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♦ HOLD-UP Senate* IN BLUE CUT. Daring Work of Train Robbers Near A MOB OF BOHEMIANS. Tried to Lynch a Motorman Who Ran Down a Boy. Eighth day—The senate today passed Kansas. City. the immigration bill, known as the Chicago, Dec. 28.—George E. Den Kansas City, Dec. 25.—Blue cut, mark, 7 years old, was killed by a A Resume of Events in the Forming Three OREGON Lodge bill, with a new seotion provid Twenty Men Were Impris made historio through the operations Spaniards SCIO ing that the exclusion shall not apply trolley-car at Troop and Eighteenth there of the James and Younger bands, Lines to Crush Him. oned in Afterdamp. to persons arriving from Cuba during Northwest. streets, this afternoon. Fred Bernier, when they were pioneers in the train the continuance of the present disor motorman, was threatened with lynoh- robbing business, was the scene tonight ders .there. The strength of the bill ing, for killing the boy, and was with Of its fourth hold-up by road agents. was greater than had been expeoted, RESCUE WORK BEGAN EARLY At 9:20 o’clock. tonight, the St. OPERATIONS ARE IN MATANZAS great difficulty rescued from the EVIDENCE OF STEADY GROWTH the final vote being 52 to 10. As mob of Bohemians, who. incensed at Louis and Chicago express, which left passed, the bill amends the immigra the terrible accident, surrounded the Kansas City at 8:45, was flagged at Fourteen Were Taken Out Alive — Comprehensive Review of the Import tion laws so as to exclude from admis Blue cut, and came to a standstill. Weyler Expected to Strike a Hard car and dragged Bernierjrom the plat News Gathered in All. the Towns of Touching Scene About the Mine- Masked men immediately covered the ant Happenings of the Past Week sion to the United States all persons Blow, So That Spain Can Call for form, determined to hang him. Patrick • Our Neighboring State* — Improve Book Fell on Dynamite Magazine. engineer- and fireman and compelled Culled From the Telegraph Columns. over 16 years old who cannot read and Another Loan—Cubans Confident. Hanley, the conductor, managed to ment Noted in A11 Industries—Oregon« write the language of their native save Bernier from the mob, and then a Wilkesbarre, Pa., Deo. 28.—A ter them to get down from their cab. At Cincinnati, Deo. '28. — A speoial to A Birmingham, Ala., speoial says country or some other-language, but an .The sheep inspector of Benton coun riot call was sent to the Maxwell street the same-time another member of the tnat Joe James, colored, was lynched admissable immigrant over the age of rific explosion occurred this afternoon band uncoupled the express-oar from the Commercial Tribune from Key station. The police took charge of the ty says there are very few scabby sheep at Woodstock. He attempted to as 16 may bring in with him, or send for in Baltimore shaft No. 2, of the Dela the rest of the train. The robbers West says: motorman and conductor and locked in that county. Over Havana advioes are that Gomez’s them up. sault Fannie Smith, aged 17, while she his wife or parent or grandparent or ware & Hudson Company. Prominent men in Heppner say that quickly climbed aboard the looomtive twenty miners were imprisoned, but at minor children or grandchildren, not advance guard has captured the town was on her way to school. After the boy had been killed, Motor they will build a telephone line from and express-car and before the sur- tonight fourteen had been of Las Passega, in Santa Clara prov man Bernier took refuge in the oar, Heppner to Long Creek, in Grant An irade has been issued granting withstanding their inability to read or a late hour alive, and there was hope of prised trainmen had time to collect ince, taking the entire garrison and all which stood within a few feet of where oounty, if they can arrange for a satis amnesty to all Armenian prisoners, ex- write. The Cuban seotion added to rescued their wits, the bandits were speeding the others before the deadly cept those sentenced to death for mur the bill provides that the act shall not releasing down the steep grade beyond Blue cut, the stores, A battalion of fresh troops the accident occurred, and in an in factory bonus. claimed them as victims. was sent from Havana to Matanzas stant it was beseiged by angry men. der. The terms of the amnesty include apply to persons arriving in the United i afterdamp The legal complications that have so Immediately after the disaster be with the engine and express-car. The this morning, to be sent to the front. He attempted to keep them out by about 100 Armenians under sentenoe States from any port or place in the came express-messenger, A. J. Frier, of St. long arrested the operations of the known, rescue gangs descended Great exertions are being made to get island of Cuba during the continuance latching the doors on the inside, but of death for other offenses than murder. Divilbiss quartz mill in Coos county, the shaft, but it was some time before Louis, was a prisoner in the' express strong force to oppose General they broke the doors in, knocked him have finally been satisfactorily adjust- Contrary to advices from Spain, it of the present disorders there; provided the ventilation had been so managed car. When they had gone a safe dis a Gomez, and three lines are being forced such persons have heretofore been in down and kioked and beat him for a ed, and the miners of the Johnson has been ascertained that the Spaniards that iihey could work in safety. The tance the robbers halted and proceeded were ignominiously defeated by Phil habitants of that island. The house party which entered the mine at 9:45 to rifle the contents of the express-car. to get the Cubans entangled between few moments in a shocking manner. creek district will now have free use He managed, however, to get away of the mill. ippine insurgents in the combined naval amendments to the bill concerning tonight succeeded in pushing their way They forced the messenger to give up them and qrushed. from them, and ran to the door of the Funds Running Low. and foot attack on Novelets from No- lands of the Atlantic & Pacific Rail to the plane wnere the imprisoned men the keys of the smaller safe, and open Superintendent Morrison, of the New York, Dec. 28. — A Madrid drugstore, where he was handed a pis Westeren Union construction depart- . vember 8 to 14. .Th'é Spaniards lost road Company were nonooncurred in. had been working, and there they ing it seoured several packages of tol, and was admitted inside by Mr* ment, has finished receiving and stor Ninth day—The main event of the [ heavily.*5-" stumbled over the bodies of a number money. . They then attempted to blow speoial to the World says: It is rumored that General Weyler Kvitek, the proprietor, before any ing at'Flavel 2,000 poles for the main & A speoial from Paris says it is sug day was the presentation by Mr. Came of unconscious men. As quick as the up the larger safe with dynamite, but further harm befell him. The crowd telegraph line between Astoria and gested that Great Britain, France and ron of the report of the committee on work could be accomplished they were on being told by the messenger that it has delayed fresh operations against surged around the store and yelled: relations favorable to his reso contained no valuables, they desisted. the insurgents in order to give time to Portland. It required two âcres on Italy, the powers most interested, offer foreign brought to the surfaoe, where a corps “Break it in! Kill him!” their.services in the Cuban question in lution, recognizing the independence of doctors were in waiting. Wrapped They then boarded the engine and discover the disposition of bands and It looked for a minute as if the store which to stack this material. of Cuba. The proceeding was brief went about two miles down the track their chiefs since the death of Maceo, order to prevent a conflict between and in blankets,- some of the victims were While leveling off the grounds about would be raided, but Mr. Kvitek had perfunctory, the report not being Spain • and the United States, and ter sent to their homes and Some'to hospi where they abandoned it and made with a view to feeling his way to pre made use of the telephone. He called the house on his Blind Slough ranch, read, and an agreement was speedily good their escape, having secured sev pare the ground for finishing the pres minate the revolt. in Clatsop, Martin Impo found hurried reached by which the resolution and tals. The physicians have hopes that eral thousand dollars. ent Cuban war like the past insurrec on the Maxwell station first .for an am two feet in the earth an Indian stone Dr. E. Forbes, representing a Lon report go over until after the holidays. all may recover. Had they been in the bulance, but by that time matters had When the robbery became known at tions in Spain and Cuba, where official don firm, arrived on the last steamer Aside from the Cameron report Morgan damp five minutes longer all would Independence, a posse of county officers negotiations proved more telling argu got so warm that he requested a patrol weapon, shaped like a ship’s marlin from the Orient in San Francisoo, with of Alabama presented a further report probably have died of suffocation. wagon. In a few minutes the wagon spike, having a hole bored through the John Healey, one of the wscuers, set out for the scene of the hold-up, ments than force of arms, directly the brought a number of officers, who did handle, whioh had evidently been cases of medical Instruments valued on the same lines, embodying the and at midnight, County Marshal Kesh- insurgents, saw no more hope of for at $80,000. He olaims they are works views of himself and Mills. The offer who was first to disoover the bodies on lar was arranging to send out a force eign aid. all they could to quiet the mob. When made by a stone implement, says the of art, and should be admitted free of ing of the reports severd as a prelude to the plane, says the men were huddled of officers from Kansas City. It is also believed in diplomatic . cir some degree of quiet had been restored Astorian. riuty. The customs authorities are several brisk exchanges between sena- olosely together. They had apparently Some very old residents claim that It was at Blue cut in 1881 that the cles that Spain will take advantage of the police arrested the endangered men withholding the instruments, however, -tors. Mr. Gear made an unsuccessful abandoned all hope of resoue, and were James gang held up a Chicago & Alton the disposition of President Cleveland and took them to the station. There Rogue river was up where the Grant’s until the duty is paid. attempt to take up the Pacific railroad resolved to die together. The supposi express train, and made one of the big- and Secretary Olney to negotiate the men seemed unconcerned, and de Pass depot now stands in 1862. The river bed has deepened and widened 1 ^The postmaster of Des Moines, la., funding bill, and then gave notice it tion is that the men, when they real gest,hauls in the history of train-rob quickly and directly with the United clined to make a statement. ized their danger, made their way to «-—had his oaryiers lookup worthy cases would be urged after the holidays. There were many versions given of very much since then, and, there is bing. A few years ' later, another big States to secure a neutrality by grant the highest point on the plane. The of poor families and delivered presents tarin-robbery-was committed at the ing discriminating concessions in the the accident. Well-informed people very little probability that it will ever Tenth day—The senate was unex The to them on Christmas morning. Sev pectedly diverted today from Cuba to smoke found its way to them, how same place, and two; months ago to contemplated Cuban tariff, and fair living in the neighborhood said they overflow its left bank again. eral hundred dollars was subscribed by the Pacific railroads. An unusually | ever, and they were all but suffocated night, on October 25, a hold-up at promises of colonial autonomy before had been expecting something of the winter of ’62 made gullies and gulches kind for a long time, and were only where all was level before.' .business men for the purpose. Scores large orowd was in the galleries, an- i when found. The theory of the explosion is that Blue cut occurred- The men who the accession of McKinley. of letters were reoeived from poor chil tioipating that Vest would continue planned the robbery in October were Fully 100 men are hard at work One of the principal reasons of the surprised that it did not happen sooner. there was a fall of rook on the slope dren telling what they desired Santa his speech begun yesterday on the at novices, and got nothing. Two mem along the-Alderbrook water front cut Spanish government for insisting upon where the dynamite was stored; that Claus to bring them. ting wood for their winter’s use, says titude of Mr. Olney* toward the Cam the dynamite exploded and the smoke bers of the gang have since been arrest Weyler making a decisive' attempt to THE SON’S SACRIFICE. ed, and áre in jail. clear the provinces of Pinar del Rio, the Astorian. During the recent ' - Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, has eron resolution. Soon after the session filled the plane. Havana and Matanzas, within a few Benton Wilson Went to Prison to Save freshet hundreds of cords of wood, and * proposed an amendment to the sundry opened Mr. Pettigrew called up his FOUNDERED IN THE GULF. Grief was turned to joy when the about 2,000 shingle bolts from the weeks, is the urgent necessity for scor XjPjV“ appropriation bill, providing for resolution relative to the trust notes rescued men were brought to the sur His Father. Cowlitz river were thrown upon the auxiliary fishcultural stations at points of the Paoifio railroads. The senator face. Women and children wept and Many Lives Lost in a Bark Oft* Vera ing a military success before Spain has Spokane, Wash., Deo. 28.—Benton beach. It was an interesting sight to once more to appeal to the native and ^=s-tQ>bej- selected by the commissioner of made a savage onslaught on the Paoifio strong men clasped each other in their Cruz. Wilson, who went to the penitentiary see these men cutting huge logs into fish and fisheries in Oregon, Washing railroads in general, charging that a arms. It is probable that those who San Diego, Cal., Dec. 5.-—A terrific foreign markets for fresh Ioans, when ton and California, for the propagation combination of private interests was were in the immediate vicinity of th6 storm occurred in the gulf of Cam she shall nave exhausted the money for a long term of years for murder, stove-wood lengths, and rolling them of salmon, trout and other fishes. The seeking to absorb the roads and close spot where the explosion occurred were peche on the 11th and 12th of this obtained by the recent interior loan, came into Spokane last night, and to up the beach to their homes. They used amendment appropriates $17,600 for out the government. This opened the the only ones killed, and they may hot month. Among other casualties re which will be in March of next year. g day went to Mica, where his parents a large instrument like a pair of ice At present the minister of the col live. '■ He had been unexpectedly par tongs with which to drag the logs the purpose. entire question, and -Mr. Morgan fol be over four or five in number. The ported is the wreck of the bark Jamaica doned. ■long. 1 Jerry Burke, the colored boy, who lowed with a bitter arraignment of the mine is in the northeast section of the with twelve passengers and most of onies disposes of this cash, and Cuban The circumstances under which Wil bonds to the value of about $5,000,000 Pacific roads, charging them with the crew lost. She was bound from Fisher and William Logan, brothers, hacked Mrs. John Foss and her daugh oity, and employs, when in full opera son was sent to jail were most peculiar. ter, Mrs. Cavanaugh, with an ax, at fraud and orime on a gigantio scale. tion, about 350 men and boys. About Campeche to Vera Cruz, and had a val only remain out of the proceeds of the Two years ago, some small boys un- were caught out in the oold snap of last their home at Clio, Livingston parish, The speech lasted until shortly before one-third of this force was at work to uable cargo and some treasure aboard. loans. The expenses of the war in earthed the body of a man that was month in Crook county, while driving Louisiana, last Sunday, was captured 2 o’clook, when the morning hour ex day, and the number of workers was She encountered a norther on the night Cuba are $12,000,000 monthly, and in subsequently identified as that of cattle. They left their oattle and tried by a posse of citizens about a mile pired, thus sending over the Cuban further reduced after 3 o’clock, when of the 11th, but got through until the the Philippines at least $4,000,000. James Johnson, brother-in-law of Ben to reach the cabin that was their des afternoon of the next day, all the time Up to the present time, the Spanish ton Wilson. The body was found two tination, but, thinking they could not from the scene of the orime. In view question until after the holidays. Mr. the day shift came out. of the faot that the ladies are not dead, Call secured the adoption of a resolu When the explosion occurred, an hour working westward toward Vera Cruz. treasury has assisted the Cuban treas miles from the Wilson homestead. find it, they built a fire under a rim So long as the ship remained in good ury by guaranteeing advances made by Benton Wilson and his father were ar rock and remained there alknight. It the plan to burn him at the stake was tion asking the secretary of state for later, there were probably sixty men abandoned, and he Was simply riddled information relative to the killing of in the mine. Of this number, forty condition she scudded before the wind foreign and native bankers upon Cuban rested and charged with murder.’ The was the coldest nigbt, and others who Charles Gavin, an Amerioan oitizen, or thereabouts succeeded in getting toward Vera Cruz., and at one time bonds, and by pledging the souroes of with bullets. father was first placed on trial, and were out say it was thirty-four degress I The secretary of the treasggv has by the Spanish forces in Cuba. Fur- safely to the surface. Those imprison that port was sighted, but one accident imperial revenue for the recent $80,- the case looked black for him. Per below zero. The men made them selves as comfortable as they could. sent to congress a computation of the •thir than this the session was unevent ed were at work in a plane fully a after another occurred to the rigging, 000,000 loan. The moment is fast approaching ceiving this, Benton arose and con They had no blankets, and while sit Paoifio railroad dehtfo 'i^*fmade by the ful, and thé senate adjourned for the mile from the shaft. They were driv finally making it impossible to live in fessed to having murdered his brother- when the Spanish parliament and the. holiday recess, lasting until January 5. ing a tunnel, and were in what wa* the enormous seas. With almost all governmen^ctjjáary. The-: statement in-law. He said Johnson had abused ting around the fire both fell asleep, the sails blown away the Jamaica re Spanish taxpayers, must be asked to his considered a safe place. ■-^Issratvs that the advances to the Union wife, Wilson’s sister; had returned and after awhile young Logan was House« in the shape of additional tax The first knowledge of the catas turned and attempted to back into provide, Paoifio, including the Kansas Pacific, to the farm and had threatened his ■wakened by his clothes’ catching on ation, $26,000,000 annuall^for the in Eighth day—The house today passed trophe came to the surface by the noise Campeche, but without success. by the government, will, at maturity, wife, if she did not come baok to the fire. On waking up he found that In the afternoon of the 12th the rud terest and sinking fund of $250,000,000 city. Wilson the first of next July, amount to $92,- the third of the regular appropriation of the explosion. The men in the en said that he accompanied both of his feet were frozen. They thus far raised, to meet only in part bills (that for the support of the army), gine-house, who had charge of the der became disabled, throwing the ves 846,285, of which sufficient has been re them to a lonely stretch of woods, and, also discovered when daylight came the expenses of the Cuban war, up to paid to reduce the amount to $58,289,- and entered upon consideration of the hoisting carriages, gave the first alarm. sel at the mercy of the storm. The at an opportune moment, fell upon him that they were in sight of the cabin..'“"®?'“’' 593. The balance due on aooount of legislative, executive and judicial bill. A rescuing party was organized, but passengers took up the boats, which March, 1897, and which the Cuban and olubbed him to death. For this Washington. the Central Paoifio on July 1 next will The latter bill carries $21,669,369, or it was after several efforts had been were repeatedly swamped. Most of- budget and the Cuban taxpayers could he was sentenced to a long term of $86,399 more than the law for the cur made that the imprisoned men were the crew simply put on life preservers not possibly undertake to pay, even if There are said to be fully 500 bases of be $60,818,377. years in the penitentiary. It is a case rent year. Fair progress was made to and jumped into the sea. The captain the- war were soon terminated, con of a son sacrificing his life to save that measles reported and unreported in Dr. Thomas Powell, of Missouri, re day; It is expected this bill and the reached. Walla Walla. was one of these. He strapped 100 sidering that their budgets showed de of his father. cently made some remarkable experi military academy appropriation bill Mexican dollars on him and, clinging' ficits, averaging $5,000,000 annually, A FATAL BOAT RIDE. The Northern Pacific Railway Com ments before a party of dootors in Los will be passed before «the holiday re to a barrel, tried to reach shore. The before the present insurrection. pany paid $9,008.60 taxes into the Angeles in order to prove the effioacy cess. The army bill, as passed, makes CHARGED WITH SMUGGLING. Men Attempted to Cros» survivors saw him sink owing to the Rivera Warns Weyler. Lewis county treasury last week. * of his remedy for certain diseases. He no provision for the army and navy Three Young weight of the metal. the Swift Hood River. New York, Dec. 28. — A special from Burglars attempted to open the safe alarmed the physicians present by in hospital at Hot Springs, Ark. The sight was a terrible one as one Key West to the World says: American Arrested for Driving Into in the office of Indian Agent Erwin, at Hood River, Or., Dec. 23.—Charles jecting bacoillus tuberculosis and bac- Prohibited Mexican Territory. Ninth day—Almost the whole day Bell, Carl Woods and W. W Edger passenger affer.another sank, the boats Steamship passengers say that Gen Fort Simooe, one night last week, but cilli diptherial into himself, appearing unmanageable. The crew was eral Rivera, who is in command of the San Diego, Gal., Deo. 28.—Harry failed to get away with anything of to take them without evil effect. He was devoted to a debate on the pro man, working on the flume of the irri proving all drowned, and only three men and vision of the bill relating to the con ijrmy of Maceo, has sent a formal Mansur, the Amerioan who was arrest value. gation ditch where it crosses Hood also injected some baotina into two a boy of the passengers escaped. The guinea pigs, whioh promptly died. trol of the new congressional library. river, about • twelve miles from town, vessel sank soon after she was aban warning to General Weyler. General ed several weeks ago by the Mexican The United' States revenue cutter His next experiment will be to inject Both the appropriations and library built a boat to be used in carrying lum doned. The wreck oocurred off the Rivera notified the Spanish captain customs officials at Tia Juana for al Bear has been taken to Quartermaster committees offered plans for the future general that if he persisted in his ber over at this point. The river is leged infraction of the laws governing sputum from a woman dying of con harbor to be put on the drydook for re care of the building. After a some very rapid, and, while crossing this port of Dos Rayas, Tabaco. threats to kill pacificos found in the the free zone, has been released by the pairs to her hull. A $5,000 contract sumption into himself. what acrimonious contest, the appro afternoon, the boat became unmanage Tramped Across The Continent. country, the Cubans will make reprisals Ensenada authorities and is again at has been let, and extensive repairs are :! The annual statement of construc priations committee gained the vic New York, Deo. 25.—Mrs. Estby on all Spaniards whom they may cap his home on this side, His release was to be made. tion published by, the Railway Age, of tory, defeating the substitute of the able and* started down stream, striking obtained through the intervention of Chicago shows that during 1896 only library committee by a vote of 27 to 85. a rock, capsizing and throwing the un and her daughter, Clara, aged 19 years, ture. Work will be resumed at the Cowee General Weyler is affecting to dis Hon. Anthony Godbe, American vice — "1,802 miles of railway lines were built An amendment designed to place the fortunate men out and at the mercy of the transcontinental pedestrians, com man shingle mill, in Cowlitz county, as in the United States. This is one mile employes of the library under civil ser the oold, rushing water. Bell, being pleted the journey from Spokane to regard the warning. Those near him, consul, and a cash bail was obtained, soon as the water recedes sufficiently to however, say he will not dare to carry an old log driver, managed t° reach this oity at 1:30 o ’ clook this afternoon. whioh allowed Mansur to leave the less than the total reported for 1895, vice law was also defeated, 27 to'73. permit of it. Attorney Fisk will have and the smallest mileage built in any Librarian Spoffordls salary was raised shore in safety. Woods and Edgerman They left the Western oity May 5, on a out his ideas as ruthlessly as he intend country. oharge of the plant. It is the inten ed. His guerillas still have full au were drowned. The bodies were not wager with a New York woman that Mansur said today that his case was year since 1875. The number of. lines from $4,000 to $5,000. The^genafc tion of the company to pay off all thority to capture or to kill pacificos in they oould cross thju-edhtinent in less temporarily settled, and he did not ex '~~***^ on which this track was laid is 163, amendments to the immigration bill 'i-asover claims as soon as possible. the country and to force their families pect it to come up again for six^months A rescue party will jgndeavor~tO-?6* than seven mantis. The conditions whioh is eleven less than the number were nonconcurred im/ Bartholdt, A mandamus sued out to compel the into the garrisoned towns. As the of the wager were that each woman or a year. It is probable the cash bail cover the bodies before they float out new lines added in the previous chairman of the immigration commit commissioners of Jefferson county to year. was laid in thirty-eight tee, sought to have Wbill and amend- into the Colubmia. Woods and Ed* was to leave town with only $5 and troops in such places have little extra will be quietly accepted and no further make a special levy to pay certain road food and the residents none to spare, earn their living en route. If any action taken, especially as Mansur ’ s german were both single men. Woods of the fnrty^oqrstates warrants was quashed last Saturday at ■ -ifteata^sammittfeg/to his oommittee. was a resident of Hood River, but Ed sickness befell either, the time con this order lays a great hardship upon infraction of the law was slight. The longest mileage was built in Cali* Mansur’s wife’s family lives at Ro Port Townsend. The effect of the de german's residence is unknown, as he sumed by it was to be abstracted from the poor country folk. Hundreds will Tenth-day — The house today passed fornia—187 miles on eight lines. soon be starving. the total time. sario, about two miles south of the cision is thought to be to invalidate the the legislative, executive and judicial had but lately arrived here. i A Paris paper publishes interviews appropriation bill, and then adjourned General Rivera is moving out of his free zone. Mansur had often visited road warrants issued under the law of On the way across the continent American Students in Paris. with prominent men of France and a for the holiday recess. This is the they did housework, sewing, and sold entrenchments. All indications point them, taking his team and paying no March 7, 1890. foreign diplomat, all of whom reproaoh first time in the history of oongress that Paris, Dec. 23.—At a meeting of ths photographs of themselves. At Lin to an important engagement soon. It is estimated that to build the tele- attention to the law, being an old resi Great Britain and Spain for abandon the legislative bill has been passed be council of the university of Paris, Vice coln, Neb., Mrs. W. J. Bryan fed General Weyler has visited various dent and acquainted with the officials. pohne line from Eastern Washington ing France in the Mexican expedition fore the holidays. The day was de Rector Girard read a communication them and bought photographs. In points on the trooha and San Christo- But a new administration of the Tia to Puget sound points it will take 16,- of 1862, the objeot of whioh, they say, voted to the annual debate on the oivil from the professor of political science Ohio they called on Major and Mrs. bal. He is always accompanied, by a Juana custom-house, Senor Motavel- 000 poles, 1,884 miles of No. 10 hard- was to create an Amerioan government service law, and, ad usual, the attempt upon the American students In Paris. McKinley. large force. asco, caused Mansur to be arrested for drawn copper wire, 15,000 cros.s-arms to cqnfiterbalanoe the power of the to strike out the provision for the com The memorandum had agreed with the There is skirmishing daily along the smuggling a horse into the country, and braces and 32,000 pinsand insu Spain’s Warlike Preparations. —United States. trooha and on the outskirts of Arte- and imposed a heavy fine upon him. lators. The estimated' cost of material mission was overwhelmingly defeated. views of Professor Henry Moissan, the London, Dec. 25.—A Rome dispatch misa. Failing to pay the fine, Mansur was ar and labor is $72,000. I The Russian ambassador, M. de Neli- There was a good deal of threshing distinguished ohemist and a member A battle has been fought in Santa rested and sent to Ensenada to be dealt The Washington Mining Company doff, has had an audience with the over of old straw and sparring for po of the French institute, pointing out to the News says: All indications sultan of Turkey, at whioh he urged litical points. Brossius, chairman of that American universities are sympa here seem to prove that Spain has been Clara province between guerilla bands. with by the higher authorities. Since has been incorporated for $1,000,000. the introduction of reforms and the the civil service commission, defended thetic to France, and that their stu preparing for the event of warlike oom- The Cubans forced the Spanish to re; that time until a day or so ago he had The stock is divided into a million been in jail. shares of the par value of $1 each. The granting of amnesty to imprisoned the law. The bill as passed carries dents wished to study in French uni plications with the United States. The tire into Remidios with heavy loss. Regia, across the bay from Havana, trustees for the first six months are J. Armenians. The sultan asserted that $22,669,369.02—$36,379 more than the versities. But, he added, they needed hurried manufacture of a large quan A steel fly wheel twenty five feet Lynch Montgomery, of New York; the retornnsagreed upon by the powers current bill. During the morning to return to America with a diploma. tity of cartridges has been ordered at was attacked again last night almost already had Been exeouted and prom hour a bill was passed authorizing the The council finally decided to examine Brescia, and four cruisers have been under the guns of the fortress. Sev in diameter and requiring 250 miles of Ralph L. Clarke and T. E. Jefferson, ised to issue an amnesty decree in a railroads in the Indian territory to the suggestion of granting diplomas to ordered from the Ansaldo yards in eral houses were burned and a running wire m its construction, has been of Spokane, and John L. Retailack, of made in Germany. Genoa. fight maintained for two hours. Amerioan students. Kaslo. few days. change their alignments. An Uprising Feared. The last season’s work at Hall & i Another race riot oocurred near May A Drunkard’s Act. Oakland, Cal., Deo. 28 —Dr. J. W- Bishop’s logging camp, in Clallam Colfax, Wash., Deo. 25.—The O. R. Berlin, Deo. 23.—A dispatch for the field, Ky., and a hundred shots were New York, Deo. 23.—The competi Robertson ’ s sanitarium was partly Los Angeles, Cal., Dec. 28. — While & N. Co.s freighthouse, depot, shops, county, is one to be proud of. At the fired at the residence of Tom Chambers, tion between the American sugar re Franfort Zeitung from Constantinople this morning. It was occupied beginning of the year two miles of rail colored, and the house afterwards finery and the firm ....... of ............... Arbuckle Bros., says a rising of the young Turks party water tank, coalbunkers, and about leaving the Santa Fe train at the First burned by thirty patients, suffering from ner street depot in a drunken condition, road were put down, and since then burned. A number of negroes have ooffee merchants, is on in earnest, is feared there. Fifty young Turkish forty freight cars on sidetracks are in been warned to leave town, and more Another reduction of one-half a cent officers escaped arrest, fleeing from the possession of the county treasurer and Mason Birkley stumbled, fell and vous disorders. The first care was for the loggers have been busy getting out patients, many of whom were still logs. The season’s cut amounted to 7,- trouble is expected. per pound in the wholesale price of city, and a number of army officers of under guard, having been levied upon threw his 6-year-old boy Harry under the The child was in bed. There was great confusion, 000,000 feet, most of-which.was towed The Southern Pacifio train was held roasted coffee was made today, the high rank have been taken to Yildiz by him to enforce the collection of a the moving train. but they were all safely removed. The up by masked men about 200 miles second reduction this far, and there is palace to be tried by oourt-martial. At debt for delinquent taxes of 1895. Busi crushed to' death. Hadlock, and from there was dis house was formerly Livermore college, to from San Antonio, Tex. Three men a margin yet of four or five cents, it is the palace it is further stated that the ness is carried on with difficulty. tributed to different points on the and, while only two stories high, oc- Candlesticks, with ohimneys, and ordered the engineer to stop the train, said, before rock-bottom prices can be usual precautions for the safety of the- Freight is loaded and unloaded on a Sound and British Columbia. Forty and, while one stood guard at the en- reached; that is the price at which a sultan have been doubled, and every box car on a switch. Engines are re having perforations in the bottom of cupies a large area, The damage will men were employed in the camp be under $5,000. A defective flue fused coal and water, and traffic is in the tray for the admission of air, are * gine, the two others went through the bare margin of profit can be made by Buspect approaching the palace is ar throughout • the year, at an average of caused the trouble. terfered with in other ways. made by an Englishman. rested. express car and seoured about $70. the roasters, if any at all. $2.50 per day. A Double Murder. Grain Prices in Bengal. H. O. Allen was found frozen to Spain’s War Preparations. Mrs. Swenyer. of Ashford, in Lewis The Durrant Case. Caught by the Fire. Corning, N. Y., Deo. 28.—A hor- death forty-two miles east of Buckley, London, Dec. 25.—A Times dispatoh Madrid, Dec. 22.—El Heraldo as- Albany, Or., Deo. 25.—Yesterday, rilbe double murder occurred at Rath- county, who recently cut the throats of San Francisco, Dec. 23.--What may from Calcutta says: The official re Wash., on Silver river, in the Gold serts that the minister of war, General three of her children and then tried to Hill mining district. The body was Azcarraga, is preparing numerous prove to be The beginning of the end of port of the prospects in Behar says that at Foster, eighteen miles above Leb bunville, fifteen miles west of this city, kill herself, is improving very rapidly. last night. William Allen, William anon, a man named Wadli, who recent the Durrant case took plaoe in the su found forty rods from Alien’s cabin. pamphlets on the geography, topog the rainfall has hardly any effect in she was removed to the house of He had gone out on a trapping exepe- raphy and military condition of the preme oourt today. The brief of Theo lowering prices which are still high ly purchased the flouring mills at Fos Harrington and Floyd Myers obtained a After neighbor, a note was found in the dition. Not returning, a rescue part; United States to distribute to the chief dore Durrant was filed, although there throughout Bengal. The danger of ter, went from the mill to the house a buffalo robe while in an intoxicated room where she had tried to kill her has been much discussion as to whether famine has been removed in South after his books. He found the house condition. Myers had the robe at his went out from Buckley, and, after a officers of the Spanish army. it oould now be filed, the usual time Behar, but there is grave anxiety in on fire, gave the alarm, rushed in to home, and Allen and Harrington drove children and herself, which she had week’s search, found the body, whioh save his books, was overcome by the there at 10 o’clock last night and de written before she had commenced the for doing so having elapsed. How many southern districts'. Absence and an Inference. was buried in the mountains. In the heat, and burned to death in the pres manded it. They were met by Myers horrible work. In that, after stating spring it will be brought out by the San Francisco, Dec. 24.—Timothy i ever, Durrant was finally granted re No Fresh. Troops. ence of his father, brothersand a crowd who had a shotgun with him. When her intentions, she asked to be buried Attorney-General Fitz G. A. R. post to which he belonged. Sullivan, cler^ of police court No 4, submission. Madrid, Deo. 25.—In ministerial cir- that had assembled. His charred re they demanded the robe, Myers shot “in the spot that looked the most like Governor Morton has refused to has been absent from duty for several gerald also filed a brief, ably replying "" pardon John Y. MoKane, a mem er of days, and today Judge Low'turned to the defendant’s counsel.,' Durrant , oles here it is denied that the govern- mains were recovered after the house them. They were in the buggy at thé home.” the Tweed gang, who is now confined over Sullivan’s books to the offioial ex-| is now given ten days in whioh to file 1 ment intends to call out fresh contin- had burned down. He was a single time, and the horses started at the re The Deschutes is rising again, , gents oi troops. man, recently from Minnesota. port of the gun. Both men are dead. a brief in reply. in prison in Albany, N. Y. pert for examination. (wollen by the heavy rains.
