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HOOD RIVER, OREGON, FRIDAY. OCT. 2.V189fi.
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Oomprehenslve Review of the Import
ant Happening of the Put Week
Culled From the Telegraph Column.
General Carlos Ezeta lias taken quar
ters in Oakland, Cal., and says he is
! prepared to meet bis enemies. He im-
t agines he is: being pursued by hired
assassins in the employ of Mr. Lop z.
the minister from Salvador. Lopez as
serts that the general is a bluffer and is
afraid to make a move.
The board of supervisors of San
Franoisco' has appropriated . $600 for
the purchase of a supply of the Goto
remedy for leprosy. It will be used
for the relief of the thirteen men and
two women in the leper oolohy at the'
pestbou&e. . The remedy as far as tried
by the physioians has had good effect
and many of the a filiated will reoover.
Weyler and Blanoo will be recalled,
Premier Canovas will fall, and grave
; events will occur in Spain, Madrid dis
patches say, it is believed there, unle&s
' the rebels in Cuba aud the Philippine
islands are oonquered within a month.
The Madrid press openly attaoks Cano
vas and Weyler because of their in
ability to check the Cuban revolution.
The steamer Arago went ashore just
north of the Coos bay jetty and near
" where the whalebaok steamer Wetmore
was' lost. All 'that is left of the
i steamer to be seen is two spars project-
ing up on the ocean beach. The vessel
will beji total loss. In an attempt to
land twelve people were drowned,
eight of the orew and four of the pas-
.,r sengers, The tug Hunter and the life
saying crew went to the resoue but
nothing oould be done, owing to a
dense fog.
' The' people of Albuquerque,' N. M.,
paid their homage to a true hero at the
' funeral of John Braden, who saoriflced
his 'own life to save those of women
and children. During a parade in that
city Barden was driving an ammuni
" tion- wagon, the contents of which ex
ploded and set fire to the wagon. The
team started to rdn, in the direction
of a orowd of women and children, but
Braden stayed at bis post until he had
ohecked the frenzied animals, and then
fell from the seat, burned to a orisp.
Albert Hence Downing, a highway
man arrested in Denver, Col., has con
fessed that be murdered Joel G. Ash
worth in that city and committed
numerous robberies, besides having
murdered a man in 1885 at San Jose,
- Cal., and committed other orimes
there. He promises to plead guilty to
all the orimes which he has committed
and says he wants to be hung. Down
ing is 45 years old, and was born in
Polk oounty, Missouri; his mother aud
sister live at Eczeinan, Mont., and his
brother, at Salt Lake.
Baron Nicholas Knebitsky, governor
of the Russian fur seal islands, is in
San Franoisoo on bis way to Washing
ton, where he intends to present,
through the Russian ambassador, the
form of a new treaty between his coun
try and the United States.
It is ezpeoted that 10,000,000 salmon
fry will be turned into the Columbia
river this year. Of this number, 2,
000,000 will come from the Claokamas
hatchery, 8,000,000 from Sandy sta
tion, 8,000,000 from Little White
Salmon, and 8,000,000 from the head
waters of the Clackamas. -
It is believed that 25,000 persons are
without the necessaries of life in Guay
aquil as a result of the reoent fire there.
' Ten thousand persons have already left
the city, fearing pestilence will follow
the fire. Everything possible is being
done to relieve suffering among those
who have remained.
: The grand jury has indicted eleven
direotors of the Bank of Commerce, of
New Orleans, which closed up last
month with a loss of $810,000. Cash
ier de Blano was also indioted for
falsely swearing to bank statements.
The indioted directors are some of the
most important business men of the
community.
In. his annual report to the secretary
of war, General Greely, the chief sig
nal offloer, says the military telegraph
lines running through mountainous and
desert regions have been maitained in
excellent order. The commercial busi
ness over the lines has largely increas
ed, and the receipts now amount to
one-twelfth of the cost of operation of
the entire signal oorps.
An east-bound Union Paoifio pas
' senger train was held up a short dis
tance east of Uintah, Utah,, near the
mouth of Weber canyon, and about
eight miles from Ogden. No passen
gers were molested, the robbers con
fining their operations to the mail and
express oars.' The baggage and express
oars were unooupled by the robbers and
run ahead of the tsain a few hundred
yards and both oars broken open. The
robbers failed to open the safe in the
express oar. Railway officials say the
booty seoured was a few mail bags, but
as a great portion of the mail was cor
respondence between banks, inolosing
exchanges and remittances, and always
a good proportion of cash, the loss is
. supposed to be of consequence.
Foreign Grain Crop.
The European crop reports of the
agricultural department, issued by the
chief statistician at Washington, shows
that the crop of Great Britain has been
somewhat reduced in the north and in
Sootland by the persistent wet weather
Of September, whioh practioally ruined
most of the wheat then angathered.
In the southern countries harvesting
operations ' were oompleted before the
bad weather set in, and the wheat is
of a finer , milling quality than baa
been known for years.
A Dynamite Explosion.
A large quantity of dynamite in a
magazine of the Dayton Coal & Iron
Company, at Dayton, Tenn., exploded,
wrecking many buildings and destroy
ing an eleotiro light plant, putting out
all the lights. , The company store is a
complete wreok. The debris was
blown a quarter of a mile. -
Terrell Make a Claim.
United States Minister Terrell has
lodged with the Turkish government a
claim for 140.000 indemnity on behalf
of Mrs. Lenz, mother of Frank Lenz,
the Pittsburg bioyclist who was mur
dered by Kurds while traveling
through Asiatio Turkey in 1895.
Penalty Swiftly Executed.
Miss Blanche Gray, a young lady of
fine family, of Atlanta, Ga. , was going
from a friend's" house to her sister, s,
when a negro .'assaulted ber. ' Two
hours later the negro was oaught and
hanged by a mob.' ,,
Freight Train Collide.
A head-end collision of freight trains
ocourred on the Northeastern railroad,
near New Orleans. - William Fulcher,
engineer, and bis fireman, John Alex
anderia, oolored, were killed. .
Forte' Demand Refused.
. The embassies of the powers have
sent an identical note to the porte re
fusing its demand that the right be ao
oorded of searching foreign vessels in
Turkish waters for Armenians. , '
Ran Ashore fn a Fog;.
The British steamer Palestrina,
Captain Harder, ballast-laden for Bal-
timore, ran ashore in a thick fog near.
St. Johns, N. F. She will probably;
become a total wreok. . . "
Feaee In Matabeleland.
Ceoil Rhodes. Earl Grey, adminis
trator the British South Afrioa Com pany,
and other offloials had a final un
derstanding with the Matabele ohiefs.
Mr. Rhodes announoed to them that,
after yielding up their arms and those
of their number who had been guilty
of murdering whites, the Matabeles
must looate themselves in speoified dis
tricts of the country. The prinoipal
ohiefs would be held responsible' and
would receive monthly salaries from
the British Chartered South Africa
Company. The chiefs all agreed to
this proposition, and it is believed the
whole Matabele trouble is now at an
end. 1 . 1 -
.. Hatchet Men are Doomed.
The end of the highbinder days in
San ' Franoisoo has oome. A dozen
headquarters of the hatohet-men were
destroyed, and the work of destruction
will be continued. The agent of the
oonsul-general overthrew the josses,
broke down the signs and dismantled
the headquarters where the hatohet
men have been wont to meet, and the
Celestial desperadoes are now homeless
and hunted. This outoome is welcomed
by all in San Franoisoo, for another
virulent outbreak was expeoted at any
time in San Franoisoo.
Held Up by Women.
Colonel Henry Spielman, of New
York city, a wealthy merchant and.
clubman, was held up by two women
and robbed as he was leaving the
Union League Club in Chioago. The
assailants of the oolonel secured his
gold watch and $20 in cash. Being
pursued by her viotim, one of the
women tossed the watoh into Custom
house place to avoid being oaught with
evidence upon her.
An Infantile Crook. ,
Dennis Myron, of Chioago, is only
11 years old, but be has been arrested
fourteen times and is now under sen
tence to the reform school as a burglar.
He grew up in that unsavory neighbor
hood , known as "Little Hell," and
about as soon as he wore trousers fell
into the companionship of thieves and'
toughs. He helped a woman in shop
lifting, and then took up thieving on
his own aooount.
The Sherburne Robber.
The Sherburne bankrobber confined
in the Martin oounty jail, Minnesota,
baa made a statement to the sheriff,
whioh has been verified, giving his
name as Lew Kellihan, and his home
as Rook Rapids, la. , where his parents
reside. He gives his age as 21, and
states that his brother who was killed
was but 18 years old. The reading of
dime novels led to the commission of
the crime.
, Inmate Were Cremated.
; There was a terrible casualty at the
house of J. F. Miller, of New What
com, Wash. The farmer and his wife
were on a visit to a neighboring oity
and left their three children in the
care of Frank Boise, of Taooma. The
house took fire in some manner and
the three children and Mr. Boise were
found dead in the ruins. Boise has a
wife and children in Taooma.
Statistical Agent Wileox in
" ' .''' California.
INDUSTRY GROWING IMPORTANT
An ! Elaborate and A ccurate Report of
' the Statu of the FUhlng Industry
tq Be Obtained for the Commission.
San Franoisoo, Oct. 21. William
A. Wilcox, df. Washington, D. C,
statistical agent of the United States
commission of fish and fisheries, has
arrived from Oregon and Washington
for the purpose of preparing a statis
tical report of the fishing industry on
this ooast. He has been industriously
engaged in the pursuit of bis investiga
tions and . inquiries in Oregon , and
Washington several weeks, and will
devote the 'next month or two to the
work of gathering data oonerning the
fish and fisheries of California.
"Mr. Wilcox says that for several
years 'past the fisheries of the we. t
ooast of the United States had been
growing in importance to such an ex
tent that the United States fish com
mission bad deemed it advisable and
highly important that an elaborate and
aoourate report of the status of the fish
ing industry here be obtained, and he
has been sent here for that purpose
His report it calculated to prove of
great benefit to the commercial fishing
industries of . the ooast for the reason
that it will show the need of more
batoheries and a more, thorough stock
ing of the streams and inland waters of
the ooast states.
He says it is highly probable that
the United States fish commission will
decide to establish half a dozen new
batoheries in California before long
for the reason that the fishing industry
of the Paoifio ooast states, including
Alaska, has grown until it ranks next
to those of the New England and Mid
dle Atlanito states in extent and im
portance, while the value of the fishery
produots is greater than in the South
Atlantio, Gulf and Great Lakes states
combined. '.
Magnetic Power In Aerial Navigation.
Boston, Oot, 21. An entirely new
sohem'e- looking to aerial navigation
and flight has been suggested by A. W.
Nitsoh, of this city. It is such a decid
ed departure from all the propositions
heretofore advanoed for utilizing the
atmosphere for purposes of transit as
to command serious attention from
scientists and others to whom it has
been presented.
Nitsoh is of the opinion that the
subtle magnetio attraction that holds
the needle of the mariner's oompass
with unswerving fidelity to the north
can be utilized in a magnified form for
man's convenience, profit and pleasure.
Accepting the theory advanoed that
vast deposits of magnetio ore exist in
the immediate vioinity of the north
pole, and form there oome the magnetio
ourrents distributed over the globe, and
that it is the attraction of this thus far
unbounded field that draws with magio
power the needle of the comprsB, there
is nothing, as be looks at it, to prevent
its being made of real service. "I be
lieve," said he, "that magnets oould be
suspended in the air of sufficient foroe
to counteract the resistance of the air,
overcome the adverse currents and
move more or less rapidly toward the
north." -'"-' 3
, Got the Best of a Mob.
Westohester, Pa., Oot. 21. Edward
Brown, the negro who attaoked Mrs.
Thomas Johnson in a suburb of Coats
ville night before last, has been landed
in jail. When the offloer took the cul
prit to the railway station a mob sur
rounded him and it was with the great
est difficulty that he suooeeded in plac
ing the soared negro safely on board
the oar. Before the train started
stones were burled through the oar
windows thick and faast, and the pas
sengers became terror-strioken and
rushed in all directions to escape the
flying missiles. One man was struok
on the head by a stone and the whole
side of his face was laid open, while a
number of others reoeived slight cuts
and bruises about the head and body.
. Good News for California Farmer..
San Franoisoo, Oot. 21. There was
a very lively day on the floor of the
local produce exchange. Wheat is ad
vancing on heavy orders from shippers.
Three ships have been laden with
wheat for Caloutta so far this month,
and continued large purchases for ship
ment in November and Deoember to
Australia were also made. December
wheat advanoed today 4 cents, and
May -6 cents. Deoember closed
strong at $1.30, and May at $1.88.
Barley was also strong today, having
advanoed from 66 1 for low point of
September to 87 cents high point to
day. If grain continues to advance,
California farmers will enjoy a season
of unexampled prosperity. ...
Protected the Miner.
Leadville, Colo., Oct. 21. About
125 miners from Missouri, to work the
Bisen mine, arrived this afternoon.
Over a thousand people about the depot
jeered the newcomers. General
Brooks had a large foroe of troops on
hand to esoort the men to the mine and
prevent an attack on them
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
Downing;, Hopkins & Co.' Review of
Trade.
Portland, Or., Oot 21. It basal
ways been the olaim of old traders that
numerous fluctuations increases specu
lation. There is no lack of the latter,
but the former does not appear to come
to the front with , any degree of free
dom, although there has been a decid
ed improvement from the dullness that
prevailed thirty days ago. There was
enough aotion last week to suit any
trader. Wheatvnoved within a rane
of 7 oents, and to make the situation
more favorable to holders, dosing
figures were within a fraotion of the
highest point. :
There is a good tone to everything,
and the tendency is gradually upward.
The lowest prices this year have been
seen, and the backers of both political
parties claim that whichever way the
election goes prices are bound to ad
vance. There will be many sharp
breaks from the bulges, and the opera
tors who do not take too large lines
and realize profits on all good bulges,
and buy back on the deoltaes, will
make a good deal ot money. We have
enough of everything to supply our
wants, and a good surplus of grain and
hogs. The foreign situation is so
strong that we will have a good mar
ket at remunerative prioes for all that
we can spare. The orops of feed stuffs
in the United Kingdom are shorter
than for years, and they are taking our
corn and oats to make up the defici
ency. Large purohases have already
been made at Chicago and at the sea
board of corn and oats, and bur exports
are the largest in years, and give evi
dence of exoeeding all records.
New bull factors are consequently
ooming to the front with surprising
regularity, especially in wheat, and it
has a tendency to create the impres
sion in the minds of some operators tbet
there is some mysterious force at work
in the market, as it has lately been
helped at the most opportune moments.
Our crops of winter and spring were
damaged at a time when they gave the
best promise. Russian farmers in
many districts were also unfortunate,
as their favorable prospects have been
out down.-. Now there are reports oom
ing in that India's crop has suffered
from drought, although there have been
good rains in a few sections. The
English colony in Caloutta is buying
wheat in San Francisco for shipment to
that port Australia also oontinues to
buy wheat there. . Liverpool is evi
dently working the wheat for Calcut
ta, as they have the information in ad
vanoe of other points. -
Stocks of wheat in European ports
are 32,000,000 bushles less than last
year, but the quantity on passage is 1,
100,000 bushels more, having inoreased
6,000,000 bushels during September,
Afloat stocks are also larger at this
time than in five years, with the excep
tion of 1898, when they were 5,000,000
bushels more. Stooks in store are the
lightest in years, but it should be re
membered that the tendenoy on the part
of foreigners has been to work with
lighter supplies. This makes the
foreign situation strong. The world's
available supply is the smallest in five
years. :
TWO CHILDREN KILLED.
Another Fatally Wounded Thrown
From a Wag-on In Wasco County.
Arlington, Or., Oot. 21. Word was
received here today of a terrible acci
dent that ooourred near Thirty-Mile,
in this oounty yesterday. A span of
wild horses that were hitohed to a
wagon, in which were the wife and
children of Will Davis, ran away,
overturning the wagon. Two of the
children were killed, and another fa
tally injured. In their flight, the
horses ran against a tree, breaking the
wagon tongue, and turning the wagon
over endwise. Mr. Davis was not in
the wagon, but bad tied the horses to
a fence, from which they broke away.
TYPOGRAPHICAL UNION.
nd of the Most Important Convention
Held In Year.
s Colorado Springs, Col-.J.Oot. 21.
The forty-third convention" of the In
ternational Typographical Union fin
ished its session in this oity today.
Matters pertaining only to the closing
of the convention were transacted. By
night nearly all the delegates had left
the oity, the officers of the union only
remaining behind to attend to several
minor matters of business. President
Presoott this morning said this conven
tion had in many respects been the
most important held in the last ten
years, and estimated it bad cost $30,000.
: Sue Her Father.
Pittsburg, Oct. 21. Mrs. Rebecoa
White, through Attorney E. F. Duffy,
of Pittsburg, has entered suit in the
Wayne, Mich., oourts against her
father, Edmund Eearsley, and others
for property aggregating about $900,'
000 in value. About seventy acres of
the land lies in what is now the oity of
Detroit, and was - divided and sold
years ago. In 1887, Mrs. White claims
ber father seoured her signature to
papers signing away her interest in the
property, telling her that she was
signing papers of minor importance.
Leibnitz, the great . G nan philoso
pher, was almost equally great as a
chess player.
iff pacific m m
A Resume of Events in
Northwest.
the
EVIDENCE OF STEADY GROWTH
New Gathered in All the Town of
Our Neighboring State. Improve
ment Noted in All Industries Oregon.
The tax levy for Clatsop oounty this
ear will be between 12 and 18 mills.
The latest clean-up of the Virtue
mine in Baker oounty, is estimated at
$20,000. '.. , -
It is expeoted that the distillery in
Grants will be started up about No
vember 1. :';;'''. -;"
For the fourth time in four years,
Crook oounty is the first oonnty to send
in its assessment roll to the seoretary
of state. -
; There are now 701 pupils in The
Dalles publio sohools. This is the
largest number ever enrolled at one
time in that school distriot.
The sheepmen of Grant oounty met
in Canyon City last week and effeoted
an organization similar to that of the
Idaho Wool Growers' Association.
In running a tunnel into the Blaok
Republioan mine on Frozen creek, a
tributary of Myrtle creek, the workmen
have struck very rich ore, bearing oop
per and gold. ' ;
A phenomenal pumpkin vine was
raised this year by a Dalles man. It
covers a spaoe .as large as that between
the four oorners of intersecting streets
in The Dalles, says the Chronicle. It
bears twenty-two large pnmpkins of an
average weight of twenty-four pounds,
to say nothing of the small ones, and
hence has over 440 pounds of pumpkin.
Henry Kemino, of Farmington, in
Washington oounty, was attaoked one
day last week by a mad boar. He was
driving the hogs out of a stubblefield,
when the infuriated animal rushed
upon him and thrust bis tusks into
1 Kemino's thigh, above the knee, strik
ing the bone and. lacerating the mus
cles. If blood poisoning will not set
in Mr. Kemino will recover. ,
Ben Hagen, a farmer living near
Pendleton, came into that oity one day
last week with a load of wheat. While
descending Rourke canyon he found the
straw that had been plaoed on the road
on fire: He was into the fire before he
discovered it The banks were too
steep above and below, so that be oould
not turn out, so he whipped up his
team and ran his -horses all the way
through the fire. It was rather hot,
and four sacks of wheat were set on fire
while the team was dashing through
the flames.
Tons of fish are going to waste on
the beaohes in Uppertown and Alder
brook, say 8 the Astorian. Within the
past few days millions of sardines have
been thrown up by the high tides-on
the shore along the oity front, and it
has appeared to spectators that some-'
thing should be done towards packing
this magnificent artiole of food. ' The
fish are as fine in quality as any ever
put up in oil, and it would seems that
anew industry of renumerative and
large proportions only awaits the en
ergy of some praotioal man. -
. ' Washington.
Wild fowl are plentiful on Willapa
harbor, and the run ' of silverside
salmon over there has begun. All the
traps and nets are having fine catches.
The United States cirouit of appeals
for the ninth distriot has decided in
favor of the city of South Bend, in that
city's oase against the water company
there. 1
Bears are plentiful in the neighbor
hood of the Coquitlam river, says the
Vanoouver News-Advertiser. . A num
ber have been shot by Indians within
the past few weeks. '-.'.
Waitsburg is now lighted - by elec
tricity. The plant was, installed by
home oapital and enterpirse. It has a
oapaoity of 600 16-candle power lights,
and will be run by water power.
It cost Walla Walla oounty $500 to
extradite and bring from the Indian
territory Daniel White, a soldier,
charged with seduotion, and then no
oase oould be made against him be
cause he married the girl.
The big bear that is one of the fea
tures of interest at the Taooma hotel,
broke loose from his ohain last week,
and it required the combined efforts of
the hotel force, 500 spectators, and
nearly a quart of chloroform to secure
bim again.
The harvest of the oranberry marsh
near Ilwaoo will be about completed
next week. The crop will be between
6,000 and 8,000 barrels of berries this
season. So far, no frost has reached
this section, and the crop will be one
of the. largest, and the berries superior
to any yet gathered.
The farmers around Colfax have be
gun seeding and the amount of fall
planted grain which will go in this
year will be greater than that of any
previous year if the weather oontinues
favorable. The rise in the price of
wheat is stimulating the farmers to in
creased activity, and nearly every inch
of summer fallow land will be planted
by eloction time.
Wheat Took a Jump.
Chicago, Oct. 21. Wheat made a
reoord-breaking jump today. Decem
ber option, whioh closed Saturday at
75 5-8o, opened this morning at 78 to
79 l-8o, steadying at the latter figure,
an advanoe of 8i'o. The wildest ex
oitmeent characterized the trading.
There was talk of possible failures.
After a momentary reaction to 79c, De
cember wheat soon went bevond the
top.' figureB, touching 79J several
times within the first fifteen minutes
of business. . Just before 10 A.- M. the
market took a sudden plunge down
ward to 78, reacting later to 78 s.
Shortly after 10 the price receded to
78Jo, then within a few minutes it
advance a full cent. During the frenzy
at the opening a few trades were made
as high- as 79o, while sales at the
same moment in other parts of the pit
were at different figures, ranging all '
the way to 78 o. . '
. In Bight of Liberty. '
New York, Oot. 21. One hundred
and sixty-seven Armenians, who em
barked from Boulogne, arrived on the
steamship Obdam today and were trans-
f erred to Ellis Island, where they were
examined by the health authorities and
inspestor of immigration. There was
one family of sixteen. The Armenians
as a rule were well dressed,, intelligent
and did not appear to have suffered
privations. Their landing will be pro
tested as against our immigration laws.
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, : -Made a Rich Haul.
San Franoisoo, Oot.. 21. Diamonds
to the value of $4,000 and gold coin
amounting to $180 were, stolen from
the residence of Hermann Branndsch
weigher, the liquor merohant, 1 600
McAllister street, between the hours
of 9 o'clock in the morning and 6 at
night. . .
CLOSE OF AN EPISODE.
President Diax Decorated By the King
- of the Belgian.
City of Mexioo, Oot. 20. An event
marking the close of a great historic
episode ocourred yesterday, when the
Belgian minister, in ' the -name of , hit
majesty, Leopold II, king of the Bel
gians, bestowed on President Diaz as a
mark of the honorable regard in which
the president of Mexico is held in Bel
gium. The significance of this act liei
in the fact that King Leopold is the
brother of the late Empress Carlotta,
of Mexico, and his bestowal of the or
der upon the president of the rebuplic
is an indication that the Maximillian
episode is now definitely closed. Presi
dent Diaz has, as a matter of public
policy, and as a means of drawing all
parties and factions together and oblit
erating the past, bestowed high officei .
on distinguished adherents of the late
empire, and has thus brought about an
era of good feeling and fraternal senti
ment previously unknown in Mxeico.
'' Lake Steamer Burned
Cleveland, Oot. 20. A special from
Sturgeon Bay, Wis., says the big
steamer Australasia, owned by .lame!
Ccrrigan, of this oity; was burned lasl
night on Lake Michigan and now Jiei
at the bottom of Whitefish bay. The
steamer, which was valued at $60,000,
was loaded with a cargo of 2,000 ton
of coal for Milwaukee, oaught fire
about 11 o'olock. . Full steam was put
on and an effort made to beach the ves
sel, the orew in the meantime making
a terrific fight against the flames. A
last shoal water was reached, just at
the life-saving orew arrived at the ves
sel and rescued the orew. The vessel
soon afterward sunk.
V A Crank Arrested. '
San Franoisco, Oct. 20. W. F.
Barrett, who imagined he had been
delegated to establish the innocence ol
Theodore Durrant, during the latter'c
trial, was arrested tonight for insanity.
Barret accosted a man named Riordan
on the street and ordered him to throw
up bis hands. Riordan succeeded ic i n putting
him to flight, and meeting ,.;..' ,
Policemen Benjamin and Clanoey, in-v
formed them of the occurrence. They
pursued the lunatio, and at Hajei ,'
street overtook him. He reacted vig
orously, but was subdued after a, shorl
struggle and taken to the oity prison.
Geimany Want a Chinese Port.
London, Oct. '20. A Berlin dispatch
to the Times says the usually well-informed
Soblessiche Zeitung reports the
German government meditates sending
a commission to endeavor to seoure a
tract of territory on the east ooast ol
China, to enable Germany to share in
the industry and commercial develop
ment of China.
A Workingmen's Petition.
Cape Town, Oct. 20. At a meeting
of several thousand workingmen here s
resolution was passed praying the gov
ernment of Cape Colony to summon
parliament with a view of abolishing
the duties on foodstuffs. Those whe
attended the meeting afterward formed
a procession and carried their resolu
tions to the governor.
A Result of the Czar's Tislt. '
London, Oot. 20. The Daily Newi
has a Berlin dispatch, whiob says that
a batch of Alsatian reoruitswho were
traveling on the railway, mutined and
wrecked the railroad carriage, shouting
"Vive la France." This is supposed tc
indicate a revival of chauvinism since
the czar's visit.