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T Hood River & lacier. le ; : t , , ,i i . ' . ;". . - ; It's a Cold Day When We Get Left. . VOL. 8. : J HOOD RIVER. OREGON. FRIDAY. AUGUST 28,1896. ; 1 NO. 14. THE' NEWS OF THE WEEK From, All Parts of the New . World and the Old. ; ' -V . ; . OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS Comprehensive Review of the Import " ant Happening of the Past Week Culled From the Telegraph Column. P. O. Minor, a pioneer resit ent of San Jose, Cal. , a prominent lawyer and capitalist, shot and killed him pelf in that oity. No oause is assigned. ; United States Marshal Thomas and deputies killed Bill Doolin, a noted (rat la vf, in a buttle near Clayton, Payne county, O, T. One deputy was wounded. J Charles Church, a young banker, of iiowell, Mich., shot and fatally wounded his wife and then committed suicide. Financial reverses drove him o desperation and to the commission f the deed. ' JJ G. M. Schilling, the one-armed T" Athlete who has undertaken to walk from Pittsburg to San Francisco and t hack in ten months, and to return ' with $1,000 in oash, although restrict ed from begging or purchasing supplies en route, has arrived in the latter city; ; twenty-six days ahead, but $200 be hind his schedule. Captain Burnside and twenty-two of ; the orew of the British tramp Bteamer ; Moldaya were pioked up at sea in . three open boats by the Anchor line " steamer Circassia, which has just ar ' rived in New Ycrk. The Moldava ,' struck an iceberg in a fog and sank giving the crew barely time to provi j sion the lifeboats an i lower them. ! All hands were saved. , The wedding of Miss Gertrude Van derbil, the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, to Mr. Harry Payne Whitney, the eldest son of former Seoretary of the Navy W. C. Whitney, took place at "The Break ers," Newport, R. I. The affair was somewhat of a disappointment to so ciety owing to its simplicity. Only fifty persons were present. , The sultan of Zanzibar, Earned Bin Thwain Bin Said, is dead He was about 40 years of age, a nephew of the late sultan, All Ehalif, and Bur gaBh, and suooeeded to the sultanate on the death of Sultan All, Maroh 6, 1893. He was one of a number of olaimants, and was selected as the most fitting by the British government, whioh ex ercises i protectorate over the' sultan ate. Feeling against the Southern Paoifio Company is intensifying, among the 15,000 wheelmen of San Franoisoo and 40,000 wheelmen in the state, over the reoent deoision of that oompany to obarge 25 cents for oarrying a bioyole between any two points, and' for taxi ing bioyolists who cross the bay 10 cents for each wheel. A boyoott has been deolared on the Southern Paoifio by a large number of wheelmen and the others, it is said, vwill doubtless take the same course. , . Peter Ryan, foreman of the St. Law renoe mine, the property of the Ana conda company, Jack Campbell and ' John Manning, two miners, were killed by the fall of a cage in a shaft. It is stated that measures will he taken by the New York exchange to Beoure - the importation of a large amount of gold, variously estimated at from $200,000,000 to $25,000,000. The president has appointed Colonel Charles G. Sswtelle quartermaster-general of the army, vioe General Batch elder, retired. Colonel Sawtelle is now stationed at Governor's island, . N. Y. An $1,100 gold briok was brought to Baker City recently from the Baisley Elkhorn mine, it being the result of a ten days' run. The average yield of the ore taken from this mine is about $50 per ton. Six oars of a Rook Island stock train . were derailed five miles west of To peka, Kan., and four white men, rid ing in the feed box, were crushed to death. The head and limbs were com pletely torn from one body. Mr. Harrison, the owner of the Santo Domingo gold mines in the province of Carabaya, department of Puno, and other rich gold mines in Peru, haB dis - obvlred a whole hill in the Andes ' mountains, extending at least two leagues and full of veins of rich quartz. In consequenoe of frontier disputes beween Bulgaria and Turkey, the Bul garian government has notified the . Turkish government that unless the ;. latter appoints delegates to the frontier commission by a certain date, Bui gaiian troops will be ordered to re ocoupy the positions reoently oooupied by the Turkish soldiers on the territory Bulgaria claims. Miss Mattie Overman, of San Fran oiso, of the oelebarted Brown oase fame, has at last confessed to the intimaoy with the ex-Congregational minister that finally caused his downfall and re tirement from the church. The con fession is in her own handwriting, cov . ering many sheets of legal cap, and for the present is in the safe keeping of Rev. W. W. Soudder, of Alameda, chairman of the Congregational com mittee on credentials. ' A Fatal Campaign Quarrel. A curbstone discussion of the coinage question in Columbus, O., led to a shooting . which may prove , fatal. Joseph Rath, a retired manufacturer and advocate of free ooinage, engaged in warm discussion with Horaoe Way man, an Englishman. They separated, but Rath got a revolver and when Wayman returned, he fired three shots at him. As Wayman is .an old man the injuries he received Will prove seri ous. '.,' They Will Sell Coal Oil. Miohael and John Cudahy, wealthy paokers of Chioago, have entered into an oil deal of enormous proportions. It their present plans materialize Chioago is to have a new industry, a rival of the great plant of the Standard Oil Company at Whiting, and the first pipe line from the oil fields to enter its limits. The Cudahy s have placed an order for $500,000 worth of pipes. i ' ' Moonshiner Captured. A party of twenty revenue officers, representing all sections of Virginia, went to Franklin county to break up the' most noted band of Outlaws and illicit stillers in that state. By arti fice they suooeeded in capturing twelve of the outlaws without bloodshed and destroyed several stills. ' .'Cod Fishery a Total Failure. The Labrador ood fishery, in which 80,000 Newfoundlanders are engaged every year, is a complete failure, ac cording to latest reports brought from the Labrador coast. . Widespread desti tution among the fishing olasses is in evitable. .; . Tnrklsh Consul Murdered. It is officially announced in Vienna that the Albanians have murdered the Turkish consul at Vraniak, Servia, near the Macedonian frontier. Though this statement is officially oonfirmed, no details of the affair have been re ceived. A Bank Bobbed. - In Kansas City, Kan., an unknown thief entered the branoh of the Ameri can National bank during the mo mentary absenoe of the cashier, and prying open a desk secured $1,000 in currency or more and escaped. They Will Be Deported. , Leander Chanis, the French fencing master, who is detained at Ellis island, N. Y , with Marie Cobourge", for hav ing eloped with her from her home in Franoe, has been ordered deported by the government authorities. , .. , - -i J, : A Premature Blast, ' While men were blasting rock near Parry Sound, Ont., a heavy charge of dynamite exploded prematurely, v Two men named Smith and Hillman, were instantly killed. Others were seri ously injured. . . Ohio Miners Strike. .' Twelve hundred miners have strruck at Corning, Rendville and Hemlock, O., in oon sequence of a. resolution adopted by the miners' convention. Visited by a Deluge. A terrible olouburst ooourred near Mogollon, N. M., and George Knight, a miner of, Georgetown, was drowned. Twenty others are reported missing, but only two - bodies, those of Knight and an unknown Mexioan, have been recovered. About 100 families have been rendered homeless, and thirty houses washed away. Several mines in the vicinity suffered from the water. ' Fram I Safe at Home, Nansen's Arctic exploring ship Fram, whioh be left behind in the ice early in January, 1895, in order to explore the sea north of the route he proposed to folldw, arrived at Skjervo, province of Tromsoe. The captain reports that he saw Professor Andree, who was still waiting for a favorable wind to enable him to attempt his balloon trip across the Arptio region. , ., Wounded by Burglars, 1 Walker B. Adams is lying at the point 61 death at Bedford Station, N. Y., as the result of an encounter with four burglars. Two of the burglars have been captured, having been mortally wounded by Adam's son Wil liam, who was himself struck by a bul let, whioh glanced off his suspender buckle. . X ' Explosion of Molten Metal. By an explosion of molten metal at the furnaoe of the I. Edgar Thomson steel works in Pittsburg, Pa., ten men were burned." Two were seriously in jured but will reoover. The explosion was caused by the molten iron striking a pool of water. A Mining Man Held Up. ' George H. MoCauley, seoretary of the Cariboo Mining Company, Of Spokane, was held up by a masked highwayman while returning to that city from Camp McKinney, B. C, and robbed of three gold bricks, valued at nearly, $11,000. - i ' 'r 1 ''- .. Wants to Fight Corbett. ' . ' Now that Choynski has managed -to Beoure a fight with MoAuliffe, he yearns for more gladiators to conquer. Choynski Bays that after his battle with MoAuliffe he intends to go east to challenge Corbett. -. . , '..-. ' A Fatal Fire. ' ' Fire in the residence of John Fel baob, in Watertown, S. D., burned to death Mr, Felbach and his three daugh ters, v A. Brilliant Spokane Lawyer Commits Suicide. AN OVERDOSE OF MORPHINE Bad Associations and an Uncontrollable Appetite for Liquor Drove Him to a Tragic Death His Dying Bequest. Spokane, Wash., Aug. 26. Dissipa tion and bad associations carried an other brilliant Spokane attorney across the gulf yesterday by the morphine route. F. C. Landrum, who has been drinking heavily for several months, returned Sunday night from Seattle and took a room at the Grand hotel. At 5 o'olook this afternoon, the cham bermaid finding the door locked, noti fied the olerk and the door was opened. The ,self-desroyed attorney was found on the bed, stone dead. - Three letters were found, one to the ooroner and one to E. J. Dyer, cashier of the Exchange National bank. Over his nose was a batch of cotton, presumably saturated with chloroform. The letter addressed to the ooroner said: "My name is F. C. Landrum, for merly an attorney. ' I have voluntarily oommitted suiode by taking about six grains of morphine pills, which I pur chased in Seattle yesterday. , I think it unnecessary to hold an inquest over my body, a. there is no question about my death. I have been forced to do this by business reverses, brought on solely by my uncontrollable appetite for liquor." In a postscript dated 1:30 A. M., ap peared the following: ."Pills I have takerC had no effect; I have just returned from drugstore, where I' purchased 25 cents worth more; I have just swallowed them. Please do not bury me until assured be yond all possible doubt that I am dead." Mr. Landrum married the daughter of Judge John J. L. Peel, formerly county auditor. Owing to his dissolute habits she left him and returned to her father's home. He, continued going from bad to worse,- and for. some time past his friends have realized that he was a wreck. It is said thathe fre quently intimated his intention to com mit Buioide. - , " Landrum had been living here about four years. Before going into law he ran in the railway mail service be tween Portland and' Tacoma. His parents live at Centralia. He was a member of the A. O. D. W. 'VARCHE OF FLAMES. Brilliant Lighting for the .position Building. Portland, Or., Aug. 26. Brilliant arches of light . will supersede the glaring aro lamps at the Portland ex position this year. The committee on light and power has been at work on this project for some time, and sub mitted a draught of plans for lighting, with an estimate of oost, and after the matter had been disoussed in all its phases,-the committee was authorized to make a oontract for the lighting, whioh involves a large amount of work to be, done before the ourrent can be turned on. . Attendance from outside the city is expeoted to be very large this year, ex ceeding the unprecedented attendance of last year. , One of the surprises the management gave the people of Port land a year ago was frequent crowds upon the streets, brought in by the cheap excursions worked up by the transportation committee. There was then but little time in whioh to do anything. This year, with longer time and with the knowledge gained hy experience, much better results will be aooomplished. Already agents are in the field, making arrangements for these excursions, and they report the most encouraging prospects for a much larger attendance than ever before. Now that the railroads have found out what can be done in this line, they will work earnestly to secure as many and as large excursions as possible. Thousands of strangers will be. seen on the streets of Portland during the month the fair is open. The commit tee on exhibits report that nearly all the space is already taken, and' that for this reason they have, been compelled to withhold space for a time from some applicants, in order not to shut out more valuable exhibits that may be offered later. Not only is there this early absorption of space, but there is promise on the part of exhibitors that they will make better and more inter esting displays than ever before. There will be great rivalry among them, to see which shall do the most to attraot attention and please and instruct the visitors. Woman Murdered' by Tramps. Fort Worth, Tex., Aug. 26. Satur day two tramps went to a section-house near the Texas line, and murdered Mrs. Halloran, wife of the seotion foreman, robbed the house of $80 and $1,500 in pay checks of the Fort Worth & Den ver, and fired the section -house, whioh was destroyed, partly cremating Mrs. Halloarn's body. This information comes- from Fort Worth & Denver officeand a later message says one of the tramps was arrested. PACKING FALL SALMON. Preparations for a Large Catch In Traps and Wheel. Portland, Or., Aug. 26. Prepara-' tions are being made for packing a large amount of fall salmon on the Co lumbia this season. The fish . will, however, be caught principally in traps and wheels, as seining is too ex pensive a method for. catching fall salmon, and the prioes which the traps and wheels will take will prevent gill net men from engaging in the business to any extent. " T ' :. Traps for the fall fishing have been put in about the mouth of tfce Cowlitz in large numbers, where a few years ago traps were not known. The gill nets catch only the large fish, while these traps and the wheels catch large and small. Parties at The Dalles are making calculations for a large catch of fish on and after the 10th of September, when the olose season ends. J . . j. The big run of fish which came into the river near the end of July were not nearly all caught, and the survivors have been loafing along through the Casoades and middle river,, ever- 'since tne season closed, finding it very enjoy able to be able to move without run ning against a trap or net of some kind. If they bad any knowledge of the monster wheel whioh Mr. Taffe has ready for them at The Dalles, they would have passed up and got by there before the end of the close season, hut as it is Mr. Taffe is preparing to take all, or nearly all, of them in out of the wet. By the time they reaoh his wheel they will be all fall fish. COMMANDER OF THE OREGON Captain Cook May Bare Charge of the Battle-Ship. Washington, Aug. 26. Navy officers regard the Oregon as one of the finest Bhips of the American fleet. There is quite a scramble to get command of her by officers who have reached the grade in the navy entitling them to command ships of her class. Some of the ships are sent out under command of lieutenant-commanders, others under com manders, but only captains are placed in command of ships of the Oregon's class. It is said that Captain Cook, who has been for many years the chief assistant of Admiral Ramsey in the bureau of navigation of the navy de partment, will be selected for the com mand of the Oregon when she leaves Washington. He is a very fine officer, and one of the men who is destined to make a good record if ever occasion should require. . It was just after the war that Captain Cook, as midshipman or ensign, went around Cape Horn with the old Monadnock. ., She after wards was left on the Paoifio coast Naval officers here never tire of say ing nice things about the Oregon, and it is believed that as a battleship she will prove more effective than any of the fleet, if she is ever brought into action. " ,. i . Found on a Mountain Top. an Francisoo, Aug. 26. -The his toric reoord that was deposited on the windswept summit of Mount Brewer thirty-two years ago has been found, and by a young woman. Sinoe 1864 the snow-capped crest of this giant of the Sierras that, with its , fellows, dominates the great Yosemite region and looks down upon the lowlands of Central California, has held in its stony olutoh the only authentio record of the result of Professor ' Brewer's perilous ascent, made in 1864 in the interests of the United States geodetic survey. The existence of the record and the place where it reposed were known to many, but for more than three decades none were so bold as to brave the perils and hardships of those Boundless solitudes to seek it out and give it to the world. It remained for Miss Helen Gompertz, of Berkley, to accept the task and overcome the diffi culty that lay between her and the secret of the mountain top. The record was found in a bottle buried in the. Bicyclist in Hard Luck. Chioago, Aug. 26. Two bicyclists were killed, one, probably fatally in jured and several more or less seriously hurt on the boulevards yesterday. Those killed were Abraham Smith, aged 16, who tried to pass in front of a Garfield-avenue car, was mutilated in a terrible manner by the wheels and died in a few minutes. The seoond man is unidentified. He was riding along the railroad tracks and when the Chioago & Northwestern train came along became oonfused and rode di reotly in front of the train. Miss Jessie MoKay, of Indianapolis, was struck by an Evanston avenue electrio oar and hurled a distance of twenty-five feet. Her leg was broken and she received internal injuries. Her chanbes for reoovery are small. The injury of the others are not con sidered serious beyond laying them up for a day or two. .,. ,' , Swltchllght Tender Killed. Louisiana, Mo , Aug. 26. Milton Davis, a switolight tender on the St Louis, Keokuk j& Northwestern rail road at the station, was instantly killed by a southbound freight last night. In oompany with two women on a tricycle he was en route to attend a camp meeting at Ashb'urn. The women escaped by jumping. Insurrection Brought to an ' End by Cecil Rhodes. HIS MISSION WAS A SUCCESS til-Usage by Native Police and Oppres sive Tax of the Chartered South Africa Company Lead to the Bevolt. Buluwayo, Aug. 25. The mission ef Cecil Rhodes to the Matabeles is re ported to be a pronounoed success The natives have yielded and the war is considered at an end. Ceoil Rhodes inspired the confidence of the Matabele ohiefs by going among them unarmed. The ohiefs complained that ill-usage by the native police provoked ; the re bellion, and Rhodes promised them that reforms in this respect would be inaugurated at onoe. Earl Grey, who was appointed to administer the affairs within the jurisdiction of tha British South Africa Company, believes the surrender of the natives was practically unconditional. The war with the Matabeles, whioh began in South Africa' early in this year, in many respects resembled the early Indian war in Amerioa. Several hundred settlers in the more sparsely settled portions of Matabeleland were murdered by natives. Survivors in the country districts quickly gathered in the larger towns, and existing forti fications were garrisoned as strongly as possible. The. natives were at first commanded by a son of the late King Lobengula. To the number of 20,000 they gathered on the' hilla around Bu luwayo, the prinoipal town. To a con siderable extent they were actuated by a sort of religious frenzy, but other causes are said . to have combined to bring about the trouble. i Chief -among these were the wrong doings of the native police and the im position by the South African Char tered Company of a hut tax ; on the 43,000 huts of the natives in Matabele land. The tax the natives sternly re sisted for many months, but the Char tered Cojnpany insisted upon this reve nue being colleoted and refused to make any exceptions. It was not until Cecil Rhodes, at this late time, to some extent under a cloud, because of his alleged oonneotion with the raid into the Transvaal, conducted by Dr.. Jameson, oame to the rescue, and started from Rhodesia with an armed force that the.backbone of the rebellion was broken. ' Buluwayo itself was for a time threatened with annihilation ' by the blaoks, but, owng to the brave defense by its citizens and the timely advance of the column headed by Rhodes, the state of siege which practically existed was broken and the Matabeles were gradually forced baok from the hills surrounding the metropolis of Matabe leland to their old resorts in the parts of the country not oooupied by Eu ropeans. ' f ; ; 1 A NOVEL DUEL. V . ; Kansas Farmer Engage In a Battle on Traction nglnes. i Leavenworth, Kan., Aug. 25. Six miles west of Tonganoxie, in Jefferson county two farmers engaged in a battle this afternoon, mounted on traction en gines. As a result one man was mort ally wounded and both engines were wrecked. The threshers, one ' named Peat and the other Stevens, aspired to do a job of threshing for John Earhart, who through a misunderstanding had engaged both to do the work. It hap pened that both of the threshers arrived at the farm at the same time, approach ing the main gate from the opposite directions. At the gate they stopped their traotion engines and a quarrel en sued. , Both started to steam through the gate at the same moment A col lision resulted. Then both engines baoked off again and began jockeying for position. Another rush . for the gate followed with throttles wide open. The result was a terrific collision. One engine was thrown into the - air and fell back upon the other. Stevens was caught between his enigne and the wa ter tank and so badly crushed that he cannot live. The other engineer es caped. There have been no arrests. A WHITE HIGHBINDER. Sensational Accusation A gainst a Ban-Fi-anolsco Attorney. San Francisoo, Aug. 24. At the trial today of ex-Customs Inspector R. S. Williams, charged with bribery and illegal landing of Chinese, Wong Sam. an Americanized Chinese, testi fied that he had seen Williams paid money for landing Chinese, whom he mentioned, and how he had paid $100 to land one of his clients named Wong Sing Toy.- Attorney Mowry, for de fense, tried to show that the witness was a member of the Hop Sing Tong looal highbinder society. The witness admitted he was formerly a member, and then made the Sensational ohftrge that Attorney Mowry was himself a member of the same highbinder so ciety. Mowry is an Amerioan who has been prominent in the federal courts as a Chinese attorney. No cross-examination on this point oould induce the witness to modify his oharge whioh caused the sensation. NO HELP FOR THE BOY. He Drowns In a Oulch Before Help ' . : Reaches Him. Portland, Or., Aug. 26. Ernest Carter, the 9-year-old son of Mr. Charles Carter, who resides at 167 ; Grand avenue, fell from a trestle in Sullivan's guloh yesterday morning at about 8:80, and was drowned before help oould reach him. The boy had been in the water over an hour before the body was reoovered. Ernest Carter and another boy named Frank Fritchard, went down on the O. R. & N. railroad track in Sul livan's guloh in t;he morning. About 200 yards east from the Grand avenue bridge the railroad crosses from the north side of the guloh to the south side over a trestle, which is fully twelve feet above the water. ,. The water is quite deep at this point The boys proceeded along the railroad track to this trestle, and, it Beems, undertook to cross over it. They had not gone very far before they heard the train ooming from the east. The train swings around the ourveand is not seen until it reaches the trestle, but is easily heard. The boys started baok. The Pritcbfcrd boy reached the end in safe ty, but Ernest failed to get off - the trestle. Just how he came to fall is not known, hut is it supposed when he found he oould not reach the end of the trestle he got out on the end of a bent and then fell off before the train came on the trestle.' : The accident either occurred this way, or he stum bled and fell. - IN THE BAD LANDS. , Discoveries Maie by a Geological Ex ploring Party. , Sioux City, la., Aug. 26. The geo logical exploring party from the South Dakota state- university whioh; left Vermillion, S. D. , early in the summer for a tour of the "bad lands," has re turned with a collection of speoimens weighing nearly a ton. ' Characteristic speoimens of about twenty extinct species of vertebartes were found, to gether with twice that number of in dividuals. : The most valuable was the complete skull of a titanotherium, a kind of gigantio hog with horns. Many forms not yet determined were included in the collection. ; The records of many geologioal eo- tions were opened, throwing light on the natural history of the state, and adding vastly to possibilities of the agriculturist One of the problems whioh Professcr Todd, chairman of the expedition, proposes to solve at his leisure concerns the agricultural bene fit of mixing the oretaceous soils and the silts and marls of the teritriy for mation. He also intends to look for means by whioh the clay solution oalled water in the bad lands can be precipitated and made fit for drink, and to dis cover, if possible, new water .oourses in the barren region where a water supply is at present unknown. SUCCEEDS HOKE SMITH. Ex-Governor Francis Is Appointed Sec retary of the Interior. Buzzard's Bay, Aug. 26. The an nouncement was nade by President Cleveland at Gray Gables tonight of the appointment of David R. Francis, ex-governor of Missouri, as secretary of the interior, vice Hoke Smith, who recently resigned the secretaryship be cause of his financial views. Mr. Franois will probably assume office September 1, as that is the date named in Secretary Smith's resignation. A Fight In Church, Macon, Ga., Aug. 26. A sensation was caused in the leading Methodist church last night by a difficulty be tween Rev. Alonzo Monk, pastor of the oburoh and Tilden Adamson, a re porter of the Daily Telegraph. Adam son reported the reverend gentleman's sermon last Sunday, whioh was pro nounced by the pastor to bo inoorrect. At last night's servioe the Rev. Mr. Monk was pretty severe on the reporter, and reflected on him in such a manner as to cause Adamson to resent it at the end of the sermon. Going to the pul pit, the young man demanded an ex planation of the doctor's remarks. An exchange of words angered both, where upon they grappled each other. Dea cons rushed forw'ard, and an exoiting exchange of blows between them and the reporter followed. The newspa perman stood firm, and defended him self as best he oould against odds. The police were sent for. The congre gation was greatly exoited, more than 1,000 people being present. Women and men stood on the chairs to , watoh the outoome. Finally order was re stored, but the servioes were shortened by the scene. Killed In a Sparring Contest. Van Buren, Ark,, Aug. 26. While sparring yesterday morning Emsie Williams was hit on the left breast by Will Clark and sank down and died -immediately. Clark was examined by the ooroner, who acquitted him, the verdict being exousable homioide. Williams was a farmer and leaves a large family. ' 1 Andree's Scheme Failed. Tromsoe, Norway, Aug. 26. Pro fessor Andree . arrived here from the Danish island on the Virgo, having apparently abandoned for this year the attempt to cross the Arotio regions in a balloon. , 1