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TIE TELEGRAPHERs' STRIKE.
But Few Operators Reported to Hav.
Quit Work.

But Few Operators Reported to Have
Quit Work.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec 15.-The threat
ened general strike of operators on the
Pacific system OF the Southern Pacific
road was not carried out to-day, and so
far as reported but few men have quit
work. Three men are reported to have
walked out on the salt Lake Division.
five on the Ashland Division, one at
Tracy and two on the Coast Division or
narrow gauge line. The latter two are
said to have reconsldered their action
and returned to work.
Adylces by telegraph from various
points on the line show that none of the
operators have yet been ordered out, and
IL would seem that they have no intention
OF deserting their posts.
Division Grand Chief H G. ComstOck
has taken up his headquarters at Oak
land, and while not elated over the pro-
greSs which has thus far been made, he
seems sanguine OF ultimate success and
expressed himself as confident that as
time went on encouraging reports would
begin to come in.
At the general offices of the railroad. at
Fourth and Townsend streets, there was
no excitement whatever, and everything
went on as usual. The officials claimed
That no serious trouble was apprehended
and that they did not believe that any
considerable number Of their men would
obey any summons to quit work
General Manager ToWne had great
faith i'll the good sense of his men, and at
tributed the little trouble that had al
ready occurred to the influence of East
ern agitators, who had been sent to this
coast 10 stir up dissensons.
n member of the Order of TELEGRAPH
ers, who was interviewed this evening.
said: II do not know what acting Grand
Chief Ramsey was thinking of when he
sent word to Deputy Grand Chief Conn
stock TO order this strike. He might have
known well enough that not one-tenth of
the men would leave their offices. We
are in the middle of winter, when Cali
fornia is made the Mecca of every tramp
operator in the country. The company
could fill all the places made vacant in
less than week. Then, too, of the 900
operators on the system only 200 are
members of the ordern
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UNITED STATES SENATE.
Morrill, Appointed Regent of tho
Smithsonian Institution.

morrill, Appointed Regent of tho
Smithsonian Institution.
WAsHIN NGToN, Dec. 15.-In the Senate
nounced the appointment of Morrill, as
Regent Of the Smithsonian Institution to
ill vacancy.
Among the bills introduced and re-
ferred were the following: For the pur-
chase of site for building for the Su-
preme Court of the United States: for a
bronze statue to Christopher Columbus
IN Washington; to promote and encour-
age the display of flags of the United
states; to reorganiZe the infantry of the
army and increase its efficiency; TO repeal
the law for the examination of certain
officers of the army, to regulate the pro-
motions therein, and TO extend liberal
promotions to First Lieutenants: to fix
the pay and allowances of veterans of
the army; to amend the Interstate Com
1merce Act, and providing for the adop-
ton and use of uniform standard of
automatic car-couplers, and the regulat-
ing, operation and control of freight
trains used in interstate commerce.
\ joint resolution was passed to fill va
cancies in the Board of Regents of the
Smithsonian Institution in cases other
than members of Congress.
A resolution, which was referred to the
Committee on Foreign Relations. was
offered, instructing that committee to in
quire whether the acquisition of those
portions of the Mexican States of Sonora,
chihuahua and Coahuila that lie north
OF the twenty-ninth parallel is practi-
cable and for the interest of the United
States.
The Senate then adjourned until to-
morrow
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Special 10 the EEcoRp-ux1ox.

ST. PETERSBURG, Dec. I5.-To The hor-
rors Of famine are added the concomitant
ofthe pestilence Of smallpox, which is
carrying off large numbers of the inn
poverished people. In the two small
villages Of the Government of Riazan, 200
persons are down with the disease, and
fifty deaths have already occurred. The
smallpox is also ravaging in the
provinces OF Yiatka, Samara, Kharkoff.
Vladimir. Kursll, Orenburg, Peterhoff
and Saratof. IN addition to this typhus
fever is carrying of numerous victims
III the various provinces. Although the
few doctors scattered through the coun-
try are doing their utmost to stay the dis
ease, their efforts are almost useless. At
Shadrinsk, in the province of Perm, a
sad condition Of affairs exists, and it may
be necessary for the Government to
interfere TO prevent the wholesale carry
ing of of the inhabitants by famine, the
granaries there being almost exhausted.
ALLIANCE WITH TURKEY SOUGHT
ST.. PETERSBURG, Dec. 15.-The NOeost5
publishes an article to-day urging an al
lance between Russia and Turkey The
paper declares the RuSsio-Turkish war
resulting as it did in the liberation of the
SlavS, rendered an alliance between the
two Powers possible, by removing all
preteXt for a new conflict.
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DARING ROBBERY.
Five Masked Men Hold Up a Mail
Wagon III Chicago.

Five Masked Men Hold Up a Mail
Wagon III Chicago.
CHICAGO, Dec 15.-Five daring high
waymen tonight held up the United
States mail wagon, and at the point of
wagon was then sent on It's journey, the
driver being threatened with instant
death if he made an outcry or stopped.
So complete was the surprise effected by
the bandits that the driver failed to util-
lze the services of a large bulldog beside
him on the seat. Near midnight the
stolen mail sacks, slit open, and rifled of
their contents, were found on Superior
street, in the north division of the city,
fully three miles from the scene of the
robbery. At that hour every available
man OF the city detective force and on the
Postofiice Inspectors staff were out en-
deavorlng to obtain clew to the identity
OF the hlghwaymen or their whereabouts.
The wagon was on its way to the main
PoStOifice with the mail from the stock
yards and the Southwest Station. Driver
Creighton drove down Blue Island to
i1alSted street, and then turned east on
Mather. He was halfway to Desplaines
when five men sprang from the sidewalk
One seized the horses by the reins, while
the others covered Creighton with re-
volyers and commanded him to keep
quiet. The team was then led to an alley,
and while one of the men kept Creighton
covered the others forced open the door of
the wagon and hastily selecting the reg
istry pouch from the others, made off
through the alley. Creighton's guard
kept him covered for five minutes and
then left him.
The thoroughly frightened driver drove
as rapidly as possible to the main Post
office, where he reported the affair An
inventory was made of the contents of the
wagon and it was found that two regis
tered pouches from the Stockyards station
and that from the Blue Island station
were missing. The value of the contents
the officials are unable to determine, but
it is known to be heavy
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HAWAIIAN NEWS.
Funeral of Minister Carter-Affairs in
the Caroline Islands,

L unera1 OF minister Carter-AffaiTS in
the Caroline Islands.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15.-By the ar
rival of the Australia we have Hawaiian
advices to December 6th.
The funeral of Minister Carter took
place Sunday, December 9th. There was
large attendance, including the Queen
and many officials
The British man-of-war Garnet has ar
rived from Victoria, and after short stay
will go to Tahiti
AT the last meeting Of the Worlds Fair
commissioners it was decided to recon-
mend placing the exhibit in separate
building. Much interest is being mani
tested in preparing the exhibit.
The political campaign is now in full
swing, which may account for many re-
ports of radical utterances regarding an
nexation, revolution, etc.
LATEST FROM THE CAROLINE ISLANDS.
The Spaniards have taken to Manila
one of the five native chiefs, probably to
impress him with the sense OF the power
and resources of the Spanish Government.
He is a man who can well be spared from
the island, so far as his influence is con-
cerned. At the order of the Spanish
Governor he undertook to lead the expe-
dition against the Metalenim tribe. When
his people heard of it they went after him
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WORLDS FAIR,
The Chinese Government VIII Take
No Part in the Exposition.

No Part in the Exposition.
CHICAGO, Dec. Is. = A Washington
special says: The Chinese Empire has
officially notified the State Department
that it will take no part in the Worlds
Fair. This ultimatum was delivered to
the State Department through Minister
Denby Saturday. Hitchcock, represent
ing the exposition, has been working
hard to persuade the empire to take part
in the fair. At final conference recently
held between the Commissioners and the
Chinese authority, the Emperor made
known his position. The Emperor's
grounds for declining to send an exhibit
are that the United States has discrim-
mated against the citizens of that empire.
and that the Chinese could not come to
the exposition without being put in
humiliating attitude, needing Especial
passport, to be granted by special Act
of Congress. No objection is raised to
the Chinese merchants already in the
United States participating in the exposi-
ton, but China, as q country, refuses to
take any part whatever in the fair. China
has removed the export duty on all
articles exported for exhibition at Chi
cagO.
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BARNABY MURDER CASE.
Testimony Taken at Yesterdays Sc
sion of the Court.

testimony taken at AeSterday'S SeS-
sion Of the Court.
DENVER, Dec. 15.-E. S. sWorreu. Jr.
was recalled to the stand this morning
and his direct examination continued.
he handed Stevens q book containing
copies of kilograms he received and sent
during Mrs. Barnaby's illness and after
her death. He says he notified Mrs.
Conrad April 10Th of the death of her
mother. He read a telegram which he
sent in which he gave the cause of Mrs.
Barnaby's death as congestion of the
lungs. Previous to this he received a
telegram from Mrs. Conrad asking him
to wire her twice a day how her mother
was getting along. Mrs. Conrad tele-
graphed, after she was notified of her
mothers death, that she must see Wor-
rell before the body was embalmed. On
cross-examination by Judge Macon, he
said he knew Mrs. Barnaby about ten
years before she came here. He said he
met her in Chester, Penn, where she
was visiting his mother. He heard of
her, but never saw her before this time.
Worren repeated the oft-toId story
about Mrs. Barnaby being dissatisfied
with the doctor as her business manager.
He declared that when the news of Mrs.
Barnaby'S death was first being dis
cussed he didn't know that he or any of his
family were suspected of completely. He
modified this statement somewhat when
newspaper was produced which con-
tanned an interview with him upon the
subject.
Mrs. Worrell, Jr., was recalled and
testified that after the fatal package was
brought home from the livery stable.
where it remained all night in a buggy,
1t was placed on the dining-room table,
where it remained for day before the
women drank from it. She also cor
rected the statement made by servant
girl to the effect that after Mrs. Barnaby's
death she had been ordered to empty and
clean all bottles in the house. The girl
was ordered to clean one and pour into it
some tonic which Mrs. Worrell, Sr.,
wanted to take with her on journey.
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and the Big Horn, with tributaries. Good
TIMBER is found in the northern and west
ern portions, and there are indications of
minerals. In Wyoming the Wind River
country is regarded as one Of the favored
portions of the State.
Mr.. Woodruff is disappointed, said
Merrill, because the Indians absolutely
refused to accept the offer he made of
SlOO,O00 for only about sixty thousand
acres additional near the town of Lander.
a majority of the Commission, in disre-
gard of Woodruff IS advice not to make a
treaty unless the Indians would sell this
southern strip, made a treaty to buy the
northern and eastern portions of the
reservation, and thereby secure all the
lands the Indians will part with at the
present time. That Woodruff's s opposi-
ton arises solely from his failure to get
this southern tract, even for so much as
81 66 per acre, is evidenced by the record
OF the first council, when he himself
made proposition to pay the Indians the
same amount Of money the Commission
afterward agreed for the identical land
secured"
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SITUATION IN CHILE.
THE PEOPLE IGNORANT OF THE
REAL STATE OF AFFAIRS.
The Minister of Foreign Affairs Com
pared to Don QuiXote-Egan
Cables Secretary Blaine.
Special to the REcoRD-UN1oS.

VALPARAISO, Dec. 15.-The mass of the
people of Chile are ignorant of the real
| seriousness of the present situation.
Malta, who is IS years old, bachelor,
pompous, proud and stubborn, calls him
self the father OF the Radical party, yet he
Will not give you an audience at his min
Isterlal office without putting on colored
silk gloves, and he keeps you waiting
meanwhile.
Mr.. Egan has cabled to the State De-
partment long dispatch, giving the sub
stance of the letter addressed by him to
Malta, lnquiring whether his reply to
President Harrison's message and his
speech in the Chamber of Deputies were
correctly printed in the newspapers.
Egan asked him whether he made use of
certain expressions [quoting theml ar
raigning the officers of the navy, the
President of the United States, the Secre-
tary of the Navy and Minister Egan him
SELF reply has not yet been received.
Impartial people in Santiago who have
tried to insert conciliatory articles in the
newspapers have never succeeded They
then tried to insert them as ADVERTISE
ments, but have still been refused.
Most of the newspapers in Santiago and
! Valparaiso are owned by Cabinet Min
lSters and members of the Council of
State. They have renewed the bitter at
tack on Egan with articles wildly and
rldlculously untrue. 1t seems absurd
that they would dare to print what they
Go.
CABLEGRAM FROM MINISTER EGAN.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Is. = Secretary
Blaine has received long cablegram
from Minister Egan, at Santiago, Chile.
but refuses positively to say anything
about it. 1t is understood to convey the
substance of the comments of the Chilean
Minister of Foreign Affairs, Malta, on the
recent official utterance of the President
and Secretary of the Navy in regard to
the Valparaiso incident.
CHICAGO AND BENNINGTON.
WASHINGTON, Dec. ia cablegram
received at the Navy Department an
the Bennington at St. Thomas, West
Indies. to-day, on their way to the South
Atlantic station
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PRINTERS STRIKE.
Composftors in Philadelphia Demand
Change in Prices.

Change in Prices.
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 15.-The COM
positors working for the morning papers,
the Times, Record, Inquirer and North
american. made demand at 6 O'Clock
this evening that their wages be increased
from forty to forty-five cents per thou
sand ems. All of the compositors are
members of the International Tvpo-
graphical Union. The Times granted the
increase, as did also the North american.
although the latter paper did so under
protest. Proprietor Singerly of the Rec
ord refused to pay extra or to confer with
the strikers Instead he went to work
industriously to secure a non-union force.
and by o'clock thirty-four men were
busy setting type in his Office. This is
about half the number usually at work.
Singerly expresses confidence in his abil-
lty to get along without union men. and
says the paper will be issued tomorrow
as usual. The Record is now paying an
average of forty-four cents, and the scale
presented to-day really amounted to a re-
duction, on the whole. in its COMPOSING
room. The objection of Singerly was not
to the new scale, but to the proposed in
terterence with the business of the office.
AT the Inquirer Office, after several CON
ferences between Proprietor Flverson
and committee representing the strik-
ers, the men, at $50 o'clock. agreed to
continue work at the old rate pendino a
settlement
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CHICAGO AND BENNINGToN.
A ITsefnI Trade

The Museum Association has made
preparations for forming a class in wood
carving. and has teacher ready. The tu-
ltion will be but 81 a month. If enough
pupils can be secured the class will be
formed at once. Woodcarving is q most
useful and profitable trade, and young
men and women not otherwise engaged
should give it their attention.
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INFLUENzA.

Several Prominent People Succumb to
tho Disease.
LONDON, Dec. 15.-The influenza is rag
ing in many parts of the United King
dom, and increasing in severity. From
Plymouth comes to-day the announce
ment of the death of Major General Ped
Ter, who died after a short illness.
Adviccs from the Continent show in
Huenza IS epidemic in many parts of Eu-
rope. Among the more prominent suf-
ferers from the disease is Archduke Siep-
mund, who died this morning in Vienna.
a dispatch from Berlin says Privy Coun-
cilor Lober, the noted German savant,
who has been i'll with influenza, has died.
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FIRE INSURANCE DEAL.
New York Underwriters Sell Ont +,
an English Cnmnnnr

an EngIIsn Company.
NEW YORK. Dec. 15.-Insurauce men
talk of but one topic to-day, the an
nouncement made at a dinner of 100 un-
derwriters at Delmonico's last evening.
f. B. Armstrong. President of the Mn
tual Fire Insurance Company, of the
Fire Association and of the Armstronp
Fire Insurance Company, all CT this CITY,
stated that the entire business of the
three companies, aggregating 500, ,0OO. .0OO.
had been reinsured in the Lancashire of
England. and the reserve, amounting to
over 81, 100000, had been paid in cash to
the Lancashire. Armstrong retires from
speech he characterized the transaction
as the greatest in the history of fire in
surance.
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THE ALLIANCE MOVEMENT.
Latest Enterprise Formed at Topeka.
Kansas.

TOPEKA (I<ansas), Dec. 15.-The Kansas
Alliance Cooperative Mortgage Associa-
ton, with capital stock of a million dol
lars, with Frank McGrath as the central
figure, is the latest Alliance enterprise.
A charter was filed this morning, and
business will be commenced on January
lst. The object is to negotiate directly
with Eastern capitalists for necessary
amounts for defraying the farm mort
gagged Indebtedness without the assistance
of middlemen. The company will obtain
securities by forming a fund of the eff
fects, personal and real, of it's members.
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Now Practically Free.

LONDON, Dec. 15.-To-day Miss st.
John, through her counsel, applied to the
justice before whom the divorce case was
tried for a judicial separation from her
husband, Manus. The application was
granteG, and now they are practically
free. The court ordered Miss st. John
and Marius each to pay their own costs
In the action and the counter-action
brought by them for divorce.
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senatorial Caucnses.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-The Republi-
can Senatorial caucus this morning APP
proved the report of the committee
charged with the arrangement of the
committee membership, and the Demo-
cratic managers We're furnished with
list as adopted. Some assignments yet
remain to be made, but the Caucus Com
mlttee is authorized to arrange them after
personal consultation with the Senators
concerned.
The Democratic Senatorial Caucus
Committee held session this morning,
but no positive progress was made to-
ward the completion Of committee as
SipnmantS
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Special to the RrcoRp.uxroN.

MARsHFIELD orr, Dec. 15.--Captain
George Marshall and four of the crew of
the ill-fated steamer Maggie Ross. which
was towed into Yaquina Bay last Friday,
arrived here to-day. Seven of the crew
are now at Gardiner, and three were
brought here yesterday by the schooner
Annie Gee. This, with the COOK. who
was found dead, accounts for the entire
crew, sixteen in number. The Captain
and eleven OF the crew were picked up
by the schooner Webtoot and landed at
the mouth of the Umpqua River yester-
day.
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MISSIONARIES OUTRAGED.
Fate of n Number of Priests and Nuns
in the Soudan.

Fate of n Number of Priests and Nuns
in the Soudan.
CAIRO, Dec. 15.-At the time of the re-
volt against Egyptian authority in the
Soudan the followers of the Mahdi took
prisoners number of priests and nuns
who had been working in that country
for the evangelization of the natives. The
priests were made absolute slaves, while
the women met worse fate, being par
celed out among the chiefs and grossly
outraged. Among those taken prisoners
were Father Orhwaller and Sisters Cath
arina, Chincinera, Elizabeth and Ventu-
rino. For eight years they awaited a
favorable opportunity to make their es-
cape, and at last an opportune moment
arrived and they managed to reach Ko-
rosko, where they We're safe.
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WYOMING INDIAN LANDS.
objection Raised Against the Shoshon
and Arapahoe Treaty.

OD1ect1Ou Ka1Seu Against the ShOShOne
and Arapahoe Treaty.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-An interview
with J. D. Woodruff of Lander, Wyo.,
Chairman of the Shoshone and Arapahoe
Indian Commission. has been published,
which states that he was on his way to
washington to oppose the ratification of
the treaty negotiated by majority of the
Commission, on the ground that the price
to be paid is more than the lands are
worth.
c. II. Merrill, who is one Of the major
ity of the Commission, said in an inter-
view to-day that the Commission secured
more than half of the reservation of these
Indians in Wyoming. The amount ceded
is estimated at l, 10000 acres, out of, ,0G0, ),
900 belonging to the Indians, and the Com
mission paid about So cents per acre. The
lands are well watered by Wind River
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Not Entitled TO Annu;ties.

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15.-Assistant At
torney-General Shields of the interior
Department has decided that Jane Wal
dron, who is the daughter of white
father and a half-blood Indian mother,
was born citizen of the United States.
and that her claim that she is an Indian,
by virtue of being born OF an Indian
mother, cannot be allowed. Neither can
she longer be permitted to draw rations
ana annulties, nor receive lands in sew
crafty. 1t is said at the Indian Bureau
that this practically decides 1000 similar
cases in all parts of the West.
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Come here, Francis, and let mamma
tell her little girl about Heaven" ''Thaps
where the dear Lord lives. isn't it
mammal" Yes, and it is such a happy
place. All the good people go there when
they die, and they all have harps and sing
may mammal? ama ydeer M1 ereryeVay %yl sang sang
sing?" "Oh, yes.v ssAll the time?u
Yes, love-" "Then don't want to go.o
Judge.
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Revolutionary Movement.

Rio JANEIRo, Dec. 15.-There is revo-
lutionary movement in the Province of
Sac Paulo, the object of which is to dis
pose OF the Governor of the Province.
Up to the present time the insurgents
have only succeeded in ousting a number
of local officials. Later reports state that
the revolt was suppressed by the Govern
ment troops, and quiet now prevails
throughout the State.
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Miners, Conyent5on

NEVADA, Dec. 15.-Three hundred rep
resentatives of the hydraulic, drift and
quartz miners assembled here to-day and
organized a County Miners Association,
with ALI Tregedo. Superintendent of the
Peabody and Washington Quartz Mines,
as President. Thirty Delegates were
elected to attend the State Miners Asso-
citation at San Francisco, on January 30th.
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Tinher Land Sn1n

SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15.-The Central
Pacific Railroad Company to-day sold to
G. ID. and }. G. Pierce, Chicago lumber
men. l., 500 acres of timber land in South
erE Oregon for 100000. The purchasers
viii erect large mills at klamath CITY
and will build railroad thirtv-eight
miles long TO tap their lines. The timber
on the land is chiefly pine, but there is CON
siderable redwood