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The record-union., 1891-08-21
Special to the REconp-us1or.

BURKE (Idaho}, Aug 20.-Two hun
dred pounds of giant powder exploded at
the mouth OF the lower tunnel of the
Black Bead Mine, near here, yesterday,
with terrible effect. Four men were i'm
prlsoned at the breast of the drift by
rock which caved in, and were suffo-
Gated. The bodies Of four other miners
have not yet been found, but all hope of
hndlng them alive has been given up.
The explosion was a terrific tearing up
OF the earth and caving in of the tunnel
for distance of one hundred feet.
AT o'clock the rescuing party had re-
covered four dead bodies-G. McNeiIl,
General Manager; John Jenz, Assistant
Manager; Robert Blackburn, John Bar
rims, miners. There are three others
missing, and it is feared their bodies were
blown to atoms. Just how the explosion
occurred cannot be ascertained, but it is
supposed that lighted candle or fire
from pipe dropped into the box con-
tanning the powder or fuse by someone
passing was the cause. Four cases of
two hundred sticks each exploded almost
simultaneously.
The Black Bear mine is located half
way between Wallace and Burke, on
what is known as Canyon Creek, near
the town of Gem. 1t was formerly
owned by O. B. Hardy and Peter Jenz,
but Mr.. Hardy recently disposed of his
interest to Campbell and Finch.
The bodies of the men recovered were
found at distance of $50 feet from the
mouth of the tunnel, and death resulted
from suffocation. The three men who
are missing were supposed to be near the
scene of the explosion, and it is thought
that with them lies the knowledge of the
cause.
The work of recovering the bodies will
be continued until it is reasonably sure
that all are accounted for.
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WAS SHE POISONED?
Mamie Ellis Claims an Attempt Was
Made.
She is Taken to the Receiving Hospital
and Quickly Re-
covers.

About 2 O'Clock this morning, while
Officer Eldred was passing down 1
street he was startled by the shrieks of a
woman's voice issuing from one of the
notorious houses situated on that street
between Front and Second.
Proceeding where the sounds directed,
the officer found q colored woman of i'll
repute who goes by the name of Mamie
Ellis lying on the floor of one OF the
''dens,' frothing at the mouth and crying
for help and mercy at the top of her voice.
In q scattered manner the woman
stated that she had been poisoned by
some liquor that had been given to her
by a Spanish woman who lives next
door.
Seeing that the woman was growing
wilder every moment officer Eldred had
her removed to the Receiving Hospital
and City Physician Nichols was sent for.
The doctor was a short time in arriv-
ing, and during the time that interviewed
between the woman's arrival and that
of the physician it took the combined
efforts of five men to hold her upon one
of the cots.
The City Physicians arrival seemed to
have quieting effect upon her, and il
was not long thereafter before she seemed
to have recovered.
1t is believed by the officers that the
woman had been drinking heavily, and
that in drunken tit she imagined she
had been poisoned.
The woman is a recent arrival in this
city, and thinks that already she has
made enemies here who seek to destroy
her.I
The case will be further Investigated
to-day.
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THE HOLY COAT.
Unveiling of the Sacred Garment at
Treves.

Unveiling of the Sacred Garment at
Treves.
BERLIN, Aug. 19.-The holy coat was
exposed to view this morning in the ca
thedral at Treves. Two knights of Malta.
in full costume, with drawn swords.
stood on either side of the shrine inclos-
ing the case, which was surrounded by
lighted candles, and surmounted by a
large gold cross. The cathedral was
richly decorated, and packed to the doors
with people. There was an impressive
scene in the sanctuary, over one hundred
priests assisting in the ceremonies. which
were grand in the extreme
After an address by Bishop Korum, the
nave of the cathedral was cleared to en-
able the municipal authorities and pa
rochial societies to march up to the shrine
and venerate the relic. Then came the
pilgrims and tourists. The scene was a
motley one.
The unveiling of the relic made a
deeply devotional impression on the
crowd OF worshipers. Many were over
powered by their feelings, and several
women tainted. 4 procession of pilgrims
passed the shrine, most of whom handed
a rosary Or crucitix to the priests for con-
tact with the relic. 1t was accompanied
by low hum of pdteT 8OSte1;s and QUes
Outside the cathedral was a busy scene.
to which professions with banners and
music, throngs of visitors, etc., all con-
tributed.
During the whole time the holy coat is
on exhibition twenty excursions day
will arrive in Treves. In order that the
town may not be overcroWded, the differ
ent bands OF pilgrims led by their
priests, will only be permitted to remain
one night in the town.
Pictures of the holy coat are to be seen
not only in every shop window, but
there are millions of representations in
all sizes on handkerchiefs, paper, earth
enware, wood and metal. The photo
graphs are merely reproduction of the
drawings published in 1874
Much comment has been caused by the
remarks of Bishop Korum in his opening
address to-day, when he referred point
edly to the spiritual significance of the
holy coat as being a seamless vesture and
q symbol of unity of the Catholic Church.
There were many Roman Catholic men,
bers of the Reichstag present, and it is
said the Bishop particularly addressed
his remarks to these members.
The first solemn exhibition of the coat
was in 1196, when it was placed under a
new altar. There it rested till 1911 when
Emperor Maximilian wished it to be
exhibited, and it was done. 1t was
shown several times again during that
century, and also in 1885. In the latter
part of the seventeenth century, when the
French, under Louis XIV, invaded Ger
many, the precious relic was hidden in
the fortress of EhYenbreititein, where it
was kept until after the seven years war.
After the last exhibition there in I765, it
was brought back to Treves, but few
years later had to be removed into the in
terror OF Germany, whom Napoleon in
vaded the country. In 1910 Napoleon
permitted another solemn exhibition,
but expressly forbade miracles to be per-
formed, yet a report of that time says
gouty patients, who were wheeled up,
walked away at once. The Treves news
papers are full of accounts of miracles
which took place at the exhibition of 1914.
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THEIR PLANS SPOILED,
Prisoners Attempt to Escape From I'll
Washington Penitentfary.

Prisoners Attempt to Escape From the
Washington Pcnitentfary.
WALLA WALLA, Aug. 20..A desperate
attempt was made at the Penitentiary to-
day by convicts to escape, and two pris-
oners were killed and one wounden. The
break was prevented only by the bravery
of Warden McClees and the cooIness of
his guards. There were about one hun
dred and thirty-fve men in the brick
yard when a train came in with material.
y plot had been arranged among about
forty prisoners to make break for lib
erty. -Four men seized the Warded and
four more jumped into the locomotive.
The engineer. before he was thrown off,
reversed his engine and put on full
head of steam. This sent the locomotive
in an opposite direction and spoiled the
original plan. The locomotive crashed
through the gate and was stopped by the
ditched cars. In the meanwhile Warden
McClees, with sharp knives at his throat,
was being carried forward to open the
opposite gate.
When within fifteen feet Of the gate,
guard Berry leveled his gun at the con-
victs holding the Warden. One of the
convicts, named Gleason, then said.
Make him drop that gun, or down you
go,' and raising knife at that moment.
den attempted to capture the other man
who was holding him, but he fled. When
twenty feet away Berry fired again, and
he fell, with the knife still in his hand
This ended the trouble.
OF the men killed, one, VIM. Gleason,
was sent up last year from Seattle, for
thirteen years for robbery and attempted
murder, and the other, John Morris, was
also sent for seven years, from Seattle,
for robbery. They and Latina, the muir
derer, were the leaders of the mob.
Before the Coroner's Jury this evening
Thomas Dorriscott, oVerseer at the Peni-
tentiary, testified: Il have charge of the
bricllyard first. / knew of the trouble.
! saw the men getting on the engine. and
told them TO get off. They then made
jump and grabbed me around the neck,
and they said: You keep quiet, and you
will not be hurt They started to take
me toward where they had McClees.
While part of the way there shot was
fired, and saw Gleason drop. They let
me go and ran for the sheds. Very soon
| heard another shot, and Morris fell.
The first shot was fred by Berry, and the
other two were divided between Berry
and Swash. While they were taking
McClees toward the gate the men had
knives. with their points to McClees'
haaI -
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HORRIBLE MURDER.
y Russian in Alaska Initiates Jack
the Ripper.

q Russian in Alaska Initiates jack
tho Ripper.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20. - United
States Marshal o. d. Porter arrived here
to-day on the steamer Umatilla, having
in charge four prisoners for San Quentin.
Three were Indians and the other was a
Russian. The Russian was convicted at
Ounalaska for the murder of his wife
whilo he was drunk. jealousy was the
cause. The wife was an Indian woman,
The unfortunate woman was asleep
when he entered their hut well-filled
with tire-water. He dragged the sleep
ing woman from her couch and bran
dished big knife before her eyes. Her
cries of terror brought the neighbors
from all sides, but before they could
reach the hut her voice was stilled in
death.
The murderer cut her throat and then
proceeded to mutilate the body in an
awful manner. The fiend, when caught,
had disemboweled his wife, cut off her
nose, gouged out both her ewes, and was
in the act of slashing off one of her ears.
The Russian jumped to his feet when
his neighbors rushed in and attempted to
use his knife, but he was quickly over
powered and borne to tho ground, strug-
Cling wildly and yelling like fiend.
He was afterward turned over to the
United States authorities at Ounalaska.
His trial followed shortly afterward. He
was convicted and sentenced to life in1-
prlSonment at San Quentin.
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OPIUM SEIZURE.
A Quantity Found in Steamship Pas
Senger'S Trunk.

A Quantity Found in a Steamship Pas
Senger'S Trunk.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 20.-The Gus
toms Inspectors made a small seizure of
opium this morning on the steamship
Umatilla, which had just arrived from
Victoria, B. c. Among the steerage pas
sengers was ]. n. Lauther, whose bag
gage consisted of trunk and a carpen-
ter's chest. When they were placed on
the dock Lauther was in a great hurry to
have them examined, and this aroused
the suspicion of Inspector Davis. A
thorough search of the trunk and chest
was made, but nothing dutiable was
found therein, and Davis was about to
give it up as a bad job when he noticed
that the bottom of the chest was unusu-
ally heavy, its thickness being out of all
proportion. A little slinflll tapping re-
vealed the fact that the bottom was hol-
low, and when it was opened twenty
5-tael tins of opium, valued at Sl60, were
discovered. The chest and opium were
contiscated and Lauther turned over to
the charge of the United States Marshal,
to await an examination before Commits
sioner Sawyer.
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Special TO the REcoRD-UN1oS.


PARIS, Aug. 20.-Official advices re-
ceived here this afternoon announce the
calamity which has visited Martinique as
the most severe since the year 1917. So
far as can be learned there are nearly, if
not quite, sixty deaths, as the result of
the hurricanes visit, but it will be some
time before the full extent of the disaster
is known. At Fort de France alone there
were twelve lives lost, and in both Fort
de Franco and ST. Pierre, to say nothing
of the country districts, there were large
numbers OF people injured. at st. Pierre
five persons are known to have been
killed, but it is feared this number does
not represent the entire loss of life in the
capital. Communication with different
points of the islands was never an easy
matter, and it is excessively difficult to
get detailed news at present.
AS the reports from various sections
reach st. Pierre, it becomes evident the
extent of the hurricanes devastation has
not been much exaggerated. Destruction
to property and loss Of life are reported
from all parts of the coast.
The latest report received ut st. Pierre
from La Mentln shows ten victims at that
place alone, in addition to large number
injured.
at Francois there were sixteen people
killed and large number injured. and at
Riyiere Pilote there were two or more
deaths; and SO on from all parts of the
island comes tale of woe and desolation.
La Trinite sends list of its dead at ten
and numbers more or less severely in
jured.
The damage done to the shipping and
property is enormous. About two-fifths
of the islands are under cultivation. and
the mountain slope was covered with for
ests. All the cultivation and all the for
ests in the path of the hurricane appear
to have been swept away.
Numerous sugar, coffee, cotton and CO.
Goa plantations, which have felt the force
of the tornado, seem to have been utterly
DESTROYED
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Union Pacific Freight Pates.

SALEM orr, Aug. 20.-At meeting
this afternoon af the Oregon State Board
of Railroad Commissioners, they took
action in the matter of Union Pacific
freight rates. The company protested
against the adoption of the new rates, and
also made complaint against their inn
mediate enforcement. The company
asked tho Board fifty days to collect data,
but this request was refused. The tariff
sheets adopted by the Board go into effect
not later than September lst. The Board
thought the present rates unreasonable,
and more than just compensation. The
new rates are reduction, on an average,
Of not less than 50 per cent. on grain and
mill-stutfs, and about 10 por cent. on
horses, mules, etc, in carload lots. The
Union Pacific will test the matter in the
courts
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CHILD MURDERER.
A Man Confesses to the killing of
Thirteen Children.

Thirteen Children.
NEW YORK, Aug. 20.-The mails from
Trujillo, by way of Panama, under date
of July 25th, bring details from the village
of Lomos de Seamora, in the United States
of Columbia, of frightful series of child
murders committed there by q peon,
Marciano Medina.
His wife and daughter, Remegia, were
accessories to, if not accomplices in, the
killing of thirteen infants. Medina, who
has been forced to make full confession
to Commissary of Police Osvaldo Gueri,
takes his detection very coolly. He SAYS
he killed his own ten children because he
was too poor to support them, and killed
his three grandchildren to hide his
daughters shame. He has, in spite of his
wholesale infantcide, six sons and one
daughter in his family, and it appears
that they all knew of his murders and
deprecated them.
The old mans confession tells with
great detail the various ways in which he
murdered each one of the thirteen in
fants, from 1859 to 1891. He killed them
all when they were less than five months
old. Some of them were but few days
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Had a Right to Beat His Drum.

BLOOMINGTON Qll.), Aug. 2O.-Adam
r. Richardson has begun suit for 5000
damages against City Marshal Stone of
this city, Policeman Moses Evay and ex-
Mayor r. Mason, who is now resident
of Chicago. Richardson is a Lieutenant
of the Salvation Army, and about three
years ago he, with others, was arrested
for disturbing the peace by beating Il bass
drum i'll the street. Richardson was
fined, and appealed to the Supreme
Court. The decision was that he had
right to beat drum as part of q religious
worship.
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TnrIlish RrIoands.

CoNsTANTINoPLE, Aug. 20.-Another
outrage by o party of Turkish brigands is
causing much uneasiness to the authori-
ties of this city. The Italian Railroad
Inspector, at work about seventy miles
from Salonica, was abducted by brigands
and is supposed to be held a prisoner
pending the payment of q heavy ransom.
The body of murdered railroad man
was found near the spot where the In
spector was last seen. No news has been
received up to date of the Frenchman,
Riffier, who started about one week ago
to ransom his employer, Raymond, who
is held prisoner by the brigands.
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Earthquakes in ST. louis.

ST. LOUIS, Aug. 20.-Three distinct
shocks of earthquake were felt in this
city tonight. AS far as can be learned,
the disturbance was noticed only in the
western part of the city. The shocks
were preceded by thunder and lightning,
but no rain fell. The mercury fell 15o
before the shocks, the first of which was
severe enough to rock houses and break
crockery and windows. This was fol-
lowed by two more. The time was 4:45
O'Clock
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HIGHwAYMEN AT WORK,
Masked Men Hold Up Stage at tn,
Point of Winchesters.


THE DALLEs (Or.), Aug. 20.-The
Prineville and Canyon City stage was
held up yesterday afternoon near Shears
bridge by masked men, armed with
Winchester rifles, who ordered the
driver, Charles Adams, to throw out the
mail sacks. The driver threw out five
and was then ordered by the highway
men to drive on.
The stage carried no passengers. Par
ties who visited the scene soon afterward
found two mail sacks. The others had
been taken away. The sacks contained
money orders, registered letters, etc.
Two masks were found made out of a
portion of an oatmeal sack. One of the
robbers is described as a mediIm-sized
man wearing blue overalls. The driver
was so excited he could not tell whether
the man wore coat or not. Two Indi-
ans are now on the trail of the robbers.
following it with the prospect of 500 II
capturing them.
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ne be Conducted NNith sccrecr.

LONDON, Aug. 20.-A Chronicles
Vienna correspondent says that the
Schwarzenau maneuvers, which EN-
peror William and Chancellor Won Ca
privi will attond, will be conducted with
extreme secrecy. The whole district will
be cordoned, and traffic stopped. All re-
porters, except those of the official ga
zette, will be excluded. 1t is supposed
an experiment will be made in connec-
ton with the military problem,
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Paid the Penalty.

COLUMBUS Ohio, Aug. 21.-A. NJ
Edward Blair was hanged this friday
morning just after midnight for the muir
der of Arthur Henry, station agent at
Harrisburg, Putnam County, in March,
1887. Blair with others had planned to
rob the safe in the station. Henry was
ordered by Blair to open the safe. He
refused to comply with the order, where
upon Blair shot him. Blair led career
Of crime from youth.
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DESPERATE MURDERER.
Barricades Himself in a Barn and
Defes the Authorities.
FIFTEEN SHOTS FIRED AT THE
PURSUING PARTY.

After Being Three Times Shot lie Sur-
renders, and Narrowly Escapes
Lynching at the Hands of an Infu-
rated Pcople-The Prisoner Finally
landed In Jail, After Fifteen Hum
dred People Had Satisfied Their
Desire to Gaze Upon Him.
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ANrADoR NOTES.
Active Preparations on Foot for the
District Fair.

District Fair.
lone, Aug. 20.-The fifth annual fair of
the Twenty-sixth Agricultural District
will open here on September 1st and con-
tinue four days, being considerably later
than in former years. Already active
preparations are on foot for the event,
which it is calculated will outdo all for
mer shows.
The surveys of the Arroyo Seco grant
have been completed and the fine bottom
lands divided into ten and twenty-aere
lots, while the hill land has been laid off
in tracts of eighty and 160 acres. The
opening of this grant to settlers, it is ex-
pected, will result in swelling the agri-
cultural population in the vicinity of
lone, materially increasing the prosperity
of the town.
The surveyors of the proposed electric
railway from lone to Sutter Creek are
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Murphy streets. The building, which
was occupied by the Bills Business Col
lege., Ardinger's clothing house, War
den's gun store and Smiths shoe store,
was completely DESTROYED, as was also q
three-story building opposite, occupied
by W. F. Shook, druggist, and w. A.
watkins, musical instruments. The fire
was not gotten control until midnight
The losses will aggregate 100000, with
insurance about half.
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Fire Near Chico.

CHICO, Aug. 20.-A fire occurred this
afternoon on the old West ranch, five
miles from Chico. near Dayton. A
house and two barns belonging to Mrs.
j. X. Houseworth were entirely con-
sumed, with all their contents. Loss.
about $4,000; some insurance. The
cause was unlearned
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A. Chinese Forger Confesses.

SAN Francisco, Aug. 20.-For several
days the internal revenue officers have
been searching for the man who so sue
cessfully forged Agent Thomas sigma
ture to thousands of labels placed on
Gee Ong, Christianized Chinese, who
was suspected of forgery, confessed that
he was the guilty person, and, in pres
ence ofrevenue officers, initiated Thomas
signature so well that it could hardly be
distinguished from the original.
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old. Between 1873 and 1882 he raised the
seven children he now has. Excavations
made on the Medinas' ranch have dis
closed the skeletons of several of the
babies. The brute's favorite method of
murder was to squeeze in the children's
chests by pressing them against his own.
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Supposed suicide.

MARsHFIELD (Or.), Aug. 2O.-Captain
E. S. Marshall. wealthy real estate man
of Seattle, Wash, was lost overheard
from the steamer Arago, which left San
Francisco for Marshfield last Monday.
Captain Marshall was last seen on Tues
day night, standing by the rail at the
stern of the steamer. It is thought he
jumped overheard with suicidal intent.
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Coronado Railroad Comnanv

SAN DIEGO, Aug. 20.-The Coronado
Railroad Company to-day filed amended
articles of incorporation which will en-
able it TO become the northern terminus
of the peninsula railroad. This gives the
new road entry into the city without
trouble, as regards the right-of-way or
condemnation proceedings.
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Married to a Condemned Murderer.

SANTA Rosa, Aug. 20.-Bruggy, the
condemned murderer, and Minnie Pool,
daughter Of respectable parents of Wind
sor, were married in the County Jail to-
day. The girl gave birth to child by
Bruggy. A night later he committed the
murder. She is pretty, about 19 years of
age, and says she fondly loves her hus-
band.
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National Transportation Association

CHICAGO, Aug. 20.-The National
Transportation Company, composed of
various boards Of trade and commercial
bodies Of the country, closed two days
session to-day. A uniform bill of lading
was the principal subject under discus
sion, and it was finally decided to appoint
committee to lay the matter before the
various traffic associations.
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Editor sutherland Drowned.

PORTLAND Orr, aug. 20.-Thomas A.
Sutherland, editor of the Sunday Vel
come, was drowned in the river to-day
while attempting to board ferry boat.
Sutherland was born in San Diego in
1850, and his father was at one time
Mayor of that city and iafterward United
States District Judge and Collector of the
Port of Sacramento. Sutherland was
sDondent.
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pushing their work. Two routes viii be
one adopted. Lines WIRE run from the
upper country and are now almost at
lone. One route along the creek, the
first proposed, has beeh declared imprac-
ticable. No difficulty is anticipated in
securing the franchise and right-of-way,
for everyone seems to agree that the road
will be a great advantage to the county.
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Prisoners Being Discbar.ed- :

STOCKTON, Aug. 20.-Two more prison
ers in the County Jail to-day petitioned
to be released on habeas corpus, and will
be discharged, as several others have
been, under Judge Budd's ruling. These
men were sentenced to pay fines or serve
imprisonment of one day for each 81 of
the fine, which the court says cannot be
done under the amendment of the last
Legislature. Such sentences are carried
ont elsewhere