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About The Santiam news. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1897-1917 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 5, 1910)
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK MOTHER DROWNS CHILDREN. Driven Insane by Lonesome roundings and Fear. Sur Antioch, Cal. One after another. j four little children were drowned in a tub by their mother. Two older child ren tried to pre verity the murders, but ■ the woman went about the work in a strange calm and strength, as though ; she had been called upon to make sac She General Rasuma of Important Event« rifice to some unknown power. I took her arrest in the same quiet Prasantad In Condensed Form •piriL galine calmly at her husband as for Our Busy Readers. 1 he struggled with his*agvny on coming home from work to find hia babies I dead. Ths fashion show at the Coliseum in The woman, Mrs. Joseph Mello, wife Chicago has ruled out all sorta of frills for men's wear. | of a ranchman, said she was tired of The mayor of New York will prohib looking forever at the brown hills that it the distribution of free beer to fire shut in their home. She said she was men and policemen. afraid that she was losing her mind Forest fires have broken out afresh and feared her children would inherit near Whitefish. Mont, and are destroy her insantly. After her husband left ing valuable timber. home in the morning, she set about her Count Zeppelin, undismayed by his taak. She filled a large waahtub with many failures and misfortunes, will j water and gathered the children Into build another airship. j the kitchen. An army transport has on board, _ were _______ ___ old; They Ramona, _ 4 years bound from Seattle for Manila, a Fil- l^ona. 2 years old; and Bernal and Ipino sailor 101 years old. Vernal, 5 month« old twins. These John D. Rockefeller has been ordered put up their arms to their mother by his physician to take whiskey baths trustingly, and ¡were sent «w«j with to maintain his bodily vigor. Doings of the World at large Told in Brief. Japanese and Portuguese fans had a general fight at a ball game in Hono- lul between Japanese and Chinese players. Attorney General Wickersham has decided there is no law under which the statue of Gen. Robert E. I-ee can be removed from the national capital. Captain Bernier, of the British navy, has been commissioned to take hie ship through the Northwest pasaege, and incidentally ta plant the British flag on any lands he may discover. Troops have lieen ordered home from Du rami, Mich., where they had been on duty in connection with -the Grand Trunk strike. Before they left, the troops and civilians played a game of baseball, the proceeds of which went to the slirkcrs. A Chicago paper claims >35,000 was collected ta lie used in bribes to elect Hopkins senator. HEAT AGAIN HITS CHICAGO WAR IN SPAIN INEVITABLE. Pretender Don Jaime Ready to Lead Carlitts to Battle. San Sebastian, Spain—At the co«»- I elusion of a conference between King .. Alfonso and Premier Canalejas, it was From announced that Marquis Ennlio de Oje da. Spanish ambassador to the Vatican, had been recalled. At the same time the opinion was axprvsawd that a rupture with the Vat- ■ Most — Fivs Dead. Others Dying Mad Dogs lean was inevitable. Señor Canalejas | Pacific Northwest Suffers told the king that the government I Homebuilders Are Almost Com Bits Three Authontes Work could not accept the conditions of the 1 pletely Shut Out. to Save the Babies. Vstican's last note, and that the Vati can would be so informed. Don Jaime, the pretender, has is Washington Nearly 300,000,000 Chicago — Notwithstanding cool sued a manifesto in which he says he : weather In Chicago because of a •tiff will lead th«- Carliata in the battle acres of public land, the cream of the I w been witMr.wn fr„m ,. breese off the lake, five persons died which he intimates is coming soon. The rerwra! situation is complicated . . Wednesday, many were prostrated, of j by the unrest among the miners in the h*',J thc rWBfh th* whom four will probably die, and three Catalonian provinces ami the occasion- tier and the home-builder. Some of it d clashes between the Catholic and is permanently withdrawn, aa, for in- were bitten by rabid dogs. ; «tanc« the forest reserves, national All the country from the Rocky non-Cathloic elements throughout country. mountains to the Atlantic seaboard parks, etc., and other portions may in Marquis de Ojeda himself in addition swelters under a veritable blanket of to pleading illm-ea, has been insisting ** plsccd within the reach heat and many cases of suffering are on his return, on the ground that the of the people of the West, But at the reported from various cities. Wrath position at Rome no longer was tena- present time this enormous acreage ia er forecasters aay there ia no relief in t ble, and that he considered a rupture absolutely tied up, undeveloped, inac between the Vatican and the govcrn- sight and that the temperature will go ' ment imminent. cessible, and for the most part unii»- higher. In some sections of ths coun habited. Premier Canalejas, referring to the try special services were held in the Vatican's last note, which declami There remains of the public domain churclies, at which prayers were offer- that unless the decree of June 11 per-' only about 700,000,000 acres that is milting non Catholic societies to dis play the insignia of public worship was unappropriated and unreserved, and a withdrawn, negotiations looking to the very small percentage of this residue revision of the concordat would be dis- is attractive or will ever he attractive , continued, said the government would to settlers. Included in this acreage tolerate no imposition. arc the bad lands of the West, the ir Spain's recalling Amltaaaador de reclaimable desert«, barren mountain Ojeda, it ia expected, will be followed by the departure from Madrid of Mgr. summits and worthless mountain coun Vico, the papal nuncio, when the rup try. Only a small portion is arable, ture will lie complete. and very little ia of a character that Senor Canalejas ia preparing for a will permit of agricultural develop- supreme battle. In addressing a Lib eral organisation he declared that ment. The beat lands that have not Spain was strugg'ing for lilierty of passed to privste ownership are now conscience, "Poor Spain,” he said. held up by the government. "If we succumb, it will be decadence, In the Pacific Northwest, nearly 55,- i The government, which possesses the 000,000 acres of public land are today confidence of the king, will save Spain withheld from the reach of settlers. despite all and against all. The strug gle we wage ia mH anti-religious, but QUEEN WILL LEAVE MADRID. anti-clerical. We count upon the army, a majority in parliament, and Wife of Spain's King to Visit Rela reason.” Most of Nation’s Attractive Lands Now Tied Ip. Torrid Weather Extends Atlantic to Rockies tives on.'lsle of Wright. BILLS GREATLY PADDED. Stockton doctors declare that the adulterationa in ice cream cones cause infantile paralysis. Es-Cierk of Car Repair Firm Strong Testimony. Germany has turned down the plea of Nicaragua for intervention against the United States. Farmers in lm|>erial valley. Cal., are becoming desperate over the delay in the irrigation project. Minnesota Democrat« have nomi- natrd John Lind for governor, liut he positively refuses to run. A Tacoma thief turned in a fire alarm and then robbed the fire station while the company was out. It is said the Western Federation of Miners is likely to affiliate with the American Federation of Labor. r Km« AH*«!*« atxl Queen Kna. erf Mpein. wh<«s throw Mt threatened try farvuJutxmiete. Gives Chicago F. W. Belmont, ex-clerk of the Memphis Car Repair company, paddi-d bills against the Illinois Cen tral as high as 1,000 per cent, accord ing to his own testimony before Mas ter in Chancery Mason. He declared that H. C. Ostermann, president of the repair company, and his assistants, went ao far a« to sub stitute bills of the Ostcrmann Manu facturing company, of West Pullman, for those of the Memphis concern and to paste on the West Pullman bills the I "O K” of the Memphis inspector. The average padding of bills, the wit ness said, waa between 40 ami 50 per i cent. Belmont was 'asked concerning the transfer of the car inspectorship at Memphis from one Crabtree to W. H. Moore. Mr. Ward, a officer of the •-ompany, according to the witness, de- sired to be rid of Crabtree because hc "saw too much.” and refused to "0 K” bills until they were completed. "Ward told me he would get someone who could not see so much,” said Bel mont. A coasting ve««el plying between Seattle and Alaskan ports reports hav < ed for rain and cooler weather. ing run through a herd of 20,000 wol- little struggle. The two other children liecame run. The focus of the heat wave seems to frightened, the oldest, a 14-year old be slowly moving caat, although it has Fourteen accidents occurred in the boy, breaking out of the house ami lower Columbia and Willamette rivers calling wildly for help. There was a lieen centered two days in Kansas and in 48 hours, but none very serious and 6-yaar old girl, too, who got away. Oklahoma. Thermometers In Kansas mi lives were lost Southern While these two were screaming in the registered 100 and higher. The coroner's jury returned a verdict yard the 2-year old baby was quickly cities report unususl best, aeeompan- that Ira G. Rawn, late president of the drowned and laid out in the row with icd by fitful showers which are quickly Then the struggle with reduced to steam, making breathing Great Monon railway, died by hia own the twin*. GUTHRIE STILL CAPITAL. difficult and painful. hand, presumably to csca|>e graft dis Ramona began. In Chicago the great fight by health While this was going on. Sheriff R. closures. R. Veale, who was passing in a buggy, officers and charity organisations Is Officials Who Moved State Office* c xpedition The Mount McKinley Mull Now Return, heard the screams and drove up to the centered in saving the thousands of failed to roach the summit of Mount j babies, who suffer more from improper house. Guthrie, Oklahoma The State Su McKinley, ami ia now returning to Agent« "Mother is killing the children," care than from the torridity. preme court has handed down a decis Seward, Alaska. the oldest boy told him. The sheriff of all the organisations are working ion in the capital removal case to the Tacoma ia having a big legal fight ran into the kitchen and found the night and day in the Ghetto and other effect that Oklahoma's capital shall with its streetcar company. struggle Just about over. He tore the congested districts warning parent» remain at Guthrie until the legality of about overfeeding and neglecting to the election recently held ia deter Bryan was deposed a« a Democratic little girl from her mother and sought ’ bathe their children and keep their; in every way to restore life, liut, after mined and the courts have settled the leader by the state convention of Ne houses clean. woking on her for some lime, saw that constitutional question embraced in braska. In these districts the population is the child was dead. the provision of the enabling act that The steel business of the country has The mother stood and looked quietly chiefly sleeping on fire escapes and i Guthrie shall remain the capital until increased many millions over the same at the sheriff. Then the husband came doorways and in any ojien spot where 1913, and that an election shall be held Ex period last year. home to hia s rangely quiet house, and a breath of air may be obtained. I after that time to establish a perma- tra precautions arc being taken to 1 nent capital. Alaska census enumerators did much Mrs. Mello was taken away to the muxxle dogs and to slay all without of their work when the mercury was Martines jail, talking on the way In obedience to the decision, all state licenses, because of the large number about ordinary things She never be 70 degrees below xcro. officials who have removed their offices of them going mad from the heat. fore had given any signa of insanity. to Oklahoma City must return to Guth A range war between cattlemen ami At the bathing beaches hundreds rie. sheep men has broken out in Montana stood in line patiently waiting for , Prehistoric Find Made. and serious trouble is expected. suits. All the beaches keep open Atbsstos Fraud Charged. Auburn, Cal.—The bones of two pre The 0. R. A N. will reduce grain historic humans with low brows amt nights, to give sxhauatc l humanity an New York On the charge of Mrs. opportunity to cool off in preparation rates to compete with the Northern heavy jaw Ixinea have been found in William T. Bull, widow of the noted for the morrow’s siege. Pacific In hauling grain to the Sound. an ancient cave on the limestone pro|>- A terrific electrical and hail atom surgeon, that she had tieen defrauded Five inmates of the criminal ward of erty that is being opened up near Cool, swept over the Michigan fruit belt of $35,000 in an investment in an as The company own Thousands of acres of corn and oats bestos company, John Qualey and JHar- the Oregon state insane asylum es Eldorado county. caped. Three were recaptured im ing the ground gave to Dr. Sawyer, of were riddled and the damage to the vey Wiley Corbett, officers of the com mediately but ths other two are still Auburn, permission to open and ex fruit cannot be estimated, but will be pany, appeared in court and heard Mrs. plore the cave and recover any curios very heavy. Bull tell the story of the alleged fraud at large. it might p,«aea«k In one chamber were Nebraska reports the hottest weath- I ulent transaction. The arrest of Cor The skeleton of a young woman was found portions of two human skeletons. bett, who is a prominent architect and found in a sack half buried in the sand They are believed to be those of mem er on record, with fierce hot wind« asaistan professor in Columbia univer- shriveling everything. In Northern on the beach at Newport., Or. It ia bers of a race that inhabited this coun The , , created marked surprise. believed the woman was murdered ami try long before the Indians lived here. Missouri a temperature of 105 ia re , plana for the Mary lami Institute in ported, with no rain since June H. has twn dead many years. ! Baltimore were of hia drawing. r-------- --------------------- r The conductor of a Northern Pacific switching crew, was run over by cars at Tacoma and had both legs severed below the knee. As he lay on the ground waiting for an ambulance he coolly gave orders for the work of the crew for the rest of the day and chat ted with the men. Loss by Storm is Heavy. Young "Tad" at Bay City. Lexington, Ky. —One thousand acres ■ if tobacco, nearly as much wheat, and more than 500 acres of corn were de i stroyed by a cloudburst in Lincoln, Boyle and Mercer counties. A num ber of buildings amt flocks of sheep were washed away. San Francisco With peeled noses and decided coats of tan giving evi- donee of a much out-of-door honeymoon in the sunny clime of Santa Barbara, Theodore Roosevelt, Jr. and his wife arrived in San Francisco and are regia- tcred at a local fashionable hotel. ■ Cowes, Isle of Wight Within a day or two Queen Victoria, of Spain, will arrive in the Isle of Wight, to visit her relative at Osborne cottage, She needs a rest badly, for Madrid has been full of anxiety of late for the Spanish royal ftunily. She wilt remain ataxit a month aid will be accompanied by her three children, but unless the situation clears in Spain, King Alfonso will not lie able to leave for Madrid before the I end of the month, Queen Victoria's visit is to be [>ure- )y private throughout, but she will vis it Windsor in order to lay a wreath on the tomb of the late King Edward, and she will probably spend a few days in her old home in Kensington palace. It is expected that during her stay. King Alfonso will extend a formal invitation to the king and queen of England to pay him a state visit at Madrid. Campaign Devoid of Mercy. Paris All danger of serious disturb ances in Catalonia appears to have been warded off by Captain General Way ler'» energetic precautionary meas ures and his well known decision of character. Genera) Weyler said: "The moment a revolutionary outbreak in Barcelona compels me, as captain general, to assume the supreme com mand, I want the revolutionists to know they must prepare for a merei- leas fight. There will be neither pris oners nor wounded. The walla of the hospitals will become useless and the cemeteries will have to be enlarged." Si« to Try Atlantic Flight. New York — Melvin Vaniman, avia tor and mechanical engineer, returned to this country by the French liner La Touraine, full of confidence in the sue- ceaa of the flight across the Atlantic, which he proposes to undertake with W alter Wellman in their dirigible air ship American. "The American will carry'an unsink able lifeboat on her voyage," said Mr. Vaniman. "This lifeboat will be 25 feet long, six feet in beam and will •* stocked with provisions sufficient to last the crew for 30 days. Esperanto to Be Spoken. " ashington The sixth international congress of Esperanto will tie in ses sion the week beginning August 14. This will be the first time that the ccn- gresa has met in the Western Hemis phere, its previous meetings having l>een in Europe. Esperanto will be •(token in Washington by elergy in the pulpit, by actors in a Shakespearean play, part of the police force and in all the proceedings of the congress. Fur thermore. for the first time probably in the history of the world, it will be used at a baseball game. Entire Train it Burned. Cream Cones Are Seised, Augusta, Ga.- A Charleston 4 West j Kansas City—Local government offi ern Carolina passenger train ran into rials, acting upon orders received from a burning trestle 19 miles from Augus Washington, confiscated 50,000 ice ta on the Spartanburg division. The cream cones consigned to a local drug entire train was burned. The engin company. ~ The government alleges eer and fireman were killed and 16 pas the cones are impure. I sengers slightly injured.
