I
I
HAPPENINGS OF 1899
SUMMARY OF A YEAR'S
PORTANT EVENTS.
IM-
War in Philippine Islanda and South
Africa, the Dreyfus Trial, Political
Difficulties in Samoa, Death and De­
, «traction by Fire, Wind aud Flood.
Many causes have combined to make
the year 1890 a rather remarkable one.
Its opening was signalized by Spain’s
surrender of the last vestige of her sov­
ereignty in the western hemisphere; its
prugreaa UH
br< .Ui 1«
forth the declaration of
w«r btf w-r,
•• ■, d and the Transvaal
Kepu
Lsrose
,
leaves these ua-
tiou».
• ijin a bloody contest,
thst
t important political
«.bn
Africa. During the
.«tween the iiativi-s
ULtlER
am |
ops in the I’hilip-
the war is yet on.
c*h\ siLtnr
■oiu warfare, that
hav.
■Attention to a great-
er or
' e been: Signing of
the
.with Spain; settle-
uient
m the Samoan Isl­
Anda
and pardon of Cap­
tain
in France; uumer-
OUS lb
,iave destroyed many
live« a
Mfrty; tornadoes that
caused
deiijli at Kirksville,
Mo., in’
’ “and at 'N <ew Richmond,
Wis- in ______
w-
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several
rat till shipwrecks;
deaths »
prominent men, among them
President Felix Fawre of France, Garret
A. llobart, V'ice-Preside nt of the United
States, and Robert G. Ingersoll; great
street car strike at Cleveland and labor
riots at Pana and Carterville, Ill.
A brief chronological transcript of the
year’s events is given below:
and
/
January.
1—Spain resigns sovereignty over Cuba.
4—1 rain held up and rubbed at Macomb,
Mo.... Peace treaty with Spain introduced
In the Senate.
9— Fourteen persons killed and forty-eight
Injured in a collision near Duuelleu, N. J.
10— McCoy defeated by Sharkey in New
York... .Severe storm in California.
13— Fire at Memphis, Teuu., destroys
wholesale dry goods bouse of J. S. Menkin
& Co., aud causes $500,000 loss.... Death of
Congressman Dingley of Maine.
14— British bark Audelina siukw at Tacoma
with her entire crew of n.neteeu men.
17— Death of John Russell Young, librarian
•of Congress.
18— Disastrous flood at Cleveland. .German
■consul at Apla, bamoa, ejected from Su­
preme Court Building by American aud
British consuls.
20— Bunk at Arthur, Ill., robbed of $3,000.
21— Earthquake shakes Peloponuesan pen­
insula of Greece. ... Massacre of Spanish of­
ficers by natives at Balabac, in the Philip­
pines.
25— One hundred thousand dollars damage
done by tire at Johnstown, l’a. .. .Adelina
Patti and barou Cederstrom married ut Bre­
con, Wales.
26— Ex Attorney General A. H. Garland
■dies suddenly in Washington. .. .Court mar­
tial finds Gen. Chas. 1*. Eagan guilty under
two charges.
29— Cold wave over the West; 13 degrees
tielow zero at Chicago.
30— Two hundred thousand dollar lumber
.yard tire in Chicago.
February.
1— Seven persons perish In Bnowslide in
Rogers Pass, B. C.
2— $7. 0,000 tire in Columbus, Ohio, in which
many are injured. ... Burning of the Buck
Ingham Theater, Louisville, Ky.
3— $h00,000 tire ut Philadelphia.
4— Battle between Filipinos aud Americans
at Manila.... Mrs. Botkin receives life sen­
tence for murder...-James A. Sexton, Com-
uiander-in-chief G. A. R., dies In Washlng-
'n.,
’
” ffgt detachment of Spanish army leaves
...Death ci Gen. Count vou Caprivi,
Chancellor German Empire... .Peace
ratified by United States Senate.
auitoba Hotel at Winnipeg burns; loss
j 0. .. . Eleven
business houses burn _ in
$*
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Ptairie du Chien, Wis.
9— Twenty-one degrees below zero at Chi­
cago; coldest day in twenty-six years....
-Jboo.OOO fire In Front street, New York....
Five business houses ,at Herington, Kan.,
burn.
10— Explosion in Baxter Stove Works,
Mansfield, Ohio, causes a $100,000 fire....
Kelly Block in Cleveland burns; loss $150,-
000... .$200,000 fire in Toronto, Ont....
American troops capture Caloocan.
11— Troops under Gen. Miller take IJollo
....Engagement outside Manila, in which
Filipinos are driven back.
12— Twenty-four Italian miners and fami­
lies perish in snowslide at Silver Plume,
Colo... .McClurg s book store in Chicago
burns; loss $562,000. .. .Seventeen insane
women burned to death at Yankton, S. D.
.... Report of War investigating Board
made public in Washington... .Great fires
In New York City and Albany, N. Y.
13— Digby, N. S., almost wiped out by fire
....Blizzard in the East and South.
14— $500,000 fire in manufacturing district
of Cincinnati. ... Burning of manuiacturers’
warehouse in Chicago; loss $1,(MX),000.
15— Machine shops in Brooklyn navy yard
turned.
16— Death of M. Felix Faure, President of
Fra nee.
18—Emile Loubet chosen President At
France. .. .Riots in Paris.
20—Fire causes $500,000 low al_Pbrt Wash­
ington, Wis.
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22—City of NlajiiDHfrfed by Filipinos.
March.
l_Dea(h of Lord Herschell In Washlng-
. .Sagasta
ministry
ton--------
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. resigns at Madrid.
3— George Dewey made au Admiral by
President McKinley.
4— Congress adjourns.
5— Storm destroys life nnd property In
East Tennessee.... New ministry takes of
flee at Madrid... .Terrific powder explosion
at La Goubran, France, kills sixty persons.
9—Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage resigns his
Washingion pastorate.... Battle between
Americans and Canadians on Porcupine
River. B. C.
U_Gen. Maximo Gomes deposed from
Command by Cuban Assembly.
13—I’aslg captured by American troops....
Understanding reached on Samoan afTalrs
....Herbert Putnam, of Boaton, appointed
Congressional librarian.
1G—Mob shoots nine negroes at Palmetto,
Ga ..Death of Editor Joseph Medlll....
Fire killed In street riot at Hot Springs,
Ark.. Flection riot in St. Louis results In
death of two men....B. P. Hutchinson,
wheat operator, dies at Lake Geneva. Wis.
17—Peace treaty s.gned by the Queen Re­
gent of Spain.... Windsor Hotel burns In
New York, with great loss of life.
lg-Fatal riot In Havana.
20-Mrs. Martha Place electrocuted at
' diice war In Little River County,
Ark where many negroes are lynched.
231!_j|u|ietoa Tanus crowned King of 8a-
**2^-()peolng of ship canal at Port Arthur,
T27^,Burnlng of Armour « felt works In Chl-
*
<-“.fylAmer:can nnd British warships bom
ba'rd native towns in Samoa. .. .Sinking of
the steamer Rowena Lee In the Mississippi
below Caruthersville. Mo.
•»—one hundred and twenty Ilves lost by
Shipwreck of passenger steamer Stella in the
Fnelish channel.
^Si-Fall of Malolos... .»-■■00,000 Are In San
Francisco-
I
April,
*
7—Eleven Ilves lost in burning of Wallace
Andrews' residence In New York.
*^-Deatb of Justice 8. J. Field, retired....
Seventeen dves lost by breaking cf an Ice
•forge on Yellowstone River at Glendive,
'^Seven persona killed In riot at Pana,
’ ^W?-Fx. hangs of peace treaties with Spain
ends the state of war....Greek -master Ma
*a sunk off Tripoli with loss of forty See
“'Z^ywenty-tbree Crow Indians drowned
IO floods near Sheridan. Wyo. ___
1“. Great Are In Cleveland; lone almoet
schooner Elisa loot off Man- i
with eleven of her crew.
*
l’>ea'h of ex Gov. R J < >gb»by of Illi-
—^1«
Thlrtv persons drowned In wreck of
«rt-iah ship i-^b Sloy on Kangaroo Island.
’iL’lViXs City. liaaM, al-oet wiped
,ut by lire.
»
27— Tornado at Kirksville and Newtown,
Mo., aud In Soldier River valley, Iowa.
Scores killed aud Injured.
2&—Earthquake shakes Southern Illinois
aud Indiana and Northern Kentucky... .Fa­
tal mine riots at Wardner, Idaho.
May.
1—Destructive foie t tires in South Dakota,
Nebrusku aud Colorado.
3— Resignation of Italian cabinet.
4— Opening of Ute reservation In Colorado.
3—Five killed by tornado in Chickasaw na­
tion, O. T........ Death of Mrs. W. C. Whitney.
7— Report of Wade Court of inquiry given
out.
8— Russell & Co.*8 thresher works at Mas­
sillon, Ohio, burned; loss $500,000.
12—Death of ex Gov. R. P. Flower of New
York... .Twenty-live persona killed in rail­
way collision at Exeter. Pa.
15— Death of Franeisque Sarcey, noted
French critic.... Riot at Princeton between
students and Pawnee Bill’s Wild West.
16— Cyclone In Ohio and Michigan.
at Suu * Isidro,
17— Insurgent stronghold
‘ ‘
“1J
P. I., taken by Americans.
20— Agu ina Ido sends envoys to sue tor
peace.
21— American ____
liner _____
Paris „ goes
_
ashore on
the Manacles, off Cornwall, England.
22— Buffalo grain shovelers' strike ends
....Tornado In Erath County, Texas.
25— Death of Don Emilio Castelar, Span­
ish statesman. .. .Great fire at St. John,
N. B., which rendered 1,000 persons home­
less. .. .Death of Rosa Bonheur, French
artist.
28— Tornado devastates parts of South Da­
kota, Iowa and Nebraska.... Seven persons
killed in train wreck near Waterloo, Iowa.
June.
0—Railway wreck at Grandview, Mo....
Jeffries defeats Fltzsimmuus at Coney Isl­
and, Now York.
12— Ne^ Richmond, Wis., wiped out by
tornado, 150 persons being killed.... Dupuy
ministry resigns at Parts.
13— Herman, Neb., destroyed by storm.
16—Thirteen persons drowned In steam­
boat accident near Stettin, Germany....
Twelve miners killed by mine explosion at
Glace Bay, C. B.
22— New French c abinet < rginia d at Paris.
23— Death of II. B. Plant.
29— Nine lives lost In wreck of steamer
Margaret Olwill in Lake Erie.
30— Dreyfus lands in France.... Walkout
at Homestead mills, Pittsburg.
28— Disastrous floods in Texas.
July.
5— Death of Bishop J. P. Newman.
6— Death of Robert Bonner... .Order Is-
sued for enlistment of ten regiments for the
Philippines.
7— Death of George W. Julian, Indiana
anti-slavery leader... .Lindell Hotel, Lin­
coln, Neb., burns.
16— Street car strike Inaugurated in Brook­
lyn, N. Y.
19— Resignation of R. A. Alger, Secretary
of War.
21— Death of Robert G. Ingersoll.
22— Elihu Root named as Secretary of War
....Telegraph messengers strike at Cincln-
i natl.
23— $1,600,000 loss by burning of C., H. &
D. elevator at East Toledo, Ohio.
26— Assassination of President Ulysses
Heureaux of San Domingo.
27— Death of A. L. Luetgert in Joliet, Ill.,
prison.
30—Tupper Lake, N. Y., wiped out by fire.
Ausust«
I— Elihu Root, of New York, sworn In as
Secretary of War.
G—Thirty-live killed and twelve Injured In
trolley ear accident near Bridgeport, Conn.
....Collapse of a ferry slip at Bar Harbor,
Me., kills twenty persons and Injures forty
others.
7—Dreyfus trial begins at Rennes, France.
13—M. Lubori, counsel for Capt. Dreyfus,
shot at Rennes.
20— Great riot in Paris.
21— Business portion of Victor, Colo., de­
stroyed by fire.
2<S—Chicago Coliseum framework collapses
killing nine men and injuring as many more.
Feptem ber.
5— Extremely hot weather in Chicago;
thermometer registers 98 degrees.
6— Fifty persons Injured in collision on the
B. & O. Railway at Connellsville, Pa.
9— Capt. Alfred Dreyfus convicted at Ren­
nes, France.
12— Death of Cornelius Vanderbilt.
13— Trust conference begins in Chicago.
17— Seven negroes killed In coal mine riot
at Carterville, ill. .. . Death of Chas. A. Pills­
bury of Minneapolis.
19— Capt. Dreyfus pardoned.
21—Fire in Chicago stockyards; loss
$390,000.
26—Admiral Dewey's flagship, the Olym­
pia. arrives in New York.
29— Dewey naval parade in New York.
30— $1,000,000 tire in Big I'yir depot and
warehouse at Cincinnati.
October.
7— Fall festival in Chicago.
II— War is begun in South Africa.... For­
mal declaration of war made by Boers.
12—Four thousand persons killed by earth­
quake In Ceram, Molucca Islands.
16— Columbia wins first
flrat race for America’s
cup.
17— Columbia wins second race, Shamrock
being disabled by breaking of topmast.
20— Columbia wins third race.... Boers de-
feated at Glencoe.
21— English defeat Boers at Elandslaagte.
23— Battle at Glencoe, South Africa.
24— Boers repulsed at Ladysmith.
26— Death of Gen. Guy V. Henry.
27— Death of Florence Marryat, English
novelist.
30- British badly defeated in desperate
battle at Ladysmith. .. .Ferryboat sunk In
North River, New York, and ten lives lost.
November.
3— Jeffries defeats Sharkey in New York.
4— American Steel and Wire Company *a
plant at Waukegan. III., burns.
7—Cruiser Charleston goes ashoro aS
north west coast of Lu von.
9—A(l•'',•‘’, 1
1 Mrs. Mildred Hazen
‘wedded 11T*Washington... .Joubert begins
bombardment of Ladysmith.
12 Major John A. Logan killed In battle
in Philippines.
21—Death of Vice President Garret A.
Hobart.
23—British defeat Boers in hard battle at
Belmont.
25— Death of George R. Davis, of Chicago,
Director-General of World's Fair of 1893.
27— Death of Charles Coghlan, the actor.
28— Boers defeated in severe engagement
on banks of Modder River.
29— Block of Philadelphia business houses
burned; loss $3,000.000.
December.
4— Fifty sixth Congress opens.
5— Death of Senator Hayward of Nebraska.
6— Dick Coleman, negro murderer, burned
at the stake at Mavsvllle, Ky.
9—British meet decisive defeat at Storm-
berg. . . Thirty-two miners killed by gas ex­
plosion In mine at Carbonado, Wash.
11—British suffer great losses In engage­
ment with Boers at Magersfonteln.
14— Gen. Buller badly defeated by Boers
In attempting to cross Tugeia River.
17— Death of Thos. M. Brumby, flag lieu­
tenant of U. 8. warship Olympia.
18— Currency bill passed by lower house
of Congress. ... Excitement on Wall street
causes two big failures.
19— Gen. Henry W. Lawton killed before
San Mateo, P. I.
4.
AMERiCANS
BUY
A
CANAL.
At Least They Now Own an Interest In
the Panama.
Filipino Bands Returning to
Abandoned Towns.
NATIVES ASK FOR PROTECTION
Colonel Hare Loses the Track of the
Prisoner* He Ha« Followed-General
Wheeler Goes South.
Manila, Jan. 1.—The insurgents
who evacuated the coast towns between
Dagupan and Vigan, fleeing to the
mountains before the advancing Amer­
icans, are returning in small bands to
the towns the Americans do not oc­
cupy, terrorizing the natives and
Chinamen, who showed friendship for
the Americans. The natives and
Chinamen are seeking the protection of
the American garrisons.
Colonel Wessel’s cavalry, while
scouting in the vicinity of Trinidad,
found evidence of Filipino soldiers be­
ing in that vicinity, but it was impos­
sible to bring about an engagement.
The recent increase in the garrison of
Namacpacan against the threatened
rebel attack on Christmas day averted
trouble.
Colonel Hare, of the Thirty-third in­
fantry, who has been following a party
of American prisoners, lost track for
three days, about December 20, of such
signs and evidences of their passage as
they customarily left behind them. It
is thought the prisoners were separated
and conveyed to remote parts of the
mountains, thus increasing the difficul­
ties of General Young’s troops to effect
a rescue.
General Wheeler, who was recently
in Manila requesting an appointment
south in the line of the expected cam­
paign, is now at l’arauaque.
Americans Captured Stronghold.
Washington, Jan, 1.—General Otis
cables the war department today as fol­
lows:
“Manila—Colonel Lockett, with a
regiment of two battalions of. the
Forty-sixth, (Colonel Schuyler), one
battalion of the Forty-fifth (Colonel
Dorst), and one company of the Twen­
ty-seventh infantry, and two guns (Cap­
tain Van Deusen,) attacked the enemy,
600 strong in a mountain stronghold
beyond Mont Alban, northeast of San
Mateo. A large nun;ber were killed
and wounded, and 24 were taken pris­
oners. Lockett captured one cannon,
40 rifles, 20,000 rounds of ammunition,
500 pounds of powder, arsenal fortifica­
tions, all their food supplies and con­
siderable other property.
“This captured point, located on a
mountain trail, was formerly supposed
to be impregnable. Our casualties:
Lieu’enant Enlow, Eleventh cavalry,
and five enlisted men wounded, mostly
i-light. Private Matson, Forty-fifth in­
fantry, drowned.”
Not American Vessels.
Port Townsend, Jan. 1.—The pur­
chase of foreign vessels by the United
States government for use as transports
during the Spanish-American war and
their subsequent sale by the govern­
ment to private citizens has resulted in
complicating matters for purchasers
from the fact that after purchase of
such vessels the government refuses to
allow them to be documented in the
United States as American vessels.
The case in point is the steamship
Scipio, which was recently sold by the
navy department and was afterwards
refused documentation. The purchaser
applied to the secretary of the treasury,
asking that if he should break the
Scipio up, whether the material of
which she was constructed would be
subject to duty if sold in the United
Sr-ates. Yesterday Collector Heustis
received a circular letter covering the
above case from the treasury depart­
ment in which Acting Secretary Spaul­
ding says that uj>on the sale of said
vessel in a port of the United States
the material or materials taken there­
from would not be regarded as an ini-
portation within the meaning of the
customs laws, and would therefore be-
exempt from duty.
New York, Dec. 80—The iucor|K>ra-
tion of the Panama Canal Company of
America is said to be the first move in
l plan to transfer the Panama canal to
Americans in order that it may have
a better chance in the struggle with
the Nicaraguan concessionaries, The
banking bouses and individuals who
are understood to be interested are:
I August Belmont & Co., Kuhn, Loeb &
Co., Levi P. Morton, Charles R. Flint,
J. E. Simmons, president of the Fourth
National bank; Edward Sweet, George
Sheldon & Co., Baring, Magoun & Co.,
and George W. Young, president of the
United States Mortgago & Trust Com­
pany.
In addition to these, several banking
houses in San Francisco and in cities
in the South and West are interested
in the company. The Herald says this
incorporation of an American company
is the result of negotiations between
representatives of the French company,
including Baron Openheim, who came
to this city from Paris several months
ago, and leading financiers of America.
The representative of the French com­
pany came to this couutry ompowered
to transfer the rights of the company
having now been incorporated, the
transfer will very shortly be effected,
the transfer to be given formal approval
by the shareholders in France. Theso
shareholders receive shares in the new
American company in proportion to
their holdings in the old.
This “Americanizing” of the Pana
ma canal, as one of the gentlemen in­
terested in the new company styled it
yesterday, has been brought about in
order to place the Panama canal on a
footing in America more satisfactory to
the French company, and to place it
on the same base as the Nicaragua
canal before the United States govern­
ment.
An isthmian canal commission, with
Rear-Admiral Walker as chairman, it
now at work making an exhaustive
study of all possible routes for a canal
across the isthmus of Central America.
This commission was created in the
closing hours of the last congress, and
$1,000,000 was appropriated for its use
through tthe river and harbor bills.
Its report will undoubtedly be final as
far as the United’States is c< ncerned as
to the best route for a canal. Its par­
ties, both engineering and exploring,
are now scattered over Central America,
obtaining material to assist the com­
mission in forming conclusions.
The French company, realizing the
importance of the commission's find­
ings, has taken the steps which have
been described, believing that the canal
commission would naturally be enabled
to judge more impartially between the
two routes with both under American
control. The gentlemen of the French
company long since recognized that
the undertaking of a canal across Nica­
ragua either by the United States or by
private parties with the assistance or
indorsement of the United States would
be a most serious blow to their project,
but the American financiers who have
formed the new company, now that the
two routes are on an even footing, and
that judgment will be made only on
the grounds of engineering and general
desirability, they argue that the
"Americanizing” of Panama is the
only way by which the 400 shareholder«
can have any hope of any return from
the $200,000,000 which has gone out of
France and into the canal, and they be­
lieve that this arrangement can pro­
duce only good feeling between the two
countries.
Since 1884, when the French com­
pany was formed, there has been ex­
pended in work on the canal something
like $8,000,000.
Several thousand
men, mostly negroes from Jamaica,
have lieen employed, and experts de­
clare that the money has been proprely
expended, and that good progress has
been made. There iB a large numtier
of men at work on the canal at the
present time, and this force will be
found at work by the canal commission
when it goes over the route, which will
probably lie during February. The
canal is alaiut two-tiths completed,
and the new American company esti­
mates that the cost of completion
would be alaiut $100,000,000.
Hilton Paintings at Auction.
The Plague Scare.
San Francisco, Jan. 1.—The steamer
Gaelic arrived here this afternoon from
the Orient, via Honolulu. The Gaelic
was sent to quarantine, owing to the
plague scare, but her cabin passengers
were allowed to land, towlioats plying
lietween the steamer and the city for
the purpose.
The press correspondent at Honolulu
says there have lieen no new cases of
plague since last advices. There have
been several sudden deaths, and in
each instance rumor assigned the
plague as the cause. Investigation
proved otherwise. The board of health
Gruel Opi-ri.
now claims but two deaths were caused
“Yez needn't be taken on sich airs. bv the scourge, the remaining cases be­
Missus Mulvaney, jlst beycuz yer man’.« ing doubtful or suspicious.
bin made a jigger on 'th perleesh force.
Robbed of *12,000.
Me man went t’ th’ gran’ oppbra ’n
Walsenburg, Colo., Jan. 1.— W. . J.
•thy le.”
’’Gran’ opphra nuttln’ It 'ud be Milsap, a prominent stockman. was
fakin' a month's whages whurkln' loike seized by two men when alsmt to enter
yer man doos. Missus O'Hoolihau, t' get the Klein hotel and was robbed of
$12,000. The money was mortly ini
dough ernuff t’ go t’ gran' opphra !”
"But 'e wint, jhust th’ same, yez bis coat and vest pockets and these
desateful cieathur. 'E tauld me Ivry- garments were torn from him. No
trace of the criminals has lieen found.
thln’ consarnin’ th’ perphormence.”
"Oh. did ’e, yez bblo-miln' p-irpharl- Mr. Milsap was on his way to Mexico'
katur? An' bow did 'e injhoy th' songs to buy cattle.
in th' Dago linguage’r”
HI« I.lner I. A.hnr.,
"Dago? It wuz good Amerikhan
Ixmdon, Jan. 1. —A large <*erman
Ooirlsh. begorrah. that they spuk, fur
mail steamer, believed to l>e one of the
me man tould me sum o' the jliokes.”
Hamburg-American liners, has gone
“Jhokes?”
“YIs, jhokes, yez baytheu. They aground during a terrific gale in East
alluz h«*z jliokes whin th' gran' opphra bay, about a quarter of a mile off Dun­
dims t* th’ Cap-tal Bbquare The a ter.” geness, the southern extremity of Kent.
Heavy seas are breaking over the ves­
—Detroit Free Presa.
sel, and life-boats are unable to reach
In the San Francisco schools Jap- her. Fears are entertained for the
anene children are not segregated on safety of the passengers.
It is reported that the position of the
the school rolls, but am classed as
Liner is very serious.
I
white*.
New York, Dec. 30.—The gallery of
paintings collected by the late Judge
Hilton is almut to be sold at auction.
It is composed of nearly 300 paintings,
mostly by modern French artists, and
is valued at more than $500,000.
Among the masters represented are
Meissonier, Cort, Daubigny, < Jerome,
Viliert, Ma kart, Muuckaay, llourgereau
and Tissot.
Quarantine Against New Caledonia.
Melliourne, Victoria. Dec. 30.—A
passenger who arrived here on lioard
the steamer Australian from Noumea,
New Caledonia, where the plague is
raging, has been quarantined, and eight
others havo been placed under surveil­
lance.
Money for Improvement«
8». Paul, Minn., Dec.
30.—The
Great Northern directory today in-
creasett its capital stock $7,500,000,
for the purpose of acquiring new prop­
erties ami making extensions and im­
provements on the Pacific coast. The
Sioux City & Northern and Pacific
k-hort Line, in Iowa and Nebraska, are
among the new properties to be taken
in.
Boumt'i Band G oa « tn Pari«.
New York, Dec. 30.—Commissioner-
General Ferdinand W. Peck, of the
United States commission to the Paris
exposition of next year, has appointed
So iaa's band as the official American
band to play at the exposition.
A Chrlitmai Poisoning.
Barboursville, W. Va., Dec. 28.—
Three members of the family of Man-
ford Pollock died last night, having
been mysteriously poisoned while eat
ing their Chnstmaa dinnog.
4
PACIFIC COAST NEWS
Commercial and Financial Happenings
of Intercut to the (irowiiif
Western States.
Since the first of July the people of
Alaska hjkve contributed to the federal
treasury in license money the magnifi­
cent sum of $158,276.40 for the privi­
lege of doing business in Alaska and
developing the territory, says the Skag­
way Alaskan. This is in audition to
the tariff duties paid,internal revenues,
faxes and all other taxes common to
the i*ountry at large. It is a special
tax levied upon business in Alaska
alone, such as no other citizens of the
United States are required to pay; in
fact it is a tax that was never before in
the history of the United States levied
against any of its people.
Plenty of Supplies at Dawson.
D. W. Bullock, lately arrived from
Dawaon, said to an Alaskan reporter:
“Dawson is supplied with everything
needed there for the winter. The re­
port as to a great shortage of oats is
not true. There is plenty of oats along
the river and in Dawson to supply the
interior. When we got away from
Dawson, November 7, oats were sell­
ing for 22 cents a pound and hay at
15 cents. Last winter oats went to 40
and 45 cents, and hay to 85 to 50 cents.
Tobacco sells in Dawson today for $1
to $1.25 a pound, less than it brings in
Bennett. The Bennett price is $1.50 a
pound. Flour that sold for $8 in Daw-
sou a year ago is worth only $4.75
there today. There will be plenty of
beef in Dawson throughout the winter.
Dumbolton had four scows loaded with
beef on the way in, one of which is at
Selkirk and one at Stewart river. I do
not know where the others are. Dam-
l>olton will take the meat through to
Dawson over the ice after the river
freezes. McDougall & Burns have 80
tons below Selkirk and will take it in
over the ice. The labor market of
Dawson is glutted. There were 1,000
to 1,500 idle men in the town when I
left, and more were rushing in from up
the river.”
Atliim Future Output.
Charles Christopher, who has nego­
tiated more large Atlin mining deals
than any other man in the country dur­
ing the season recently closed, is au­
thority for the statement that there
will be no less than half a dozen large
hydraulic plants put in operation in
Atlin with the opening of spring, lie
says the output of gold in that country
will exceed $5,000,000. The gold com­
missioner collected royalty on about
$700,000 this summer, but he failed to
collect on more than half the output.
There was at least $1,500,000 taken
out of the Atlin gold fields this year,
and next year the output will exceed
$5,000,000. Last summer the great
majority of the miners did not get to
work before August 1, and they all
worked small claims and handled most
of the dirt with shovels. Next yeat
they will handle it by the hydraulic
process.
Snowslide on White Pass.
BRADSTREET'S REVIEW.
Temporary Reaction From tha Heaviest
Holiday Trade on ltecord.
Bradstreet’s says: Holiday influence
•nd stock-taking impart an appearance
of dullness to general distributive trade,
broken, however, by fair activity iih
reorder business to fill up stocks de­
pleted by the heaviest holiday trade
that has ever been experienced.
Anticipation of spring trade wants
has given a more than ordinarily ac­
tive appearance to business in dry
goods at New York, while in industrial
lines the efforts of manufacturers to
keep up with filled order-books is re­
sulting in unusually active operations.
Following the flurry in money, stocks
and in some lines of speculative com­
modities noted last week, has come, as
was expected, a more cheerful tone,
and a firming up in quotations is noted
in such staples as cotton, which was
effected by last week’s money develop­
ments, and also in hog products, cof­
fee, copper, tin and lead. The strength
of textiles is still a feature which finds
justification in current statistics oi
larger season’s receipts and sales oi
wool, and in reports of enlarged old
and heavily increased new capacity in
manufacturing lines.
In iron and steel, seasonable quiet as
regards new business is observable, but
unabated activity on earlier booked
orders is reported. In some cases, ns
shutdown was made for the holidays
by mills and furnaces.
Wheat (including Hour) shipments
for the week aggregate 8,610,567 bush­
els, agaist 2,813,714 bushels last week,
6,292,625 bushels in the corresponding
week of 1898, 5,496,061 bushels in
1896.
For the year, failures are the smallest
in number for 17 years past, and were
it not for a few heavy fiancial suspen­
sions in December, liabilities, which
will exceed those of 1892 slightly,
would have been smallest for 12 years
past.
PACIFIC
COAST
TRADE
•entile Market..
Onions, new, $1.00(91.25 per saclfe
Potatoes, new, $16(920.
Beets, per sack, 76(985c.
Turnips, per sack, 60c.
Carrots, per sack, 50c.
Parsnips, per sack, 75(985c.
Cauliflower, 75o@$l per dozen.
Cabbage, native and California
(990c per 100 pounds.
Peaches, 65 (9 80c.
Apples, $1.25(91.50 per box.
Pears, $1.00(3)1.25 per box.
Prunes, 60o per box.
Watermelons, $1 .50.
Nutmegs, 50@ 75c.
Butter—Creamery, 82c per pound}
dairy, 17 @ 22c; ranch, 22o per pound.
Eggs—Firm, 80(9 310.
Cheese—Native. 16c.
Poultry—9@10c; dressed, 13«14o.
Hay—Puget Sound timothy, $12.00;
choice Eastern Washington timothy,
$17.00(918.00
Corn—Whole, $23.00; cracked, $23j
feed meal, $28.
Barley—Rolled or ground, per ton,
$21; whole, $22.
Flour—Patent, per barrel, $3.36;
blended straights, $3.10; California,
$3.26; buckwheat flour, $6.00; gra­
ham, per barrel, $3.80; whole wheat
flour, $3.10; rye flour, $8.80(94.00.
Millstuffs—Bran, per ton, $16.00;
shorts, per ton, $17.00.
Feed—Chopped feed, $20.50 per ton;
middlings, per ton, $22; oil cake meal,
per ton, $82.00.
News of a big snowslide on th«
White Puss & Yukon railroad win
brought to Victoria by the steamei
Tees. A rotary and two engines wer<
buried by the slide,and after they wert
shoveled out, the rotary ran into a
rock, knocking out 13 of its 20 knives.
The train which was behind the snow­
bucking outfit was not injured.
P. O’Kegan, one of those who en
Fortland Market.
deavored to walk to Skagway from th«
Wheat
—
Walla Walla, 51 «52c;
snowliound train, was found uncon­
scious, with his face and hands frozen. Valley, 52c; Bluestem, 54o per bushel.
Flour—Best grades, $8.00; graham,
The operator at (.lacier rejsirted tc
Skagway that the track there was cov­ $2.50; superfine, $2.15 per barrel.
Oats—Choice white, 34 (9 85c; choice
ered for a distance of 850 feet a depth
of five to 20 feet. Telegraph wires be gray, 84c per bushel.
Barley—Feed barley, $15(916.00;
yond Glacier are down.
brewing, $18.00(918.50 per ton.
Heutlien Chinene Threw la Bomb.
Millstuffs—Bran, $17 per ton; mid­
At Victoria, B. 0., a dastardly at­ dlings, $22; shorts, $18; chop, $16 per
tempt was made to wreck a Chines« ton.
Hay—Timothy, $9(910.50; clover,
Methodist mission church. While th«
congregation, principally Chinese, wa« $7 @8; Oregon wild hay, $6(9 7 per ton.
Butter—Fancy creamery, 50 «55c;
worshipping, a bomb made of lead pip«
and filled with gundpower was ex­ eeoonds, 42 S«45c; dairy, 87 S <940c;
ploded. No one was injured.
Th« store, 26 (9 36c.
Egg"—18(919c per dozen.
<leed is ascribed to heathen Chines«
Cheese—Oregon full cream,
jealous of the introduction of Christi­
Young America, 14c; new cheese lOo
anity among their countrymen.
per pound.
To Elat All the Hops.
Poultry—Chickens, mixed, $2.50«
Directors of the Oregon Hopgrowers 3.50 per dozen; hens, $4.00; springs,
Association met in Salem Tuesday af­ $2.50(98.50; geese, $7.00(99.00 for old;
ternoon, and were in secret session foul $4.50(96.50 for young; ducks, $4.50
hours. The chief business transacted per dozen; turkeys, live, 12*i«18o
was to require every local representa­ per pound.
tive of the association to obtain a com­
Potatoes—55(970c per sack; sweeta,
plete list of hopgrowerH and the amount 2«2^c per pound.
of hops now on hand in their respect­
Vegetables—Beets, $1; turnips, 90c;
ive districts.
The lioard also In­ per sack; garlic, 7c per pound; cauli­
nonneed that it is now reudy for buai- flower, 75c per dozen; parsnips, $1;
ness.
beans, 5<96c per pound; celery, 70«
75c per dozen; cuoumliers, 50c per
Northwest Note«.
An opera house is one of Albany ’« liox; jieas, 3«4c per pound; tomatoes,
75c per box; green corn, 12 S «
needs for 1900.
15c per dozen.
Mule-buvers from California are in
Hops—8(9 11c; 1898 crop, 5 (3 6c.
Southern Oregon counties.
Wool—Valley, 12 (A 18c per pound ;
A Bums paper reports a sale of 2.70C Eastern Oregon, 8(9 14c; mohair, 27«
80c per pound.
stock sheep at $2.60 per head.
Mutton—Gross, liest sheep, wethen
It is estimated that the call for war­
rants recently made by the county and ewes, 8 V»c; dressed mutton, «MS
treasurer of Whatcom county rovers 7c per pound; lamlts, 7 Sc per pound.
Hogs—Gross, choice heavy, $5.00;
about $170,000 of county indebtedness.
light and feeders, $4.50; dressed,
Figures of real estate transfers re­ $5.50(36.00 per 100 pounds.
corded in King county (Seattle) since
Beef—Gross, top steers, $3 50«4.00;
July 1 show a total of 495 transfers, of cow«, $3 «3.50; dressed lieef, 6*4«
an aggregate value of $3,989,625, not 7>4c per pound.
including, of course, the value of the
Veal—Large, 6h«7Sc; small, 8«
transfers for nominal sums.
8%c per pound.
In Umatilla county, wheat farms are
Han Francisco Market.
advertised for sale at prices from $20
Wool—Spring—Nevada, 12«15opes
to $40 an sere. A farm on the foot­ pound; Eastern Oregon, 12« 16c; Val­
hills east of Milton sold for $5,800 ley, 20«22c; Northern, 10« 12c.
spot cash.
Hop«—1899
crop,
11 «12o pee
The old mill, on Chambers creek, pound.
Onions—Yellow, 75«85c per sack.
near Fort Steilacoom, was recently de­
Butter—Fancy creamery 24 «25c;
stroyed by fire. It was one of the old
landmarks of that part ot the country, do seconds, 22«28c; fancy dairy, 20
«21c; do seconds, 19c per pound.
having been built in 1852.
Eggs—Store, 25 « 37 Ho; fanoy ranch,
The convention of the Linn county 84c.
Christian Entteavorers is to be held in
Millstuffs — Middlings, $16.00 «
Brownsville on January 12, 18, and 14. 19.00; bran, $12« 14.00.