- "IT'S A COUP DAV WHEN WB QBT LEFT." VOL. XII. - HOOD KIVEK, OREGON, FlilDAY, OOTOBElt 19, 1000. ' NO. 22. HOOD RIVER GLACIER ' Published Every Friday by 8. F. BLYTHK. Trmt ol lubscripUon In tdvance. - 1.00 a year when paid TIIK MAIL. The mnll arrive from Ml. Hood at 10 o'clock - m. W eilnewlB) and Saturdays; rteparta the mime dav at noon. k'orCliei'owcili, leaves at ft a. m. Tuesday, ThiiindKM ami Saturdays: arrive at li p. m. Kor While Salmon (W Mil.) leave! dully at : a m.i arriven Hi 7;l.i . m. ' From Wl.llc Salmon leave for Fulda, Mlmer, Il0,it Uki ami (.leiufood daily it A. M. KorBinaeii (Ha.li.) leaves at5:4ap. in.; ar. rivet ai 2 m. MIH IKTIK1. TiUlifcU UKHKKAH DIWREB LODGE. No J j 1,7 j. o. O. K.JIeetitl island, third Nloa dv In each month. H. J. lliBBAKD, Becri-tary, 1ANBY TOST. No. 16, l. A. R -Meets at A. I ! O U. W Hall second and fourth Saturdays ol esi'h month at 2 o'clock p. in. All G. A. R. member! invited lo meet with us. M P. Isenbero, Commander T. J. CUNNING, Adjutant. 1ANBY W. R. C., No. 16 Meets Hrst Satur (; uavof rachmonlh In A. O. U. W. hall at J Jm ' Mas. Adkua 8.'KANAllAN,,Preij:doiU. Wiia. Cksula Dunns, (Secretary. HOOD RIVER LODGE, No. 105, A. t. and A. M.Mecls Saturday evening on or before each full moon. O. K. V. illiams, W. M. D. McDonald, Secretary. HOOD UJVElt CHAPTER, No. 27, R. A. M. Meets third Friday night of each month. G. K. Castner, H. P. G. F. Williams, Secretary. OOD III V EH, CHAPTER, No. 25, O. E. 8. Meets Saturday a ter each full moon and two weeks thereafter. ' Mki. Makt A. Davidson, W. M. ) -Meets second Tuesday of each month at Flatemal hall. F. C. Brosius, M. A. D. McDonald, Secretary, W" ACCOM A LODGE, No. 80, K. of P.-Meets lu A. O. 0. W. hall every Tuesday night. K. 8. OLWGIit, C. C. Frank L. Davidson, K. of R. & 8, RIVERSIDE LODGE, No. 68, A. O. C. W. Meets first and third Saturdays of each month. 0. G. Chamberlain, M. W, J. F. Watt, rinanoior. H. L. HuWK. Recorder. TDLKWILDR LODGE, No. 107,' I. O O. F 1 Meet! lu Fraternal hall every Thursday night. A. G. Getchkl, N.G, H.J. Hibbakd, Secretary. HOOD RIVER TENT, No. 19, K. 0. T. M., meets at A. 0. U. W. hull on the hrat and third Fridays of each month. J. E. Rand, Commander. RIVERSIDE LODGE NO. 40. DEGREE OF HONOR, A. O. U. W.-Meets first and third Saturdays at 8 P. M. Mrs. Geo. P. Crowell, C of H. Mrs. Ciias Clarke, Recorder. Ma SIIAVV, M. D. TclepUon No. 81. All Calls Promptly Attended Office upntairs over Coppl'e's store. All calls left at the office or resilience will b promptly attended to. JOHN LELAND HENDERSON ' ATTOUXEY-AT-LAW, ABSTRACTER, NO TARY PUBLIC and REAL ESTATE AGENT. For 21 rears a resident of Oregon and Wash- ington. 'His had many years experience in leal Ectate matters, as alstraeter, searcher of titleiaud agent, baiis.acliyn guarauteedor no chaige. " J.' WATT, M. D. R. & N. Co. especially treat catarrh of nose and throat Surgeon tor 0. eonim.ed'to treal mt.A A,..t,a ,tf li'lllllOII Special terms for office treatment of chronic eases. , , . Telephone, office, 12o, residence, 45. I0NEER MILLS' Harbison Bros., Prom. FLOtjP., FEED AND ALL CEREALS Ground and manufactured. Whole Wheat Graham a specialty Saturday. Custom During the ili.ua m'i.rv tun- season additional days will be mentioned in the local columns. HOiiii ItlYEK. OKKOON. pAPEIUIA.NGING, K ALSOMI.NING, ETC. If your walls arc sick or mutilated, call on K. . KOOD. Consultation free. No charge for prescrip tions. No cure no pay. 0 tins h i if J f r ) i V. M. till 4. P. M.p and all night If necessary. - " ' gCOSOWY 8H0K SHOP. PlilCB I8T. ' Men's half soles, hand eticked, $1; naiM, iieBt, 75c; tecond, 50c ; third, 40c. Laities' hand Btitclied, 75c; nailed, best, M)e; second, 35. Best stock and work in lloort River. C. WELDS, Prop. EVENTS OF THE DAI Epitome of the Telegraphic News of thf. World. TERSE TICKS FROk ,HK WIRES An Interesting Collection of Items From h Two Hemispheres PreiMts 1 f In a Coc-lenaed Zccm- The United States has answered th French note. Roosevelt denounced the Deonicratic issue of militarism. British ministerialists hold 357 seats and the opposition 205. Horse buyevs for German govern ment are in Eastern Oregon. A general uprising is expected in the southern provinces of China. . Mtr. Chapel le argues for retention of church property in the Philippines. An eight-year-old boy cf Roseburg, Or., was killed accidentally while play ing with a ritie. One man was killed aud -12 injured in a riot in the anthracite region at Iluzleton, Pa. Mrs. Ann Jane Darrah, of Liberty, Or., an aged and blind woman, was burned to death. Thomas Sheridan, 50 years ol3, a la borer employed in a shingle mill at Fairhaven, Wash., was run over by a train and killed. The American marines from Pokln have arrived at Takn, where Uiey will be joined by the Tien Tsin battalion, and sail on the Indiana for Cavite. The wife of a minister at Atchison, Kan., jumped into a cistern with her 3-year-old child and both were drowned. The woman was insano. A cablegram received from Commissioner-General Peck, at Paris, contains an announcement of final results ob tained at the exposition by the conn ries in the way of awards. The Unit- I states received 2,475 awards; Gor many, 1,826; Great Britain, 1,117; Russia, 1.413. The United States leads not only in ihe erand total, but also in all grades of awards, from grand prizes to merely honorable men tion. Referring to the mooted purchase of the Danish West Indies by the United States, the Copenhagen correspondent of the Daily Telegraph says: "Tho re newed negotiations will result, I be lieve, in the purchase. The opposition party in the Danish parliament favori the transaction, : but urges the govern ment to obtain a larger price than the United States has previously offered. It is understood that America wishes to use St. Croix as a naval coaling station." Bryan couclnded his tour of Illinois. Cecil Rhodes will re-enter politics. The empress dowagor is said to be ill. Roberts will name bis own succes sor, Colville Indian reservation is opened for settlement. Roosevelt spoke to an immense audi ence in St. Louis. Canada will sell crown mining clams in Klondike. General Brooko urges reorganratiou of the army on modern lines. Conger has prepared a list of Chinese officials that should he pnuishod. Idaho Sobliers' Homo was deslroyod by fire. Ono inmate was suffocated. The American Bible Society fur nishes a list ot missionaries killed by Boxers. General MacArthur reported to the deoartment that the transpor LATER NEWS. Buller will return to England. Germany accepts France's proposal. Immense field of coal has been dis covered in Alaska. Reformers defeated the imperial rmy on East river. The Boers are very active in the Kroonstadt district. Russians take the first step on the right bank of the Amur. Lord Alverstone will be the new lord chief justice of England. Mexican troops aro having a hard oampaign against Indians. Captain Shields and his 61 men were rescued from the Filipinos. A milk combine has beun formed by milkmen of Vancouver, B. C. Roosevelt concluded his Kentucky tour with a Bpeech in Covington. The rebellion in Southern China is anti-dynastic rather tban auti- foreign. Yellow fever is expected to increase in Havana while sewers are being dug. Fire at Herrick, 111., destroyed Id business houses, causing a loss of $50,-000. F. Adams, a patient at the insane asylum, hanged him- CAN'T GET TOGETHER Mlneowners Could Not Agree Among Themselves. SO CANNOT MEET THE STRIKERS Statement Fro n the Standpoint of the Owner! and Operators Bud of Strike Kiiievted Soon. LADRONES OF LEYTE. Ar. fHE KLONDIKE CONFECTIONERY Is the place to get the latest and best jn Conf. ctionci ies. Caniiies, Nuts, Tobacco, Cigars, etc .. .ICE CREAM PARLORS.... COLE A GRAHAM, Props. p C. BROSiUS, M. D. ' PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. Office 'Phone Central, or 121. Hours: 10 to 11 A. M.; and 6 to 7 P.M. 2 to 3 JflT. HOOD SAW MILLS : Tomi.insoh Bbos, Phops. FIR AND PINE LUMBER Of the best quality alwaa on hand at prices to suit the times. JJUTLLR A CO., ' BANKERS. Do a general banking businest. HOOD RIVER, OREGON. DALLAS & SPANGLEE, i DEALERS IK ariware, Staves and Tinware Kitchen Furniture, Plumbers' Goods, Pruning Tpols, Etc. We have a new and complete stock of hardware, stoves and tinware, to which we will keep constant adding Our pti. es will continue to be aa low aa P rtland prices. JEPilSISS TIlWiSE I S?E IAITT. war Rosecrans and tho transport Argy arrived at Manila with Light Batteries C and M, Seventh artillery, Majoi G. G. Greenough. P. II. Gilhooley, counsel for the '.lizahethport, N. J., Banking Com ,ny, announced that William Sohtie er, a missing clerk of the bank, was a defaulter to the amount of $50,000, and that thetank directors bad made good the aomunt of the shortage. T.nrH fienrffe Hamilton; secretary of state lor India, has received the tol- inin from Lord Curzon: "ine gu- ,ai ndition of crops is excellent, and except in a pait of Bombay famine niHnii are disappearing. The to- -v'." - . ... i . ,i tal number on the reliet list nas laueu to 2,746,000." The American Bridge Company closed a contract to furnish all of the structural steel to be used m the erec tion of a big arsenal at Kure, Japan. The money value of the contract is be twen $250,000 and $300,000. It will require six months to turnish the material, and it mast be delivered at Kure within a year. Officials of the North German Lloyd Steamship Company at Sew York City have awarded a contract for a monu ment to be erected in a plot owned by the company in a cemetery in North Hudson, in memory oi m i"""""- " lost their lives in the great fire that destroyed the piers and stea, nera of i the company at Hoboken. on June 30 last. White blackberries and green rosea u.,a K.n nrouaaated in Louiiaaa this lift O f " year. Seventv-two new coal mines have been opened in Pmia thl?er basing the output for 1900 by 1.500.. 000 tons. What promisee to be the best apple crop in the history of Canada-not TL the ouantity. but quahty-ia John Oregon self. Li Hung Chang expresses regret foi recent occurrences and thanks Ameri cans. Dewet proclaims that burghers who refuse to fight will be made prisoners of war. 1 A case of Illness, suspected to be bu bonic plague, is reported at Stepney, a parish suburb of London. Records that fell into the hands of correspondents show that Chinese au thorities supported the Boxer move ment. A dispatch from Port Limon, Colom bia, says that a serious liie broke out and that several prominent commercial buildings were destroyed. The sultan of Turkey has leased to Germany for 80 years the island of Croan, in the Red sea, 40 miles north of Kamaran, for a coaling station. Full returns as to the wine harvest throughout Germauy for the year show that it is more abundant and of more excellent quality than for several years previous. Miss Amanda Fairman, a prominent young lady of Philipsburg, Mont., was found dead in her room, having been shot with a shotgun. A shotgun was lying on the table. The suicide theory i's denied, and it is believed she was murdered. Li Hung Chang is in Pekin. Rnnthern rebels defeated General Ho's army near San Chun. The submarine boat Holland has been placed in commission. , Russia urges that the Chinese in demnity question be arbitrated. Coal miners in the state of Kansas have won a utrike and gone to work. The members of the Chilean cabinet have resigned, owing to a politica cause. 1 The National League baseball season came to a close with Brooklyn the pen nant winner. Charles Fargo, second vice-president of the American Express Company, ie dead at Chicago. The Loraine, 0 plant of the Federal Steel Com pauy has been closed, shut ting out 3,000 men. . The queen regent of Spain will ar bitrate the differences at present exist ing between Peru and Chili. A clergyman of Blair. Neb., convict ed of bigamj, was sentenced to four years in the penitentiary. Dysentery is raging among the troops at Tien Tsin and the German conting ent will transfer its headquarters to Pekin. The steel plants of the Illinois Steel Works, at South Chicago, were closed down, 2,500 men being thrown out ol employment. , A minor official of the Vatican at i?nm has been arrested on the charge f ateino the thieves access to wsm from ihich the sum of 350,000 lire was recently stolen Rrrikinff coal miners will accept the 10 per cent increase in wages offered by the operators if it lasts all winter. However, the men will not resume work until officially ordered by onion officers. In northern Panay, October 12, Com panv D, Twenty-sixth United States volunteer infantry, was attacked by a force of Tagals. The enemy lost 20 men killed and 40 wounded, while the Americans had two men wounded. Twenty-two prisoners and 12 rifles and a quantity of ammunition were cap tured. A colony of 500 Sicilians from New n,ifl,ins is to leave for Hawaii early in Scranton, Ta., Oct. 16I In response to a request for a statement as to his views on the answer of the United Mineworkers to the operators' proposi tion, T. H. Watkins, president of the Temple Iron Company, which company is largely interested in coal mining, to night gave out a somewhat lengthy statement, in which he says in part: "We will give our men reasonable time to return to work, trusting they will see the mistake of being guided and influenced by men who, however honest and sincere they may be in their efforts to benefit the miners of the an thracite region, are unable to advise them intelligently and for their best good. "Mr. Mitchell apparently thinks that the ccntrol of the mining operations rests in the hands of one or two per sons, notably Mr. Morgan, or that there is a trust of some sort which can de cide the whole question, when, as a matter of faot, there are only three or four of the transportation companies in which any one concerned has any in fluence, and thev do not represent 30 per cent of the whole anthracite ton nage. More than 100 different com panies and individuals are interested in mining the total tonnRge, and no one man can control Or have the slight est influence over their action. "One thing the companies are ap parently agreed upon is that they will not agree. Efforts have been made for years to get some plan to which all could agree to control the tonnage, so that fair prices could be secured for a product which requires so large all investment of money with such great risk to the labor employed, as well aB the capital employed, but effort after effort has tailed through failure to agree on a plan that would not violate the laws and to which all could agree. "But Mr. Mitchell comes here and says in effe t that no mineworkers shall go to work until every operator does just exacity what the' other does and that the Lehigh and Schuylkill men must have a new basis before the men in the Lackawana and Wyoming regions can go to work. "The United Mineworkers will lay themselves open if they have not al ready done so to the charge of being the largest and most dangerous trust to the public welfare that has ever exit ed and the organization will make the mistake of all others that of going too faraiid using its power to "hurt the public, as well as those directly inter ested. "Our company will he glad to dis cuss the matter with our employes when they are ready to meet us with a view of going back to work, without regard to what Schuylkill operators may do. The strike has already'cost us a great deal of money, and the men much more, as well as loss of trade, which we may not recover in years In the meantime soft coal mines are working night and day filling the place 3f anthracite coal." Plundering and Following Offen- It Tnrtli'l. Manila, Oct. 15. The west coast of the island of Leyte is in a state ot tur moil. The rebel ladrones are actively plundering, the disturbers following offensive taoticr, raiding and attack ing and then returning to the garrison td towns, while the Amerioana pursue them to the mountains. General Ma- jica's officers are surrendering and his soldiers, attempting to esoape to Samar in boats, are being captured, and hie organization broken up. The captured guerrillas and ladrones, when ques tioned, stated that on the 6th instant 80 Americans attacked 45 rebels, rifled their stronghold in Camarines province and routed them, killing 10. Two Americans were killed and three wounded. Twenty member! of the Thirty -second infantry, in an engage ment on the 10th instant, in Batan provinoe, had one man killed and four wounded. The Philippine commission, of which Judge Taft is president, today passed eight bills of minor importance, one providing for a civil iuorease of salaries of several municipal offloials, includ ing sohool tiaohers, appropriating $7, BOO in irold for the construction ol a garbage crematory at Manila and for the reorganization of the asditor'a office. The Wriizht bill, asking for f 1.000, nnrt in sold for the completion of Spain's plans for Manila harbor im provements, elicited comment from one representative of Manila'! interna tinnai fihnmhnr of Commerce to the effect that, as the merohants had long been paying a special impost fund to this end, the merchants should belong to the board controlling the construc tion; and that as the United States had collected $3,000,000 since its oocupa tioby imposts for harbor improvements, he failed to see the necessity for the appropriation of insular funds and sug Bested the use of a special fund. The discussion was deferred uutil Friday. WAR IN SOUTH CHINA Reformers Continue Their Victorious Progress. DEFEAT TROOPS ON EAST RIYEk Sun Tut'i Army It Now Initl:i Vrefeotornl City of Hal t'hou Aotlvlty In Canton. the AN ANARCHIST'S CONFESSION. Hona Kong. Oct. 17. -Sun Yat Sen. according to reports from Canton, has taken the town of Kiu Shan, ou J'.ast River, and is now investing the prefeo toral city of Hui Chou. A force of im perial troops from Canton was defeated bv the reformers. 200 being killed. The advices say also that there is great activity in Canton in preparation for dispatohing troops to the disturbed districts. Frofreii of Campbell's Column. Tien Tsin. Oct. 17. The British col umn under Lord Campbell, which forms part ot the expedition against Pao Tins Fu. and ia making a detour to the Bouth of the Pao Ting river, reached Tu Liu, on the grand canal, vesterdav. Sir Ernest M. Satow. who succeeds Sir Claude McDonald as British minis ter to China, has started for Pekin M. de Giers. the Russian minister, is likely to return soon. An Appeal to the Ciar. Berlin. Oct. 17. The Chinese minis' ter to Russia. Yang Yn, who visited Emperor Nicholas at Lividia yester day strongly appealed ior the interces sion of the emperor in his favor and presented to him a letter from Emperor Kwang Hsu, together with documen tary evidenoe going to show that the Chinese ruler aud court are less to blame for the anti-foreign outbreak than the Russian emperor hud been led to believe. GOVERNMENT SURVEYS. STORPY AT ST. LAWRENCE. Thirty the about Veaseli Driven Ahre-Nov Scotia Swept Halifax, N. S., Oct. 10. Additional disasters to shipping on this coast are reported. The known list of vessels driven ashore now numbers 80, mostly owned in the province and Newfound laud. The loss all over the country and in the neighboring provinces through terrific rainfalls and. wanhonts ard damage to orchards and Imildiujjs by heavy winds will be vory many thousands of dollars. The Canadian Pacific wires couuect iug Cape tireton with the rett of Nova Sootia are completely broken at the .mill, ni Umiso. where the cable was fouled by a schooner dragging her an chor in the recent gale. Heavy raiu is falling again today 'throughout Nova Scotia. Rivers and hakes everywhere are overflowing ami destroying property. There lias ueen no Canadian Pacifio train from Mon treal in four days and a serious wreck of the Svduey express catit-ed by a washout "is reported in Cape Lreeton. The Gloucester schooner Mystery, at Canso, reports one man lost at sea. Manila, Oct. 16. Captain Deve reaux Shields, who, with 61 men of Company F, Twenty-ninth reigment. United States volunteer infantry, was captured by the insurgents last month in the inland of Mariuduque, was es cued yesterday by the American rescue force with all the members of his party. The naval board to examine the old January under the leadership of Father jfrigate Constitution has reported to Nasca an Italian priest. The colony the uavv department that it will cost will be in the employ of an American ; Bbout $400,000 to place that vessel in company which has large sugar inter-1 condition, such as is contemplated by ts in the Hawaiian islands. The j tl,e Boston Patriotic Society, winch is will build a cnurcu, icbuui , raisinui a iuhu ioi uw Aesaialn Brenl'! . Accomplice, TelU ol the Ainevlonn Plots. New York, Oct. 15. A dispatch to the Journal and Advertiser from Rome, says: The anarchist Bertollani, ar rested at Milan as a suspected aocom nlioe of Iiresci. has made a confession about anarchist plots. 'I have known about these plots tor a long time," he said. "It was I who sent the letter to the crown prosecutor at Naples, warning himinadvanoe that Italian anarohists were coming irora America to kill the king, but they paid no attention to my letter. At an an archist meeting in Paterson, JN. J., seven men were selected to kill kings and chiefs of states. One ot them was alloted to kill MoKinley or Bryan dur ing the presidential campaign. I do not know the name of the man who s assicned to this duty. The recent Chicago plot was independent of that hatched at Paterson. I believe ocher plots having the same object, have been organized in the United States. An archists have killed kings and queens, now tbey should kill a president of a republic to show tho world that for an archiats there are neither monarchies nor republics, and that a king is as cheap as a president." Tranport Broke lown. Seattle, Oct. 15. Major Ruhlen, assistant quartermaster here, has been notified by the quartermaster-general that the Kangtse. the freighter under charter to carry animals and supplies from Seattle to Manila, has met with an accident off Singapore, and will probably not enter the government She broke her shaft and is expected to be laid up for at least five nlr. As a result of the accident to the Kangtse, several additional vessels will probably be at onoe chartered. The Mogul has alreaady been chartered from Dodwell & Co., and will carry part of the cargo intended for the Kangtse. She will be loaded with for age and will go under tonnage charter. The Mogul is not expected to arrive here until about November 1. Reaetliinary Edicts. London, Oct. 17. "Sinoe the Chi nese court arrived at the new capital Sinan Fu," says a special dispatch fror Shanghai, dated yesteiday, "reaction ary edicts removing the moderates from high offices have been issued, showing that Prince Tuan holds the imperial The Daily Chronicle has the follow ing from Vienna: "None of the pow ers except France and the United States approves the Russian proposal against China to the arbitration tribun al at The Hague." Germany Accepts France' Propoial. Berlin, Oct. 17. The Berlin Neuste Nachrlchten Bays that it understands that Germany's answer to the note of M. Deloasse, French minister of for eign affairs, was dispatched today, and that it is friendly in tone and raises no objections to the principles set forth by M. Deloasse. It does not asrert that the reply deals with all his propo sitions. , Warning to Whlto Women. Berlin, Oct. 17. A dispatch re ceived here from Shanghai says the British consul there warns European women against coming north ftom Hong Kong in the hope of joining their husbands, the situation in the Yaugxte valley being very serious, BOER WAR NOT ENDED. Hard Work I Neceuary to Secure Con- greenlonal Ueeognltlon. Washington, Oct. 10. All the great appropriations of the government are based upon the estimates of the several departments. At this time of the year the various offices are preparing their plans aud "Stimates for the operations of the llsoai year beginning ou July 1, 1901, aud andiug June 30, 1902. These estimates will be transmitted to congress and em bodied in the appropriation bills, moat Df which will be considered and passert luring February, as congress adjourns on March 4, it being the short session. The estimates whioh have peculiar import noe to the arid regions are those (or the continuance of the measure ments of rivers, the examination of underground waters, and especially the urvey of reservoir sites, and report upon the cost and value of reclamation A large areas of fertile arid lauds. For Surveys. At the last session of congress the National Irrigation Association ener getically endeavoied to have the annual appropriation of the geological survey for this purpose increased from the almost absurdly sum of $50,000 to the amount of $250,000, this being more in accordance with the needs of the coun try. The increase was made in the senate, . but in conference with the house of representatives a compromise of $100,000 was reached, the conces sion being made that at the next session the sum of $250,000 would be favorably considered. Organlned Effective Work. A lesson that can be learned from the attitude of many of the Eastern utatea as regards river and harbor improve ments; these lm provements are not left to chance or regarded with indifference, but the claims of each locality are made known and systematically push ed by organized effort, such as boards ol trade or merchants associations. Eastern iuterests are or ganized for work, and when an Eastern locality wants a river and harbor appro priation it goes alter it in a thorough, svstematio manner, and sooner or later gets it. This is what the WeBt can and should do. Every Western ooard of trade, ohamber of commerce aud commercial organisation should bestir Itself individually, 'bring all the influ ence it can to bear upon the senators and congressmen of its state, and act ively co-operate with the National Ir rigation Associntion to not only insure favorable congressional action on these lurvey estimates, but to otherwise ad vance the interests of the arid region through national channels. Irrigation Cnngrei! Meeting. The ninth annual session of the Na tional Irrigation Congress will meet at Chicwgo UlinoiB, November 20-23, 1900. PANAMA CANAL GOING AHEAD. Will now son. fast approaching the harvest sea- com nan v and homes for tLe Sicilians. Road improvements has begun in the Philippines, with money collected rrom customs at Manila. Lorin Pease, of Hadley, Mass., died -t the ace of 100 His father lived to "Old Ironsides.' Flood! lu New Brunt wick. St. John, N. B Oct.. 15. The province of New Brunswick has re noivnrt a terrible drenching from a rain which lasted 108 hours, and which in amount equals It) incnes. Not a train is moving on the Canadian Pacifio Railway between St. John and Vanceboro, or on the branch lines oi the road to St. Andrews, St. Stephen, Fredericton or Woodstock. The tinup is due to washouts. Conditions are the woist which have existed in the Canadian road's history, and thous ands of dollars are represented in the damage already done and in loss ol traffic. Burglars Rob tit Tatloan. Rome, Oct. 15. A number of the papers here publish the extraordinary itatement that the securities yalued at 857.000 lire, the theft of which from the Vatican was recently reported to the Italian police, had been stolen sometime previous to tenruary last, and were sold in that month on the Paris bourse. They were stolen, it is asserted, bv order of an Italian capital ist. If the story be true the more re cent burglary was committed with the pbject of deceiving the authorities. This theory has produced a great im pression at the Vatican, but it Is not generally credited. Bneipected Activity Delay Lord ltolierti' Departure. Loudon, Oct. 17. Commenting upon the activity of the Boers and the state ment from Cane Town that Lord Ro berts has postponed his home-coming, the Standard says: "Theieare certain indications point ing to the conclusion that unexpected difficulties have arisen which Lord Roberta deems grave enough to delay his return for some time to come. The facts suggest that it is impossible yet to denude South Africa of any substantial portion of the large army now engaged in dominating a sullen and recalcitrant people."' The editorial finally calls for the severest measures against irreconcib ble Boers, "prompt and ruthless pu; ishmeut for every insurgent burghei caught in delicto." Marching Hemmed. Ha.leton, Pa., Oct. 17. The threat ened march of the strikers to Panther creek valley started from this section toniaht. The objective points of the marchers are Lansford, in Carbon county, and Coaldale, in Schuylkill countv. These towns are about 20 miles'south of Haaleton, and the strik ers expect to reach their destination early tomorrow morning. Most of the collieries in that section are operated by the Lehigh Valley Coal & Naviga tion Company. They have been work ing all through the strike, despite the efforts of numerous organiser sent to that section for tho purpose of getting the men to quit. Be liullt Even If Dnlted Flat Takei Nicaragua Knterpriie. New York, Oct. 17. M. Hntin, director-general and president of the board of directors ot the Panama Canal Company; Genoial Abbott, chief engi neer, and Y. N. Cromwell, counsel for the canal company, were passengers on the steamship La Lorraine from Havre. "The Panama Canal Company," said General Abbott, "is waiting for the recommendation of the Walker com niseion to congress and for the action of that body. I believe that the decis ion will be in favor of the Panama canal as being more feasible aud eco nomical and giving better results. If the decision is against the Panama canal the company will nevertheless go ou building it. I believe that if both the Panama and Nicaragua canals are built nine-tenths of the vessels will choose tlw Panama canal as being the better. What the Walker commission heard when in Paris was a revelation to it. Already between three ana lour million cubic yards have been taken out down there and two-iifths of the work has been done. Killed a Poatmanter. Chicago, Oct. 17. A dispatch to the Record from Guudulajara, Mexico, says: A band of brigands, under the leadership of the notorious Pedro Flores, has been committing numerous murders aud robberies in the Autlan dintrict of this state for several months. News has just reached here that the robbers made a bold raid on the towu of Autlan and killed the postmaster. Following this unprovoked murder they looted the plaee and terrorizod the populace. They have a stronghold in the mountans and a cietacnmeni oi rurales has gone in pursuit of them. New Zealand Mall 8erlce. Wellington, N. Z., Oct. 15. The house of representatives today approved the postniaster-geTieral's agieetncnt ith Mflimrs. Horeckels to continue ior hn 09. and his fix brothers and sisters j " e Frncigco mail service all passed 70. i Tbe vessels wiil run every three weeks -.us. n i,o eailfiH for ! instead of monthly, beginning iuu j n-il,, to revive the customs law ; anl service of the Hawaiian iau as to bring them up to tbe standard ol those home Novem ber 1. The time from San rraucisco to Auckland will not exceed 16 days. An amendment favorimj a Vancouver Vtfi'M wl carried without a division. Yellow revcr Will Increase. 'Havana, Oct. 16 It is generally admitted that yellow fever wil increase in Havana when the streets are opened for the installation of tbe sewers, a work which will probably require three years. Major Lodge, paymaster for ; the division oi uuua, is oowu who mo fever. Car Shd Burned. Cleveland. O., Oct. 17- The car sheds of the Cleveland & Eastern Elec tric Railway Company at Gates Mills, together with a number of cars and othet property, have been destroyed by fire. The loss is $100,000. , Again Driven From Maiifleld. Mansfield, 0., Oct. 18. The Dow ieite Deacon Homer Kessler, of Chi cago, made another unsuccessfal at tempt to hold services here today. He was taken in charge by the police while nolding services at the home of F. D. Caverand was sent out of the city on the east-bound Penusylavnia passenger train at noon. New Turk Clgariakri' trlk. New York, Oct. 15. Samuel Gom president of the American Fedora- toin of Labor, is in the city to endeavor 1 to settle the cigarmakers' strike, which has lasted now for - more than four 'months. He had conferences with representatives of firms who formerly employed about 4,000 of the 6,000 cigarmakers who are still out. Halo Oo to Nagasaki. London, Oct. 15. The American Ladies' committee has received a dis patch from Wei Hai Wei, dated Wed nesday, October 10, reporting: the re turn there of . the American hospital Ship Mains from Takn With many in- ) Fir la ma Indiana Town. valid on board, of whom two officials j Sullivan, Ind Oct. 17. Fire to and 69 B6a are Americans, and 19 of jKht destroyed the large building in the latter belong to the Ninth ifan- tne public square occupied by Barton try. The Maine will sail for Nagasaki j q,' department store. Lois, $100, today. j 000- Th Child Wa Mutilated. Dayton, O., Oct. 17. The dead body of Ada Lants. the 12-year-old daughter of Charles Lants, a carpenter, was tound in the rear of her father's residence last night. A surprise party bad been tendered her parents and while the guests were playing cards the little girl left the house. Her ab sence was not discovered for half an hour and after a search of the premises her body was foun