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nimm county repobteb . D. I. ASBVHV, fublUhsr. M c M innville OREGON. twins or rut mi Aa Interesting Collection of Items From th< Two Hemispheres Presented in a Condensed F jrm. GUISSIPPE VERDI Composer jf Some of the DEAD. World's Finns Will Bt Enforced to Conform tian System. finest Operas Passes to the Great Beyond. Rome, Jan. 28. — A special dispatch to the Patria says that Verdi, the com poser, is dead. He was born in 1813 near l'arma, at the foot of the Aper- uines. At 11 he was tbe organist of Roncole, his native village. He first married the daughter of the conductor of the theater of La Scala, For 50 years be has made the villa of St. Ago- tha, near Bunseto, his favorite resi- deuce. After the death ot his first wife he married Mme. Strepponi, who played in the first performance of his “Nabucco,” at Milan, over 55 years ago. Verdi's father was the keeper of an inn, a fact which would seem to prove the theory of some men of science that all human beings are liorn equal in possibility. What Verdi has done for mankind cannot be measured. “Ernani,” Rigoletto, ” ”11 Trova- tore,” “La Travaita,” "Alda”—these and names tell the story of of the |>eace and pleasure th brought Italian of humble ori to his kind. His compositions have been very numerous. As early as 1347 he wrote the ‘"Masnadieri. ” It was composed for Jenny Lind, and was sung at Her Majesty theater in Lon don with the great soprano in the prin cipal part. ‘‘Trovatore” is his most popular opera. “Aida” is his greatest work, but opinions vary on this point, as they vary about the greatest of Shakespeare’s plays. Signor Verdi did other things than write music. He was a member ot the Italian parlia ment, and served his country in the capacity of minister of public instruc tion. France gave him the legion of honor, Russia gave him the order oi St. Stanislaus, Italy the order of the crown, and Egypt the order of Osman- ieh. Australia presented him with a cross of commandership of the order of Franz Joseph. Of late years Verdi wrote works that are almost as well known as his earUer efforts. They are "Othello” and ^‘Falstaff.” The lat ter was written when the author was 79 years of age. Kt.. Petersburg, Jan. 30.—The ,1 Uin- Engineer’s Carelessness the Cause istry of war has completed a <* drasft of « law to regulate the miliiairjr y /«ervioe in Finland in cou fortuity with th« of a Bad Train Wreck. /at large, system adopted in the eiu be put 1B It is expected that it FIVE PERSONS WERE INSTANTLY KILLED force early in the year. Governor-General Bobri ly itsued instructions to ti Mistook the First Section of a Passing Train of the provinces in Fin II 9 stricter enforcement of the ordinance for the Second—Fireman and Forward of last Jul ly regarding public assem- Breakman Were Also Sleeping. blies. Tne e complaint is made dsat this ordinance is evaded! under prefoxt Parkersburg, W. Va., Jan. 30.—Five of amusements and tyrtainmenta persons were killed and one severely Among the amuseme whfoh reqniro injured and two engines and 10 loaded permits may be rec gatherings in cars were wercked by the mistake of a which social, scien and eoouomic train crew this afternoon between Pe questions are discu I or where ad- troleum and Volcanic Junction, on the dresses are made, crribli«« which Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. The en are permitted must bef.vatebed over by gineer was asleep at bis post ami mis the police, whose duty it will be to took the first section of a passing train suppress demonstration. ' for the second. Thinking both had In order to meet tlta boyoott of un passed he pulled his train on to tbe popular officials by houseowners and main track and sped onward to what hotelkeepers, Governor Genand Bobri- would seem to have necessarily been koff has purchased, for $350, a dwell hie death. ing house in Helsingfors- All five men killed were pinned un- For the purpos of cultivating vtoseer der the wreck and at a late hour to- relations with Bulgaria, the ffavern- nigh\only one of tbe bodies bad been meat has entered into an agreement recovei ed. with Prince FerdiMand’a government The accident occurred in a cut on reducing telegraph tolls from 40 to 23 a curve on a heavy down grade and at centimes a word, and introducing an tbe end of a bridge. The third sec international moueyjorder system sim tion of No. 87 was on the siding at Pe ilar to that in vogue in Russia. troleum with orders to wait there until the second section of No. 98 had passed east. Engineer Davidson who ARRESTED FOR OLD MURDER escaped with slight injuries was the engineer on No. 87 and went to sleep California Man Must Return to Texas for Trial on the siding. When the first section —Confesses His Crime. went by he thought it was the second Sacramento, Cal., Jan. 30.— Frank and started out onto the main truck. His fireman and forward brakeman, Hyatt was arrested here tonight for both of whom were killed, must also the murder of Steve Pressley, commit have been asleep, for they allowed him ted in Elrath county, Texas, July 7, to take the train out. The conductor 1889. Hyatt has made a full confes of the first train No. 98 after he passed, sion, claiming self-defense. He had saw Davidson pulling out and tried to been residing in this city for the last wave him to stop, but failed. The nine years, and was employed in the conductor of fourth 87, seeing the third railroad shops under the name of section pull out ran forward after it as Charles Eaves. He has a wiie and fast as possible his engineer whistling stepson. In his signed confession, he down brakes anil the conductor of the claims that it was his intention to re wrecked train ran over the tops of turn to Texas next year and stand trial the cars until he reached the car t/ext for the killing. He says the quarrel to the last one wrecked in his attempts between himself and Pressley, who was to stop the engineer, but none of them the stepfather of his former wife, oc attracted his attention in time. Con curred over some building material. ductor Lang managed to jump in time Pressley picked up a large stone to throw at him. He struck at Press- to save bis life. The fast trains tonight were passed ley’s atm with a club, to make him around the wreck by way of Mounds- drop the stone, ami the latter, in dodg ing, was struck on the head and died. ville and the Ohio River Railroad. Hvatt claiibs that he feared he would not get a fair trial, as all the witnesses BROKE THROUGH ICE. were relatives of Pressley, so he tied. Th« ■ C« __ Yala^jotbul.' paid ou ance a pairs.' >r In THE G. A. R. ENCAMPMENT. Cleveland, 0., Preparing to Receive 450,000 Visitors Next Fall. Cleveland, O., Jan. 30.—Members of the subcommittee of the national G. A. R. count” i of administration, who are in the city, predict that 150,000 veterans will attend the encampment to be held in this city this fall. The local committee expects 450,000 visit ors to come to tbe city during the en campment. The members of the sub committee, who are General F. M. Sterritt, of St. Louis; Colonel James Scott, of Fairfield, 111.; and Colonel Armstrong, weie in conference today with the local committee. The city will be asked to raise a fund of about $75,000 for the entertainment of the old soldiets. Free accommodations will be provided for Mibout 10,000 de legates. The Erie Railroad, which is not a member of the Central Passenger Association, has announced that it will grant a rate of 1 cent a mile for the encampment. Piracies Near Canton. Washington. Jan. 30.—The follow ing cablegram was received at the state department today from United States Consul Mo Wade, at Canton, dated to day: “Pirates at Bimyonkec, near Kamchuk. attacked a European house boat early Sunday. They killed a Chinese Imatman and wounded severe ly Brookhurst and Spalinger* Euro- peaus. Piracies occur daily in the vicinity of Canton.” Judge Capl«« Coming Home. Valparaiso, Chile, via Galveston, Jan. 30.—The United States consul at Valparaiso, J. F. Caples, of Portland. Or., has resigned. The United States minister, Henry L. Wilson, of Spokane, Wash., is going to the United States on leave of absence. Messrs. Caples and Wilson will both sail on the next steamer from Valparaiso. Camsgls's Tubs Profset Pittsburg, Jan. 80.—The Pittsburg Post says: “Negotiations are pending in New York at the present time which if successful, will result in the Carnegie Company abandoning its plan of build ing a great steel tube plant in Con- ne ' O. Joshua Rhodes, chairman of rd ol tbe National Tube Com- puny, admitted that the officials ot that < oompaiy were making overtures h« C«ri egie Company for tbe to «ha abanitontnsu’ of the Conneaut plan. along these negotiations have ed Mr. Rhodes could not say. N«w Stcsmsr Left Bush Fires in Australia. Seattle. Wash., Jan. 38.—A special from Vancouver, B. C., says: The de struction by hush fires in Australia, according to mail advices by ths steamer Aorangi, has been appalling. While many people are dropping dead from heat apoplexy, the thermometer running up to 115 and 130 in ths shade, hundreds upon hunlredsof fain-, ilies have been burned out, some o' country residents destroyed being < ly structures. miß Of THIS AHD HMM M Interesting Events and Gossip of the Past Week Reported From Cities and Towns in Washington, Oregon and Idaho ‘XThM The Dallas, Or., woolen mills will resume operations. The arrest of Chief II ar jo is expected to end the Creek uprising. A Forest Grove. Or., flouring mill will be moved to Portland. Enovys at Pekin reached an agreement on the question of punishment. Volunteers who enlisted in the Northwest may be mustered out at Vancouver. A bad train wreck on the Baltimore A Ohio was caused by the engineer go- ing to sleep. The Cable Cove mining district in Eastern Oregon has taken on a new lease of life. Judge Caples has resigned his posi tion as consul at Valparaiso, and will return home. Tbe crown prince of Germany was decorated with the Order of the Garter a S. at Osborne house. The Oregon supreme court lias de- ecided that the Multnomah county bi cycle tax is illegal. a An intoxicated man at Colfax, Wash., attacked another with an ax and seriously wounded him. Premier Roblin stated that the Man itoba government was making attempts to purchase the Northern Pacific Rail way in Manitoba but so far, he said, ‘ nothing det'-lte has been done. | George W. Kingsbury and Anthony female were instantly killed near Butte, HANGING OF STICKEL Slont., in the L. E. R. mine by fall ing from the cage while being hoisted Washington Man Who Mnrdered Three People toward the surface. It is supposed —Confessed His Crimes. they were overcome with gas. Kalama, Wash., Jan. 28. — Martin t Charles 11. Ferguson, a well known insurance man of Louisville, Ky., and 1 Stickel was hanged in the jail yard at '< ¿resident of the National Association 9:37 o’clock Friday morning, for the of Underwriters, is dead. Mr. Fergu- murder of W. B. Shanklin, near Kelso n had been in failing health fob a j in November, 1899. Stickel was taken r. He was boru in Oswego, N. ' from the cell at 9:45 by Sheriff Hunt ington ami four attendants. He .. August 18, 1846. Orders have been given to put the walked to the scaffold unassisted, and Bruiser New York in commission at the ascended the steps with steady tread, ew York navy yard. This vessel is showing that he was determined to die undergoing extensive repairs prepara- like a man. He stepped to the center Sixty Skaters on Urge Pond Near Brooklyn— torv to her departure lor the Asiatic of the trap door, stood erect and said: Two Boys Were Drowned. “Gentlemen, I bid you good-by. station, which will he her cruising I God help you; God forgive me. This New York, Jan. 30.—Sixty skaters, | ground for the mlxt two years. She has been selected as the flag ship of is the last time I will see yon on this including many women and children, Rear Admiral Rodgers, who is to have shore. Jesus help you all; Jesus take broke through the ice on a large pond back of Evergreen cemetery, today, 'ibominaud of one of the two divisions me; take me now.” By the time the last words were, and in the wild struggle for li'e two of the Asiatio fleet. spoken, the sheriff and his attendants boyB were drowned. The ice over the v* At Ho llo 50,000 Filipinos hav« had strapped Stickels legs together, center of the pond, where the water f «Worn allegiance. his hands to bis sides, placed the black was deepest and where the skaters were 7* The murderer of Sheriff Summers, in cap over his face, and the noose around assembled in greatest numbers, sud Montana, was run down. his neck. denly sank. At 9:57 Sheriff Huntington grasped K Recruits for Transvaal mounted police The whole crowd was panic stricken. the lever and suddenly sprung the Men and women fought to save them are being enlisted at Victoria. Filipinos in arms after March next trap. The condemned man fell seven selves, and children suffered in tbe feet, and hie neck was almost instant nnoqul struggle. The screams of the Will be ineligible to hold office. ly broken. At 10 o'clock doctors pro skaters were heard by men employed Baldwin has completed arrange- nounced life extinct. The body was in a factory near by, and they ran to ■tents for his Acrtio expedition. cut down and placed in a coffin, to be the pond. They dragged long planks In a battle with Kentuoky moon- turned over to the murderer’s mother with them which were pushed toward and brother. It will be tkeu to Catlin the center of the jaind. Along this iners two officers were killed. footing a life line was formed. Effort Germans believe Roberts' frank for burial. The hanging was private. Every was first made to rescue the women owals hastened the queens' death. thing worked like clockwork. There and children. By twos and threes Hixtv skaters broke through ice near was no trouble in any respect. The they were taken from the water and xroklyn, and two boys were drowned. spectators were very quiet.. There was hustled along the planks to the shore. There is much speculation in Wash no talking or demonslration. The police reserves and surgeons ar Ntickel was born in Adams county, rived in ambulances and succored ington as to the pFobabilltyof an extra Iowa. February 9, 1870. He had re many of the half-drowned skaters. Marion of congress. Jt Fire in a Washington hotel entailed sided in this section aliout 12 years. The bolies of the two boys were recov • loss of $3,000. All the guests es The condemned man slept well last ered. night sud ata a hearty breakfast. caped uninjured. She Turned on the Gas. 1 A sympathetic strike, which means' Death of a Hero of San Juan. New York, Jan. 30.—In a flat in B complete tie-up lias been voted by New York, Jan. 38. — After suffering West Thirty-sixth street, there died as ¿¡prtberu Colorado miners. for more than two years with Cuban the result of inhaling illuminating gas The revenue cutter Grant has started fever, Alfred Rovetsky, who is said to a woman whose son says she came of on one of the most perilous voyages have been the first American soldier to one of the most distinguished families •ver undertaken. Shipping men and ford San Juan creek, where the fierest of Tenuessee. She was Mrs. Anna •nderwriters of the entire Pacific coast of the Spanish fire was directed, in Terry, the widow of Dr. C. O. Terry, a Will anxiouslv await her return, for the battle of San Juan hill, has just graduate of the Harvaid medical ■lie goes in search of missing vessels died in a Newark hospital. He con school, and until hie death, eignt years •nd distressed mariners. Twenty-five tracted the fever in Santiago, and was ago, one of the most distinguished 1 vessels bound for Puget sound and tbe a mere skeleton when lie got home. AV surgeons in New Enlgand. Dr. Terry’s coast are missiug, supposedly driven San Juan Rosetakv fought In troop C, death was accidental, his brain haviug —'«■th. Vessels from Alaska repot t the Sixth cavalry. His clothes were out been pierced by the foil of a fencing "»itire west coast of Vancouver island, by bullets, and while he was ascending master with whom he was engaged in 250 miles of rocks and reefs, strewn the hill with a number of other sol practice. Mrs. Terry wai found dead with Wrwckage. The Grant will ex- diers, a shell exploded close by them. in bed. The house was redolent oi the «mine every square inch of Vancouver A lump of earth struck the young sol odor of gas. and the stopcock in Mrs. coast as far north as Cape Scott in dier in the aide, knocking him sense Terry’s room had been fotfnd turned on •mall boats and Lunches, and will less. After the battle he was person full. A policeman, who was sum search every piece of wreckage for iden ally complimented for his courage by moned, reported the case as one of ap tification. parent suicide. Geueral Wheeler. Emperor William of Germany, has Collltr's Wsskly In South America. The Danish Antilles Deal. been appointed a field marshal in the With the idea that South America Copenhagen, Jan. 80.—It appear« British army aa a t^n y token. may supplant South Africa and China that only a single member out of the aa a war news center, Colliei's Weekly Owing to the thousands 15 comprising the finance committee have died and there has been great dis sent a special correspondent and a spe of the Folketbing opposes tbe sale of cial photographer to Venezuela. Temp tress in the province of Sban Si, China. ests tn teapots are common down thire, the Danish West Indies to the United The leader of the Creek Indian up but this is one that looks like it might States. The objector is starting a nwespaper campaign in favor of their rising has been captured and it is boil over and burn the cook. retention, but tbe fiuance committee of thought thia means the end of tbe in* Tenth National Irrigation Congress. the Landsthing will shortly report m enrractiou. The Colorado Springe National Irri favor of the sale of the islands. lb« A bill providing for a bounty of 1 gation Congress is anLouuoed to meet agitation of the inhabitants ot th« cent per pound on sugar made from Joly 13 to 16 next. This will be im islands against their sale 1 Idaho iiuota has tieen introduced in the mediately preceding the Trans-Missis- artificial, and, therefore, o houae of the Idaho Igislatur«. sippi congress at Cripple Creek. weight. cation in New Zea- success, university at Ath- tannial. iation last year medical attend- “sboae and re- A New York Jan M —The freight steamer IjavraUan, of Atnencan-H««*Mfo StM panv, sailed on from this port this a1 an Fran- cl«« o and Host Hawaiiau it aa oom an a ad in Banrold, • line*« new vee« L Monthly sail- iv -in with the new steam- Californiau, Ameri- Ariaonian. as Crushed to Drath by Elsvstor. Chicago Jan. 80. —Stella Thoma. 20 years old. was crushed to death today by the elevator In the Young Woman'« Christian Association building. She had watched a phvsician vaccinate the inmate- and took tbe elevator to go to her room. She faint»!, and falling forward, her head ca«ght between tbe floor and the ascending car. Her heed was badly crushed and she died within five minute«, WASHINGTON. OREGON. Canyon Cily has a new fire bell. There is talk oka new national bank Jefferson will levy no tax for the at Elleusburg. > year 1901. Work on the new Seattle Labor Tem The Toledo tax levy has been fixed ple will begin within 60 days. at 5 mills. Hoquiui will soon have a uight tefe,- Tbe Eugene Military Club has in- phoue service. corpoiated. A creamery with a daily capacity of The Southern Pacific tie plant at 2.000 pouuds of butter is to be built'at Latham is running again. Everett. Baker City school electors have Charles Neymeir has moved hi« mill voted in favor of a 10-mill special tax. from Machias to a site near Wdpdiu- The 9-year-old sou of H. S. Filton, ville Junction. of Lost Valley, was killed by a falling ,Mrs. Julia Paden, a resident «f tree. Rosalia siuee 1880, is dead at her home There were nearly 600 mining loca in that city. tions recorded in Josephine county last It is announced that a iouxMjry and year. machine shop to -eaat $50,000 will be The receipts of the Canyon City post- erected at Everett. office last year amounted to $27,- The lank of Harrington received last 181.99. week a time lock safe which is sep- The bridge across Trask river at the posed to b« burglar proof. Stillwell place was washed out by the Tbe Harrington Flour Milling Com-• freshet. pauy has finished an order for 3.500 Lumber is being delivered on the barrels of flour, which is to be giound for the new hospital building China. at Eugene. Ex-Sheriff F. W. DeLorimer, Tbe Standard mill at Baker City, Mile, has been appointed state land'tn- . with a capacity of 40,000 feet per day, spetcor by Land Commissioner S. A.. Cal I vert . is nearly finished. J. M. Hall has resigned the James Yates has sold his farm of 80 acres, near Irving, to Mr. Hurd, fate Yakima county surveyor, and t missioners have appointed 11 of Iowa, for about $3,o00. ble to succeed him. Local miners are siBkfog a shaft on G«prg« Pangburn, a pioneei of Wash the Watt hills easfe.bf Amity on the ington. dropped dead from heart site of a supposed pol4 mine. ura at Endicut, 30 miles west of Col* Free-milling gold'«ire has. been di» fa* He was «8 yeari old. covered in the mountain« just west <_ M*. P. Demon was knock«? down in Lostine. Test show the ore literally- front of his resident* bv a tough, who tilled with black suphurets. struck him on the head with a club. Miss Elizabeth Giesy, an Oregon rendering him iuseusible. pioneer, aged 75 years, died at her Men engaged in working o; home in Aurora. Deceased was a sis ter of Dr. Martin and Jaeob Giesy. ere$ a vein of c«p) while bl . A large amoun^ df drift lodged the side of I’roW hill. It is abort« against the railroad bridge, north of four inches in diameter. Lebanon, and 15 m«n -hav« been at Fred Lyman who had been wurking work all week disloil^HHM oi the steam àhorel on thè railroad, A telephone line is ieing^ built Y»v north of Arlington, was instantly the Sunset Compnuy from Jacksonville killed. A landslide occurred land he to the Upper Applegate country, and was warned, but did not have ? time to will probably be connected with the get out of the way. Grant’s Pass-Williams line. A third interest in a group; of tiafe J. W. Parker, who has a rich ap- pearing quartz ledge near Leland, un claims located on lion creek ««hr 3 der bond from Burnett & Hudson, is miles from Keller, has been s«ajl to A. making preparations to equip the prop A. Redmond, of Republic. Th$ claim« are the Mary Mack. Luckie Fqjgg. Last erty with an electric plant. Chance, Copper King and Nd. 5. and C. A. Parker and James Buchanan are owned by H P. McCarthy and have secured a contract to cut and de Fred Beaudreau. The terms are kept liver poles for the telephone line which a secret. is to lie built from Pleasant Hill via The West Coast mill, at Ballard, Jasper and Natron to the main line at which has been closed for tb«PMt four Springfield. weeks, has resumed work. During th« The long looked for English par time the mill was doted many im tridges arrived at Independence and provements and repair« were mart« were taken to the O'Brien farm, a few to the engine and machinery, bv mean«,, miles north of that city, and turned of which the output of the plant will loose. The birds appeared very wild, -be greatly inc reused. Th« mill build apparently owing to their long journey. ing was also repaired and a new foun Reports from the country surround dation put under part of it. ing Albany are general that the fall The O R. & N. engineers, wheat is in excellent condition, with out any indication, at this time, of an been making surveys a enemy of any kind Notwithstanding the Ilwaco Railway the poor crop of last year, the acreage pany. have finish force of men are is large. After an illness of several years, on the conte James Cauthorn, at one time a Besides the prominent grain dealer of Corvallis, trestle is to docks to died at bis home in that citv ailment was rheumatism, and its effects the deceased had been an to be put on invalid for several years. An effort is being made to have the mail route changed between Long Creek and Pendleton so that the route will go over the Yellow Jacket road from Pendleton to Ukiah and via the in >e vicinity of 5 lower gulch road from Ukiah to Long Creek and supply Ritter from Long Creek. state, A deal of considerable magnitude George W. Hunt and Fraf __ was consummated last week at Tilla of Oro . Fino, arrested on a charflA’ mook between C. and E. catU«-«tealing. have iMndistbargeo the Beals Land Company. $40,000 worth of agricultural George R. Lubkin. a Boise mail o«t- town pioperty was transfe rfor, has filed a homestead entry on a company, and will probably bB placed valuable pieee of land near that gltv, on the market. whioh had been overlooked. Owing to the recent high water on According to reports from Delta, tbe Coast Fork which caused the lose scene of recent the placer strike^ pi of many thousand feet of logs, Messrs. pects are excellent. Nug MM Geer and Rouse, tbe saw mill men at been picked up worth $7 a Amos, are arranging to erect a tem porary saw mill at Cottage Grove i will drive the logs there. Tne boil ElfrM co*« bumd to a ariap, Mcob and engines of the new light plant u Hanasr alasoat fatally barned, 2b fosse be used. Tbe owners of the Red, White and Blue mine, at Malheur, will push de velopments as rapidly as possible. ranch owned by David Locke<| There ate two parallel ledges, one ispell. The loss is estimated-'« measuring 13 feet and the other three $1,000. feet, an I the owners believe that de The result of a disputed romt; velopment will prove that they come in Kootenai county has together. The mine is equipped with mined by lot. James G a three stamp mill and a steam hoist Noah Washburn, both of ing plant. Tbe capacity of tbe mill Were the claimants. T is to be increased and a pump installed ers Hipped a coin to de at one«. suit. *5 WASHINGTON. The business men of Wenatchee have taken the first steps toward organising a commercial clnb. At the first meeting over 50 prominent citizens were present. William M. Racon, an engineer on the Spokane Falls A Northern, who was injured in the collapse of the bridge between Meyers Falla and Mar-, cas, Joly 33, 1900, has sued the com pany for $75.750 damages. The Potlatch country? with cattle thieves agai coming from the surroundil that a few bead bad been far none of th« thieves b pre bended. It ls reported Meesre. Croiser and Schaff pleted arracgements for hogs on the yrairie. Tb ground out of the citv tbey have eected buildi of tbe stock