16 I 3 It's a Cold Day When We Get Left. VOL. 8. HOOD RIVER. OREGON, FRIDAY. OCT. 16. 18. NO. 21. The Hood River Giacier. THE NEWS OF THE WEEK Fr,om All Parts of the" New World and the Old. OF INTEREST. TO OUR READERS Ooniprehenslve Review of the Import ant Happenings of the Fast Week Gulled From the Telegraph Columns. Three men wore instantly killed in Wiikesbarre, Pa., by a fall of rock. Tbe 1 Republican headquarters at Chehalis, Wash. , were broken1' into bv lomo miscreants and a quantity of -literature, private letters, aooounts and postage stamps taken, Bertie Tripp, whose right name is lupposed to be Helen Forest, a mem ber of the Salvation Army, oommitred luicide by taking poison in Butte, Mont. No cause for the act is known. Lewis Edwards and his wife drank beer at the house of their friend, Mabel Andrews, 403 Minna street, San Fran 31800, retired to a room in a drunken condition, agreed to die together as an Bud to their misery, turned on the gas nd went to bed. The door was , forced the following day and Edwards tound dead and his wife unsoonsoious. . The Italian government has address- i id a peremptory note to the porte in referenoe to a young : Italian subjeot who was murdered in the reoent inas ;. laores. The note says that the young man was beaten on the bead and felled to the ground by a man in Turkish uni form' until he was killed. The nqte demands the punishment of the guilty persons and the payment of indemnity. . for the murder of an Italian subject. An unsuccessful attempt at wholesale poisoning by paris green has been dis oovered in Almond, Wis. While pre pairng a can of milk for shipment, John Bibby, a wealthy milk-shipper, notioed a peculiar color, and, on in vestigation found a large quantity of paris green at the bottom of the oan. John Burns, another farmer, found a score of piles of paris green and salt scattered in his pastnre land, and - Thomas Brown lost five of the most valuable cows of his , herd from the same poison, deposited by unknown parties on his grazing range. No olew '' as yet to the perpetrators of the out rage bas been found. Boston has refused to accept the bronze Baocbante by Macmonnies, foi the new public library. The statue is too suggestive of immorality and thirst for the Puritan town. At a meeting of the art committee it was deoided to reject it. The curator of the museum sent the following note to the trustees of the library: "-Voted, That the seoretary be instructed to inform the trustees of the publio libary that, while reoognizing the remarkable technioal x merits of Mr. Maomonnies' statue of .-.' Bacohante as a work of art, this com mittee does not regard it as suited to the publio library building." Returns from the Florida election give Bloxhani, Democratic candidate for governor, a plurality of 25,000.. A .' constitutional amendment abolishing October elections was ratified. The tetlegraphers' strike on the Can , adian Paoitio bas been deolared off. ; A settlement was arrived at through a . board of conciliation. The company Agrees that all men will be taken baok exoept those guilty of destroyingprop erty. It also agrees to reoognize the Order of Railway Telegraphers and its members. In a fog at Argentine, Kan., five ' east-bound Santa Fe trains were mixed up in a re ir-end collision just outside the railway yards, the trains following each other olosely. Several oars and ' two of the engines were wrecked, but miraculously enough no one was killed. Four persons were slightly injured. A dispatch from Lowell observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., announoes that the astronomers of the , observatory have discovered that the plaqets Mercury , and Venus each turns onoe on its axis during one revolution of the sun, mak ing tbe day just equal to the year on these planets. They find further that Venus is not oloud oovered, as has been reported, but bas about it a thick at mosphere, while Meroury has none. It has been semi-officially announced in Constantinople that the Turkish gov ernment, after weighing the matter and consulting certain advisors, came to a decision not to admit the United States warship Banoroft through the ' Dardanelles, and therefore she will not be able to aot as the guardship of the United States legation in these waters. Tbe porte, it is said, also decided not to admit the guardBhips of Greeoe and Holland. The British ship Kilburn, which has vjust arrived in San Franoisoo, reports ; the loss of two of her crew on the voy age from Newcastle. She was duly nine days out when she ran into a storm.- The two men were sent, aloft to stow away the topsail, and while they were so engaged a violent lurch caused John Anderson, a Swede, to loose his hold, and falling he struck against' John Harvey, an American, knocking him off the yardarm and to gether they fell. Anderson was thrown into the sea and drowned and Harvey struok on the deck, but died in a few . hours. Thousands Are Homeless. Three-fourths of the city of Guaya quil, Ecuador, has been reduced to ashes by a fire which raged for twenty four hours, sweeping everything in its path. Some estimate the finanoial loss at upwards of $50,000,000. Many lives were lost in the fire, and 85,000 people are homeless. . Two thousand houses, including every bank in the city, of , which there " are five, were burned. It is impossible from the present food supply there to feed all the victims, and the suffering will un doubtedly be great. . Chicago Day Celebrated.. Chioago day, the anniversary of the great fire twenty-five years ago, was celebrated in that city chiefly as a po litical holiday. Republicans and Democrats celebrated separatey, eaoh party having its own big street parade, as well as monster gathering indoors. Praotioally every factory and store in the city was closed, also the board of trade and banks. From ealry morn ing the streets were jammed with cheering thousands, struggling to gain some point of vantage. An Overzealous Parson. The Rev. Lang, an evangelist, who had been holding a revival at Seward, O. T. , during one of his sermons de clared "that all women who dance are immoral." A storm broke at onse, and Lang was chased to the Santa Fe station by fifty enraged ohuroh mem bers. At the station he was beaten al most to a jelly by two farmers and a number of women. Subsequently he was rescued from a coat of tar and feathers by a train crew. Crime of a Madman. Albert Bray, aged 89, of Nobles ville, Ind , a farmer and a very religious man, out the throats of his wife, 9-year-old son, Carl, 2-year-old daughter, Edna, and himself. The wife and chil dren died without a struggleBray, with a gaping wound in his throat lived for some hours without regaining consciousness. Bray orushed the skulls of his victims with an ax after, be had out their throats. - She Fought a Burglar. , Miss Ella Emerson,.16 years old, of Fruitvale, Cal., battled with a burglar who tried to chloroform, gag and bind her, and after a desperate struggle, she succeeded in making her escape by leaping through an open window and dropping to the ground, a distance of twelve feet. Da Msnrierli De.d. George Du Maurier, artist, novelist, and author of "Trilby," died in Lon don. His end was painless. He passed away surrounded by his friends. For days he bas been hovering between life and death, at instervals conversing with friends regarding his work. Upon one oooasion a friend at the dying man's bedside referred to tbe success of "Trilby" as a book and a play, where upon Dn Maurier replied: "Yes, it has been successful, but popularity has killed me at last." The-immediate cause of his death is given as heart trouble. For the Oood of the Cow. ' Instructor Winterhalter, of the agri cultural oollege. at the university of California, is making a comprehensive dairy report which will oover praotio ally the entire state The work is be ing done under the supervision of Pro fessor E. W. Hilgard, who is advocat ing the us3 of the Baboook tester to dis cover disease in cows. Professor Hil gard says the report will show the value of such tests and suggest methods of recompensing the dairymen for the loss of oattle. Freight Thieves Captured. . Seorct service agents of the Chioago & Northwestern railway have arrested in Chioago the members and stopped the operations of the most skillful as well as successful gang of freight-oar pilferers with whom the railroad de teotives of that city have had to deal with in many years. It is known thus far that five railroads have suffered through the operations of the gang, and it is believed not less tban $10,000 worth of property bas been stolen with in the last six months. ; ' An Election Lynching. - The state election oaused' a murder and lynching at Mount Junction, Ga. Gus Williams, Populist (negro), struck a . ticket out of a Democratic, negro voter's hand. The Democratic negro struck Williams for his insolence, and Williams fired at bis assailant, but missed his aim and shot and instantly killed Engineer Middleton, of the Cen tral railway, who was an onlooker. Bystanders took Williams and lynched him and riddled bis body with bullets. Wheat is Advancing. Manitoba wheat is advancing daily. At some points where competition is unusually keen as high as 67 cents bas been paid to the farmer, while 60 cents is now the general price for No. 1 hard throughout the province. Ten Were Drowned. In a collision between the steamers Alexander ai.d EmdSn, on the Ham burg, near Hull, the former sank, drowning ten of the orew. A Lightship Fouuders. . It is reported in Queens town that the Daunt's rock lightship, having on board a orew of eight men, has foun derad. v - Devastation Wrought by the West India Hurricane. IN NEW YORK AND NEW JERSEY Immense Damage Done at Coney islf and. A. bury Park and Other Ocean Kesorts Beach Covered by Wreckage New ork, Oct. 14. A veritable hurricane has swept over this section today, the wind blowing with terriflo foroe, reaching 4at Sandy, Hook a velo city of seventy-five miles an hour last night. The tides rose to a height many feet .greater than bas been seen for years, and the' waves all along the Atlantio ooast swept in with a force that oarried everything before them, and did many hundreds of thousands of dollars damage. Sandy Hook and points along the Jersey ooast felt the fury of the storm most of all. But Coney Island experienced, so far as has been learned, the most direful results. The beaohes were swept clean, pa vil lions were overtunred and carried sea ward, with bathing houses and board walks, and everything not far inland on the famous island was torn up and piled high beyond the coast line, or carried out to sea. . ' ' At Brighton Beach, the stone walks in front of the big hotel were under water, and toward the end of the after noon, the famous Seidl concert hall was - inundated and partially carried away. The well-kept lawns in front of the Oriental hotel and Manhattan Beach hotel were laid waste, and the lower portions of the hotels flooded. Innumerable 'small - buildings were simply picked up bodily and carried away by wind or wave. ; At Far Rockaway, the fury of the gale was indescribable. Those houses whioh were built on piles on the sand were washed away, and those higher up, whioh for years have been out of reaoh of the highest tides, were today flooded. Along the Jesrey coast, most of the damage done was to piers and to break waters. Preparations had been made, as forewarnings of the storm had been given some days before. As yet, very little damage to shipping has been re ported, for on acoount of the warn ings, many craft delayed sailing and others that had cleared here returned for safe anchorage. : . . The Coney Island beach was swept by the highest tide in the history of the famous resort. A large number of temporary structures along the water front were destroyed. The boulevard was flooded as far as Neptune avenue. The Shelton houses, at the intersection of Concourse and Boulevard, were washed away. The waves, running high, battered the plaza in front of the Brighton beach hotel. ' The Ocean ho tel, west of the Brighton beaoh hotel, was surrounded by water and the foundations raoked. Numerous bath ing pavillions and aumsement bouses were either wrecked or damaged, among the latter being the clubhouse of the Seaside Athletio Club. The old iron pier, whioh was believed to be in vinoible, was buffeted by the storm and over twenty windows out in two. Manhattan beaoh shared in the dis aster with other sections of the island. Much of the ornaments in front of the Manhattan beach hotel were swept away, and a magnificent lawn in front of the swell Oriental hotel was made a dismal waste. Hog island, during the afternoon, added another big section to the portion which bad previously gone to sta, and another such storm would wipe it and several other adjoining districts out of existence altogether. At Sandy Hook, where even the breath of a breeze can be twisted into a gale, last night's storm was a howl ing hurricane. The waves broke high er than ever before, and at one time the old tower which incoming and out going ships signal shook and tottered as though it would be blown over. All day long the wind blew a gale of fifty miles at Asbury Park. High tide at noon seemed to be at tbe maximum. Hundreds of people lined the shores watohing the destruction that came with every wave. . Everything within reach of tbe waves was used as a bat tering ram to break down the struc tures on the beach. The great board walk was pounded to pieces in many places. From Deal lake to the bound ary line, it is a complete wreck. The marble monument ' which marks the spot where the New Era went down in the early days of Asbury Park was un dermined by the waves and toppled into the sea. Wreokage is strewn over the beaoh as far as the eye 'can reaoh. Hog Cholera in Ohio Valley. Cincinnati, Oct. 14. The reports from the farmers in Ohio and Indiana are alarming over the losses from bog oholera. The corn crop is very large, but the bogs are dying fasti The hog oholera has prevailed for some weeks and during the last week the losses have not only inoreased in the infected districts, but the disease is beooming genearl throughout the Ohio valley. The game of checkers has been play ed In Egypt sinoe about 3000 B. O. WEEKLY MARKET LETTER. Downing, Hopkins & Co.'s Review or , Trade. Forland, Or., Oct., 14. There has been a deoided change in speculation from extreme dullness to unsual ac tivity within the - past month. The change has been so sudden that tbe trade is becoming accustomed to it, and all the indications point to active markets for tbe rest of ) the fall, and well into the winter. There is a more confident feeling among operators in general, and the improved business situation also has a good effect. There is no doubt that the turning point has come, and that we have seen our low est prices this year, and probably for some years. The advance in prices has given the bulls good profits and scared the bears so that tbey are not inclined to make much of a fight against higher prioes, as the bull fever is on and will have to run its course. There will not be an easy time for the short sellers, and for the present they will have to be satisfied with small profits. There will also be plenty of setbacks for the bulls, but all indications point to a higher range of prices. Of late there has been advanoes followed by sharp breaks, but the prices have not reached to the previous low point. This is the way the bull leaders expect the markets to work all the way up. For years it has been the custom of the trade to take no stock in bull move ments unless based upon heavy country buying. The fact that tbe countrymen have not come in of late bas deterred many from taking the bull side with a vim. There has been a moderate in crease in outside speculation, but the bulk pf the new business has oome from a different source the foreigners. They have to a great extent taken tbe place of the oountrymen. They are large traders and the majority have made money. Their trade oomes to a few houses and is not as apparent as the country business, and hence is very deoeptive, there being a great deal of it at times that takes all offerings in a quiet way, and the pit traders wonder where the stuff goes to, as it does not oome on the market again for some time.. When they get to making money they stay at it, and thus far have been able to catch the turns to better ad vantage than the majority of the home operators. This will tend to keep them in the market right along. Exports of wheat continue large, be ing 4,050,792 bushels last week, against about 8,000,000 bushels a month ago. and 2,224,000 bushels for the corre sponding week a year ago. We would oall the attention of those who bleieve the present price of wheat too high, and who think the advance has been too rapid to be maintained, to the increase in exports last week over those of a month ago when the price was 13o cheaper. We also quote as a reason for this heavv increase the estimates of the Hungarian minister of agriculture on the defioits of wheat in the several different exporting countries, which we think has an important bearing on the price question. He estimates the de ficit of wheat in America, compared with 1895, at 50,000,000 bushels,, whioh is less than any of the American authorities estimate it. He estimates the Russian deficit at 75,000,000 bush els; the Argentine at 12,000,000 bush els. This makes a total deficit in these three exporting countir.es of 187,000, 000 bushels. Besides tbe shortage in these three aountries there is a short age in India of about 50,000,000 bush els, and a considerable shortage in Aus tralia. , .--'' i TIME CARD REDUCED. Fastest Long-Digtanoe Train on the Continent. - Denver, Oct. 14. By the first of next month, tbe time to Califonria points from Denver will be reduced from seventy-two hours by new equip ment to be introduced by the Santa Fe. On the two roads running south and to the mining camps westward, material changes in the schedule of trains will consequently be made. The Santa Fe will place its extra equipment in limit ed form in connection with changes to be made by the Colorado Midland to Leadville and points in the mountains. The equipment is new and fresh from the Pullman shops and is enthusi astically characterized as the finest limited in the world. .Average run ning time of sixty miles per hour will be made by the limited, and the claim is made by the company that it will be the fastest long distance train on tbe continent. - ' LOSS BY FIRE. Part of the Town of Great Barrlngton Burned.' Great Barrington, Mass.i Oct. 14. This town was visited tonight by the greatest conflagration in its history. It destroyed the . major portion of the business section. The fire started in the Kennedy hotel, and spread rapidly to adjoining buildings. . Tbe fire de partment responded promptly, but the fire had gained such headway and the heat was so intense that they were driven from the street, and could only fight the flames from the rear. Aid from Housantonio, Stockbridge and Lee reached the city before midnight, and the fire is now under control. A. gale blew all night. The loss will be heavy. Houses for gaming purposes were regularly licensed in London in 1620. Hungarian Woman Tortured On Farm Near Spokane. ONE MASS OF CUTS AND BRUISES Accused of Stealing Several Hundred Dollars From Her Employer and Then Beaten to Make Her Confess. Spokane, Wash., Oct. 13. Marie Vovaid, a Hungarian woman, unable to speak English, tells a story of bru tality which is unparalleled in the city's history. She came to Spokane several months ago, and was induced to go to the farm of one Lombardi, living ten miles from town, to cook. When she reached the place, Lombardi com pelled the woman to be his mistress, she says, and also the mistress of others about the place. Lombardi's barn was burned a few nights after the woman arrived, and he claims several hundred dollars in bills and silver were stolen. The woman was acoused of theft by another man, whose name can not be learned. To force the woman to tell the whereabouts of the money, Lombardi used a penknife to jab her in the face, and, according to the woman's story, he jumped on her stomach and brutally kicked her. An unknown employe waked her in the middle of the night and forced her co go to the place several miles dis tant, and tried to make her tell where the money was supposed to be hidden. The woman had not stolen the money and says the last assailant abused her even more shamefully than the first. She is in such a condition that she can not be moved from the house. Her head is one mass of cuts, and her body, from neck down, is black and blue. ; Her neck shows the marks of fingers, where one of her brutal as sailants clutched her by the throat. The authorities so far have not moved in the matter. The woman was visited today by a reporter, who took her story, and the women of Spokane will prob ably take care of the case. A MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING. A Oarman . Couut Killed,' 'Apparently ' - by Accident. . : San Francisco, Oct. 13. A dispatoh from Monterey says that Count Balles trem, an artist, was shot and killed last night by a man named Abiger, who lived with him. Abiger has been arrested. He says the shooting was accidental. It is said that both men are well known in Berlin. , : Abiger is of good German family. He says he was preparing to go hunt ing just at dusk, and had a playful struggle with bis friend for the gun. The weapon was discharged, and a load of birdshot entered Von Balles trem's. breast, killing him instantly. ' The dead man's full name was Count - Wolfang von Ballestrem, and he came of a prominent German fam ily. -He served in the German army, and came to the Pacifio coast about ten years ago. He spent his money lavish ly, and it was soon gone. For a time he led a precarious existence, working as a housepainter and bootblack, and finally enlisting in the United States army, where he served as a private. Lately he said he had become recon ciled with his family, and that he was reoeiving money from Germany. He went to Monterey a few months ago and lived with his friend Abiger. . v The latter's sfcory of the shooting is believed by the police, but there are a few discrepancies in it. He says the shooting occurred at sundown, while neighbors say they heard the shot after 8 o'clock. ' Von' Ballestrem's clothes were not powder burned, as they would have been had the shot been fired at olose range. HELD UP CONDUCTORS. The Plan of Three Highwaymen in Council BluH's. Council Bluffs, la.,'. Oat. 13. The police have been assisting tbe officer a of the motor company in an effort to disoover three fellows, who have been holding up motor conductors with painful regularity, and getting all the money they carried with ' them, Many robberies of this kind have oo-. ourred within a few days. But the motor people and the police offloers have kept the matter quiet until yes terday. The plan pursued by the highwaymen is for two of them to board a oar together and take positions on the rear platform. , When the car reaohes the point where they want td tap the conduotor, one of them reaches up and pulls the trolley from the wire. This shuts off the current, the lights go out' and the car stops. When the conductor goes to the rear platform and is bending over the railroad trying to adjust the trolley, the highwaymen seieze him, grab his, money from the side pooket of his coat and jump from the train. ; - ' " A Plot oi. Turkish Students., , London, Oot. 13 An Athens dis patch says the governor of My telene has discovered a plot of Turkish stu dents to bring about a general massacre of Christians and that four of the ring leaders have been arrested. Oil in Oklahoma. Perry, O. T., Oot. 14. Great exoite ment exists in the eastern part of this county and in Payne and Pawnee ooun ties in the Osage Indian nation, over the discovery of oil in great quantities. It bas leaked out that the Standard Oil Company has. secured leases on thou sands of acres and twenty other com panies have purchased leases consisting of many thousands of aores. At Cleve land, a wonderfully rich flow of oil was found by a farmer, who was bor ing a well. : A Settlement In ght. London, Oct. 14. It is learned that a conference yesterday between the Marquis of Salisbury, Secretary of State for the Colonies Hon. . Joseph Chamberlin and British Ambassador to Washington Sir Julian Funoefotewas most satisfactory. It is believed in highest quarters that at least the gen eral principle of arbitration and set tlement of the , Venezuelan question will be deoided upon with the United States before the end of the month. For Stealing Turkeys. " .Nashville, Oct. 14. At Columbia, Tenn., Mary Moore, a white woman, worth $50,000, and the owner of 600 acres of fine land, was oonvicted of stealing six turkeys from a neighbor and sentenced to one year in tLe peni tentiary. An appeal was taken to the supreme court. This is tbe finale of a most remarkable career, unrivaled in the history of the oriminal courts of the state. . . . . Left the Track and Upset. , Chicago, Oct. 14. An eleotrio cai on the Madison street eleotrio line while going at a high' rate of speed, jumped the track near Fifty-second Street yesterday, crashed into a tree and then rolled over on its side in a ditch. Of the passengers on the oar eight were seriously injured. WHOLESALE JAIL BREAK. Four Dangerous Criminals Escape From Vancouver. Vanoouver, B. C, Oot 13. A wholesale jail delivery this afternoon, whereby four leaders of a gang of safd, breakers, who have been operating here for the past month or two, es- . caped. The escape was made about 5 o'clock, during the few hours the pris oners are allowed recreation In the yard, and it was not till half an hour later when Jailer Noth went to look up before supper, that the escape was dis covered. The men's names are;. Ab bott Smith, King alias Clark, MoGar-, ragh and Kelly. ".'J-'. Smith has already escaped onoe, and King had nearly got ' away, but fell ' inside of the' jail fenoe instead of but. Smith and King had iron on, , and Smith was also locked in his oell, but the iron was filed off and the look of the cell wrenched. . The escape was .effected by cutting out a board in a cell to a hole in the yard. A confed erate, who had been released a few days ago, evidently furnished a saw to the prisoners While the cell look and irons were being wrenohed, one of tbe men spoke to the jailer about some medicine, and thus kept bis attention. The men had a good start, and being desperate oharaoters, and having some revolvers whioh were stolen recently and bidden away, they will doubtless make a hard resistance if followed. A description of the men has been sent all over the oountry, and the offloers are soouring the outskirts of the oity, but it is thought there is slight chanoe of : capturing them. - ''- ' Spanish Version of a Battle. - ', Havana, Oct. 13. A meager report bas been received of another important engagement between the Spanish forces under General Echague and Antonio Maceo, in whioh it is claimed the in surgents sustained heavy losses, and the losses of the Spaniards were ad mittedly severe. The battle ocourred October 8. General Eohague reports that be found insurgents very strongly intrenched un- . der Maoeo himself on the heights of Gualitos, in Pinar del Rio. . These heights .were bombarded r for three hours with all the. means at tbe oom . mand of the Spanish commander. , At the end of that time he took the heights by assault, and put many in- , surgents to death with bayonets, caus ing them a heavy loss. ; It is supposed they suffered a still further loss by a heavy cannonade whioh was direoted at their retreat. - : ' .'...; For Weyler's Removal. ""' Havana, Oot. 7 18. The conservative : Spaniards who are against. General Weyler are asking for his removal xm the ground that his continuing in office means the sure loss of the island. A large part of the Cuban element will be willing to accept ' home rule if an other captain general be ; appointed. There is a positive assurance from friends here to the effect that General Martinez Campos is willing and anx ious to return to Cuba, but that he will not come until he brings the home-rule concessions with him. ' An understand ing has existed between the reformists here and the government whereby President of the Cabinet Canovas will send Martinez Campos and the home rule concessions if there is a surrender of some of the insurgent forces in the field, sufficient to allow the govern ment to state to the publio that the revolution is weakening', - and that in itself means the final end of the Cuban revolution." f