The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-04-19
TELEGRAPHIC.
HE SHOT AT A PRIEST.

scrape which occurred about o'clock
this afternoon, and came near being fatal
to more than one person. DR.. K. B.
O'Brien attempted to take the life Of
Rev. F. 4. Becker, president cf Holy
Angels College, near his Office on Main
street, near Fifth. O'Brien came here
from California last winter wholly desti
tute, and applied to Father Becker for
support, who. to assist him in getting on
bis feet, engaged him as professor of
chemistry vt the college, and to make
him Independent hired an Office, put him
into decent clothes and boarded him, re
quirlng in return that O'BIien should at.
tend any cases of sickness that might
occur at the college. O'Brien proved un-
worthy of the kindness bestowed. He
was without ambition and inatteDt.ve to
his duties professionally, and being
wholly unable to manage the boys at the
college, Father Becker was obliged to let
him take his own course. He notified
O'orien that he would no longer pay the
Office rent and would return the furniture
rented for the Office. O'Brlen then
threatened the father with revenge, and
presented bill of $3.50 for professional
services, though this was fully offset by
board, lodging and other assistance gwen
him. He insisted on being paid. When
Father Becker came to see him at the Of
fee on Main street, being refused pay
ment he stripped for fight, and seeing
Father Becker avoid it and hasten down
stairs, pulled revolver and fired, the ball
happily going through the crown of Rev.
Becker's hat. Father Becker, followed by
O'Brien in close pursuit, ran into Wager
ner's book store, adjoining, where the sec.
ond bullet came near hitting him. He
rushed out on the steeet, closely pursued
by O'Brien. The latter fired again, this
time hitting young Michael Whittier, o
militlaman working in the adjoining
sto-e. The ball entered the scalp of the
forehead, grazing the skull and coming
out two inches furtner back. DR.. Staines,
who dressed the wound, apprehends no
serious dagger. Men then rushed to the
scene and secured the would-be assassin,
who after the attempt to harm Father
Becker had failed, threw the murderous
weapon at HIM, but without touching
him. O'Brien was quickly lodged in jail.
Partial insanity appears to be the only
accountable reason for his action.
BOSTON, April 15.-An object glass for
the forty inch telescope to be mounted at
the university in Southern California, was
taken to Cambridge to day. 1t will be
the largest refractlug telescope ever con-
structed. From Its lofty position in San
Diego 1t will pierce further into the re-
cesses of space than any instrument here
tofore designed by hand. The glass was
taken to the establishment of Clerk Bros :,
who will spend nearly two years upon it
before 1t will be ready for use. 1t came
from the establishment of Mantois, in
Paris.
1t Is the biggest piece of work Of the
KIND they have ever done, or which has
ever been done anywhere. 1t has a super
latively pure and beautiful circular plate
crown. The glass is 40 inches in diameter
or more than 10 feet in circumference,
21a inches thick, and so clear that when
balanced upon its edge it Is invisible. 1t
interposes no obstacle to the rays of light
which fall upon it, and they pass through
it absolutely unchanged. When COM
pleted it will have an exact diameter of
forty inches, with maximum thickness
OF about two inches. The curves of its
double concave surfaces are not calculated.
Complimentary glass and the plates for
the convex lenses, which will be placed
about eight inches behind the object glass,
have not been cast. The tube of the tel
escope will have a length of about sixty
feet, thus exceeding the Lick telescope in
length, as an object-glass, and also in
diameter.
HER MAsTs IN FLAME.
PORT TOWNSEND, April 15-The steaLa-
ship Michigan, from Portland, arrived
tonight and reported observing two
masted schooner between Dungeness and
Smiths island afre. The jlb sails were
set aud the vessels masts enveloped in
cloud OF smoke. A boat loaded with
people was observed leaving the schooner.
The steamer Sehome, for Victoria, had
passed the vessel and was heading
away.
1t is believed here that the vessel is
from the San Juan islands, pre-
laden with lime. The Michigan
was several miles this side of the burning
vessel, and concluded that the Sehome had
rendered assistance. Steamers arriving
up to 10 o'clock to- night report that no
burning vessel was in sight. She must
have burned and gone down.
GUNS HIT THE BULLS EYE.
MONTEREY, California, April 15.-The
at target practice to- day, with
q six-inch rif1ed cannon, at 1000 yards,
struck the target three times. At 1900
yards she also struck the target. The
men drilled we'll. The ship made thir-
teen knots an hour at half steam from
San Francisco down. The torpedo guns
will be tried tomorrow.
DRUNKEN SECTION MAN KILLED.
WALLA WALLA. April 15.-Lsst night
1T Wallula Patrick Mckee, q section
man on the Hunt road, while crossing the
track, presumably in an inebriated condi.
tion, fell, striking his head and producing |
unconsclousness. Before he could be |
rescued he was run over by an entire |
rain, cutting off both legs below the
knees, from which injures he died at the |
hospital here this morning. He never re.
covered Consciousness.
PALACE BURNED.
ST.. PETERSBURG, April 17.-The i'm
perial palace at Orsnlenburg, twenty |
miles west, has been burned by nihilists.
Seven servants were burned to death.
TRAGEDY IN Low LIFE.
: TACOMA. April 17.--William Scott,
was shot and killed few min
,tes before noon to-day by Matte Scott,
lis mistress. The shooting occurred In
oom on the first floor of a bagnio kept
~ Hattie Jones, 1871 D. street. Jealousy
vas the cause. Scott, who was familiarly
Known as "Scotty," has been for several
months the piano player at Cora Kinks
'agnio, 1923 D street, next door to where
be shooting occurred. The woman, also
mulatto, was employed as chamber
maid in the establishment of Mamie
Tones. She and Scott claimed to have
'een married. For several weeks they
ave been quarreling almost continually.
DEATH OF A SEATTLE BAKER.
SEATTLE, April 17,-Martin Voil, q
'sker, died at police headquarters this
morning under circumsta noes that would
'oint to foul play. Voil was found ID
n alley early yesterday morning in an
condition, with his bOdy and
ace badly bruised. He was taken to
'olice headquarters and given medical
ttention, but he did not regain con-
ciousness, and finally died this morning.
reports were circulated to-day that Vol
ad been "doped" by members of the
'akers' Union, with which organization
e had had trouble, hut where the reports
riginated it is impossible to state.