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Scio Weekly Press. TO Death in the Pyrenees« A Paris disptach says that a terrible disaster has occurred in the Pyrenees. A score of Spaniards, crossing on foot, had reached Gavarnie, in France, where they related with apparent remorse SCIO........................................ OREGON that they had left a woman, unable to German Vessels Will Be No Longer Exempt, procceed, with her husband add bro ther, two hours distant. Guides hur ried back to the rescue and heard calls for help, when a sudden avalanohe INTEREST IN SHIPPING CIRCLES blocked the mountain pass so that the guides were obliged to return to Gav Comprehensive Review of the Import arnie and wait there for two days. A Retaliatory Measure of President Cleveland — Proclamation Will Be ant Happenings of the Past Week When they finally reaohed the ill-fated trio, two of them were dead and the in Effect After Next January. Culled From the Telegraph Columns. third was dying. Washington, Dec. 7.—The president The fighting cruiser Brooklyn, the The Jury Didn’t See Him Shoot. has issued a proclamation suspending, newest addition to the United States John Thiel, who was suppose# to after January next, the operation of navy, has been tested and acoepted by have fired the shot that entered the the act which relieves German vessels the government. of a young girl at a wedding party entering United States ports from pay John Abel, a workman at the Nelson head Ritzville, Wash., has been acquitted ment of tonnage dues and other ship Morris dressed beef works, St. Louis, in a jury. It was proved that he bor ping charges. This aotion was taken Mo., was horribly burned while at by rowed the gun, and that the shot was on proof that American vessels are de work. The flesh on the right leg was from the gun, but no one saw him nied corresponding privileges in Ger parboiled. Abel tripped on the greasy fired floor in the rendering-room, and fell fire it, and so the jury discharged him. man ports. The shipping charges un der our laws are based on a sliding into a vat of boiling grease. Fatal Ending of a Filed. scale. The president’s action doubtless Jane Shelly, the 14-year-old daugh A fight between old man Harrison will arouse widespread interest in ship ter of Joseph Shelly, a farmer living and his two sons and Morgan and his circles. nine miles south of Olympia, Wash., two sons, Tom and Caleb, occurred in ping The president’s proclamation will go was reaching for some object on the one of the mountain counties of Ken effect on the morning of January mantlepiece, when her clothes caught tucky. The elder Morgan is dead. into after which the vessels of Germany fire from the fire in the fire-place. She Both sons are dying. Both the Har 3, entering our ports must pay shipping was terribly burned and died after a rison boys are also dead. charges ranging on a sliding scale of few days of suffering. from six to thirty cents a ton per an Struck by an Electric Car. Delbert Crawford, a young man 19 num. In Denver an electric car struck a years old, was found twelve mileB ■ The president mentions the fact that carriage containing Mrs. John C. Mont from Pendleton, dead beneath an over his proclamation of January 26, 1888, turned loaded wagon. He was hauling gomery. wife of a prominent Denver suspended the collection of the whole grain to the city, and the wagon ran capitalist, and two other ladies. The of the duty of six cents per ton, or not off the grade into a canyon. His four- carriage was wrecked and Mrs. Mont horse team stood all night hitched to gomery was so badly injured that she to exceed thirty cents per ton, upon German vessels entering the ports of the wagon, and were found the next cannot recover. . the United Stats, according to section morning cohered with snow. Killed by Poachers. 11, act of congress, approved June 18, T. J. Henry, living on the Apple Count Finickenstein, an intimate 1886. This suspension was proclaimed gate, near Jacksonville, Or., onNovem friend of Emperor William, of Ger upon the proof appearing satisfactory ber 23 last went over to one of the min many, has been mortally wounded on that no tonnage or lighthouse dues or ing camps to look for a job cooking for his estate. It is supposed he was shot any equivalent tax or taxes whatever the miners. He started home over the by poachers. He was one of the were imposed upon American vessels Watkins trail. A storm started up wealthiest landowners in Germany. entering German ports, and that Ger and he wandered about in- the moun man vessels and their cargoes were not tains and froze to death. The whole Massacred by Kurds. required in German ports to pay any community turned out to search for A Constantinople dispatch says that fee or import duty higher or other than him, and suoeeded in finding his body. under the pretext of revenging an old was payable by German vessels or their He had crawled into a brush pile and grievance, 10,000 Kurds raided the cargoes in the United States, as an was frozen to death. He leaves a province of Mamouiel ul Aziz, where nounced in the aforesaid proclamation widow and six children practically des they burned and pillaged the villages of 1888. The suspension was to con titute. and massacred the inhabitants. tinue only so long as the reciprocal ex emption of American vessels continued Jennie Ward, a well-dressed young French Would Exclude Our Pork. in German ports. woman, created a sensation by walk At a mass meeting held in Paris, Continuing, the president says it ing along Wabash avenue, Chicago, France, of the' organized Farmers ’ now appears upon satisfactory proof, smoking. People turned and stared at the woman, but' she paid no attention Union, the dealers in salt meats adopt that such dues or an equivalent thereto to them, and continued to send blu'e ed a resolution in favor of the exclusion are imposed upon American vessels and clouds of smoke heavenward. She of American pork products, in view of their cargoes and other than those im posed upon German vessels or their was placed under arrest by Detectives the fall in the prices of swine. cargoes entering in ports of the United Woolridge and Schubert and locked up Jumped From a Hotel Window. States. Therefore, the president re at the Harrison-street station, charged Mrs. Eliza Cummings, aged 55, a with disorderly conduct, and when her wealthy woman of Hillsboro, O., com vokes his former suspension of ths col case was called for trial in Justice mitted suicide in New York by jump lection of the whole duty of six cents Richardson’s court she failed to apear. ing from a third-story window of a ho per ton and not to exceed thirty cents per ton per annum, on German vessels “This is something terrible,” said the tel. entering the ports of the United States. court, “and as a warning I will fine The effect of the president’s procla this woman $1 for smoking. It is ter Blown Up by Natural Gas Explosion. mation is to reimpose upon the vessels rible.” A natural gas explosion at Mounds A freight train of thirty cars’loaded ville, W. Va., followed by fire totally entering from Germany the same ton with lumber and shingles from the lestroyed the $10,000 dwelling of M. nage dues that are imposed on vessels West got beyond control on a heavy V. A. Weaver. The sensational feature entering the United States from Great grade east of. Mullen tunnel, on the was the fact that the persons in the Britain, France, Italy, Spain and other Northern Pacific road, and ran away. house when its roof was lifted in the air maritime nations in Europe and Asia. Twenty-six oars were scattered along a and its four walls were blown out, all AN OLD QUARREL. distance of eight miles, when the en escaped with slight injuries. Mrs. gine left the track. Ed Jarbeau, head Weaver, her 6-months-old babe and 4- — brakeman, was ki 1 led. 1?ireman Y oung year-old son were thrown from a sec .Five .P^TBpng Mortalljr,, 'W’oiiiided. ini a Kentucky Fight*. nr' ' had his collar bone broken, and En ond-story window into the front yard, gineer John Flunn’s leg was broken, with no harm to the babe. The ser Middlesboro, Ky., Dec. 7.—News besides internal injuries. Conductor vant girl at the back kitchen door was has reached here of a fatal encounter John McBean’s thigh was broken, and blown across a lot, and the plumber, in Letcher county yesterday, in which his back wrenched. It is the worst whose carelessness caused the explosion, William Harrison, along with his sons wreck the Northern Pacific has ever came off with a few scratches. Henry and James, all of whom were had from the point of damage to track very strong partisans of John D. White, Japan Renounces a Treaty Clause. and rolling stack. the independent Republican candidate United States Minister Denby, at for congress in the Eleventh district, Thirteen prisoners escaped from a jaiL in Wyandotte, Kan. Three have Peking, has informed the department against the regular nominee, D. C. been captured and the officers are in of state that the Japanese government, Colson, engaged in a deadly fight with has officially and formally renounced William Morgan and his sons, Caleb pursuit of the others. part of the treaty between China and Thomas, all supporters of Colson. Rev. B. M. Hill, formerly a mission- that Japan, made at the close of the re The Morgans were going -to the mill, ary to China, was stricken with paraly and war, which provides that all ar and met the Harrisons in the road. sis while delivering a sermon at his cent manufactured by Japanese sub They began their old quarrel over the church in Bentonville, Ark. He cannot ticles jects in China shall stand upon the merits of White and Colson, and soon £ recover. same footing as those imported by Jap began shooting at each other. The George W. Hill, a well-known anese subjects into China. battle lasted several minutes, and over printer and stationer, of Portland, Or., a score of shots were fired. The Fitzsimmons-Sharkey Fight. shot and killed himself. He was of a Old man Morgan fell mortally despondent nature, and about five years Robert Fitzsimmons and Tom Shar at the first fire. When all ago attempted suicide by taking mor key fought for a purse of $10,000 in wounded was over, the two Morgan boys lay phine. San Francisco before the National dead and the two Harrison boys proba Farmers in the vicinity of Tacoma Club. The contest was to be ten bly wounded fatally. Harrison, the have lost many thousands of bushels rounds, but Sharkey was knocked out father, escaped without a wound, of potatotes because of the cold.' One in the eighth round. ' The referee, though there were several bullet holes farmer had 6,000 bushels stored in his however, gave the fight to Sharkey, in his clothes. The elder Harrison barn, and nearly the wohle lot was de claiming that Fitzsimmons deliberately surrendered to the authorities, and fouled Sharkey by striking him below stated that the Morgans brought on the stroyed. The prisoners in Bedford, Ind., made the belt. difficulty, and that he and his sons a desperate effort to escape by setting fired in self-defense. A Christmas Present for Bayard. fire to the jail. But for the timely There was no connection whatever The London Telegraph announces discovery of the fire by the sheriff, some the donation of £100 as the opening of between this affair and Colson being of them would have esoaped, and others a national subscription to present to mistaken on the railway train by an would have been cremated. Mr.,Bayard, the United States ambas angry father, supposing him to be the Fifteen-year-old Emma Taylor, an sador, a. Christmas farewell gift of re man who eloped with his daughter. orphan, has been held as an important spect and good will. The paper has an Chicago’s Municipal Pawnshop. witness against four men who, on editorial of unstinted eulogy of Mr. Chicago, Dec. 7.—Steps have been Thanksgiving night, attempted to rob Bayard, “who,” it says, “like his a car full of passengers in Kansas City. illustrious namesake, has been ‘sans taken toward the establishment of the first munoipal pawnshop in America. The young girl says that she made peur et sans reproche.’ ” At a meeting of the committee from the masks for the robbers and knew A Brutal Murder. the civic federation legislative commit heir plans. It is believed by the po lice that the girl was seized by the gang - Intense excitement prevails in East tee the organization of a corporation St. Louis over the brutal murder of with a capitalization of $200,000 was and made to do their bidding. Advices' 'received at Tampa, Fla., Christopher Ludwig, aged 52, by Harry resolved upon, the plans and purposes from Havana are that Weyler will soon Schmeltzer, ged 28. Scbmeltzer struck "of which' will! be -' inouelefl-^affêr~tne issue another tobacco order prohibiting Ludwig on the head with an ax, kill Mont de Piete of Belgium and Paris the exportation of remedios tobacco ing him instantly. The murderer es and the public loan banks of England from the islands of Cuba. This was caped, but is being pursued by a posse. and Germany. Special legislation will be required before the establishment not included in his other order, and a Miner Crushed at Murray. of such an enterprise, and this is to be great deal has been exported. Havana At Murray, Idaho, a cave-in of the asked for at the coming session of the manufacturers have petitioned Weyler to close the Cuban ports to this to- Small Hopes mine, killed Gus Holmes. legislature. It is proposed to make the baooo, as Northern and Eastern manu Holmes was working in a slope and institution a quasi public affair, the facturers were buying all of it for ex fired a blast which probably caused the mayor and governor each having the cave. power to appoint one director. portation to this country. THE NEWS OF THE WEEK One of the boldest robberies ever perpetrated oocurred in Alameda, Cal. Two unknown men called Charlie Berry from his house and relieved him of $45 in gold. Berry went home late and was followed by the robbers, but did not know it at the time. He was called to the door by repeated knock ings, and upon opening it he was grabbed by the men. His mouth was olosed by one and the entire pocket cut by the other form his pants, in whioh he carried the money. The men then made their escape in the darkness. Vioeroy Li Hung Chang is again in disgrace. He entered the imperial park and hunting grounds without sanction. The punishment for the offense is to be deprived of all his ranks and decorations, but the emperor merely deprived him of a year’s salary, amounting to 26^000 taels. The count, it is believed, will ask to be allowed to retire to his native province on the plea of ill-health, as he has been dis appointed in obtaining a position of in fluence in the Peking government. Should the efforts of the empress dow ager in his behalf succeed, he will become viceroy of Chihli, Met Terrible Deaths. Unfit for Service. Two firemen met death while fighting flames in the St. Monica Roman Cath olic church at Chelsea, N. J. They ran into the bunring church with the hose, and did not heed the warning.of the chief. The walls fell in burying them in the ruins. New York, Dec. 7.—The World says: The battleship Texas, which has been undergoing repairs for two weeks, was floated out of the timber drydeck early yesterday morning. The ship is unfit for service, and will, in all prob ability, be put out of commission in the near future and undergo "extensive Murder Still Goes On. A Constantinople dispatch says a alterations. massacre has occurred at Evock, in The Industrial aid Socity of Boston which 100 Armenians are reported to ■found work during the year just passed have been killed. for nearly 3,700 people. On a Frozen Island. Uprising at Magadoxo. News has been received by the Italian consul in Zanzibar that the captains of the Italian warships Volturno and Staffeta and about six other officers’ have been killed by the Somalis at Magadoxo, on the ooast, and 100 men have been wounded. Tug Edith Burned. The tug Edith, of Seattle, burned near Dofflemeyer’s point, and is prac tically a total loss. The tug was act ing as a tender to a dregder and was on her way to Seattle. Bayfield, Wis., Dec. 7.—John Eddy and John D. McMartin, lightkeepers at Raspberry island light, started from thë island, fourteen miles away, for Bayfield, Saturday at 3 P. M.,ina sailboat, and were driven aground by wind and ice floes. After spending four days on the lake and uninhabited islands, they arrived on the main shore, fifteen miles away yesterday. Eddy had both hands and feet frozen and McMartin’s ears are frozen. They subsisted on flour and water baked in a wash basin on one of the islands in a fishing shanty. I SSCURE OUR PEACE. Haytian Cable Completed. New York, Deo. 4.—The submarine cable between New York city and Hay ti is completed and was opened to the public at midnight for the transmission of messages to Hayti and other places in the West Indies. The cable ap proaches New York by way of Coney island and Brooklyn. A circular -issued this afternoon states that the main office of the com pany is at No. 1 Broad street, where the Commercial Cable Company has its office, and that messages will also be accepted at all Postal Telegraph Com pany offices. Peculiar interest attaches to the completion of the United States and Hayti Telegraph & Cable Com pany’s cable, from the fact that the at torney general applied to the United States court for an injunction to pro hibit the company from prosecuting its project, it being alleged that the com pany under this name was a mere cloak for the operations of a foreign com pany. The allegation was denied, however, and the allegation made that the company was a bona fide American company, and that its object was to establish a competing? servioe. Hawaii Cannot Long Main tain Its Government. FOSTER’S VISIT TO THE ISLANDS People in Constant Fear That Unpleasant Condition Change of May Business Is Some Occur— Good Washington, Deo. 2.—John W. Fos ter, former secretary of state, has re turned to Washington from a four weeks’ visit to Hawaii, whither he went as the representative of the Pacific Cable Company. In speaking of his visit, Mr. Foster said: “The condition of business in Ha waii is flourishing. The islands are prosperous, and their future is bright. The Pacific Mail has recently doubled its servioe, sending a steamer there twice a month instead of once, as for merly, and a new line is soon expeoted to ’be established by the Japanese, which will touoh at the islands on the way to San Francisoo. “The people of Hawaii wish to be annexed to the United States. The present government has the approval of a majority of, native Hawaiigns, and there is no likelihood that tHSre ever ¡will be a restoration of the monarchy. The English and German element, however, are opposed to annexation to the United States, because they believe it will interfere with their contract la bor and so affect them commercially. “The present government in its ad ministration is giving satisfaction; yet this government is only temporary, and the people want to be annexed to the United States. The members of the government are pledged to it, and the present constitution of the republic ex presses this expectation. So it is the general belief that the matter should be decided at an early date, if possible. ” He said it was not apparent that Hawaii could maintain herself as an independent government in case the United States should refuse to annex the islands. Although her people are law-abiding and the present govern ment gets along smoothly and success fully,* there is a continual fear, says Mr. Foster, that some change may oc cur. So far as the Hawaiians are con cerned, independently of outside influ ences, they are oapabble of self-govern ment. In Mr. Foster’s opinion, how ever, annexation is the only way out of the situation in wbioh Hawaii is placed. A TREASURER ROBBED. Dallas Official’s Tough Experience With Thieves. Dallas, Tex., Dec. ,2.—At midnight, five pistol shots in rapid succession in the vicinity of the courthouse attracted the police to that building. W. E. Coe, county treasurer, was found in his office with blood oozing from a wound in the back of the head. He was in a dazed condition and in a very exoited frame of mind. He said he had been working very late in order to get the affairs of-the office in nhauo to r^iie in favor of his successor. At midnight two men appeared, and one plaoed a gun to his temple and ordered him to open the vault. He did so and all the valuable papers and contents of the inner vault were examined by one of the robbers. After placing a consider able sum of money in a oanvas sack, the robbers withdrew from the vault. Coe seized his pistol and shot at the robbers. The latter returned the fire, hitting the treasurer in the back of the head, inflicting a bad scalp wound. The treasurer says the robbers secured $6,000, and he is confident that he shot Missourians Enlist for Cuba and badly wounded one of his assail St. Joseph, Mo., Deo. 4.—It has de ants. The police foroe and a large veloped that there was an enlistment number of deputies with bloodhounds of 150 men here for Cuban servioe, and are on the trail of the robbers. others are expected to join when means of transportation have been arranged SHORT WHEAT CROP. for by the Cuban junta in New York. The man who has been active in se Frosts Stop Plowing in France and curing this number for the oause of Central Europe. Cuba is David Berensberg, at one time London, Deo. 2.—The Mark Lane a lieutenant in the regular United States army, and prior to that a soldier Express today, discussing the crop pros in the German army during the Fran pects, says: “Severe frosts in France and Cen co-Prussian war. At the present time he holds a commission as captain of a tral Europe have stopped plowing and company of state militia looated at sowing, and we anticipate a somewhat short wheat acreage in the entire re this point. Berensberg just now is a member of gion between the Vistula and the bay the police force of this city, and the of Bisoay. Winter has set in through drillmaster of the force. A number of out Russia, the sea of Azof was closed his old associates in the regular army to navigation November 24, and navi are down on the list, and all of them gation of the Baltic is dangerous, on expect soon to be serving under the Cu the northern and eastern ooasts, on which there is already much ice. ban flag. y • “Owing to the rainfall in Inida the Arbitration Negotiations Futile. deficiency in the wheat acreage is re Hamburg, Dec. 4.—At a meeting^oi duced. But while famine no longer about 3,000 strikers today, resolutions threatens, a soarcity seems bound to be were adopted providing for the aoept- felt until the spring of 1897. ance of the proposition of the chief of “English wheat maintains a good police, president of,the municipal coun price in London, but the country mar cil, and chairman of the trades court, kets are firm. The cause of this is that the dilute between the dockers clear. In the oounties last week, 166,- ancTthebr CTupIoyers be submitted to a 684 quarters of English wheat were court of arbitration, to be composed of offered for sale, against 69,530 for the the officials mentioned, one leading em same week of 1895. ployer and four labor representatives, Feared Insanity. the decision to require a majority of six Fisher, Minn., Deo. 2.—M. Sanaker, out of eight Votes. The strikers select ed four men to represent them in oourt. cashier of the Bank of Fisher, shot him At a subsequent meeting of the em self dead yesterday. His father died ployers’ union, it was unanimously re insane. He feared following his foot- The bank’s affairs are in ex solved to reject the proposals to submit seps. cellent shape. the dispute to a court of arbitration. Contracts for Steel Gun Forgings. Washington, Deo. 4.—Failing after a readvertisement in > his effort to se- oure bids for supplying steel gun forg ings at what he regarded as reasonable rates, the secretary of war has awarded the contracts under the last advertise ment, tie bids, being a duplication of those submitted by the steel companies' in answer-Jp¡fafirst call for proposals ‘"linew , t he. Bethlehem SMeTCompany received the contract for supplying ten sets of 5-inoh seige gun forgings at 25cents per pound, and ten sets of 7-inch howitzer forgings at the same figure. The Mid* ville Steel Company is awarded the contraot for supplying twenty sets of forgings for 7-inch mortars, at 31 cents per pound, and thirty sets of forgings for the 3-inch field guns at 23 oents per pound. No award was made in the oase of the forgings for three 2-inch field mortars, where the lowest bid was 60 cents per pound. Dr. Jameson Released. London, ^Deo. 4.—Dr. Leander S. Jameson was released tonight, at 9 o’clook, at Holloway jail, in compli ance with the order of the home secre tary. Sir Matthew White Ridley. Dr. Jameson underwent a serious operation in the jail on Novemebr 19, and the re lease was ordered on medical grounds. He was sentenced to fifteen months’ imprisonment on July 28 last on a oharge of violating the neutrality laws, in invading the territory of the South African republio. Philippine Situation Futile Berlin, Deo. 4.—The oommander of the German cruiser Aroona, lying at Manila, in the Philippine islands, tele graphs to the government that the situ ation is critical. Spanish action, he says, is confined to the defense of Ca vite and Manila, and an attack is ex- peoted daily. Iff PltlfK (MSI HS New York, Deo 7.—A letter from an American missionary for nearly twenty years a resident of Constantinople has been received by Rev. Dr. Strong, sec retary of the American Evangelical League, which confirms the recent statement of Rev. Dr. Cyrus Hamlin with relation to the status of Ameri cans and the American flag in Turkey, especially with regard to the occasion when the flag was torn and trampled upon in an Armenian village. The letter is dated September 30, and says: “The rascally police officer, Hassan Chaoush, who tore down and destroyed our flag, was caught the Sunday follow ing the massacre, with $600 upon him, obtained from the Armenians on his promise to save their lives, and whom he had treacherously given up to death. Everybody is asking whether Mr. Ter rill will do anything to vindicate the honor of our flag, but as yet we hear oi nothing being done.” Another letter from Constantinople dated- September 30, only five days af ter the occurrence, says: “Hasseky, the house which Miss Gleason and Mrs. Seeleve occupied, was looted and the servant left in charge doubtless lost his life. Men wearing uniforms headed the mob which attacked the house and pulled down and tore to shreds the United States flag that had been hung out.” A DARING HOLD-UP. Highwaymen Loot the Office of a 8ti Louis Brewing Company. St. Louis, Dec. 7.—Three highway men, with drawn revolvers, entered the office of the Home Brewing Com pany, at 3 o’clock this, afternoon, and held up the cashier, Robert Haver- kamp, forcing him to hand over $400, and then, not being satisfied with the amount, went behind the counter, loot ed the money drawers and secured from $500 to $800 additional. When the hold-up oocurred, there were present in the office the cashier, a half dozen clerks and several custom ers. Two of the robbers held the oc cupants of the office in line while the other went through the safe and money drawers. When the desperadoes had taken all the money, they produced ropes and bound, hand and foot, everyone in the office. This required nearly ten min utes, and it seems marvelous that they were not discovered. Having bound their viotims, the rob bers warned them against making a noise under pain of instant death. When the thieves had gone out, one of the clerks managed to free himself and then liberated the , others. The police were at once notified by tele phone. Upon leaving the office, the robbers mounted a North Broadway oar and went south when they left the car and went toward the river. The brewery employes were unable to give the police good descriptions of the men. CrPrURED A BURGLAR. Plucky Act of a Woman Who Found a Man in Her Room. Portland; Or., Deo. 7.—Mrs. E. E. Liddy of this city, made a plucky cap ture at 1:30 o’olock this morning of an aged sneakthief, who was in the act of breaking into her house. She was eating lunch upstairs with a woman, when she thought she heard a window raised in one of the side rooms, down stairs, and, rushing down, sho opened a door just in time to see a man, who was half-inside an open window, make a hurried exit. The street door was near at hand, and Mrs. Liddy, who is a muscular woman, ran out just in time to see the thief running up the street. The woman ran after him and caught him. “What d’yer want?” exclaimed the thief, at the same time trying to break away from the woman, who had hold of his oollar. “I want you,” answered Mrs. Liddy, as she took a firmer hold and began walking her prisoner back to the house. A woman in the house telephoned the police station, and when the patrol wagon arrived, Mrs. Liddy turned her prisoner over to Officer Nicolai. TRAVELS OF HINMAN. Fought a Pitched Battle in a California Town. Angel’s Camp, Cal., Dec. 7.—A pitched battle was fought on the streets of Angel’s Camp this evening between two officers and Robert Hinman, the desperado who is wanted at Roseburg, Or., for breaking jail and shooting a deputy sheriff. Before the oonstable had an opportunity to prepare for Hin man’s arrest, he broke away and ran up the street, which was full of people. The officers followed him, firing at ev ery step. Hinman turned and took a shot at each of his pursuers, but with out effect. The officers’ ammunition was finally exhausted, and they were oniigea tergive up the pursuit, while, their man disappeared in the darkness. A posse was Organized and sent in pur suit, but up to a late hour he had not been found. It is thought by the offi cers that he was hit by one of the shots. Spain has fewer daily papers than any other European country, and four- fifths of those she has, are owned and edited by Hebrews. Burned to Death. Cyclone in Oklahoma. Washington, Dec. 7.—A speoial dis patoh received at the war department says the residence of Chaplain M. C. Blaine, at Fort Ringgold, Tex., burned, this morning, and Blaine and his daughter were burned to death. Mrs. Blaine escaped. The chaplain went upstairs to save his daughter. Perry, O. T., Dec. l.<— Information reaches here that a very destructive cyolone srtuck the town of Ralston, on the Arkansas river, fifty miles north east of here, on Thursday night at 12 o'clock and nearly wiped out the town of about 200 houses. Nearly every house in town was blown down and M. Moreau, the eminent Frenoh sci several people were injured, but no names can be obtained, Ralston is in entist, says that persistent dreaming is the Osage Indian nation, and fifty-five one of the most invariable symptoms of insanity. " miles from a telegraph station. Fight Among Workmen. Hamburg, Nov. 26.—A dispatoh from Lubeok says that while the em ployes of the Thiels enamel factory were going to work this morning a body of strikers belonging to the same concern attacked the workmen and a free fight followed. Shots were fired, several persons seriously wounded and many arrests made. Rumors of a Spanish Cabinet Crisis. London, Deo. 4.—The Standard’s dis patches from Madrid say that in spite of an official denial there are persistent rumors in circulation in the Spanish capital of a cabinet crisis INSULTED. Old Glory Trampled Upon by Turkish Officers. President Cleveland Ha. Determined to Force thelesue With Spain. Chicago, D§tt 4.—A special to the Tribune from ^Washington says a crisis in the affairs ofj Cuba is rapidly ap proaching, and "there is every reason to believe that President Cleveland has already decideclon aotion which will startle the country almost as much as his famous message on the Venezuelan question, although the exact time for the announcement depends somewhat on future operations in Cuba. By this aotion, the president will not change his previous policy in re gard to Spain and Cuba, but will sim ply carry it out to. its logical conclu sion, whioh is a direot and open threat of active intervention on the part of the United States to secure peace in the island, whether by the independ ence of the patriots or by voluntary ao tion on the part of Spain. From three different sources ¡the policy partially agreed upon between Secretary Olney and President Cleveland was learned, and the reports in each oase tallied with surprising unanimity. A definite and somewhat startling announcement on the Cuban question will be made to congress, either in the regular annual message or in a supple mentary communication, as was the case with^the Venezuelan question. Minister de Lome/- of the Spanish le- advised of the impending announcement and he ac cepts what is in efiect an ultimatum, believing that Spain will be able to' prevent action on the part of the Unit ed States by the suooess of Weyler’s operations in Cuba. FLAG Omaha, Deo. 2.—The time for hav ing the first assessment of trans-MisBis- sippi exposition stock closed Saturday night. With slight exceptions, every subscriber paid his five per oent oall. A De pondent Sacramento Girl. Sacramento, Dec. 7.—A young wom an named Nellie Heath, the daughter af a jewler in this city, committed suicide this evening, having shot her self in the left breast, and expired a few minutes later. She was 18 years old. It is believed the girl had grown despondent over her crippled condition. Logan, Utah, Deo 7.—Hyrum Jep pesen, James Christianson, sr., and his son James were buried in a snowslide yesterday afternoon in Logan canyon. Jeppesen finally extricated himself, but the father and son were both killed. k Resume of Events in the Northwest. EVIDENCE OF STEADY GROWTH News Gathered in All the Towns of Our Neighboring State* — Improve ment Noted in A 11 Industries—Oregon. Baker City has a movement well un der way to secure a public library. The Eagle woolen mills, at Browns ville, now employs sixty-one men. There are about 500 head of cattle for sale in Eagle valley, Union county. The Santiam river was reported to have been higher last week than since the flood of 1891. . Senator-elect Harmon, of Coos, Curry and Josephine counties, makes public his approval of a registration law. The people of Wallowa oounty want a special session of the circuit court. They have an overstock of criminals they wish to dispose of. Prairie City, Grant county, has been selected as the next meeting place of the directors of the first Eastern Ore gon District Agricultural Society. The hospital,>g»®.loye’s quarters and laundry at the Warm Springs agency have been completed and are now awaiting to be turned over to the gov ernment as soon as the ne n agent ar rives. The body of Ferdinez, the cook of the ill-fate'd Arago, was found last week on the beach, fifteen miles north of the Umpqua. The remains were identified by papers found in the pockets. Seven miles of the new motor rail way grade between Waterloo, Sodaville and Lebanon, are said to be now ready for the laying of rails. On account of the bad weather work has beep discon tinued until next spring. The contractors who have been awarded the contract for furnishing and placing rook on the north jetty, on Coos bayi are preparing to begin work immediately, and are employing men with that object in view. Harry Clay, a sheepbuyer, recently received about 6,000 head of sheep from" sheepmen in the neighborhood of Monu ment, and drove to Arlington, from whioh place he shipped to "Chicago. His band will be fed and placed on the market later on. The material is bn hand and the foundation of the cradle laid at Wall Bros’ mill in Myrtle Point, for the con struction of a new steamer to run on the upper Coquille. The machinery of the old Cumtux will be used, and the new steamer will have the same name. A correspondent of the Independence West Side says: “Fifty-one years ago, the hand that pens these lines was paddling a canoe down the Willamette river. The writer started from the old William Prather place, went to Lucka- miute, stepped into the canoe, and in three days_ was in ...Oregon City. He put into the canoe what flour it would bear, and in five days was baok again at the place from where he started.” Washington. The shipments of farm products from Garfield during the month of October last, hot counting wheat, amounted in value to about $6,000. A haystack with a dozen chickens upon it went down the Columbia river last week. The fowls were rescued for Thanksgiving purposes at Freeport. There have been shipped out of Aber deen by express since the first of Au gust 315,000 pounds of fresh fish, whioh brings the value of the season’s output of salmon up to almost $100,000, or $1,000 per day. The work of floating the Glenmorag has been stopped for the present. All the men have been discharged, except the old hands. The heavy weather makes it impossible to do anything just now. When work can be resumed is uncertain. The Spokane Falls & Northern Tele graph Company has completed the stringing of an additional wire from Spokane to Northport, and thence con necting with Rossland. The business of the company will probably necessi tate the placing of another wire over the line to Nelson soon after the first of the year. The total cargo shipments by sixteen of the leading mills of Washington in the month of October, as officially re ported to the West Coast and Puget Sound Lumberman aggregated 37,727,- 012 feet of lumber, and 4,149,885 lath. Of the lumber, 14,944,547. feet went foreign, and 23,280,465 feet went coastwise. The total exceeds Septem ber by over 4,000,000 feet. A winter muskmelon,br'dasaba, is a peculiar variety of fruit that is being exhibited by Robert Secrest. The seed was brought to Oakesdale by J. J. Durant, from the Yakima country. The seed was planted in the spring and melons were picked this fall. The fruit looks like the ordinary melon, the only difference being that the winter melon will not ripen until it has been laid away for a consideiable time. The massive jam of logs which has been wedged in between the narrow walls of the mountains oh the Kalama river, and known as the “jam.” is finally gone. The recent high water took it out clean and deposited it in the boom at the mouth of the river. This mass of logs has been in there for years, making a perfeot and safe bridge over the river, and had been a hinder- ance to lodging on the Upper Kalama. A new town to be known as Silver, has been started in the Methow district. A New Whatcom man, while on his ranch near Linden, learned of the kill ing of a preacher a short distance over the line in British .Columbia. The'" preacher was out hunting with two companions. They separated, and his companions started to look him up. He had shot a bear, and the enraged animal had turned on him before he had time to shoot again, and killed him. His body was found, and, from the indications, the fight had been a terrific one. Persons from Quinault- lake report that the water was the highest ever known during the recent flood.
