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VOL. X. . : - - HOOD RIVER, - OREGON, APRIL 21, 1899. , , NO. 48.
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OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.
The hospital-ship Missouri has ar
rived at Fortress Monroe iiom Havana,
with 213 sick soldiers. .' ' ; ?, -
One thousand United 'States militia
men will take part in the queen's birth
day celebration in Kingston, Ont. .'; '
The sixth annual convention of the
Association of Railroad Air Brakemen
is in session in Detroit, with about 100
delegates present. - ; ,
The British house of commons re
jected the bill providing for the com
pulsory reinstatement of Irish tenants
evicted since 1879. . 1 .
A miner has reaohed Dyea, Alaska,
who claims to be the Burvivor of a
party of three, two of whom were mur
derd by Chilkat Indians near the vil
lage -of Klukwan. The men killed
were Sidney Vance, an Englishman,
and Chalres Ericksen, a Swede.
In the battle between the revolution
ists under Pando and President Alon
so's army, near Ornro, Bolivia, 300
were killed. General Pando occupied
Oruro without confusion. President
AlonzO, With a small body guard, is a
refugee at Antofagasta, bay of Morena,
Chile. r-
j, ;-' i i '. '-'J "t'''? i-.-r-. r:rr.-.
Bosign Monaghnn, who was brutally
killed at Apia, Samoa, was bom at
Ghewelah, Wash., in 1873. He was
educated in private, schools . of . San
Francisco ..and Portland, and in Gon
znga college, a Jesuit institution of
Spokane. His father is now a resident
of the latter city. t
The Maryland Steel' Company at
Sparrows Point, has received an order
for 75,000 tons of 67-pouild steel rails,
for the Chinese Eastern railroad. The
mills are working day and night on a
large, order -of similar rails -for the
trans-Siberian road, of which the
Chinese Eastern will be aoontiuuat'on.
Prospectors who. have arrived from
Alaska, bring news , that there are at
least 400 prospectors on the Edmonton
trail between Dease lake and the Hud
son's Bay post on the Liard river, most
of whom are in destitute circum
stances.: Many of the men are said to
be suffering from - scurvy and frost
bites. The sick oannot receive proper
medical attendance, and many are
dying.. : J' A
The Cleveland carpenteis' strike was
settled by compromise. ' .
The American Smelting & Refining
Company organized in - New : York by
electing directors. . '
The Cuban railway strike has ended.
Trainmen, afraid to lose . their jobs,
surrendered without condition,. 4
a President Barrows, of Oberlin col
lege, announced the anonymous gift of
150,000 for building and equipping
chemical laboratory. . .
"At Bridgeport, Conn.'.i Dr. Nancy' A.
Guilford pleaded ' guilty to man-,
slaughter, and was sentenced to . 10
years'. imprisonment.
The-ratifications of the peace treaty
have been exchanged. ' Bellamv Storer,
now minister to Belgium,, will be the
new minister to Spain. -,
The Victoria trades and labor council
protests against the importation of 20
men from Pennsylvania to .work on a
steamer at Lake Bennett, h: :.v ,
The. president has appointed Law
rence Townsend, of Pennsylvania, to
succeed 'Bellamy Storer as United
States minister to Brussels. "
In a scuffle for possession of a rifle,
Albert Pemberton, a. private of the
Twenty-fifth infatnry, - was - killed at
Fort Logan by a comrade, Peter Horn.
John E.. O'Brien, chief of the Santa
Fef fire" department, : was instantly
killed: by the California, limited train
as it was' passing through the yards in
Topeka. . ' .
Ex-Secretary Whitney has organized
a trust in New York to control electric
transportation. It is said the trust
will in time, extend its operations to
the Western cities. . , x : --:- .
Two thousand miners who Went out
at Danville, 111., last week, have de
cided to lay the matter before the state
arbitration, board, and ! will; resume
Operations.' . '"' " .'' ' " ; ,
Five children' of Ole Peterson. of
Yiborg,. Turner -county, South Dakota,
were poisoned by eating wild parsnips.
Two are dead, one dangerously ill, and
two will recover. ..' ..';.-:.
John D. Sims and Leonard Hale
were, drowned at Shorebar, Gal., on
the north side of Feather river. They
attempted to cross the stream in a can
vas boat, which npset.
The private" bank of L. P. Hunsner
and McKinzie, at Alma, Wis., has been
closed by order of the state bank ex
aminer. The bank owes depositors
$60,030, and nas very little cash on
hand.
LATER ' NEWS.
' President McEinley was entertained
at a dinner given by Associate Justice
Gray, of the supreme court.
The Canadian Pacific - railway's
roundhouse at Fort William, Manitoba,
was destroyed by fire. ''- Seven new Mo
gul engines were ruined. Total loss
bout $80,000..-.----4.
"An order for 87,000 rifles of light
power has been placed by the: Mexican
government in New York. . The order
is the largest one in this country by a
foreign power in the last 25 years.
Herr Polack, a well-known engineer
and electrician, has discovered, says
the Vienna corespondent of the London
Chronicle, a means of telegraphing
60,000 words per hour, over ; a single
wire. ,.-. ; :'': .j '." : -' ;''; -y.
- - ... . 9 :
While the Denver fire department
was working to extinguish a fire at the
Pintsch gas woiks, an explosion of gas
occurred, inside of the building, injur
ing eight men, all connected with the
department. "
The British house of commons has
passed to a second reading the bill in
tioduced by Chamberlain, empowering
local authorities to advance money to
enable occupiers to acquire ownership
of small houses. - " - :
- .s-
Mrs, Catherine Woods, aged 74
years, was burned to death at Sacra
mento, and a 4-year-old grandson was
so badly burned that his recovery- is
doubtful. The child dragged a-lighted
lamp from a table.
Walter" Gray, aged 60, assistant
bookkeeper in the subtreasury at St.
Louis, was arrested for embezzling
$700. He admitted having taken the
monev, to get medical attention foi
his crippled child," and intended later
to repay it.
5 The Twenty-first United States in
fantry, the famous Indian fighting regi
ment of early days, and later very ac
tive participants in the, Cuban cam
paign, have departed from San . Fran
cisco for the Philippines on the trans
port Hancock. , rr ';, , .
I During, election riots at Bilboa,
I Spain, 26 persons were wounded.' Pop
ular feeling tuns high in Valencia and
surrounding districts.; There was a
serious ' affair in the ; town of Portos,
province of -Tarragona, where the offi
cial candidate being beaten, the munic
ipal officials fired guns at the crowd,
injuring a number of persons, s
A Presbyterian Sunday . sohool has
been established ip Havana. '-.- . '
" Sarmeinto, a Brazilian village, has
been destroyed ." by an earthquake.
Three persons perished, '-'
" S. VV Ginstead, a Humberdt, Nev.,
bank cashier, committed suicide. His
accounts were $10,000 shorts ,
- Mrs. Ida Ewing, charged with hav
ing murdered her sister-in-law, Mrs.
Lizzie Kwing, -was;-acquitted .by v a
Marytille, Mo., jury. , v ,
The schooner Mary Bidwell, that left
St. ' Michaels, Alaska; in August last,
for Alaska ports, has been heard , from
at Port Clarence, - waiting to sail . for
the south. . ,
Arrangements have been completed
whereby President McKinley will
push, an electric button which will
start work on the . San Pedro . break
water.: .;.."; Xi .1- ' ;"
. Vice-President. Hobart, who is sick
at .Washington, is holding the gain
shown last week. , He is able to par
take of more hearty food, and sits up
about half an hour daily.' ' !
The Americans plan to trap Agui
naldo by sending troops via the Bea
route to the north : of him. Then he
will be between two lines of Ameri
cans, and it may besult in his capture.
A verdict of $5,000 damages against
T. J. Carson, a Kentucky racehorse
breeder, in favor of W. F. Singleton,
photographer, who was shot : by Car
sons, was returned at Lexington. .
By the explosion cf a sawmill boiler,
near Chippewa Falls, Wis., Lem Wil
cox',' John Brisnois and William Olson
were killed and Engineer P. A. Briggs
and four others were injured. . ,
Naval orders posted at Washington
announce the promotion to the rank of
rear-admiral of Sampson, Schley and
Farquahar, the latter commandant, of
the Norfolk navy-yar,d.. t
The Madrid official gazette con
tains a royal decree appointing ' the
Duke de Arcos to be Spanish envoy ex
traordinary and minister plenipoten
tiary to the United States. .-.., :
The United States consul-general at
Berlin, Frank Mason, has revised fig
ures showing that in the last three
months there Was an increase of
$4,807,084 in the exportation to the
United States from Germany. ' ' :
.. The 26th annual meeting of the na
tional conference of charities and cor
rections will be held in- Cincinnati
May 17 to 23. Every state in the
Union- will be represented except per
haps Idaho, Montana, ' Nevada, : Utah
and Washington. . '
; In order to controvert - the claim of
the Washington agricultural depart
ment that -German toys contain certain
poisonous dyes and paints, the German
minister of commerce has ordered an
investigation to be made in ail the toy
making centers of Germany with a
view of gathering evidence to the con
GEN. IMfSJMDIII
Returns From Its Sortie Into
the Country. '
NOW QUARTERED IN MANILA
Filipinos In Lake Region Get m Teste
. of American Power Lswlun Declares
That 100,000 Men Are Needed.
Manila, April 18. -Major-General
Lawton's expedition to the .Laguna de
Bay district re-embarekd last evening,
anchored for the night at the head of
the river Pasitf and reached Manila
this morning, bringing all the men and
the captured insurgent boats. ; Its ob
jects, namely the capture of the insui
gents' boats and the distribution of the
proclamation, emphasized by a lesson
of American power throughout the lake
region, have been attained. General
Lawton Immediately , began prepara
tions for an important expedition on
land. There has been ho fighting on
the lake for three davs. iS
Lawton returned to Manila according
to orders from Otis. Lawton declares
that America needs 100,000 men to
pacify the Philippines. He says that
with the present force be could go
through all Luzon, but to maintain
government the United States must gar
rison all the towns. It has not the
men, therefore the need of a large
army. -"; ''...'''. ' r "'" ' " ;v .''-.'
All the towns in the La Gunda bay
district captured must be abandoned,
much to Lawton's regret. They in
clude Peate, Santa Cruz, Longos, Lum
ban, Pagasajan. ' A second campaign is
to be made in. this country in the rainy
season, when boats of greater draught
can operate in the lake owing to higher
water, thus giving the boats a chance
to help the army. Lawton's troops
will be used in the' operations north
ward, and may bo sent around by boat
to the north of Aguinaldo to cut him
off and force him between two lines.
With Lawton one side and MacArthnr
at Calumpit on the other. ; v C;,:,;,
THE" RALEIGH WELCOMED,
Great Enthusiasm at Tiw York Over
" . the Cruiser. .-..-.;:;"
-New York, April 18,--The celebra
tion attending the return' of the United
States cruiser Raleigh from Manila,
which had to be postponed yesterday
owing to the warship's late arrival, oc
curred today. ; The Raleigh, accom
panied by two small war vessels, cap
tured from the Spaniards last summer,
and - a fleet : of about ; 25 excursion
steamers and tugboats, paraded from
Tompkinsville tcr Grant's tomb . and
from there back to anchorage in the
North river, off Thirty-fourth street., ;
' A steady downpour of rain fell from
noon on. The air was raw, and the
officers and men of the Raleigh stood
upon the decks three hours drenched to
the skin and shivering with cold.
Great crowds assembled in Riverside
Park; overlooking the Hudson, and
men, women and ohildren stood there
for hours under umbrellas watching the
vessels on their way up the -river and
on their return. ; By . far the greatest
gathering of people was in the vicinity
of Grant's tomb, which was the turn
ing point of the paiade. A -national
salute was fired there by the Raleigh,
and also by the captuied Spanish
prizes, and the scene was rendered : a
memorable. one by the shrieking Of, a
hundred steam whistles from excursion
boats and locomotives and cheers from
thousands of , people on shore, and .on
the vessels in the river.
SOLDIERS IN A RIOT.
Burn a Saloon Where "a Comrade Bad
Been Mistreated. . .
- San Francisco, April 18. Tonight
800 United States soldiers, are" under
arrest on the Presidio reservation. They
are encamped on the open, and are
guarded' by cavalry and the Twenty
fourth infantry' regiment, colored,' the
force being in charge of Adjutant Lieu
tenant Harris. The offense of the men
was the burning of a saloon just but
side of the reservation lines, in which
Private Charles L. ' King, .company G,
Twenty-third infantry, . was brutally
beaten last night. . ' , .-.i.-.' ;;
Private Stark, of oompany F, also
of the Twenty-third regiment, is in the
guardhouse, charged with, the assault,
but the soldiers assert that the saloon
people are responsible, and claim that
the proprietor, A. L. Rehfeld, was, the
chief assailant of the injured man.- A
report being circulated today 'that
King was dead, the place was set 011
fire tonight and destroyed as an act of
ietribbntion. '
Porto Rico Ltwi, " . -
' San Juan de Porto Rico, April 18.--The
following general orders from the
headquarters of the . department; of
Porto Rico went issued today: ' r; -.
The war department having forbid
den . the : issue of rations t to Porto
Rioans, commanding officers of posts
are authorized, . to prevent suffering
among the people in their respective
localities, to purchase necessary ar
ticles of food at a rate not to exceed 10
centavos a day for each needy person
and to send the bill for same to this
office for payment from the moneys of
the island, as directed by the authori
ties at Washington.
REBELS TALK PEACE
Commission TV 111 Be Appointed to Con
fer With Otis.
Manila, Anril 19. A large commis
sion of Filipinos is said to have been
appointed to center .with General Otis
to the end of securing peace, aocording
to General Lagarda. .. The Americans,
however, believe . this commission,
which will number a score or more of
wealthy Filipinos, want to protect their
property rather than end the war.
The object of the rebel commissioners
is said to be to secure as many rights
of self-government as possible, demand
that all the offices be reserved for Fili
pinos and Americans, and restore
peace.. One'of Aguinaldo's late chiefs
in Manila declares the rebel chief
would now be glad to receive overtures,
and would sign a peace treaty..
; Aguinaldo is said to have moved his
headquarters to Tarland, far to the
northward.. At Calumpit the forces of
the Americans have been largely augmented,-
. -yX j ,
Recall of Lawton;
New York, April 19. A special to
the Herald from - Washington . says:
When shown- a dispatch announcing
the recall of Geneial Lawton, Brigadier-General
Schwan,-acting adjutant
general,' said it was in accordance with
the understanding at the war depart
ment as to the purpose of General
Lawton's oampaign.
: "General Otis sent this expedition
to Southern Luzon," he continued,
"for the purpose of destroying any in
surgent forces that might be found
there, to make a careful reconnois
sanoe of the territory and to spread
broadoast the recent proclamation of
the Philippine ' commission, setting
forth the purposes of this government
with respect to the islands. I expect
he will clear all the prisoners he has.
taken, and they will be sent to their
homes.;' By this action it is hoped he
will prove to the Filipinos. that the
Americans are not as barbarous as the
insurgents pretend we are and that we
propose to treat the Filipinos hu
manely." v; . . o:;;
"Why is General Lawton needed at
Manila?"' ' ' " ' 7
"General Otis haB not communicated
his planB to the department, the mat
ter being left entirely to his discretion,
The insurgent leader has. established
his headquarters at SanFernadd, to the
northwest of Malolos, and I suppose
General Otis contemplates a movement
against that city. General Lawton. had
only 1,500 men under his command,
and it ' was of course impossible for
him to divide his force by stationing
detachments in every, village captured.
His command will be useful, however,
in assisting in the advance on Malolos,
or in reinforcing the line about the city
of Manila. ., It is possible that when
the lake rises, General Otis will re
sume the 'campaign in the , southern
part of the island." . :
GERMAN KING IN CHINA.
Report of Prince Hehry'e Ambition Not
".- .. Credited. . ' .
Washington, April 18. Official Ger
man circles here are not a little amused
at the latest Chinese news,' which as
or ibes to;Emperor William , the :.inten-
tion to make his brother Henry a, Ger
man king on Chinese soil. The state
ment is characterized as a .wild and
baseless invention, and the same, it is
announced on - the highest : authority,
can be said of, the "alleged Interview
published by the Paris Soir and cabled
to some American newspapers,, quoting
the first secretary of the German em
bassy in 1 Paris as saying that the
Americans must take the responsibility
for all that has happened in Samoa and
that they, intoxicated by their viotories
ovei the Spaniards, consider themselves
a military nation of the first rank.
' The Alaska Boundary. '
Toronto,.Ont, April 18. An Ot
tawa dispatch to the Globe says: The
government has bad under - disoussion
the suggestion, of the . Washington
authorities of a tentative settlement of
the Southern .Alaska boundary ques
tion, and an order in council has - been
passed agreeing in . the main j to the
United States suggestion for the adop
tion of a modus vivendi, ' but stipulat
ing in terms; the determination of the
government of Canada to consent to no
suoh arrangement unless it is agreed by
the United States that there shall be
taken speedily steps to have the bound
ary settled finally. -
Mobile, ! Ala., April 18. Reese
Hutchinson, a young electrician gradu
ate of Auburn college, Alabama, is ex
hibiting here his apparatus for making
the deaf bear, ' He augments vibration
and enables deaf mutes to hear - words
spoken in ordinary tones.: The appar
atus is the size of a pocket-book, and ia
connected by wires with an audiphone.
which js held at the ear. " Two totally
deaf men weie experimented with.
They stood 50 feet from the" piano.' and
marked the time of the music, laughing
with delight over the novel experience,
;": ' -In the Maw of the Trust. '':.'
Denver, April 18. The Globe smel
ter has been turned over to the new
combine, the American Smelting & Re
fining Company. Intimation has been
given to the workmen that their wages
will be reduced provided ; the new
eight-hour law is observed. ,. The
Omaha & Grant smelter will be trans
ferred to the trust May 1, and the Argo
will louow .
riinioi
The Rebels Were Led by a
- German Planter.
SWORN EVIDENCE PRESENTED
He Hat Been Arrested by British Ne
va! Officer and Is Now Confined on "
the German Warship Falhe.'
. London, April 19. The parliament-, :
ry secretaiy . for the foreign office,
Right Hon. William St. John Bro- '
derick, replying in the house of com
mons today to Michael Davitt, said the
manager of the German plantation near ,
Apia was arrsted by the senior British.
naval officer on sworn evidence that he
was seen directing, the natives who .
ambughea , the naval landing parties. ' .
This action, Mr. Broderick added, was '
taken without the naval office having
an opportunity of communicating with '-"
the home, government. ' In conclusion, J
Mr. Broderick said: . '3: : . ;; :
i "We are informed that he was hand- :r
ed over to the commander of the Ger
man warship Falke on the promise that '
he would be detained on board."
Replying to a further question on -Samoa,
Mr. Broderick said authority. ,
had been given the British represents-lt.
tive at Apia to join, if he deems it ad
visable, in a joint, proclamation with '
the other consuls, calling upon the in-
habitants to abstain 'from hostilities, '
pending the arrival of the Samoan com- ' !
missioners. But, he added, her ma ...
jesty's commanding offioer would be. ,
bound to take measures for the protec- ,
tion of "British" lives and property ,
should .either be threatened by either '
of the rival-factions. .-.
Continuing, Mr. Broderick said the
telegraphio reports received do.not
afford sufficient material from which .
to judge the cause of the recent hostili
ties, but so far as ascertainable the ac--' '
tion of the United States and British '
naval commanders was caused by some
aggression against British subjects or '
United States citizens, or their prop-!
erty,whioh they were bound to defend.
Answering a question regarding the
Clayton-Bulwer treaty, Mr- Broderick -remarked:
: - ' - ' ' it.- t
."Communications ' regarding ' pro-
posed modifications of the treaty have
been .' exchanged between ' Washington '
and London, but ho agreement., has.'
been reached. ) .Under the circnm?...
stances, it, ia impossible to present the
papers on the subject.'.' ;r5. -., ,j.
The?-first; lord of the; admliality,
George'; J.-''" Goschen, on being ques-"
tioned respecting the subsidies to be'
paid to auxiliary cruisers, said notice
had been given to terminate .the agree
ments with the , Cunard, White Star
and Peninsular & Oriental steamship
companies, in order to place the ad
mirality in apposition to review the : .
conditions of the contracts and the .
selection of vessels subsidized. There '
was no intention, he' added, of aban-'j
doning the subsidy policy.
EMMA NEVADA HISSED IN SPAIN.
Queen Regent, Did the Right Thine by
;s ,,'.;..,-..t,:,i...,the..Sln;er. - .. ...
- London, Aprif 18. The Paris corre-s
sdondent of the Daily Mail,- recounting
an interview with Madame Emma Ne
vada, the first American operatic singer
who has visited Spain since the war,,
say a: y- ' ..- ;,;V--' ' .. -'v; ," '
'.'Madame Nevada's manager had ar
ranged an opeiatio tour, but on the rust
night at Seville, though the house was
bought up, ;the curtain rose on empty
seats. ' The Opera was "Lucia de Lara
mermoor." In the second act ' all the
elite arrived, together, but turned their
backs to the stage and talked ostenta
tiously until the end of . the opera,
when, on returning to acknowledge a.
burst of applause, Nevada was roundly
hissed.- At Madrid the queen regent
was informed of the occurrence. Her
majesty invited Nevada to a soiree at
the palace, and presented to her a dia
mond and sapphire bracelet. Nevada
arriyed here in a state of the greatest
indignation."
THE ' HONG KONG - UPRISING.
British Drive the Chinese Back With
. Artillery Fire.
Hong Kong. April 19. On the Brit
ish lines at Taipohu Noon, several
thousand Chinese attempted an artil
lery attaok. . Their long-range firing
was ineffective. . General Gascoigne
made a sally with a battery, clearing
the ' hills of rebel i Mongolians with .
sharpnel, and followed it up with a
supporting column of - Indian infantry.
The Chinese retreated far into the in- '
terior, firing houses and pillaging. The
British had no losses, and the casual-
ties of the Chinese are unknown, as
they carried off their dead and wound
ed.: Hong Kong is guarded by volun
teers and a small detaohment of En
glish troops. The English foroes may
advance tomorrow. ' ; 1
" Attempt to Kill the Ameer.
'' London,' April 18. The St. ' Peters
burg correspondent of the Daily Mail
says: An Afghan has been arrested on
Russian territory to which he bad fled
after making an attempt upon the life
of the ameer of Afghanistan. The bul
let missed the ameer and wounded an,
Afghan general standing near. r
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