PLOT TO BLOW UP STEAMER.
Dynamite and Nitro - Glycerin IT IS A MATTER OF HEALTH
Found on the Albany.
Enough dynamite and nitro-glycerin
to have blotted the steamer Albany out
ot existence was found lying on her hull.
guard,ju:»t above the water line, Tues
day morning. The explosive was tamped
and set with capsand fuse, ready for the
catastrophe which some fiendish if not
disordered mind had planned.
Nothing but a succession of fortunate
circumstances prevented the obliteration
of the boar, and Chief Officer W. B.
Matheson, who was sleeping on board.
The fuse was defective and burned out
in the first place ; then the cold, damp
weather probably had the effect of pre
venting an explosion later, when Captain
J. P. Whitcomb,mistaking the dangerous
charge for a heap of dirty rags and
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paper, which it resembled, picked it up
and threw’ it a dozen feet up on the Oak THERE IS NO SUBSTITUTE I
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street dock without realizing the des-
perate chance he was taking with his
lite.
RUSSIA READY FOR PEACE
Just whv *he attempt was made on the
Albany is something that is puzzling the King Edward Assured Interven
tion would be Acceptable.
officers of the boat and the officials of
B russels , April 6.—The following dis
the Western Transportation & Towing
Company, to which the vessel belongs. patch has been received from a Berlin I
All claim to be at sea as to what motive correspondent, and while it is not gene
could be afforded for such on act. They rally credited, is worthy of reproduction
say they ha ve no competitors who would merely as indicating that there is still a
be benefited by their nonexistence, while belief that intervention will end the war.
“King Edward has taken the precau
the officers of the boat says they have
not had any ’difficulty with discharged tionary steps to ascertain if Russia
would be disposed to accept an offer of
boatmen.
An examination of the explosiyes does mediation. The Czar is declared to have
not tend to lessen the mystery. Detec assured the King that if such an offer
tives Snow ami Kerrigan, who were de were properly made it would be readily
tailed on the case as soon as it was re accepted bv Russia. With Russian acqui
ported to the police, found that there escence thus secured, it is difficult to see
were two pounds of Judson powder how Japan can decline the proposal when
tamped in a small linen sack and satu it emanates from her powerful ally.
Optimists here believe that the slow
rated with nitro-glycerin. On top of
this bag there was a box of giant caps, march of events in the Far East is due to
into which a coil oi fuse extended. A the fact that those negotiations have
couple of handfuls of black powder was actually begun.
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packed upon the charge, and over the
w hole was spread a white sock, a tissue-
paper napkin, such as are used at
Chinese banquets and a piece of dirty
wrapping paper. The sock was of the
kind used by Chinamen on dress occa
sions. Powder experts who were shown
160 Acres on Bewley Creek. 80 Acres
the charge bv the detectives said there evel and in grass. Price, $10 per acre.
was enough of the stuff' to have blown a
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dozen ships to pieces. They also said
GEO. W. KIGER,
that the packing was bunglesome and
denoted a novice, although of course an
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explosion would have followed had the Or. Jans Hansen, Marshfield, Ore.
fuse carried fire to the sack.
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AT A BARGAIN.
The presence of the white sock and the
tissnepii|>er napkin leads Detectives Snow
and Kerrigan to believe that the work
may be that of a Chinaman. They learn
ed that the boat has persistently de
clined to employ a Chinese cook, and
thus has caused much anger among
several Chinamen who wanted the job.
It is consei|uentlv regarded as possible
that the intended blowing up of the
Albany was meant to serve as a revenge
and a warning to other rivermen who
spurn Chinese labor.—Oregonian.
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