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rlvlnv M rnrilniid at 10 : "lurnlnn. leuv
1'iirilaiiv at 1 r. J.. arrlvlimal t. lllonaH.
Uiblivat OlM-ii.arln.nl lir.ut lutarv.t.
A li'tiliv uf 'tllf KTi'tttBHt llltelfat, not
only to oricniiihHii. littt likitwine to nil
int.-nlcl in liiblicitl rriu'urcli, hit just
bfen ilnlivi-n'il itl the Veri'ln Nitilrwnli
nl Vii'iimi ly thut tnont tliiitiiigutHhttd
oriciitiuliHt hijiI lii)i;uiMtio scholar, ths
(v. William llwhlnr, cnplnin to the
Un libit fitibawy.
ICvit mi iii f lunKt itilont dityn hi) bun been
aMkin fiar tho key to harmonize the
dates of the kiiiK of Jmlitb and Inrnt.l
given In tin' Uihl. mill the diittm of the
kiiurnof Biibylim, Axsyriu, Kgypt and
JVrmrt. A he iilmrvmt in the oourtie of
fain li.ctnre; "Whoever bits carefully
tuilic-il the lilntnrii'M of the ancient em
ilrt iniint ha Mtruck with tho wonder
fully trnthlike itiinarnce of tho chrort
olO;fial and ayucronlstlu data. No lUa
toriuu ha ever venttirod to ifive eueh ft
lurtje nnnilxT of datiw an the Uible,
which are nmde to syiichroiiixo with tho
diiteniif liiiinnof other imtiolm, thereby
enabling aci-ttrnte control. Thai the
kliiKiiot Jndah are inmle to aynchronlze
with the kinH of isniel, and many of
Babylon, Awyria, K?yit and Pernio."
At the hint orientiilistM' coii(rresa in
Vienna the learned gentleman presented
the firHt part of hia rcwareho. extending
over twenty ymiin. No doubt hia chart,
whim published, will atitrtle many a pro
franur of theology all over the. world
at. leant aucu a have taught their pupils
that It mil impossible to mt in order
and harmonize these confused dates.
Mr. llechler pvoveii that they do har
monize, and thut in a uiiwt wonderful
matiner, but th key had to be sought
and found. He does not protons to have
untied the (iordhm knot and to have
flivioil of every diflioulty, but the re
markably clear and Ingenious way in
which he put an, end to Biblical dis
crepancies Is convincing and conclusive.
The charts are bo simple and comprehen
sible that a child utny rend them. Vi
enna Cor. Loudon Telegraph. .
. . JVhmiv the Water of tlie (Irvat toikeaT
Where do the waters of Lake Michigan
come from Ms nn old quest inn, and it is a
' question n old as the Hrteslan Wells.
Where do their waters come fromf Colonel
Foster, nil eminent civil engineer, for ninny
years in charge of government Interest on
the lake, was fond of talking on the first
subject. ' '
"Kvery drop of those waters," he 'was
often heard to declare, "innie from the
Itocky niountaliis." His theory was that
they were brought here subl erroneously,
hut he never to our knowledge marked out
the course of the subterraneous stream,
. He announced this as his conviction long
before indeed, he died before tho sinking
of artesian wells In Chicago nnd the conse- ,
quent discovery of the now undoubted faot. 1
. William B. Ogdeu held the same view
and used at times to make himself very in
teresting in expatiating upon It. With
him, as well as with Colonel Foster, it was ,
no more than a theory, but he adhered to '
it firmly. I
Mr. Cregler, who is scientific before he is
i a politician, is wont to talk approvingly of
the theory in a manner to convince any j
man. . I
The phenomenon Is the running out of
this lake through the othersof the easterly
chain nntl over Niagara falls of an Incali
culablo quantity of water, and this con
tinually every minute m me uour, every
hour In the day, every day in the year, and
.' every year In progressive timel- "
A reporter, in describing the celebra
lion of Her. hundredth' birthday by an
old lady, naively says, "She tulked all
day without showing tl least sign of,
fattjtue.", , .
PACIFIC COAST.
Ochre Discovered Near Pen-
dleton, Oregon.
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A RECEIVER GONE WRONG.
An Instructress at an Indian School
Receives Probably Fatal .
Injuries Etc. ,
Arlion'a Legislators closes Its session
on April 14.
Blocks sixty feet in length without a
break are found in the onyx quarries in
Lower California.
The Arlsona Council has passed bill
exempting from taxation for twenty
years all railroads that begin work in the
Territory within one year.
The last of the Cieur d'Alene rioters
held In jail have been released In obedi
ence to a recent United Btates Supreme
Court decision.
Railroad shop employes at Sacramento
threaten to boycott members of the
Board bf Trade if the latter persists in
taking business from the Bee.
Ochre found on Elijah Welch's place
below Pendleton, Or., makes paint of
about the same body and color as burnt
! sienna, wuicn it resemoies greatly.
' In the Arizona Legislature the Field
bill, which provided lor the division. of
the Territory into irrigation districts,
has been killed in the Mouse by an over
whelming vote. , ,
The misappropriation of fnnds in
tended lor improving the capital
grounds at Pbomix, A. T., has led to the
Introduction of a resolution in the Leg
islature to remove the capital.
The contest over the Ellzalde will at
Rants Barbara has bevun. About $50,
OX) are involved, and the widow charges
her husband was unduly influenced in
bis bestowal of the properties on other
people.
Frank Lesnet, receiver of the Roe well,
N. M.. United States Land Cilice, disap-
Eeared a few weeks since, and advices at
anla Fe state that he was short to the
government somewhere between fU.OOO
anda0,000.
A few days ago Miss Llzile Dogan, In
structor at the Indian teno'd, known as
the Stewart Institute, at Carson, in at
tempting to separate two Indian girls
who were quarreling, was struck over
the head and it is believed seriously in
jured. By the provision of a bill which has
pasfed the Arizona House no bouse of
ill fame can exist within 400 yards of a
public-school budding, It will break up
and clear out the dives on Monroe street
in Phuaoix, as all that portion of the
town is within two blocks of the High
School building.
Articles of incorporation of the Stock
ton Power Transmission Company have
been tiled by San Francisco men asso
ciated with local capitalists, with a cap
ital of $l,00t),000. The company will
generate electricity with -water power
on the Mokelumne river, forty-two miles
from Stockton, and transmit it for sale
to manufactories.
Two bare of bullion marked "Vulture
mine" have been (ound in a stable ditch
at San Bernardino. They are supposed
to have been part of the bullion secured
by three Mexlcanswho killed four years
ago Captain Good. Superintendent of
the Vulture mine in Arizona, while he
, was on his way to Phoenix with ths
mine's output for the month,
Allen Rhodes of Balem has prepared a
display of Oregon game birds that will
go to the World's Fair. It consists ol
seventeen Mongolian pheasants, includ
ing cock, ben and filteen chicks, fonr
pair for a group; two pair of Eastern
Oregon prairie chickens, two pair ol
dusky grouse, two pair milled grouse,
four pair valley quail, three pair moun
tain quail, a group ot jack snipe and
some other single specimens
The Oregon and California Land Corn,
psny used to be assessed on 53,000 acres
of land in Lane county. A new owner
ship book revealed 260,000 acres. Th
company fought an assessment on that
basis. The Supreme Court decided
mostly in favor of the county of Lane.
A compromise has just been made on
136,000 acres. The principle has been
fully established that the railroad, ot
land company, must pay taxes on ths
land they are entitled to under the grant,
whether patented or not. As a result,
Lane county will receive this year ovei
$10,000 from that soottrce, where several
years formerly a few hundred dollari
were paid annually, '' , ,
The rage for hidden-treasure hunting
still exists in the neighborhood of the
San Luis Key Mission, and the Restora
tion Society Is taking steps to put a stop
to the burrowing in and around the
walls. As an Illustration of the elusions,
there lives in Los Angeles an old Indian
woman with the name of Trinidad. She
was a young girl, about twelve years old,
at the mission of San Juan Capistrauo,
when that building was distroyed by an
earthquake In 1812. and thirty eiuht In
dians were killed on that memorable
Sunday at high mass. Trinidad, who
claims to be a witch, says she knows
where a large amount of gold and silver
is buried In that building, and the spir
its tell that it la still there.
The Norlhivtitern Lumberman of Chi
cago, treating of the growing scarcity ol
white pine for shop work, suggests sev
eral woods to fill its place, and says ol
this Coast's woods : The two Western
woods that now seem likelv to become
important factors in the factory trade
are spruce and red cedar. The former is
light, soft wood, easily worked bnt not
strong, with a cloee, straight grain. . It
has been UBed to some extent by one of
the local sash, door and blind factories
with satisfactory results. The red cedar
Is more brittle than spruce, ' rather
coarse-grained, but easily worked and
very durable. It meets with some favor
in this market as a finishing wood, but
is hardly as desirable lor factory work as
spruce. Yellow or Douglas fir is claimed
by some Paoiflo Coast mill men to be an
an excellent finishing wood, but it is too
heavy to admit ol shipment East In
competition with spruce and cedar. Its
commercial value is greatest for con
struction purposes.
; INDUSTRIAL ITEMS.
Bottles are blown by machinery at
Vineland. N. J.
Uncle Sam's boys have 30,000,000 of
capital invested In Hawaii.
The Angora goat supplies the haw
wh.cn adorns ordinary dolls.
Telephone chat costs $2 for three mln
ntes between Paris and London.
There are now nearly 200 women prac
ticing dentistry in the United States.
Eighty-six of the 865 towns in Massa
chusetts contain no resident physician.
There are in the United States more
than l,700distlnct and separate railways.
The Litchfield Car Works in Indiana
are about to be moved to Birmingham,
Ala.
Over 100 electric cars are to be built
at once at Pittsburg (or a Chicago com
pany New England capitalists have pur
chased 76J,0U0 worth of Texas timber
lands. . . '
Several fleets of river boats are to be
established this year on the Western
rivers. ,
The Armour Packing Company has in
corporated in New Jersey; capital, 7,
600.000. Wooden-soled shoes are being slowly
Introduced in the cheap shops. Phila
delphia Record.
The novelty of the Columbian stamps
is wearing off, and the old-timers are re-.
I turning to favor.
Makers ot maple sugar In Vermont say
thst the supply this year will exceed
7,0v0,000 pounds.
Tbe Lingham gold mine In Belmont,
Hastings county, Ontario, Is proving
highly profitable.
In. some of the Eastern shoe-blacking
cellars yon can have your high hat pol
ished by electricity. '
Canning factories, it la reported, are
being erected in large numbers in vari
ous parts of Georgia.
It is reported that Melbourne, Aus
tralia, la overflowed with men who want
work, bnt are unable to secure it,
Chautauqua county, N. T., has 14,000
acres of bearing vines and 600 acres of
young vines not in bearing.
For fifty-two consecutive miles on the
Boston and Albany railroad, it is said,
there is not a grade crossing.
An ounce of pure gold is worth $20.64;
therefore, a ton of pure gold, which con
tains 24,000 ounces, is worth $41)5,3(10.
Last year there was borrowed out of
banks and trust companies in New York
and Brooklyn on real estate $68,000,000.
It is said that 3,000 miles of electric
road will he added this year. One road
In Pennsylvania is to be eighty miles
long.
A Clearfield (Pa.) Inmberman, Simon
Flynn, will run 3V.OJ.0OJ wt of loss
down the Susquehanna river to the saw
mills.
The turpentine gatherers of Oeorgla, It
la estimated, have during the past five
years destroyed $2O0,O0J,0JO worth of
pine timber. .
Millions upon millions of herring are
taken every year. It is said that there
are more herring eaten than any other
kind of flsh.
It is estimated, the Pittsburg Ditpaich
says, that 41,300,000 rottaites could be
erected ont of the standing timber in the
SUte of Washington.
There came Into New Orleans in two
days of last week nine steamers and one
schooner, bearing 102,001) bunches of
bananas and 00,000 cocoanuts.
The largest pumping plant In the
United States was that placed in a mine
at Iron Mountain, Mich. It pumps
4,000,000 gallons in twenty-four hours.
Now that the Pennsylvania miners
have an eight-hour law, some people are
Inclined to think they will have to keep
well organized to get any good out of it.
A strong effort is being made in New
Jersey to defeat the law which makes
fifty-five hours the limit of week's
work. It is claimed that the law is un
constitutional. PERSONAL MENTION.
The fine laces owned by the Vander
bllt families are said to be worth $600,-
ooo.
David H. Smith, the son of the Mor
mon prophet, Joseph Smith, has been
an inmate of the asylum for the insane
at Elgin for seventeen years.
Lady Henry Somerset is about to start
a paper, to be called the Woman's Her
ald, which will be the organ of the
Woman's Christian Temperance Union.
Lord Chief Justice Coleridge of Eng
land will probably visit 'his country
during the World's Fair. He was here
in 18S', and was then a tall, spare man
ol 63 years.
Miss Emily Faithful of London is en
deavoring to organize in one of the sub;
nrbs a home for women who are working
for their own living, the idea being to
provide each occupant with a private
room at a low rent and the nse of com
mon dining and reception rooms.
The Lord Mayor of London, who' Is a
Roman Catholic, went out of his way the
other day to pay a visit in state to the
Church of England Young Men's Soci
ety in Ludgate Circus, and he not only
made an excellent speech, but left a sub
stantial gift in his own and the Lady
Mayoress' name. ...
It is said Lord Rosebery's great desire
is to see a new and magnificent London
built up on the lines of the old city. In
his boyhood, it appears, his three ambi
tions were to marry one of the richest
women in Europe, to win the Derby and
become Prime Minister of England. Of
these three ambitions he has attained
none so far. -
Secretary Gresham loves to sit hours
and hours before the statue of General
MoPherson in Washington. The two
were lnt'mate nmnera In Sherman's
army. One day before Atlanta Gresham
was terribly wounded at MePhnrson'a
side, and five minutes later McPherson
was killed. There's room for feeling in
case like that.
Sir AUrad Stephen, the ex-Chief Ju
tloe ot New South Wales, can give poin-a
even to Mr. Gladstone in the matter of
Iuvenillty. He la in his 92d year, and
:eepa two of his daughters busy for six
hours dally taking down his reminis
cences from dictation. Sir Alfred is the
Nestor of Lincoln's Inn,. He entered
there as a student in 1818, and was called
to the bar In November, 1823. Two years
afterward he emigrated to the antipodes
as Solloitor-Genaral for the then penal,
colony of Van Dieman'a Land, now the
self-governing colony of Tasmania.
EASTERN NEWS.
Prof. Totten Predicts the End
of the World.
BISHOP WIGGER'S CIRCULAR.
The Case Involving the Mormon
Church Property Advanced
on the Calendar.
The Colorado Senate has passed bill
abolishing capital punishment.
Prof. Totten predicts the end of the
world some time tn Heptemoer next,
Fifty thousand hotel rooms will be
available near the World's air grounds.
The Okeflnokee sramp in Georgia is
reported to be overrun wltn wtia nogs.
A big Boston syndicate is trying to se
cure control of the Canadian steel indus
tries. Washington newsboys are forbidden
by law to sell papers except on the data
et issue.
The city of Boston is making hard
fight against the trolley system of elec
tric cars.
The Aransas Pass railroad has virtu
ally passed into the possession of the
Southern Pacific. '.
In the Lower House of the Pennsyl
vania Legislature the anti-Pinkerton bill
has finally passed.
A stranze disease among cattle in
Central Illinois is believed to be due to
the feeding of millet. -
Estimates as to the cost of the hotels
in the World's Fair district range from
13,500,000 to $4,000,000.
The heaviest immigration that ever
flowed into Northwest Iowa and South
Dakota is in progress now.
A crinoline-manufacturing concern has
been established in Rhode Island, the
first of tbe kind in America.
It Is thought that the coinage of
World's Fair souvenir half-dollars will
be completed in three months.
About 150 Chinamen living in Boston
have intimated that they intend regis
tering within the prescribed period.
f- South Carolina has issued bonds cov
ering its new loan, amounting to $5,260,
000, bearing i)4 per cent interest and to
run for forty years.
Some one has gone off with all the coin
and records of the noted Tenderloin
Club at New York, and it is now in the
throes of dissolution.
By vote of 31 to 19 the Minnesota
Senate has passed the Senate bill ex
tending the full suffrage at all elections
in Minnesota to women.
The case involving the Mormon Church
property has been advanced in the
United States Supreme Court to the sec
ond Monday of the next term.
The receivers of the Beading road
have definitely decide! on the issue of
receivers' certificates. The bondholders'
committee will probably fight it.
a corpo-atlon with a. capital of $15,
0 0,000 has been formed to cover New
Jersey in tbe neighborhood of Jersey
City and Newark with eiectrio railways.
It is proposed by the organized tin
and sheet-iron job workers and cornice
workers of St. Louis to establish a train
ing school where apprentices will be
taught the trade.
The Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk
roads have agreed upon a rate of 1
fare for the round trip lrom Canadian
points to Chicago during the World's
Fair. Tickets will be good for one month.
The Kansas Legislature has passed a
bill making it illegal to require a gold
contract in notes, mortgages or other ob
ligations and making silver, as well as
gold. a legal tender for all debts in Kan
sas. A committee appointed by the House
of the Tennessee Legislature to investi
gate tbe charges against Judge Duboise
of the Shelby County Criminal Court
has reported that there are no grounds
for impeachment.
Reports to the bureau of statistics of
the Treasury Department showm dee ded
increase in the number of immigrants
entering the port of San Francisco, while
in the other jrorta of the country there
has been a falltng-off.
: It is thought probable that at the con
clusion of the naval review Secretary
Herbert will divide the ships into three
fleets, put new officers in command and
send the vessels away at once to the Pa
cific, the South Atlantic and Europe.
Plans for the America cup defenders
show that some radical changes have
been introduced over the former type of
vaohts. The new boats are neirly all
124 feet in length. 23 to 26 feet beam,
and have a mean draught of 12 to 14
feet. .. .
The customs officers at New York are
holding the trunks of a number of Ital
ian opera singers under the belief that
the clothing in the trunks is not the
property ol individual members, but of
Henry Abbey, who has charge of the
troupe.'
Judge Dallas in the United States Cir
cuit Court at Philadelphia has denied
motion to require John F, Searles, Jr.,
Treasurer of the American Sugar Refin
ing Company, to show cause why he
should not be compelled to answer im
portant questions in the suit of the gov
ernment against the sugar trust.
' Bishop W gger of the diocese of New
ark, N. J., has issued a circular letter,
addressed to each priest in the diocese,
rescinding his former order in which
priests were ordered to refuse absolution
to those members of a parish who sent
their children to the public schools in
preference to the parochial schools.
On charges of having swindled wealthy
Jews all over the country to the tune of
$i00,000, while pretending to collect
funds for the relief of needy Russian co
religionists, Phineaa Hanncah, who
claims to be the son of a wealthy manu
facturer of Persian carpets and rugs of
Salmas, Persia, and also of New York,
aM been arrested at Chicago.
The government patronage heretofore
considered the sacred property of Sena
tors, for instance, as Marshals and Dis
trict Attorneys, is now declared free for
all, and according to the ruling of the
President humble members of the Honse
and even a group of private citizens may
present the names of candidates with
some hope of success in the application.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The Delegates to the Recent International
Monetary Conference Resign
Ashland Reservation.
Secretary Carlisle has signed vouchers
to the amount ot $250,120 in favor of the
World's Fair Commission, which are
payable in souvenir half-dollars. The
commission up to this time has received
$1,920,125 of the $2,600,000 appropria
tion by Congress, payable in souvenir
half-dollars.
The delegates to the recent Interna
tional Monetary Conference have re
signed. Among members of Congress
it is believed the President will send a
commission to Brussels to represent this
country when the conference reassem
bles. The Secretary of State is now en
deavoring to ascertain how manv coun
tries will be represented at the reassem
bling ol the conference. Xnere are some
officials who hold to the opinion that tbe
President will not send another delega
tion to Brussels, but will designate our
Minister to Belgium to attend the con
ference as tbe representative of the
United States. -
Secretary Carlisle, it is stated on good
authority, intends to give much of bis
time this summer to the consideration
of tbe tariff, with a view te so thorough
ly familiarizing himself with the subject
as to be able to indicate in a general
way outlines for the formation of a tariff
bill by the next Democratic House.
Nearly every mail that reaches the
Treasury Department contains sugges
tions from statisticians and others as to
compilation of a tariff bill. Some
thirty or forty of these communications
have already been received, prominent
among them being that from tbe New
York Reform Club. The general out
line of the New York Reform Club's
tariff proposition corresponds closely to
the proposition submitted in 1885 by
Edward Atkinson of Boston to President
Cleveland and Secretary Manning.
Senator Do'ph called upon the Secre
tary of the Interior the other dav re
garding the proposed timber reservation
at Ashland, Or. It was understood that
this reservation would be made during
the last administration, bnt President
Harrison did not find time to reach it.
Secretary Smith told Senator Do'ph
that at present he was nnable to do any
thing regarding this reservation and was
too busy reorganizing the department to
give any time or attention to the work
of the department except that of most
pressing nature. Tbe necessity for hav
ing tbe Aehland reservation is said to be
that the water supply of that town is
dependent upon having the timber reser
vation, as the denudation of the lands
where the water now comes from would
probably result in greatly impairing the
water supply.
The State Department has received of
ficial information that Queen Victoria
has raised tbe rank of Sir Julian
Pauncefote, ber representative in Wash
ington, from that of Extraordinary and
Minister Plenipotentiary to that ol Am
bassador, and hia credentials as such are
on their way here. Under the provis
ions of tbe diplomatic and consular ap
propriation bill of March 1. 1893. Presi
dent Cleveland is authorized to confer
the same rink upon onr representative at
London. Sir Julian Pauncefote wil be
inn first Minister to Washington to bold
the title of Ambassodor, but it is highly
probable that France, Germany, Russia
n1 ln.t.i. wilt ha Twimiit. tl fntlnw thai
Example thus set by England and change j
the title ot tneir Ministers to AmoaBaar
dors, thus necessitating by international
courtesy a corresponding change on our
part.
L When the Senate ratified the treaty
for the cepeion to the United States of
the Cherokee Strip, there was inserted 1
therein a clause which provides for the
compensation for the land to be made
in time payments in place ot tne re
quirement of the government to pay
cash, as contemplated in the agreement
originally drawn up with the Indians.
This momticatton oi tne treaty was not
accepted bv the Indians, but will be
considered by their legislative body, the
Cherokee Council, at a meeting to be
held soon. The early opening of the
StriDwill be entirely dependent upon
tbe action of the Council, for, should it
reject the modification of tbe treaty
made by the Senate, then it will be nec
essary for the matter to be again brought
before Congress, wnicn wouia, oi course,
indefinitely delay the opening of the
lands to settlement.
Litigation, between the United States
and the late corporation of tbe Church
of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints,
commonly known as the Mormon Church,
is not as yet ended, rne supreme uoun
has before it an appeal respecting tbe
nse to which shall be put the church1
property escheated by the court's deci
sion at a previous term. When the prop
erty was declnred forfeited the court di
rected the Utah Supreme Court to fix
the charitable uses to which it should be
put. The court rejected the proposition
of the government as to the use which
should be made of the fund from the
property, amounting to about $400,000,
and directed it should be applied to the
support and aid of the poor members Of
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter
Day Saints and to building and repair
ing houses of worship for members ol
the church. The United States has ap
pealed from this decree, asserting it
would practically permit the property to
be devoted to the same purposes for
which it was formerly held.
The Secretary of the Treasury has de
cidsd that the former action of the de
partment la invalid winch deducts from
the direct tax due the several States the
sums heretofore charged for arms and
equipments drawn for the State militia.
The sum charged to Oregon amounted
to S2.472. and this was deducted from
the $35,000 direct tcx due the State.
Representative Hermann, who was the
author of the law which gave the Oregon
militia a large quantity of arms and
equipments a few years ago, has made
various appeals to the Secretary to re
lease the charge made against tbe direct
tax due the State. Some other States
are interested as to similar charges made
against their quotas under the law of
April, 1808, which provides for an an
nual appropriation of $2X10,000 for pro
viding arms and equipments for the
whole body of the mi.itia. The depart
ment now decides that in view of the
long-continued practice of allowing the
States to anticipate their quotas and to
honor the requisitions of the Governors
on their representation of the existence
of emergencies demanding their, imme
diate us no charges should be made.
FOREIGN LANDS.
Cholera Appears in a Moscow
Convict Prison.
CAPRIVI AND THE ARMY BILL.
Work on the Ship Canal Between
the North and Baltic Seas
Being Pushed.
London music halls clear from 16 to 70
per cent. Another is to be erected.
In small hotels in Russia each guest is
expected to find his own bedclothing.
The extradition treaty between Swe
den and the United States has been rat
ified. The operative cotton-spinners of Man
chester, England, have offered to com
promise. The Kiel Observatory has fonnd .an
other planet. This is the fifteenth found
this year.
A mass meeting at Bnda-Pesth adopted
resolutions favoring Hungarian inde
pendence. The Nicaraguan Congress Is discussing
the proposition to declare war against
Honduras.
The foot and mouth disease has broken
out in the Berlin cattle market, and all
removals of cattle have been prohibited.
The Brazilian Minister at Paris has
denied the truth of the report that there
has been fighting in Rio Grande do 6ul.
Peleall, a charming Staffordshire vil
lage, is in dangerof disappearing through
a subsidence caused by mining opera
tions. Tbe talk of lot wsges for coal min
ers in England has occasioned threats
that not a pound of coal will be mined
for a month.
The oil industry has changed Baku
from a village to a large, flourishing
town. Tbe Baku oil refinery is the larg
est in existence.
A plot to overthrow 'President Socaga
of Nicaragua has been frustrated by
means of information given by the wile
of one of the conspirators.
The Congo Free State authorities have
organized an expedition having for its)
object the repression of the traffic car
ried on by Arab slave dealers.
A number of the famous Oldenburg
carriage horses will be sent to the Chi
cago Exhibition. This is the most noted
breed of hones in all Germany.
The Pope has informed the French
Bishona of his decision to crown hia
Episcopal jubilee by the beatification of
tbe French heroine, Joan of Arc
The boundary question between Chili
and Argentina has been delayed in its
settlement, Argentina wishing to con
sult Congress before sign-'ng a treaty.
The Italian government has just sent
the German Emperor a magn ficnt al
bum containing photographs and pict
ures of every ship in the Italian navy.
It is tbe law in Denmark that every
drunken man shall be taken to his home
in a carriage provided at the expense of
the saloonkeeper who sold him the last
drink.
A Fnnoh anarchist named Barnard
has been arrested ft Rome. He is sus
pected of having caused the explosions
at the Palace Antici Mattei and the Pal
ace Altieri. " , ,
The Social Democrats in Germany
have decided not to observe May day,
giv ng as a reason the impoverished
condition of theworkingmen throughout
the Empire.
Several cases of cholera have appeared
in a convict prison in Moscow. Ruesia.
The Provincial Council has voted 300,000
francs to be spent in instituting prevents
ive measures.
The police authorities of Birmingham
have served notices upon the small shop
keepers, informing them that if they
continue to trade on Sundays they will
be prosecuted.
The Mikado has abolished the law in
Japan which provided that the author
ities could pick out a man for an unmar
ried woman of a certain age and compel
him to marry her.
Chancellor Capri vi refuses to compro
mise on the German army bill, and an
appeal to the country is very likely to
follow the defeat of the measure, which
seems now to be certain.
Numerous Austrian, German and
Prussian Catholics have petitioned the
Pope to call an international convention
to use their influence in trying to stop
gambling at Monte Carlo.
The Chinese government has dis
patched 15,000 repeating rifles to the
troops on the western frontier in the vi
cinity of the Pamir, and numerous drill
inspectors accompany tbe transports.
The works of the ship canal between
the North Sea and the Baltic are being
pushed forward with such energy and
regn'arity as to give hrpe of its being
finished in 1895, as originally intended.
BiBmarck says that all he cares for
now is to remain at home with hia fam
ily. He rareiy visits Berlin, because he
has no house there, and he dislikes un
familiar beds and hotel accommodations.
Religions riots have broken out in
Ainoy. Many native Christiana have
been tortured, and a few have been
killed. An English missionary was at
tacked by a mob of fanatics, and barely
saved his life by flight
The Corinth canal, which is now ap
proaching completion and is to be opened
on April 23 next, was formally com
menced on March 27, 1882. The canal
is over 9 miles in length, 68 feet wide
on the bottom, 80 feet at the water line .
and 26 feet deep.
The battle of Santa Lucia in Honduras
Is stated to have been the bloodiest one
which bas taken place during the revo
lution. One hundred and fifty men were
killed on the field, of whom 100 be
longed to Villela's army. General Bo
nilla has occupied Jntlcalpa, meeting no
resistance. He also captured 600 rifles.
Tbe commission at St. Petersburg, ap
pointed to define the term "territorial
waters" as used in tbeBehring Sea case,
has decided that the term applies to all
waters within thirty lesgues of the coast
line. Even at St. Petersburg there is
little expectation that this decision will
be accepted by any foreign power except
perhaps the United States.
PORTLAND MARKET.
Prod no, mil, fCto,
W mat-Valley, $L12 ; Walla Walla,
$1.06 per cental.
Floob Standard, $3.30; Walla Walla,
$3.60; Graham, $2.80; Superfine, $2.50
per barrel.
Oats Choice, 43(3 45c per bushel ; fair,
40c; rolled, in bags, $6.25(36.60; barrels, -$6.606.75;
cases, $3.75.
Hat Best, $11(313.60 per ton; com
mon, $9.00310.00.
MHiLSTurrs Bran, $1617; shorts, 19
20; ground barley, $23(324 ; chop feed, $18
per ton; whole feed barley, 80 85c per
cental; middlings, $23(824 per ton; brew
ing barley, 90U5c per cental ; chicken
wheat, $L10 per cental.
Borrsa Oregon fancy creamery, 27X
3oc; fancy dairy, 22),2oc: fair to
good, 1720c; common, 12X15o 0
pound; pickle roll butter, S035e per
roll ; California, 4045c per roll.
Chkxbx Oregon, U(dl3c; Eastern
Twins, 16c; Young America, loo per
pound.
Eoos Oregon, 16c per dozen..
Poowbt Chickens, mixed coops, $4.00
4.60; old bens, 6.005.50; old roosters,
$4.00(34.50; dressed chickens, 1618c
per pound; ducks. $6.60(87.60; geese,
$10.000 11.00 per dozen; turkeys, live,
1617c; dressed, 1819c per pound.
Vsostabui Cabbage, $1.50(91.65 per
cental; onions, $L752 0; cut onions,
75 90c; potatoes, $1.00 for Garnet
Chuis; $1.25 for Bur banks; Oregon
I turnips, 76Oc per sack ; young carrots,
73Cafl per sacs:; sweet potatoes, .ou
4.00 per cental; cauliflower, UOc per
per dozen, $2 76 per crate; celery, 90c
per dozen; artichokes, 86c per dozen; '
lettuce, 40c per dozen; asparagus, 2oe
Tier pound ; parsnips, 85c per sack ; beets,
$1.26 per sack ; radishes, 26o per dozen ;
green onions, 18c per pound ; rhuoarb,
10c per pound; green peas, 10llc per
pound ; spinach, 34c per pound.
Faorre Sicily lemons, $o.0J(35.60 per
box; California new crop, $4.605; ba
nanas, $2.604.0J per bunch; oranges,
seedlings, $2.0032.75 per box; navels,
$3.00 3 50; cranberries, $12.60 per bar
rel; apples, $1.6) 42 26 per box.
Stxrila Oroocrte,. 4
HoraY Choice comb, 1517o
nound : new Oregon. 16C320C
Salt Liverpool, 200s, $.50; 100s,
$16.60; 60s, $17.50; stock, $10.50(311.60.
Dbud Facrra Petite prunes, 10(3 12c ; .
silver,ll14c; Italin,1214c; German,
10llc; plums, old, 66c; pew, 79c;
apples, 6(3 He; evaporated apricots,
1516c; peaches, 12016c; pears, 7lle
per pound.
Kica Island, $4.75(35.00; Japan, $4.75
per cental.
Corns Costa Rica, 22c; Rio, 22c;
Salvador,21)ic; Mocha, 2)30c; Java,
24!30c; ArbuckVs, Midland, Mo
kasks and Lion, 100-pound cases,
25 35-lOOc per pound j Columbia, same,
24 85-lOOc.
Bbaks Small white, 3)c; pink, 8c;
bayos, 3ic; batter, 8c; limas, 3(340
per pound.
Svaur Eastern, in barrels, 40065c;
half-barrels, 4257c; in cases, 36(3
80c per gallon; $2.26 per keg. California
in barrels, 20040c per gallon; $1.75 pet
keg. .
Sooab Net prices : D, 4c ; Golden O,
4.c; extra O, 4)c; Magnolia A, 4c;
granulated, 6c; cube crushed and pow
dered. 5c; confectioners' A, 60 per
pound ; maple sugar, 160 ltie per pound.
Canned Goods Table fruita, assorted
quoted $1.7502.00; peaches, $1.8602.10;
Bart lett pears, $1.7502.00 ; plums, $1.37X
OL60; strawberries, $2.26(32.46; cher
ries, $2.2502.40; blackberries, $L86(i
x; raapoemes, $2.40; ptneepp.ee, $2J0
L80; apricots, $1.6502.00. Pie fruits:
Assorted, $1.20; peaches, $1.26; plums,
$1.101.20; blackberries, $1.25 1.40 per
dozen. Pie fruits, gallons Assorted,
$3.1603.50; peaches, $3.6004.00; apri
cots. $3.6004.00; plums, $2.75 3.00;
blackberries. 14. 25 (84.50. Vegetables :
corn, $1.50(31.75; tomatoes, $1.10(31.16;
sugar peas, $1.00 ; string Deans,
95c per dozen. Meats : Corned beef, Is,
$1.50; 2s, $2.40; chipped beef, $2,650
4.00: lunch tongue. Is, $4.00; 2s, $6.76;
deviled ham, $1.751.8i per dozen.
Fish: Sardines, , 75c$2.25; Ks,
$2.1504.60; lobsters, $2.3003.60; salm
on, tin 1-lb.talls, $1.2601-60; flats, $1.75;
Slbs., $2.25(32.50; bbL, $5.50. t .
The Mm Market.
Bcbv Primesteers,$3.8504.25 ; choice
steers, $3.75(34 00; fair to good steers,
$3.0003.60; good to choice cows, $3.15(3
3.60; common to medium cows, $2.50(3
2.75; dressed, $4.6037,O0.
Mutton Choice. $4.o44.75; fair to
good, $4.0004.60; dressed. $8.00; lambs,
$4.0004.60; dressed, $8 00.
Hoas Choice heavy. $7.0007.25 ; me
dium, $6.50(98.75; light and feeders,
$6.2506.60; dressed, $7.00. , .r
Vbait-$4 00O7.00.
Smoxbd Mbats Large ham, 170
17 c: medium ham, 1701836 ; break
fast bacon, 1718o; short clear sides,
140t5Wc;. dry salt sides, .13) 14o
per pound. .
Lajkd Compound, In tins, 14c;
pure, in tins, 16017&C; Oregon, lliO
l2)e per pound.
. ' Mleoell&naooa.
Nails Base quotations i Iron, $8 76;
steel, $2.75; wire, $2.60 . per keg.
Ibon Bar, 2Jc per pound; pig Iron,
$23025 per ton.
8tbb& lOKo per pound.
Tin I. 0. charcoal. 14x20, prime qual
ity, $8.5009.00 per box; for crosses, $3
extra per box ; I. O. coke plates, 14x20,
prime quality, $7.6008.00 per box j tern
plate I.O., prime quality, $6.8807.00;
14x20, $14.00.
Lbad 4o per pound; bar, 6Ko.
Shot $1.80 per sack. .
Hobsbshobs $6.
Naval Stobbs Oakum, $4.6006 per
bale; resin, $4.8005 per 480 pounds; tar,
Stockholm, $13.00; Carolina, $9.00 per
barrel ; pitch, $6.00 per barrel ; turpen
tine, 66c per gallon in carload lota.
'.'" Bcs ana Uavarln. -
Burlaps, 7-oa., 40-inch, net cash, 6c;
burlaps, 10-oa., 40-inch, net cash, ,7c;
burlaps, 12-os., 44-inch, 7c burlaps,
16-os., 60-inch, llc ; burlaps, 20-oa., 76
inch, 14c. Wheat bags, Calcutta, 23x36,
spot, ofeC, two-Dusnei oat uaga, la. ,
KconotDf In Horaeahoea. :-" .
A horseshoe has been patented in Can
ada which is provided with removable
calks. These calks are easily removable,
and when they require sharpening .calks
may be put in in about five minutes.
Two sets are kept on hand, one sharp
and the other dull; this effects a great
saving. The shoe bas tapered dovetail
recesses, in which the tnpured shank of
the calk fits. New York Telegram.
The fifty hirtrost libraries in Germany
possess 12. 1 00,000 volumes, against those
of England with about 0,450,009. and of
North America with about 6,100,004
volumes, .