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"it The Hood River Glacier. It's a Cold Day When We Get Left. VOL. 8. HOOD RIVER. OREGON. FRIDAY. NOV. 6, 1896. NO. 24. V - - i mn week From All Parts of the New ' World and the Old. OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS Comprehensive Review of the Import ant Happenings of the Past Week ' Culled From the Telegraph Columns. ' Mayor MoClellana of Koanoke, Va., was run down by an electrio oar and fatally injured. He stepped in front of the oar when it was less than five feet from him. The demonstrations . against the Italian residents oontinne in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The government of the state refuses the aid of federal troops; but promises to punish tbe Jaoobins, who are the ohief offenders. 1 The North German Gazette of Ber lin, says the statement is incorreot that a recent order renders the import 1 of Amerioan canned meat virtually im possible by providing for examination ' of eaoh tin of the importation. The controller of the ourrenoy has deolared dividends in favor of - the , creditors of insolvent national banks as . follows: Twenty per cent, Columbia National bank of Tacoma, Wash; 10 per oent, First National bank of San Bernardino, Cal. ! An Italian named Piotro Simoni met : with a shocking death on the road near Forestville, Cal. With a friend he was going down a ste.ep hill in a light wagon, when the team ran away, throwing Simoni out. Bis leg caught in the vehicle and he was dragged nearly a mile, his bead being literally pounded to pieoes. On a trolley oar of the Consolidated Traction Company, in Newark, N. J., filled with Italian laborers, the fuse of an eleotrio motor blew out, sending a puff of smoke into the car. In fear the men rushed for the doors. Lambuster Angelo jumped, or was pushed off the car, and his neok broken. Linooln Guiseppe's head was badly out, and he may not survive. ' ' A south-bound passenger and express train on the Missouri, Kansas & Texas road was held up and looted by train robbers at a point one mile south of Al varado, Tex. It is said that the rob bers seoured little treasure from the express car. The bandits are supposed ' to be heading for Indian territory, and all the United States marshals have been notified to be on the alert. Annie Vanderwall, aged 7 years, was instantly killed and Ella Berk man, aged 9, fatally injured at the . Joseph street orossing of the Chioago & Alton railroad in Chicago. The gates had been lowered for a switoh engine whioh was - approaching. Thinking they had plenty of time to oross, the ' two children stepped under the gates on the first track and were struck by a freight car whioh had been switched by the engine. A courier from Usal, Cal. , a lumber mill town 20 miles south of Cahto, brings meager details of the murder of John Mudgett, a wealthy rancher and landowner of that place. Mudgett was unmarried and lived alone on a 100 aore ranoh. He was reputed to have coin about the house. His dead body was found half cremated in the ruins of the partially burned ' house. The body showed evideno e of violenoe, and parties are suspected. The sheriff has been notified to hurry to the scene. Mndgett was a native of Belfast, Me., , 46 years old, and has relatives both there and in Fortuna, Cal. A disastrous fire in a Brooklyn sky scraper caused a loss of $300,000. An official dispatch from Manilla says a conspiracy has been discovered in the Sooloo archipelago, a portion of the Spanish .colony of the Philippine islands. Perry Bathalow, United States con sul at Mayenoe, is being proseouted for severely injuring an inmate of his house by striking him on the head with a revolver. The price of bread has gone up half . a penny a loaf, and the inorease is be ing aotually felt in the poorer districts of London, whose many families have, in oonsequenoe, been obliged to reduce their supplies. " An explosion of natural gas at Ava lon, Pa., killed Bessie Osborne, aged 15, seriously injured her brother Dale, aged 9, and her sister Edith, aged 6. The house was badly wrecked. The explosion was caused by a leak in the kitchen "pipes. Thomas P. Gillespie, superintendent of the Sterling Mining & Milling Com pany, at Montgomery, Nev.'r was shot and killed on the road between the - Johnny and Chispa mines, by unknown parties. The shooting was done from behind some bushes. Paul Isenberg, the wealthy Ha waiian sugar-planter,, who with his family has been spending several months in Europe, has arrived in San Francisco. Mr. Isenberg's European ' trip was for the purpose of interesting ,'. foreign capitalists in the gigantio Oahu plantation scheme, of whioh so much has been written lately. His mission was in a measure successful, for he is now returning to Honolulu with a guaranty of about $1,600,000 from sev eral Dutoh millionaires. Mobilising Franco-Rrussiaa Troops. A dispatoh from St Petersburg to ioliel , says there has been an import in t exohange of views between . the rrenoh and Russian ministers of war, y whioh certain modifications have teen effected in the general plan for he mobilization and concentration of franco-Russian troops in time of was ioliel adds that proof of this statement Will soon be seen in a number of fron tier changes, and the first step is said io have been taken by an inorease in lie number of Russian dragoons. Piano Factory Burned. Fire completely destroyed the piano laotory of . House & Davis, at Des plaines, 111. The loss is estimated at (50,000. Twenty-five new pianos were destroyed, with 250 in prooess of lonstruction and a large stock of valu ible hardwood lumber. A lady living )ver the factory lost diamonds valued it $1,000. ' Has Sued tbe Ball Club. Mrs. Caroline B. Newman, a woman such interested' in baseball, while wit leasing a game in Baltimore, was itruok by a foul fly. She has sued the Baltimore base ball club for $5,000 for ujuries she claims to have received. Phis is probably tbe first suit of the kind on record. Asphyxiated by Gas. John Houston and wife were asphyx iated by illuminating gas in their ipartments in Chioago. ' Houston is lead and his wife's "Condition is criti saL The accident was dne to careless ness on the part of Houston who forgot to properly turn off the gas. '...?' ' i Met Death In the Cyclone. ; ' The known dead by the disastrous jyolone in Lincoln and Payne coun ties, Oklahoma territory, number seven, with -, three perhaps fatally injured. Many others reported dead may swell the list of fatalities. . The scene of devastation is hard of aooess. The property damage is heavy; ' - Hank Gardner Dead. ' . Hank M. Gardner, a one-armed man, fell from his bicycle in Buffalo, N. Y., striking on his head and frac turing his skull, dying almost instant ly. Gardner was , on old-time tele graph operator and well-known to the (raternity throughout the country. s ' An Elevator Hope Broke. The rotten rope of an fjivator oaused the death of John Rahenberg in St. Louis. The acoident occurred while be was alone, and for eleven hours his body served as food for rats. He fell i distance of forty feet and must have been killed instantly. Oil Stove Exploded. An oil stove in the residence of Wil liam Allenbach, in Milwaukee, ex ploded end scattered the burn ng fluid over the little family group in the kitohrn. Alhnbach, his wife and baby in arms were fatally burned. Have Renewed Their Fledge. After several weeks of daily confer ences, the lumber men interested in tbe rlomestio trade have arrived at the con clusion that their various interests can be best subserved by remaining in the pool which they have maintained dur ing the past year under the name of tbe Central Lumber Company, of Cali fornia. It required an enormous amount of conferring to settle the mul titudinous interests involved, but this has at length been aooopmlished and early all of the mills on the books lata rear have renewed their pledge to stand by eaoh other. Prices will remain the tame for the present, at least. Coal Gas Exploded. A terrible explosion of gas ooourred kt the South. Wilkesbarre shaft of the Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Company. It is reported that fix men were so badly burned they will die. The mine was not in operation and only about fifteen men, mostly repairers,' were Inside. So great was tbe force of the explosion that it shook the surf aoe for miles around. Smoke coming up tbe lhaft prevented the resoueTS from going down. The mine is one of the most gaseous in the anthracite region. Five rears ago seven men perished in an explosion there.' ."..'. ' A Safe Robbed. A mysterious burglary occurred in Spokane in the office of the steam laun dry company, on Main avfnue. The lafe was opened and between $1,200 ind $1,800 in oasb taken, but the rob bers, who. had gone to the trouble of opening the safe and taking the money in one part, left $87 25 in another al i though about $40 was taken from the I tame drawer in which the money was left The money left was all silver. The Car Turned Over. One person was killed, two fatally injured and others seriously injured in tn aocident on the Wyoming Valley traotion line in Wilkesbarre, Pa. The jar left tbe traok and fell upon its fide, pinning four passenegrs under the wreck. Cyclone In Oklahoma. A cyclone struok Mitohell postoffice, ftventy miles from Guthrie, O. T., and , iwept away farmhouses for . miles. Postmaster Mullen and wife are known to have been killed. Many others are ' reported dead. Rescuing parties with joffins have been sen; from Guthrie. A REPUBLICAN VICTORY William McKinley and Garret Hobart the Choice of the People. j THE- GOLDEN METAL IS TRIUMPHANT The Republican Majority Will Probably Over One Hundred in the Electoral in Pennsylvania and New York , With seven states yet in donbt, it is known ' that the Republican national ticket is eleoted by a majority of over 100 in the eleotoral college, and of 1, 000,000 plurality of the popular vote. New York, . Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts and Ohio have rolled up nnprecedentedly tremendous majori ties, from 100.000 to 800,000. The rest is detail, to be settled hy complete returns. These are slow in coming in from many states that are doubtful, not because they are close, but beoause fail ure to complete the count gives no basis for positive assertion. Indiana is a case in point There is no doubt that it has gone for McKinley, but the aotual count is unreasonably delayed. Two - or there others are in the same ease, like California, Kansas and West Virginia. Others are doubtful beoause the vote is olose, like Delaware, Ten nessee, Nebraska and the Dakotas. It will take another day to make up an absolutely trustworthy table of eleotoral votes. '.-,.' On the most conservative estimate, McKinley has 250 eleotoral votes, or 25 more than a majority. Probably he will have 800, or two to Bryan's one. He has oarried every state eaBt of the Missouri and north of the Ohio and Po tomao, besides Kentucky in tbe South and Oregon in the West certainly, and perhaps, others in both sections. , Mo Kinley's total majority on the popular vote will be more than 1,000,000, the largest in the history of the oountry. The following table shows the elec toral vote of eaoh state. The asterisk in front of tbe states indioates those claimed by tbe Republicans. - The re maining states are either for Bryan or in' doubt. This gives MoKinley 288 electoral votes. The Bryan foroes olaim 69 positively, while 90 are in doubt: Alabama. 11 Nevada New Hampshire... New Jeney New York North Carolina .... North Dakota Ohio; Oregon Pennsylvania Rhode Island South Carolina South Dakota.... Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont..- Virginia Washington West'frginia Wisconsin Wyoming .... Arkansas 8 California 9 Colorado 4 Connecticut 6 Delaware 3 Florida 4 Georgia 13 Idaho . 3 Illinois 24' Indiana .. 16 Iowa 13; Kansas 10 Kentucky ....p 13 Louisiana 8 Maine ,6i Maryland 8 Massachusetts 15 Michigan 14 Minnesota 9 Mississippi 9 Missouri 17 Montana 3 Nebraska........ 8 Total 447 Necessary for a choice, 224. Oregon. . , Portland. Oregon is in line for Mo Kinley with a majority that will be between 8,500 and 4,500. Of the coun ties that were considered doubtful Yam hill is olaimed by the Republicans. Douglas is in doubt. Benton is for McKinley. Clackamas also. Jaokson has gone for Bryan. Linn and Joseph are also for Bryan.' Marion oounty has gone for MoKinley, and Multno mah's majority for MoKinley will Reach One Million A Majority of College Three , Hundred Thousand Nearly as Much Oregon for McKinley! reaoh 5,000. Complete returns front the city of Portland and from 23 out ofc 28 county precints show over 5,000, but it is expeoted that this will be reduced by outside preoincts. ,.' , , Washington. . 1 Spokane. Eastern Washington, aoj cording to latest estimates, will giv Bryan 7,000 majority, and the state ticket nearly the same. Rogers, Peo pie's party candidate for governor, it not behind the ticket, and the oongres! sional oandiates, Lewis and Jonei, are nearly even with Bryan. Spokane oounty will probably eleot by majorities ranging from 2,000 to 2,500 every roan on the state and oounty tioket. Gar field, Whitman, Douglas, Kittitas and Asotin counties will give Bryan mar jorities, but in Kliokitat the race is close. v In Western Washington the raoe is close and returns so far are not com- plete enough for either party to base an estimate ' MoKinley leads in King and Pierce counties. , The question is will Western Washington give a large enough Republican majority to offset tbe vote of the eastern part of the state for Bryan. , California. San Franoisco. MoKinley is ahead so far as the count has proceeded. The Republican state central oommittee olaims the state by 80,000. Six Re publican congressmen out of seven have been eleoted. Nebraska. Omaha. Up to midnight the returns from the state were very meager,' but the state is olaimed by the Repub licans. The total vpte polled is muoh heavier than two years ago. The1 vote is so olose that complete returns must be had before it can be decided. Kentucky. r Lexington. Late news from the state indicates that MoKinley's ma jority will exoeed 15,000. This state was the greatest surprise of ; all to tbe silver foroes. Breckenridge will be eleoted to congress. : Connecticut. ' New Haven. With one town miss ing, MoKinley 107,586, Bryan 54,498. Returns warrant the belief that the state has gone Republioati by at least 40,000. ; Arkansas. Little Rook. Arkansas gives 25,000 majority for Bryan. : New Jersey. . Trenton. A proportionate estimate of the counties so far heard from in dicate that MoKinley will oarry'the state by from 45,000 to 50,000. ' Pennsylvania. Philadelphia. McKinley, looording to latest estimates, will have a plu rality of 800,000 in Pennsylvania. New York. New York. Nine hundred and twenty-four distriots out of 8,864 elec tion districts outside of tbe oity and King's oounty give Bryan 49,621, Mo Kinley 82,544. The state will give McKinley about 250,000 majority. Massachusetts. Boston. Seventy five preoincts in Boston give Bryan 11,718, McKinley 80,270. Missouri. St. Louis. One hundred and sixty nine preoincts in St. Louis give Bryan 19,859, McKinley 22,792. : Colorado. Denver. The vote is reported to be about the same as two years ago, 180,000. There is no question of the election of Bryan eleotors by over 100,- 000 plurality. Adams, tbe silver can-' didace for governor will be elected. , West Virginia. ' Wheeling. MoKinley. has carried tbe state by about 12,000. Tbe state tioket and four ' Republican congress men are eleoted. . North Carolina. Raleigh. Bryan's majority is va riously estimated at from J 0,000 to 20,000. Wisconsin. Madison. MoKinley's plurality in Wisoonsin is probably above 40,000. '' Virginia. : ' ' ' Richmond. The Demoorats have oarried Virginia by about 20,000. Illinois. Chioago Cook county,' whioh in eludes Chioago, will ' give MoKinley 50,000, but the rest of the state is yet in doubt, and the Demoorats claim it by 85,000. Altgeld has run ahead of Bryan, and it is said that if Bryan is defeated by 20,000 Altgeld will still have enough votes to elect him. , ' Wyoming. 1 Cheyenne. Wyoming is in doubt, but indications point to Bryan's selec tion. , ' 1 tali. Salt Lake Indications are that Bryan has oarried the state by about 10,000. . ' Bf outana. ' Butte. Bryan's majority in tbe state may reach f5, 000. The entire state fusion ticket is eleoted. Nevada. . J . Carson. Indications are thai Bryan's pluraHty will reach 2,000. ' , Minnesota. St. Paul. One hundred and twelve preoincts in Minnesota, including St Paul, give MoKinley 16,915, Bryan 10,783. South liako a. - Sioux Falls. Returns are meager, but the Republican tioket will have a majority. . v Kansas. Topeka. Sixty-four precincts out of 2,128 preoincts in Kansas give MoKin ley 8,679, Bryan 8,836. ...... Ohio. ' '. ; Cincinnati. Hamilton oounty will give MoKinley 16,000 majority. The vote outside of Hamilton oounty, how ever; is olose. Alabama. Birmingham. Tbe state vote will be large and the Democratic tioket will receive a large plurality, but an esti mate oannot yet be made. Loulsana. . New Orleans. The indications are that the Demoorats have made a olean sweep. Bryan has carried the state by not less than 80,000 majority. Mississippi. Jaokson. Mississippi gives Bryan a majority of 50,000. The vote for Watson will not exceed 10,000. Maine. Portland. MoKinley's total vote, 4,480; Bryan's, 2,273. Tbe state will have a Republican majoirty. . Michigan. Detroit. Returns from 24 out of 83 counties give 17,270 majority for Mo Kinley, indicating a Republican ma jority in the state of upward of 50,000. Iowa. ' Des Moines. Tbe Democratic state committee concedes Iowa to MoKinley. i Indiana Indianapolis. The vote in Indiana is the largest ever polled. Under the law no' reports can be sent out until tbe count is oom plete. Forty preoinots in Indianapolis give MoKinley 4,284, Bryan 2,861. Maryland. . Baltimore. Chairman Talbot, of the Democratic central oommittee, oonoedes Maryland to the Republicans, but gives no figures. Republicans , olaim the state by at least 80,000. " North Dakota. Fargo. Fargo gives MoKinley 400 majority. Bryan oarries but one ward in tbe city. . ' Texas. Galveston. Tbe Galveston News oonoedes the election of the Bryan and Sewall eleotors, also tbe election of Culberson, silver-Demoorat, for governor. II IEE11ID IRIP The Forerunner of a Decided Sensation. THE CRISIS IS APPROACHING Outrageous Treatment of the Competl ; tor Prisoners - Strained Relation! With Spain Cuban Leaders Jubilant. New Yorit, Nov. 4. A Herald spe cial from Jacksonville says: Cuban leaders here and in Key West deolare they have reliable information that the relations of tbe United States and Spain have reaohed a crisis, and that developments of great internation al importance in regard to Cuba may be expeoted within the next month. Ad-, vioes from Havana are that tbe de parture of Consul-General . Lee from Washington was caused by tbe orisis, and that his report to President Cleve land will be suoh as will almost oer tainly result in action being taken by tbe United States. It is understood, the case of tbe Competitor's prisoners was the immediate oause of the depar- . ture of General Lee. . . The Spanish authorities have been disposed to proceed in a high-handed way in regard to these prisoners, and without regard to treaty rights. After the court at Madrid set aside the sen tence of death imposed on these prison ers by the first court-martial, it was understood they would be given a oivil trial, instead ol this. However, Cap tain Laborde, the Amerioan correspond ent, Melton, and the other Competitor prisoners were recently summoned be fore a naval oourt at Havana and re quired to file written declarations as preliminary to a new court-martial. The prisoners, , however, refused to make any statement save in the pres ence of General Lee. ' General Lee had not been advised by Captain-General Weyler that the pris oners would be retried, but as soon as the consul learned unofficially what he was doing, and that the oase had been oalled for military and not for oivil consideration, he sent a note to Captain-General Weyler, protesting against any retrial not in accordance with treaty stipulations, and entering ex ceptions to tbe proceedings as inaugu rated. . Captain-General Weyler evaded making any direot response, pleading lack of authority to treat on diplomatic matters questioning General Lee's right to disouss matters whioh it had been the custom to submit to Madrid for settlement by tbe Amerioan minister and the Spanish foreign office. Gen eral Lee and Seoretary Olney were in oonstant oable correspondence about the matter, and the general was finally ordered to Washington. . For diplomatio reasons, General Lee will probably deny it, but it is a faot, nevertbeless, that he said to a friend before leaving for the United States: i "It would not surprise me if I should return to Havana on a warship." Cuban leaders here are jubilant, as they say the result will be either inter vention by the United States or an ignominious baokdown on tbe part of Spain, whioh would destroy what little . prestige she has left. - - DOESN'T KNOW HIMSELF. Strange Case of a Man Who Lost His Own Identity. New York, Nov. 2. In a letter to a member of the olergy in the East, Rev. George H. Davis, rector of St John's Protestant Episoopal ohurch, in Man kato, Minn., tells of the strange oase of . a man who so completely lost all sense of his own identity as to ' make it wholly impossible for him to. give his name, birthplace or other facta oonoern ing his personal history. Mr. Davis has written the letter in the hope that the mystery may be unraveled. His ao oount is as follows: : - "'On October 16, a well-dressed, gentlemanly-appearing mar oalled upon the undersigned, announoed himself a ohnrohman, and asked to he introduced to some physician with whom he might oonfer as to his mental' condi tion. He said he had lost all knowl edge as to his personal identity, of whioh faot he had become oonsoious within a few days. The stranger was . taken to one of the leading physisians, and, after careful examination,' plaoed . in the city hospital, where he still re mains. Nothing about him gives any clew to bis identity. ' i, ' , "Some of his linen is marked 'J. H.,' and he registered at a hotel as J. ' Harrison, of St. Paul, but he thinks that is not his name or home. He is an Englishman by birth, about 60 years old, well eduoated, and thinks he has traveled extensively in this oountry and abroad. He also thinks he was at some time a lay reader." ;' ' ' Paris Anarchist Seized. Paris, Nov. 4. A man named Ley maire, who was out of work, shot and seriously wounded a policeman, with a revolver this afternoon in the Rue des Petit Champs. Another policeman was shot in tbe shoulder. When Ley mire was finally overpowered, he de clared himself to be an anarchist. The police have seized a lot of anarchist doouments and literature at his lodg ings. It has been ascertained that Leymaire is a native of Correze. The man gives evidence of being; a orank, i . " ' ..A