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The Hooc River Glacier. 7 a, v U4 ' r. 'jjfr. ' . '. ;. i . It's a Cold Pay When We Get Left. . . . . ... - . . w . - f ' ' ' " . . . ' ' ' ' rYt Y VOL. 8. - HOOD RIVER, OREGON, FRIDAY. AUGUST 211890. NO. 13. , - i ... . .. i - ., .- . ., ., II.M..I 1 1 . - .. ...... . ... - , . , . .1. , alii won m From All Parts of. the New . ""Worlcf and the Old. OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS Comprehensive Review of the Import But Happening! .of the Punt' Week " . Culled From the Telegraph Column' A movement is on foot among promi nent olubmen of Chioago to extend an invitation to Li Hung Chang, the Chinese viceroy, to have him stop over a couple of days in Chioago while en route to the Paoiflo coast. ' Eugene Burt, wanted at Austin, Tex., for the murder of his wife and two ohildren, about a month ago, was arrested . in Chioago. The dirk with whioh the crime was committed was found on his person, and blood stains were visible on his straw hat. A? threshing, engine, together . with its driver and a team of horses, went through a bridge over Kriese oreek, about nine miles west of Oregon City. The driver was slightly injured and one of the horses so badly wounded that it was found neoessary to kill it . John J. Brough, a well-known mer chant of Manchester, Conn., has re turned.. from a trip around the world ." whioh consumed exactly a year. Mr. Brough traveled on a bioycle wherever possible. Of the 60,000 miles covered by him, 40,000 were by water; 12,000 on his wheel and the rest by railroad in the different countries. 1 ; Advices have been received by the war department from General Wheaton stating that three prisoners, supposed to be Yaqui Indians, ' were brought from Tubao, Ariz., to Nogales. They will be taken before - the United States commissioner on a oharge of violating the neutrality laws. They are be lieved.to be members of the raiding party that attempted to loot the Mexi can custom-house. According to private advioes received in Philadelphia ten of the crew of twenty-one of the British bark Flora Stafford, burned at sea several weeks ago, perished. ' Captain Osoar Smith took one boat '. with ten men, and the mate with nine other men got in the seoond boat. Captain Smith and ten men were saved, but nothing has ever been beard from the others. The sea was rongh and probably the boat cap sized. , ' By a collision between the yachts Meteor and Isolde during the race for the vioe-oommodore's cup, at Southsea, Baron von Zedwitz, the owner of Isolde, was so badly injured that he died before he could be taken to a hos pital. All the members of the crew of the Isolde wore swept ' overboard when the yachts collided, but were res cued from the water by boats from the other yachts. Ben Noyer, who was arrested upon suspicion of having robbed the Wilhoit stage, has been released from jail with out having been given an examination upon the chargei :j " .v . ., In Vflght at Vodena, Maoedonia, be tween 160 insurgents and COO Turkish troops, the former were reinforced after four hours and routed the Turks, fifty of 'Whom were killed. Frank Farnsworth Barnard, aged 42, a tenor singer well known in theatri cal oiroles, committed suioide in New York by shooting himself in the right temple with a revolver. The oyolists of Olympia.Wash., have formed a club, with a membership of 150, for the vigorous proseoution of a good .roads crusade. - They propose to immediately begin the improvement of the various roads leading out - of the oity. vv- - ' ..'r The four-story mill of the Sperry Flour Company,, at Paso Robles, Oal., was burned together with three adjac ent cabins and a blacksmith shop. The mill was valued at $85,000, and the stock of wheat and flour on hand was worth $12,000, and. it was a total loss. There was $20,000 insur ance on the building." ""' ' A dispatch from Egypt says: "To show the futility of any hope of Arrest ing the course 'of "cholera ; at present, during the' week before last fresh out breaks occurred in sixty-nine different plaoes and last week in eighty-seven. During the seven days to August 1, 1,200 deaths were reportedand in the following six days 1,700 deaths. ", Judge Noble denied the application of the ' Brown " Hoisting Company's . locked-out employes for an in junotion to restrain Mayor McKisson, of Cleve land, from calling additional militia into service; to restrain the Brown company from arming its employes and to oompel the company to carry out the . agreement made with the locked-out men on July 27. ' . The cannery and machinery of the Anderson (CaL ) Canning & Packing Company, owned by Dan Grover and B. T. Ryan,' burned. The cannery was worth $8,000. . A stock of dried fruit worth $700, 800 sacks of wheat and a large quantity" of tin was also de stroyed... There is no insurance. Two adjaoent cottages owned by Dan Grover and J. T. Ryan, valued at $700, were also burned. ' Ioe Famine Threatened. St. Louis is seriously threatened with an ioe , famine. Prices have been steadly advancing sinoe the opening of the seaHon until now they are up to the highest point reached in this oity for several years.. This week there was an additional inorease of $1.25 per ton to the trade and another inorease may be expected soon. The prioe to the trade is now $5, or more than double what it was at any time last year. .- Ioe is being shipped in from re mote northern points, but the demand oannot be supplied. , An American Citizen Shot. A young man named James F. How ard is now in the hospital in Juarez, Mexico, with two bullet holes in his body. He beoame involved in a quar rel with Mexicans and shot three of them dead. They had attempted to as sault nim. Ha was seriously wounded in the fight, but managed to esoape. A Demand by TeWell. United States Minister Terrelhas de manded the immediate release of six Armenians (naturalized Americans) imprisoned . at Aleppo. Terrel has notified the Turkish authorities that the further imprisonment of Ameri cans would not be tolerated. Trans-Ooeanlo Record Broken. The steamship St. Paul, from South ampton, crossed Sandy Hook in six days and fifty seven minutes, beating the new reoord made last week, by her sister ship, the St. Louis, of six days, two hours and twenty-four minutes. Drowned In the Columbia Mark Van Bibber, a son of W. H. Van Bibber, of The Dalles, was drowned in the Columbia river near that oity, where he was swimming in company with . several companions: The body has not been reoovered. Fifteen Hones Poisoned., Twelve of the fifteen horses belong ing to Charles A.Worth, of San Fran cisoo, are dead and three more are un der treatment for - arsenioal poisoning. The poison was administered by an enemy unknown. ' Daniel Fullen Missing:. Daniel Pullen, a prominent farmet of Lapush, Wash., suddenly became insane last Sunday and left his home and has not since been seen or heard of. It is believed he has committed suioide. Floods in India. 'M A London dispatch from Bombay says heavy floods have been caused by the rising of the river Kistnah. . Im mense damage was done, and thousands rendered homeless. A river boat was capsized and 200 persons drowned. Regulators Sadly Needed ' The violent' demonstrations by the turbulent elements bf Belleville, 111., against the Salvation Army whioh have occurred at frequent intervals on the publio square for a year past, at last culminated in a riot. For over two hours the mob surged around the little band of Christians, oursing, push ing, striking and creating a perfect bedlam of disoordant noises. One of the army flags, on whioh was the stars and stripes, was torn from its staff and trampelod upon. One of the women, who was struok on the head by a mis sile, was about the only one seriously injured. ' ' They Saw a Large Meteor. E. Simmons, wife and two daughters were sitting in" the yard at 'their home in Chicago when they saw a meteor de scending and aiming direotly toward them. Terror overpowered them, bound them to their seats and prevent ed their fleeing. But fortunately while the mass of molten metal was 100 feet from them it burst, and. the fragments scattered with a report like a cannon, the' hissing sound whioh had been growing in intensity culminating in a last dying gasp. No fragments oould be found. Death In the Flood. , A great rain storm burst over Pitts burg and vioinity, deluging a territory several miles in extent, swelling the streams into torrents, sweeping away bridges and sending a soore of human beings into eternity. The storm is attributed to the approaoh of a cool wave from the Northwest. Great dam age was done by water in various parts of the oity. . The streets were oovered by debris, oar lines tied up and tracks blockaded. At Dehaven, a small town near the Wildwood oil well, six people were drowned. A Boiler Exploded. A hundred and fifty horse-power boiler at the Lockville Briok & Tile works, near Maximo, O., exploded with terriflo foroe, completely wrecking the building. . Isaiah Johnson, an en gineer, had his baok broken. He will die. Samuel Snider was badly injured about the head and had his breast crushed. He cannot reoover. Train Ran Into a Washout. An eastbound mail train from Chi cago on the Lake Shore road, ran into a washout seventy feet long and thirty feet deep near Otis, Ind. , and the entire train, except the. day coaoh, plunged into the big hole. The engineer, James Griffin, and the fireman, Michael Roache, were almost instantly killed. No one else was injured. Florenoe, Kan. , is proud of being the residenoe of a humane lady, who bought an ear trumpet for her pet dog. i ran m Delays Caused to River and Harbor Work. RED-TAPE GREATLY LENGTHENED Work on the lower Colombia Will Soon Be In Progress Other North west Improvements Were Approved. Washington, Aug. 19. It is a well known fact that the shortage in the treasury delays not only river and har bor works, but all other publio works, i The various objeots for whioh appro priations have been made in the Paoiflo Northwest are no exception to the rule. This is the case especially if the im provement contemplates spending a large amount of publio money or con tracting for the expenditure of a very large amount of money in the future. The different government, officials will not admit that it is beoause the expenditures are exoeeding the reoeipts from five to fifteen millions every month that they do not push along gov ernment works faster. . They will al ways point out that there are delays that oannot be avoided, and the red tape whioh surrounds every government enterprise oan be very greatly length ened when there is a tip from the heads of the different departments that the refusal to spend money, even when appropriated, will be appreciated by the administration. The appropriations made in the last river and harbor bill were very large, especially, those which carried provi sions for contracts and involved the fu ture expenditure of large sums of money. It is learned at the war de partment that the secretary is proceed ing very cautiously with the matter of continuous contracts. Very few pro jects for such .improvements have been approved by Secretary Lamont, and in many oases the engineers have not yet submitted the projects to him, and in several oases the local engineers hav.e not yet forwarded the papers for the proposed projects to the chief of en gineers at Washington. For Yaquina, bay, provision was made for a million-dollar contract. Nothing has been done about it. The project for the improvement of Coos bay is now before the seoretary, having been approved by all the en gineers through whose hands it has passed. The secretary has approved the projeot for the improvement of Tillamook bay, where $17,000 are to be expended. In fact, all the smaller projeots, in both Oregon and Washing ton, have been submitted and ap proved, and it is expected that the en gineers in charge will direct work to be done at onoe. The boat railway matter still rests wheie it has been for a long time. Al though more money was appropriated for it in the last bill, nothing has been done, beoause the right of way has not yet been obtained. Some progress has been made in the matter of expending the appropriation of $200,000 for the improvement of the upper Willamette and Yamhill rivers, more particularly the Willamette. The improvement of the Yamhill oalls for a look and dams, and the project has not yet been submitted by the local en gineer. A anagboat has been secured for the Willamette, and the engineer offloers here say that work of clearing the river will begin at onoe. There is no probability of anything being done at Port Orford at present ' The matter of transferring the old ap propriation for a harbor of refuge to a harbor to be built at that point is left with the seoretary of war. It is not likely that the seoretary of war will approve it. The money appropriated in the sun dry oivil bill and the $50,000 addition al In the river and harbor bill, for completing the work at the Cascades, will be expended at onoe, as the' secre tary of war has approved the projeot submitted. The secretary has also ap proved the project for the expenditure of $100,000 on the mouth of the Co lumbia from the mouth of the Willam ette to Astoria, and also the projeot for expending $50,000 of the money not used for the deep ohannel at the mouth of the Columbia to be used on the river opposite Astoria. Unless the engineers have found oause for delay, these works ought to be progressing. 1 The projeot for expending $67,000 on the Columbia river to improve it from the mouth of the Willamette to Vanoouver has not yet been submitted by the local engineer. The project for expending $5,000 on the Upper Colum bia and $25,000 on the Clearwater river have been approved. The LI Hung Chang Reception. Washington, Aug. 19. The presi dent will receive Li Hung Chang on the 81st of this month. Li will not go to Gray Gables. The reception will probably take place in New York. Arrangements for a reception to China's premier are being made, and will probably be announoed by Private Seoretary Thurber from Gray Gables. Saw Mill Boiler Exploded. Salisbury, N. 0., Aug. 19. At Troy today the boiler of Teffts' saw mill ex ploded, killing five men and injuring four. ,., LAURADA SCARE OVER. Facts Satisfactorily Fxplalned to the ' Spanish Becretary of War. Madrid, Aug. 18. The Duke of Te tuan, Spanish minister of foreign affairs, has received from Washington a dispatoh giving satisfactory assur ances regarding the alleged filibuster ing expedition of the Lanrada. History of the Case. Washington, Aug. 18. The steamer Lanrada, referred to in the Madrid dis patoh, has figured frequently in the claims made by Spanish authorities that American merchants were engaged in filibustering operations. In January last the then captain of the vessel was indioted in the federal oourts of South Carolina, but was acquitted after a jury trial. Frequent reference has been made to the experience of the Laurada at many ports in May last. The cap tain on that ocasion failed to, take out health papers required by the lav, and this led to the surveillanoe of the Lau rada by the Spanish war vessels. It is claimed that ten Cubans were thrown into the water after the Spanish war vessel put in an appearance. It was also represented at the time of the ap pearance of the Spanish cruiser that thirty men were drowned, owing to the precipitated haste in getting ' ashore to avoid apprehension. : The Spanish au thorities claimed that the United States had taken no proceedings toward ap prehending the vessel or arms. in aoorod anoe with the neutrality law. CORNWELL'S THREE WIVES. Dead Engineer's Widows Surprise Each , Other at the Funeral. San Franoisoo, Aug. 1. George W. Cornwell, the oldest locomotive en gineer on the coast division of the Southern Paoiflo, died recently, and at his funeral three women appeared, eaoh olaiming to be his widow. Two used the name of Mrs. Cornwell. but the third said she had been married to the deceased under the name of George Parker. The one of the three who has known Cornwell longest is known as the San Jose widow, because she resides in that oity. ' She declares the dead en gineer is the father of her son, aged 85. Cornwell lived with her from I860 to 1872. Then he met and married the woman who is known as Mrs. Corn well, at 1802 Howard street. In 1888 Cornwell met Mrs. Parker, and, telling her his name was the same as that of her former husband, George Parker, married her. He installed her in a house a block from that of Mrs! Corn well No. 2. Mrs. Parker knew nothing of the other two wives, and No. 2 was not aware of the existenoe of No. 8, in whose house he died. The engineer was 69 years old, and had been on the Paoiflo coast thirty-six years, all of file time in the employ of the Central and Southern Paoiflo railroads. ' He leaves only about $3, 000, his earnings having all gone to support his numerous wives BOY'S TRAGIC DEATH. He Falls Under the Wheels of a Salem Electric Car. Salem, Or., Aug. 1 8 Willie Mo jjonougn, a 14-year-old boy, was run over and killed by a car of the Salem Motor Railway Company, in North Salem, this afternoon. The accident ooourred in front of the residence of Harvey Massey, at 5:15, as the car was ooming from the fair grounds toward the oity. The unfortunate boy, in com pany with two other boys, was passing the Massey residenoe just as a horse was being led through the gate into the street At this juncture the street oar oame along and was on the down grade. The horse frigtened, and in the attempt to get out of its way, Willie McDonough started to oross the track and was struck by the car. The oai passed entirely over his body, mangling the head terribly. Traoes of blood were left for fifteen to twenty feet along the track. The body was picked up fifty feet or more from where the boy's companions stood, leaving it un certain as to how far the car may have dragged it. The boy's father, Harris McDonough, met 'with a similar fate just four years ago, in being run over and killed by a railroad train near Cin cinnati. Joseph Wilson," now in Port land, is the boy's step-father. NOTED CAROLINIAN KILLED. By a Negro Boy After Both Had Ex changed Shots. Spartanburg, S. C, Aug.. 18. Cap tain John H. Blassingam, one of the oldest and most respeoted citizens ol this oity and state, was shot and killed this afternoon by Chris Cannon, a negro boy. Captain Blassingam was alone in his sister's house, and Cannon entered the house for the purpose of robbing it. Pistol shots were heard, and the negro was seen running from the house. Cap. tain Blassingam was found dead, shot twice through the head. The negro was traoked to a house half a mile dis tant, where he was found shot through the ohest. Two empty pistols found in the house indioate that both parties en gaged in the shooting. The negro wae taken to jail. His wound is not thought to be fatal. There is some talk of lynching, but the law will take its oourse. Captain- Blassingam was a membei of one of the most prominent familiei in the state, and a man - respeoted and honored by all. ' Telegraph, Operators Have a Grievance. submitted; in PETITION Interesting Outgrowth of Judge Cald well's Famous Order of March, 1894, Regarding the Wage Schedules. Omaha, Aug. 18. A suit has been filed in the United States oirouit court, whioh is likely to demonstrate just how great permanent benefits the men on the Union Paoiflo are to reap from the famous wage schedule conference' held before Judge Caldwell on Maroh 18, 1894. Among the other results of this famous- conference, in faot, the result it was called to accomplish, was the adoption of a wage schedule and code of rules whioh was to govern the relations of the men and the receivers. Among the rules was one whioh pro vided that no man should be discharged without just oause, and another was that the schedule of the pay fixed upon at that time was not to be altered, ex cept by order of the court The men in the telegraph branch of the servioe al lege that both of these provisions have been violated, and on this the issue will be joined in a case whioh was filed yesterday in the United States oourt. - In this case J. T. Weybright, L. M. Tuder, L. Rosenbaum and N. A. Smith, representing the Order of Railway Tel egraphers, members of the joint protec tive board of the employes of the Union Paoiflo system, appear as plaintiffs. The petition reiterates the order as en tered by Judge Caldwell, at the con clusion of that hearing in March, 1894, and the conference leading up to it Then they proceed to state that the fol lowing rates of pay for telegraphers were fixed by that order: Rogers, $62 per month; Benton, $67; Aldas, $62; Boone, $45; Rockville, $45. Without notioe to the men or to the oourt, and in violation of that order, the petiton states the wages at these stations have been reduced as follows: Rogers to $35 per month; Benton, $25; Aldas, $35; Boone, $25; Rookville, $25. They petition the court that the wages of the men be restored to the amount named in the schedule, and that the difference between the amount they have received sinoe the reduction be paid to them. By far the most important portion of the petition is oontained in the next paragraph. In it the petitioners al lege that the managing officials of the company are hostile to organized labor, and particularly to the Order of Rail way Telegraphers, and that a system atic effort has been made to weed out the leaders in the order by summarily, discharging them without cause.' Among these are oited F. E. Gilliland and F. R. Diesbach. -, The telegraphers have another griev ance whioh will be brought to the at tention of the oourt in a petition which will be filed soon. It has been the ous tom of the Union Paoiflo for a long time to deduct from the pay of eaoh man on the system the sum of 40 oents per month for the maintenance of hos pitals on this system. The telegraphers' alleged that they reoeive no benefit from the hospitals, except in case of the very few who reside at the places where they are maintained. They complain they are not given an ac counting of the expenditure of the money oolleoted for this purpose from the men, whioh they allege amounts to $100,000 a year, and that if they must pay, they are entitled to know what becomes of the money. They will also allege in the petition that the at pres ent time the Union Paoiflo does not maintain any hospitals, simply having the use of a small number of oots in hospitals conduoted by private parties or associations, and the expense at tached thereto is not suffioient to war rant the collection of the amount of money that is at present taken from the employes. . , , - ENGLISH THIEF CAPTURED. Robbed the London Postofflce of S3, OOO and Fled. Boston," Aug. 18. Henry Borfleld, of London, England, was .arrested to day as he landed from the Cunard steamer Pavonia, on a - complaint of British Vioe-Consul Keating, charging him . with the embezzlement of 415 from the London postofflce. Borfleld was a postofflce employe in London, and is charged with taking the money from two packets. His wife,' who is a bride of only a month, is detained by the immigration offloers as an undesir able person, while Borfleld is in jail awaiting extradition. Borfleld made a oonfession and turned over $1,600 of the stolen - money. He will be ar raigned before United States Commis sioner Fiske. . Baltic Canal Satisfactory. Berlin, Aug. 18. The Zietung re cords Emperor William's pleasure at the success of the passage of the thirty nine men-of-war through the Baltic oanal last Thursday. These men of war moved at a rate of speed essential for naval maneuvers, and their success ful passage through the oanal under foroe draught, is regarded as an indica tion that the new oanal will be perfect ly accessible in oase of emergency for the largest iron-olads. HE WILL NAVIGATE SPACE. A Ban Francisco Man Has Designed a New Airship. : San Franoisoo, Aug. 17. Dr. C. A. Smith is more enthusiastic than ever . over his flying maohine sinoe he re ceived a telegram Wednesday . from Washington informing him that a patent had been granted on bis device for sailing through the air. A com pany was incorporated in this oity last Saturday to build Smith's airship, navigating air vessels and carrying on a general business in them. ' I. J. Tru man, president of the Columbian bank, and George T. Garden are among the stockholders. The attorney for the company is M. M. Entee. These well-known men deolare that Smith's maohine appears feasible as a mechanioal proposition, and that it Is really a most ingenious solution of the difficult 'problems that have faoed the . soientifio aeronaut. Smith . himself claims it will lift itself and additional weight, and more than that,' he can so ootrol its flight as to practioally imi tate a bird on the wing. This means that the airship can be lifted from the earth and depressed at the will of the engineer, who may also steer his vessel hither and thither, describe oiroles re gardless of the wind, and perform evo lutions like a ship at sea. It is still further claimed for this wonderful invention that it can be driven into the very teeth of the storm. , Indeed, if all that is claimed for it proves true, the long-talked-of airship will soon be an accomplished faot. The company intends to open a work shop at onoe and begin the construc tion of Dr. Smith's first airship. And in the oourse of a few months, the ex pectation of seeing the machine arise and float aloft will be very strong. INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION. Will Be Held In Portland From Sep- , tember 1 9 to October 17. The coming Oregon Industrial Expo sition whioh opens in Portland Sep tember 19 and closes October 17, prom ises to be a pronounced suooess. , The citizens of that enterprising city have subscribed ovar $10,000 to carry out the plans, whioh are now being ar ranged on a more elaborate soale than ever before. It looks already as though every available inch of space alloted to exhibits in the great building will be oooupied. A splendid military band has been organized and will be under the leadership of Mr. G. Oeohsle, late of Gilmore's celebrated band, and a leader and composer of great ability. The admission prioe has been fixed at 25 cents, and the same interest mani fested in the Portland fair laBt year will doubtless be much inoreased this year on acoount of the overwhelming success of the Exposition of 1895, when the management in every respeot kept faith with the publio and provided such attractions as had never before been seen on the coast. DID IT ALONE. Garrett, the Enolnada Gold-Bar Rob ber, Has Confessed. San Diego, Cal., Aug. 14. Garret, the Enoinada gold-bar robber, has con Jessed to the i Mexican offloers. He says no one was implicated with him, and he opened the safe by a combina tion. He offered to show bow it was done, and was taken by the officials to Riverall's office, where in a few seo onds he opened two safes by the combi nation. He says Pratt is not guilty, and that on the night of the robbery, he got Pratt drunk and robbed the safe alone. When oaptured Garrett carried firearms and a canteen with water,' enough to withstand a long siege. . The governor has sent out boats and armed men to overhaul the schooner Pekin, whioh took Garrett to Lower California. - , , Counterfeiting Dollars. Washington, Aug. 17. The seoret service bureau of the treasury depart ment has been requested to look into a report of extensive , counterfeiting of , United States silver dolars in one of the Central American states. The in formation oomes from a Mexican paper, ' and was sent to the state department by Minister Ransom. It states that in one of the Central American states a company has been organized by Aineri-. cans who have purchased the .silver dollars of the state worth 47 cents; and coined them into American dollars. It is said that 2,600,000 of these dollars have been shipped into this oountry, where they have passed-at par. The story is discredited at the treasury de partment, and it is said it would be impossible to ship any considerable number of ooins into this oountry with out the counterfeit being discovered. If counterfeiting has been going ' on, the guilty persons oould be punished under the treaties providing for suoh crimes, whioh have ' been made with nearly all oonntries. ' r . ' ' Fusion Agreed Upon. Ellensbnrg.Wash., Aug. 17. Fusion of the Populists, Demoorats and free-' silver men who left the Republican party has been effected in the state of Washington, and the name of the new party will be the "People s party." This was brought about tonight, when the Populist convention deoided to al low the Demoorats to nominate one 1 congressman, in addition to the other offioials allotted to them. ( '