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a FAIR PROPOSAL.
Scheme for Better Transportation Fa
cfIitieS in Oregon

Scheme for Better Transportation Fa-
ctlities in Oregon.
PORTLAND, tor.), July 27.-The CoIurn-
bia River Railway and Navigation Com
pany has submitted to the people of
Portland a proposal for opening the
Columbia River to transportation by COM
pleting the portage railway which has
been begun by the State at The DaIles,
and by putting on barges and steamboats,
on the river.
The proposition made is that in con-
sideration Of the taking by the citizens
Of Portland of half million first mort
gage six-per-cent tortyyear bonds of the
company, the company will complete
within eight months first-class standard
gauge railroad on the north side of the
Columbia connecting the navigable
waters on each side of distractions at
The Dalles and Cello.
The company will place on the Column
bia and Snake Rivers, east of The Dalles,
two first-class steamers and a sufficient
number of barges to handle all traffic;
also a steamer between The Dalles and
Cascades, and a sufficient number of
steamers and barges between Cascades
and Portland
The company guarantees that the rate
OF freight on grain for period of at least
five years shall be 20 per cent. less than
any rail rates which shall be made by the
Union Pacific for similar distances, pro-
yided the company shall not be required
by such contract TO carry grain at less
than one cent lper ton per mile. It is
proposed to build system of narrow
gauge feeders to connect with the line
w hen completed the system viii COM
prise about $40 miles of narrow gauge
roads and $50 miles of nayigable water.
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One Hundred and FOrty-eight Per
sons Killed and Injured.
THE COLLISION CAUSED BY GROSS
CARELESSNESS.
A Man and HIS wifo of Fairbank,
Canada. Arrested on n Charge of
Numbering Their rDaughter-A Mem
Der of the House of Commons Ex-
PEELED for Week for Charging the
Speaker With Abuse of Power.
Special to the REcoRD-Us1oS.


PARIS, July 27.--It is now officially re-
ported that Is people were killed and 1e4
injured as the result of the st. Mande
collision yesterday, and many of the un-
fortunate people imprisoned beneath the
wreck were drowned by the iremen who
poured torrents OF water upon the wreck
and seemed 10 be utterly unaware that
they were drowning the people they were
attempting to rescue.
To-day the town hall of St. Mande
presents a fearful spectacle. Blackencd
bodies are placed in rows upon the floor
and tables, and in some cases the re-
mains are little more than heap OF
cinders intermiXed with portions OF
limbs.
One pile OF charred limbs and human
cinders is especially conspicuous, consist
ing OF mass of unidentified and uncon-
nected bodies placed in heap.
A majority OF the victims were women
and children. The work of rescue pro-
ceeded slowly during the night until
dawn. People then began to flock to the
scene by thousands, many seeking friends
who had not returned from the fete by
daybreak. There were 2,G00 persons
around the station, and the schOolroom
and town hall, where the bodies were
lying. were besieged by distracted peo-
pie. Inside there was Il constant success
sion OF heart-rendering screams as the
identlhcatlon OF charred and mangled
bodies proceeded.
Among the injured sent to the hospital
number died immediatele after admis-
sion, and many more are expected to sue
cumb.
Among the victims are the MARQUIS and
Marquise of Montferato.
An artillery Lieutenant climbed to the
top of the burning carriage to rescue a
girl, but fell with her into the burning
mass, and neither was seen again.
1t is reported that warrants have been
issued for the arrest of the driver of the
second train and the traffic manager at
NincenneS station.
Inquiry into the causes of the accident
shows that the second train left Vim
cennes at the regulation interval of five
minutes after the first train The latter
train was delayed at st. Mande, owing to
the enormous crowd of excursionists.
The station master at Vincennes blames
the driver of the second train for the
accident. When this train was starting
the station master advised the driver to
go slowly, as there was a train in front
of him, but the man paid no heed to the
advice, and went ahead at full speed.
This driver at first alleged that all signals
indicated the line clear, but the inquiry
confirms the report of the officials at st.
Mande and Vincennes that danger sig
nails were shown. The driver now as
serts that he has been the victim of an
act OF revenge on the part of some one
who cut the air pipes of the air brake q.
thus preventing them from bringing the
train to standstill.
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CLIMATE CHANGES.
The Whole Russian Territory Dryin
Up Very Rapidly.

The Whole Russian Territory Drying
Up Very Rapidly.
ST. PETERSBURG, July 27.-Speaking of
the falling of large Russian rivers, which
has been the cause of great apprehension
for the last few years, the Nedelo, a
weekly journal of St. Petersburg, SAYS:
This is but one of the symptoms threat
ening, the evil consequences of which
can hardly be estimated at the present
time.
The whole Russian territory is drying
up very rapidly; not only the rivers, but
the inland seas, and the lakes are also be-
coming shallower and narrower. HUI
midity of the soil is by a considerable
percentage less now than it was but few
years ago. The subterranean waters ap-
pear to be retiring, SO that In many
places all over the Empire old wells yield
no water unless sunk several feet deeper
than before, while artesian wells require
more power to be made effective.
The climate is changing accordingly
and assuming the character of Asiatic
deserts. The mean temperature in sum-
mer has risen 80, and that of winter has
fallen in the same proportion. Immense
areas of Quicksands have formed in many
places and are steadily encroaching upon
the agricultural soil. We have veritable
sand deserts now in the interior of
Russia.
The character of our steppes has been
changed by the formation of deep ra-
vines. The fauna and flora of the whole
country have markedly deteriorated.
Finally, the locusts and destructive in
sects of many descriptions have settled
permanently in our best agricultural dis
tricts, and the dryness and wood fires
steadily destroy our vegetation.
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THE GAMBLING VICE.
Authoritative Church Statement o
the Recent Social Scandals.

Authoritative Church Statement on
the Recent Social Scandals.
LONDON, July 27th.-The President of
the Wesleyan Conference to-day made
an authoritative statement of the views
of the church on the recent social scan
dals. He condemned the doctrine that,
while cheating was wrong, gambling was
right. The Wesleyans, he said, held that
the wrong began with gambling, either
in aristocratic houses or tho stock ex-
changes OF commercial circles. The
churches onght to unite and obtain legis-
lation to check the evil.
The President also suggested that
among the means to be taken up to pre-
vent gambling is that OF preventing uows-
papers from printing advertisements di-
rectly tending to promote gambling.
III conclusion the President said many
thousands of Christian voters were de-
termined at the coming general election
TO put moral questions above party con-
siderations, if they could return man
free from moral stain.
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GUILLOTINED.
YOUNG BERLAND AND DORE
EXECUTED AT PARIS.
Madame Berland Reprieved by the
President-The Morbid Crowd
Disappointed.
Special 10 the RECoRD-UNIoN.

| Special 10 the REcoRD-UNIoN.
| PARIS, July 27.- The execution of
young Berland and Dore, two accom-
plices of Mere Berland in the Courbevois
murder, took place this morning on the
Place de la Roquette.
! Berland walked calmly to the guillo-
tine, but desperate struggle took place
on the scaffold.
Madame Berland, the mother of young
Berland, was also to have been executed,
but the President had reprieved her, and
the morbid crowd seemed to be much
disappointed at her having escaped the
| ignominous death.
Berland, in conversation with officers
of the Jail, showed that he resented the
reprleve of his mother and was disap-
pointed that she was not to die with him.
The woman Berland may be termed the
| female Pagan of q band of thieves and
murderers, whom she has trained and di-
| rected.
Crowds of people remained through
| out the night in the Place de la Roquette
! famous as the abode of "la guillotine," in
| anticipation of a feast of blood. The
voyous and gamins, coquette and grisette,
were there in force, filling the cabarats,
gargotteS and cafes of the neighborhood
| with their baleful songs and wild orgies.
The sergeants de vile and agents de
surete and gendarmes managed to main
tain praiseworthy degree of order.
| When summoned Dore left his cell with
extreme composure, but faltered and
| trembled as he reached the guillotine.
and at sight of its shining knife the MUIR
derer became dazed and helpless, and in
this condition the executioners helped
him to the platform, where they quickly
+h.al
head into the lunette, and in second the
knife fell and Dore's head rolled into the
sawdust
Young Berland, when awakened.
| showed considerable bravado, and re-
marked with hideous smile, 'sNo more
card d-playing for me-" Berland walked
jauntily across the prison-yard and
maintained an air of cool impudence
until he reached the platform of the gull
lotlne. But just as the executioners
were upon the point of throwing him
upon the bascule, Berland made a desper-
ate resistance and terrible scene took
place.
In spite of his struggles, however, the
executioners and guards eventually
threw him upon the fatal plank, slid his
head beneath the grim uprights, and his
neck was fitted into the lunette, and as
the young criminal was writhing furi-
ously, the knife fell and Berland's head
rolled into the basket. No sooner had
| the heads of the murderers rolled into the
basket than the blood-thirsty mob, who
had been making night hideous in the
neighboring cafes and drinking shops
with their baleful songs and vile orgies,
with a combined, mighty rush, broke
through the Gordon of troops and police,
and rushing up to the scaffold gloated
over the blood-stained apparatus, some
of the most horrible taking q handful of
the sawdust away with them as souye-
mir of the execution.
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under life sentence, especially John
DAILY, should be granted an amnesty or
else treated as political prisoners. Har-
court opposed any relaxation of the
sentence upon DAILY, and John Redmond
urged that further inquiry into Days
case would prove the prisoner referred to
was the victim of conspiracy upon the
part of Irish police agents.
The Home Secretary replied that the
alleged proofs of innocence had already
been examined and have been found in
ventions. Consequently the sentence
must stand
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Special to the REcoRD-UsroN.

SONORA, July ga forest fire, which
has been burning along the Stanislaus
River on the Calaveras side, crossed the
river to-day in the vicinity of the marble
works. near Columbia. The heavy un-
dergrowth in that vicinity fed the flames
rapidly, and they came upon and sur
rounded the works. Miss Kate McNamee,
aged % years, daughter of John McNa
NEE, owner of the works, was caught on
the road near her home, and being unable
to escape the flames, was burned to death.
The fire is still burning over the noun
tain up the river, and will do much dam
age before being extinguished. The mar
bic mill and works were destroyed, and
the dwelling was only saved by great
efforts.
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THE FAYLoR SUIT.
1t Comes to n Sudden and Unexpected
Ending.

1t Comes to n Sudden and Unexpected
Ending.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 27.-The trial OF
the suit brought by George w. Faylor
against twenty-one State Senators to re-
cover $1,000. his portion of Doodle earned
by an alleged combine at the last session
of the Legislature, was resumed at lC
O'Clock this morning in the presence o1
the usual crowd of politicians sud spec
tatorS.
George d. Squire and Henry Wangon-
heim were called and testified, after
which Mr.. Clunie informed the court
that his efforts to find Messrs. Gage and
Chute had proved fruitless and asked for
continuance
Judge Wallace, however, thought he
nad gone to the extreme limit in grant
ing contlnuances heretofore. The court
nad other cases to try and could not con-
tinue the present one indefinitely. II
shall deny the motion''
Attorney Campbell was about rising to
say something when Clunie interposed:
considering the ruling of your
donor, ana In view of the fact that il is
Impossible TO go on with our case with
out these witnesses, / will consent to a
voluntary non-suit."
Thls took the court by surprise, and
nearly carried Attorney Campbell off his
feet.
He immediately objected, saying that
the defendants had some rights, which
ought 10 be protected in this matter
VERY well; if you will consent to a
continuance until l can procure the at
tendance of Gage, Chute and w. Il. Free
man, will withdraw the ofTor,n said
Clunie.
II am not consenting to any more con-
tinuances, - said Campbell
ha, I IL.
answered Clunie.
Mr.. Campbell raised the point that
somebody must pay the costs, where
upon Judge Wallace said the plaintiff
would pay them, and ordered non-suit
entered.
This ends the case, and the crowd with
drew. Mr.. Clunie stated that he would
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Now Jersey Peaches.

BELvIpERE IN. J.), July 27.-The crop
of premature or forced peaches all
through Hunterdon and Warren Coun-
ties viii be immense. The dry weather
and tendency of trees to die prematuroly
have hastened this result, and thousands
of baskets of this sort Of fruit will be put
on the market in few days. The crop
of good peaches from Hunterdon win
also be large, and more, the prominent
1ruit-growers have already made a mar
ket for their better peaches. The orchards
will yield on an average l,000 baskets.
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FIRE AT SANGER.
Nearly Forty Thousand Dollars Worth
of Property Destroyed.


of Property Destroyed.
FRESNO, July 27.-About o'clock this
morning q fire started at Sanger, four
teen miles east of here. When discovered
it had gained great headway, and within
two hours nearly $4,000 worth of prop
erty was destroyed. Patterson's big
brick building narrowly escaped. The
wooden structures were perfect fre-traps,
and oil efforts to control the flames were
fruitless. Among others five small build
ings belonging to Colonel c. L. Taylor,
President of the Sun Insurance Com
pany of San Francisco, were destroyed.
The principal losses and insurance are as
follows: A. J. Weiner, buildings, S., 500,
insurance, $500; J.. j. Laird, buildings,
$500, insurance, 81 ZOO; William Dem
ing, bakery, $1,000, insurance, 1000;
Deming & Edgar, saloon and billiards,
$1,000, insurance, 81 800; FORBADE & Min
ylle, wholesale liquors, $500, insurance,
81, 200; Mrs. Mary Giles, tenement house,
So, 800, insurance, 81 800; Mrs. L. Hughes,
store building, $1,000, insurance, 81 900;
t. f. Ball, brick store building, $4,000,
insurance, $1,000; L. L. Barnes. grocer
les and hardware, $1,000, insurance, S2,-
600
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DISTRESSING ACCIDENT.
a Minister and Three Children Meet
Sudden Death

Sudden Death.
ELMIRA On. ", July "a distress
ing accident occurred this evening at a
crossing of the Erie road near Eldridge
Park, in which four persons were killed
and two fatally injured.
Rev. Wellington White, whose resi-
dence is on Grove street, started out to
drive, having with him Mrs. White,
their three children, Hattie Hastings,
daughter of a neighbor, and Susie McCar-
thy, nurse girl. Approaching the cross
ing Of the railroad freight train, which
had been cut in two to allow entrance to
the park, occupied the nearer track See
ing and hearing nothing indicative of
danger, White drove between the halves
of the freight train upon the other
track just in time to be struck by a pas
senger train.
White, his daughter Lillian, aged 9;
Hattie Hastings, aged 8, and Susie Nc
Carthy. aged II, were instantly killed.
Mrs. White and her two-year-old child
received fatal injuries. Mable White,
aged Z years, escaped with painful but
not serious bruises.
Rev. White was graduate of Amherst
College and the New York Theological
Seminary, and had, spent ten years in
missionary work in China. lie was
home on a leave of absence.
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Three Men Shot.

FRESNO. July 9th. = Last Saturday
evening three men from Oregon regis
tered at the Hotel de France, in Sanger.
and requested rooms. They retired, but
finding the rooms close and warm. re-
moved their beds to the roof of the
veranda in front of the building. About
l O'Clock Sunday morning parties sitting
on porch across the way saw some un-
known man with shotgun in his hand
creep along tho veranda roof and fire two
loads of buckshot at the strangers. One
man was dangerously wounded, one seri-
ously and one slightly injured. No cause
is assigned for the deed.
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Right ANY way.

A host who had ham for dinner which
had poor flavor, was much annoyed
by it.
Where did you buy it?'' he inquired of
his wife.
From our grocer, my dear; and he
said it was genuine Westphalia."
1t may be west or it may be east, but
1t is a genuine failure" answered her
husband shortly.-Detroit Free Press.
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AMERICAN MEATS.
Armour Endeavoring to Have the EN-
barge in Germany Raised.


bargo in Germany Raised.
CHICAGO, July 27.-The Journal this
evening, speaking of the incorporation of
the Tolleston Stock Yards Company says:
While Mr.. Armour has been in Europe
ostensibly on q vacation, he has been in
constant communication with German
officials relating to the raising OF the en-
barge on the American hog.
The Journal asserts that Armour has
substantially agreed that in case the en-
barge is raised to establish plant at
Tolleston, Indiana, which, in point of
cleanliness, cannot be surpassed. He
will pay the salary of an inspector to be
appointed by the German Government,
and in order to avoid any danger of con-
tamination will ship products to Ger
many in special line of steamers.
In order TO do this it will be necessary
TO widen the Welland Canal or some
other communication with the seaboard,
and the Journal informant asserts that
money for such a project would be forth
coming. Immediately upon the raising of
the embargo.
1t is understood that the report of the
Inspector lately sent over by Germany
was against the possibility of perfect clean
illness with German standpoint SO long
as the stock yards remain as they are.
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NIarysyiIla Notes.

MARYsvILLE, July 27.-The Yuba
County criminal docket was taken up to-
day and a jury secured in the case of
Burton and Patton, charged with assault
on two citizens here last February.
George Merritt, an old pioneer aged so
years, died this morning. He leaves
quite an estate. He was a member of
several secret organizations, and Mexi-
can veteran and pioneer. BY the pro-
visions of his will band must precede
the cortege, and refreshments are to be
served to all his friends and fraternal
brethren at the close of the ceremo MES.
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DEATH ON THE RAIL.
Two Men Killed on the S. It. and y. p.
Road.

SANTA Rosa, July 27.-William Chris,
house-mover. about torty-five years of
age. was struck by the south bound train
of the North Pacific last evening, while
attempting TO drive over the crossing in a
cart. The locomotive struck the horse
first, throwing the occupant against the
side machine. Chris was thrown high in
the air and struck on the back of his
head some distance from the track, break
ing his neck.
HEALDsBURG. July 27.-Thomas J..
Green, dentist, a resident of Kelsey
vile, Lake County, was run over by a
freight train on the railroad bridge over
the Russian river.
NAPA. July 27.-The down train this
morning, while near Yountville, ran
into q horse and cart containing an old
man named Noromora and boy. The
man was fatally hurt. The boy was
thrown some sixty feet, but was only
slightly injured, while the horse and cart
were totally demolished.
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The italian Deficit.

ROME, July 27.-1t is announced that
the italian deficit for the year lS90-9l is
about seventy-eight million lire. Not
withstanding all the economies intro
duced TO further diminish expenses, q
sweeping reduction will be made in the
salaries of diplomatic and consular
officers. The number of Consuls Will be
reduced. Thirteen thousand men who
We're, for economical reasons, TO have re-
ceived at this time an unlimited furlough,
will, for sundry reasons not given, be re-
tanned in the army for the present. The
recent heavy losses at the Vatican have
compelled series of economical meas
ureS
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Beaten with a Couplinp Pin

TRUCKEE (Cal), July 27.-Matthew
Reed, young man from Iowa Hill,
Placer County, is under arrest for beat
ing a Swede named c. Granberg over
the head with a coupling pin. Granberg
was found near the freight depot at 2
O'Clock this morning with the side of his
skull crushed in. Soon after suspicion
was attracted to Reed, and an officer ar
rested him. While going to jail Reed
was seen to throw something away.
Search was made, discovering Gran
berg's watch. Granberg is still alive,
and at times is conscious. He does not
know who struck him or why it was
done.
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Termfnated In Two Deaths

JoHNsrowN (Pa.}, July q. = Officer
James Kelly Of this place endeavored to
stop row on an excursion train return
ing from Cumberland to-day. The crowd
sprang upon him and forced him between
the cars while the train was running at
full speed. The conductor signaIed the
engineer to stop. The coupling broke
and Kelly fell under the wheels and was
killed. Lucas Myers of Latrobe was
thrown from the platform and killed, and
Milton Pyle fatally injured.
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Crime in Montana.

BUTTE (Mont.), July Wv. E. Deeneg,
Eugene Kelly and Phil Hickey are under
arrest for the murder of editor w. J.
Penrose on the night of June 9th. The
murder was the result of attacks on labor
organizations. Denneg is President of
the Workingmen's Union, and Kelly is a
prominent member in the same organiZa-
ton. Hickey is ex-President of the
Miners Union. Detectives assert that
they have the necessary evidence.
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sudden Death of an Edltor.

PRESCOTT "a. IT,, July 27.-John A
Marion, editor and proprietor of the
Prescott Courier, dropped dead on the
porch of his residence at O'Clock this
morning of heart disease. Deceased was
printer by trade, having worked on
various papers in California in the fifties
and early in the sixties. He came to
Arizona in 1864, and has published papers
nearly all the time since. He also served
one term IN the Arizona Legislature and
one rs County Treasurer of Yavapai
County.
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SAND MoLDs.
They Prove Much Better Than That of
Metal.

PITrsBURG, July q. There has just been
cast at the armor-plate mill of Carnegie,
Phipps & Co., at Homestead, an armor
ingot eighty inches wide and twenty
three inches thick, weighing $1,000
pounds, the largest armor-plate ingot
rolled in this country. The ingot was
cast in sand mold for a test, and the
material proved much superior to that
tested in metal mold. Heretofore there
has been great deal Of trouble in cast
ing in metal molds, owing to many flaws,
and the ingot cast in the sand mold was
found not to contain single flaw. 1t is
more than likely that hereafter sand
molds for turning iron-plate ingots will
be used. Tim Mckay is the inventor at
the new process. He is workman of
the Homestead mill.
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Fire at C,hicn

CHICO, July 27.-A third fire in the
space Of weeks time occurred yester-
day afternoon outside the city limits
The following property was burned: B.
Gaines barn and contents, tenement
house dwellings and contents, H. Brinck-
mans house, barn and contents. The
origin of the fire is unknown. The loss
is -, 500; insurance, 81 800, with the Liver
pool, London and Globe,