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WILL BOUNTY REPORTER. LATER NEWS. w on» beef DEWET EVADES KNOX. LYNCHED BY A MOB. ______ General Kitchener Reports a Running Fight Loot sent to France will be embar Vengeance Dealt Two Negroes In Indiana— goed. With the Boers. Authorities Were Overcome. American wheat visible shows a de London, Dec. 17.— Lord Kitchener Rockport, Ind., Dec. 19.—Two ne M c M innville ............ O regon . crease. Last of The Famous Steamer cables the war office from Pretoria un Items of Interest From All Parts groes, Jim Henderson aud Bud How der date of December 12 that General The Monroe doctrine may be applied lands, who wavlaid, murdered and rob« Knox reports from Helvetia that he is to France. Alpha. of the State. bed Hollie Simons, a white barber, engaged in a running fight with Gen early this morning, were lynched to The Biers were defeated in a battle eral Dewet, and that the enomv ia mov night in the jail yard by a mob of at Orange river. NINE PERSONS WERE LOST WITH HER ing towards Reddcrsburg, where there COMMERCIAL AND FINANCIAL HAPPENINGS 1,500. The negroes were arrested soon A third negro was lynched by the is a column ready to co-operate with after the murder occurred, aud al Rockport, fnd., mob. the other British forces. Lord Kitche though Rowlands’ clothing bad blood In the sinking of the Gneisenau, 136 The Vessel Struck a Rock at the Entrance ner in another dispatch reports that A Brief Review of the Growth and Improve stains on it thev claimed they were ilfl A h Interesting Collection of Items From the Boers attacked the |>ost near Barberton. persons were drowned. noceut. In the meantime Slienl to Union Bay, on the East Coast of ments of the Many Industries Through Two Hemispheres Presented in a The British casualties were three Clemens, of Union county, Kentucky There is no prospect of passing the Vancouver Island. out Our Thriving Commonwealth. Condensed Form. killed, five wounded aud 13 taken pris arrived with a trained bloodhound" subsidy bill this session. oners. The captuied men have since When the dog was placed on the trad The steamer Alpha was wrecked on Vancouver B. C., Dec. 19. — News of been released. The Boers raided the Elmira has a football team. The powers have agreed to the joint he followed it to the house where Row the Vancouver island coast. the worst marine disaster of the season Riverton road station December 11. note. John Day has three smallpox eases. lands lived, six blocks from the seen» Major-General John G. Parke died in British Columbia was brought here They are being followed up. The Japanese gave Admiral Beards- A telephone line from Huntington to of the murder, aud went baying to the ! tonight by the steamer Czar, from General Kitchener’s message indi at his home in Washington. bed the negro had occupied. This lee a reception. Burns is projected. 1 Union bay, on the east side of Vancou was enough for the excited citizens. The Porto Rico case is before the ver island. The steamer Alpha was cates that Dewet has again evaded Chicago police will prevent the Gans- Knox. After the latter had foiled the The sheriff of Grant county collected Within a few minutes u mob of a thous United States supreme court. McGovern fight. I wrecked on a reef near the entrance Boer general at Coomassie drift, the $9,418.40 in November. and howling, bloodthirsty men with Congressman Boutelle was placed to Union bay and not a vestige of the Boers seeqi to have doubled back, Banta Fe strikers wish their differ sledge hammers, ropes aud guns were An organ has been purchased for on the retired list of the navy. l,0(J0-ton steamer remains. Her man crossed the Caledon rivei elsewhere, ences arbitrated. on the way to the jail. the Gold Hill school house. aging owner, captain, purser, three en and turned thence northwest — in the The military commission begins its Sheriff Anderson and his two depu Five persons were killed in a train The Corvallis creamery is paying 25 gineers, two able bodied teamen and a direction of Reddersburg, the memor investigation in the Booz hazing. ties made a stand aud attempted to wreck in Montana. stowaway were drowned, and the rest able scene of the British disaster in cents per |>ouud for butter fat. protect the prisoners. The officers Fresh instructions sent to Conger of the crew of 34 were saved by the Fire in I’ekin destroyed the quarters April, when De wet captured the Brit J. J. Fitzgerald, of Shelburne, bat were seized by the leaders of the mob will clear the way of all obstacles. of a number of officers. pluck of an unkown member of the ish Rifles. a contract or 20,000 fence rails. and disarmed. The sheriff, although A cure for strikes was discussed by ship’s crew, who swam in a raging sea Kitchener rpeorts a running fight be The McDonald & Fisher sawmill at locked in a room and placed under the arbitration confereneo at Chicago. from the wreck to a lighthouse with tween Dew<t and Knox. Tragedies on Shipboard. guard, stoutly refused to give up the Summerville is in running order. Preparations are being made for de a line around his waist. keys or tell where the prisoners were Gornpers will be re-elected president San Francisco, Dec. 17. — The Brit Repairs to the Blanchard bridge east The Alpha was valued at $45,000. velopment of natural gas near Rosalia, hiding. of the Federation of Labor. ish ship Crown of Scotland, which ar of Aurora were finished last week. Her cargo compr sed 750 tone of salt Wash. The mob made a determined but un The Santa Fe repudiates its relations salmon and 350 tons of coal, con- rived today, 130 days from Penarth, The Clerks’ union, of Pendleton, has successful attempt to break in the jail A Washington county farmer was (isgned to Yokohama, and valued at Cardiff, had th tee tragic entries in her with the telegraphers’ union. door. Finally they secured a telegraph log. November 24 John Warrington organized with nearly 100 members. The American fleet in North China murdered by a shot tired through his $80,000. The total insurance on the stabbed P. C. Haglund, his shipmate, The Enterprise council has passed pole, and using it as a battering ram window. ship and cargo was $65,000. waters is reduced to two vessels. caved in the side wall of the jail. The The official report of the finances of It is two weeks since the Alpha first while the latter was asleep in his acts against bawdy houses aud va door of Rowlands’ cell was then quick The Irish Nationalist convention de the Faris exposition, shows a loss of [ started from Vancouver for Japan. bunk. Leaving his sheath-knife in his grancy. clared for the abolition of landlordism. ly broken in with sledge hammers and 2,000,000 francs. After she had been four days out she victim’s breast, the murderer ran up A breakwater is being built at Eu on deck, jumped overboard and was gene at the east side of the bridge over he was dragged from the jail to the Washington’s centennial anniversary retuined to Victoria partly disabled, The Oregon supremo court decided east side of the court yard, where a drowned, despite efforts to reach him waa celebrated with imposing ceremo that the Portland vehicle license ordi and accusations of tampering with her with a lifeboat. No one on board of the Willamette. noose was placed about his neck. He nies. engines were made. Some of the crew nance was invalid. Malheur county has accepted the was given time to make a statement, The and several of the officers left the the ship knows of the motive. Full particulars have been received new bridge across Succor creek below in which he implicated Jim Henderson second tragedy occurred August 1. Five cases of what is believed to be steamer declaring that she had been ot the tyhoon which recently swept the and another negro. Rowlands then Salvatori Servis fell from the foreyard, Barney Malloy’s place. coast of China, causing a heavy loss to bubonic plague have developed in Tucu- improperly loaded, aud one of the offi- begged piteously for mercy, but the struck the deck and fractured his man, in the Argentine Republic. Lincoln county has allowed M. D. 1 cers was tried and sentenced to six life and shipping. thigh and received internal injuries Welton $500 on his claim for damages mob quickly swung the confessed mur A resolution was introduced in the weeks’ imprisonment for desertion. There are more than 40 eases of which caused his death. snstained from the collapse of Little derer to a tree and riddled his body Last Saturday the Alpha left Vic smalli>ox in St. George’s hospital, Kan United States senate for an investiga with bullets. Elk bridge. toria for Union to replenish her coal tion of the conduct of Judge Noyes in sas City. Only one death from the Leaving the dangling body of Row Correcting an Extradition Treaty. | Alaska. ! supply. A terrific gale was raging and The body of young Hays, who was disease has occurred. lands, the mob rushed back to the jail Washington, Doe. 17. — A treaty has drowned November 2, eight miles above and burst open the cell occupied by The officials of the Santa Fe and late Saturday night the steamer ran on The city election at Astoila, resulted a rock at Baynes sound, at the en been concluded between the United Dallas, at the Hood dam, has been re Henderson. Before the bars yielded to in a sweeping victory for the Citizens’ the officers of *he different trainmen’s trance to Union bay. She was quickly States and Great Britain amendatory covered one mile below that city. the blows ot the sledge some one in the ticket, every candidate being elected organizations will hold a conference in dashed to pieces, and all would have ot the existing extradition treaty an Chicago. Captain R. P. Wainwright, of the crowd fired upon the terrified negro as by large majorities. intended to correct certain imperfec perished had not one of the crew mane Seven hundred Boers have crossed the desperate and successful effort to tions in that instrument, developed by United States Army, purchased 35 be crouched in the far corner. It took Jospeph Benoit, a stage carpenter at horses for the government at Hunting but a few moments to get at Hender from Orange River colony into Cape The cnanges do ton. The price paid averaged about swim with a line to the lighthouse on re' ent experiences. the Graml Opeia house, Salem, Or., son, aud the negro, more dead than In the raging sea not materially affect the scope or prin $50 a head. fell from a scaffold, breaking several Colony near Aliwal North, and have Yellow island. alive, was dragged at the rope’s end to reached Kaapdul. ciples of the existing treaty, the chief only part of those on the ill-fated ship ribs and bruising his face and body Tillamook county commissioners the court house yard and swung to the President McKinley expects to ar managed to reach safety, the officers item in the list beiug provisions clas ladly. The accident was caused by have leased the county sawmill to tree beside the body of Rowlands Fir the breaking of a board upon which he range his Western trip sd as to be in and owner remaining on board last and sifying as a crime subject to extradi- i ing a parting volley at the swinging San Francisco to witness the launch failing to reach the rock. The 25 sur tion the obtaining of money under false County Judge G. W. Sappington until bodies, the mob, eager for another vic it as standing. April 1, who will furnish road plank pretenses. At present the treaty ing of the battleship Ohio. vivors remained on Yellow island, The Lakeview and Ager stage was tim, hurried away to catch the other ing at $4 per 1,000 feet. robbed about two miles from Lake Fire in Cleveland, Ohio, destroyed j which is a rock 200 yards wide, until makes extraditiouable the reception of negro implicated by Rowlands. He Frank Hatch was arrested at Eugene was found at a hotel where he was em view, Or. A lone highwayman accom five out of seven buildings of a machine Sunday night, when the Bea moderated money obtained under false pretenses plished the job. No passengers were company, causing a property loss of somewhat and a sloop was able to call ami omits the principal in the crime, on a charge of forgery. His offense is ployed as a porter. The negro escaped constituting a manifest absurdity. that of endorsing the name of a man aitoard of the stage. Two mail sacks over $500,000, and throwing 1,100 and take them to Union. to the roof of the building, and Mana But the storm which had wrecked To correct this the amendment is made. named Davis to a check given by the ger De Bruler succeeded in convincing were rifled anti a considerable amount men out of employment. ho ship had also prostrated the wires, Acme Commercial Company, amount the mob that the porter had nothing of registered mail taken. Officers are The war revenue bill has been passed aud so no tidings of the shipwreck Grounding of the Garonne. ing to $9.57. now workng on the case. to do with the crime. The mob then by the house. reached the outside world until the Seattle, Dec. 17.—Letters have been The will of the late Senator Davis, While returning from the Umatilla dispersed, apparently satisfied with its Railway telegraphers threaten to little steamer Czar brought the story received in this city announcing the house to his loom in the Chapman work of vengeance. who died November 27. whh filed for to Vancouver tonight. grounding of the United States trane- building, The Dalles, Fred Stewart, a probate by Mrs. Anna M. Davis, the boycott the Santa Fe. Simons was murdered in the most The Alpha gained notoriety last port Garonne on the northern coast of young traveling man representing the brutal manner, one square from t^e widow. The will, made during the Lord Kitchener has called for all spring when, as a Canadian ship, she Luzon. She struck twice, being res senator's last illness, leaves all his available English troops. Merchants’ Supply Company, of Port main street of the city, as he was landed freight and passengers at Nome cued both times by the Yorktown. estate to Mrs. Davis. The estate is England has awakened to the new in defiance of the instructions of the The second time the Yorktown’s cable land, was held up by two thugs and going to his home from his barber shop valued at $26,000 in persoual and seriousness in South Africa. at 2 o’clock this morning. He car robbed of $45. treasury department, and, it is said, caught in the Garonne’s wheel, causing $40,000 in real property. ried the receipts of the day’s work, a The Homestake mine, located on the Colonel Tullock’s expedition failed against the advice of the British em a further delay of 12 hours. The let fact of which the negroes were aware. Lord Roberts has left the Cape for to find the Chinese treasue. bassy at Washington as well. She was ters also tell about a hard march of North Fork of John day river, seven They attacked him from behind, strik Enlgand. miles from Lawton, has been bonded At Rockport, Ind., two negroes, who chased on her return trip from Nome the American troops under General ing him over the head with a heavy Holland refuses to intervene in the had murdered a white man were by a United States revenue cutter, but Hall. The line of march waa over to Eastern capitalists by the owners, club into which a large nai' had been Messrs. Tom Johnson and Joseph Robi Boer war. managed to show her pursuer a clean steep mountains for a distance of 45 lynched. driven. Although terribly beaten, pair of heels. miles, takiug in all six days. At the son, for the sum of $25,000 on a year’s Simons made a desperate fight. His Senator Clay spoke against the ship The German training ship Gneisenan time. Further conditions of the bond conclusion, 165 men were under medi subsidy bill. foundered near Gibraltar und 100 were are that tne persons holding it are to cries attracted two boys. The negroes cal treatment for several days. TROUBLE FOR FRANCE. French troops have ceased looting drowned. take immediate possession and prose drove them away and accomplished Chinese observatories. cute the work of development with a their original design, securing a bag A large Boxer force is said to be Search for Hidden Gold. Ths United States May Have Occasion to En large force of men divided into three containing something over $40 from Li Hung Chang claims to have abso approaching Peking with the intention Pekin, Dec. 17.—A few days ago eight-hour shifts, says the Lawton their victim, and made their escape. force tne Monroe Doctrine. lute power to negotiate. of attacking it. When others arrived Simons was dead. the British troops were notified of the Standard. Chaffee protested to Von Waldersee His skull was crushed in and his head New Yolk, Dec. 19.—A special to existence of a large amount of treasure The senate cannot considered the Petitions have been circulated for and face beaten to a pulp. The spike against German looting. army and appropriation bills until the Times from Washington says: The 20 miles northwest if here. Colonel three different free rural deliveries out on the club had punctured the skull in territory until recently in dispute be after the holidays. Tullock and 100 men left today to in The debate on the war tax reduc of Albany, nearly covering the entire tion bill began in the house. John Addison Porter, McKinley’s tween liiazil and France, and which vestigate the truth of the report. Held in all directions around the city, four places and penetrated his brain. Walter Evans, one of the young men has been decreed to belong to Brazil, Colonel Tullock requested, however, The house of commons voted £18,- former private secretary, died at his may shortly become the object of a dis that 50 extra men be detailed. It is and there are hopes of the same being who attempted to rescue Simons, and home in l’utuam, Conn. 000,000 to carry on the Boer war. established, but it is not known who afterwards witnessed tire lynch pute between France and the United believed that a large amount of gold The British admiralty is arranging Sates, should the Mouroe doctrine be and valuables were buried at that whether they will reach the depart ing, has become a raving maniac. The I lay-l'Hiincefote treaty was again considered in executive session. to teat various inventions for steering violated. The territory lying south of point by persons connected with the ment in time for the agent now estab The dead man’s wife is prostrated, French Guiana in the state of Para, Chinese court during the recent flight. lishing routes in the state to act upon and it i» believed she will die from A congressional committee was ap torpedoes and submarine lioats. them before bis departure. The route pointed to investigate the Booz hazing. The Oregon Historical Society pro and containing 100,000 square miles, The information regarding the treasure out of Shedd has given such general the shock. poses to hold a great fair in 1605, in was claimed by Brazil and France, aud was received from a former court offi satisfaction that there is a general de The l’hilippiue commission gave Earthquake In Cuba. commemoration of the Lewis and Switzerland was made arbitrator. Her cial. merchants a hearing on the traiff bill. sire to have the system extended here. decisiou was in favor of Brazil. It is Santiago de Cuba, Dec. 19.—A sharp Clark expedition to the Pacific coast Trial Trip of the Alabama. A $50,000 irrigation ditch will be 100 years ago. The Wallowa marshal ran in a man earthquake shock was felt here about uow reportetd that some French finan constructed at once in Moxee valley, Philadelphia, Dec. 17.—The Unit for peddling without a license, who de midnight last night. It was the most ciers, anticipating that the decision As a result of a mysterious |xiisoning would be favorable to France, had ed States battleship Alabama sailed fied the city authorities and would not severe that has been experienced in Washington. Oregon delegation decides upon con case at the Forsyth mines, near Mar already invested their capital in this today from League Island navy yard even listen to the reading of the com several years, and created a panic at tinuing contract for Columbia river ietta, Ohio, four persons are dead, four territory. They are now, it is »aid, for New York, where she will await plaint by the recorder. He was incai the San Carlos club, where a grand dying aud two others serirously ill. She will make a cerated in the city prison for contempt ball was in progress. The shock was trying to engineer a deal by which tne further orders . improvement. trial trip on the run, which will begin of court, where he languished for two preceded by a dull sound like a mine French government will buy this Five unknown men who] asked the Ftate Superintendent Ackerman re as soon as she passes out to sea. Aftei or three days or until some people explosion. Two shocks followed, the commends that Oregon schools observe marshal of Brighton. Ill., for shelter, laud from Brazil The stHte department has absolutely the sea trial is completed the vessel'» arouNd town put up $t> for a jury trial. former being quite severe and the lat in the calaboose, locked him up anp John Marshall day. Its at course will be shaped further out to The jury thought upon the evidence ter scarcely perceptible. The club bank ami two no knowledge on the subject. The matter of developing Lower then broke into a tention, however, has been called to sea to avoid shipping, as all of het offered that the man was entitled to a rooms became scenes of frantic com stores. Nehalem coal is said to have been con the i.* it ter, aud the Httempt of the guns and turrets are to be tested. II discharge, and so rendered its verdict. motion. Several people rushed into sidered in New York. The building occupied by the con French capitalists to secure government the 1 eport is satisfactorv, it is probable The mau is a foreigner, presumably an tire streets. At Morro Castle a liberty A numtier of persons suspected ot struction department at the Norfolk aid in getting their money back will be that the battleship will be ordered to Italian. He threatened to sue the city ball was in progress. American ladies present expressed great interest in ploting to murder Lord Roberta during navy yard, was destroyed by tire. It watched with interest. There is hard Hampton Roads to join the North At for damages the earthquake, which was the first Ina visit to Cape Colony recently, aban contained all tke important pa|>era, ly any question, it is said at the de lantic squadron. From private letters received by they had experienced, but displayed doned their schemes on learning that models and plans of the construction partment, that such action would be a M. G. Hope, of Vale, it is learned Anti-Foreign Plot in Hong Kong. department. violation of the Mouroe doctrine, and no fear. they were shadowed. that the Ocean Wave mine is making Telephoning without wires was sue would call forth a protest from the Hong Kong, Deo. 17.—The city wat a splendid showing. I. N. Clark, a In hie annual report, Fish Commis Fighting In Colombia. cesafuUy accomplished by trausimit- United States. placarded today with statements incit mining expert, has the development sioner Rei<l says value of fish output ting the voice across the Mississippi As long as the claim was in its orig ing the people and the members of the work of the mine in charge, and in a Kingston, Jamaica, Dec. 19.—Ad for Oregon is over $3,000,000. river, at Minneapolis, a distauce of inal form, France might have main secret societies to unite and rise during letter that was received from him he vices from Colon, Colombia, today Outlawry in Kwang Si and Kwang over 1.000 feet. tained that she was simply rectifying the month of January and drive out all says that seveia) fine nuggets have regaiding the fighting between the gov Tuung is increasing. The officials ernment troops and the insurgents at Advices from Ho Ho report that the her boundaries, and that the United the foreigners. Crowds gathered about appear to lie losing their hold of the American troops have been northward States cam: >t object to that. Even in the placards, but no actual outbreak been taken out lately. In a former let Tumaco, say that the withdrawing in ter he stated that the gold is not con situation and are |>owerlesa to restore and westward for several days and that case a rectification of boundaries is reported. fined to the rich vein that is being fol surgent force was not dispersed, on order. I’irating on the West river is that detachments of the Sixth, Eigh which involved an area of 100,000 lowed, but that small particles of it the contrary, fears are entertained that i-icreasing. Wisconsin's Vote. teenth and Tweuty-sixth regiments square miles would l>e closely scrutin may be seen in the dirt over the entire this body of rebels will effect a junc France has, however, forfeited Owing to a lack of proper facilities have lieen active uear their staliohs. ized. Madison. Wisconsin. Dee. 17.—The face and walls of the tunnel. It is his tion with the force operating around in the way of telegraph, caused by the The insurgents losses during the last the right to make that claim by sub total vote of Wisconsin, as officially opinion that it would pay to null the Beuna Ventura. Both sides lost heav When strike, a serious collision occurred on 10 days there have been five killed, mitting the matter to anbtration by canvassed, »as 425,151. McKinley’s whole hill on which he is working. ily in the battle of Tumaco. • lie Atchison, Topeka Jt Santa Fe, in seven wounded and 40 taken prisoners. Switzerland. The territory has been plurality was 106,581. LaFollette, This mine is an extension of the Goldeu the government forces destroyed the which several persons were probably The Americans nave lost two killed officially decreed by the Swiss tribu Republican, for governor, has a plural Eagle, which ia owned by Portland rebel steamer Gaitan they also de nal to be outside of French Guiana. stroyed a large lot of ammunition. aud three wounded. fatally injured. ity of 103,745. capitalists. I). I. A8BI KY, Publlihtr. [VERTS Of lilt MT Woman Suffrag« in Porto Rico. Prairie chickens are said to be more Five editors were chosen to sit in San Juan, Porto Rico, Dec. 19. — In the Nebraska legislature at the recent anuudant in western Kansas than for the house of delegates today. Descarts years. election. introduced a bill giauting unrestricted During the past five years the state Joseph Manley has resigned as chair suffrage to women on the same terms man of the Republican execuitve oom- of Pennsylvania has purchased more as met.. unttee of Maine after a aervioe of 18 than 100,000 acres of land to tie issued as a forestry reservation. years. Storms in British Columbia. Vancouver, B. C., Dec. 19. — Storms Former Amlutsador to Italy W. F. Electrio coal-cutting machinery is rapidly displacing band work and other Draper has lieen decot a ted with the of unusual severity have destroyed a varieties of mechanical mining applt- order of tfti. Maurice and Canal by the portiou of the diking in the delta dis auoee in the collieries of Gieat Britain king of Italy, for servioea during his trict of British Columbia. The dam embassy to Rome age *o property ia considerable. and the United States. The Lakeview Rustler says that Found Dtad In His Cabin. John Green, of the West side, who has London. Dec. 17.—The annual Rug been drilling for artesian water, has Hillsboro, Oregon, Dec. 19.—An by football match l>etween Oxford and succeeded in getting the water to rise drew Bahlberg, an inoffensive farmer Cambridge took place today at the within five feet of the top of the residing near Reedville, was today Queen's club. A magnificent game ground, at a depth of 101 feet. found dead in his cabin. The dead was won by Oxford by two goals tc man had a bad contusion on the fore A. Nelson, of Cottage Grove, »old a goal and a try. There was a Urge his undivided one-half interest in the head. He had recently sold some pro and fashionable attendance. Peek-a-Boo mining claim to G. Meadow duce and was supposed to have consid Nordenskfold's Expedition. and D. G. McFarland This claim is erable money in the bonce. It is gen erally beieved that he was killed for Christiania. Dec. 17. — The Antarctic located in the Bohemia district about expedition, headed or Dr. i»tto Nor- one mile south of the Muaidt mine. his money. The coroner will hold an inquest in the morning. The consideration was $600. deukejold-, will leave in August. Oxford Beats Cambridge.