in the La Gunda bay
district captured must be abandoned,
much to Lawton’s regret. They in­
clude Peate, Santa Cruz, Longos, Lum-
ban, Pagasajan. A second campaign is
to be made in this country in the rainy
season, when boats of greater draught
can operate in the lake owing to higher
water, thus giving the boats a chance
to help the army. Lawton’s troops
will be used in the operations north­
ward, and may bo sent around by boat
to the north of Aguinaldo to cut him
off and force him between two lines.
With Lawton one side and MacArthnr
•t Calumpit on the other.
THE
R A L E IG H
W ELCOM ED.
G r e a t E n t h u s ia s m a t N e w
t h e C r u is e r .
Y ork
O ver
New York, April 18.—The celebra­
tion attending the return of the United
States cruiser Raleigh from Manila,
which had to be postponed yesterday
owing to the warship’s late arrival, oc­
curred today. The Raleigh, accom­
panied by two small war vessels, cap­
tured from die Spaniards last summer,
and a fleet of about 25 excursion
steameis and tugboats, paiaded from
Tompkinsville to Grant’s tomb and
from there back to anchorage in the
Noith river, off Thirty-fonrth street.
A steady downpour of rain fell from
noon on. The air was raw, and the
officers and men of the Raleigh stood
upon the decks three hours drenched to
the skin and shivering with cold.
Great crowds assembled in Riverside
Park, overlooking the Hodson, and
men, women and children stood there
for hours under umbrellas watching the
vessels on their way up the river and
on their return. By. far the greatest
gathering of people waB in the vicinity
of Grant’s tomb, which was the turn­
ing point of the paiade. A national
salute was fired there by the Raleigh,
and also by the captuied Spanish
prizes, and the scene was rendered a
memorable one by the shrieking of a
hundred steam whistles from excursion
boats and locomotives and cheers from
thousands of people on shore, and on
the vessels in the river.
S O L D IE R S
IN
A
R IO T .
B u r n a S a lo o n W h e r e a C o m r a d e
B e e n M is t r e a te d .
Manila, Anril 19.—A large commis-
•iou of Filipinos is said to have been
appointed to confer with Genetal Otif
to the end of securing peace, according
to General Lagarda. The Americans,
however, believe thia commission,
which will number a score or more of
wealthy Filipinos,want to protect their
property rather than end the war.
The object of the rebel commissioners
is said to be to secure as many rights
3f self-government us possible, demand
that all the offices be reserved for F ili­
pinos and Americans, and restore
peace. One of Aguinaldo’s late chiefs
in Manila declares the rebel chief
would now be glad to receive overtures,
and would sign a peace treaty.
AgniiMldo is said to have moved hie
headquarters to Tarland, far to the
northward. At Calumpit the forces of
the Americans have been largely aug­
mented.
R e c a ll o f L a w to n .
New York. April 19.—A special to
the Herald from Washington says:
When shown a dispatch announcing
the recall of Geneial Lawton, Briga-
diei-General Sell wan, acting adjutant-
general, said it was in acooidance with
the understanding at the war depart­
ment as to the purpose of General
Lawton’s campaign.
“ General Otis sent this expedition
to Southern Luzon,” he continued,
“ for the purpose of destroying any in­
surgent forces that might be found
theie, to make a careful reconnois-
sanoe of the territory and to spread
broadcast the recent proclamation of
the Philippine commission, setting
forth the purposes of this government
with respect to the islands. I expect
he will clear all the prisoners he has
taken, and they will be sent to tbeir
homes. By this action it is hoped he
will prove to the Filipinos that the
Americans are not as barbarous as the
insurgents pretend we are and that we
propose to treat the Filipinos hu­
manely.”
“ Why is General Lawton needed at
Manila?”
“General Otis has not communicated
his plans to the department, the mat­
ter being left entirely to his discretion.
The insurgent leader has established
his headquarters at San Fernado, to the
northwest of Malolos, and I suppose
General Otis contemplates a movement
against that city. General Lawton had
only 1,500 men under his command,
and it was of course impossible for
him to divide his force by stationing
detachments in every village captured.
His command will be useful, however,
in assisting in the advance on Malolos,
or in reinforcing the line about the city
of Manila. It is possible that when
the lake rises, General Otis w ill re­
sume the campaign in the southern
part of the island.”
G ER M A N
K IN G
IN
C H IN A .
R e p o r t o f P r in c e H e n r y 's A m b itio n N ot
C r e d ite d .
Washington, April 18.—Official Ger­
man circles here are not a little amused
at the latest Chinese news, which aa-
oiibes to Emperor William the inten­
tion to make his brother Henry a Ger­
man king on Chinese soil. The state­
ment is characterized as a wild and
baseless invention, and the same, it is
announced on the highest authority,
can be said of the alleged interview
published by the Paris Soir and cabled
to some American newspapers, quoting
the first secretary of the German em­
bassy in Paris as saying that the
Americans mast take the responsibility
for all that has happened in Samoa and
that they, intoxicated by their victories
ovei the Spaniards, consider themselves
a military nation of the first rank.
T h e A la s k a B o u n d a r y .
H ad
San Francisco. April 18.—Tonight
300 United States soldiers are under
arrest on the Presidio reservation. They
are encamped on the open, and are
guarded by cavalry and the Twenty-
fourth infantry regiment, colored, the
force being in charge of Adjutant Lieu­
tenant Harris. The offense of the men
was the burning of a saloon just out­
side of the reservation lines, in which
Private Charles L. King, company G,
Twenty-third infantry, was brutally
beaten last night.
Private Stark, of company F, also
of the Twenty-third regiment, is in the
guardhouse, charged with the assault,
bat tne soldiers assert that the saloon
people are responsible, and claim that
the proprietor, A. L. RehfelJ, was the
chief assailant of the injured man. A
report being circulated today that
King was dead, the place was set on
fire tonight and destroyed as an act of
retribbntion.
P o r to R ic o L a w s .
San Jnan de Porto Rico, April 18.—
The following general orders from the
headquarters of the department of
Porto Rico were issued today:
The war department having forbid­
den the issue of rations to Porto
Ricans, commanding officers of posts
are authorized, to prevent suffering
among the people, in their respective
localities, to purchase necessary ar­
ticles of food at a rate not to exceed 10
centavos a day for each needy person
and to send the bill for same to this
office for payment from the moneys of
the island, as directed by the authori­
ties at Washington.
G ir l B u r n e d to D e a th .
Colfax, Wash., April 18.—The 8-
year-old daughter of George Tempero,
a farmer living near the foot of Kamiah
butte, was burned to death yesterday
evening. Mr. and Mrs. Tempero had
gone to the barn to milk the cows, and
the child accompanied them, but re­
turned to the house before the parents,
and attempted to start a fire.
Its
clothes became ignited, and before the
parents reached the house, attracted by
the child’s screams, it was fatally
burned. It died daring the night.
N O . 1.
R e e d M a y R e s ig n .
Washington, April 18.—The report
that Thomas B. Reed will resign the
speakership and will not be a candidate
for re-eleution gains credence here. It
is said he w ill practice law in New
York, and he succeeded by Congress­
man Sherman, of that state, who ia
McKinley’s candidate for that plaoe.
The president has been invited to
the G. A. R. encampment at Philadel­
phia, bnt his Western trip may prevent
bis attendance.
RÏ .1 GERMAN
Samoan Planter Led Mataa-
fans to the Massacre.
ARRESTED BY BRITISH OFFICER
H a n d e d O v e r to t h e C s u im a n d e r o f th e
G e r m a n W a r s h ip F a l k e on P r o m is e
T h a t H e W o u ld B e D e t a in e d .
London, April 19.—Tlie parliament­
ary eecretaiy for the foreign offioe,
Right Hon. W’illiaro St. John Bin­
der ick, replying in the house of com­
mons today to Michael Davitt, said the
manager of the German plantation near
Apia was arrsted by the senior Biitish
naval officer on sworn evidenoe that he
was seen directing tlm natives who
ambushed the naval landing parties.
This action, Mr. Broderick added, was
taken without the naval office having
an opportunity of communicating with
the home government. In conclusion,
Mr. Brodeiick said:
“ We are informed that he was hand*
ed over to the commander of the Ger­
man warship Falko on the promise that
he would be detained on board.”
Replying to a farther question on
Samoa, Mr. Broderick said authoiity
had been given the British representa­
tive at Apia to join, if he deems it ad­
visable, in a joint proclamation with
the other oonsula, calling upon the in­
habitants to abstain from hostilities,
pending the arrival of the Samoan com­
missioners. But, he added, her ma­
jesty’s commanding officer would be
bound to take measures for the protec­
tion of British lives and propeity
should either be threatened by either
of the rival factions.
Continuing, Mr. Broderick said the
telegraphio reports received do not
afford sufficient material from which
to judge the cause of the recent hostili­
ties, but so far as ascertainable the ac­
tion of the United States and British
naval commanders was caused by some
aggression against British subjects or
United States citizens, or their prop­
erty, which they were bound to defend.
Answering a question regarding the
Clavton-Bulwer treaty, Mr. Brodeiick
remarked:
“ Communications regarding pro­
posed modifications of the treaty have
been exchanged between Washington
and London, but no agreement has
been readied.
Under the circum­
stances, it is impossible to present the
papers on the subject.”
The first lord of the admirality,
George J. Goethen, on being ques­
tioned respecting the subsidies to be
paid to auxiliary cruisers, said notice
bad been given to terminate the agree­
ments with the Cunard, White Star
and Peninsular & Oriental steamship
companies, in order to place the ad­
mirality in a position to review the
conditions of the contracts and the
selection of vessels subsidized. There
was no intention, he added, of aban­
doning the subsidy policy.
EM M A NEVA D A H IS S E D IN S P A IN .
Q u e e s R e g e n t D id t h e R ig h t T h in g by
t h e S in g e r .
London, April 18.—The Paris corre-
■dondent of the Daily Mail, recounting
an interview with Madame Emma Ne­
vada, the first American operatic singer
who ha» visited Spain sinoe the war,
says:
“ Madame Nevada’s manager had ar­
ranged an operatic tour,but on the fiist
night at Seville, though the house was
bought up, the curtain rose on empty
seats. The opera was “ Lucia de Lain-
mermoor.” In the second act all the
elite arrived, together, but turned their
backs to the stage and talked ostenta­
tiously until the end of the opera,
wlfen, on returning to acknowledge a
burst of applause, Nevada was roundly
hissed. At Madrid the queen regent
was informed of the occurrence. Her
majesty iuvifed Nevada to a soiree at
the palate, and presented to her a dia­
mond and sapphire bracelet. Nevada
arrived here in a state of the greatest
indignation.”
Toronto, OnL, April 18.—An Ot­
tawa dispatch to the Globe sayr. The
government has had under discussion
the suggestion of the Washington
authorities of a tentative settlement of
the Southern Alaska boundary ques­
tion, and an order in council has been
pas6ed agreeing in the main to the
United States suggestion for the adop­
tion of a modus vivendi, but stipulat­
ing in terms the determination of the
government of Canada to consent to no
such arrangement unless it is agreed by T H E H O N G K O N G U P R IS IN G .
the United States that there shall be
taken speedily steps to have the bound­ B r it is h D r lr a t h e C h in e s « B a c k W ith
A r t ille r y F ir e .
ary settled finally.
Hong Kong. April 19.—On the Brit­
T h e D e a f H ear.
ish lines at Taipohn Noon, several
Mobile, Ala., April 18.—Reese thousand Chinese attempted an artil­
Hutchinson, a young electrician gradu­ lery attaok. Their long-range firing
ate of Auburn college, Alabama, is ex­ was ineffective.
General Gascoigne
hibiting here his apparatus for making made a sally with a batteiy, clearing
the deaf hear. He augments vibration the hills of rebel Mongolians with
and enables deaf mutes to hear words sharpnel, and followed it up with a
spoken in ordinary tones. The appar­ snpporting column of Indian infantrv.
atus is the size of a pocket-book, and is The Chinese retreated far into the in­
connected by wires with an audiphone, terior, firing houses and pillaging. The
which ¡8 held at the ear. Two totally British hat) no losses, and the casual­
deaf men weie experimented with. ties of the Chinese are unknown, as
They stood 50 feet fiom the piano and they carried off their dead and wound­
marked the time of the music, laughing ed. Hong Kong is guarded by volun­
with delight over the novel experience. teers and a small detaohment of En­
glish troops. The English forces may
In t h e M a w o f t h e T r u st.
advance tomorrow.
*
Denver, April 18.—The Globe smel­
ter has been turned over to the new
A tte m p t to K i l l t h e A m e e r .
combine, the American Smelting & Re­
London, April 18.—The St. Peters­
fining Company. Intimation has been burg correspondent of the Daily Mail
given to the workmen that their wages says: An Afghan has been arrested on
w ill be reduced provided the new Russian territory to which he had fled
eight-hoar law is observed.
The after making an attempt upon the life
Omaha & Grant smelter will be trans of the ameer of Afghanistan. The bul­
ferred to the trust May 1, and the Argo let missed the ameer and wounded an
will follow.
Afghan general standing near.
G r e a t W h is k e y T r u st.
Chicago, April 18.—A special to the
Daily News from Louisville, Ky., says:
The most gigantio liquor combination
ever engineered—an amalgamation of
whiskey and distillery interests with a
united capital of <2,000,000—wili be
practically completed in all bnt the
smallest details tomorrow in Chicago,
when the men now controlling the
Kentucky distilleries and warehouse
companies finish arrangements for the
purchase and absorption of nearly
‘ every distillery in the United States.
W a r s h ip s O r d e r e d to t h o P a c if ic .
Washington, April 19.—The cruiser
Marblehead got orders today to accom­
pany the Newark and join Admiral
Kautz’ squadron at Samoa. It is said
also the Texas has orders to be in read­
iness to go to the Pacific station at a
moment’s notice, if the necessity
arises. It is said all of this is not due
to developments in the Samoan situa­
tion, but to a desire to strengthen the
Pacific sqnadion, which now has to
oover a great district