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.