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lamhill County Reporter LATER NEWS. The war department has decided not to occupy Cienfuegos before January 1. E. H. HA KA HA KT. Fubllahar. Governor Tanner has issued a procla declaring Paua, 111., under McMINNVIl.LE OREGON. mation martial law. Captain McCalla has wiied the navy department that he has abandoned the cruiser Maria Teresa. Senor Garcia, while in New York, on his way to Washington, said that the Cubans have naught but friendly fiCoinpreheiiMive Review of the Import feelings for the Americans. ant Happening;« <*f the I’rtst Week Nine millions and a quarter is the Culled From the Telegraph Column«. price the Union Pacific. Denvei <& Gulf railroad brought at foreclosure tale. Dr. Stephen B. Tyng, president of The reorganization committee was the the American Chamber of Commerce purchaser. died in Paris. Senator Quay, Pennsylvania’s po The First Illinois volunteer infantry, litical boss, is in serious trouble Five which «aw service in the trenches at indictments which are not easily ex Santiago, has been mustered out of plained away, have been returned by the grand jury. service. A number of Filipinos have arrived Advices received from Seoul Hay the Coreari government hus issued orders in San Francisco on their way to Wash that foreigners are to bo stopped from ington to look after their claims against the government for damages trading in the interior. The four-masted schooner Talofa, sustained by the American invasion of Captain Fletcher, front Guantanamo Manila. Star Pointer, the famous pacer with for Port Tampa, in ballast, has been i totally Wrecked on Cozumel island, off the world’s record of i.Mki for a mile, the eastern coast of Yucatan, and the was sold in New York to W. J. White, oaptain and seven of the men have ar of Cleveland, O., lor <15,000, <600 less rived at Progreso, two of the men hav than he was sold for in 1807 to Janies A. Murphy, of Chicago. ing been drowned. Late advices from Japan state that The ship Atlanta, which sailed from Tacoma, loaded with wheat for Cape 10,000 more fishermen living on Etrup Town, tan ashore near Alsen bay. She island, northern Japan, are on tiie had a crew of 27 men, only two of verge of starvation. Some have noth whom got ashore. The vessel was ing to eat, while others are existing on broken in two, and is probably it total rats and putrefied herrings. loss. She was commanded by Captain The Spanish mail steamer San An Charles McBride. gustin, which sailed front Nuevitas for Two freight trains on the Chicago, Spain, carried the Columbus rnonu- Rock Island & Pacific collided at Mos ment, formerly in the cathedral at cow, la. One man was killed and one Havana, with 287 boxes of aichives. injured. A wrecking train which was She took also 23 officers and 160 sol about to start to the scene from Wilton diers. was run into by a fast mail train. President Brown, of Norwich uni Tho fireman of the mail tiain was bad versity, lias received a personal letter ly hurt an 16 men of tho woik train from Admiral Dewey, in which tbe ad injured, some seriously. miral says: “I trust the entire Archi The American and Spanish commis pelago will be retained by the United sioners in agreeing upon January 1 as States. Any other arrangements will the date of Spanish evacuation of lead to no end of trouble.” Cuba took a precedent from the treaty The semi-official Journal de St. of peace entered into 50 yeare ago be Petersburg repudiates the anti-Ameri tween Mexico and the United States can views with reference to the Philip when an agreement was made as to tbe pine islands recently expounded by the date of the American occupation to Bourse Gazette, which, it declares, in cease. Then, as now, it was known no way represents the views held in that all tho troops could not be em leading Russian circles. barked by the date agreed upon. The Nearly all the bucks of the White oretically the Spanish occupation will oease January 1, though it is believed river Utes, and part of the Uintah tribe that 25,000 Spanish troops will still are off the reservation, and probably a great many of them are in Colorado. remain in Cuba. The Indians say if the government Wni. Fink, a farmer living near Ty won’t pay for the land they bought ler, Wash., was killod by a runaway from them they will hunt on it as often team, as they can get there to hunt. A corporal and threo merchants of A highbinder war has again broken Guantanamo were arrested for steal out in San Francisco. ing government supplies. Four companies of engineers have The spruce lumber exhibit of the been ordered by the war department to Clatsop Mill Company, of Astoria, has Havana. been awarded the first prise, a gold Ex-Queen Lilioukalani has arrived medal by the Omaha exposition direct in San Fiancisco on a visit to this ory. country. While a gang of 20 track hands was The president bns appointed John at work on the Pennsylvania railroad line, near Jersey City, they were run I j Morgan collector of customs for the down by n train. Eleven workmen Southern district of Oregon. Policeman Luke Curry, of Great were killed outright and six seriously Falls, Mont., was mistaken for a bur injured. glar, shot and instantly killed by Isaac Conductor William Hatfield and | Shaeffer, a merchant. Brakeman Harry Crogin were killed in [ Rear-Admiral Joseph N. Miller, who the wreck of a caboose attached to a j northbound train near Ardmore, I. T. hoisted the American ting over Hawaii Tim caboose left the track and was ■ on August 12 last, has retired after spending 47 years in active service. overturned. The London Chronicle criticizes the There is a leper scare in Manila. Through neglect of Spanish officials notion of the United States in killing ' nearly 200 lepers escaped confinement. Canadian shipping trade with Porto Orders have been issued that nil lepers Rico, and speculates as to the moaning be arrested and sent to a small unin- j of the action. habited island southeast of Luzon. Sixteen families of Canyon City, Or., 1 Advices by the steamship Empress left homeless by the recent fire, are ' shelterless and in dire distress. A ■ of China tell of a terrible disaster on Portland evening paper is collecting October 25, when tho steamer Kinsliui contributions to relieve them. Maru camo into collision with tho j Acting on the recommendation of steamer Myagawa Maru, off Takami, [ sinking the latter. Seventy poisons Captain Dickens, Secretary Long has increased the age requirement in the were drowned. case of apprentices admitted to the The secretary of the navy has ord naval service from 14 to 15 years. ered a court of inquiry to meet at tho According to a plan of Secretary navy-yard nt Norfolk for the purpose of investigating the circumstances at Gage, paper money is to be made uni- tending tbe abandonment of the Span foint, and bills of one denomination ish cruiser Maria Teresa, with a view must all look alike. It is thought this to determining the necessity and re will make easier the detection of coun terfeits. sponsibility therefor. It is represented by a dispatch from George W. latke, an American, re San Jose, Cal., that the prunegrowers siding at Chemulpa, has been mur of that vicinity charge that Oregon dered. Lake kept a big store near the prunes have been sold there and Chinese consulate. The murderer en ahipped East as Santa Clara county tered for the purpose of robbery. With primes. an iron weight attached to a Chines« The San Francisco Examiner says: steelyard he killed Lake with one blow No less than five new sugar companies as he slept. have been incorporated in tbe Hawaiian Charles S. Cross, president of the I islands, and within two years from First National bank of Emporia, Kan., now the output of raw sugar will be in- shot and killed himself near that city. creased considerably. An hour previous the bank had been A Philadelphia dispatch says that dosed by order of tbe controller of tbe currency. The failure is a bad one, American vessels are in scanty supply and all tho county and city funds uro ami that shippers are forced to resort largely to foreign ships. Over <200,- involved. 000,000 will be paid this year to own- An electric street-ear of tho Tacoma era of vessels under foreign flags by railway line wat derailed five miles Americans. from the heart of the city on Hie Steila England is rushing munitions of war coom line, by the controller refusing to The intention appar shut off the current on a heavy down to Esquimault. grade. The oar was smashed to splin ently is in case of war to fit out war ters by striking the side of a cut 10 ships and ttans|s>rts at Esquimault for feet deep, through which it was travel service in Eastern waters, and to draw ing. Seven persons were aboard, and whatever troops are needed for the British forces in India. all received injuries. Minor Mew« Items« Husbands and wives traveling to gether in Norway, Austria and Hun gary pay only one fare ami a half on the railways. Mm. Fred Douglass, widow of the eoloied orator, is to go on the lecture platform to deal with the history of tbe race in this country. Lieutenant Jules G. Ord, eon of Gen eral K. O. C. Ord, who was killed in the battle of Santiago, was a great- graudaon of King Gecrge IV. Fifty-seven officer« of the regular army have sons in the service, and two generations of the same family are even more frequent in the navy. The Sel fridge family furnishes three genera tions— from a lieutenant to an admiral. The life insurance companies doing business in Canada have agreed here after not to accept risks on the lives of married women, unless they happen to be the breadwinners of the family; or, in other words, wholly independent of their husbands SPAIN IN DOUBT. I» Considering the American Ultimatum — Further Delay I m Impossible. THE MYSTERY DEEPENS Shot Fired Near the Walluce llouie at Pendleton. Pendleton, Nov. 22.—This evening Paris, Nov. 23.—The United States at 0:80 o’clock another shot was tired ■ peace oommisHioneis have undoubtedly Work Stopped on Northern made their final proposition here. Spain Will Be Notified in close to the house in which lived the family of Miss May Wallace, who was When the conference opened this after Plain Language. Pacific at Lapwai. murdered a week ago last Thursday noon, Judge Day, addressing Senor night. The Wallace family gave up | Montero Rios and his colleagues of the the house last Thursday,and P. H. Fee Spanish commission recurred to tbe THE ULTIMATUM PREPARED moved in with bis family. Fee is a j MUST FIRST HAVE AUTHORITY j protracted negotiations, ami reaffirmed brother of Judge James A. Fee, and ' tbe desire of the American commis sioners to reach an amioahle conclusion. Amount Offered for the Ialsnds Will came here but a few days ago from The Engineers Say They Will Walt Iowa. The first night the family oc Then, handling tbe American presen- Probably Be Twenty Millions, Not for a Permit and Settle Kiglit-of- cupied the house, he heard a noise in , tation to the interpreter, Judge Day More — The Cuban Question. Way Claitus In Advance. the back yard. Drawing back a cur | concluded his remarks by saving that tain of the very window through which tbe Americans, preferring not to break Paris, Nov. 22.—The Spanish peace Miss Wallace was shot, he saw two Lewiston, Idaho, Nov. 23.—The ! the armistice or to resume hostilities, men jump the fence and go scurrying Northern Pacific let a contract to Wren had determined to present another and commissioners have been notified that away toward the woolen mills. He final proposition, which he hoped would the United States commissioners will & Greenough, of Montana, for the con thought from their general appearance struction of a section of road on Lapwai lead to a speedy and amicable adjust be ready to treat with them in joint session tomorrow afternoon. Unless they were Chinamen. The next night cieek. The agents of these contractors ment. That portion of the presentation set the Spaniards have an adequate reason he also saw men prowling about, and arrived last week, and began prepara notified Sheriff Blakely, who detailed tions for grading a roadbed along the ting forth the new proposal, the pro for further delay the two commissions two deputy sheriffs to remain in the posal that tha United States must have will join in the most important meet narrow Lapwai valley. This valley is house all night, but they saw no one. all settled by Indians, except a half- possession of the entire Philippine ing thus far held. The American commissioners, in a Fee each time armed himself with two mile adjacent to the Clearwater river, archipelago, with a tender of <20,000,- pistols anil went quickly in search, but and the present line of the Northern 000 for a treaty cession of the islands, written communication, will declare found no one. By daylight he found was then read. Without betraying that the third article ot the protocol re Pacific road. The Indians hold these tracks made by a No. 7 shoe, the ordi their mental attitude,tbe Spanish com garding the Philippines is capable of homes very sacred, as they were inher nary kind worn by white men. The ited from their fathers and then allot missioners suggested an adjournment only one fair construction, that no arbi- , nation is needed to elucidate its terms, affair has deepened the mystery of the ed to them by tbe government. They until next day. The new proposition, with its col l and that the United States cannot ad shooting of Miss Wallace, and created protested against trespass, although laterals, was embodied toward the end mit any ether power to figure here most intense interest here. Were it the railway agents offered to purchase They will not Sunday evening,when but few men the right of way through every holding of the American memoranda, which I purely as a lexicologist. are on the streets and in places of re and the engineers say they bad no in filled 80 typewritten sheets. Only this maintain that the two commissions are sort, probably an attempt would' be tention of proceeding without legal part was read in the joint session, the charged to determine whether Spain or made to clean out Chinatown. Feeling memorandum then being delivered to the United States shall in the future titles to the land appropriated. How is wrought up, and anger is shown to ever, excitement ran high when the the Spaniards for translation by their own the Philippines. This will be accompanied by the ward the Chinese residents, although large force of graders appeared upon the own staff. Spain’s proposition to invoke the clear declaration that the United it is not positively known that those scene. Indian Agent Fisher also pro hovering about the house were Mon tested against the trespass upon the offices of a thiid power to construe the I States will possess the Philippines. golians. words “ contiol, disposition and gov : Following this declaration, the Amer government land without due authority ernment of the Philippines” was re ican commissioners will lay before the AMATEUR TRAIN ROBBERS. from the interior department. These conditions were reported to the jected by the American commissioners Spaniards two alternatives: First—To accept a sum of money from One Bandit Killed and Three Fright government, and it is believed an order on tiie ground that the diction of the ened Away. was asked placing the military at the third article of the protocol, dealing, the United States and to cede and evac with tho Philippines, is so broad and Barstow, Cal., Nov. 22. — The first uate the Philippines. disposal of the agent, to be used to Second—To lose the Philippines to section of west-bound Santa Fe train eject the railroad force if necessary. clear as to afford no justification for ar Tbe officers of the railroad company bitration as between the parties to tiio the United States by conquest, with No. 21 was stopped two miles west of the possibility of other territorial losses, Daggett early this morning by men se say the excitement was uncalled for, agreement. An analysis of the American memo or indemnify the United States for the creted in tiie tender of the engine. that they never entertained the inten Engineer Bunnell was confronted by tion of proceeding without first secur randum shows that all other sugges added expense of conquest. This communication may not be for two 45-Caliber revolvers and ordered ing al) the right of way through proper tions and other considerations hitge authority. In the meantime a large upon treaty cession at the amoant mally designated as an ultimatum, but to stop, but this order was counter force is waiting for orders to begin named by the United States, and it will lack naught of the conclusive manded and the train proceeded for within two weeks. In the event of ness indicated by that word. This another mile and was then brought to grading. The engineers say they will wait for cession. Spain may enjoy for a term of will be so plain that the Spanish com a standstill at the command of the rob- the permit from the government, and 12 years rights of commerce in the missioners still scarcely haggle for j , hers, who evidently expected to meet In this they were they will satisfy individual claims for Philippines equal to those of the money on the first alternative, nor pals at this point right of wav before they begin. The United States. If the United States cherish any doubt of American action not disappointed, and the robbers or Indians, whoso interests are involved, acquires the islands by conquest, Spain under the second, should the first be dered Engineer Bunnell to carry a 20- l pound bag of dynamite to tiie express declined. are intelligent, and they will be guided may not enjoy such rights. Should Spain refuse cession, she No one here, except the American ■ car. Messengers Hutchinson and Blake in the matter entirely by the agent, in whom they have implicit oontidetnce, would remain liable for indemnity commissioners, know how much will be ly appeared at tbe door of tiie express and to whom they have appealed for claims, national and individual, since tendered Spain as the cheapest and car armed with guns. The robbers protection in their legal rights. Thero the outbreak of the last Cuban insur most humane way of settling the d'ftl- fired at Blakeley, who locating them could be no demand for troops other rection. Should she refuse, she would oulty. She is exceedingly anxious to by the flash of their guns, returned the Tbe dead than to protect the rights of the govern also lose, probably, as further indem escape the Philippine debt, and possi fire, killing one robber. ment and the Indian wards. The call, nity for the expense of conquest, one bly the sum to be offered may be deter I man's left eye and al) that side of bis if made for this purpose, was from a of the Carolines, which she may notv mined by an analysis of the debt,which bead was torn away. The other rob misapprehension of the purpose of the sell; and other cable privileges with consists of <40,000,000 in bonds, on bers stampeded and made their escape. Spanish jurisdiction might be taken by which she realized <36,000,000. Of A posse is in pursuit and it is thought railroad company. the United States without any return the latter amount she is believed to that at least one of them will be cap Lapwai creek is a stream flowing from for them. This evening the Spaniards have expendeil some <10,000,000 or tured shortly. The dead man has not the southward and joining the Clear doubtless do not know whether they <11,000,000 in fighting the United been identified. It is thought that the water river about 10 miles east of will accept or reject the American States and a part in attempting to quell men were novices at the train robbing Lewiston. The line mentioned in the terms. They are telegraphing the sub the Philippine insurgents. A reasona game. They secured no booty. foregoing dispatch is not the main stance of the American memorandum ble guess at the sum tor the tender Brakeman Killed in a Collision. projected line of the Nothern Pacific up to Madrid, and they expect a reply at would be <20,000,000, although it may Dunsmuir, Cal., Nov. 22.—A fatal the next meeting. the Clearwater and across into Mon fall below that. railway accident occurred at an early Possibly they may conclude that be tana. but a branch to tap the heavy The Cuban question may come again hour this morning three miles east of timber of the Craig mountains, and tiie cause one money offer is made, another tomorrow. The American commission Delta. The regular westbound height rich farming lands of the reservation and larger offer may follow pressure bad thought the discussion on that train. No. 29, had a pair of car trucks and Camas prairie. The promptness upon the American commissioners. point finished but the Spanish commis I off the rail, and while the crew was with which grading crews get at work But if this be their expectations, it sioners are reported to have declared engaged in replacing the car on the shows how keen is the competition of w'll not be realized. The American last week that the inortagages imposed , track, a special freight train crashed terms, submitted almost at the close of by Spain on the Cuban as well as on the present railroad rivalry. into the caboose, leaving the latter in the eighth week of patient hearing and the Philippine revenues must not be halves on the boiler of the engine. One FRANCE AND ITALY. painstaking argument, are a practical impaired or questioned. This would brakeman, J. U. Lewis, was in the ca ultimatum. compel the American commissioners boose. He was mortally wounded, and Long Standing Friction Removed by a soon—and probably tomorrow—to de died while being taken to Delta for Commercial Treaty. Surprising Act of Generosity. Paris, Nov. 23. — It was quite unex London, Nov. 23.—The morning mand whether Spain means to repudiate medical aid. There were no other fa pectedly announced this afternoon that papers concede the generosity of the the plain compact of the protocol to talities. The track was cleared for the a commercial tieaty has been concluded offers'of the United States peace com relinquish sovereignty over and title to Oregon express without the aid of a wrecking crew. between Franco and Italy, granting missioners and express the opinion that Cuba. Three weeks ago the Spanish commis mutually favored treatment except for Spain would be foolish to reject them. We Will liny an Island. silk goods, which will remain subject They express universal gratification nt sioners accepted the Cuban article in Washington, Nov. 22.—The acquisi to the maximum tax. A bill embody the announcement of an “open door” tbe protocol without conditions save tion of an Island in the Caroline group, ing the agreement will be submitted policy in the Philippines. ! that its embodiment in the treaty owned by Spain, will be part of the immediately to the chamber of depu The Daily Mail calls the offer of should depend on an agreement here on work of the Paris peace conimissiion. ties. The government also introduced <20,000,000 as indemnity, “a surpris all the articles of the protocol. Re Cable communication between the cently, however, Spain’s representa a bill iti the chamber today modifying ing act of generosity.” United States and Manila via Hono tives have said that the Cuban matter tbe wine duties favorably to Italy. lulu is regarded as desirable, should had only been temporarily passed and HY STONE’S STORY. Tbe negotiations that have culminated we occupy the islands, and Guam was still in abeyance. in these arrangements have been on island, in the Ladrone group, and one foot for two years, but nobody believed Explorer Tells h Kacy Tale of Fire mid of the Caroline rslands would be useful DOING THEIR EEST. Fite water. that a definite agreement was pci ♦ ng. as intermediary stations. The acqusi- ancouver, B. C., Nov. 23.—Hy Spaniards Will Be Out of Cuba by New tion of one of the Caroline islands, con It is believed that the Faslioda affair Year’s Day. was instrumental in inducing France to Stone, formerly United States govern sidered suitable for a cable station, grant the necessary concessions, though ment explorer in Alaska, met 600 Havana, Nov. 22.—Captain-General would involve a money consideration it is noteworthy that the silk duties, would-be Klondikers returning from Blanco received from Paris today a and the United States will pay Spain which caused the breaking of the treaty the Edmonton route, at the juncture of cable authorizing hint to draw on Paris a reasonable price for its relinquish in 1887, remain almost unchanged. the Mackenzie ami Laird rivers. Those for <2,000,000 gold, to be applied in ment. The negotiations have been conducted who returned by way of Laird river the payment of the Spanish troops in Cnbnn Soldier« Will Be Paid. with the utmost secrecy. Tbe effect of have reached Vancouver in safety after Cuba. This amount is tn addition to New York, Nov. 21.—A Herald dis passing through great peril. Stone ac the concessions involved is not yet the proceeds of the draft for £425,000 patch from Havana says: The Cuban known, but it is expected that they will companied them, and it is alleged that by the Madrid government on London, army will receive one year’s pay on have an important political influence on the eecond night they camped at the which was sold here last week. December 10. Notes for the balance for the removal of a long-standing fric foot of a cliff rising 500 feet sheer from The Spanish authorities are making will be issued and the troops will then the river. Natural gas was escaping tion between the two countries. The strenuous efforts to complete the evacu be disbanded. This information comes treaty, it is noticed, was concluded dur from the sides of the cliff. About ation by the end of the year. from an officer of General Garcia's midnight, so it is stated, the sides of ing tbe sbsence of Em|>eror William Martinique has been selected as the front Germany, and there is much the cliff broke forth in flames, the fire place of rendezvous of the Spanish personal stuff, in whose word implicit confidence may be plaoed. From what speculation regarding its probable re being started by hostile Indians of the naw for evacuation purposes. The source the money will come cannot be Siwash tribes. The natives appeared sults upon European alliances. Spanish auxiliary cruisers Patriota and stated, but that the United States has in war paint, ami demanded wnisky, Meteoro, purchased in Geiniany before guaranteed the loan is almost ceitain. SERIOUS PLAGUE RIOTS. which the prospectors did not have. the outbreak of hostilities, are expected Baden-Powell Dead. Thounxndi of Native« Making Trouble For three days the demand was repeat here on December 15, and will convoy ed, when the Indians fired a volley at in India. London. Nov. 22. — Sir George the Spanish ls>ats front Cuban ports to London, Nov. 23. — A dispatch to the the whites, which was returned, and Martinique, where the Kapidio, Ponce Smythe Baden-Powell, the eminent po Times from Allahabad, capital of the the Si washes fled. Stone says he noti de Leon and Concha, lrom Porto Rico, litical economist and authority on col fied the government, but nothing was northwest provinces of India, says: have already assembled, and from onial affairs, who represented the Kirkdale division of Liverpool in parl ’’Serious plague ¡rots took place at done. He did not know any of the which point all will sail for Spain. iament, in the conservative interest, Set iiigaiHitiiin, on the island of Cavery, white men. Victim of Elevator Fire. Bince 1885, died today in his 51st year. Mysore, on November IS. Ten thou Monument Unveiled. Toledo, O., Nov. 22.—After two sand natives from the villages round Shanghai, Nov. 23. — Prince Henry Explosion in a Rocket Factory. months' of search, and the recovery of about concentrated at Seringai-atam, of Prussia today unveiled the monti* Budapest, Nov. 22.—A dispatch to 18 dead, the grain handlers at the and made a <les|x>rate effort to eutei ment to the officers and sailors of the the Pester Lloyd from Nigolaief, the forts and rescue the prisoners there. German third-class cruiser litis, which Union elevator found the body of an Russia, at the confluence of the Ingul ‘‘Another mob from the Mysore side was lost in a typhoon on July 23, 1896, unknown num today, fiis ap;>earance and the Bug, says that 21 persons have tried to rush the bridge. In each case north of the Shan Tung promontory. indicated him to be a well-to-do man, i>een killed there by an explosion in a the police fired volleys and succeeded ami it is suppose! he was visiting the The ceremony was very impressive. rocket factory. in frustrating the attempt. Many pel- A large force of German sailors and elevator at the time of the explosion. Trainmen Kun Down. sons were killed or injured. For 36 marines were present, with American, Antl-Ci<i»rette Law. New York, Nov. 22.—G. W. Rogers, hours the police were kept under British and Austrian sailors. The Knoxville, Tenn., Nov. 22.—The arms. Ultimately troops were dis Shanghai volunteers were also repre anti-cigarette law passed by the last of Camden, employed as a conductor on the Amboy division of ths Pennsyl patched to the acene of the disturbance sented. Tennessee legislature is declare! con vania railroad, and H. G. Roe, bag to be in readiness for any renewal.” stitutional in an opinion given to the gagemaster of the Rogers’ train, nerò press today by Judge Caldwell, of the Sutgeon-General George M. Stern killed at Rahwav, N. J., tonight, They Freight I.oconiutl ve Exploded. supreme oourt of the state, Tbe opin berg ha» tu ade bis teport to the secre- had completed their run for the day, Lim». O„ Nov. 22. — A height loco ion declares that cigarettes are not le motive on the Chicago * Erie exploded tarv of war. 1t reiates mainly to the gitimate atticlee of commerce, because and were walking to the depot to take near here this morning, killing David workof the tnedical corpa dttritig tbe they are wholly noxious and deleteri a train for home, when they were run Little, the fireman, and ptobably fa war. Tbe turgeon-general says sup- ous to health, and therefore are not down by the Chicago limited, east plie» were »hort when war l>egan. and bound. Their bodies were cut up and tally injuring Walter Shirtleff, engi- within the provision of the federal con that milch of the sickness among tbe scattered along tbe track for some dis neer; Edward Quick, conductor, and stitution protecting legitimate com lioope was caused by dissipatton. tance. Frank Smith. brake tuan. merce. 1