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Vfsm ins is again alive.
The worst of the Ohio flood is over.
There is renewed military activity
in Manchuria.
Measles have broken out on the
transport Buford.
A Nebraska colony wishes to buy
50,000 acres in Oregon.
A man was froien to death in the
streets of Huntsville, Tenn.
The failure of the Vancouver bank
is still shrouded in mystery.
Fred Rummel met death under a
snow slide in Eastern rOegon.
The loss at Pittsburg, during the
recent storm, is placed at $2,000,000.
The Berlin police are watching
anarchists who conspired against the
emperor.
An express train on the Choctaw
road was held up and robbed in
Arkansas.
The Ohio river continues to rise,
but it is thought no serious damage
will result.
Aguinaldo considers American sov
ereignty preferable to native inde
pendence. Billv Smith, an American, was
t
probably fatally injured in a
prizefight.
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The American rowing crews were j
very grudgingly welcomed on their ;
arrival in England.
Cold weather continues in Tennes
see. Many orchards are ruined by the
weight of snow on the trees.
The leader of the Colombian rebels
has agreed to er.d the revoln ion, and
peace will soon be proclaimed.
The English people are getting!
tired of the war with the Boers, and
the taxpayers are beginning to grum
ble at the little progress being made.
Rear Admiral Schley has arrived at
Rio Janiero.
Chinese rebels again attacked the
Manchurian railway.
, All danger from the recent great
storm in the Ohio valley has passed.
United States officers have begun a
war on the Chinese slave trade in San
Francisco.
The Philippine tariff
to be promulgated until
are decided.
is not likely
insular cases
Joseph Hume, the pioneer salmon
packer of the Pacific coast, is dead at
Berkeley, Cal.
The people of Santo Domingo will
have nothing to do with annexation
to the United States.
Province of Leyte has been created
in the Philippines and American
officers placed in control. J
Leading stove manufacturers will ,
form a combine for mutual benefit in
the way of freight rates, etc. j
Manufacturers of mining machinery j
will combine to protect themselves'
against the Westinghouse Company, j
The Corean government has decid
ed to borrow from France 5,000,000
yen for the purpose of constructing a
railway. j
Charles Brown, president, and E. j
L. Canby, cashier, of the suspended
First National Bank of Vancouver,
committed suicide.
A rock was thrown through the
window of a car on the Portland
Astoria train. Several passengers
narrowly escaped injury.
The Twenty-sixth regiment, which
arrived in San Francisco on the trans
port Garonne, has landed and gone
into camp at the Presidio.
The German riechstag has passed
a bill which prolongs authors' rights
on dramatic and musical produc
tions from 30 to 50 years.
An attempt was made to poison a
prisoner in the county jail at Denver,
Col. An apple pie and some cheese
were left at the jail by an unknown
person for the prisoner. Examina
tion revealed the fact that both con
tained a great quantity of arsenic "and
other poisons.
Another rebel force in Marinduque
has surrendered.
Cebu, Philippine islands, has not
yet been pacified
An English company is building a
railway across Mexico.
Prospectors at Nome were starting
for the hills in January.
The steamer Ramona blew up near
Victoria, B. C, and four people were
killed.
General Milner makes a discourag
ing report on conditions in South
Africa.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
Lojb Sutut Crltkbtd-Old Soldicn Warned
Ajalrut Und AjtnU Other Topics.
(Wftuhtniton Lotttr.)
Army officer are criticising; the
I.ogan statue quite severely. They
tj that his position in the saddle is
altogthcr unmilitry, that one leg is
longer than the other, and that no
officer ever carried a sword in the way
that Logan is represented to have cur
ried his.
Old soldiers who wish to take up
homesteads upon the opening of the
Indiin reservation in Oklahoma will
do well, in the opinion of the land
office officials, to tile their own claims
and attend to all the business them
pelves rather than trust their interests
to agents. It is reported in Wash
ington that agents are going about
making contracts with veterans to
represent them and file their claims,
and are charging a fee in advance and
a second to be paid after filing the
claim; but an agent can serve only
one client properly, unless ho calls
into service a larce force of assistants,
which they cannot afford to do for j
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seen, therefore, tnai iiwiuoemucn
better for everybody to look out for
himself.
The secretary of war has called for
bids from private steamship com
panies for furnishing transportation
for the government between New
York, Cuba and Porto Rico. The
idea is to see whether it is more eco
nomical to patronize them than to
continue the present transport service,
which is expensive. The dock charges
alone amount to $400,000 a year.
During the last three months 1,276
passengers ana o,zo tons oi cargo
were carried by the transports, and
the quartermaster's department knows
ithe exact cost, which has been very
large,, a single voyage costing from
1 112.000 to S15.000. Bids are invited
for tne next tnree months upon the
basj8 0f tne paMengers and freight
carried during the last three months,
For some reason our commerce with
Cuba is falling off. During the last
nine months the imports of Cuba
amounted to $53,108,702, while for
the corresponding months of the
previous year they were valued at
$54,636,747. Last year the share of
the United States was $28,094,030, or
about 50 per cent, while this year it
was only $24,525,699, or about 46
per cent. The exports to Porto Rico
and the Philippine islands, however,
are increasing in a rapid manner.
Marconi, the inventor of wireless
telegraphy, is in Washington for the
purpose of selling his apparatus to
the government. He called on the
secretary of the navy and offered to
place an outfit upon the ships of the
fleet for $12,000 each. ?o sucn ar
rangement can be made without the
consent of congress, and by the time
congress meets it is expected that the
electrician of the weather bureau will
i have developed a method of wireless
telegraphy quite as good as Marconi's.
The electricians of the signal service
are also at work in the same line, and
i the secretary of the navy is now get
ting ready for a series of experiments
at Newport.
DAM GAVE WAY.
Greater Part of Town Submerged, But No
Lives Lost.
Chester, Mass., April 23. The
Flood Hollow dam, in Middlefield,
gave way about 6 o'clock last night,
letting loose the water in the big
reservoir, which rushed with terriffic
force into the west branch of the
Westfield river, sweeping everything
before it and submerging the greater
part of this town. No lives were lost
but great damage has been done, the
extent of which it is impossible now
to estimate. The dam was built in
1874. to take the place of the one
which was destroyed by the flood of
the year before. It was poorly con
structed of stone and timber, and
had been a constant menace to the
town of Chester. The heavy rains
overflowed the reservoir and the dan
showed signs of weakening early in
the morning. Orders were given to
inspect the dam. The result was
that word was sent to the people be
low that the dam was almost certain
to go out, and the families in the low
lands got what things they could to
gether and made for places of safety.
They were none too soon, for the dam
broke, and with a deafening roar, a
torrent of water was let loose into
Flood Hollow, which empties into
Westfield river. The huge timbers of
the dam were hurled into the foaming
current, and went in one great crash-
ing mass toward Chester. Two quartz
! mills at Flood Hollow, barns and out
buildings were swept along in the tor
rent. At Bancroft the Boston & Al
bany stone bridge was carried away,
together with 600 feet of track. It
will probably be two days before
trains are running.
Chester presents a desolate sight.
The electric light station is sub
merged, and the town is in total darkness.
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Items of Interest From All Parts
of the State.
COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL HAPPENINGS
A Brttf Review of th Growth and Improve
ments ol th Mny Industrie Throujh.
out Our Thriving Commonwealth,
Elgin is to have two new plaining
mills.
The Dalles will spend $1,630.40 for
water pipe.
A bath house with a swimming tank
30x80 feet will be constructed at Ash
land. A cougar, measuring six feet six
inches, was killed on Sweet creek last
week,
What is known as the Kite place,
near Cove, containing 6-10 acres ol
knd WM 'recently sold for $16,000.
'
The Grant county court has ordered
that the date on which taxes become
delinquent be extended to June 20,
1901.
The Ashland Meat Company receiv-
m vn vbm ui twv ...,
t..utAftiirh wiML'hed
1 890 noiinds each
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A numan SKUll ana oonesum .n
body were found last week about half
a mile up Butte creek from Fossil.
The remains, which were only a few
inches under ground, on the creek
bank, were exposed by the recent high
water. As the oldest settlers do not
remember of anyone having ever mys
teriously disapearcd, the general ac
cepted theory is that 40 or 60 years
ago a white wanderer may have been
killed by Indians.
A telephone line is to l erected
from Gold Hill to Crescent City.
The council of Mitchell has decided
to put in a system of waterworks.
The Lane county court U advertis
ing for bids for the construction of a
bridge at Lorane.
S. L. Bennett, a farmer living north
of Medford, has ordered a 2,000 gallon
tank for his windmill.
A salmon was caught near the Main
street bridge, Pendleton, recently,
that weighed nearly 11 pounds.
The construction of a creamer at
Summerviile has begun. The bridge
will be 1,000 feet long and 12 feet wide.
A new sl&im saw mill is being
built on Stukel mountain, about hall
way between Klamath Falls and Mer
rill. It will have a capacity of 15.00C
to 25,000 feet.
Some young miscreants piled empty
boxes at the crossing of two of Hose
burg's principal streets and set fire tc
them about 1 :30 in the morning. A
j big blaze resulted.
Firemen und citi-
zens turned out, believing one of the
main business blocks to le on fire. j
The Deschutes Reclamation fe Irri
gation Company has 160 rods of flume
built. The flume is seven feet wide
and 28 inches deep, and there is now
running 15,000 inches of water. The
company expects to have water on u
number of the homesteads before next
fall. The ditchis surveyed seven and
a half miles.
PORTLAND MARKETS.
Wheat Walla Walla, 5Ctf 57c. .
valley, nominal; blucstem, 59e. per
bushel.
Flour Best rgndes, $2.703.40 pei
barrel ; graham, $2.60.
Oats White, $1.25 per cental;
gray, $1.201.22H percental.
Barley Feed, $16.50 17; brewing,
$16.50 17 per ton.
Millatuffs Bran, $16 per ton ; midd
lings, $21.50; shorts, $17.50; chop,
$16.
Hay Timothy, $12 12. 50; clover,
$79.50; Oregon wild hay, $67
per ton.
Hops 1214c. per lb. ; 1899 crop,
6 7c. ,
Wool Valley, 13 14c. ; Eastern
Oregon, 912c; mohair, 2021c.
per pound.
Butter Fancy creamery, 20
22c. ; dairy, 1518c. ; store, 10
12c. per pound.
Eggs Oregon ranch, 1313jc.
per dozen.
Poultry Chickens, mixed, $4.50:
hens. C5.60: dressed, 11 12c. .pet
nound: swings, $35 per dozen;
ducks, $5 6; geese, $fi7; turkeys,
live, 1012c; dressed, 13 15c. per
pound. ,
Cheese Full cream, twins, 13
13Kc ; Young America, 1314c.
per pound.
Potatoes Old, 50 60c. per sack;
new, 2K2c. per pound.
Mutotn Lambs 10llc. per
pound gross; best sheep, $8; wethers,
$5; ewes, $4.50; dressed, 1!-
per pound.
Hogs Gross, heavy, $5.756;
light, $4.755; dressed, 7c. per
pound.
Veal Large, 7c. per pound; small,
88Kc per pound.
Beef Gross, top steers, ?i55.25;
cows md heifers, $4.504.75; dressed
beef, 78e. per pound.
DANGER HAS PASSED.
Dhlo Valley Towm Ar Slowly Emer$lt
Prom the Plood. ,
Pittsburg, Pa., April 24. The most
widespread and destructive itOfflAt
Irom a material point of vltw, h
passed. It lias left a none of ruin 203
miles in diameter, It wo unusual in
that it possessed so many different
features. Cities 70 miles from Pitts
burg were tied up by one of the worst
mow storms ever known. While the
mow fall was from 18 inches to three
feet deep, which is not extraordinary,
the snow was so wet that it clung in
weighty masse to shade and fruit
trees and electric wires and poles,
bearing them to the earth. It even
ettlcd on steam and street railways
like wet sand, stopping all trnllle and
making jtedestrianism almost impos
sible. The fall was so easy and sinin-
jUneoua in some places that the resi
dents declare it seemed like the burst
' ing of a snow cloud,
A few miles from these unfortunate
town were municipalities in just as
Jire straits from rain, but speedier
prospect for relief, a the rain will
run off faster than the snow can
melt. Still in these places traffic was
practically auspended. Water over
flowed and washed out railroad tracks
"and hillsides came down and buried
ithe rails. In addition nearly every
town on the Ohio river between Pitts
burg and Wheeling is in darkness
, .... .
Klectric light plants, or their wires,
" damaged and the gas in the mains
is generally turned off to prevent ex
,j.Mlnn. M fclf million i.r more
people are groping about in the dark.
A remarkable feature of the storm is
that but few fatalities directly attril-
utable to this cause have N-on re
ported. A railroader, caught in a
wreck cauaedby a landslide, and the
death of an old woman from shock,
are the only ones known so far.
There may lo others, but as comnui
nication is cut off from many populous
places it will tm the end of the week
before the total can te given out.
ACTIVITY IN MANCHURIA.
Russian Will Renew Operations Ajalnst the
Chlntte.
london, April 24 According
to a
dispatch from St. Petersburg to
(Daily Mail, official information
the
has
been received that renewed military
activity is beginning in Manchuria,
i Chinese troop are strongly en
trenched at three points around
Mukden. They arc armed with good
Mauser rifles and have 30Kruppguns,
To the east ward of Mukden, near Tar
chausen, there are 12,000 men under
the Boxer chief, General Lutans. To
the northwest, near Kulu, there are
6,000 Chineso under the ex-governor
of Mukden. To the eastward, in
Mongolia, and near the In Shan
mountains, there are 9,000 more un
der the Chinese General Shu. Ad
miral Aliezoff has accordingly organ
ized an expedition under General
Zcrpenski, consisting of two regi
nienlsiind five sotnias of Cossacks, 16
guns and a Ixtdy of volunteers, to
operate against the three points
named. The first movement was
successfully carried out in the begin
ning of April. Kulu, which is 250
kilometers from Mukden, was stormed
and the ex-governor of Mukden was
taken prisoner. In this action the
Russians had 13 men killed and four
Officers and 18 men wounded. The
advance toward the Tarchausen posi
tion was then begun. Owing to the
departure of most of the Russian
troops from Mukden, the latter city
has become very unsafe. Almost
nightly Russian sentinels are found
shot in the buck. The situation in
Southern Manchuria is disquieting
and another advance of Russian
troops will be made early in the
spring.
Our Northern Boundary.
Ottawa, Ont., April 24. Negotia
tions have been concluded between the
Ottawa government and the Washing
ton authorities for the purpose of re
newing and maintaining the boundary
line marks between Canada and the
United States. It is over 40 years
since the international boundary be
tween the United State and Cunndii
from Lake Superior to the Pacific
coast was definitely fixed, and it is
over 50 years or more since it was
marked out between Lake Superior
and the AKantic const. The neces.
sitv for this work has arisen out of
commercial claims in Southern Brit
ish Columbia. Work will, therefore,
be commenced in that region early
this summer.
Alaska Government Supplies.
San Francisco, April 24. Major
Ruhlen, in charge of the shipment of
government supplies to Alaska points,
says 15,000 tons of freight will be
sent to St. Michael, Nome and the
various stations established by the
war department on the Yukon this
season. The first shipment will be
made by the steamer Klihu Thompson
scheduled to sail from Puget sound
April 25, and the cargo will consist ol
a consignment for Captain Aber
crombie's command and the detach
ment of signal service men.
ME QMS
An Arkansas Train Held Up By
Masked Bandits.
EXPRESS MESSENGER AND PORTER SHOT
Trolit Carried Much Vttutblt Exprea Matter,
and Rotar Mad Rich Haul
Bloodhounds After Them.
Memphis, Tenn., April 24. The
fast express train of the Choctaw.
Oklahoma & Gulf railroad, which left
Memphis at 11 ;45 o'clock lust night,
wa held up by three masked bandit
t Bridge Junction, Ark., about mid
night, It is not known what booty
the roblers secured, but n dispatch
received at police headquarter states
that the express messenger nd porter
of the train were injured after resist
ing the bandits. The Well Fargo
Express Company usually make it
heaviest shipment to the West on
this train. Police 8ergeant Perry,
uon receipt of the telegram, imme
diately touted officer along the river
front with instruction to keep a
harp lookout or the bandits, should
they attempt to cros to the city.
the train left Memphis with a
heavy passenger list. The sceue of
the holdup is a lonely railroad cross
ing four iv.l! from the river. T o
Negro porter, named Gould, wa shot
and seriously injured by one of tho
bandits. The train wa in charge of
Conductor Nelson, one of the oldest
employe of the road, and Engineer
Johnson. The express messenger,
Menders, is said to have been shot.
The train was delayed about 20
minutes. The engine, mail and ex
press car were uot off from the train
and run to a point a mile west of the
place where the train was stopped.
The engine was then detached and
run a short distance up the track,
two men remaining to guard the
trainmen. The third used dyna
mite on the express car nd blew ojen
the door. It is rejsrted that every
thing of value was taken and it is be
lieved that the bund its haul is large,
a this was a heavy run. Blood
hound from the convict camp at
Hulbcrt, three miles from the scene
are now on the bandits' trail.
BRITISH WAR LOAN.
People DUMtlifled Became They Can
Only
Subscribe for Half of It.
Iondon, April 24. Great curiosity in
manifested here to ascertain how half
the war loan has been already placed,
as is asserted in the government in
vitation for subscription for the re
maining half. It is supposed that
portion of the 30,000,000 "already
placed" may have len reserved for
the government department, but it is
rather believed that financial house
with forcgui connections have inte
rested themselves in the flotation.
No explanation has leen afforded,
and, considering that the final install
ment of the loan is payable in Decem
ber, and that the first quarter's inter
est will bo paid July 5, the issue is re
garded as cheap, and not a little re
sentment has Itccn created by the fact
that only half the issue . has leen
offered to the public. This dissatis
faction is voiced by the Daily Chron
icle, which says:
"The public ought to have been in
formed by this time to whom the
chancellor of the exchequer ban al-
loted 30,000,000 of the issue. " The
paper proceeds to comment severely
on the policy of the government
which has led to such "a disastrous
issue, in which the British taxpayer
drop the round sum of 3,300,000 in
the process of Iwrrowing 60,000,000. "
WITHDRAWAL OF FRENCH.
Ten Thouiand Troopi Will Leave China Next
Month.
Tekin, April 24. General Voyron,
the commander of the French troop
in China, has informed General Chaf
fee that 10,000 French soldiers will
leave China in May.
Li Hung Chang believes that the
Chineso troops under General Liu will
be withdrawn over the boundary
marking the territory defined by Field
Marshal von Waldersee as the sphere
of operations for the allies, as the
governor of Shan Si provinco received
telegraphic instructions nearly a
week ago ordering their withdrawal.
Ilsi Liang, cx-govcrnor of the pro
vince of Shan Si, has been appointed
governor of the provinco of Hu Pei.
The foreign consuls at Hankow, capi
tal of the province of I Iu Pei, have
protested against this appointment to
Chang Chi Tung, viceroy of Hankow,
and have sent him a telegram advis
ing him to delay proceeding in the
matter, The numerous appointments
of Chinamen with pronounced anti
foreign tendencies is causing com
ment in Pckin. Even the foreign
ministers admit that so many ap
pointments of this character are ill
advised.