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VOL. 9.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY, MARCH 25, 1892.
NO. 13.
Circulation, 1,000.
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County Odlotn.
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- Hotdetr Notice.. -Masonic.
Ht. Helena Iidirn, No. M Kranlar
eom-nunli-atloui first and 1 IiIkI H.tanlay lu raith
aionih at 7:IW r. a. at Mawulo Hall. Vlaltlug
m.tiinra In good aUiidluK luvltwl tnatU-ud.
M tannic lUlulnr 1,'xixe No. 24-HUted ine t
ln i-eier-ajr on or bifore nach lull nioou at7:W
r. tt. at Ma-oult) Hall, nv.r Ulanobard'a more.
Vlaliiiifineuiberi lu food ilaudlug Invited to
attend.
Bvangslleal Appointment..
Pint Sauder Door laland, II A. a. I Ht. Helena
7:00 . n.
..ion.l Sunday Neer City, 11 A. K.j Keubou,
7:U0 p. It.
Tulrd Saudar-Ollltou, 11 A. N.; Hoaltnn, 1 r.
H.
fourth Sunday Damrlw lalaud (CHIIehau), 11
a. a.; Heoier't, i r. m.
II. HURUNOAMK, Paator.
The Malta.
Down rlrarfhoat) closeaat :S0 A. a.
I'p rtr (boat) ohiee. at 1 r. .
Tn mail lor Vurnonla an I I'llUhnrg WavM
(k H.l.ua Tuawlay, TUuraday and Maturday at a
A. W.
Th. mall (nrMarahlaui1,(!labkiilaid Mlat
l.araa Wolnn Monday, Wadneaday and Prlday al
111.
Malta (railway) north, clow at 10 A M.j for
Poui.ndatJr.il.
Travalara' Oulila-Klvar Konta.
BraiMaail. W. HHvia Leave!!, ll-lrua for
Portland al II a. M. Tnsd.v, T Irir.itay aud Hal
arday. Iava Ht. Ilvloua for Clalakaiila Mou
da. Wclua-day and Krl lay at :W a. m.
Hraaaaa Jimicril Kli."iiu lrf. Ht. Helena
for Portland dally excu.t Huuday at t 'M A. M.
KtnrnliK, leaea I'ortUud at 'i:DU P. H.
MISCELLANEOUS.
D. 0. SWITZER,
GENERAL INSURANCE
AND
Real Estate Agent,
St. Helens, Orcoon.
GO
John A. Beck,
Watchmaker and Jeweler,
-roR YOUR
ELEGANT JEWELRY.
Tha Plneat Aeanrtment of W.irhea, Clock! and
Jewelry of all Deeorlpllone,
OPPOSITE THE ESMOND, PORTLAND, OS
PIANOS and ORGANS.
Hallctt & Davis and New Scale Kimball Pianos and Kimball Or
gans. ' I invite iiiBpcction, and defy competition.
L. V. MOORE. 1 05 Washington St., Portland, Or.
Write for eataloune and prices. Mention this paper.
Olttslca,xiie Line.
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STEAMER G. W. SHAVER.
J. W. SHAVER,. Master.
Leaves Portland from Alder-street dock Monday via Westport,
Skamokawa and Cathlamet, Wednesday and Friday for Clatskanie,
. Uui.vina falpriH St.. Ui'Ihiir Onlumhin. Citv. Kalftma. Neer
bUUvllllln w tt,.v. 1 j 1 i
City Rainier, Cedar Landing, Mt. Collin, Bradburv, Stella, Oak Point
and 'all intermediate points, returning Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.
DON'T BUY YOUR DRUGS
-ANYWHERE BUT
: YOU WILL FIND THE '
Freshest, Purest and Dest of Everything
. . AT THE
CLATSKANIE v DRUG . STORE.
DR. J. E. HALL, Proprietor,
PROFESSIONAL.
DR. H. B. CLIFF,
Physician and Surgeon,
St. Il.lini, Or. , .
DR. J. E. HALL,
Physician v and v Surgeon,
Clstakenle, Columbia Co., Or.
T. A. McBaina, A. 8. Sksmib.
MoBRIDE & DRESSES,
Attorneys v at '. Law,
' Or.gou Cltr. Or.
Prompt mention given tolaud-offl.ee bnalneaa
A. B. LITTLE,
Surveyor and Civil Engineer,
t. Helena, Or.
Cimnijr Bury, yor. I .aud aurraylng, town plai
ting and engineering work promptly don.
W, T. Buamv. J. W. Dairia.
BURNEY & DRAPER,
Attorneys ;.' at Law,
Oregon City, Or.
Twelve yaara' experionee aa Reilater of the
United Hla'va l.aud Ollloa hera recommend, aa
liiourapeelallyof allklndaof bualueaa before
the l.nd offloe or the l euru, aud Involrlnt the
praoiice in me ueuerai jauu uraoe.
J. B. BROGKENBROUQH,
ATTORNEY V AT . LAW,
Orexon City, Or.
rt Rpeclal A Kent of Oeneral fjiud Offlre.)
Uomealead, Pre-einpllon and 'l imber Land Ap
pll at out and other Ijind (ifllva Biulnea. a
Alelaliy. Ullloe, Htoond Floor, land OOloa
BailUlug.
CHAS. W. PYGE1V
Notary ' .' Public
-AND- ,
INSURANCE AGENT,
MA TO KB, OB.
Popular Ubrmrlee.
There la iiothini; that ao aroiuwa an Interest
In an liutitution of thla kind aa a apirited
couteat 07er the election of ofllcert. Take '
the Me-n-bniiU' Kxrliango, for Inatauce, or,
the Comuierulal Travelora' aaaociatiou ; both !
are etrongor and better lu every way aftur 1
the exciting eh-otlona they al way. bold for'
ofllcera. In Cincinnati one of the Inatltutloiu 1
of which they ore the proudest la the Mer-
contlle library, and the honor of being lu
preeUlunt for one year I ao highly priited
that cxmtaiU of aui'h friendly flurceneas rage .
ttiat the pniei-a are full of now. ul the cam-'
palgn for wanks. Eminent cltixen are placed
on the rival tickets, and thair frieude rally
to their nipiKirt. 1 am told of one com
where ao ambitious wa a wealthy tufty
uiuki-r to Mcure tho coveted honor that on
the day before the election he purchased
yearly membership for bia 1,2UU employes,
and they marched to hia aid in a aolld body
the uext day. rJuuilar Uutiuices, but not
quite to extensive, have been frequent, and
the result of the agitation la to keep the
library constantly before the people, with a
result that lis membership It constantly
welling, and It is, by ruaaon of Its wealth,
one of the finest Ubrariua In the country.
Librarian in St. Unit Olabe-Demoorat.
The rarm.r'. Dollar.
The farmer's dollar is heavy. . It is
no waif to bitn. He know bow many
strokes of bis labor it represents. His
boDos acbo with the day's tabor that
earned it. He knows how much land
it rupresentA how much rain, frost
and sunshine. Ha khows that in tho
dollar be gives you so much discretion
and patience, so much hooing aud
threahing. Try to lift his dollar, you
must lift nM " wpi'Hil Kmcinon
AT A REGULAR
PACIFIC COAST.
Petrified Forest Found
in California.
NATURAL GAS NEAR 0GDEN.
San Franolsoo Capitalists Purohase
Mexican Gold Mine Rata
War Begun.
It is estimated that something like
20,000 rabbits were slain near Fresno in
the recent drive. ' Five thousand people
took part.
A petrified forest has been discovered
in Mendocino county, Cal.,on the Reeves
ranch, about sii miles north of the town
of Willets.
The question of retaliation by the
United States against Canadian goods is
causing some excitement among business
men of Vancouver, B. 0,
General Eli H. Murray has begun a
suit at Ban Diego against the Mexican
Lana and colonization company lor
$100,000 damages lor an alleged breach
of contract.
El I'eono mine in Sonora, Mexico, an
excellent gold property, has been sold to
Ban Francisco capitalists for. 1200.000.
They will erect a large smelting and mill'
ing plant on the property.
0. A. Warren, owner of the Butte
(Mont.) Inler-Mountain, has just won
his suit in the United States Supreme
Court for the possession of the Comanche
mine in Anaconda, valued at fz,uuu,uuu,
Work is going ahead vigorously on the
new road known as the Hants Fe, I'res-
oott and rhuunlx, which starts from toe
little town of Ann fork on the Atlantic
and Pacific' aud runs a little west and
south through the best portion of Ari
son a.
The transfer of the Seattle, Lake Shore
and iutstern railroad to the Northern
Pacific has been cjmpleted. A new
Board of Directors was chosen, and Jos
B. Williams of New York was elected
President.
O. C. Walters, a young man from Lou
isville, Kv.. employed by the Fannen'
Manual at Los Angeles as advertising
solicitor, forged contracts and obtained
tne commission on the in, and when be
was detected he stole the contracts and
left Los Angeles.
The rate war between the Union Pa
cific and the opposition steamboat lines
on the Portland and Astoria route has
been formally begun. The reduction of
the passenger fare by the Union Pacific
water-lines office to l was promptly met
oy tne steamers leiepnone and Astonan,
Natural gas has been found near Op
aen. Alter rjoring six aays ana attain
ing 200 feet a six-foot flow of perfectly
odorless gas was struck. Oyden believes
sue is in tne center oi a large gas region.
Salt Lake and Ogden will be lighted with
natural gas from the wells south of Salt
Lake by September 1.
Resident sealers at Vancouver, B. 0.,
are determined to take advantage of the
refusal of the BritiBh government to re
new the modus Vivendi, Snd are fitting
an tne available vessels lor Bearing sea.
Seven new boats have been purchased
recently, and will be made ready for
service without delay.
The majority of the inhabitants of
Fallbrook, San Diego county, Cal.. have
voted upon 12.600 acres of land a bonded
indebtedness of 400,000, which with
tne interest will amount in twenty years,
during which lull payment baa to be
made, to the confiscating sum of $800,
000 or about $04 per acre.
Natural gas has been struck near Los
Angeles. It is pouring out in large quan
tities under a high pressure, and appears
to possess all the qualities necessary for
heat and power purposes. The well has
been bored by I. W. He II man on his
ranch, mile or so east of Boyle
Heights, formerly known as the Repette
place.
At Boise City, Idaho, in the case of
Rumple vs. the Union Pacific railway for
120,0.10 damages the jury returned a ver
dict for the plaintiff, fixing the damages
at $10,275. Rumple was run over by a
Uuion Pacific train, losing bis left log.
The trial was one constant wrangle, and
after the verdict Edgar Wilson, counsel
for the railway, who took exception to
tne aDusive remarks oi J. w. mager,
attorney for the plaintiff, gave him a se
vere drubbing.
The famous Johnson estate case at
Stockton, involving half a million dol
lars, will probably be compromised.
This Is the estate which was the cause
of an amendment passed by the last
Legislature, allowing a married woman
to be appointed administra rix. The
adopted daughter of VV. B. Johnson, de
ceased, claimed the estate, but the con
test was made on the adoption papers.
and the decision wai for the blood rela
tives, and an appeal was taken.
The matter of the final settlement of
the accounts of General Rnfns Ingalls aa
exreutor of the estate of the late Ben
Ilolladay's wife came up before the ref
eree appointed by the Probate Court at
Portland the other day. General Ingalls
submitted an offer of $40,000, good for
six months, for the assignment of Ben
Holladay'a claim of $60J,000 against the
government for Indian depredations on
his overland mail service, which has been
Deiore uongress tor many years.
County division in San Diego, Los An
geles and San Bernardino counties, Cal.,
this fall will be the Important factor in
the choice of legislative candidates.
Riverside and her allies, Banning, Col
ton and Aleasandro, will wage a hard
battle for the formation of a new county
there, with Riverside as the countv-seat.
The San Jacinto people are red-hot for a
new county to ne tormeo irom ban Diego.
Pomona will ask for a divi.ion from Los
Angeles for the formation of a new coun
ty, with Ontario and Aztia as allies.
The Kern County (Cal.) Board of Su
pervisors njipiinted de'e .a ei to the Nic
aragua Canal Convention, and when a
petition came before the board to pay
the expenses of the delegates it was
found there was no record of the appoint
ment proceedings in the minute book,
the board having ordered the clerk to
tear the psge on which was, the order
from the book, a disposition to change
the names having taken possession of
the board. The people were indignant,
but the same names were substituted in
another order, and something likeacalm
followed.
NATIONAL CAPITAL
Diplomatic Relations Between Italy and
tha United States Are About
- to be Re-established. ,
William G. Gilbert of Oregon has been
confirmed as United States Judge of the
Mntn Judicial Circuit.
Superintendent Porter of the census
bureau appeared before the iiouse Com
rv iif nA nry tha nlniian 4 V-i nanatiM snjl aI.
ill I VI W Ull VisV C1C V vu III vvuailOi swiju ea
vocated the permanent establishment of
the census bureau. -
The protect of a deep-water channel
through the connecting wafers of the
ureat Lakes has practically received tne
approval of a majority of the House
Committee on Rivers and Harbors,
The House Committee on Reform in
the Civil Service has agreed to report
favorably the bill to exclude poll'lcal in
fluence in the employment of laborers
under authority ot the united mates,
Tbe House Committee on Merchant
Marine and Fisheries has agreed to re
port Fithian's bill for free admission to
American registry of ships built in for
eign countries after January 1, 1893. A
minority report in opposition will also
be made.
Representative Hermann has secured
pensions for tbe following old soldiers of
the late war : George W. Blanton of On
tario, Robert Koldeway of Corvallis and
Gotfried Merker of Newport. He has
also obtained orders for surveys in Curry
county and also for the completion of the
surveys in the fractional townships on
the Nehalem river in Tillamook county.
Senator Allen has introduced a bill
setting apart certain land of the Fort
Walla Walla militarv reservation for
Dark for that citv. In a petition, which
accompanied the bill, it ia stated that
twenty-eight acres of this military res
ervation are separated from the reserva
tion proper by a county road and by a
railroad track, and that, it it is im
proved, it will make an excellent park,
Senator George of the Committee on
Agriculture reported to the Senate a
substitute for Mitchell's bill for the en
couragement of silk culture. The sub-
s'i'ute provides for the establishment in
different parts of the United States of
not exceeding five silk experiment sta-tioii-,
to be a part of the agricultural ex-
?eriment stations now established,
here is appropriated $5,000 for each
station.
It is learned semi-officially that ar
rangements have been made for the re
establishment of full diplomatic rela
tions between the United States and
Italy on the same basis as existed be
fore the New Orleans incident. General
Porter, Minister to Italy, who has been
in this country over three months, has
been ordered to return to Rome. It is
expected the appointment of an Italian
Minister to this country win De an
nounced soon.
The diplomatic and consular bill as
completed by tbe House committee con
solidates the mission to Peru with that
of Bolivia and Colombia with Ecuador.
The salary is $10,000 each. Guatemala
and Honduras, now one mission, is di
vided, and Guatemala is nnited to Ven
ezuela at $7,500, and Honduras is joined
to the mission to Nicaragua, Costa Kica
and Salvador. The Danish mission is
loined to that of Sweden and Norway
and the salary left at $7,600.
Representatives Oates from the Judi
ciary Committee of the House has sub
mitted a report to accompany the bill to
change the naturalization laws. It re
cites tho shamful and illegal manner in
which aliens are naturalized in many
parts of the country, and declares Con
gress should make laws to amply protect
the states against the citizenship ot
criminals, paupers, Anarchists and
aliens. The name of American citizen
says the report, should l esteemed as
that ot a Koman when Home was mis
tress of the world. Such pride can never
be felt bv our foreign-born citizens until
the process of conferring this great boon
upon him la attended with great solem
nity and scrutinized more closely than
at present.
The President has made public a reci
procity proclamation with Nicaragua,
which Republic agrees to admit duty
free among other things living animals.
cornmeal, fresh and dried fruits, prod-
Hnia j"k t aulinn aarul too viAatn wiicnan.
tine, coal, wood and lumber in the rough
or prepared for building purposes, agri
cultural and horticultural tools, wagons,
carts and hand carts, iron and steel for
rails, bridges and fence wire with or
without barbs, all kinds of machinery
for agricultural purposes, animal power.
forges, metal water pumps, hose, sledge
liniUMIVIO, U1IUIUN, UIII1D, UVU pSAUM,
cracibles, iron water tanks, galvanized
tawvs tv-vaa os-wi fca rttiy 1 S ..V tnin,i -s-vH tt nulnroil
hoin m nro m ininia Heilla ipnn ti mm
HUM 1U1 WIDf UW a 1 1 II V IJ11B IUUO HlUtOU
matter, bolt of all kinds, gold and silver
i i -. -1 . ,
iii uuiuou, oars or coin.
Every effort ia being made by the
friends of Colonel Compton to secure
his Dardon. Colonel Comnton while in
command at Fort Walla Walla, Wash..
did not take the proper precautions to
prevent the troops under him from
lynching a man in the city of Walla
Walla, and for this he was court-martialed
and sentenced to a year's loss of
pay and relieved of his command. Ben
ator Allen has made every effort to se
cure pardon, and has passed consider
able time with the President, laying the
facts before him as he believes they ex
ist and undertaking to show that the
sentence of the court was more severe
than the negligence of the colonel war
ranted. The President promised to give
tbe matter early attention.
The Postoffice Department has just had
reports from su ixmis that the trial of
nouse letier-Doxes, just now getting un
der way in that city, will almost surely
prove the feasibility of house to bouse
collections of mails. Similar experi
ments are to be begun in Washington in
a few days, and the best-informed postal
officials both at the department and at
the city postoffice believe that the re
sults will be almost if not quite as satis
factory as in St. Louis. These tests are
the outcome of examinations made at
various times during the past two years
by the Postmaster-General's commission
of some 1,500 devices for the delivery of
mails at house doors without delay, and
if possible and feasible, and without loss
of time or money to tbe department,
for house to house collections on regular
delivery routes. It will be recalled that
six boxes out of the 1,500 or over were
selected for the testa. Of these only
three have thus far shown an actual dis
position to make the experiment. One
of the boxes by a Boston inventor will
be tried in Washington : another by a
St. Louis inventor will be tried in St.
Louis, and a third by a Wheeling in
ventor will be tried In Washington as
well as in Bt. ix)uia.
EASTERN ITEMS.
Jerry Simpson's Choice
for President
CHICAGO'S TUNNEL A FAILURE
Postmaster Becomes Tired of Hearing;
Kicks, and Proceeds to Put a
Stop to Kicking.
Expert engineers pronounce Chicago's
big tunnel a failure.
A new road is projected to connect
Lakes Superior and Michigan.
Washington is passing through an ep
idemic oi murder and suicide.
The Attorney-General is investigating
rumors of a cattle trust in Kansas City.
Ex-Auditor Laville of Daviess comity,
Ind., is now known to be short $18,403.
The President has made public the
reciprocity proclamation with Mcaragua.
Fred Douglass accepts the position of
representative from Hayti to the World's
rair.
Fourteen indictments in all have been
found against tbe Louisiana lottery offi
cials. Legal proceedings will at once be be
gun against an the lotteries in Ken
tucky. Jerrv 8imDson's choice for the third-
party Presidential candidate is Ignatius
itonneny.
Central Park, New York, is reported
to be invaded by a lot of wild and fero
cious dogs.
San Antonio. Tex., is without money.
It was unable to pay its officials for the
past month.
According to the recent State enumer
ation New York would be entitled to
three more Congressmen.
Dr. Thomaa 8. Robertson of New York
has a new treatment for alcoholism, and
many patients testify to its efficiency.
It is expected that the long-distance
telephone line between Chicago and New
York will be completed within a year.
The relief fund in Philadelphia for the
Russian famine sufferers now amounts to
$101 ,206. It ia in charge of L esel & Co.
The Legislature of Ohio has decreed
that the car stove must go by September
1, 1893, on all roads over forty miles in
length.
The Standard Oil Company is said to
nossess all the gas leases in Indiana.
with the exception of those of Peru and
Kokomo.
The new Woodbridge gun under con
struction at Watertown arsenal ia ex
pected to throw a 500-pound projectile
twelve miles..
George Francis Train modestly de
clines to talk of his chances for a Presi
dential nomination by the third party at
Omaha on July 4.
Fifty-eight negroes from Arkansas
jailed last week from New York for Li
beria. They were sent out by the Amer
ican Colonization Society.
A syndicate at Indianapolis has been
given a thirty days' option on the Citi
tens' Railway Company of Chicago. The
option price ia $2,750,000.
The widow of Jefferson Davis has .
brought snit in tbe United States Circuit
Court in Mew York to restrain the Bel
ford Company from selling her book. ,
The New York Stock Exchange has
placed in the unlisted department $25.-
000,000 of new sugar stock, which was
authorised at the last meeting of tbe
stock holders oi the sugar trust.
Barrett Scott, Treasurer of Holt coun
ty. Neb., haa been impeached by the
Board of Supervisors and removed from
omce lor depositing moneys in his own
name and pocketing the interest.
A deal haa been perfected bv which
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad secures
control of all the Richmond Terminal
properties, the Richmond and Danville
system with its leased linea and the East
Tennessee system. ,
The emigration movement continues
in Arkansas, and from present indica
tions it is estimated that fully 2,000 ne
groes will emigrate within the next two
or three months, some going to Oklaho
ma ana otners to i.iueria. .
A Congressional apportionment bill.
which as nearly as possible divides the
State equally between the two parties,
haa been prepared at Albany, and will
speedily be passed bv the Legislature
and signed by tbe Uovernor of Hew
York. . .
A number of light-weight gold nieces
from California have have been received
at the New York Subtreasury. These
are stamped " L " and returned to the
banks from which they are received. It
is thought the Chinese are "sweating"
the coin.
Ex-Governor Thayer has made a move
toward contesting the right of Governor
Boyd to hold the office of Governor of
Nebraska. He contends that no man
date from the United States Supreme
Court had yet been issued reversing the
tiJ M VU VVUI UWtUIMNj.
An unusual amount of inventive talent
la now being used to prevent the occur
rence of fires. The sour in this line is
caused by the statement of fire losses in
the united States and Canada during
1891, which aggregated $135,000,000. an
increase of 29 per cent, over 1800.
The House Committee on Naval Af
fairs has made an elaborate report on
the condition of the navy and the esti
mates necessary to continue ship build
ing, which, the report adds, haa been
remarkably successful, there having
been but few insignificant mistakes.
At Cheyenne D. S. Griffin protested to
the postmaster, because his daughter
was unable to secure his mail unless
with a written order. Gillispie, the post
master, said he was tired of hearing
kicks, and with a club smashed Griffin's
head. Griffin is not expected to recover.
Governor Flower of New York refused
to sign the Cross-toarh Elevated railroad
bill and the East-river bridge bill re
cently passed by the Legislature at Al
bany on the ground that the corporations
thus created were exempted by the bills
from the payment of taxes, and that in
other respects the rights of the people
uau not oeen auiy regarded in iramlng
tho acts in question.
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES.
President Diaz Favors a Fine Showing
f Mexico's Progress and Ad- :
vantages at the Fair.
Ceylon will conduct a teahouse or
Midway Plaisance.
Queen Margaret of Italy has promised
to loan her famous collection of rare laces
for exhibition at the fair.
The grand entrance to the mammoth
manufacturers' building wili be decor
ated at an expense of about $12,000.
Iowa in its exhibits at the exposition
will show the various forms in whic'i
corn products are useful as food and also
tbe processes of their preparation.
Regulations for exhibitors in the sev
eral departments of the exposition have
been issued, and can be obtained by all
intending exhibitors by applying for
them either in person or by mail.
Sultan of Turkey bas consented to the
erection of a mosque at the exposition
grounds for the religious services of Mo
hammedans who attend the fair. It is
reported that $3,000 will be expended in
its erection.
The enormous steel trasses to sustain
the roof of the manufacturers' bnilding
are the largest ever made for architect
ural purposes. They span 368 feet, and
rise to a height of 211 feet. The contract
for them calls for about $400,000.
The total amonnt reported appropri
ated by foreign nations and colonies for
their representation at tht exposition so
far as heard from is $3,951,053. Quite a
number of those which have decided to
participate have not yet made appropri
ations.
The Illinois State Board of Agriculture
has offered a number of prizes, ranging
from $50 to $250, for the best exhibits
shown at tbe State ralr, to be held
Peoria in September. From these ex
hibits the board will make many selec
tions lor tne world's fair.
The United States Treasury Depart
ment has decided that machinery im
ported to the exposition from foreign
countries either wholly as an exhibit or
to be shown in connection with the u
lustration of some manuiacturing proc
ess shall be admitted free of duty. Any
raw material imported for nse in such
process must pay duty, however.
M. Seranno, Mexico's special World'i
Fair Commissioner, who visited Chicago
a short time ago and made a thorough
inspection of exposition progress and
atlairs, haa made to his gevernment s
report exceedingly favorable to the ex
position. He advocates an elaborate
narticiDation bv Mexico. President Diaz
has expressed himself in favor of mak
ing a fine showing of Mexico's progress
and advantages rather than of her relics
and antiquities. ,
A bill protecting foreign exhibitors of
patented articles from all possible prose
cution tor intringement has been passed
by the Senate, aud is pending and re
ported Bure to pass in the House. - The
bill reads as follows : " That no citizen
of any country shall be held liable for
tbe infringement of any patent granted
by the United States or any trade mark
registered in the United States, where
the act complained of is performed in
connection with tbe exhibition of any
article or thing at the World's Colum
bian Exposition at Chicago."
Jackson Park will retain ae one of its
permanent attractions the building
which Japan will erect for its headquar
ters at the exposition. The building
will be modeled after one of the most
famous and architecturally unique of
Japan's ancient temples, and with its
surrounding garden will cost $70,000.
Aoout 4AUUU square feet will be occu
pied. The South Park Commissioners
have accepted the offer of S. Tegima.
representative of the Mikado, to give the
structure to Chicago on condition that it
be kept permanent and in repair, and
that one room in it be devoted to a pub-
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uu exuiuit oi Japanese worse oi art,
which the Japanese government agree
to replenish from time to time.
PERSONAL MENTION.
King of Greece Threatened for Dis
missing His Ministry Ages ot
Presidential Candidates.
Baroness Bnrdett-Contts believes that
sapphire blue velvet is the proper mourn
ing color. ; . ,
General Palmer, like many other big
men, haB a little wile. Mrs. falmer is
described as a mite of a woman."
Brother Joseph Cook intimates that
Sunday newspapers are published to
make money. Well, what is a Monday
lectureship tor, anyhow t
Collis P. Huntington thinks wood saw
ing the best exercise for young men,
Not that he used to think so in the days
when he sawed wood nimseit.
And now the King of Greece is threat
ened in menacing letters for his course
in dismissing the Ministry. The "King
business." as A. Ward called it, la get
ting de idedly uncomfortable.
General Alger makes it his proud
boast that, like Abraham Lincoln, he
was born in a log cabin, and a great
many people are wondering what excuse
he can make for having come out of it.
Governor Francis of Missouri is a stick
ler for the " swallow-tail " coat at his
receptions. Colonel Richard Dalton, who
wants to succeed Francis,sayS that if ho is
elected Governor the people may call on
him in their shirt sleeves.
Vice-President Morton is reported to
be a man of many charities, who in a
qniet way gives tens of thousands of
dollars to tho poor, yet he himself has
been the recipient of all uncharitable-
ness from the partisan press.
Mr. Cleveland is "5, Senator Gorman
53. Senator Allison 63. Senator Cullom
62 and Senator Carlisle 56, while Boies,
liniv and snerman are past mtddle life.
Grant, who was inaugurated at 47, is
said to have been the youngest Presi
dent. , .
There is a vacmcy in the dime muse
ums of ths country for the notorious
Earl of Ailesbury, who seems to have
exhausted all other resources of living
and has accumulated 321,00 of debt.
As a dime-museum freak he would be
Immense. -
John Jarrett of Pittsburg, at present
United States Consul in Birmingham,
England, has sent in his resignation.
and hopes to be free soon to return
home. His wife's health is not good,
and besides he has the offer of his old
place as Secretary of the American Tin
Plate Association, with headquarters at
Pittsburg.
FOREIGN LANDS.
Foot and Mouth Disease
in Germany.
KULLMAN DIES IN PRISON.
Mrs. Parnell Has the Grip French
Soldiers Experiment With
Bioyoles.
The Italian deficit is nearly $4,000,000
for 1891.
Russia i rushing large bodies of troops
to the western frontier.
Spain by a decree prohibits the manu
facture of artificial wines. . .
Tbe British Parliament votes $100,000
for the survey of a railroad in Africa.
Senor Br i barn has been appointed
Minister of Finance in the Argentine.
More than a million people are treated
in the hospitals of London each year.
The oronosal to ODen the Castle Mu
seum in London on Sunday has been
defeated.
By an act inst passed in South Aus
tralia all hotels are to be altogether
closed on Sundays. ,
Bismarck threatens unpleasant reve
lations about the Guelph fund if his one
of it is investigated.
The Khedive intends conquering the .
Soudan, but England will back him np
only so far aa recapturing Dongola.
The Queen of England is having a
life-sized portrait of tbe Duke of Clar
ence painted for herself and another for
ber son.
Germans say the plans for the pro
posed great cathedral in Berlin look as
though the structure were to be a modern
restanrant.
One woman in every sixty in London
is a gin-drinker ( and one in every twenty
is a pauper, while one in every thirteen
ia illiterate. -'
The death in prison of Kullman, the
cooper who shot Bismarck, is said to
have been caused by abuse from the
prison officials. - s
Mrs. Parnell has influenza, and her
former husband, Captain O'Shea, is ob
structing the settlementof her pecuniary
affairs all he can.
A mountain in Australia was named
after Mr. Gladstone last year. Another
in that c untry has now been named
Mount Salisbury. . ...
The London Timet sneers at the ball it,
saying that under this fetish of modern
civilization only the workingman has
risen in strength.
Silver date owned bv Dom Pedro nnrl
valued at $15,000 has just reached South
ampton from Brazil, consigned to- the
late Emperor'a daughter. .
A red shark has recently been seen
near Nice. They come in from the Red
Sea by the way of tbe Suez canal, and
are said to be very dangerous.
The late Cardinal Manning left no au
tobiographical notes. His executors will
probably write the life of the eminent
churchman and edit his letters.
Krupp, the cannon king, pays taxes
on an income of $1,5',000 ; Rothschild
in .Frankfurt on $1,030,000. These are
the heaviest taxpayers of Prussia. -Searchers
of houses in various subnrbs '
of Paris for Anarchists have developed
the fact that a number of trusted serv
ants in large residences are Anarchists. -
The French soldiers have lately been
engaged in an extensive series of exper
iment, with bicycles. That machine
has now taken its place as an appliance
Of War. ,t ,
The Duchess of Casta is building near
Mentone, France, a home for Eugenie, -the
French government having denied
to the ex-Empress the right of erecting
it herself.
The orusade against the use of tobacco .
ia kept up in France with unabated vigor, ,
and the country ia flooded with pam- , ,
phiets, in which the evils of the habit
are presented.....
Twenty-two cattle markets in Pchon-
fliess, Marchow, Heiersdorf and Schonow '
in Germany have been closed for a month
owing to the prevalence of tho foot and
month disease. t
The French revenue expert sent to the .
United States to examine the system of
American inspection of - pork has re
ported that the system waa as perfect aa
anything can be. ,
Out of the total of l,5S,8 miles of rail- '
roads in Austria 4,366 miles are operated '
by the government, and another line of
935 miles is about to come into the' pos-:
session of tbe State.
Tbe first railroad in India to be built
and controlled entirely by natives has
been sanctioned by the Indian govern
ment. Tbe line will be about thirty
miles long in the Hooghly district. :
Accounts from Mogador give grievous '
details of the extensive spread of small
pox in Morocco. Mellah appears to be
the nucleus of the infection, and is de-'
scribed aa being in a horrible condition
of filth.
The two largest lunatic asylums in
England have combined accommodation!
for 4.550 patients. One of these is at
Preatwich, Lancashire county, and the
other at Colney Hatch, six miles from
London.
A coolie farm hand at Fort of Spain.
Trinidad, induced hia wife, who was un
faithful to him, to go up the river to fish.
He returned without tha woman and
with a load of fish, and stated that he
had cut her up for bait. -
A Paris letter says the nice little snm
of $400,000 has been handed over to the '
charities of Paris by the racing commit
tee this month. Two per cent, of tha
bets on the races always go to the chari
ties of the districts in which the race
are held.
Banker Seligman of Berlin has been
ordered by the courts to pay 3,000 marks
to Gamekeeper Schaeffer. During a rab
bit hunt recently Seligman emptied one
barrel of his shotgun into Schaeffer'
leg while the latter waa beating th
bushes for him.
It now transpires that Mrs. Osborne.
recently convicted in London and sen
tenced to imprisonment for nine months
at hard labor, stole- her friend 'a jewel
in order to pay tradesmen, with whom
she had recklessly run in debt, and who
were threatening suit.