The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-12-08
Terrible Massacre By Chinese at Tacoma.
A YOUNG LADY SKIPS.

YOUNG LADY SKIPS.
OCEAN GROVE. Dec. Miss Har-
riet Dunn. confidential boOkkeeper f.
for the American Missionary society, |
and teacher in the Sunday school,
has fed the city, after embezzllng
$4,000. She took young man, son
of a prominent Methodist minister, |
along with her. They are supposed /
to have gone to Kamschatka.
WE'LL SINKING EXTRAORDINARY.
NEHALEM, Dec. THE new method .
of sinking wells was tried near here /
to-day. A metal tube was set on end
at the spot where the well was de-
sired, and a galvanized platinum plate /
placed upon the upper end. A small
electric battery was then attached TO
the lower end of the metal tube and
the current turned on. A fash of
lightning Immediately struck the up
per end of the tube and drove it full
length into the earth. Water immedi-
ately streamed from the tube by
siphOn-like action upon the patent
valve. To draw water one has merely
TO turn a little button, admitting the
dlI 10 Tit SlDllOl'. IhS
maintains great secresy as to the de
tails of his plan.
4 FEATHER FOUNDRY FROZEN OUT.
CLATsoP, Dec. I. The feather fOun-
dry of Hommoun & Huey. opposite
the Grimes Avenue Rink, was frozen
out last night. The doors had been
left open in the evening, and party
at the rink passed by at an early hour
with can of frozen cream. Some OF
| the contents fell on the boiler of the
foundry, and it grew unSl the whole
building assumed the beautiful pro-
portions of an ice palace. The loss is
not known, but it will probably be
heavy, as the hens have quit laying
and chickens are scarce. A great
many people Will now have a chance to
sell their old feather beds at a rise.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN sIINNEsAINTPAULIs.
! MINNESAINTPAULIs.M MINI, Dec L
A singular accident occurred here
early this evening. One Of the Soup
| Supply company's mains on Prospect
avenue burst at o'clock, and before
| the soup could be shut off, flooded the
|
| little boys were drowned and Il young
lady was rescued while standing on
tip-toe in the food. Already the soup
had begun to enter the corners OF her
mouth. Loss small, but the dwellers
| along Prospect avenue had TO go with
out soup for dinner
ELECTRIC BICYCLE COLLISION AT
JEWELL.
JEWELL, Dec, This evening the
electric bicycles of w. +. Angel and r.
j. Nutting collided in front of the
house 1904 Main street. Mr.. Nutting
was thrown 700 feet down a bank,
where he lodged in a chestnut tree.
He will recover. Mr.. Angel flew up
and alighted ON an electric-light wire,
but was not seriously hurt.
ISCIPIENT BLAZE AT wARRENTOwN.
WARRENToN, Dec. AT 6 o'c lock
this evening, as the 1890 workmen of
the Astoria and South Coast Loco
motive works were emerging from the
grounds at the time gate, an alarm OF
| fire sounded. Flames were first dis
covered in The car-bOdy shop, and be
fore they could be extinguished
spread to the sash, door and blind
and fence shops. By hard work the
dressed lumber and plank shops were
saved, as was the ready-made house
shop. On the side tracks stood
seventy freight cars loaded with the
patent combination ter-fitting ey-
tensible paper houses for which this
concern is so justly famous. Not one
of the cars was burned, which is a
matter for great congratulatiOn, as the
| firm is under contract TO erect a city
of 1000 complete houses at Chilcat
all to be ready by March -, 1890, and
had these cars been burned, the con-
tract would haze to be forfeited. and
heavy penalty paid. The loss is about
S7000N. Insurance, ample.
HOW A TRAIN WAS SAVED.
CALDWELL, Dee. 7. This evening,
Patsey Bolivar was returning to his
home, he came in sight of the south
bound passenger tram on the
Albany and Astoria railroad
The train had taken the
wrong road at the junction, a few
miles up, and was dashing headlong
into the night. Mr.. Bolivar's quick
eye soon discovered that the head
light of the locomotive was a differ
ent color from the one used on tnat
line and attempted 10 intercept, but
the engineer put on more steam and
drove ahead. Mr. Bolivar stepped
to one side of the track and let the
train pass, when he caught the rail
| 1rff Of 40
brought the cars to full stop. In a
few seconds more the train would have
collided with the accommodation COM
ing north. As this train consisted ef
over one hundred coaches, and they
were all full, the loss of life would
have been serious. Boliver's hands
were somewhat bruised, and he COM
planned of a sore feeling in his right
arm. The grateful passengers pre-
sented him with $3.50, 700 plugs of
tobacco, and $50 bottles of whiskey,
and regretted that they had no more
along.
BURSTING OF PIPE LINE.
TONGUE POINT, Dec. THE beer
pipe line burst three miles from this
city. under the waters of John Days
this afternoon, The fishermen, who
first observed the break, did not re-
port it on shore, but sent word to
their friends to come out The fish
catch to-day was the lightest ever
known in these waters.
THE NORTH POLE DISCOVERED.
UPPERNIvIK, Greenland, Dec. g.
The American aerial polar exploring
ship, the Pole, arrived here this even
ing. The north pole has been dis
covered. Lieutenant Glass and his
whole command alighted at the very
pole, where they spent the night
The pole was reached on the 18th of
last month, after terrible experience
in an arctic storm. No lives were
lost, and the whole party returns in
good health. Lieutenant Glass had
plenty of supplies on hand and stopped
here only to cable to his government
the news of his wonderful success.
He and his men are so impatient to