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OREGON COURIER A, W. CUENKY, Fublliher. OREGON CITY OREGON OUR SISTER STATES DEVELOPMENT AND PROGRESS OF THE NORTHWEST. Jatorwtlng Topic Tenely Told The Itapldly Crowing Induitrlei of the 1'aelfle 8UU1 m Compared With the Preceding- Year Oregon. The official figures of the Harney county assessment are $1,724,088. A freight train numbering fifty cars -containing wheat, was i shipped from near Pendleton last week. In case of urgent need of militia pro tection, about 1,600 men, including two batteries, can be rendezvoused in twenty-four hours, at Portland. The steel-head salmon have been so numerous at Coquille this week that the good people there have been quite willing for Lent to oommenoe. Last year's produot of corn was 8, 146,879 bushels. The two Nestuoca valleys are to be connected by a wagon load, the oonrt having favorably passed on a reoent petition to that effect. The death rate among the Indians of the Klamath reservation is reported to be very high owing to the whooping cough epidemic, and the redskins hav ing returned to the aboriginal sweat house treatment of the disease. The broom factory at Bandon turned out 9,000 broom handles for one ship ment to San Francisoo. This industry, and the woolen mills, whioh have re cently resumed operations, have raised the population of that town to over 4,200. One of Polk county's wealthiest land owners has had the fever for some yean to engage in raising coffee. He wanted to visit South or Central America in the interest of this subject, but has at last decided to send to Mexico for coffee trees. The Polk oounty tax levy is 14 mills, of whioh 4 8-10 mills is for the state; , 4 2-10 for the oounty and 6 for schools. This is an inorease of 1 mill over last year's rate. The county's valuation has been left by the state board at $14,977,807. Umatilla oounty's is 18 mills, Jaokson oounty people may not be expected to urge the next legislature to action in the matter of re-apportion-m nt, as they will be apt to loose one reireientattve. The oounty assessor's oeusus shows a population of 18,000 whioh would entitle them according to the new censuB to a less representation. A daily mail service is to be estab lished between Ashland and Klamath Valla, via Soda Springs and Snake, to begin May l next This is a very important matter to Southern Oregon, as the Wells-Fargo express service has for some time been withdrawn on ao count of the numerous robberies oc curring on that line. Southern Oregon is ooming to the front quite prominenty in oonneotion with the revival of gold mining. Two giants are running night and day at the Hampton and Lewis mine on Grave creek. It is one of the largest plaoer mines in the state, having a water supply of more than 4,600 miner's -inches, which will be increased 1,000 inches by next season. An Oregon man has attained con siderable distinction in Philadelphia by carrying off the prize for growing three flue yellow Dauver onions. The Democratic state convention has been oalled to nieot in Portland, April 9. Nominations will be made for one candidate for congress from eaoh con gressional district, and candidates for such other state and distriot offices as may be required under the law. Nominations will also be in order for four candidates for presidential electors and eight alternates to the national Dumooratio convention. The Recorder, of Ashland, has re ceived offloial notification from the oounty clerk that the taxable property within that city's limits, as returned by the oounty assessor and as equalized by the oounty board of equalization, amounts to $608,813. Last year it was returned at $578,905 from which it will be seen there is a doorcase of $70, 083. It is expected that a levy of about 10 mills for city purposes will be deemed advisablo by the council, un der the circunistanoes, as the city fluanoiers have not been expecting a reduction in theoity's total assessed valuation. be successful do not require large hold ings. It is a state where ten acres will give an industrious man inde pendence. Ten acres of irrigated land or ton acres of our best land in West ern Washington make a fine farm. A cheese faotory with all the latest maohinery is to be erected at Daven port, and is expected to be ready to oommenoe operations in the spring. The state insurance commissioner's report for the year shows receipts of $4,893.80. The secretary of state has decided to striotly enforce the provi sions of the law licensing insnranoe agents during the present year. A carload of edar doors has been ordered from Taooma for England. This sample order gives promise of many large European shipments. The same firm several months ago shipped 2,700 doors to Portland, Me. , While the catching and marketing of shrimps has been a considerable industry in the waters about San Francisco for nearly a soore of years, it was always thought that shrimps did not exist in Puget sound. Lately however, they have been found there in large numbers, and a company has been formed to catch them and ship them to eastern markets. The Sound shrimps are said to be finer than any yet found on the Pacifio coast The biggest logging industry on the Sound will probably be operatod in Jefferson oounty this year, by Mr, Brown. He alreadv has orders for 16,- 000,000 feet of timber, and may pos siblv double that amount before the summer is over. He is, being looked to by the mill companies for the best lows that will be floated into the Sound, and the orders that he has al readv received makes it certain that there will be more logging done in this section during the coming season than has ever been known before. In the vicinity of the two or three oamps that Mr. Brown proposes to establish, heolaims that there are 200,000,000 feet of fine timber, ready for the ax, and that it will furnish profitable log King for twenty-five years. A season's work, he says, will hardly make a no tioeable loss of timber thereabouts. EVENTS OF THE DAYteS:?"! RUSSIA AND TURKEY UJIRHIUUHttVa eU IH VUMVUt) B)VHI EPITOME OF THE TELEGRAPHIC NEWS OF THE WORLD. Idaho. Snake river has been closed for the season. A new Masonic lodge was organized at Blaokfoot last Saturday evening. Theoityof Lewiston has $10,533.87 in outstanding warrants and interest The great Bruneau canal is now com pleted. It is twenty miles long and cost over $200,000. The first annual meeting of the Idaho state horticultural society was held at Boise, January 22 and 23, 1806. The ioe season in Boise is over and all the largest ice-houses are full. About 6,000 pounds were put up there this year. The Mormons propose to establish a large aoademy at Paris and Professor Emil Maeser, son of the great Mor mon eduoator, will be in charge. The Indian industrial school at Fort LaDwai now contains 182 ohild ren. The boys' new dormitory will soon be finished, two new teachers and a matron are two be added to the corps. Of available farming land Idaho has nearly 10,000,000 aores and more than double this number of grazing land. Its forests embrace thousands of square miles or 7,000,000 aores of pine, spruce, fir and mahogany. Aa Interesting Collection of Items From tba Two lleiulepherei Presented In a Condensed VorvaA Lara Amount of Information In a Small Space. Earthquakes have been noted in vari ous parts of the state of Oaxaoa, Mexioo. General Thomas Ewing, ex-member of on gross from Ohio, is dead, at the age of 67. England's application for the Ameri can loan will involve the export of $2,000,000 of gold within a week. Three men were killed and four re ceived serious injuries by the ex plosion of gas in New Haven, Conn. Advioes from Crown Point, Ind., state that bloodhounds are to be used to trail criminals hiding in the Kan' kakee swamps. As a result of a fire in St Louis five firemen were buried in the ruins, and another died from injuries received while fighting the flames. Despite the prohibitory decree of the sultan, the Red Cross Society is pre' paring an expedition to Turkey to dis tribute relief to the Armenian suffer era. The hoisting machine in the convert ing department of the Ohio Steel Com pany, at Youngtson, v., went wrong and one man was killed and two seri ously injured. The death of Prince Henry of Bat tenberg is announoed. He aocom panied the British expeditionary forces to South Afrioa, and while there con tracted a fever of whioh he died. The supreme court rendered an im portant decisions in San Francisco, de laring that the stockholders of the de funct Pacifio bank aro individually liable for the debts of the corporation. The site for the United States peni tentiary, whioh was located by the commission about eighteen months ago near the state penitentiary in Walla Walla, has been approved by the gov ernment and the title accepted. The Mohammedan rebellion, in the Chinese province of Kansu, has been entirely suppressed, and the coun try pacified. There have been many executions, including the leaders of the insurrection. Washington. An opera house and dance hall com bined is to be erected at Kalama. A oontract has been signed to build t Everett a saw mill with a capacity of 60,000 feet a day. Washington has 113 members in her ' legislature, while the new state of Utah has but sixty-three. The Marysville labor exchange has started a depository, by selling shingles and laying in a stock of groceries. Washington's lumber's product for 1896 was the value of $6,800,000 of which $3,000,000 was in shingles. A four-story brewery with stone foundation is to be erected at Turn water. Its dimensions will be 28x90 feet An Indian on the North beach cap tured a fine specimen of the Arctio owl one day last week. The captain of the schooner Thayer paid $5 for it One point that was well brought out at the immigration convention was that the state of Washington is, taken as a whole, a place where farmers to Montana. Montana has been visited by a real cold snap, the thermometer having reaohed thirty degrees below zero. Billings has voted to bond the oity for 135.000 to cover the floating in debtedness. Helena. Butte and Anaconda are to be inoluded within the raoing oirouit, the purses of whioh will be placed at not less than $300,000. The Northern Paoifio Company will soon receive government patents for 680,000 aores of land in the Miles City land district, the most of whioh are in Custer oounty. As this will be taxable an apportionate reduotion will aoorue to the assessment paid by individual land owners. One of the latest business enterprises of this oommunity is the organization of the Danzer Sheep Company. The capitalization of this institution is plaoed at 60,000 shares, the par value of whioh is $1 eaoh. The company which has thus been plaoed in the hands of a stock company is the mam moth possessions of G. F. Danzer, and inoludes some of the finest meadows of our valley. It lies along the north fork of Smith river for a distance of seven miles and commands a large range. The premises are in a high state of cultivation and the new oom pany starts out with splendid pros peots. The trustees for the first three months are G. F. Danzer, Michael Danzer and J. T. Anderson. BrltUh Colombia. A bridge 250 feet long is being built by the government, crossing Cran berry creek at Pauls landing. Vancouver poultry show last Thurs day and Friday was well attended, and had upward of 400 entries. It closed with a banquet on Friday night Work was resumed on the Slough creek drain tunnel about the first of the month. It is expected to have the drain across to the head of Nelson creek by April 1. The announcement was made this week that a large number of white miners would be discharged from the employ of the New Vancouver Coal Company during the next two months, and the superintendent of the colliery cheap Mongolian labor would follow ( from th in the near futrue. A detailed aooount of the surrender of King Prempeh, of Ashantee, to the British expeditionary force in South Afrioa, state that his majesty actually groveled in the dust as a mark of his oomplete submission to England. A row between Theodore Lnebcke, a carpenter, and William Solomon, a German compatriot, at the home of the former, in Portland, Or., ended in Lueboke stabbing to the heart and, al most instantly killing bolomon. Fam ily troubles were the cause. It is stated that a rupture between Brazil and Italy is imminent owing to Brazil s tardiness in satisfying Italian claims arising out of the oivil war in Brazil. It is reported the warship Benjamin Constant has started to oo- oupy the island of Trinidade. A dispatch from San Salvador says the minister of war is mobilizing the militia of which in this oity aloue there are 7,000 available. The government as sorts this is done for the purpose of ao oustoming the militia to the use of arms and to perfect their drill. A bill has been introduoed in the Kentucky legislature by Goebel to re peal the charter of the Southern Paoifio Railway Company, obtained in 1884 by C. P. Huntington. The road has never been operated in Kentucky, but in California, and the action of the senator is prompted by resolutions of mass meetings of citizens of California, A dispatch from EkaterinoBlav, the capital of the government of that name, in Southern Russia, gives de tails of a nre that occurred in a theater, causing a great loss of life. The fire was discovered while a per formance was going on. The specta tors became panio-stricken, and made a wild rush for the exits. Forty-nine bodies have already been taken out Truly Shattuck, the young actress, has fled from San Frauoisoo to avoid testifying against her mother, who is being tried for the murder of Harry Poole. Truly was the chief witness against her mother during the first trial, Mrs. Shattuck shot the young man on account of the attentions to her daughter, and it was proved that Truly, at the oommand of her mother, wrote Poole a note whioh summoned him to ber house the day he was shot There is to be a sensational contest in Anderson ville, Ind., between Dr. Covert, whe has recently sued and been sued by the Indiana Spiritualists, and Dr. Harry Adams, of CrawfordS' ville, who olaims to represents the Spiritualists, but many disclaim him, f or six mgnts ur. Aaams is to appear and Dr. Covert has wagered that he will do everything Dr. Adams per forms, Covert not claiming any me dium assistance. The men have put up $500 with the judges. Negotiations between the Rio Grande Western and the Western Passenger Association have been broken off again. The Rio Grande Western has agreed, however, to cease paying a commission on tickets from Salt Lake to Denver, reserving to itself the right to cut rates whenever necessary to meet the compe tition of the Union Pacific The West ern roads nave agreed to make half fare rates for commissioned officers of the army and navy and the dependent members of their families when they travel at their own expenses. J. C Osw Id, who has just returned e Orient, and who was a wit- I ness of the execution of the Chinese ing of it says: "After the execution had taken place the beads of the five ringleaders, were plaoed in buckets which wore out so as to give a full view of their ghastly contents and the buckets were hung on the Foo Chow bridge, where they remained on exhi bition for two days. Then they were taken to Ku Cheng, the scene of the massacre of the ten Christian girls, and were there hung on trees, where they are probably still banging. To remove one of -the beads means itnrae diate death to the offender. The exe oution has had a great moral effect on the Chinese, and I think it will be a long time before there will be mur derous interference with the mission aries " John Tyler, eldest son of President Tyler, died in Washington, aged 76. President Cleveland will be present at the anniversary celebration of Princeton college. Twenty-nine hundred miners at Co lumbus, O. , returned, to work, having settled their trouble. A San Franoisoo paper says the president has accepted an invitation from Attorney W. W. Foote to spend part of his vacation next summer on the Paoifio coast The ioe gorge in the Maumee river, about eight miles above Toledo, broke and in running out carried away two spans of the new bridge in course of construction. The loss is estimated at $50,000, A special to Novoe Vremya from Vladivostock says news has been re ceived from Peking that the Chinese government has assigned a large sum for the creation of a fleet The plan of construction is very large. In a heavy fog, with the wind in the northeast and the surf running far up the beach, the American liner St, Paul, bound in, went ashore on Long Island. All of the 700 passengers were safely transferred to land, The Hon. Theodore Runyon, United States ambassador to Germany, expired suddenly and unexpectedly at Berlin of heart failure. Mr. Runyon had been in somewhat feeble health for sometime past, but no immediate fatal results were anticipated, Colonel Crofton has been requested to retire by Secretary Lainont The colonel refuses to comply, and relies on the influence of his nephew, Dupont of Delaware, who claims an election as United States senator, to retain for him his position in the army, A special to the New York World from Kingston, Jamaica, says a seri ous uprising is reported in Port-au Prince, the oapital of Hayti. After three days' rioting in the streets, the insurrection was suppressed. There is general uneasiness throughout the island. A special to the Boston Traveller, from New York, says that the ban placed by the Catholic church upon the orders of Knights of Pythias, Sons of Temperance and Odd Fellows is ab solute, and offers no further discussion. This is the mandate of the pope, through his represntative, Cardinal Satolli. The imperial court at Liepsio, Ger many, has ruled on a case whioh af foots the rights of German-Americans. F. W. Beohine, of Brooklyn, N. Y was lined in September last tne sum of 200 marks for evading military ser vice by emigrating. ' The oourt quash ed this sentence, as not being in accord with treaty rights. Postmaster-General Wilson has is sued a general order providing that in all cities and towns having free deliv ery postal service, the postal system be exteded to include house-to-house col lections. For the convenience of the department, however, the introduction of boxes in houses, until further or' ders, will be confined to twenty-five places. A meeting of the American mer chants in Pretoria, South Africa, was held and it was decided to telegraph to Secretary Of State Olney that in view of the interests of American citizens and the fact that their property was jeopardized, it was requested that a diplomatio agent be sent to arrange matters with a view to any exigencies which might arise. The secretary of the Oakland, Cal branch of the American Railway Union has received a letter from the private secretary of E. V. Debs, in whioh the statement telegraphed from the East that Debs is to resign the presidency of the union is denied. He says Debs will win the fight he is now engaged in on behalf of organized la bor or die in the attempt At a meeting of the grand offloers of the Knights of Pythias, held in Cin cinnati, the following resolution was 'Resolved, That it is the unanimous sense of this assembly that no encampment of the uniformed rank should be held during 1 896, unless a guaranteed rate of one cent per mile by the shortest practicable route, with a limit of twenty days, can be se cured." Ira Reynolds, a three-year convict from New Whatcom, confined in the Walla Walla penitentiary, attempted suicide by driving a nail in the top of his head to a depth of two inches. After considerable difficulty the prison physicians extracted the naiL When questioned about the insane deed, Rey nolds said his head was growing loose and unbalanced on bis shoulders. He drove the nail in to keep his head on. The Chinese government has agreed to open the West river, provided China is allowed to retain the territory ceded under the Burmab-China convention of 1894. The opening of two ports on the West, oi Si Kiang river, namely, Shao King and Wu Chow, was stipu lated for by the Japanese as part of the terms of peace. The cities of Can ton and flong Kong are situated on the bay into which the West river empties. THE REPORTED ALLIANCE IS AN ACTUAL FACT. ItUHla I Now Mauler of the Situation and France Follow! It inula aa a Blind Man Follow! a I)o, While (lerniauy Out-llerods Herod. London, Jan. 28. The most startl ing political news of the week was the announcement in a dispatch from Con stantinople to the Pall Mall Gazette, that an offensive and defensive alliance bad been formed between Russia and Turkey. The story has aroused the keenest discussion throughout Great Britain and the continent, and the specials from different European capi tals contain admissions which lend color to the report Turkey's terrible financial plight, it is believed, may have driven the sultan into the arms of Russia. The information in the Constanti nople dispatch to the Pall Mall Gazette is confirmed today from an excellent source, a letter from the speaker's cor' respondent at Constantinople, in which the writer declares the Russia-Turkish treaty is an aotual fact, although it does not exits on paper. The corre spondent adds: Russia is absolute master of the situation, and it is believed here that the enormous backsheehs sent by the sultan to the czar, valued at 35,000, and including one of the most famous jewels in the imperial collection, marks a secret treaty of alhanoe by whioh Russia guarantees the integrity of the Ottoman empire and agrees to assist in the restoration of order in Kurdistan and also in the defense of the Dardan elles. "Franoe follows Russia as a blind man follows his dog. France was the first to denounce the treaty of Unkiar Skelessi; now she is silent The attitude of Germany is more despicable than that of France; she is trying to win favor with Russia by out-Heroding Herod. The outcome of the Armenian difficulty has been the triumph of Russia and the humiliation of Great Britain." The English newspapers generally accept this view of the defeat of their diplomacy. The Chronicle, almost alone, views the situation with com plaoency and thinks it ought to lead to a complete entente between Russia and Great Britain on the whole Asiatic question, including Egypt Abroad the report has caused a great deal of anxiety. The Standard's Vien na correspondent admits the general impression there is that some arrange ment between Russia and Turkey ao tually exists. The Neue Freie PresBe of Vienna says: "There is no doubt Russia exercises strong influence at Constantinople, but Europe can scarcely abandon its inter ests in Turkey in favor of a single power." This development of the Eastern question has aroused great interest as to the intention of the United States, and the feeling is expressed that the United States will, ere long, prove the potent factor in the Levant The de bates in congress on this subject are eagerly followed and commented upon here. The outlook in London in regard to the speedy settlement of the dispute between Great Britain and Venezuela is now looked upon as being much more hopeful; but whether the settlemont will be arrived at with Venezuela di rect or by means of arbitration, still seems an undeoided question, although nobody anticipates any further serious trouble in connection with the dispute. SITUATION IN ARMENIA. a Been DUturlted Illntrlrti of Turkey by an American. Boston, Jan. 29. The following let ter from Constantinople, under date of January 4, surveys the general condi tion of affairs in the disputed districts of Turkey: The writer says the gen eral condition is not good, although at some places it is improving, but con fidence is weak. At Karpoot the des titution is terrible, beyond all com parison with other places yet heard from. At Madin it is still Impossible to go outside of the walls of the city. At Bitlis more security is felt for the missionaries, who will probaby remain all winter. At Marash, Mr. Terrell has bad new cautions given to the gov ernor, and the promise of regular troops to replace the relief guards. Adaua has suffered a good deal from panic Hadjin is still safe, but reports are now circulated of trouble there. An escort was ordered to bring Miss Shat tuck away from Orfa, but she is un able to endure the journey. The college (male) of the American board at Karpoot has commenced its classes. At Sivas the missionary schools have been reopened, and the people are ventuirng out quite freely to services. The relief work grows apace. In Vanas about 8,000 people are being helped with funds. Consul Hapson at Moosh, reports the Sassoun villagers still safe. He is fur nishing them with grain. In Trebi zond about 6,000 people are being helped. At Karpoot relief work has been authorized after pressure from the English and American legations. At Constantinople, missionary rooms are transformed into clothing ware houses. Clothing and bedding go mainly to near points, Trebizond and Caesarea. MINE EXPLOSION. Fifty-Four Dead ai tl Ilenult of An other Colliery Dinaater In Walea. Cardiff, Wales, Jan. 29. The resi dents of the town and vicinity of Tylerstown, near here, were terrified by torriflo reverbrations today. It was ascertained in a short time that the conoussion was caused by an explosion in a neighboring colliery, with disas trous consequences of life and prop erty. The latest report places the number of dead at fifty-four, though it is feared the future exploration of the wrecked mine will develop the bodies of more. The mining population of the lo cality knew too quickly what the muffled, thunderous explosion meant, and rushed to the mouth of the pit, only to have their worst fears con firmed. The shaft was found to be en tirely shattered, and it was evident there was little hope for any of those in the pit The despair of the women who flocked about the mouth of the pit was little more terrible than the horrible anxiety of those who hoped to find that those missing from their sides had, by some chance, not entered the mine. The pit was found to have caught fire, and the hindrance this oaused to the work of rescue added to the excite ment and tension of feeling. It was only through braving the utmost peril that the living were able to prosecute their quest for the dead. The nnmber of dead removed grew from twelve to fifteen, and then twenty, and the list of those known to have been in the mine kept constantly growing, and with it the number of bereaved fami lies waiting at the surface. To Divide Turkey. London, Jan. 29. The Daily News this morning prints a dispatch from Vienna asserting that news has been received there from Constantinople and Sebastopol, which agrees that Russia has a fleet lying at Sebastopol and at Odessa, and that the Caucassian armies of Russia are being concentrated upon the Armenian frontiers in readiness to move next spring to realize tho plans of Peter the Great for the partition of Turkey between the powers, Russia taking Armenia and Constantinople, France taking Syria and Palestine, and England taking Egypt and the eastern shores of the Persian gulf, the remain der of the Turkish empire to be di vided among the other powers. The Daily News also has a dispatch from Sebastopol, which records the secret preparations going forward there, of shipping men and armaments for a volunteer fleet It is the general be lief, this dispatch affirms, that these preparations foreshadow some action in the spring. Constantinople, Jan. 29. There a rumor here that Russia is arranging with the sultan for the occupation of Armenia, but it is not confirmed by the discoverable signs and is discredit ed in diplomatic circles. Want! to Retain Corea. New York, Jan. 29. A dispatch to the Herald from St Petersburg savs A dispatch to the Novoe Vremya from Vladivostock says that the Japanese government wishes to assert its hege mony over the western part of the Pacific ocean, and also that it has decided to retain Corea within the sphere of its influence. Schooner John W. Bray Loot. Gloucester, Mass., Jan. 29. John F. Wonson Co., owners, formally an nuonced today that they have given up as loet the schooner John W. Bray and a crew of fourteen men. The John W. Bray sailed from this port November 29. for a four weeks' trip to the fishing banks, and since that date has not been sfghted nor beard from. It is believed she was wrecked in the fierce gales of December 11-12. Her captain was Alexander McLeod, of Cape Breton. A Million Involved. St. Louis. Jan. 29. Today in the United States court of appeals, Judges Caldwell, of Arkansas; Tbayer, of St. Louis, and Sanborn of Minnesota, sit ting en banc, arguments were begun in the greatest case, in some respects. that has ever been before the courts of this country. J. D. Rockefeller, presi dent of the Standard Oil Company, is the defendant. The amount involved is approximately $1,000,000. At the trial of the case on its merits in the United States circuit court, sitting at Duluth, before Judge Riner and a jury, a verdict was given for the plain- tin, Aiirea Merritt, jr., for $940,000. Cruel Crime of a Jealoue Lover. Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 29. Eocene Mosely, a youDg man who wears a wooden leg, yesterday had a quarrel with his sweetheart, Mary Lamb, the result of his being jealous of her atten tions to another man and after knock ing her down, he stamped upon her repeatedly with his peg leg. The girl was so severely injured that death re sulted. Mosely caught an outgoing train just after the tragedy, but officers gave chasa At Woodlawn, 80 miles out, he left the train, and, taking to the woods, escaped. Dogs have been secured and put on his traiL - International Copyright Law. London, Jan. 29. H. Rider Hag gard presided tonight at a meeting of the Society of Authors, to which Mr. Hal Caine read his report upon his mission to Canada, with regard to an international copyright Mr. Haggard, speaking on the report, said it ridicluous to suppose any government would put pressure npon Canada with regard to copyright law. Most of them, he said, would rather see the question dropped than to (inarm! with Canada over a copyright John L. Sullivan'! Future. New York, Jan. 29. A TCnrlit special from Boston says John L. Sul livan has decided to nnit Rnrm . the stage "for good," he says. A Mil waukee brewer is Koine to fit n a magnificent saloon for him in Chicago. Another New Skating Feeord. St Paul, Jan. 29. HarleT David. son tonight beat the National Associa tion record for an unpaced mile, going the distance in 2:67