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About The Oregon register. (Lafayette, Yamhill County, Or.) 18??-1889 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 6, 1888)
1 9 ( ♦ » ESCAPED FROM SIBERIA. The Oregon Register. An Exll.'. Thrilling Htory of Hl» Flight From Kuiwln's Penal Colon/. {PANICS IN THEATERS. Tbs Ranaeleu Mod.... That Takes Hold or Moms People. EVERY FRIDAY -A»- » » » ./ r I Bull MB— Fancy rod. * ® 0regen...... Inferior grade Pickled.......... California roll do Pie' It seems impossible, when you look around at gnllant men and amiable wonien, sitting placidly at a play, that in a momen . on the utterance of C heese — Eastern, full one word. limy can be turned into The German steamer Isabel and the Oregon, d dumb, driven entile, senseless, suicidal bark Rebecca, were wrecked on the California....... idiots. But it is so. Any night the Carribean const Eons -Fresh D rikd F ruits — auditorium of a fashionable theater Five men were instantly killed at may echo to some unfortunate note of. Tilton, Tenn., by an explosion of a A^‘“’^lforo“ alarm. In an instant the gray-haired Apricots, new crop boiler in a sawmill. Peaches, unpeeled, ne banker, who e dignity gave tone to Advices from Panama state that the Pears, machine dried. his whole section, is walking up the Colombian government has seized the Pitted cherries............ backs of women and over the heads of Cucutaa railroad for abetting treason. Pitted plufne, Oregon children. Figs, Cal., in bgs and Three men were killed at Fleming, Cal. Prunes, French .. At the Park Theater one night (the prunes............ theater that happily was destroyed by Kansas, by a premature explosion of a Oregon F lour - - fire about three hours before the time blast in the Missouri Pacific coal Portland Pat. Roller, F bbl $ when it would have been packed by mines. Salem do At New York, Miss Inez Van Zandt White Lily * bbl New York’s best people to witness brand... Miss Langtry's deb it) some dude, was sentenced to one month in the Country Superfine ............ entering up the unsafo and tortuous penitentiary, in the court of special G rain - stairway, throw his cigarette through sessions, for killing two canary* birds. Wheat, Valley,* 100Be... 1 ®j do Walla Walla........... 1 IS I tlie iron grating of the steps. Some John Hooper, member of parliament, Barley, whole, Fed............ accumulated -rubbish began to has been sentenced to two months’ do ground, * ton........ so on a 46 ft smolder, and a volume of smoke imprisonment for publishing reports Oats, choice milling * bush do feed.good to choice, old poured into the auditorium. in his paper, the Cork Herald, of meek R T e.*l00n« ................... 1 00 ft About half the audience sitting there iags of suppressed branches of1 the F eed — •> knew that the stage had an enormous league. 16 on ft Bran, * ton........................ 0 ton..................... (18 U0 ft square opening direct upon Twenty- A serious collision occurred near Shorts, second street—a door not ten feet from Newport, Ark., between a passenger Hay, r ton, baled.............. Ï8 00 ft ft Chop, tf ton...,................. the level of the strpet. Every soul in train and a freight on the Iron Moun Oil cakemeal *ton.......... 88 00 ft F resh F ruits - the house could have gone over the tain railway. The fireman of the 00 ft low footlights, crossed the stage, and passenger train was instantly killed Apples,> Oregon, * box.... Cherries, Oregon, «fdrm. been in Twenty-sedBnd street in three and the engineer fatally wounded. Lemons, California, 4 00 ft *bx minutes’ time. They had all entered The baggage master and the express Limes, V 100..................... Riverside oranges, tf * box. box. .. the theater by the crooked, narrow messenger were hurt slightly. Los Angeles, do do ... ft passage; they all knew its miserable The captain cf the bark Rimijio, Peaches, * box.................... 1 00 ft limits; they saw the smoke coming in which has arrived from Hakpdadj at H ides — at that narrow passage, and yet, when San Francisco, states that a Japanese Dry, over 16 Tbs, * ft.. Wet salted, over t6 n.s some scared' sen nip near the door sailor suddenly became insane, and Murrain hides.. j mped''to his feet and screoched after injuring two other sailors with a Pelts .................. V eostable »— "Fire!,” they all witli one accord star!- hatchet, jumped into the sea and was Cabbage, * ft... ed to the rear, Regardless of life or drowned. Carrots. * sack . limbi Luckily, that night a stalwart A dispatch from Columbus, Ark., Cauliflower, e> dos policeman, with the lungs of a-Slentor, says that a half-witted boy of 13, Onions .................. calmly said: "There ain’t no fire; it’s named Charles Whilsett, enticed a Potatoes, nsw, * bush W ool — been put out.” He grabbed tlie first young brother aged 9 and a sister aged East Oregon, Spring clip lot of mad people and bodily put ’em 6. into the woods and cut their heads Valiev Oregon, <tn 18 ft down into seals; but for a few min off. He returned home and informed utes there was the _ wildest Kind hie mother what he had done and BORED BY INSECTS. of scrimmage. A well-known and showed a big knife with which he had dignified .citizen had sat Jn high-bred committed the deed. - Th. Frame-Work of a Roue 'Raia — — an Army of Aou. ease two Beats ahead of me during the The international contest between The most dreaded insect invaf performance. As_ the panic struck Jake Kilraiu, of Baltimore, and Jem In Africa their h him lio rose, mounted oyer the back Smith, of England, for the diamond the white ant of his seat, a nd started to walk on belt and championship of the world, are dome-shaped mounds often eig These insects erect: the shoulders of somo fashionably al- took place on the Island of St. Pieire, feot high. tired ladies. It seemed an occasion in the river Seine, France, in the pres mids one thousand times higher for remonstrance nnd I,had a slight ence of about 100 persons. After themselves! The ants on their tr but severe remark to make, and made fighting 106 rounds the contest was so conceal their approach that it with an opera glass; the old gentle declared a draw. presence is not suspected until man took the kindlv hint and conclud Advices have been received at Phil "damage is dona. ..They usually to ed" to walk on his legs in tlie aisle, adelphia of the loss of the ship Alfred info any object which they ah but he had made a fair start to tramp Watts. The Watts sailed early in often reducing it to a mere shell, to safety over tils fettow creatures. October, and it is said she foundered this way they have been known to Another time in the Cosmopolitan when but seven days out, and all but cend within the leg of a table, dot Mail at. Forty-Second street the place two of those on board were l.ost. Two the contents of »box upon it, and was crowded for a first night of min persons, said to be seamen, were picked scend through a tunnel bored in an strelsy. Thore wns a low gallery run up by a passing' steamer and landed er leg. all in one night An officer ning round tlie building, supported at Lirerpool. The officers and crew the English army, while calling ■ on aseriesof iron posts. During the numbered twenty-seven. >.J* some ladies tn Ceylon was startled evening one of these pas's slipped off A train on the Inter-Colonial railway, a rumbling sound. The ladies star "the block” and crashed through in compoifed of an engine, a snow-plow with affright and the next ¡nil to a billiard saloon in the basement; and a passenger tsar, wlent off a bridge they stood with only the sky al the gallery in that piytiiular spot near Caraquette. Of the thirteen men them; the roof had fallen in and some tin board, (he conductor, engineer, firi- all about leaving them miraculo sagged, creaked, and beam split with alarming noise»- yuan and four section-men Were pinned unharmed! The ants had madet In a moment all ’ was excite- down under the engine, in the bed of' ! way up through the beams, holloa ment in the crowded gallery, I'wa* "the river, and killed. Others were j ] them out until a great part of silting a few feet in front of this spot, badly bruised, but not< fatally injured. frame-work of the house was ready and being—fearful that people might’ At -Mabtowm Statiort, W. T., Charles , i fall at the slightest shock.— Cha begin to jump down on my devoted Miller, a single man 32 years old, was i Frederick Holder, in St. Nicholu. T here are eighteen national banks head. I pushed my escort, n very im struck by a freight train and'knocked I SAHARA’S FERTILITY. in Washington Territory, with a total, portant and self-sufficient gentleman«, down, the car wheels striking his head capital of $1,430,006; and five terri- Figures Showing that- the Great Desert Is and suggested that wo get into two and dashing hindbrains out. ,Miller | A FORTUNE LOST AND WON by No Means Barren. liroail aisles beside him where, if peo- was walking along the track at the | • The fact lias already been publish toriaty' banks with , a .total capital of The Di-s -rt of Sahara is by no means plo jani|ied, they would not jump on time, and liis death was due to his 1 in the Virginian that Mr. T. M. Bt $355,000, making $1,7^5,000..... '____ Entirely barren. In the Lower Sahara us. 1 got no response, nnd I might as own carelessness. son,, the popular chief clerk of t Old Donfinion Steamship Company PF 1B Stated a fact that on its the numbeg of cultivated tracts is in- well have jiiishod at^Hfe side of the ereqsing very rapidly, there being, no house, lie .wafceo immovable. With (OVGRESHIOXAL. Newport News, was the fortunate« journey from' New York to Chicago fewer t mil"forty-three oases i n the Oued- "leVel-fronl ing eyelats" lie confronted A bill introduced by-Senator Sher ner of one-tenth of the capital priie the safety of a fast express train is at Rir., which,‘after a period of thirty nothing and b idled at it steadity. He one time jar another confided to the years, 13.Wit inhabirnnts, 62T pntm clasped a hard Derby hat against his man, provides that all persons on the $150,000 in the recent grand dral' pension rolls for loss of limb shall be hands of over five hundred different trees in full bearing—that is, which stomach and was as near petrifaction entitled to receive arrears of pension of The Louisiana State Lottery. ' ns is eoasis ent with life. have been planted more than seven persons. from the date of discharge or disability. press dispatches had it that W. After tlte-mlnriii subs'll id and Hie years—120,000 trees between one and 7 A hill introduced by Senator Stew L indon, of Newport News, had b S cientists claim that a tide-mill years old and 100.000 fruit trees, while performance was resinned, it was dis art provides for the appointment of the winner, and thereby hangs covered that my scared friend had located at the Bay of Fundy would tile value of the dates grown eaph year chief justices and two associate jus tale of how a very respectable fort generate 700,000 horse power twelve average £100.000. The- oases of Lag- (■rushed his hat on liis body as flat as a mustard plaster, and pressed the nails tices to sit at Washington and have was lost and won. The particulars hours in a day. This distributed elec hoiiat an.i Oued-Mizi.and those of Yerv- of one hand so venomously into the jurisdiction to hear aud decide con as follows: "A party of five had ii ville and Ain-Sana have 100,000 palm trically and Bold to every 8tate in the /trees, and those of Figuig 140,000, Other that the blood had starie<l t____ tested land cases. . All applicants for vidually purchased tenth tickets in public lands whose claims are rejected laBt grand lottery. Among the Union would save the coal supply. while M*ab, with its 30,000 inhabitants, through the cut skin. by the commissioner of the land office was a youth narnad W. H. Lani nearly all shepherds or merchants, cul —Princeton College has decided to and the tenth of a ticket he purchi S tephen S howjsrs ,. of Pennsylva tivate 200,000. Zab, together with the break up hazing. Already a number are given the right, withiu Bixty days, to appeal to one of the justices. Juris was 74,411. After receiving his tk Sahara slope of the Ann. has fifty oases, j nia, refused to swear falsely in order to of students who have interfered with diction is also conferred on the justices and holding' it for some time save his father’s neck. The elder which grow 900,000 palm trees and freshmen have been sent home. Haz to hear all cases arising out of private thought there was more money 500.000 fruit trees. Sout, with a popu I ing is it relic of barbarism that should land claims in Arizona, New Mexico selling jiis ticket than in holding Showers was on trial for the murder lation of 15,000, has 150,000 palm trees not be tolerated a single day. and it and Colorado. anil he sold it to Mr. T. M. Benson. of his grand children, and a false oXtli of the choicest kind nnd over 50,000 only thrives in colleges where disci Mr. Benson is a regular aubscri might have saved him. Senator Quay introduced a bill to to the Norfolk Virginian, and alvi fruit trees; Lastly, the various oases pline, is lax.— Central Christian Ad increase to $72 per month the pension of Ourgia have over 400.000 palm trees vocate looks upon it as a welcome visitor,! T here are four great accumulated anil 100,001) fruit trees. All these re —It was in. 1810 that the American of those who now receive $50 per never more so than when he read ii month, under the law granting pen sults, to say nothing of the trade in Board, the first foreign missionary so masses of gold in the world : $282,000,- sions to soldiers and sailors of the late the announcement of the lucky m hers in the last drawing and saw I 000 in the United States Treasury ; wool, the cultivation of tobacco, veget ciety in this eountry, was formed; war who are totally disabled. ables, corn, the vine and other things since then it has received from the the ticket he held, No. 71,411 was $237,000,000 in the National Bank of grow beneath the shelter of the palm church for its world-wide mission ■ Senator Plumb introduced a bill to one that drew the first capital p France; $107,000,000 in <he National trees, and of the raising of ostriches, work over $18,000,000. During this grant one month’s extra pay for each He is a married man, with a lot of Germany, and $100,000,000 in the I which it is considered might be made period the contributions to all the year of enlistment to al) officers of the wife and two beautiful children, as profitable a.s it is nt the Cape, have foreign mission societies of the country volunteer army in the late war, who he took quick 'steps to his plew Bank of England. been arrived -at partly by the natives have amounted to over $57.000.000. served the full term of their enlistment home, and read the happy annoui and partly by the French.— Clucage ment contained in the Virginian UH —Writing from Capo Palmas, Li and were honorably discharged. A bill to reduce railroad fares to Inter Ocean • dear ones. Mr. Benson is a very psar beria. Bishop William Taylor says: Senator Blair introduced a bill de four cents a mile has passed the Wash-1 "The king and chiefs bind themselves claring that the act of June 11, 1880, tical man. lie placed his ticket • ington Territory Council unanimously; —An nutomntio damper regulator by written agreement to give us all relative to pensions, shall be construed the charge of the Home Savings Bank ami will probably pass the other house. for steam healing boilers, in use to the land we need for our mission and as to include all officers and enlisted of Norfolk for collection, and quietly It is suspected that the Northern Pa- • some extent in E igland. gets its regu industrial school purposes, to cleat men in the army, and their widows pursues the even tenor of liisbu-inea He has been investing one dollar » cific will not obey thisjaw, if theWIl lating power from the temperature of land and first erop, to build good afld minor children. Senator Mitchell introduced a bill month in The Louisiana State Litter? passes, on tliegyound that the Terri; the water c rcillutiug ii> i|ie pTfes. A kitchen »nd school-hmuie. and all free cop|H-r rml of o»»4iderable length ex of‘charge. We hope (D. V.) to build providing that hereafter the sale of for some years, and considers that it torial Legislature has no t pends through one of rhe pi|>es, nnd seventeen houses between this and lands of the Umatilla reservation be was'a profitable investment. He ho regulate a road chartered by Congre-_. *ongre4s. » L this ____ by its expansion and co ill-action Christmns, nnd to occupy them by made at the court house in Pendleton been the recipient of many letters aid The present rate on the Northern opens and closes the damper through tliirtv new missionary men and women Oregon, instead of at the land office at telegrams of congratulation irt* friends throughout the country.— br by January. 1888.” suitable multiplying mechanism. LaGrande, Pacific is five cento. folk (Va.) Virginian, Dec. X- A Russian political exile who recent ly made his escape from Siberia tells a • LAFAYETTE. - - OREGON thrilling story of his escape and the hardships which he endured in his at tempt to regain his liberty. He is a L ord M ayor S ullivan , of Dublin, man of about middle age, of pleasant appearance, and speaks English well, has been sentenced to two months’ as most educated Russians do. He imprisonment without labor. gives his name as Baker—a name which E astern capitalists are consider he assumed since his arrival in Lon don. ing a proposition to construct a new With numerous companions Baker telegraph line to the Pacific Coast. was sent into exile early in 1881 for complicity in some plot against the E very year 4,000 poor are buried in Czar's life, and immured within one Pottersfield, New York, jn forty-cent of the Siberian interior villages, stir» rounded by vast tracts of ice and snow. coffins. ______ ______ Here.the prisoners were left in the T he C. P. railroad has declared a keeping of a few guards, but they were dividend of one per cent., the first in prevented from escaping far more — effectually by the fear of becoming the four years. <prey of the fierce wolves, whose bay T hb mines of South Africa have ing at night could be distinctly heard yielded six and a half tons of diamonds on all sides of the village. The idea and hope oftescape never leaves an ex- worth $200,000,000. ile’s mind, says Baker, and his one ab I n Epgland, according to Reynolds, sorbing thought was how to reach free one out of every three of the workers dom, and the hope of accomplishing die in the workhouse or the hospital. this remains with an exile ufitil death. The exiles were obliged to go into the A siNot.E foggy day in London costs forests near by and cut what, wood they used, and it was by this very means the town something like $40,000 for tlftt Baker succeeded in eluding the extra gas. vigilance of the guards and in leaving T he Commissioner of Agriculture the village. One day while he and a compan claims to have obtained great results ion were securing their supply of wood, in the extraction of sugar from sor they accidentally came upon a .small opening, concealed by. sn evergreen ghum. tree, which led to a goo.l-< zed cave. T he incandescent electric light Here was a means of escape. Without promises to be a great aid to the tor giving the details, which B >ker relates pedo service, as it will illuminate the so fully, it is enough to say that the two exiles kept the matter secret, and sea when submerged. removed day by day to the cave such J ohn M c C omb bar been elected of their provisions as they could spare Warden of San Quentin, and Charles without exciting attention. When the Anil takes the Wardenship of Folsom cave was stocked with food enough to last for some time if frugally used, the » prison. men prepared to take their departure E ighty corn canning factories have and begin ths hard, doubtful struggle been in operation this year in Maine, for liberty. So, one day, they went out. ‘ for wood but did not return. Of course and over fourteen nullion cans of sweet search was made for them, and the corn have been put up. -L. ■ £ country scoured, but, having thrown 4 their pursuers off the track, the exiles T he mechanics of Poughkeepsie, lived securely for nearly two weeks N. Y., have started an educational within sight of their recent place of association to book themselves up in confinement At the end of that time they came out of their hiding-place machinery. * and began a journey full of hair T he manuscript of “Home, Sweet breadth escapes and shocking suffer Home,’’ has been buried in the coftfn ings. ■ A /4-z»— inniirxxzx zx zlonrroi'c jillvi 11111 ll 11 lx; I cEt/txT xinitg x7i n ex xziu with Miss Harden, of Georgia, who wolves, from Cossacks, from freezing half a century ago refused the hand of &.n(l ata.rva.tion,_ tfaey fially reached the author. civilization; but Baker’s companion died soon after their escape from the T he annual production of the cord effects of the terrible exposures he had age mills of the United States, it is endured. Baker says that there is an estimated, is about one hundred and organized movement on foot among twenty thousand tons, valued at about nihili.’^s to effect the escape of a largQ number of prominent political exiles, fourteen million dollars. _ aiyd that the «41 arrangements for the ac- ------------ ■ Z~ — IfUl J4V1JIC > lan aie most ex T here is a recorded indebtedness of bomplishment of the pin $16 38 on every improved acre of land tensive. Nihlists in all part» of the world have contributed to the fund in the State of Kansas. This does not necessary to> carry out the design,- include notes of hand, and store land which will soon be put into operation. —London Cor. Chicago Mail, other accounts. FUBLISHED » rOKTLAZD PKODUVSt