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    The Santiam News
THE
PITTSBURG
FIRE.
Twelve Bodies Have Been Taken From
the Ruins.
•
Pittsburg, Feb. 14.—Twelve people
TOLD TO COME HOME
AN
ATTACK
ON
M’KINLEY.
Spanish Minister De Lome Said to Be
Guilty of Grave Indiscretion.
New York, Feb. 11.—The Press this
WORK OF CONGRESS
FOUR
LIVES
LOST.
A Boat Containing: Five Men Goes Over
the Falls at Oregon City.
TO PRESERVE ORDER
Oregon City, Feb. 10.—At a few
De Lome Recalled by Span' morning says that representatives of Indian Appropriation Bill in minutes past 7 o’clock this morning, Fourteenth Infantry Ordered
the Cuban junta yesterday gave out
crossing the river in a boat a short dis­
property loss of $1,500,000 is the awful
to Alaska.
the Senate.
ish Cabinet and Queen.
copies of a letter signed Enrique Dupuy
tance above Oregon City, and while
record of the big fire of last night The
SCIO............................................. OREGON dead, 27 missing, 18 injured and a
de Lome, who is minister of Spain at
trying to find their bearings, the
following is a revised list of the dead:
Police Lieutenant A. J. Berry, John HIS SUCCESSOR NOT YET CHOSEN Washington, and addressed to Jose HOUSE LOST ENTIRE DAYS’ WORK mighty current seized the craft and FOUR COMPANIES ARE TO GO
Canelejas, who went to Cuba last Sep­
hurled it to destruqtion.
McHanna, William Scott, jr., Stanley
tember as Premier Sagasta’s personal
Five men started on the maddening
Stitz, John Dwyer, George Loveless,
In this letter the
ride to what seemed inevitable death,
Albert A. Wolffe, The ex-Minister Packing His Trunk for representative.
Interesting Collection of Current Events William Smith,
Spanish minister refers to President Proposition to Bar Soldiers’ Widows but one miraculously escaped. He Will Take Passage on the First Steamer
Thomas Claffey, William R. Haben-
In Condensed Form From
—Two Others Heady to Move
an Early Departure—Admits
McKinley
as “weak and catering to the
From the Pension Rolls De­
was almost insensible from the shock
-stein, John Scott, the youngest son of
Both. Continents.
at a Moment’s Notice.
rabble,” and as “a low politician, who
Writing the Better.
and could not have held out a minute
feated in the Senate.
the president of the Chautauqua Ice
desires to stand well with jingoes of
longer when he Was picked up by the res­
The Rhode Island locomotive works Company; William McGonigle.
Portland,
Or., Feb. 11.—Four com­
Madrid, Feb. 14.—At a meeting of
Washington, Feb. 12.—The contest cuers, who got out in time to see the
of Providence, has filed a petition in
Jacob Booth and a party of four the Spanish cabinet, held today, un­ his party.”
panies of thé Fourteenth infantry,
which
has
been
waged
in
the
house
The Washington correspondent of
boat go over the falls.
insolvency. |
companions, who were in a saloon on der the presidency of the queen-regent,
under Colonel Thomas M._ Anderson;
committee on invalid pensions ever
Three of the victims of the accident have been ordered to start for Alaska
Dordane, a nephew of ex-President Pennsylvania avenue when the build­ the minister of foreign affairs read a the Press says that when a copy of the since the assembling of congress on the
letter
was
shown
to
de
Lome,
he
were
members
of
the
same
family.
All
Duensk, of Salvador, is insane in a San ing crashed, are missing, and are sup­ dispatch from Señor Dupuy de Lomé,
at the earliest possible date, and two
promptly pronounced it as being a question of barring from the pension were employes of the Crown paper
posed to be under the debris.
Francisco hospital.
saying that the published letter to forgery. He also says that an official rolls the widows and children of sol­ mills, at Oregon City. They were resi­ more Will hold themselves in readiness
Mrs. Mary McFadden, with her fam­ Señor Canalejas was written by him,
to follow at a moment’s notice. The
C. S. Kellogg, aged 76, was found
of the state department, discussing the diers who marry hereafter, came to an dents of Canemah, and were on their order was received at Vancouver bar­
frozen to death near Reno, Nev., in ily of eight children, are supposed to and tendering his resignation. The matter, exclaimed:
end today in the defeat of the proposi­ way to work. The lost are:
be under the fallen walls. They lived cabinet decided to accept his resigna­
racks yesterday, by General Merriam,
the Silver Hill mountains.
“De Lome did not write the letter. tion. A motion, with this end in
George Freeman, 50 years old, of commanding the department of the
in a house on Mulberry alley, which
Potter Palmer, of Chicago, is to was crushed. Nothing has been seen tion, and he was so notified, the lega­ The Cuban junta has been imposed view,was introduced by Smith, of New Canemah; married.
Columbia, who intsantly set about the
York, and it had the indorsement of
build a mansion at Newport which will­ them since the explosion last night, tion to be entrusted to the first secre­ upon by somebody.”
George and James Freeman, his sons, preparations for the movement of the
tary.
Commissioner of Pensions Evans. The 26 and 16 years old respectively.
cost between $2,000,000 and $3,000,- of
On
the
other
hand,
Hàratio
L,
Ru
­
and it is believed all are dead.
troops. The constantly increasing dan­
■ Señor Sagasta, the premier, and
question had been agitating the com­
000. “
L. J. Shannon, 36 years old, of Can­ ger of disorder at Skagway and Dyea
The fire broke -out in the Union other members of the cabinet, state bens, counsel for the Cuban junta, mittee at all of its meetings, and to-
says:
emah; married, and leaves a wife and has led the war department to insure
John Mulligan, aged 24, Lee Mulli­ Storage Company’s building on Pike
“We know absolutely that this letter daj, after a very spirited discussion, four children.
gan,-15, and Ethel Baker, 17, were fa­ street, near Thirteenth. The building publicly that the De Lome incident
peace by the presence of a force suffi­
will
not
affect
the
relations
between
Representative
Norton
brought
it
to
a
For years George Freeman and his
is genuine. A man risked his life to
tally asphyxiated by fumes from char­ was six stories in height and occupied
Spain and the United States, and that obtain it. We do not hesitate to ac­ sudden close by demanding a vote on sons have worked at the paper mills on ciently large to hold any disturbance
coal at Modoc, Thursday night.
in check. Whether the Fourteenth
almost the entire block. The first floor a new envoy competent to conduct the
the question of favorably reporting it
The sugar bounty conference an­ was occupied as offices of the Union commercial negotiations will be se­ knowledge that it was stolen from Can- to the house. The vote disclosed five the west side of the river. The trip to will be permanently located in Alaska
and from their daily labor has been has not yet been determined, but it
eljas. It is written on the paper of
nounced to begin February 15 at Brus­ Storage Company and the Chautauqua lected.
the legation. The handwriting is de members of the committee in favor of made from the village of Canemah over seems not unlikely, as only two com-'
sels, has been indefinitely postponed, Lake Ice Company. The second floor
it,
and
seven
against
it,
the
division
France having renewed her objections. front contained the stables of the Chau­ Regards Himself as a Private Citizen. Lome’s, and the signature is his. He not being on party lines. The vote on the east side.
panies are left at the post.
The Willamette has been rising very
As soon as the order reached Vancou­
Washington, Feb. 14.—The state de- may deny it until he is black in the was:
Judge McMahon, in the high court tauqua company, and in the Twelfth
rapidly since Sunday, and it is sup­
at Toronto, has decided that a union is street end they had their ice-making prtment this morning gave out for pub­ face, but it is genuine, and everybody
Ayes—Ray, Warner, Henry, Smith, posed the current carried the boat ver barracks, General Merriam and
who
has
seen
the
letter
knows
that
it
Major Jacobs, his chief quartermaster,
not liable on the charge of conspiracy machinery and other property of the lication the substance of the cablegram
Republicans, and Griggs, Democrat.
farther than they suspected before the came to Portland to secure, if possible,
Chautauqua company. The rest of the sent Saturday to our minister at Madrid is. The man who stole it abstracted it
for expelling a man from the order.
Noes
—
Sulloway,
Kerr,
Gibson,
Stur
­
discovery was made that something was passage for thé troops on the Oregon.
from thé' envelope, and left the latter.
According to trustworthy intelli-'i building was occupied by the storage in reference to the De Lome letter. The If he had attempted to steal the en­ tevant, Republicans; Norton, Demo­ wrong.
The result of their interview with
crat,
and
Botkin
and
Castle,
Populists.
gence, says a St. Petersburg dispatch, company. The entire fire department statement was as follows:
In the dense fog it was not possible Agent Poston was not entirely satisfac­
There has appeared in the public velope he would- never have got away
This
practically
ends
the
effort
to
se
­
China has finally abandoned the idea was called out. While the conflagra­
to locate familiar signs, and in that gray tory. The latter was not disposed to
with the letter.”
of raising a loan in London ' or else­ tion was at its height, an explosion of prints a letter addressed by the Span­
Mr. Rubens was asked about the cure the enactment of a general meas­ mist the men had no warning by the disappoint those to whom the accom­
one
of
the
large
tanks
filled
with
am
­
ish
minister
to
Mr.
Canelajas.
This
where. ,
ominous, sullen roar of the , falls as
translation, and if there was not some ure along these lines at this session.
monia, used in the manufacture of
Chairman Ray, who was instructed they drew nearer and nearer the most modations on the Oregon have been
A New York Herald dispatch from ice, occurred, which was followed by letter the minister admits was written danger that it was wrong. He replied:
sold, and would make no definite reply
by him,' It contains expressions con­
San Juan del Sur says: Conservative several others and the burned-out walls cerning
“No; the translation was made by a at the last meeting to appoint a sub­ dangerous point.
without-consulting the officials of the
the
president
of
the
United
committee
to
draft
a
service
pension
refugees who have been threatening an came toppling down, and firemen, po­ States of such a character as to termi­ man who thoroughly .understands both
The boat gave a wild lurch as the Pacific Coast Steamship Company. He
bill,
notified
the
committee
today
that
attack on the government since their licemen and spectators were buried.
main torrent struck it. In the same proposed, however, to bring the Au­
nate the minister’s usefulness as a rep languages, and is as near correct as a he would appoint the subcommittee in instant
failure last September rushed through
all five of the men discovered stralia, a 2,200-ton steamship now fit­
As soon as possible, work was com­ resentative of the government to this translation can bé. ”
a
few
days.
the village without the slightest warn­ menced to recover the dead and wound­ country. General Woodford, therefore,
that they were far below the usual ting for the Alaska trade in San Fran­
“Where is the letter now?” he was
During the entire time of the senate point of crossing and that the powerful
ing and surprised the barracks. There ed, the former being sent to the morgue was instructed at once to say to the asked.
today, the Indian appropriation bill current was carrying them down at a cisco, to Portland, to carry the com­
was one fatality on each side. Further as fast as recovered from the débris minister of state that the immediate
“That I decline to answer.”
was under consideration. The reading velocity that'increased every second. mand, a plan which was favorably re­
fighting is anticipated. A force of ma­ and the wounded sent to the hospital.
recall
of
De
Lome
is
expected
by
the
of the bill was completed and all the Additional hands were put to the oars ceived, and which, from pesent indica­
Sensation
at
Washington.
rines from the U. S. battleship Alert
The scene at the morgue was a har­ president. It is stated that up to this
committee
amendments were adopted and an attempt was made to pull out tions, will probably be adopted. In
Washington, Feb. lj.—The publica­
has been landed to protect American rowing one. As soon as the burned time no response has been received from
this case the start will not be made till
and subsequently several amendments of the swirling, rushing stream.
tion
of
a
letter
bearing
the
signature
interests.
March. Everything on the Oregon ex­
and mangled bodies were recovered, the Spanish government.
of a minor character were attached to
of
the
Spanish
minister,
Dupuy
de
But
it
was
too
late.
It
was
but
a
Judge Hanford, of the federal court, they were taken there where they were
cept ten berths, has been sold, so that
Up to 10 o’clock de Lome had not re­
the measure.
half moment later that the launch she could be of no service to the gov­
Bitting in Tacoma, has rendered a deci­ washed and placed in presentable con­ ceived from the Spanish government an Lomé, addressed to Senor Canelejas
Allen
enlivened
the
proceedings
a
and making severe strictures on Presi­
plunged into the churning waves of ernment for the movement of troops.
Bion in the case of the Tacoma Grain dition.
aceptance of his resignation, but it is
few minutes before adjournment by
Company vs. the Oregon Railroad
Every victim was covered with wood believed it will soon be given, and the dent McKinley, has created a profound making an attack on Speaker Reed for the upper falls.. The boat was caught It is well understood that in case of ur­
& Navigation Company and the Great and dirt, and almost every body was minister’s official connection with the impression in official circles, and it is preventing the enactment, as the Ne­ and whirled around. One oar was torn gent. necessity, the steamer could be
Northern railway, which is vital im­ scalded and charred. Bones protruded government as Spanish representative expected to bring about important re­ braska senator declared, of meritorious from the rower’s hands, and then the seized, but such a course is hardly like­
craft shot ahead, straight through the ly to be taken unless late reports
portance to wheat growers of the state from the charred and broken hands ot to the termination without the neces­ sults in the immediate future.
The authenticity of the letter cannot legislation sent to the house by the middle current to the yawning gulf be­ should bring news of serious trouble in
and shippers. The decision sustains some, and gaping wounds were found sity of action by this government by
be established from any official source, senate. He denounced the speaker’s
the constitutionality of the recently here and there over the bodies.
Skagway or Dyea. Negotiations are
giving the minister his passpoits. De nor is any denial of it given out from action in this regard as “a disgrace” low.
In wild despair each man clung to also in progress for the transportation
enacted railway transportation law,
All day firemen, policemen and other Lome regards himself now as a private
to
congress
and
to
the
American
people.
fixing a maximum charge for hauls city employes have been working at citizen, although technically still the any quarter. A strong impression pre­ When a point of order was made the plunging craft in the rapids, which of part of the troops by way of Puget
vails that the letter is genuine in its
swept it along at express-train speed. sound.
within the state.
the risk of their lives, but up to night­ Spanish representative.
substantial features. Little doubt ex­ agaihst him for the use of improper The occupants of the boat began to
Colonel Anderson has not yet been
A Peking correspondent says poor fall little progress had been made in
ists in offical circles that if the genu­ language concerning the other branch shout an alarm. Their cries reached fully apprised of his duties and author­
old China is afraid to borrow from clearing away the debris. The work
of congress, Allen said he was stating the ears of some of the employes at the
De Lome Anxious to Go.
ineness
of
the
letter
is
fully
estab-
ity, but it is generally supposed that
either Russia or England. She is en­ will be continued without cessation un­
New York, Feb. 14.—Diplomatic lshed it will result in the retirement of only the truth and that he was respon­ power station of the Portland General he
will be placed in command of a de­
deavoring to secure an extension from til it is known that no bodies remain relations between the United States of
sible
here
or
elsewhere,
at
any
time
for
De Lome and his replacement by
Electric works. Rushing out on the partment of Alaska, which will be at
Japan in the payment of the war in­ buried.
his
statements.
and Spain through Minister de Lome another minister.
trestle walk, which runs into the
demnity.
It was expected to conclude the con­ shore, they could just discern the out­ least temporarily created, and be given
are at an end, and correspondence will
At the Spanish legation every ave­
A FABULOUS DISCOVERY.
full charge. His headquarters will be
News has been received of a landslide
be conducted exclusively through Min­ nue of inquiry as to the letter is closed. sideration of the pending bill today, lines of the boat containing several at
Dyea, and two companies will be
at Quesnelle Forks, Cariboo. Three Ricli Find Repoi*ted on the American ister Woodford in Madrid until Spain The minister positively declines to be but when an appeal was taken from men.
stationed at Skagway. The two com­
the
ruling
of
the
vice-president
against
miners, William Allen, Joez Rich and
sends
a
new
minister
to
Washington,
Side of the Yukon.
seen concerning ■ the subject. He will
A general alarm W’as then given. A panies which are to follow will be
Alex McLean, were buried. The slide
designates a charge d’affaires, says neither affirm nor deny the accuracy of Allen that an amendment offered by boat was put out from the electric quartered with the commander at
Vancouver, B. 0., Feb. 14.—It is or
Thurston
was
not
in
order,
the
point
of
was 1,000 feet wide, 800 feet long and
Herald’s Washington correspond­ the letter as a whole of in part.
works, but it was some time before the
reported that a great gold discovery has the
order was made by Allen that a quorum rescuers could see anything of the ill- Skagway.
25 feet high.
ent.
been made on the American side in the
was
not
present.
A
roll-call
disclosed
Minister de Lome has cabled his res­
fated party.
Insane jealousy prompted the wife of Yukon country. Fritz Behnsen, of
CANNON AND MASON.
SALTER WORDEN CONFESSED.
the absence of a quorum, and the sen­
William V. Place, an insurance ad­ Victoria, writes to his brothqr, Karl ignation to his government. Assistant
Muffled cries caused them to row
ate
adjourned.
Secretary
of
State
Day
admitted
that
juster of Brooklyn,-to kill her 17-year- Behnsen, as fellow’s:
toward the bank There they saw an Hopes Governor Budd Will Commute
Senators’ Stirring Appeals in Behalf of
this was true, by saying that Minister
old stepdaughter and almost take her
upturned boat slowly drifting about.
the Cubans.
His Sentence.
"We have struck it rich on an un­ de Lome did not deny the authenticity
The
house
was
in
a
very
bad
temper
own life and that of her husband. known creek across the border never
Harry Freeman had just scrambled on
Washington,
Feb.
11.
—
For
.
more
today,
and
the
whole
session
was
con
­
San
Francisco,
Feb. 11.—Salter D.
The crime was fiendish in its nature, before seen by man. In the crevices of of the letter to Canelejas, and by stat­ than three hours today the senate
to the bank, and lay there completely
sumed in filibustering against two bills exhausted.
Worden, convicted of wrecking a mail
ing that a cablegram had been sent to
tjie weapon being an ax.
the rocks in one day we picked up
chamber rang with eloquent appeals in tff minor importance, one to issue
train bearing a guard of the United
The steamer Capilano, which has $50,003 in coarse gold. Sell your busi­ Minister Woodford in Madrid, the con­ behalf of the Cuban insurgents. An­ a duplicate check, and the other to make
Latei he revived and stated that he States, soldiers, near Sacramento, dur­
tents
of
which
would
not
be
made
pub­
just returned from the northern halibut ness, or give it away, and come up
had
left
a
man
clinging
underneath
nounced
speeches
were
.delivered
by
Rockland, Me., a subport of entry.
ing the great strike in 1894, and in
lic until it had reached its destination.
fishing grounds, reports the drowning quick with 10 men.” .
Cannon and Mason in advocacy of the Neither got farther than the engross­ and that lie had shouted once or twice whose behalf the supreme court of the
While
no
official
statement
will
be
for
help.
In
his
exhautsed
condition,
of two of her fishermen, named Robert
The Behnsens have large interests in
adoption of resolutions which they pre­ ment and third reading. The trouble
United States declined to take favor­
Loughead, of Ontario, and Michael Vancouver, and are said to be reliable. made as to the contents of this cable­ sented to the senate yesterday. Fol­ arose over the enforcement of the rule he said, it was impossible for him to able action on his plea for a new trial,
gram
until
its
substance
has
been
com
­
Driscoll. The captain of the Capilano
Several Klondikers were interviewed
lowing Cannon’s speech, Hale ad­ against the discussion of irrevelant sub­ tell whether it was one of his brothers has confessed his crime to Governor
From the survivor’s Budd with a view to receiving a com­
reports the roughest weather in his ex­ as to the probability of this report being municated to the Spanish minister of dressed the senate briefly, urging the jects, when Handy attempted to reply or Shannon.
foreign
affairs,
it
informs
Minister
perience.
true. The richness of the reputed dis­ Woodford of the publication of the let­ senate to uphold the policy of the ad­ on the floor during the consideration of statements, it is evident that three of mutation of the d.eath sentence from
i The house of representatives has re­ covery seems so fabulous as to create in ter, says that De Lome does not deny ministration.
those bills to a letter recently written the party were flung out in the dash the executive of the state.
The galleries were packed with peo­ by Thomas F. Bayard, in denunciation over the falls. The other two got
ceived the official report of the death their minds a doubt as to its truthful­ its authenticity, and directs him to
Worden’s confession covers 3,700
through, but the man caught under the
of Colonel Ruiz, the Spaniard who ness.
suggest to the Spanish foreign office ple, aware that this would be a field of the free-silver democracy. Roll-call boat could not hold out longer, and words, an.l gives the full details of the
was? executed for carrying a message
followed roll-call all day long, and par­
■ crime. He says he, with several oth­
that De Lome cannot be regarded day for Cuban oratory.
ALL QUIET IN DAWSON.
While Cannon was speaking, a sen­ tisan spirit reached a high pitch. Fi­ sank to his death in the eddying waters, ers, had been ordered by a committee
from Blanco imploring the Cubans to
as persona grata and to suggest that
where
he
could
easily
have
swam
sational
incident
occurred.
A
mem
­
accept autonomy. Aranguren, the Cu­
nally, when it beoame evident that no
of strikers to remove the rails from the
the Miners Busy another minister be sent to Washing­ ber of the house, standing near the
ban general, who is supposed to have W. KennyReports
progress could be made with the bills ashore had he been released.
Yolo bridge for the purpose of wrecking
ton.
at Work.
speaker, audibly denounced as a lie, presented, adjournment was taken until
ordered Ruiz put to death, is not cen­
the train carrying the troops. He gives
While
naturally
regretting
the
un
­
Seattle, Feb. 14.—Kenny, who
CUBA IN THE SENATE.
sured in the official -report.
the names of his accomplices and
pleasant incident which has terminated seemingly, some statement Cannon had Monday.
makes known many details of the work
It is annouced that Hetty Green will left Dawson January 12, arrived here his diplomatic career in Washington, made. Cannon, pale with feeling,
Washington,
Feb.
12.
—
The
senate
build a railroad through Oklahoma. tonight on the City of Topeka. He .Minister de Lome will not regret being made reply to what at the moment committee on appropriations has re­ Three Resolutions Introduced Favoring of the strikers heretofore unknown to
the general public.
Ex-President
The proposed road will run from Med­ reports everything quiet in Dawson. relieved of the onerous duties which seemed an insult, but which was sub­ ported the Indian appropriation bill.
the Insurgents’ Cause*
Cleveland interested himself in Wor­
ford on the Rock Island to Sherman, All of the miners are busy at work.
have developed upon him as the Span­ sequently satisfactorily explained.
The increase is $173,000 over the house
Dr.
Rufus
Smith,
of
Dyea,
who
was
Washington, Feb. 10.—Three propo­ den’s behalf, out of sympathy for the
Tex.,-where it will connect with E. R.
ish representative here during the insur­
The Republican majority was in­ bill. A proviso is made in regard to sitions, differing materially as to mother of the condemned man, and
Green’s road. There the line will be also a passenger on the City of Topeka, rection in Cuba. • As soon as he learned
the
detailing
of
army
officers
for
agents
connected with the Hutchinson & Okla­ brings with him two petitions which that the letter had been obtained by creased by one when Jhe house un­ at. such agencies as in the opinion of methods, were presented in the senate Governor Budd determined to probe
homa, and will give the teiritory an­ are signed by leading citzens of Skag­ the junta he realized that its publica­ seated Plowman of Alabama, a Demo­ the president may require the presence today for the relief of the Cuban insur­ the matter to the bottom before decid­
other connection with the Gulf. The way and Dyea, asking the war depart­ tion would make his official stay in crat, giving the seat to Aldrich, a Re­ of an officer. The number of Indian gents. Allen offered as an amendment ing the case, with the result that Wor­
road it is said will be built the present; ment to declare martial law in those Washington as Spanish minister impos­ publican. This was the first contested inspectors is increased to five, and each to the diplomatic and consular appro­ den confessed in the presence of the
places. Dr. Smith states that robber­
year.
sible, and he immediately cabled his election case decided by the present one shall be competent in the location, priation bill a resolution recognizing governor, Warden Aull, of the Folsom
One of the biggest silk manufactur­ ies and hold-ups are of daily occur­ government the facts and tendered his house against the present sitting construction and maintenance of irriga­ the belligerency of the insurgents, and prison, and a stenographer. •
said he hoped this would afford the
Worden throws the blame for the
ing houses in Europe, with mills at rence. In his opinion, the lawless resignation. When the letter appeared member.
Those who spoke on the case were tion works.
house an opportunity to vote on that hatching of the trainwrecking plot on
Cienfield, Germany, is to remove to element outnumbers the law-abiding he again cabled to his government,
The
Dawes
commission
is
increased
Settle, Hamilton, Bartlett and Taylor.
proposition.
Harry Knox, chairman of the griev­
this country, locating at Paterson, N. two to one.
to four, and provision is made for the
The officers of the City of Topeka re­ stating that the letter had been pub­
Gannon offered a resolution urging
J., and build what is intended, to be
lished
and
reiterating
his
wish
to
be
commission to make up the rolls of the the president to notify the kingdom of ance committee of the Sacramento
•' Reports Were Magnified.
port
that
a
body
could
be
seen
floating
lodge, A, R. U., who, he says, gave
the. largest silk mill in the United
relieved.
Chattanooga, Feb. 11. — Telegrams five civilized tribes, and it is declared Spain that if it did not recognize the him all his instructions, and decoyed
States. The incorporation papers filed around in the wreck of -the steamer
This
is
not
the
first
time
that
De
that
when
tire
rolls
are
made
up
and
from
Chattanooga
appearing
in
a
num
­
of the Cuban republic by him into accompanying the gang of
in Paterson give the name of the con­ Corona. It could not be identified.
Lome has placed his resignation at the ber of metropolitan papers th the effect approved by the secretary of the inter­ independence
March 4,1898, the United States would wreckers to the Yolo bridge. He also
cern as the Andiger-Meyer Silk Com­
disposal of the Sagasta ministry. that there are 1,000 cases of smallpox ior, they shall bp final.
Reward Is Offered.
recognize the belligerency of the
pany. Employment will be given to
The time fixed for opening the Un- Cubans, and within 90 days „thereafter charges complicity ip the plot to
Colfax, Wash., Feb. 14,—The Whit­ When Senor Sagasta came into power, in and about Chattanooga are without
Mullin and Compton, the other two
1,200 weavers.
the
minister
being
of
the
opposing
man county commissionershave offered
foundation in fact. During the last compahgre land in Utah .is extended would assert the independence of the members of the committee, who, with
The trial of M. Emile Zola and M. a reward of $500 for the apprehension party in Spain, tendered his resigna­ seven months there have been only two six months.
Cuban republic.
Knox, managed the strike on the Sac­
Perreiux, manager of the Aurore, who and conviction of the lynchers of Chad­ tion, and he has offered his resignation cases of smallpox in this immediate
The legislation of the house bill re­
Mason followed with a resolution re­
are being prosecuted by the French wick Marshall, alias “Blackey,” who again in all on five separate occasions section.
garding the Pottawattamies and the questing the president to notify Spain ramento division of the Southern Pa­
cific railroad.
government as the result of a letter was taken from the Colfax jail and since that time. He has been retained
Kickapoos in Kansas is stricken out.
that the Cuban war must oease at orwe,
Worden’s story is that Knox in­
Earthquakes in Asia Minor.
by
Senor
Sagasta,
however,
on
account
which the novelist caused to be pub­ hanged by a mob.
•
Washington, Feb. 12.—The Oregon and declare the intention of the United structed him, as a member of the A.
Constantinople, Feb. 11. — Earth­
of his intimate knowledge of the Cuban
lished in Aurore in December last,
States
to
restore
and
maintain
peace
on
R. U., to procure a team to convey
Luetgert Convicted.
question and of the situation in the quake shocks continue at Bailksar, delegation expects to get favorable ac­ the island of Cuba.
strongly reflecting upon high officials
eight men to Davisville, saying that
Asia Minor, and its vicinity. About tion from the war department for the
Chicago, Feb. 14.—Adolph L. Luet- United States.
connected with the Dreyfus case, is
The right of Hon. Henry W. Corbett Tom Kelly, another striker, would ac­
4,000 people have been rendered home­ Yaquina bay improvement, which
creating a great amount of excitement gert was tonight convicted of the mur­
Holland Dogs for Alaska.
less and some 3,600 houses, 30 mosques means the expenditure of $1,000,000 to a.seat in the senate from Oregon oc­ company him, “knew all about it.”
in Paris.
When Zola entered the der of his wife and sentenced to life
Tacoma, Wash., Feb. 14.—Thirty and 15 khans were more or less de­ at that place. Representative Tongue cupied the senate’s attention for two At the same time Knox gave Worden
courtroom the first day of the trial imprisonment in the penitentiary
dogs
direct from Holland were shipped stroyed and 120 persons have been has been promised that the contract hours, Chandler speaking in favor of an order on a Sacramento livery
Luetgert
received
the
verdie-
with
a
cries of "spit upon him” came from
seating the claimant.
stable for the team. Worden says that
shall be authorized.
to
Alaska
today on the bark Shirley.
killed or injured.
laugh.
the spectators.
in the wagon they drove out from Sac­
The fourth session of the 14th parlia­
• The house today entered upon consid­ ramento were Kelly, Dunn, Hatch,
Work of Ruffians.
Amending Coastwise Shipping Laws*
Japan Refused More Time.
Vancouver,
B.
C.,
Feb.
14.
—
Advices
ment of Queen Victoria and the 26th
Washington, Feb. 12. —Senator Frye eration of the Aidrich-Plowman con­ Appleman, Barrett and Wheeler. He
London, Feb. 14.—The Peking cor­
Astoria, Or., Feb. 11,—The village
of the United Kingdom, was opened by from the Orient report an assault by
today
seoured the passage by the senate tested election case, from the fourth then describes how the train was
respondent
of
the
Times
says:
The
of
Seaside,
this
county,,
is
in
a
state
of
Japanese
artisans
on
Mr.
Sands,
secre
­
the commission at 2 o’clock Tuesday
of
a
bill
amending the navigation laws Alabama district. The majority of the wrecked, and concludes his confession
Japanese
minister,
Curino,
regretfully
excitement over what is stated by some
after with the customary ceremonies. tary of the United States legation at
committee reported in favor of seating with an appeal to the governor to save
Previous to the reassembling of the Seoul. The attack was unprovoked, intimates to the tsung-li-yamen the to have been an attempt to assassinate in important particulars, affecting the the Republican on the ground of con-- him from the gallows.
parliament, the usual party of beef­ and the police did not interfere. Sands, inability of his government, in regard Postmaster Johannesen last evening. coasting trade of this country. The spiraçy, an allegation vigorously denied
eaters, accompanied by a number of however, held one of his assailants and to the obligations contracted by Japan, About midnight, after Mr. Johannesen bill is of general application, but it is by the Democratic minority. ' Plow­
Spanish trains so seldom leave sta­
officials and headed by the chief of po­ compelled the police to arrest him. to grant an extension of the time for and his family had retired, some mis­ intended especially to prevent Cana­ man’s plurality on the face of the re­ tions on time tlïàt the time tables in
dian
vessels
from
securing
an
undue
payment
of
the
war
indemnity.
creant
fired
a
rifle
bullet
through
a
Afterwards
a
complaint
was
lodged
by
lice, made the customary search for
turns was 2,967. The majority revised many cases merely indicate the hour of
imitators of Guy Fawkes, formally as­ the United States consul, and the Jap­ Though no official statement has been bedroom window, which passed but a share of the carrying business between the figures so as to give Aldrich a plu-. departure—say 8 and “minutos”—this
Alaska
and
other
American
ports.
It
certaining that the vaults of the house anese authorities have arrested various issued, the negotiations for a loan from few inches above the bed in which Mr.
rality of 342. Two speeches were is, an indefinite number, of minutes
of parliament did not contain anything persons supposed to have been engaged British sources are regarded as having Johannesen was sleeping, lodging in will prevent Canadians gaining part of made on each side, by Taylor and after 8.
our
coasting
trade.
failed.
the
wall.
in
the
affair.
inimical to the safety of its members.
Mann, for the majority, and by Fox
Shipwrecked Sailors Rescued.
Fatal Panic at a Funeral.
To Enlarge the Park.
Rescued by Lifesavers.
The latest and richest strike of all
and Settle, for the minority. It is ex­
New York, Feb. 11.—The steamer
Five Killed in a Collision.
Warsaw, Feb. 14.—Daring the fun­
has been made near the famous old
Washington,
Feb.
12.
—
Senator
pected
that
a
vote
will
be
reached
to
­
Hull, Mass., Feb. 11,—The crew of
Burgundia, which arrived today from
Montgomery, Ala., Feb. 14.—A dis­ the schooner Crandall, which was Hansborough, at the instance of the morrow.
mining camp of Canyon City, and is eral service in the synagogue at Idizi-
Mediterranean ports, brought 16 sea­
astrous
head-end
collision
occurred
on
causing no little excitement in mining enciol in Grodno yesterday, the wom­
blown adrift during the blizzard Mon­ secretary of the interior, today intro­
Spokane, Wash., Feb. 10.—A Wal­ men rescued in midocean from their
circles in Eastern Oregon. The strike an’s gallery collapsed. In the panic the Louisville & Nashville railway to­ day night, was rescued by the crew of duced a bill for the enlargement of lace, Idaho, special to the Spokesman- sinking craft. They were Captain Lar­
was made in the Great Northern mine, that ensued 12 women, five men and day near Kirkland, killing Will User, the Point Allerton lifesaving station Yellowstone National Park, so as to Review says: Thomas Louke, a miner son and 15 of the crew of the Norwe­
about two miles southeast of Canyon children were crushed ' to death and engineer; Ed Davis, fireman, and three last night.
The Crandall’s crew had increase the area from 1,322 square
•white tramps. Harry Davidson, engi­ been 34 hours without anything to eat miles to 6,566 square miles. The at the Morning mine, was killed in a gian bark B. D. Metcalf, from Savan­
City, owned by Samuel Guker. Two many others injured.
neer, and Will Lee, fireman, were ser­ or drink except a pint of beans and southernmost addition includes .Jack- peculiar way this morning. He was nah to Hamburg with a cargo of naval
men took out $1,000 in gold with mor­
New
York,
Feb.
14.
—
A
dispatch
to
iously injured.
Charles Harrison, what little water they could obtain by son’s Hole, which Superintendent standing by the ore chute, when a stores.
tars and pans in two days. The gold
the
Times
from
Mexico
says:
News
brakeman,
has
both
legs cut off, and breaking icicles from the rigging and Young says, in recommendation of the rock came down, striking him in the
is being taken from a cut 20 feet long
Disappointed by his inability to
stomach and knocking him against the
has
reached
here
that
General
Prospero
Brakeman Hughes was badly hurt. melting them.
addition, is a valuable winter resort wall with such violence as to break his solve the problem of aerial navigation,
and 12 feet deep, in which there is an
(for game.
exceedingly rich ledge, 12 to 14 inches Morales, formerly secretary of war Both will die. Engineer Davidson for­
back. He was brought to the hospital Max Pauly, a machinist at the Union
Pretoria, Feb. 11.—Paul Kruger has
in width, which has yielded an average under General Barrios, and later head got to stop at Kirkland and meet No.
There have been 30 fatal termina­ here, but died two hours later. Be iron works, San Francisco, committed
of
the
unsuccessful
rebellion,
has
been
11.
The
cars
and
engines
were
demol
­
been
re-elected
president
of
the
South
of $8 to the pound, or $16,000 to the
suicide.
left a widow and two children,
tions of prize fights since 1882.
declared president of Guatemala,
ished.
African republic.
tun.
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