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)F INTEREST TO OUR MANY READERS
Comprehensive Review of the Important Hap
penings of the Past Week In a
Condensed Form. -
The powers have agreed to the joint
note.
The Japanese gave Admiral Beards
lee a reception.
Chicago police will prevent the Gans
McGovern fight.
Santa Fe strikeis wish their differ
ences arbitrated.
- Five persons were killed in a train
wreck in Montana.
Fire in Pekin destroyed the quarters
of a number of officers.
Kitchener rpeorts a running fight be
tween Dewtt and Knox.
Gompers will be re-elected president
of the federation of Labor.
The Santa Fe repudiates its relations
with the telegraphers' nnion.
The American fleet in North China
waters is reduced to two vessels.
, The Irish Nationalist convention de
clared for the abolition of landlordism.
Washington's centennial anniversary
was celebrated with imposing ceremo
nies. Full particulars have been received
of the tyhoon which recently swept the
coast of China, causing a heavy loss to
life and shipping.
There are more than 40 cases ol
smallpox in St. George's hospital, Kan-
sas City. Only one death from the
disease has occurred. a
The city election at Astoiia, resulted
in a sweeping victory for the Citizens'
ticket, every candidate being elected
by large majorities.
Jospepb Benoit, a stage carpenter at
the Grand Opeia house. Salem, Or ,
fell from a scaffold, breaking several
ribs, and bruising his face and body
badly. The accident was caused by
the breaking of a board upon which ht
was standing.
The Lakeview and Ager stage was
robbed about two miles from Lake
view, Or. A lone highwayman accom
dished the job. No' passengers were
aboard of the stage. Two mail sacks'
were rifled and a considerable amount '
of registered mail taken. Officers ars
now workng dn the case.
The will of the late Senator Davis,
who died November 27. was filed for
probate bv Mrs. Anna M. Davis, the
widow. The will, made during the i
senator's last illness, leaves all his
estate to Mrs. Davis. Ihe estate li i
valued at $25,000 in personal and 1
$40,000 in real property. ,, I
Lord Roberts has left the Cape for
Enlgand. . . I
Holland refuses to intervene in the
Boer war. .!
Senator Clay spoke against the ship
ubsidy bill.
French troops have ceased looting
Chinese observatories.
Li Bung Chang claims to have abso
lute power to negotiate.
Chaffee protested to Von Walderse
against German looting.
The debate on the war tax reduc
tion bill began in the house.
The house of commons voted 410,
000,000 to carry on the Boer war.
The Hay-Pauncefote treaty was
again considered in executive session.
A congressional committee was ap
pointed to investigate the Booz hazing.
The Philippine commission gavs
merchants a hearing on the traiff bill.
' v $50,000 irrigation ditch will bi
constructed at once in Moxee valley,
Washington.
Oregon delegation decides upon co
tinuing contract for Columbia
improvement. .
rivei
State Superintendent Ackerman re-
commends that Oregon schools observ,
John Marshall day.
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The matter of developing Lower
Nehalem coal is said to have been con -
.irtflrfid in New York.
A number of psuspe-cted o,
"
his visit to Cape Colony recently, aban.
doned their schemes on learning thai
they were shadowed.
In his annual report, Fish Commis
sioner Reid says value of fish output
for Oregon is over $3,000,000.
Outlawry in Kwang Si and Kwang
Tuung is increasing. The officials
appear to be losing their hold of ths
it.mtinn and are powerless to restore
order. Pirating on the West river ii ,hat detachments of the Sixth, Eigh
increasing. teenth and Twenty-sixth regiments
Owing to a lack of proper facilities1 have been active near their stations,
inihe w ofMleeraph, caused by the ' The insurgents losses during the last
TZ LL collision occurred on 10 day. there have been five ki led
the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe, in
tne Asciius- ij, j p
wnicn several yersinia wuo iuuoui;
fatally injured.
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five BCUSOrH WPltJ tiwaou v b ui
.. . t k
tne oeurBju icloioiw -
e Section,
Joseph Manley has resigned as chair-
mittee
years.
Electric coal-cutting
machinery it
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rapidly displacing hand work and othe,
varieties of mechanical raining appli -
ances in the collieries oi Gteat Britain
and the United States.
LATER NEWS.
Loot sent to France will be embar
goed. '
American wheat visible shows a de
crease. The Monroe doctrine may be applied
to France.
The Bjers were defeated in a battle
at Orange river.
A third negro was lynched by the
Houkport, Ind., mob.
In the sinking of the Gneieenau, 136
persons were drowned.
There is no prospect of passing the
Eubsidy bill this session.
The steamer Alpha was wrecked on
the Vancouver island coast.
Major-General John G. Parke died
at his home in Washington.
The Porto Rico case is before the
United States supreme court. .
Congressman Boutelle was placed
on the retired list of the navy.
The military commission begins its
investigation in the Booz hazing.
Freeh instructions sent to Conger
will clear the way ol all obstacles.
A cure for strikes was discussed by
the arbitration oonfereneo at Chicago.
Preparations are being made for de
velopment of natural gas near Rosalia,
Wash.
A Washington county farmer was
murdered by a shot fired through his
window.
The official report of the finances of
the Paris exposition, shows a loss of
2,000,000 francs.
The Oregon supreme court decided
that the Portland vehicle license ordi
nance was invalid. .
Five cases of what is believed to be
bubonic plague have developed in Tucu
man, in the Argentine Republic
A resolution was introduced in the
United States senate for an investiga
tion uf the conduct of Judge Noyes in
Alaska.
The officials of the Santa Fe and
the officers of the different trainmen's
organizations will hold a conference in
Chicago,
Seven hundred Boers have crossed
from Orange River colony into Cape
Colony near Aliwal North, and have
reached Kaapdal.
President MoKinley expects to ar-
range his Western trip so as to be in
San Francisco to witness the launch
ing of the battleship Ohio.
Fire in Cleveland, Ohio, destroyed
five out of seven buildings of a machine
company, causing a property loss of
over $500,000, and throwing 1,100
men out of employment.
The war revenue bill has been passed
by the house.
Railway telegraphers threaten to
boycott the Santa Fe.
Lord Kitchener has called for all
available English troops. ,
Eneland has awakened to the new
seriousness in South Africa.
Colonel ' Tullnck's expedition failed
to find the Chinese treasue.
At Rockport, Ind., two negroes, who
had murdered a white man were
lynched.
The German training ship Gneisenan
foundered near Gibraltar and 100 were
drowned.
A large Boxer force is said to be
approaching Peking with the intention
of attacking it.
The senate cannot considered the
army and appropriation bills until
after the holidays.
John Addison Porter, McKinleys
former private secretary, died at his
home in Putnam, Conn.
The British admiralty is arranging
to test various inventions for steering
torpedoes and submarine boats.
The Oregon Historical Society pro
poses to hold a great fair in 1905, in
commemoration of the Lewis and
Clark expedition to the Pacific coast
100 years ago. . ; - .
As a result of a mysterious poisoning
case at the Forsyth mines, near Mar
ietta, Ohio, four persons are dead, four
dying and two others serirously ill.
Five unknown men who asked the
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The building occupied
bv the con
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the Norfolk
models and plans of the construction
department.
Telephoning without wires wss sue
cessfully accomplished by transimit-
tino the voice across the Mississippi
Minneapolis, a distance of
over 1,000 feet.
Advices from Ho Ilo report that the
American troops have been northward
j oarward for several days and
feveu wounded ana 4U "V""";
Americns have lost two killed
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and three wounded.
i Prairie chickens
are said to ba more
t .
annndant in western Kansas than for
years
During the past five years the state
. n. ) Una Tin ha and mflffl
is a loresiry reseivMnu".
Former AmbaaiIor to Italy W. F.
rsnr has been uecoiiueu iiu
Draper ha Dee
; f rder ol ,M AntiM hii
li. lrfn ilecoifttea wim we
; oi iia, '
I embassy to Rome.
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Clements Force Defeated
Boers Under Delearey.
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WERE HEAVY LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES
English Forced to Abandon Their Position
General French With Reinforcements
Mas Gone to the Rescue.
London, Deo. 17. Lord Kitchener
reports that, after severe fighting at
Nooitgedacht, General Clements' forces
were compelled to retire by Command
ant Delarey, with a force of 2,500 men.
Five British officers were killed. The
other casualties were not reported.
Lord Kitchener's official dispatch to
the war office is as follows:
"Pretoria, Deo. 15. Clements' force
at Nooitgeducht, on the Magahes'
Berg, was attacked at dawn today by
Delarey, reinforced by Beyer's com
mando from Warmbath, making a
force estimated at 2,500. Though the
first attack was repulsed, the Boers
managed to get to the top of the Mag-
alies' Berg, which was held by four
companies of the Northumberland fusi
liers, and were thus able to command
Clements' camp. He retired on Hek-
poort, and took up a position on a hill
in the center of the valley.
"The casualties have not been com
pletely reported, but the fighting was
very severe, and I deeply regret that
Colonel Legge, of the Twentieth hus
sars, ana captains wouean, oiuraoon
and Atkinson were killed."
Lord Kitohenor also repor Jiat the
Boers made an attack' and were re
pulsed at Lychtenberg, and that Gen
eral Lemmer was killed. Attacki
upon Bethlehem and Vrede were also
repulsed, the Boers losing 10 killed and
14 wounded. Vryhetd was attacked
December 11. Sniping continued
when the message wv dispatched.
The scenes at the var office today
recall those witnessed in the early
stages of the war. A constant stream
of excited people filled the lobbies, ail
seeking details of the disaster. The
absence of the names of any of the offi
cers of the Northumberland fusiliers
in General Kitchener's dispatch leads
to the foreboding that the four com
panies of the fusiliers mentioned are
in the hands of the Boers. The war
office officials evidently expect a heavy
casualty list, but they are hopeful from
the fact that the dispatch does not
mention the capture of the Northum-
berlands that such a great catastrophe
has been escaped.
Orders were issued at Aldersnot,
Malta and other military centers to
dispatch all the available mounted in
fantry to South Afiica. '
It is reported that General Knox, co
operating with the British column at
Reddersberg, - has stopped oeuerai
Dewet, and that a battle is proceeding.
The report adds that many of Gen
eral Dewet's followers have been cap
tured. The scene of the fight is ominously
close to Pretoria. Nooitgedacht u
only 22 miles northwest of Pretoria.
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, English Loss Heavy.
London, Deo. 17. Lord Kitchener
reports that 18 officers and 555 men
are missing from General Clements'
force. They consist of four companies
of the Northumberland fusiliers.
.Tndr inif from the messace theso were
captured hy the Boers. Elements
casualties December 15 amounted to
five officers and nino men killed and
many apparently wounded.
, French Goes to the Rescue.
Johannesburg, Deo. 17. The battle
still continues within a few miles
from Krugersdorp. General Clements
baa asked for reinforcements, and
mounted men under General French
have already gone. , There have been
manv casualties on both sides. It is
estimated that the Boers number 2,800,
Montana Town Shaken.
Guthrie, Mont., Dec. 17. -The In
habitants of the town of Cashion were
awakened this morning by a peculiar
wave-like motion and trembling of the
earth. Manv of them rushed into
the streets, so badly were they fright
ened. No damage was done. .
Increase in Wages.
Calumet, Mich., Deo. 17. Commenc
ing January 1, the Calumet & Heola
Mining Company will increaso the
wagee of its 4,000 employes 3 M per
oent. Last March the company raised
the wages of its employes 10 per cent.
Paddy Ryan Dead.
Albany, N. Y., Dec. 17. Paddy Ry
an, at one time champion pugilist of
the world, who was deteated oy Jonn
L. Sullivan, in their famous fight in
Mississippi some years ago, died at his
home in Glens Falls, N. Y., this after
noon. ,
Earthquake In Missouri.
Jophn, Mo., Dec. 17. An earth
quake shock lasting nearly a minute
was experienced in tbie city at 7:45
o'clock this morning. The motion
was from north to south, and of
quivering nature.
No Lives Were Lost
San Francisco, Deo. 17. One
of
the severest storms , which has ever
visited San Francisco broke over the
city at an early hour this morniug and
continued until noon in fitful gusts,
rain and wind sweeping over, the city
with unusual violence, and being ao
cowpanied by thunder and lightning,
rather unusual occurrence in this;
oart of the country. At one time rain
fell in such torrents that many thought
a cloudburst was imminent.
DEWET EVADES KNOX.
General Kitchener Reports a Running Fight
With the Boers.
London, Dec. 17. Lord Kitchener
cables the war office from Fretoria un
der date of December 12 that General
Knox reports from Helvetia that he is
engaged in a running fight with Gen
eral Deet, and that the onemy ii mov
ing towards Reddershurg, where there
is a column ready to co-operate with
the other British foroes. Lord Kitche
ner in another dispatch reports that
Boers attacked the post near Barberton.
The British casualties were three
killed, five wounded and 13 taken pris
oners. The captured men have since
been released. The Boers rained the
River ton road station December 11.
They are being lollowed up.
General Kitchener's message indi
cates that Dewet has again evaded
Knox. After the latter had foiled the
Boer general at Coomnssie drift, the
Boers seem to have doubled back,
crossed the Caledon rivei elsewhere,
and turned thence northwest in the
direction of Reddersburg, the memor
able scene of the British disaster in
April, when Dewet captured the Brit
ish Rifles.
Tragedies on Shipboard.
San Francisco, Deo. 17. The Brit
ish ship Crown of Scotland, whioh ar
rived today, 130 days from Penarth,
Cardiff, had three tragic entries in her
log. November 24 John Warrington
atabbed P. C. Haglnnd, bis shipmate,
while the latter was asleep in his
bunk. Leaving bis sheath-knife in his
viotim's breast, the murderer ran up
on deck, jumped overboard and was
drowned, despite efforts to reach him
with a lifeboat. No one ou board of
the ship knows of the motive. The
second tragedy occurred August 1.
Salvatori Servis fell from the foreyard,
struok the deck and fractured his
thigh and received internal injuries
which caused his death.
Correcting an Extradition Treaty.
Washington, Dec. 17. A treaty has
been concluded between the United
States and Great . Britain amendatory
ol the existing extradition treaty aud
intended to correot certain Imperfec
tions in that instrument, developed by
went experiences. The changes do
not materially affect the scope or prin
ciples of the existing treaty, the chief
item in the list being provisions clas
sifying as a crime subject to extradi
tion the obtaining of money under false
pretenses. At present the treaty
makes extraditionable the reception ol
money obtained under false pretenses
aud omits the principal in the crime,
constituting a manifest absurdity.
To correct this the amendment is made.
Grounding of the Garonne.
Seattle, Dec. 17. Letters have been
received in this city announcing the
eionnding of the United States trans
port Garonne on the northern coast of
Luzon. She struck twice, being res
cued both times by the Sforktown
The second time the yorktown's cable
caught in the Garonne's wheel, causing
a further delay of 12 hours. The let
ters also tell about a hard march of
the Amerioan troops under General
Hall. The line of march was over
steep mountains for a distance of 45
miles, takinz in all six days. At the
conclusion, 165 men were under niedi
cul treatment for several days.
Search for Hidden Gold.
Pekin, Deo. 17. A few days ago
the British troops were notified of the
existence of a large amount of treasure
20 miles northwest of here. Colonel
Tnllock and 100 men left today to in
vestigate the truth of the report.
Colonel Tullock requested, however,
that 50 extra men be detailed. It is
believed that a large amount of gold
and valuable's were buried at that
point bv nersons connected with the
Chinese court during the recent flight,
The information regarding the treasure
was received from a former court olu
eial. ... " " ' ; '-' -.
Trial Trip of the Alabama.
Philadelphia, Deo. 17. The Unit
ed States battleship Alabama sailed
today from League Island navy yard
for New York, where she will await
further orders . She will make a
trial trip on the run, which will begin
as soon as she passes out to sea. After
the sea trial is completed the vessel's
course will be shaped further out to
sea to avoid shipping, as all of her
guns and turrets are to be tested. If
the leport is satisfactory, It is probable
that the battleship will be ordered to
Hampton Roads to join the North At
lantic squadron.
Anti-Foreign Plot In Hong Kong.
Hong Kong, Deo. 17. The city was
placarded today with statements incit
ing the people and the members of the
secret societies to unite and rise during
the month of Januiiry and drive out all
the foreigners. Crowds gathered about
the placards, but no actual outbreak
is reported.
Wisconsin's Vote.
Madipon, Wisconsin, Dec. 17. The
total vote ol Wisconsin, as officially
canvassed, as 425,161. SlcKinley's
plurality was 106,581. LaFollette,
Republican, for governor, has a plural
ity of 103,745.
Oxford Beats Cambridge.
London, Dec. 17. The annual Rug
by football match between Oxford and
; Cambridge took place today at tne
Queen'a club. A magninoent game
was won by Oxford by , two goals to
a goal and try. There waa a large
and fashionable attendance.
Nordeitskjokfs Expedition.
i rhrixtianin. Dec. 17. The Antarctic
: Tne(iLinr, headed dv Dr. Otto Nor-
ienkgjold, will leave in August.
mm on a m
Last
of The Famous Steamer
Alpha.
NINE PERSONS WERE LOST WITH HER
The Vessel Struck Rock at the Entrance
to Union Bay, on the East Coast of
:.. Vancouver Island.
Vancouver B. C, Deo. 19. News of
the worst marine disaster of the season
in British Columbia whs brought here
tonight by the steamer Czar, from
Union bay, on the east side of Vancou
ver island. The steamer Alpha was
wrecked on a reef near the entrance
to Union bay aud not a vestige of the
1,000-ton steamer remains. Her man
aging owner, oiiptain, purser, three en
gineers, two able bodied teamen aud a
stowaway were drowned, and the rest
of the crew of 84 were saved by the
pluok of an unkown member of the
ship's crew, who swam in a raging soa
from the wreck to a lighthouse with
a line around his waist.
The Alpha was valued at $45,000.
Her cargo comprised 750 tons of salt
salmon and 850 tons of coal, con-,
isgned to Yokohama, and valued at.
$80,000. The. total iusurauce on the
ship and cargo was $65,000.
It is two weeks sinoe the Alpha first
started trom Vancouver for Japau.
After she had been four days out she
returned to Victor partly disabled,
and accusations of tampering with her
engine's were made. Some of the crew
and several of the officers left the
steamer declaring that she had been
improperly loaded, and one ol the offi
cers was tried and suntenoed to six
weeks' imprisonment for desertion.
Last Saturday the Alpha left Vic
toria for Union to repleuish her coal
supply. A teriifio gale was raging and
late Saturday night the steamer ran on
a rook at Bayuos sound, at the en
trance to Union bay. She was quiokly
dashed to piece, and all would have
perished hud not one of the crew mane
the desperate and successful effort to
swim with a line to the lighthouse ou
Yellow island. In the raging sea
only part of those on the ill-fated ship
managed to reach safety, the officers
and owner remaining on board last and
failing to reach the rock. The 25 sur
vivors remained on Yellow island,
which is a rock 200 yards wide, until
Sunday night, when the sea modorated
somewhat and a sloop was able to call
and tako them to Union.
But the storm which had wrecked
he ship had also prostrated the wires,
and so no tidings of the shipwreck
reached the ontxide world until the
little steamer Czar brought the story
to Vancouver tonight.
The Alpha gained notoriety Inst
spring when, as a Canadian ship, she
landed freight and passengers at Nome
in defiance of the instructions of the
treasury department, and, it is said,
against the advice of the British em
bassy at Washington as well. She was
chased on ber return trip from Nome
by a United States revenue cutter, but
managed to show her pursuer a clean
pair of heels.
TROUBLE FOR FRANCE.
The United States May Have Occasion to En
force tne Monroe Doctrine!
New Yoik, Deo. 19. A special to
the Times from Washington sayss The
territory until recently in dispute be
tweon Brazil and France, and which
has been decreed to belong to Brazil,
my shortly become the object of a dis
pute between Franc? and the United
Sates, should the Monroe doctrine he
violated. The territory lying south of
French Guiana in the state of I'ara,
and containing 100,000 square miles,
was claimed by Brazil aud France, and
Switzerland was made arbitrator, iler
decision was in favor of Brazil. It if
now reportetd that some French finan
ciers, anticipating that the decision
would be favorable to France, hat
already invested their capital in thi
teriitory. They are now, it is said,
trying to engineer a deal by which tne
French government will buy this
land from Brazil,
The state department has absolutely
no knowledge on the subject. Its at
tention, however, has been called to
the matter, and the attempt of the
French capitalists to secure government
aid in getting their money back will be
watched with interest. There is hard
ly any question, it is said at the de
partment, that such action would be a
violation of the Monroe doctrine, sua
would call forth a protest from the
United States.
As long as the claim was in its orig
inal form, France might have main
tained that she was simply recti ryiniz
her boundaries, aud that the United
States cannot object to that. Even in
that case a rectification of boundaries
which involved an area of 100,000
square miles would be closely scrutin
ized. France has. however, forfeited
the right to make that clHim by sub
mitting the matter to aribtration by
Switzerland. The territory has been
officially decreed h the Swh-s tribu
nal to be outside cf trench Outana.
Woman Suffrage in Porto Rico. '
San Juan, Porto Rico, Dec. 19. I
the house of delegates today, Desearte
introduced a bill gianting unrestricted
suffrage to women on the same terms
as mei.. ' -
Storms in British Columbia.
Vancouver, B. C, Deo. 19. Storm
of unusual severity have destroyed
portion cf the diking in the delta dis
trict of Bri(ih Columbia. The dam
age to property is considerable.
LYNCHED BY A MOB.
Vengeance Dealt Two Negroes In Indiana-
Authorities Were Overcome.
Rockport, Ind., Deo. 19. Two ne
groes, Jim Henderson and Bud Kow
lands, who waylaid, murdered and rob
bed llollie Simons, a white barber,
early this morning, were lynched to
night in the jail yard by a mob of
1,500. The negioes were arrested soon
after the murder occurred, aud al
though Rowlands' clothing had blood
6tains on it they claimed they were in
nocent. In the meantime Sheriff
Clemens, of Union county, Kentucky,
arrived with a trained bloodhound.
When the dog was placed on the trail
he followed it to the house where Row
lands lived, six blocks from the scene
of the murder, and went baying to the
bed the negro had Occupied. This
was enough for the excited citizeus.
Within a lew minutes a mob of a thous
and howling, bloodthirsty men with
sledge hammers, ropes aud guns were
on the way to the jail.
Sheriff Anderson and bis two depu
ties made a stand and attempted to
proteot the prisoners. The o Ulcers
wore seized by the leaden of the mob
and disarmed. The sheriff, although
locked in a room and placed under
guard, stoutly refusod to give up the
keys or tell where the prisoners were
hiding.
The inub made a determined but un
successful attempt to break in the jail
door. Finally they secured a telegraph
pole, and using it as a battering ram
caved in the side wall of the juil. Ihe
door of Rowlands' ceil was then quick
ly bvuken in with sledge hammers and
he was dragged from the jail to the
east side of the court yard, where a
noose was placed about his neck. He
was given time to make a statement,
in which he implicated Jim Henderson
aud another negro. Rowlands then
begged piteously for mercy, but the
mob quickly swung the confessed mur
derer to a tree and riddled his body
with bullets.
Leaving the dangling body of Row
lands, the mob rushed back to the jail
and burst open the cell occupied by
Henderson. Before the bars yielded to
the blows ol the sldge some one in the
orowd fired upon the terrified negro as
he crouched in the far corner. It took
but a few moments to get at Hender
son, and the negro, more dead than
alive, was dragged at the rope's end to
the court house yard and swung to the
tree beside the body of Rowlauds Fir
ing a parting volley at the swinging
bodies, the mob, eager for another vic
tim, hurried away to catch the other
negro implicated by Rowlands. He
Was found at a hotel where he was em
ployed as a porter. The negro esoaped
to the roof of the building, and Mana
ger De Bruler succeeded in convincing
the mob that the porter had nothing
to do with the crime. The mob then
dispersed, apparently satisfied with its
work of vengeance. ,
Simons was .nurdored in the most
brutal manner, one square from the
main street of the city, as he was
going to his home from bis barber shop
at 3 o'clock this morniug. He car
ried the receipts of the day's work, a '
fact of which the negroes were aware.
They attacked him from behind, strik
ing hira over the head with a heavy
club into whioh a large nai' had been
driven. Although. , terribly beaten,
Simons made a desperate fight. His
cries attractod two boys. The negroes
drove them away and accomplished
their original design, securing a bag
containing something over $40 from
their victim, and made their escape.
When others arrived Simons was dead.
His skull was crushed in and his head
and face beaten to a pulo. The spike
on the club had punctured the skull in
four places and penetrated his brain.
Walter Evans, one of the young men
who attempted to rescue Simons, and
who afterwards witnessed the lynch
ing, has become a raving maniac.
The dead man's wife is prostrated,
and it i believed she will die from
the shock.
Earthquake In Cuba.
Santiago do Cuba, Deo. 19. A sharp
earthquake shock was folt here about
midnight last night. It was the most
severe that has been rfxperienoed in
several years, and oreated a panic at
the San Carlos club, where a" giand
ball was in progress. The shock was
preceded by a dull sound like a mine
explosion. Two shocks followed, the
former being quite severe and the lat
ter scarcely perceptible. The club
rooms became scenes of frantic com
motion. Several people rushed into
tne streets. At Mono Castle a liberty
ball was in progress, American ladies
present expressed great interest in
the earthquake, whioh was the first
they bad experienced, but displayed
no tear.
FlgMihg In Colombia.
Kingston, Jamaica, Dec. 19. Ad
rices from Colon, Colombia, today
regaiding the fighting between the gov
ernment troops and the insurgents at
Tumaco, say that the withdrawing in
surgent force was not dispersed. On
the contrary, fears are entertained that
this bodv of rebels will effect a junc
tion with the force operating around
Beuna Ventura. Both sides lost heav
ily in the battle of Tumaco. When
the government foroes destroyed the
rebel steamer Gaitan they aiso de
stroyed a large lot of ammunition. ; ,
Found Dead In His Cabin.
Hillslioro, Oregon, Deo. 19. An
drew Bahlberg, an inoffensive farmer
residius near Reedvilte, was today
found dead in his cabin. The dead
man had a bad contuics on the fore
head. He had recently sold some pro
duce and was supposed to have consid
erable money in the bouse. It is gen
erally twieved that he was kill! for
bis money. The coroner will hold so
Inquest in the morning.
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