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She " 7 "IT'S A COLD PAV WHEN WE PET LEFT." ' VOL. XI. IIOOD RIVER, OREGOK, FRIDAY, APRIL 20, 1S0O. NO. 48. " ' " ' 111 - " - i ' " HOOD RIVER GLACIER Published Every Friday by 8. F. BIVTHE. ' Termi of subscription $1.50 a year when paid s In advance. THE MAILS. ' The mall arrives fwm Mt. Hood at 10 o'clock a. m. Wednesdays and Saturdays,' departs the same dars at noon. ' Knr (ihenoweth, leaves at 8 a. nf. Tuesdays, Thuridava and Saturdays; arrives at 6 p. m. For White Salmon (Wash.) leaves daily at 6:45 a. m.: arrives at 7:l.i p. in. ' From White Salmon leaves for Fulda, Gilinor, Trout Lake and (jlenwood daily at 9 A. M, For Hiniren (Wash.) leaves ut5:45p. in.; ar ' rive at 2 p. m. SOCIETIES. IAUKEL REHEKAH WiT.REE LODGE. No i 87, I. O. O. F. Meets first and third Hon , davs in each month. ; Mi-hstei.i,a Richardson, N. 0. ' H. J. Hirbaru, Secretary. CIAN'BY POST, Ko. 16, GYA. R. Meets at A. O. U. W. Hall second and fourth Saturdays of each month at 2 o'clock p. m. All G. A. K. members invited to meet with us. M P. 18ENBKR8, Commander T. J. CtwiNQ, Adjutant.' CANBY W. It. C, No. Id-Meets first Satur day of each month in A. O. V. W. hall at 2 p. m. Mrs. Adeija Stranahan, President. Mrs. Ursula Dukes, Secretary. OOD RIVER LODGE, No. 105, A. F. and A. M. Meets Saturday exeniiiR on or before each full moon. O. E. Williams, W. M. D. McDonald, Secretary. , HOOD RIVER CHAPTER, No. 27, R. A. M. Meets third Friday ullit of each month. G. R. Castnkr, H. P. G, F. WlLMAWft, Secretary. HOOD RIVER CHAPTER, No. 25. O. E. 8. Meets Saturday alter each full moon and two weeks thereafter. Mks. Mary A. Davidson, W. M. 0LETA ASSEMBLY, No. 103, United Artisans. Meets second Tuesday of each month at Fraternal hall. F. C. Brosius, M. A. D. McDonald, Secretary. , T 7AUCOM A LODGE, No? SO, K. of P.-Meets W in A. O. U. W. ha'.l every Tuesday nipht. Geo. Stranahan, C. C. G. W. Graham, K. of R. 4:8. "MIVKKSIDE LODGE, No. 68, A. O. U. W. Jl. Meets first and third Saturdays of each mouth. O. G. Chamberlain, M. W. J. F. Watt, Financier. , . H. L. Howe, Recorder. IDLEWILDE LODGE, No. 107, I. O O. F. Meets in Fraternal hall every Thursday night. A. G. Getchel, N. G. H. J. Hibbard, Secretary. fyf F. 6IIAVV, M. D. Telephone No. 81. All Calls Promptly Attended Oflicc upstairs over Copple's store. All calls left at the office or residence will be promptly attended to. JOHN LELAND HENDERSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, ABSTRACTER, NO TARY PUBLIC and REAL ESTATE AGENT. For 21 years a resident of Oregon and WBh. Ington. Hss had many years experience In heal Estate matters, as abstracter, searcher of titles and agent. Satisiactlon guaranteed or no charge. J F. WATT, M. D. Surgeon for O. R. & N. Co. Is especially equipped to treat catarrh of nose and throat and diseases of women. Special terms fur office treatment of chronic cases. Telephone, office, 33, residence, 3L piONEEK MILLS Harbison Bros., Ppops. FLOUR, FEED AND, ALL CEREALS Ground and manufactured. Whole Wheat Graham a specialty. Custom grinding done every Saturday. During th busy season additional days will be mentioue In the local columns. Boon KIVER. OREGON. DAPERHANGING, KALSOMINING, ETC. If your walls are sick or mutilated, call on E. L. HOOD. Consultation free. No charge for prescrip tions. No cure no pay. Oth!3 hours two, 6 A. M. till 8. P. M., and all night if necessary. CONO1Y SHOE SHOP. PRICE LIST. Men's half soles, hand eticked, (1; nailed, nest. 7oc: second, 50c: third. 40c. l adies' hand stitched, 75c: nailed, best, POc; second, 35. Best stock and work in Hood River. C. WELDS, Prop. "THE KLONDIKE CONFECTIONERY Is the place to get the latest and best in (.lonftctioneries, uamiieB, jnuis, xooacco, Uigars, etc. ....ICE CREAM PARLORS.... COLE 4 GRAHAM, Props. p C. BROSiUS, M. D. PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 'Phone Central, or 121. Office Hours: 10 to 11 A. M. ; 2 to 3 and 6 to 7 r. M. J'P. HOOD SAW MILLS TOMMSfOtf Bhos, Phops. .....FIR AND PINE LUMBER.... Of the best quality alvras on hand at , prices to sun ine times. PHOTOGRAPHS. TI,o tsnV,!!. a invitpd in rail Sit. mV 1 flu ('""'" . . . ... - - J pallery and iiipucct my work. I aim to eive satisfaction in an cases wnere worn F. . ... j m... u: t l.l Out bide V lews a ripecialtv. i CHARLES RIGGS DALLAS Sl SPANGLER, 1 ;: . I V " ' "i ' t :' DEALERS IN ''k T ! ' s 5 Hardware; Stoves and Tinwars Kitchen Furniture, Plumbers " Goods, Pruning Tools, Etc We have a new and complete stock of hardware, stoves and tinware, to which we will keep constantly adding. Our ni es will continue to be as low as Portland prices. 1 mum mmi i m:uvt. TENTS OF THE DAI Epitome of the Telegraphic News of the World. TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES An Interesting Collection of Item Fror' the Two Hemispheres' Present a Condensed Form. Bloemfontein is badly in need oi ater. The total British losses in the Boer war are now 23,000. A Texas town in the flooded district as destroyed by a tornado. Fishermen testing the Columbia river near Astoria found but few Chi- nooks. The Puerto Rioan bill, as amended by the senate, passed the house by a vote of 163 to 153. Admiral Dewey denies the story of is withdrawal as a candidate for presi dential nomination. H. C. Frick will dispose of all his holdings, something like $16,000,000, in the Carnegie Company. An internatonal naval demonstration will soon take palce at T;iku Cin, the gulf of Pe Chi Li, Chins. During a fight with riotous laborers in New York, one Italian striker was killed and several wounded. At the Georgia Populist convention, Senator Marion Butler, of North Caro lina, was denounced as the ' 'chief of all traitors." George W. Hull, an Arizona million aire, was arrested in JNew xoric on a charge of perjury in a divorce case against his wife. Competent authorities estimate that the wastage of horses monthly by the British forces in South Africa, must be calculated at not less than 5,000. B. C. Bergin, an assayer in the Uni ted States mint at San Francisco, has been arrested for stealing small amounts of gold daily for months past. Capitalists of Berlin, through a Chi cago firm, have made an offer to pur chase the Ferris wheel. The wheel, which weighs 2,200 tons, will be ship ped to Berlin. In Snn Francisco, 500 pounds of plug-out tobaoco have been seized in various local stores by internal levenue agents, because the packages were in sufficiently stamped. Burglars in Chicago stole diamonds, ewelry and silverware valued at $40,- 000 from the home of Orrin V. Potter, the multi-millionaire and ex-presl- dent of the Illinois Steel Company. The period of time allowed Spanish residents in the Philippines to elect whether they shall remain Spanish sub jects or adopt the nationality of the ter ritory in which they reside has expired. Commodore William K. Mayo, died at his home in Washington, aged 76 to of years. General Lee has been appointed command ' the new department Havana and Pinard de Rio. Nicaragua has landed troops in of Columbian territory. The nature the movement is not understood. A 2K-year-old child was scalded to death by falling into a tub of hot water and lye, near Ashland, Or. Indians attempted to rescue the murderers of Mr. and Mrs. Bert Horton, but were driven off by Skagway troops. The United States government denies the report that it has joined with other powers in threatening to land troops in China. A vote on the resolution relative to the seatina of M. S. Quay as senator from Pennsylvania, will be taken April 24. on Thomas H. Tongue was renominated for congressman fiom the Second diS' trict on the first ballot at MoMinn- ville, Or. Texas and Lousiana, to guard against bubonic plague, may establish a quar antine against Chinamen coming California. from An inventor of thorite has announced his willingness to sell the government the right to manufacture the explosive for $150,000. The British bark Iranian, which satled from New York, November 25, fnr Yokohama, has been wrecked on the Japanese coast. The Building Trades Assembly, of Houston, Texas, has ordered a general strike in sympathy with the carpenters, causing 1,500 men to walk out. Two neero murderers were executed at iJummerville, Texas. When sen tenced both asked for a deck of cards, and declined the offer of a Bible. A minister of Ballard, Cal., near Santa Barbara, committed suicide by blowinar the top of his head off with shotgun. Temporary insanity was the cause. Fnrmr Concressman Charles A. Towns, of Duluth. Minn , ' has an nounced himself as a candidate for the vice-presidential nomination on Democratic ticket. the fireat Britain's naval estimates amount to 30,000,000. Buffalo Bill says 80,000 Mormons tm salt f ji1i will found a city in Wyoming, steamer Prairie, with American ex t.iV,ih fnr tha Paris exposition, has arrived at Havre. ' It costs $4,400,000 a year to main tain the 24 royal palaces of F.mpera William throughout the German empire. -, '.. ' i. LATER NEWS. Congress will adjourn in June. The milk trust of Chicago is broken. War taxes will not be reduced at this session of congress. Great Biitain will levy a tax pn mines to pay the expenses of the war. A burglar entered a saloon in Che halis, Wash., and took $500 in silver. Four men were killed and several in jured in a drunken riot of coal miners near Johnstown, Pa. Heavy rain and snow storms in the vicinity of Denver are causing much delay to railroad traffic. John Hannigan, aged 63, one of the best-known horse trainers in the coun try, died at Mildale, Ky. Two Mexican outlaws held up a gambling house in Johnson, Arizona, and killed a prominent mining man. Rev. William J. Rutledge, of Jack sonville, 111., prominent Methodist minister and originator of the G. A. R., is dead, aged 86. The legislature of Trinidad has re jected the offer of Canada for recipro cal trade and adopted the convention with the United States. Two hundred or 800 families bought 1,200 acri'S of land near Eugene, Or., with the intention of dividing it up into 40-acre tracts and working on the colonization plan. Burglars at Toronto, Ont., dug through the nine-inoh brick wall of the vault of St. Simon's church with crowbars and picks and stole $1,175, the Easter offeiing. Conditions in famine-Stricken India are deplorable. Sixty millions of peo ple are suffering and 80,000,000 are in dire distress, and only 5,000,000 an receiving government aid. In New York, Julius Koster, a brick layer, who had inherited $300,000 from his brother's estate in Germany, was found dead, swinging from a rope in an eniptv water tank on the roof of his house. He had been ill, and the sudden change from poverty to riches affected his mind. - In New York, a school of voice cul ture was begun on a portentious scale at Carnegie Hall, under the direction of Giacomo" Minkowsky, called the Metropolitan School of Voice and Sing mg. Edouard de Reezke and Mme. Nordica will eive scholarships to tne best gifted pupils under Minowaky Maurice Grau and Andrew A. Meteor mick are lending their influence. Min kowsky is a composer of note. The Paris exposition was formally opened. FiliDinos are again active near Manila. One man was killed and a boy fatal ly injured in a $400,000 fire which oc curred in Brooklyn. Durine a fire in a coal mine near Pittsbure. Pa., one man perished and two others in the pit escaped. During the siege of Ladysmith, Gen eral White's total losses from all causes were 169 officers nad 8,163 men British people insist on a change in the army service, owing to the unsatis factory conduct of the campaign against the Boers. Three men are said to have found gold in quartz formation within two miles of Jophn, Mo., wnicn assays $w to $80 a ton. A Chinaman, possessing documents bearing the seal of the court of Peking, identifying him as emperor, was arrest ed at Wu Chang. The University of Edinburgh, Scot land, conferred the degree of LL D. on Joseph H. Choate, United States bassador to Great Britain. At New York, 5,000 cigarmakers, emploved by six of the largest firms in that city, have been blocked out. reason is given for the action. Rnfus Wrieht. a millionaire and treasurer of the firm of Morgan Wrieht. bicycle tire manufacturers, was fatally shot by a woman in Chicago The cruisers Detroit and Marblehead and gunboats Bennington and Concord have been ordered out of commission, owing to the lack of a sufficient number of officers. The Chinese government has sent 7,000 troops to Shan Ting to suppress the "Boxers." However, it is noton mm that the maiority of the troops are members of the same society. The transport Lake Erie, with up wards of 500 Transvaal prisoners, in eluding French, German and Russian members of the foreign legion, captured at Boshof. sailed from Cape Town for St. Helena. The trial of Perico Pipin, who re cently led a small uprising against the onvrnment of Santo Domingo, has ended with the conviction of the pris oner, who was sentenced to 20 years' imprisonment and to pay a fine of $30, 000 in gold. Mrs. Krneer. wife of Oom Paul, on beina interviewed, said that she trust' ed God would soon stop the merciless bloodshed, but that the republic would be victoriously defended, even if Pre toria were finally taken. She added that ebe had had in the field 83 grand sons, two of whom were killed, four sons, six sons-in-law, and numerous other relatives." At a meeting of the De Beers com pany Cecil Rhodes said annual profits of diamond mines in Kimberley are f in nnn.noo. Public sentiment in England insist, Hpuu nurax.Mw u rwu.. - r, .ken ntA BRrtWmSPT f)T I in)tt riFll 1 ain in the Boer states after the war's end. A private cablegram from Port of .Tex., April 17. In consequence of tht Spain, Veneznela, says the British con-1 poor crops, wheat prices are advancing, sul at BpHvar, named Lyons, has been and the situation will allow large im assassinated. '; ' gortations from California V.t GATES THROWN OPEN Formal Dedication of France's Great Exposition. THE SHOW IS FAR FROM READY Speeches of President I.oubet and Min ister MUlerand Completeness and Kxtent of American Kihlblts. Faris April 17. The exposition of 1900 is open, but it will be at least a month before anything but buildings is to be seen. The day's ceremonies were a peculiar mixture of sumptuous splen dor in the Salle des Fetes, and wide spread confusion elsewhere. Nothing could have exceeded the picturesque stage setting in the beautiful building in which the ceremonies were held, the gorgeous uniforms of the diplomats and soldiers, the splendid orchestra and chorus and the magnificent effect pro duced by the grand staircase, up whioh President Loubet proceeded to view tne exposition, lined with some 200 picked men of the Republican guard, with jaokboots, white breeches, gleaming cuirasses and horse-hair plumes stream ing from shining helmets. At the top of this stairway was a room, the in terior of which could be seen from the Salle des Fetes, and this was hung with priceless gobelins from the Louvre. Into this splendid apartment President Loubet entered and walked down the avenue to his boat. This part of the day's arrangement was perfect, but the rest was chaos. The weather today was luckily all that could be desired. Fourteen thous and guests had been invited to the function, aud they had. because of the fine weaher, only the dust to endure. Had the day been wet, the unrolled paths of the exposition grounds would have been turned into a mass of mud. The afternoon was a holiday in Paris by general consent, and a host of country people crowded into the city to swell the multitudes, who from an early hour serged in the direction of the exposition and took up positions along the route of the presidential procession and at the approaches to the grounds. The immense number of guests prao- tically swept the central streets clean of cabs, of which an unbroken stream, several deep, drifted slowly toward the gates between noon and 2:80 P. M. Drifted is the correct expression for the rate of progress, because the traffic ar rangements were so inadequate that hundreds of vehicles did not reach the exposition at all, and the occupants were either left stranded en route or were obliged to abandon their carriages and proceed on foot. This was the ex pedient ordinarily adopted, even by several members of the diplomatic corps and two gorgeously attired offi cials of the Chinese embassy, after hastily walking several blocks, arrived in the Salle des Fetes just in time to hear the cheering at the conclusion of the ceremony . TROOPS CALLED OUT. To Suppress Italian Striken at Croton Landing. Croton Landing, N. Y., April 17. While everything is quiet and peaceful in the neighborhood of the Cornell dam tonight, nearly 800 armed deputies are guarding the works,, and each one of them is guessing as to what tomorrow may bring forth. The striking Italian laborers, whose homes are in the vicin ity of the works, are behaving them selves excellently. But underneath their assumed quiet there is stubborn resolve not to go back to work nor let any outsiders take their places until the contractors agree to pay the in crease of wages demanded. Strenous efforts are being made by Italian Con sul Branchi to bring about a settlement of the difficulty. . The strikers are very determined in their demands, and swear that if outside labor is brought here they will fight tooth and nail to prevent It. Angelo Rotella, who is the recog nized leader of the strikers, said today: "This is a fight to a finish. We earn more money than we are receiving, and the contractors must pay us for our work. The state should protect us, and, instead of sending deputies and soldiers to help the bosses, they should compel them to treat us rightfully. If the bosses attempt to bring the other laborers here we shall prevent any work being done, and if the military comes to help them, then we will fight th loldiers." Attempted Murder and Suicide. Carbondale, 111., April 16. Gus Young, a prominent young man of Murphysboro, shot and wounded Mise Kate Van Clooster and then blew out his brains in a temporary fit of jeal ousy. Young was a real estate man and the lady was a member of one of the best families of Southern Illinois, She will recover. Tornado's Work In Texas Town. Dallas, Tex., April 17. A special to the News from Royse, Tex., dated April 18, says: "A tornado struck this place at mid night, and it is believed that several lives have been lost. Eight houses were wrecked, and at this hour th jreatest excitement prevails. Pitcher Purchased for STSO. Kansas City April, 17. Managei Manning, of the Blues, has closed a I deal with Pittsburg for Pitcher Chim- 'g ' Buffalo, purchas- Chile Importing Wheat. , Santiago de Chile,, via Galveston. CHINESE REIGN OF TERROR. Powerful Viceroys Protest to the Em press Dowager. Shanghai, April 16. A full account bus been received here of the meeting an March 6 at Peking between the em press dowager aud the grand council. I'rotests were read from the viceroys and governors of nine of the 18 prov inces against the policy of the empress dowager. These officials are the great est provincial authorities in China. They declared unitedly that, if the em press dowager persists in persecuting the reformers and continuing her teign of terror policy, the Chinese under them will rebel against the Manchus. The viceroy at Nanking says he has 140,000 Hunauese troops who are anx ious to fight the Manchus, and he fears he oannot control them. The vice roys who united in this remarkable step represent the provinces of Kiang-Su, Anhui, Kiangsi, Hunan, Unpen, Che kiang, Fookien, Quangsi and K wang ling, with an aggregate population of 180,000,000. Until this protest had been made, the dowager empress had been having things quite her own way. Though she has desisted from her purpose to set up a new emperor, yet her wrath to wards those who opposed her has shown no abatement. It is unbounded. Kin Lien-Shan has been captured in the Portugese colony of Macao, off the South Chh.a coast, by Li Hung Chang's detectives. Mr. Kin fled from Shang hai last month. He is the manager of the national system of telegraphs in China, and headed the petition signed by 1,200 notables against setting up a new emperor. Probably he will be decapitated. An English law firm here has been regained to defend him. The government has trumped up charges of defalcation against Mr. Kin, who is reilly a very able and enlight ened ninn. On March 1 instructions were wired from Peking to Soo Chow, capital of Kiang-Su, to arrest and put to death the reformers Weng T'Ung-Ho and Shen Pong. These men had been in very important positions in reiung, but were easily captured in Soo Chow. The chief reformer. Kang Yu Wei, has fled to Singapore. The empress dow ager has offered $100,000 for his body, dead or alive. It is said that there is an official list, prepared by the Peking govern ment, of the names of 800 reformers who are proscribed. A speoial list of over 85 names exists of those who are to be killed as soon as they are cap tured. BUILDING COLLAPSED. Three Tergons Killed and Number In jured In a I'lttsburg Accident. Pittsburg, April 14. Without warn ing and with a rush and a roar, the four-story brick building at the corner of Second avenue and wood street col lapsed today, burying in its ruins a number of people, three of whom were taken out dead, five were badly hurt, and several others slightly injured. The building was occupied by the Armstrong, McKeivy Lead & Oil Com pany. It was being remodeled by Con tractors McGovern and Lyte, who were converting the lower floors of the corner store and that next door into one lame room. About 48 feet of the middle partition had been removed, and steel girders, supported by heavy iron posts, were in place, and the finishing touches were being put on the remodeled work. The firm this morning began the trans fer of its stock from one toom to the other, and apparently centralized the heavy weight of the leads and oils about the middle of the structure. Ine col lapse began by the second floor break ing through, carrying with it the two floors above, making a breach from top to bottom throueh the center of the building The fact that the rear portion of the building on Second avenue did not col lapse saved many lives. It was in that part of the building that the offices were located, in which there were about 10 persons. Those who were in the rear portion of the building heard the crash and ran out of the side door into Second avenue and escaped. The loss of the firm will be about $40,000. Bfashnna In More Trouble. Capo Town, April 16. The admiral in charge of the British fleet in these waters has refused to permit the Brit ish steamer Mashona, Captain John' ston, to proceed beyond Durban. The agents of the vessel announce that the cargo destined for Delagoa bay will be landed at Durban. The British cunboat Partridge on December 8 captured the steamer Ma shona, which had sailed from New York. November 8. via St. Vincent, November 6. for Alaoa bay, loaded with flour for the Transvaal. The ves sel and the foodstuffs were subsequently released on bond and the prize court on March 13 rendered a veidkt that a portion of the cargo was condemned, but thnt the steamer was formally released. Plague BloU In India. Bombay. April 14. Plaeue riots have taken place at Cownpore, where the segregation camp has been destroyed and 10 persons have been killed. The rioters killed five constables and threw their bodies into the burning camp, Order is now restored, but all business is susrjended and the populace is sul' len. Troops and volunteers are patrol lint; the citv. ituardina the mills and factories. V Chicago Tailors Will Fight. Chicago, April 16. A secret meet ing of the Merchant Tailors & Drapers' Kxchuntre was held last night. When the meeting broke op it vifts announced that the members of the exchange were opposed to receding in any particular from the stand taken in the fight with the Journeymen Tailors' Union in their demand for the back shop system. The fire of genius is frequently ex tinguished by having cold water poured on it. Chicago Daily isaws. FIGHTING IN LUZON Insurgents Attacked Garrison at Batoo, North Ilocos. REPULSED, LOSING 106 MEN Captain Uodd't Cavalry Force Sur rounded a Village, Capturing Many Prlsoners-Keport of a Gold Find. Manila, April 18,Y-General Young reports that 800 insurgent riflemen and bolomen attacked the American garri son at Batoo, province of North Ilocos, yesterday, but were repulsed, losing 106 men. The Americans had no casualties. Captain Dodd, with a squadron of the Third cavalry, recently surrounded a village in Union province, and sur prised 200 insurgents living in bar racks, it apparently being the reoruit- ing center for the province. ine enemy lost 53 men killed. Our troops also captured 44 men and burned the village. One American was wounded. Gold In Luson. San Francisco, April 18. The trans port Tartar, . whioh arrived Saturday afternoon from Manila, was released from "quarantine today. The Tartar brought advices from the Philippines up to March 6. One of the reports from Manila is that William Udun, who is spoken of as a miner of large exDerience. nas returned iroin a pros tiectinK trio on the distant coast ot Vigan, He showed rich specimens of gold, and declared that he had located a ledge of quartz as ricn as anytnmg in Colorado or California. He is organiz ing a company of ex-soldiers, and will go into the mountain districts of Vigan to seoure olaims. In an interview in the Manila Freedom, Odun says: "Never before did I see such indica tions of mineral wealth. . I have trav eled from the Klondike to South Afrioa, and I am convinced that there is not a muoh richer mineral country in the world than the Island of Luzon." STEEL PLANTS SHUT DOWN. Labor Troubles In Building Trades Given as the Reason. Chicago, April 18. Labor troubles in the building trades are stated by President John W. Lambert, of the American Steel &i Wire Company, as reasons for orders issued today for the closing down of all the plants of the conotru in the vicinity ol unicago ana those of Joliet, 111., excepting the Rockdale mill and the extensive plant at Anderson, Ind. Twelve plants were ordered closed.. Thousands of skilled workmen were temporarily suspended by the action of the wire magnates. President Lambert said: "Labor trou bles are at Jh bottom of it. Our market ha im destroyed by the stop oina of buidliugi labor,' and we h.e had to shut dowjl until the accumulated stock is ofl.'foy. fNew YorkU April 18. John W. Gates, president of .the American Steel & Wire Company. -was seen today in reference to a dispatch froiri the west which stated that a number' of con stituents concerned ia the mairi com pany hudsuspended opeftttions. v He confirmed the statement, and said that 12 of the mills have been shut down. They are located at Pittsburg, Cleve land, Joliet, Waukegan, iu.; ue Ram, III.; Newcastle, Ind., and Anderson, Ind. Mr. Gates said the cause of the closing down of the mills was over production. . He said he was unable to state when the mills wouia resume operations. When asked for his view as to the trade situation and outlook, Mr. Gates stated that the shut-down of the mills was the best evidence of the current situation. Mr. Gates made another statement later, in which he said the 12 mills whioh had been closed had a daily capacity of from 8,000 to 4,000 tons, it is saw as many as 4,000 men, boys ana gins will be affected by the shut-down. Pittsburg, April 18. The American Steel & Wire Company's mills closed in this district include those at New castle, Braddock, and the Oliver mill, on the South Side, Pittsburg. It is estimated that about 2,000 men are affected in this section. Italn In Mississippi. Meridian, Miss., April 18 Seven inches of rain has fallen in this city and vicinity since yesterday. The damage by high water will reach up wards of $200,000, and two fatalities have been reported. This city is sur rounded on three sides by a vast ex panse of water, and all trains are In definitely delayed by disastrous wash outs. Recently planted crops in the lowlands in a radius of 10 miles are under water, and citizens in flooded districts have fled to the highlands for safety. The dam of the Meridian Waterworks Company reservoir gave way this afternoon, and the damage will reach $10,000. Two negro boys who attempted to cross Sowashie creek, east of the city, this afternoon, were rirnwnfld. The rain is still tailing in torrents. The - storm is generalj throughout the state, and railway traf-' Ac is eeneraliy suspenaea, owing w washouts in all directions. Anti-Lynchlug Law Invalid. 1 Columbus, 0. 'April . 18. The su preme court today declared that the anti-lvnching law is unconstitutional. The lav provides that the heirs of any person who is lynched may collect $5,- 000 - from the , commissioner iu the county in vhieh. ,the affair occurs. The decision was rendered in the cases of Click Mitchell, hanged by a mob at Urbana, and J. W. Caldwell.iwho was shot and beaten by, strikers at Cleve land. ; s . GAS MAIN EXPLODED. One Mnn Instnntly Killed and Tlva Probably Fatally Injured. Loganpport, Ind., April 18. Too much pressure and a piece of defective gas pipo in the mains of the Chicago Pipe Lino Company at a joint four miles southeast of here was the cause of a terrifio explosion today, in whioh Michael Ellison, Jr., was instantly killed, and five other men received in juries from which it is doubtful if they will recover. Twelve men were in the trench repairing a leak in a 10-inch main, from which the gas had been transferred to sn eight-inch main near it. The men were around a "T" on the eight-inch main, and Ellison was stooping over it when the pipe explod ed. He was found 150 feet away, his bones broken and having probably met instant death. George- Morrison, in charge of the work, was sent sprawling on the ground 80 feet away, with gravel and dirt blown into his skin, his body wrenched, and his clothes torn and tat tered. Will Briggs inhaled gas and was taken home unconscious. Three ' laborers were knocked down and bruised in a frightful manned The rest of the men escaped with slight in juries from flying dirt and rock. . The "T" weighs 1.000 pounds, and it was carried a distance oi 50 feet. The ex plosion tare the ground for. a distance of 400 feet, aud was heard for miles, besides the heavy jar. NATAL BOERS MOVING, , Natives Report They Hare Left Eland's Luagte' District. . London, April 18. A Ladysmith - ',' 5 special, dated April 16, says that natives report that the Boers in Eland's - . Laagte have retired beyond Bigars- ,' berg. This information tends to con- '. firm the report that the Boers blew up . three important colliers, near Wessel's - Nek, completely destroying the same.' A Cape Town dispatcn says nearly j 8,000 horses have landed there since April 13, which indicates that every effort is being made to remedy a great defect in the British organization. ' ' 1 TBe chief Boer delegate, Fisher, ao- companied by Dr. Leyds, visited the president of the Dutch cabinet today at " The Hague, but the doings of the dele gates create little speculation in Eng- land. i, " .'."-.. ...... . . Frederick Villjers, the veteran war correspondent, ' who arrived at South ampton today from the front, ; Baid he believed that the worst of the : war is , over, but that guerrilla warfare will -continue for some time. A bulletin issued at Pietoria, April 13, reports that the-burghers captured 600 slaughtered oxen at Wepener, and that General Froneman that day de feated the British, causing them to fly in the direction of Wolverport, appar- y eatly over the Orange river. Troops Are on Hand. ' ; Groton Landing, N. Y., April 18. , , The first bloodshed as the outcome of ' the strike at the Cornell dam was the life blood of Sergeant Robert Douglass, ? of the Eleventh separate company, of Mount Vernon, who was shot dead by- - . . an uukuown assassin while he was re-1 sV" -lieving guard at 8:50 o'clock last ni.ht.' , i . The wildest exoitement prevailed .. troughout the camp as soon as the news ' 1. . of the assassination spread to the differ- ; ' ent tents, and the soldiers are frantic ht' , over the crime. The point where the sergeant fell is known as Post. 10, -;.t ( which was in charge of Corporal Mo- ' V Dowell. It is situated on top' ol the " hill, near Little Italy, wher,prnied - 'J - strikeis were seen drilling or marching .. li' about early' this morning, brandishing rifles and shotguns.' The spot is high , over the huge pile of masonry, and from it one can command a view of the country on each side up and down the " ' Croton valley. ' ' ' Kegro Shot Into a Crowd. ' . '. i Indianapolis, Ind., April 17. A colored man riding a bicycle shot into a crowd of iO boys in WestJIndianapolia this afternoon, wounding Clarence Vort ' ' . in the hip and George Colder in the thigh. Both are seriously wounded. As the colored man was passing the . ' crowd they began to chaff him and. he .-. fired. lie then rode away, pursued by ' an infuriated mob of 100 people, who threw bricks, stones, and clubs at him, but failed to overtake him. Cries of ;, . "lynch him" were heard on all sides. The'tiian is said to have had another difficulty in the same vicinity about a ; month ago, and at that time threatened to shoot. The police failed to locate the negro. , . . .. ' ' ' I,;..,. , t :- . ;i . . . ' , .' ' French Church Ilurnod. Paris, April 18. The historic church . of Notre Dame des Vortus, in the out skirts of Paris, was entered Sunday evening or Monday morning by van ' dais, who, after pillaging it, set it on fire. Several firemen were badly in jured by burning brands. The interior of the church was found in a state of great disorder, and the communion ves- t sols are believed to, Jiave been stolen, unless they are bulled ' m the. debris. One of the huge bells fell Into . the j ;' sacristy and three others tlirvngh a roof into the organ. Three Jaea Fere seen leaving the church just after ; the flie was discovered. VV - Kansas City Carpenters' Strike. . Kansas City, April 18. Slightly over 4(H) union carpenters went ou strike today for an increase of wages to 87 cents an hour. The contract- ors offered 5 cents, but it was rejected by the men. " , ' V Chattanooga, Tenn., April 18. A through freight train on the Southern lailway struck a mule and was wrecked while running at full speed . near lluntsville, Ala., while going embankment. The down a steep freight cars crowded ., upon the - over turned engine and ; suffocated and crushed to death in the cab both Engi neer Percy Armstrong and Fireman Os borne, who had stuck to their posts. Five of the train crew were serious". Injured.
