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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1902 FIVE THOUSAND KNOWN TO HAVE LOST THEIR LIVES Continued from Page One, Column Six not molested. On all hands, however, they saw evidences of the activity of these marauders, who had not hesitated to slay when offered resistance. According to information gathered from other. refugees all the roads leading from the devastated dis- tricts are lined with the corpses of the victims of these robber bands. 3 According to the latest information procurable at Cham- perico on November7, the day the City of Para left there, the vol- cano’s breath has blasted more than two-thirds of Guatemala’s coffee-growing country and has destroyed at least one-half of the crop which was almost ready for the 'market. The actual amount of coffee destroyed is said to have been more than 300,- 000 quintals. 4 Cabrera’s First Thought Is of the Fiesta President Cabrera comes in for much harsh criticism from all the refugees. When ithe news of the eruption reached Gua- temala City there was in full swing a fiesta in which Cabrera was taking a big interest. He refused to permit any marring of the gayety, and ordered the complete suppression of all news from_ the devastated district. He then established an ironclad cen- sorship throughout the country and at all cable stations. Owing to the President’s action, say the refugees, not only is the out- side world being kept in ignorance of the extent of the calamity which had befallen Guatemala, but the sufferers, being unable to make known their predicament in other parts of the republic, have been barred from the aid of fellow-citizens who might oth- erwise have helped them. According to the officers of the Para former President Barillas is alive, but is bereft of what little fortune had left him. Barillas was one of the 200 refugees that left Champerico on November 1 on the steamship Acapulco. He had been managing a plantation in the desolated district and had fled before the rain of ashes with hundreds of others. He left his plantation in a hurry and reached Champerico clad in garb barely sufficient to hide his nakedness. Captain Russell of the Acapulco, who had known Barillas in the days of his prosperity, placed his wardrobe at the disposal of the former President and gave him passage to San Jose de Guatemala. Panic-Stricken Refugees at Chamiperico The officers of the steamship City of Para say that everything at Cham- perico is a state of confusion. The city is filled with refugees, all in a more or less violent state of terror. In spite of it§ nearness to the volcano nothing like full particulars of the extent cf the damage have yet-reached there. Men in business at the port who know the country and who have interviewed the refugees that have poured into the town from all directions say that the ounts can hardly be exaggerated and that for years to come Guatemala’s importance as a coffee-raising country will be insignificant. They claim to have positive knowledge of .at least five thousand deaths, and from the description of conditions in some of the regions in the immediate vicinity of the volcano believe these figures to tell the story only in part. A few of the owners of destroyed plantations have returned to their fin- cas, not with any hopes of restoring their fruitfulness, but o make an ef- fort to save something from the wreck. Some of them had coffee stored in warehouses. These’ warehouses nearly all collapsed, and it is what may be gathered from the ruins of these storehouses that the ruined planters look to get something toward enabling them to make a new start in some country where the elements are tuned to a milder tone than in what was once “beau- tiful Guatemala.” Refugees Make Journey Fullof Grave Perils The refugees that came up on the City of Para boarded the steamship at Champerico, w hlch‘s the seaport for the district surrounding Santa Maria. They were Mrs. Bardwell, her sons Ferdinand and Albert, her daughter Julia and Miss Florence Mero. The Bardwells have been engaged in coftee raising since 1880 on a finca purchased and pianted by Mrs. Bardweil’s husband, who died in 1894. Miss Mero is the daughter of Alexander Mero, whose planta- tion is near that of the Bardwells, which is located at La Magnolia, about twenty mile: stheast of Santa Maria. Although sheltered from the full force of the volcan t, La Magnolia has been uvtterly desolated and the Bard- well and Mero plantations totally destroyed. Alexander Mero and Augus- e Bardwell, the eldest son of the family, have remained in Guatemala and will do what they can to save something from the wreck. This, according to Ferdinand Bardwell, will be verv littie. s Mero accompanied the Bardwells from La Magnolia to Champerico, and their journey, although similar to that taken by thousands of others in similar straits, was of a kind that comes into the lives of few people and one the memory of which will be as fresh in the winter of life as it was yester- dayps\hez: the little party stamped themselves warm on the deck of the City of Para. Victims Wait for Awful Darkness to Lift “We first knew that something had happened,” said Miss Mero yesterday morning, “when the sun failed to rise. That was on the morning of Octo- ber 24. I presume the sun rose all right, but we didn’t know it that day and we-didn’t know it for the next three days. The darkness was awful. It was hot and muggy and the air was filled with a rain of sand that filtered every- where and made even breathing an effort. But it was not the darkness and it was not the sand that we found so hard to bear. It was the dreadful uncer- tainty of it all. 'We could hear every once in a while a heavy, dull explosion, and we knew something dreadful was happening. We thought of Santa Maria and remembered Martinique. It was too dark for flight even if we had dared to travel or known where to go. There was nothing to do but wait and that was the hardest task I ever performed in my life. I will never for- get those dark days of waiting and the awful, mysterious fear that never leit us. “Nobody slept that night, and Saturday was a repetition of the darkness and the waiting. It was darker than ever on Sunday morning. By Sun- day, however, we began to hear evidence of the damage being done outside. The ground and trees were by this time covered with ashes and lava, and we could hear the roofs of outbuildings creaking andlgroaning under the weight of the accumulation, which had fallen to a depth fof several ‘feet. Then the houses began to cave im under the weight, and with each crash something was added to the horror of our waiting. Aspect of ‘Natuke Is Completely Changed “There was a little light on Monday, but only enough to show us how that blasting rain had stripped leaves and boughs from the trees and utterly changed the appearance of the outside world. Not until Wednesday did the sun shine again, and when it did come out it showed us so much that some of us were sorry that everything did not end with the darkness. “Arrangements were made for me to accompany the Bardwells to the coast, and I jumped at the opportunity. We had to travel forty miles to Retalahen, the nearest railway station, as San Felipe, at the foot of Santa Maria, had been destroyed. “To 2dd to the suffering of those days of darkness the fall of lava choked the wells and shut off our water supply. We were without water for two days. When the sand scttled the men were able to clean out one of the wells, and that first drink of water was more grateful, I think, than the first glimpse of the sun. “We had a hard journey—one I can never forget and hope nev = peat. Streams had been choked with lava and—bridgges washedpaway.e{)vteol{aed to cross the Neil River on a fallen tree, and at the Ocos River, where we had to leave our horses, we were hauled over on a sort of trolley. “Owing to the difficulties of the journey I was obliged to leave behind most of my clothes, but for once in my life T forgot to think about how I looked. I have been feeling just glad all awer since I got on the train which carn;sly us to Champerico, where we found the City of Para ready to take us north. Houses Fall Under Weight of Ashes Ferdinand Bardwell was up and about on his plantati. i October 24, when the rain of ash began to fzll. %he rai:,nv:ll'alied:nl?emal;]%ncs’tf thought was sand raised by some local wind squall, soon commenced falling very heavily and an awful darkness set in. He went indoors, where he found everything in confusion. The Bardwells remained indoors until Sunday, when the weight of pumice stone and volcanic ash on the roof brought the greater part of the house to the ground. By a miracle nobody was hust, but it was several hours Before anybody dared to turn a hand toward impr:;vin their situation. The two boys managed to construct a rude hut from the mag: terials of their wrecked home, and in this hut they lived until the sand ceased to fall and the sun came out once more and showed them the wreck of their plantation. = There was little to eat for the Bardwells during those da; i to drink. The food, a little of which had been savid from thcy sw::g( 27‘3:35 house, was so mingled with sand that it was almost unfit for consumption, The wells were choked with dust, and not until the end of their incarcera- tion were they able to get anything like an adequate supply of water, “There were more than a hundred people killed on the plantations zround ours,” said Ferdinand Bardwell yesterday, “although all our people escaped. Many of those killed were just smothered in the dust. Others were crushed by falling roofs. At Colomba more than a hundred natives were buried alive, “Our plantation was covered four feet deep and its usefulness for coffee raising is ended for a Jong time to come, if not forever. My brother stayed behind to see if he could sell the land or to find ont if it would be possible to get it in condition again for coffee raising. Whatever he does it will be of A 1 dependent operators. LONG CROSS-EXATTINATION OF MITCHELL IS CONCLUDED Rev. Dr. Peter Roberts of Mahoney City Enlightens Coal Strike Commission Concerning Condition of Miners in the Anthracite Fields in Recently Disturbed Districts CRANTON, Pa., Nov. 19.—After be- ' ing on the stand for four and a half days President Mitchell of the Miners’ Union completed his testi- | mopy before the anthracite strike commission at noon to-day. During this ordeal he was examined by his own attor- ney and those of the Erie Company, the Delaware and Hudson, the Delaware, Lackawanna ang Western, the Lehigh Valley and the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company, and also by the attorneys of the in- He was followed on the. witness stand by Rev. Dr. Peter Rob- erts of Mahanoy City, Pa., a Congrega- tional minister who has studied the an- thracite coal industry and has written a | book on the subject. Roberts was still on the stand when the commission ad- journed for the day. One of the most important things brought out during the cross-examination of President Mitchell totday was his em- phatic declaration that thé miners were opposed to separating the bituminous miners from the anthracite workers, thus. creating two organizations. Commissioner Wright, as head of the Department of Labor, in his report to President Roosevelt on the coal strike, dated June 20, suggested, among other things, as “reasonabie and just” to pre- vent industrial conflicts in the anthracite fleld, that “anthracite employes should organize an anthracite coal miners’ union, in its autonomy to be independent of the United Mine Workers of American,” but might be affilinted with it. There has been some gossip among the small army ! of attorneys at the hearings that the commissign may possibly suggest such a separate union and the fact that Wolyer- ton touched on the matier shows it is be- ing seriously thought of iIn some -quar- ters. What effect Mitchell's declaration will have on the attitude of the commls- sioners if this phase of the labor Gues- tion is.taken up by them is, of course, not known. NON-UNION MEN’S SIDE. The non-union men, that is, those who remained at work during the strike, were made a party to the arbitration plan to- day by their counsel agreeing to make public the names of the men who peti- tioned the commission, In connection with the non-union fea- ture of the investigation, Mitchell an- nounced that he is also representing thou- sands of non-union men who. struck: with the unionists and that - the workmen would abide by the decision of the arbi- trators ‘‘or get out of the union.” Mitchell's testimony to-day contained little that was new to the commissioners, and that of Roberts was ‘of a general character, regarding the economic and sociological conditions in the anthracite coal country. % The commissioners, while regretting they have to do so, are still reminding both sides that they would like to have the submission of testimony expedited. Chairman Gray several times during the day interrupted and showed that ground then being gone over had already been covered. It has been suggested that counsel for both sides agree to rules for the submission of evidence, but nothing has yet been done looking toward that end. - 3 £ GIVES SOME STATISTICS. In the course of his examination by Darrow in the afternoon Roberts fur- nished statistics showing that the &n- thracite fields covered 480 square miles. he said, 450,000 were directly dependent on the mines. Answering questions by Wolverton, Dr. Roberts sald there were four methods of payment in‘the anthracite region, by the car, by weight, by the yard and by the day. The wages paid are far from uni- torm, he said, and he then went on to de- scribe the changes which had been made in the size of the cats, from seventy-two cubic fect until they now vary from €ighty to ninety-two feet. In moving the car from the breast mine to the shaft} Roberts said, there was a 5 per cent shake-down. “So that this measurement,” inquired Darrow, ‘‘gives the'dishonest miner the came wages as the miner who loaded his car carefully.” Subsequent examination brought out the fact that the miner who put more than six.inches of “topping” on his car receives no additional compensation for it. . “Has the question of mining coal an : being paid by the car been a source of vexation and trouble and dissatisfaction to the miner?” Darrow asked. The witness answered that it was one of the complaints that have existed since 1850. The first strike in 1868, he said, was on a demand for an eight hour day. IMPORTATION OF SLAVS. Answering a question by Commissioner Watkins, Dr. Roherts said there was an effort made by the individual operators to import cheap labor into the anthracite fields, It was dobe, sald he, “through ship agents who got men in New York (o watch the vessels coming in and turned the current of immigration—that is, the Slav imimigration—into the coal field 1 “Have miners been obtaining!' homes to any extent during the last ten years?” the witness ~was asked, which elicited the reply that they had been, withlthe pos- sibie exception of the Italians who did not settle In the United States. Roberts had compared the Slay stand- ard of living with that of the native born American, showing it to be far below the standard of the American workmen. Very | few of the miners’ children, he said, after they have passed thé age of 14, attended school. The witness declared, in response to questions, that a miner’s occupation is more, risky than in any other large in- dustry. . There were more deaths in the mines than on the railroads, but fewer accidents. { “Have you noticed the effect of saloons on miners?”. was the next question. “The number of salgons in Schuylkill County has decreased,” was the reply, “and the congensus of opinion is that it is due largely to the Miners' Unlon.” AIDED BY THE UNION. He said that the social worth and manli- ness and individuality of the Slav had been greatly increated through the Miners’ Union. “Do you know what was the result of the strike of 15007 - “It decidedly improved conditions by | giving 10. per cent advance.” With the view of testing the witness’ knowledge of the subjects about which he was testifying, Wolverton, on cross-ex- amination inquired what proportion was largely gathered by inquiry and observa- tion and. not from actual experience, The -witness answered that on ‘the economic side of the question it woyld be by investigation and from~the public re- ports of the State. On the sociological side it would be from personal investiga- tion. He added that the information he had collected was, largely for use in pre- paring his book. | ,On a further erosdrexamination Roberls Said of the 147,000 mitners employed in the Out of a total population of 630,000 peop'e, i anthracite field 98,000 worked under- @ il D X B S B S e S i e little good to us, as it would take years to clear away that deposit of pumice stone. “We were two days and three nights on the journey to the coast, and the women suffered terribly. In our party there was my mother, my little sis- ter and young brother and Miss Mero, whose father’s plantation suffered the same fate as ours. “During the journey we were in almost total darkness and the heat was most oppressive. We were obliged to abandon our horses and all the goods we did not absolutely need at the banks of a river and a few miles before we reached the railway station. “There were robbers all along the road, but they did not trouble us. We were well known in the district and were pretty well armed, anyway, and gave them no chances. Food in the vicinity of our plantation was scarce, and we passed hundreds of ctarving natives as we came out of the desola- tion. “At Champerico we met other planters from districts that had suffered to far greater extent than ours, and the tales they told of death and destruc- tion make me shudder even now to recall. It was a horrible experience, and I do not think I want any more of Guatemala.” The City of Pargpassed through immense quantities of floating pumice stone, and during the time she was in the volcano region her decks were thickly covered with the white ash that defied Prcsidgnt Cabrera’s ‘censor bu- reau and told the outside world something of the blight that had fallen upon Guatemala. \ HUSBAND SUES | ACTRESS WIFE GeorgeL. McKeeby's Ro- mance Ends in Di- vorce Court. Defendant a Former Mem- ber of “El Capitan” Company. piNite -2 0 El;eclal Disnatch to The Call. LOS ~ANGELES, Nov. 19.—George L. McKeeby, United States District Attor- ney, sued his-young wife for divorce to- day, alleging desertion. They were mar- ried fifteen months ago, the wedding be- ing the culmination of a little romance. She was a member of the chorus of “El| Capitan’ company which appeared in the Los Angeles Theater, and_McKeeby, see- ing her on'fhe stage, became lnfat\mted.‘ At that time she was engaged to the lead- ing tenor of the company, but McKeeby, who nad recently returned from Manila, cut eut the vocalist and the two were | married. Mrs, McKeeby is a woman of marked beauty, but she could not endure the | quiet life of a housewife and some months ago left for the East to join her mother in New York. Later she returned and left with her husband their 1-year-old baby. Then she deserted him again and the suit for divorce is the result. L T o e e o o ground. He admitted that in some in- stances, on account of impurities, the mezsurement of coal by weight would be impracticable. “Under the conditions you have ex- plained,” Wolverton asked, ‘‘could there be any uniform standard of wages, ap- plying to the whole coal regfon or to one colliery that would do justice to one em- ploye and employer?” The witness replied that he did not! know what could be done, but said that where work is the same or nearly so ihere was no reason why wages should be different. At this point the commission adjourned until to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock. PR A RN SHAFFER'S CHARGES FAIL. Controversy With Gompers Won by the Federation Leader. NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 18. -The special commission appointed to consider the | charges male tv Presmasns Shatfer (f | the Amalgamated Association of Steel, Iron and Tin Workers against President | Gompers of the American Federation of | La®or will report to-morrow, nrobably in it tha. afternoon. As an investigation it | will terminate in the exoneration of Pre ident Gontpers and as a sensation it will probably wind up in the wet fire cracker class. Shaffer has not only failed to sub- stantiate his charges, but a member of | the committee is authority for the state- ment that he has never made any, to that body at least. He has appeared before the committee and when ne came away he declared he had presented his charges. The committee says he did not formulate | them. In #Ahe absence of direct accusa-| tion there can be but one end to the in- vestigation. g The convention to-day wrestled with the subject of the autonomy of trades | councils and the matter was not exhaust- | ed when the adjournment was taken at | 6 o'clock. Floods of oratory were poured | out, but nothing was deiinitely settled. ‘The' chief fight of the day came in the old struggle between the United Brother- ! hood of Carpenters and Joiners and the Amalgamated Association of Carpenters. | The former organization asked for the| revocation of the charter of the latter | because of alleged practices contrary to | the interests of the trade union move- | ment, its avowed object being to force the other organization into its own ranks. After several hours of debate the matter | was referred to a committee of eleven, five from each" organization and an um- pire to be mutually selected. The commission I8 to meet on or before | March 1, 1303, and endeavor to bring about | an’ amalgamation of the two organiza- tions. All hostilities are to cease pending | the meeting of the commission. The faction in the convention which is | opposed to the re-election of President Gompers has yet been unable to fix upon a rival candidate. Vice President James Duncan has refused to comnfit hiaself in | either direction and James M. Lynch of | the Typographical Union is now spoken | cf as a candidate. Lynch, however, de- clines to run. LONDON, Nov. 19.—Andrew Carnegie, who was affected by something he ate while on tls | Continent, is rapidly recovering. The doctor says there is no causs whatever for anxiety. | Sing a song o’ sixpence, ' Waffles'in the pie, Ate the little birdies up ’cause they couldn’t fly. Inside information from the best cooks - Presto BUTT‘ER i; a to peculiar qu-l‘;uu EITCHEN REQUISITES. Inside Information tells of / ‘ made from ‘the magical (Better than flour) The H-O {522} Company the wonderful pie er than the milk, are simply fine, This is due in the stock from which Presto is made. “{ for America. ADVERTISEMENTS. "o AN UNTIMELY GRAVE.” A RemarKable Experience With Pe-ru-na After Bcing Given Up to Die. BURNETT, Cal.—Mr. Andree Anderson, Deputy County Clerk, San Luis Obispo County, Cal., and ex-Postmaster, writes: “No one seeing me to-day would think that ! was at death’s door a few years cgo with pu/monary iroubies. | had frequent bieeding irom the iungs, my slomach was cut of ordsr, and when | came hare for my health no one theught I voull reccver. ‘“My brother in the East had been cured of a very hard cold on the lungs by us- ing Peruna, and he wrote me and advised me to try it. I had little faith, but thought I would. give it a trlal. I noticed a change in my appetite the very first week and found that I soon began to sleep well. Gradually I began to feel better and took on flesh. Recovery was slow, for I was so far gone, but after seven months' steady use of Peruna I was my old self once more. “l now we.gh 173 pounds, am in fine health and spirit and have been a well man for two years, thanks to Peruna. It certainly saved me from an untimsely grave.”’—Andrse An- derson. A Congressman’s Letter. Hon. J. H. Huling, ex-member of Con- gress from West Virginia, writes: ‘Pe- runa as a cure for catarrh and a tonic of most serviceable excellence is beyond all question and has been proven by many of my friends who have been benefited by ts use.’—J. H. Huling, address, Charleston, West Virginia. Consumption Often Caused by Ca- tarrh. Very few understand thoroughly that consumption is caused by catarrh. It may have begun as catarrh of the, head or throat. It silently and gradually creeps down the bronchial tubes to the lungs. | After the catarrh has reached the lungs it sets up the disease known as consumption. Peruna is not recommended as an in- fallible cure for consumption. It is not likely that any remedy will cure con- sumption after the disease is fully estab- lished but Peruna will cure catarrh. It will cure catarrh when it is lccated in the throat. It will cure catarrh after it has reached the lungs, if it is not put off too long. Many cases of catarrh of the lungs that have been pronounced consumption and given up to die are cured by Peruna. This happens every day. Like Mr. Anderson Deruiy County Clerk Ander- son of Burnett, Cal., Cured by Pe-ru-na of Ca- tarrh of the of California, thought to be past recovery and found in many people have beem Peruna a permanent cure. There are a great many people to-day who are sing- ing the praises of Peruna that would have been in their graves many years ago had they not discovered Peruna in time to rescue them. Br. 8. B. Hartman, Columbus, Ohio: Dear Daoctor: | desire to express to you my sincers thanks for the interest you have shown in my case and for the timely aid and advice which has effected a cure of as bad a case of con- sumption as could be well imagined. ““Peruna and Manglin have dona what thirteen of tln‘bnt physicians in the country have failed fo do. For more than three years I doctored for consumption, and spent thirteen weeks in a pulmonary sanitarium at Mil- waukee, Wis.; but finding myself grow- ifig_worse, as a last resort 1 came west, where 1 was bedfast for many weeks, and the physicians which my husband called gave no hope, but said, ‘She cannot possibly live mare than a few days.” But thanks to Peruna, | fooled them all. ) “In an incredibly short time after I be- gan to take Peruna the hemorrhages stop- ped. I began to mend slowly at first, but the improvement became more marked, and now I can truthfully say that there is not the slightest trace of my old com- plaint. “I would have written you a long time ago, but have purposely waited to see if the effect was lasting: and in conclusion I would say, God bless you and keep you with us that you may go on with your work of mercy for many years to come.” —Mrs. M. A. Close. Cheyenne, Wyo. “P. 8.—1 am going to visit friends in Wisconsin who never expected to see me alive again.” If you do not derive prompt and satis- factory results from the use of Peruna, write at once to Dr. Hartman, giving a full statement of your case, and he will be pleased to give you his valuable advice gratis. Address Dr. Hartman. President of The Hartman Sanitarium, Columbus, Ohio. BlG ALAMEDA NOLE DESTROYED BY FIRE e Continued From Page 1, Column 2. | All doubt as to the fate of the Oakland was removed when she steamed into her slip on this side at 2:20 o’clock with her upper works charred and her flagstaff and small boats burned up. Captain John Leale, in command, said: “The Oakland reached her Alameda slip at 12:50. I retired at once. The cooks, stewards and waiters went ashore and re- tired in a small building near the depot, which is their regular sleeping place. The deck crew went to work scrubbing down. “The ery of “Fire!” wds raised and I ran. out, undressed. There was a wall of fire on the glip right at the shore end of the ferryboat. “I took the wheel at once and rang for the’engineer to back out. “So fast had the flames sprung up that there was no chance to get the men who had gone ashore aboard. Tongues of fire sprang out and caught the upper works MARQUISE DE CHAMBRUNE. Death of the Last Granddaughter of Lafayette, PARIS, Nov. 19.—The . Marquise de Chambrune died yesterday. She was the last granddaughter of Lafayette, and in her life was notable for her constancy in maintainirg the family’s cordial feeling Her oldest son, the Mar- quis de Chambrune, who is a member of the Chamber of Deputies, becomes the ranking representative of the Lafayette family. He was formerly counselor of the French embassy at Washington and married a daughter of Mrs. Bellamy Storrer. The second son of the deceased Marquise also has an American wife. Her third son represented the Lafayette fam- ily at the recent Rochambeau exercises at ‘Washington, and her only daughter is the wife of Count Savorgnan de Brazza, the explorer of the Congo. P. R. Walsh. VALLEJO, Nov. 19—P. R. Walsh died this morning. He had resided here for fAfty vears. Walsh was a native of Ire- land, 74 years of age. He leaves two sons and three dayghters. —_————— Boxers Refuse Bid to kig! : Here. CINCINNATI. Noy. 19.~Bids for the twenty-five round glove contest between Young Corbett of Denver and Terry Mc- Governor of Brooklyn were opened here to-day. The only clubs which bid were | the Penn Art Club of Philadelphia and the Hayes Valley Athletic Club of San Francisco. Neither ‘club offered a guar- antee for the match. The bids were wired to Harris, marager of McGovern, and t6 Young Cor- bett. They decided not to accept either bid for the present, as the required for- feit of, $5000 did not accompany the bids. The boxers have agreed' to leave the bid open one week longer. Brutal Murder of a Babe. ABERDEEN, Wash, Nov. 19.—The body of a girl baby, evidently about two days old, was found in the Chehalis River, about a mile above Aberdeen, by John Kane, a logger, this morning. That it had been intentionally drowned was evident from the fact that it had a large stone tied by a buckskin thong around its neck. It was dressed in a long gown and a, towel was tied around its head. Apparently it had been carried to the river in a large cigar box, which was found near the place. \ —— cf the Oakland. The crew fought the fire desperately and just saved the ves- sel. Her flagstaff and small boats took fire and fell to the deck. “Owing to the high wind, we could not make a landing on that side, and so steamed over here, hoping to get the help of the firetugs, as well as to reach a place of safety. “Whether the men who went ashore to sleep in the small house escaped I can- rot say. They had not had time to get to sleep. I doubt if they were yet un-| dressed. “As the Oakland pulled away I looked back and watched carefully to see wheth- er any men sprang into the water from the pier. Nomne did, and I am of the opin- ion that the Oakland’s men who were ashore ran to safety.” Captain Leale told his story to the cap- tain of the firetug Governor Markham, and the tug at once started for the other side, with the crew of the Oakland aboard. RIDICULED BY WU TING FANG Retiring Minister Says China Is Not g for War. CHICAGO, Nov. 19.—Wu Ting Fang, the retiring Chinese Minister, passed through €hicago to-night on his way to San Fran- cisco, where he will take passage for home on the steamer Hongkong Maru. He said: “Such reports as those that have been printed here to-day to the ef- fect that my Government is planning to drive all foreigners out of China makes me ill. They are not true. The reports were based on the simple fact that the Imperial Government is taking account of firearms and munitions of war. The United States and all other big coun- tries are doing the same thing constantly and no comment is excited thereby. Why should similar acts by China cause such reports to be circulated? The Imperial Government will keep faith with the powers in all it has promised to do.” Steamship’s Cargo Ablaze. PORTLAND, Nov. 19.—A cable mes- sage to the Oregon Railroad and Navi- gation Company this afternoon from Hongkong states that the cargo of the steamship Indrapura is on fire. The In- drapura is one of the steamers which is orerated by the Portland Asiatic Steam- ship Company in connection witll the Ore- sen Rallroad and Navigation Company, between Portland and the Orient. She left here on September 3 with a cargo of flour and on the voyage was caught by a typhoon. She arrived at Hongkong on November 7. The cable message does not give the extent of the damage to cargo or vessel, PN R Perish in a Snowslide. DENVER, Colo., Nov. 19.—A special to the Republican from Telluride, Colo., says Harry Weller, aged 23, was swept to death by a snowslide at Pandora to-day. With him went a burro pack train and sixteen mules belonging to another. train. The men. in charge of the trains narrowly escaped. —_— OBERLIN, Ohio, Nov. 19.—At the an- nual meeting of the board of trustees of Oberlin College to-day Dr. Henry Churchill King was elected to the presidency of ™ that institution, to succeed Dr. John Hen- ry Barrows, deceased. To Cure a Cold in One Day