The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1891-12-18
TELEGKAPHIC NEWS
Three aissing People

SEATTLE. Dec iS.-BefnaId Noble. :,
prominent young man Of Tol,. has disappeared
and the whole community is greatly excited.
lie IL abouLs4 years old and a prosperous
raneher. About a year ago. he sold his farm
10 w Webster. his wife's father, and Dec.
he started from his home 10 60 through the
woods to bis ta,hsr-in- lau = place. To eoilsci
inlefes, due on the mortgage oE the farm.
He has not been Seen since. Webster says
his son in las never came - bis place, and
parties are out searching lhi woods for him.
This disappeaTancel Is made the more exciting
teeause OF the strange d!Sappearsnee Of Jack
! BelShay, also Toll Tancber. He came 10
Seattle three weeks ago. sold lot for $1,000
and eol,eeiep $500 insurance on Good TEN
! plars' hall. which had recently been burned.
lie has a ealuahle farm at Tolt, and !, is not
| thought he has absconded. II 10 also reported
that Mrs fingree, vile Of a hop Tsisrr
living seven miles south OF rolt, is among the
mis'ing, having been gone several day.
The nissiaE Crew.
MARsHVIELD, Or Dec iS-Ffom the time
the disman,led wreck OF the Maggie Ross was
iowed into Ysfuinua Bay the only :opic hiss
been. what has become oi The crew OF fourteen
men. i've OF whom have aheady been ae-
NSshAtb 6oT w NHCFiouh bbspAkGuef. ENiuc
days have passed since she crossed out over
the Coos Bay bar Tor San Francisco. The
story Of her experience already related 10
,heie dispateae, is substantially couobota,ed
by Captain George Marshall. who has Jus.
arrived from the Umpqua accompanied by
four Of bis crew, the other FIVE having te-
maiped at Gardiner.
An Electric stFlke.
SIN FaAScfsco, Dec I5.-Ihe stike Of
the telegraph operators on the Southern Pa
ciAc division Of Southern Pacific Company
began a. 10 o'clock this morning. but II is
not yet known how many men are actually
out. There are fom 600 70 800 operators on
the Southern Pacific system, 3ut II is not
known what proportion Of that number are
members Of the Teegrsphic Brotherhood.
The Southern PaeiiIc claims that but a small
percentage Of the number on their system are
members.
new Rriaadier General.
SALEM. Or Dec IS.-Govenor Pennoyer
today appointed General II Compson, Of
Einkville, Klamath county. brigadier general
OF the Oregon National Guard to hll the
vacancy caused by the resignation OF Ger era.
c Schoffner lie Is to hold Office until his
successor Is appointed and qualified Nearly
| five years ago, Governor Pennoyer appointed
General Compson major general under the old
law, and this was then the highest Office in the
state militia. Brigadier general il now the
highest Office. General Compson Is county
Judge OF klamath county.
A Peculiar Ra Iroad Accident.
LONDON, Gee Iy.-There was a serious
railroad accident at Accringiou, Lancashire
nineteen miles from Manchester, on the
Yorkshire & Lancashire railway, today. A
freight train overIan the stops and burst into
the wall Of the freight depot. TIE building
collapsed. burying several people in the rains. |
One dead body has been recovered from the
ruins, and many persons rescued who were
injuied by the accident. The search Of the
ruins oniinues.
Baum Dead
PORTLAND Dec I4.--N Baum, the senior
member of the firm Of Baum & Brandes, lies
dead at his home al a35 Yamhill street. lie
died about seven O'Clock last evening from
the effects Of pistol wound that is believed
to have been self inflicted. Mr. Baum left his
restaurant on First street about o'clock last
evening and took dinner with his family and
several friends While at the table he chat
ted pleasantly and appeared to be in the hes.
OF sririts. Dinner was over about o'clock,
and as was his usual custom he lit bis cigar
and weat up stairs He had hardly been OUT
of the room minute when Mrs Baum heard
a report up stairs. She thought window
had dropped, and went up to investigate, and
her surprise can be imagined when she found
her husband lying on the floor Of the bath
room with his face covered with bl3od and the
brains oozing out OF large hol. through the
head.
The unexpected and tragic desth Of Mr.
Baum was the general topic Of conversation on
the street corners last night, and the suicide
theory vas accepted almost without any ex-
ceptions. As to the motives that could have
prompted him to take this rash step, rumor
| had 1t that he had lost some money in gamb,-
| ing, He was man of means. had good
business. plenty Of friends. He was naturally
man Of nervous disposition, and at times
very irritable. and it is possible that he cor
cluded to take his own life on the spur Of the
moment because OF his losses.
Common alede OF Suicide
ARLINGTON, Or Dec r3.--John N Tehan,
an old logging camp hand. filed up with
whisky Saturday night and by 6 o'clock was
attacked by violent spasms. A doctor was at
once summoned, but TO no fyail, and in the
course of few hours Tehan died frothing at
the moutl4. It is said that he drank over
fifteen bottles Of whisky in two or three hour
time.