11. : 4 ) lrf (I Jrf At ! X t HI I il jj T v r "ITS A COLD DAY WHEN WE GET LEFT." VOL. XIII. IIOOD RIVEK, OIZEGOX, FKIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13, 1901. NO. 17. HOOD RIVER GLACIER Pubitibed Erer? Friday br a. r. ui.tthb. T.nn. o( subacrlj.IIOB-lt.J0 S ;ni who paid TBI NAIIJI. TM mall errlree I mm Ml. Hood .1 M e'elnrk a. aa. Wnlneadara and haturdaya; xl. lb. rurlh.nuwrth, Htm M ( a. m. TtMwtara, Thursdays .nil Kaitirtl.rs; .rrlvfl. .1 ft p. m. tot hit Mlmon (Yt Mb.) leave duly al 4i a. sa.: irrhfi .1 J:1A p. m. erom an ulinon l.re for Fwlda, Ollnn, Trout Lake and Ctrliwnod datlr at A. M. For H, turn 4uk.) I.t. .It ijp.ni.: ar rive U!p,B. SOCIETIK. JAIRKL RKbfca J S7, 1. O. O. K. ays liwh month :KAH I'K.KKK l-OIxiE, No P. Meets Ant end third Mon th. Una KlTS Datinfobt. N. 0. H. J. HiaiARD, Secretary. SAN BY POST, No. 14, O. A. R.-Mrtst O. V. W. H.lt Muud .nd fourth ttaturdai eh month l i o'clock p. a. All V. A. I sneiutiers luvitrd to tut with u. T. J. UKNiiia, Commander. J. W. Riuit, Adjutant. CAN BY W. R. C, No. 16-Meets first Satur d.y ol each, month In A. O. U. . ti.ll t 3 p.m. Mm. B. K. PHoaiiAKKa), President. Mm. vni'u Dr, Secretary. HOOD RIVER I.OtMiK, No. 105, A. F. nd A. M. Meets Saturday evening on or before each full moon. A M KAHH, T. M. A. P. Batkhan, Secretary. UOOD KIVKR CHAPTER, No. 57, R. A. M. Meeu third Friday night of each month. Y. V. BRUSH'S, H. P. H. P. Davidson, Secretary. f TOOO RIVER C HAPTER, K.2, O. I. 8. II Meet, second ud fourth Tuesday even, iiif. of each month. Vint'r coidi.ily wal corned. Mm. Kva B. Havn, W. M. H. F. Datiwoh, Krcretarr. VLETA AH8KMBI.Y. No. 103. tnlted Artinnl. II M-ta wcond Tueed.y of e.h month. I Fraternal ta.il. . V. bruhiub, w. a D. Mi1ohald, Pecret.ry. Meet. in A. 0. U. W h.U ry Tui-adar night. DoRRANm Hmith. C. t'. FAH L. Davidaoh, K. of K.48, II IVKRSIDK LOIKiK, No. 68, A. O. I'. W.- Maeu Brtt ud third Bmurnaya oi iki month. N. C. tani. M. VS. J. F. Watt, Fln.ncler. M. L. How, Kei'order. TW.EWILDE L01MIE, No. 107, I. 0 O. F.- A Meet, la rterul ball every jnuria.y night.. A. u, uktchki, n. u J. K. Hanna, Becret.ry. UOOD RIVER TENT, No. 19, K. O. T. M. IT meet" t A. O. U, W. hall on th Br toi third Friday! of eech month. J. E. Rand, Comm.nder. TJIVERSIDK LODGE NO. 40. DEGREE OF li HONOR, A. O. U. W.-Meeta ant nd third Baturdaya at a P. M. , M Kit. gkoroia Rand, C. of H, Mm. Chai Claske, Recorder. CIUN8H1NE SOCIETY Meets necond and O fourth Saturdaye of each month at o'clock. Mi I.kna Sniju., Prealdent. Mm t'ARRll BiTLtR, Secretary. HOOO KIVKK lAMr, r0. ,v, in. r. a., meeti In odd Fellowi' Hall the first and tmra weoneaaays oi earn num. F. L. DAVirifON, V. C. E. R. Bradlit, Clerk. R. E. T. CARNS. Dentist. Cold crowns and bridge work and all kinds Of Up-to-DaU DjDtlstrj. HOOD RIVER OREGON L. DUAIBLE, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 8 icce&of to Vt. il. F, Bhaw. Calls promptly answered In town or Goantiy, I'ay or iiku. Telephones: Residence, HI i Office, 83. Office over Everhart's Grocery. JOHN LELAND HENDERSON ATTORNEY-AT-LAW, ABSTRACTOR. NO TARY PUBLIC and REAL ESTAlK AGENT. - For 23 vears a resident of Oregon and Wash lngtoii. "Ha bad many years experience in Keal Estate matters, as abstractor, searcher of titles and agent. Katisfuction Kuaranteed or Do charge. J F. WATT, M. D. Surgeon for O. R. n. COi Is espei eqttlpiied to treat catarrh of none and I and d laeaaea of women. iclallv throat Special terms foroHlce treatment of chronic cases. Telephone, office, 125, residence, to. JREDERICK & ARNOLD CONTRACTORS AND BUILDERS, , Estimates furnished for all kinds of work. Repairing a specialty. A 11 kinds of shop work. Shop on State Street, between First and Second. gON TON BARBER PARLQRS. Newly furnished In all the latest modern barber fixtures, making it second to none for first-class service. Porcelain BathTubi. Hydraulic Harbor Chairs. A shoe polishing artist always on hand. . EVAN8 ft DrBORD, Proprietors. piE KLONDIKE CONFECTIONERY Is the place to get the latest and best in Confectioneries, Candies, Nuts, Tobacco, Cigars, etc. ....ICE CREAM PARLORS.... COLE A GRAHAM, Props. p C. BROSiUS, M. D. " PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON. 'Phone Central, or 121. Office Honrs: 10 to 11 A. M.; 2 to 3 and 0 to 7 P. M. H. TEMPLE. Practical Watchmaker ft Jeweler. My long experience enables me to do the best possible work, which I fully guarantee, and at low prices. gUTLER 4 CO., BANKERS. Do a general banking business. HOOD RIVER, OREGON g C. JACKSON, ' PAINTER AND PAPER BANGER. All Work Promptly and Satisfactorily Executed, umce at enema's Karniture Store. P J. HAYES, J. P. Office with Bone Brothers. Business will be .(mind to at anr time. Collections made. Will locate on good government lands, either EVENTS OF THE MY FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF THE WORLD. 4 Corprthrntve Review of th Important tUpptttngf ft the Put Week Presented la Cawkmed Form Which li Most L(y to Prove el Intereit to Our Many Readers. Last efforts to settle the steel atrtka hare failed. Dllmot Plalg crushed to death In a well at Lenta. Buried forest discovered under the lara on Mount Hood. The National reunion of the 0, A. R. opened at Cleveland, Chicago police believe they have lo cated Emma Goldman. Strange death of Winter Kyle at Astoria leads to suspicion of murder. Improvement in President's con dition has good effect In financial circles. Governor Geer commends proposed New Jersey legislation against an archists. Abraham Isaak, anarchist, under ar rest In Chicago, published The Fire brand in Portland. Secretary Gage has been asked to relieve the money market by New York financial institutions. President McKlnley continues to Im prove and the physicians have strong hopes that he will recover. H. O. Armour, the Chicago packer, died at Saratoga. An attempt was made to murder a family of hoppickers. A lone highwayman tried to hold up the Ager-Lakeview stage. Thieves are robbing slulceboxea In the vicinity of Dawson. The Venezuelan fleet is bombarding Rio Hacha, Colombia. An X-ray apparatus has been sent from New York to Buffalo. Shooting of President McKlnley dis cussed by ministers in their sermons. Two bombs were discovered under the Haymarket monument In Chi cago. The steelworkers' executive commit tee ordered Shaffer to settle the strike. Prayers for the President's recov ery were offered in churches through out trie land. New York police are looking for Emma Goldman. Steps are being taKen lor the suppression of anarch ists. President McKinley'a chances of recovery have improved. For the present no attempt will be made to remove the bullet. messages or condolence were re ceived from all parts of the world Dr. Von Miquel, Prussian ex-Minis ter of Finance, died at Frnakfort-on- the-Main. Tb.e Texarania train robbers are still at large. The ecumenical conference opened in ionaon. Fighting is expected at Bocas del Toro and at Colon. The New York conference did not settle tne steel strike. Kemaramy quiet year reported fn ine Kngnsn wheat market. Columbia beat Constitution 17 sec onds over a 30-mile course. Bridge of the God's ascended by the neguiaior exploring expedition. Prince Chun delivered Chin's letter or apology to Emperor William. Harvest Carnival of the Modern Woodmen of America opened at Al bany. New international boundary line may put much of Blaine, Wash., in Canada, CensuH Office issues a bulletin on the sex, nativity and color of the popula tion of Oregon. The chalnmakers are striking for more pay. Venezuela Issues an eiDlanatlon of the trouble. A Cotton Belt train was robbed near Texarkana. The Japanese press Is excited over the Honolulu incident. Visible grain supply August 31st shows general increase. Late developments were not favor able to the steel Btrlkers. Governor Schroeder reports pros perous conditions in Guam. Men employed to take the strikers' places at the Le Roi smelter walked out. Summary of crop conditions reports generally favorable weather. The United States offered to medi ate between Venezuela and Colombia. The Caracas and Bogota govern ments replied to Secretary Hay's note. English and Pittsburg syndicates bet 400,000 on the coming yacht race. Boers threaten to shoot all British soldiers captured after September lotn. Courts will be asked to set aside the sale of a Skagit County, Wash ington, road to the Great Northern Railway. In Hong Kong there are only 400 women, and in Hawaii 532 women, to every iuuu men. - The number of retail liquor dealers in the United States at the close of last year was 206,000. The total vote of the prohibition party In the elec tion of the same year was 209,000. The bee and honey-raisers of North Germany are having a hard time. They feel the competition of the artificial honey factories very much. The arti ficial product contains often no more than lu per cent of natural honey. FHE PRESIDENT 18 IMPROVING. RcAUurtr. News From the Milbura Ruldtnct t Bull.le, Buffalo, Sept 9. Through a quiet. peaceful Sunday every word that came from the big vine-clad house In Dela ware avenue. In which the stricken Chief Magistrate of the Nation Ilea battling for life, was reassuring and tonight the chances of hia recovery are ao greatly Improved that all of those who have kept the patient vigil at his bedside feel strongly that bla lite will be spared. The developments of last night ana today were dreaded, but hour after hour passed and the distinguished pa tient, struggling there beneath the watchful eyea of physicians and train ed nurses, showed no unfavorable signs. Five times during the day the doctors and surgeons assembled for consultation, and each time the ferdlct waa unanimous that what change had occurred was for the bet ter. Not the allghtest premonitory symp tom of peritonitis appeared and the fresh hope, born with the morning, grew stronger and stronger as the day advanced, until, toward evening, the confidence expressed In the Presi dent's recovery seemed almost too aangulne. Mllburn House, Buffalo, Sept. , 1:30 a. m. No additional bulletin has been Issued by the President's phy sicians. The condition of the Presi dent Is reported as unchanged. 2:30 a. ni. Harry Hamlin has just left the Mllburn House. He said: There has been no change." 9:43 a. m. Up to this time the ex pected morning bulletin from the phy sicians of the President has not been Issued. The President la reported to be resting well. His condition re mains unchanged. CAPTURED BY BRIGANDS. Kidnaping of an American Woman In Mace donia is Confirmed. Washington, Sept. 9. The State Department has received Information from tho United States legation at Constantinople confirming the press report of the capture of an American missionary by brigands. The dis patch from Minister Leishmann re ports that brigands captured 'Miss Stone,, an American missionary, who was traveling with a woman compan ion, In the vilayet of Salonica, The department adds that the matter has received the immediate and earnest attention of Minister Leishmann. Boston, Sept. 9. The American Board of Foreign Missions has, re ceived a cable message from Rev. J. H. House, one of the missionaries at Salonica, in Macedonia, saying: "Brigands took Miss Stone and companion between Bansko and Djoumania." These places are situated about 100 mileB northeast of Salonica In a coun try long familiar to the missionaries of the American Board. Miss Ellen H. Stone is one of the tried mission aries of the American Board, having been in this mission since 1878. Mis sionaries now in Boston from Bul garia are confident that no ill-treat ment will be given the ladies, but think it la simply a case In which ran som is sought for by the robbers. Constantinople, Sept. 9. The Sul tan, immediately upon hearing of the abduction of Miss Stone and her. com panion, peremptorily ordered the Vali of Salonica to secure their release and to exercise every care for their comfort and safety. STRIKE MAY BE SETTLED. Mr. Schiller Has a Telephone Conference With President Schwab. New York, Sept. 9. The World, in an article on the steel strike to ap pear tomorrow morning, will say that there Is strong hope for settlement of the strike. It says: "Hope for a favorable outcome was Increased when, early this afternoon, President Schwab received a 'phone call from Mr. Shaffer, who said he de sired to speak with him personally Details of what passed between the men have not been learned, but it was reported that Mr. Shaffer had asked for another conference between the steel trust officers and Amalga. mated board and that the board would come here today for that purpose. Im mediately after Mr. Schaffer telephoned ' Mr. Schwab went to Mr. Morgan's office and remained closeted with him for some time. The nature of the news he carried seemed to be highly satisfactory to both him and Mr. Morgan." Northwest Pensions. Washington, Sept. 9. Pensions have been granted as follows: Oregon Original, George Bentley, Portland, $12; Ezra Suman, Elgin, $6; Benjamin F. Nicholson, Eugene, 1 8 Washington Original, Silas M White, Walla Walla, $12; Henry W, Davis, Lincoln, $6; increase, restora tion, reissue, etc., John S. McMlne- mee, Port Orchard, $10; original wid ows, etc., Grace S. .Wallace, Cowlitz, $12. Famous Racehorse Dead. Marion, Ind., Sept. 9. Glenmoyne, the running horse, which on the Chi cago tracks cleared $120,000 for the owner, Harry Goldstein, In 1893-4, is dead. Will Sign Protocol -Pekin, Sept. 9. The Foreign Min isters have accepted the Imperial edicts and have arranged to sign the peace protocol tomorrow. Harvest Hands Killed in a Collision Jamestown, N. D., Sept. 10. Five men were killed and six others seri ously injured, two of whom have since died, in a collision early today. mixed train on the Northern Pacific came in from Oakes, carrying 17 men on a fiatcar. As the train passed the station a road engine was struck, and the force of the collision Caused the fiatcar to collapse. The names of the dead and injured could not be learn ed.. They were harvest hands who had boarded the car at Lamoure. FIENDISH ACT -pi r j , pL i cent under an anesinetic, began I lie r rftSIOent IS OnOtllni? for the ballinthe abdomen. By An Anarchist, AT BUFFALO FAIR HE WAS WOUNDED TWICE-NOT NECESSARILY FATAL. " Well Dressed Stranger Approached Him As If To Shake Hands, and Firtd Twice With a Revolver Concealed Under a Handker chief Assailant Was Immediately Placed Under Arrest Buffalo, N. Y, Sept. 7. President McKlnley was shot and seriously wounded by a would-be assassin while holding a reception in the Temple or Music at the Pan-American grounds few minutes after 4 o clock yester day afternoon. One shot took effect In the right breast, the other in the abdomen. The first is not of a seri ous nature and the bullet has been extracted. The latter pierced the ab dominal wall and has not been lo cated. The President was approached by a man with a dark mustache and with one hand covered with a handker chief. As the man extended his hand to the President, apparently with the Intention of shaking hands with him, he fired a shot which entered the President's right breast, lodging against the breast bone. Another shot was fired at once, which entered the President s abdomen. The assailant was immediately ar rested and was thrown to the ground, and quick as a flash 20 men were upon him. When rescued he was cov ered with blood from a gash in his face. Cries of lynching were heard on every hand, but the police man aged to get the man - out of the grounds and locked him up in a sta tion house a short distance from the grounds. Later he was removed to the police headquarters. Detective Geary was near the Pres ident and he fell into his arms. "Am I shot?" asked the President. The officer opened the President's vest, and, seeing blood, replied: "Yes', I am afraid you are, Mr. President. The President was at once taken to the emergency hospital, where a bul let wnicn had lodged against tne BOER COMMANDO CAPTURED. Many Killed and Wounded, and Several Im portant Officers Taken. MJddelburg, Cape Colony, Sept. 9. Lotter's entire commando has been taken by Major Scholl of Pietersburg. One hundred and three prisoners were captured, 12 Boers were killed and 4b wounded. Two hundred horses also were captured. London. Sept. 9.v-Lord Kitchener's report from Pretoria to the War Of fice covering the capture of Lotter's commando gives the figures as 19 kill ed, 42 wounded and 62 captured un- wounded. The prisoners inciuae com mandants Lotter and Breedt, Field Cornets J. Kruger and W. Kruger, and Lieutenant Shoeman. Among the kill ed were the two Vaslers, notable reb els. The casualties were 10 killed and eight wounded. Burned to Death, Topeka, Kan., Sept. 9 Miss Eolah Hounsom was burned to death today in her home Rt 132 Kline street. The origin of the fire is unknown. Mur der, with robbery in view, is suspect ed by the police, as she was known to have had some money. Death List Is Now Sixteen, Newark, N. J., Sept 9. The death list of the North Central train wreck, which occurred last week near Falr vllle, has been increased to 16 by the death today of Mrs. William Lee Munyon, of Port Gibson. Garrisons at Shanghai Shanehal. Sept. 9. The Rajputs have left here, reducing the British1 garrison in Shanghai to one native regiment The German garrison Is'" ,CaP Race' N' where BWe1 800 strong and is Bhowing great ar wrecks have occurred this year. He tivitv The Germans have leased for reports that the lighthouse Is In seed three years, with the option of six, a large tract Inside the general set- clement They are fencing. It and building barracks and storehouses. The British community strongly ob- jects. PRE8IDENT WILLIAM McKINLEY. I breast bone waa removed. Later the President waa reported aa resting easily. At 6 o'clock Dr. Roswell Parke, the well-known surgeon, arrived at the hospital, and after putting the Presi dent under an anesthetic, began prob- iuo primmer uoctarei mai ds is Fred Nieman, of Detroit. When ar rested be was asked why he had shot the President, and replied: "I am an anarchUt and have dona my duty." Later he denied to a police official that he wag an anarchist. Mrs. McKlnley received the news of the attempted assassination with the utmost courage. HOPE OF RECOVERY. One. Bullet Removed Wounds Dressed Imme diately and Patient Doing Well Buffalo, Sept. 7. Secretary Cor- telyou gave out the following state ment last evening at 7 p. m.: "The President was shot about 4 o'clock. - One bullet struck him on the upper portion of the breastbone, glancing and not penetrating; the second bullet penetrated the abdo men five inches below the left nip ple and one and one-half inches to the left of the madian line.- The ab domen was opened through the line of the bullet wound. It was found that the bullet had penetrated the stomach. The opening In the front wall of the stomach was carefully closed with silk stitches, after which a search was made for a hole in the back wall of the stomach. This waa found and also closed by the same way. ' "The further course of the bullet could not be discovered, although careful search was made. The abdominal- wound was closed without drainage. No injury to the intestines or other abdominal organ was dis covered. The patient stood the oper ation well; pulse of good quality, rate of 130; condition at the conclusion of the operation was gratifying. The result cannot be foretold. His con dltion at present justifies hope of re covery. "GEORGE B. CORTELYOU, "Secretary to the President." Buffalo, Sept. 7. The following bulletin was issued by the President's physician at 10:40 p. m. last night: "The President is rallying satisfac torily and is resting comfortably. "10:50 p. m. Temperature, 100.4 degrees; pulse, 124; respiration, 24." Buffalo, Sept. 7. At 3 a.m. the fol lowing bulletin was Issued: "The President continues to rest well. Temperature 101.6; pulse, 110; respiration, z. , Buffalo, Sept. 7. At 4:30 the Pres ident was still resting easily. Cloudburst In Kansas. Kansas City, Sept. 9. A special to the Star from Ness City, Kan., says A cloudburst struck Ness City last night and it Is estimated that over eight inches of water fell. Bridges and sidewalks Were washed out. rei. lars were flooded and several small business houses were undermined and ruined. No lives are reported lost. ess uity is a town of 1000 neonle situated on the Santa Fe railroad In Ness county, 55 miles east of the Col orado state line. Ptomaine Poisoning. Cleveland, Sept. 9. Ninety people who ate clams at a lunch at the open mg of a new public building a few days ago have been 111 since, suffer ing, it is alleged, from ptomaine pois oning. No person has died, but many are, siin in oea. Clyclist Loses a Leg. New York. Sept. 9. Gangrene hav ing set in, the surgeons at Bellevue hospital have decided that John Nel son, the cyclist, must have his leg amputated In an effort to save his life. Snowstorm in Montana. Butte, Mont, Spt 9. The western portion of Montana Is tonight in the grasp of a storm that began before daylight this morning. The weather 1 is Intensely cold and considerable ' anrtar haa fallon Unva la nnnr mmshm ' BUVVV SASSSp SM11VU, AJ.V1 IB UVW VUlUlUg and it Is feared crops will suffer. Ligh house is Too Low. London, Sept. 9. According to re- Prts from Otn .n engineer of the Canadian Marine Department has vis- order, but that the light is 55 feet lower than it is advertised as being, which reduces the horizon by two 1 miles. He also suggests that the du- j ration of the fog whistles be changed to tw blasts of five seconds each. LAST PEACE MOVE FAILS. Seau-Offkial Rep4 That the Settlement is Left to Prtiieent Shaffer. Pittsburg. Sept. IL The last efforts to settle the steel strike have failed. The general executive board of the Amalgamated Association adjourned this evening without date and without accepting any of the peace propoaitions that have come Indirectly from the United States Steel Corporation, or making any counter propositions, ac cording to the official statement, The semi-official report Is that the propo sition secured for the Amalgamated Association, through the intervention of the representatives of the National Civic Federation, was unsatisfactory, and that the matter of settling and ar ranging was left for Mr. Shaffer. The board, in I La eessious of three days, haa been clamoring for a settlement, but satisfactory terms and means were not at band, and the sessions resolved themselves Into an Informal discus sion of the situation. At the close of the meeting of the National executive board this evening, President Shaffei declared he had no statement to make, but subsequently said: The board has adjourned, and the out-of-town members will probably leave for their homes tonight No peace proposition has been received and none made." Still later he added that he nor no other member of the board would go to New York during the night to sub mit a peace proposition, saying he would be at headquarters as usual to morrow. The meeting of the board. did not adjourn In high good feeling, yet the members of the board were averse to making statements supplemental to that of President Shaffer. It waa stated by some of the members of the board that the adjournment had left matters practically as they were before the meeting had been called, and that the strike must go on as before, leaving arrangements for a possible settlement through the direct conference of the representatives of the United States Steel Corporation with President Shaf fer. GREAT FOO CHOW FIRE. Caused by the Overturning of s Lamp Loot ing by Natives. . Vancouver, B. C, Sept. 11. Details of the great fire of August 20, In Foo Chow, which destroyed over $1,000,000 worth of property, received by the steamer Tartar, state that It was caused by the overturning of a lamp In a native undertaking establishment. Hundreds of acres of business houses were carried away, and many people perished in the fire, which burned the greater part of two days. European proprietors of business houses and larger Chinese merchants were the heaviest sufferers. During the progress of the fire and immediately after It the coolie native population looted the half-burned buildings and stole everything that they could lay hands on. The Chinese police, under their European officers, were unable to prevent the looting except in a small degree, and before the second evening had passed a large number of regular soldiers were call ed out At that ttmJB many people had been killed in fights and there were dead bodies In every street Five men were killd by the falling of a three-story building. The carnage on the streets waa aw ful. The soldiers, mounted, dashed up the main thoroughfares, stabbing to death or trampling under horses4 feet the robbers who were carrying away goods in every direction. Even though knocked down, the natives who were running away with stolen goods held on to their bundles. The horsemen thrust them through the legs or arms with swords to make them drop these, and even then some of the coolies clung to their plunder with such desperation that they were put to death where they had been knocked over. Many of the injured were taken away in ambulances and were being treated in the hospitals when the Tar tar sailed from China. Union Men Return to Work. Milwaukee, Sept. 11. Thirty-five Amalgamated Association men return ed to work at the plant of the Illinois Steel Company In Bayvlew today. It is said two of the company's mills, the lZ-lncn and tne ran mill, were started. Among those who reported for duty were J. D. Hlckey and J. F. Cooper, the two men who went to Pittsburg recently to learn the real facts about the strike- British Minister to Chile. Washington, Sept 11. Gerard A, Lowther, the first Secretary and Charge d'Affaires of the British Em bassy here, has received a substantial promotion in the British diplomatic service, having been selected for Brit ish Minister to Chile. Fatal Collision. Jamestown. N. D., Sept. 11. A Northern Pacific train of seven freight cars and two passenger coaches col lided with an engine in the yard here today, killing five men and Injuring several. Prussian Minister of Finance. Frankfort-on-the-Maln, Sept. 10. Dr, Johannes Von Miquel, ex-Prussian Minister of Finance, was found dead 1. IiaiI tttla tnnimlnff XI a mrOSi Vistrn in February, 1849. Dr. Von Miquel wag out walking Saturday and spent ihe evening reading. He retired at midnight. He had not been feeling veil all daj. His daughter went to his bedroom this morning and found her father dead. A physician who was summoned certified that death was the result of heart apoplexy. HE STILL IMPROVES PRESIDENT M'KINLEY'S CONDI TION 18 SATISFACTORY. Ne Unfavorable Ce4itiM Uv Appeared Physlclaaa Express Confidence That He Wifl Ultimately Recover Many Friends and Relatives Leaving Him Confident That Ha b Out t4 Danger. Mllburn House, Buffalo, Sept 10. S a. m. President McKlnley Is resting easily. His condition contlnuea to im prove. His physicians express the ut most confidence that he will recover, though there la aUU a possibility that complications may set In. Up to this time there have been no symptoms of peritonitis, and the danger of this set ting in decreases every hour. Dr. Mc- Burney, however, says that If the Im provement continues It will be a week before the President can be pro nounced out of danger and convales cent The President himself Is cheer ful, and was given light nourishment yesterday. Everything Is qolet at the Mllburn house, and the vigilance of the guarda la not as strict as It haa been heretofore. Mllburn House, Buffalo, Sept 10, 25 a. m. Up to this hour no bulletin of the President's exact condition has been issued, but It Is learned that the patient passed a good night and at this hour Is quietly sleeping. Bulletins Don't Ten All Mllburn House, Buffalo, Sept 10. After the 9:30 bulletin had been Is sued from the Mllburn residence last night announcing a continuance of the favorable condition of the President there were many Indications that the bulletins were but meager Indications of the real Improvement of the distin guished patient. At 9:45 p. m.. Miss McKlnley, a sister of the President; Dr. and Mrs. Herman Baer, the latter niece of the President and the Misses Barber, nieces of the President, left the house, and, taking carriages, announced their intention of returning to their homes tonight Abner Mc Klnley accompanied them to the sta tion, and to the Associated Press said: 'The nearest relatives of the Presi dent are so confident of his recovery that they have no hesitancy in leav ing." Postmaster Frease, of Canton, a warm personal friend of the President who came today filled with anxiety, said tonight: "I go baok because I have the most positive assurance that the President is going to make a rapid recovery." GREAT FLOODS IN CHINA. Thousands of Lives Lost Along the Yangtse River Rice Crop Ruined. Washington, Sept 11. Under date of Shanghai, July 25, Consul-Generai Goodnow reports to the State Depart ment that the most disastrous floods are prevailing In the valley of the Yangtse River. He understands that they are the worst known by Euro peans In that valley. All the towns In the neighborhood of Wuhu and Kiuklang are, to a large extent under water. The farms, especially In the rice-growing region about Wuhu, are so completely flooded that there Is no hope for the crop' this year. In ad dition to this, thousands of lives have been lost and unknown numbers ren dered homeless by the overflow. The stoppage of trade is very serious. The destruction of the crops in the fields, and particularly the probable loss of the rice crops In the district of Wuhu. the great rice-producing center, will add famine to the other difficulties be setting the empire. Arms for Colombia. Washington, Sept. 11. Following is a translation of a cablegram received late today by the Colombian Legation from a confidential agent of the Col ombian Government: "Kingston, Jamaica, Sept. 9. Col ombian Legation, Washington. It is known officially that the Ecuadorian vessel Cotopalx sailed with arms from , Esmeraldos, Ecuador. Tomaco 'be sieged by filibustered from Nicaragua. A considerable expedition was expect ed to land near Panama on the 6th of September." The signature to the dispatch was' not made public, but the information contained in the message is believed by Colombian officials here to be en tirely authentic. Dynamiters at Work. Chicago, Sept 11. Three men who said they were linemen, on being re fused admission to the office of the Chicago General Electric Company, here today, placed a dynamite cart ridge under the front door and ex ploded It, wrecking the building and injuring Nightwatchman Brenn. The men escaped. Ordered Out of France. Paris, Sept. 11. Ferideoun Bey, head of the Turkish police In Paris, and the right hand man of Munir Bey, the Turkish Ambassador, has been or dered to quit France within 48 hours. Windfall for a Waiter. Ashland, Or., Sept. 11. James El lison, a young man who for the past four years has lived in this city, fol lowing the occupation of a waiter, has come Into a windfall by the death of a hitherto unknown aunt In Switzer land. He has received word from a firm of attorneys, stating that he and three others would Inherit the estate of the deceased aunt, and that his share, when finally administered, would amount to $50,000, limber or iarulug