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The Official and Other News
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Columbia : County.
VOL. 10.
ST. HELENS, OREGON, Fill DAY, JULY 7, 1893.
NO. 28.
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C0LUMUIA COUNTY 11IKKCT0HY.
Cauntr Ollleer.
Jnd... ......... D' u BUurherd, H.lnl.r
. Clark K. K. quirk, Hi. H.l,ni
HI, .riff . A. Mael-, Ml. Helen
TrvMur r. ...... ......It. M. Wharton, Oolewkle Ulty
Nupl. ol Huhoot. ,.T. J. IMrwiou, Vernnui
Awmif W, II, Kyt-t, ILInlur
Surveyor,.,., A. H. Utile, K.iul.t
i..l..n.. .(, rH.lia.iuov.r, Vetuoule
(Ui w ftaraee, nrr.
acieir Neitctm.
MiMiKIO.-Hl. Helen ImIk,, Nil. MHeirtllr
eniHIHUIlnmilWil" nr.. i .him, n...u. .m
Huh month Ml Wr. M el MmiiI halt. Vl.lt
lull number. Id good .lauding luvll.d to el-
"ii a omi. Rainier IMf. No. II Stated
meeting. Saturday on or lieioreeavh lull moon
W.M P. M. l Maeitiiie hell, ovr lllanefiard'.
.Iur.. Vl.lting member. In good (lauding In
.lied Wetland,
Olio rl.l,ovn-Mt. Helen. JMt No. 117
Meata tr Malmday nlwlil ,t 7 1 Tran.lent
brethren U good .lauding cordially Invited Ui
,lliul.
Ih. Mall.
Pown river (Wt) rime ,t ( M A. .
lip rtvar (Ik'.im !"" at i I. ).
Tli. mall Inr V.rininl, n1 riilabur '.ere.
L H.l.iM Mt-nday, Ueduewlay nuil Friday ,1
A . U).
Th, mail for Marshland, ( lol.k.nl. and Ml.t
leavm qmuu Monday, Wednawlay frlday
at I'l M-
Mall.trallwey) north clo., i 10 A. .! for
Portland ,t r. u. .
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Tr,i.l.r.' UuliU-IUrer Mut,.
t)TiMHH n. W. Hiuv- I.MVM HI. H.lnna
f.ir furtlanit at II . M. Tul,y, lhiirlv and
Buinnlav l,n.ve HI, lUlan. for t'laukaula
Uuu.) , W.aiiawUy ami Crlilay at H IM a, K.
Hta.ua lau-lJai. nt. Il.lan. for I'ort
lauJ I II a. M. i.liiriilng at I.Nr, M.
Nr.iana Ju.arn Katfcoun Uava.Hl. H.l.n.
fur I'nrlUuil ilnlly til HiimUy. at 7 a. ., ar
rl.liiii at fnrtlainl at IU JW; ilnrnliig, laart
Porilany at I r, ,. arrlvlua; at U llaleu. at.
I'llUKEHSilONAL.
JR. U. A. CI-IKr,
rUYSICI AN and SUHGEOX.
Ht, Helen, Oregon.
B. J. t. HALL,
PHYSICIAN and SURGEON.
C'latu!e. Columbia county, Or.
B. LITTLI,
SURVEYOR and
CIVIL ENGINEER,
81. Helen, Oregon.
Connty turTeyor. tnJ nrv3rlng, town
plattlnH. nJ engineering work promptly
dune.
W. H. CONYERS & CO.
Real Estate and Insurance Agents
Kaal X.t.ta pouht, olil na manatad
uauulaalon, rnu eollaotaa awt
etxtraou mad a.
AOXMTt fOB TBI
Farmers and Merchants,
German American,
NOTAU1K8 PUBUO.
CUKktanla, Qf.
for Information fjfljrrea ltmanw. vyy-"
MIINN A CO.. Ml BntiauwAT, Hw o.
SMMt miraau r.ir Mcurlnif I'.UmU In Am.rlnk.
,Z i Km S?t UkV, Sut 1.? I. Iirnwht trnra
tli. f puilio by a uoUM tau t ra ol ohariia In Uia
Scientific mtian
Tnrral drwilatlon of any aclantlBo papw 1 i
JJoriiT rJiiiwiilnliy iliu.trawd. No 'i,""'f"u
nan ahouid na wltmmt W.lr. .,I0J
turt ai.Mi.tx niooth.. Addra. aiunn UN
JkAiauaua, 30i tuoadwar, Jaw Tor Ul
TH TEABItll
I now making regular round
trip (rum
OAK POINT JO PORTLAND
Daily Eicept Wednesdays,
LiATirio OAK POINT.. i.""
KA1NIER.
KAI.AMA 7
BT. HKLEN3 A
AJTi POBTLAND "i
RETURNING
Liatm POHTLAND.
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AITblB.t,l.A.
.4 Colentino Anrlctn
W. E. NEWSOM.
Standard Bred
TROTTING STALLION
I Rockwood!
- PEDIGREE :
AID noOKWOOD In a dark bay, lfM hand
p. . "iii" J"i. .t.r, ii. wa .iren uy
Adlrnoilai k (719) ; Aid Hoi kwood B.lly Rock
wood, by Koi kwnoil (11671. Aillrumlark' dam.
Mn.lir.. tfy Volunteer (&ft), mm ol Kyvlk'a
llainbletonl.n; 2nd dam, Nail!, by Alniamler
annaiiuu (iw, mm or itymiyke I Hamtiletanlau
ilO); 8d iIkiii by Hharinun Morgan, win of Juillu
lorii.n, the Kreat (ouinler ol Ilia Morgan family
01 llumM. rllmrinafl Mitnrnn .lraif Vflrmnnt
Hlurk Hawk. .Ira of Ethan Allan, Honall4a (710)1
I. lull bmlh.rlo llruno-2 aii4,-Hr(i(., 3 2t,
uiiiiK nruiiu. a: w4, . imiiifi jioona,
Trolled In . ill, Hi- to wagon In 'i.it. Carl Burr
trial by Holiert Ilonni.r In 'i llruno and
Hriiu.tte In 1IW7, trotted duiibl In imblle In
MiIHb, .lain of Aillrondark, 1. by Vol
unteer (K,). t in of Kywlyke't llamblrlonlan (10).
Volunteer aired Ht. Julian 2 114, (tlantar-S n
-Allay-3:l,-Bodlna-a:l,- llrlrer S:1H.
Nellie, Ilia grand. in ol Adirondack, a. will be
Men, I. Iiy Alei.nder'i Ahdallah (16l .Ira of
Mold.inllh Maid-3: 14, Hoaadiud J: 21',,-'Hirnd.le:'a;4,-M.Jor
dll-il:t- aud B.
AID ROCKWOOD
Will make the .canon of 1803 at
JOHN DOWNING'S PLACE,
Warren Hlalion, Columbia County.
TERMS, 15 DOLLARS
Turn
Splendid, Yonng Norman Horse
TEMPEST
Will Make the Season of 1893
as Follows:
Momlity rind Tuonduy at B. COX'S
place, Wnrroii.
Wcdiipadwy and Thureday nt Oon.
U H ol the week Ht C. MUCKLE S
runcli, Deur lolnnd.
TERMS: INSURANCE $15.
TEMPKST la tieaulifiil. dark Iron gray,
Id hMiiil. hiirh ' apven veara old : weighs llilJO
K)iiniln, with line atyle, quirk, movement,
and .i cnml l none In intucular power and
Uurnhiilly.
Ho waaelreil by Young Byron Kler: by
fll.l llvron Kler. initmrted and owned by
bingm;iatar, Keota. Iowa. TeniDe.t' dam
wa. sired y Old i'empeat, Noruian Hurt
owned by . Down.. Iowa,
Chas. Muckle, Owner.
JAMES F. BRADDOCK,
OKNEBALai
BLACKSMITH WORK
In all its Branches.
REPAIRING : WOOD : WORK.
Prle ar very reasonable and all work
guaranteed.
HOULTON,
OREGON.
ST. HELENS HOTEL
J, George, Proprietor.
Table alway itipplied wlihthbetedible
and dellcaciw tb market afford.
TERMS REASONABLE
FOR REGULAR BOARDERS.
Haying been nawly refurnished, w
are nrenarad to ciy aatlafactlon t all
our patron, and tolicit a bar of jour
patronage.
ST. HELENS
OREGON.
The Overland Routt.
Two train, dally, leer
ing Klfth and 1 .tree ta,
Urand Central Depot.
Ho. 8, "The Limited
T..I Uull iHVlnf At
7:80 T. M., oarrle. Vc.tb
little Pullman raiace
keeping and Dining
Cur. and free Reclining
Chair Cam through
from Portland to Chi-
r.....ll llltitta
Wltnont enaiiKn. i in. w " ,-
neotlou for Denver, Kauaaj City, St. l,oiil,
ilelona.Hntte andKt. Paul; alaoearr ea through
I'nllma iHleeper andChalrCar for Walla Walla,
C hi, Fariiilngton, llm-kford and Hnokana,
making direct roimectlon. for Dayton, I'oin
eroy, Moscow and Cmur d'Alene. , . ., .
No. , Ovorland Flyer," loavlng at : A. M.,
carrieK Pullman ralae and TourUt Sleeper,
from Portland toMlunurl river without change.
Through train, arrive at VM A. . and 9 r. .
tn;r,A niftuMnii" , -
i v . i.i. u . ki ir.iHriv..
Colunibla...Mayl,13,2fl
Statu -..May ft, 17, 2
Oregon May 4, 16, 2
Columbia May ,20
Slate May 12, U
Oregon 'ay ,aii
regon ni.y , I dibiw...... . ......
in,. ...nmiiiii re.ervet the right to change
SiI IP"
''Sll.rNlS AffA'sTOUIA ROUTE -Morn-Ini
boat leave. Portland dally, except Sunday,
at 7 a M.i reluming, leave Astoria daily, ea
"pt ilimfay, at p. m. Night boat leave. Port
land dally.eicept Haturduy, at r. . return-
ng leavoi Astoria dally, except Sunday, at 6 a.
ii The morning boat from Portland make,
landing, on the Oregon .ido Tuesday., Thur.'
lay. and Haturdays: on the Washington lde
Monday., Wednesday and Fridays, i rom As
toria tlie morning boat makes landings on the
Oregon side Monday., Wednesday, and Friday.,
and. in the Washington lde Tueidaya, Thurs
day, and Haturdays. ... . . . .
CASCADB KOllTK-Leave Ash itroet at A.M.
dallv except Sundays returning, leave Bonne
?U1 ! at 1'Mtl) e. .,aiTlvlng at Portland at a r. u.
TO DAYTON AND WAY LANDINUS-Mou-dav.
Wednesday, Friday, 7 A. M.
Ocean loanie leave from Steamship wharf
"'auLo'TUBR Steamer leave from Ah-treet
doiiaj Ticket office 3M Washington tret,
fofuerThlrd. - w.H, HUBLBURT,
AssUtaut General PM"eI)ruAd"t(Jr
tup pa n pip mAiT
lltl 1J1V11 IV V W i ij A .
Rabies Epidemic Amonrj All
Animals at Quijotoa.
SILVER MINES CLOSE DOWN.
The Reading of Cheap Senaatlonal
Literature Make Thieves of
Several Boys Etc.
Ortlcm for the Aditrng to go to Samoa
are uxpectvd at Mare Inland.
I). A. Urqahart, a Pan Franclwo
dm minor, la wmxlit for by the 8nlt Lnko
police, the flmigu against him being
lorgury. .
J.U17 Ruckpr, the girl who ran away
with raraon Kcaiim (rum Merced anil
went to Victoria, II, C, ban returned to
her home.
The shipment of cherries Fast from
Ban June last week amounted to 444,775
poumbf, in all eighteen earluado. The
shipment o cherries to date thin year
amount to 1,4(15,870 pound. Iant year
the total ihipmcnt was l)7ii,006 pounds.
One Oerwaithc, a member ol Com
pany F, United stales Infantry, threw
popper in the eyes of Jeweler Htuinin
at llt'itii'ia, and ran off with a gol!
watch, lie was captured, and exeunt',:
his act by raying he wiahed to get out
of the service.
The Daly-West mine at Tark City,
T'tiih, has been ordered cloned down.
The Diaiuond mine at -Eureka, Nov.,
has tieen closed down, and the Old Jor
dan and (iuleua atlSingbaio, Utah, have
also been ordered closed. This is owing
to "the fall in silvor.
During the. trial of three yonng
thieves at San lternardino Saturday it
was developed that a number of boys of
Uiirblunds, from 10 to 15 years of age,
hud an organization called the "Black
Diamond," wltlcli carntMl on a system ol
mittv robiMtriea. The bova were- eairer
readers of cheap sensational literature.
As a practical solution of the strin
gency of gold in the money market it is
IirojioMcu at can rrunciccu initi, 11 tnu
iileral eovermiicnt would immediately
withdraw all restrictions to hydraulic
mining, California before winter would
ho in a position to contribute over 15,-
000,000 lit gold. The proposition from
interviews with prominent mining men
is considered entirely feasible and op
portune. .
The rabies are now epidemic among
animals of all kinds at Quijotoa, A. 1.
bevcral persons have had narrow escapes,
one man saving himself from a frenzied
horse by knocking It down wan a large
stone. Tlie ratline is lack ol water on
thu mesa, w hereby the coyotes bo ntai.
The Tapago Indians say tlie epidemic
raged thus years ago, wlien it whs un
safe to leave doors open at night for
mad coyotes.
A young man in Astoria has just sent
East for a New York invention which
he claims will catch more fish than any
other book ever used. By means of a
transparent tube or receptacle, live bait,
.iiciiiuiiig minnows, cralw, trogi, angle
worms, thi-imps or the like, are prCHont-
ed in a magnilied form to the fish desired
to be caught, while sale from injury 01
beimr bitten. There being a circulation
of water through the tube, the bait is
kept alive lor an imienntie ponoo 01
time, so that one bait is good for a day's
Helling.
The test case agreed upon as an out
come of the decision of the Washington
1 and Commission on Port Angeles tide
binds has been made up. Allen Weir,
attorney for Snmuel O. RIorse, petitioned
the hoard for findings in Morse's behalf,
setting forth in detail compliance with
the old law. The board denied the pe
tition for specific reasons that local
ixiurds were legislated out of existence
March 15, and their plats and reports
filed since that date were null and void,
anil because the appraisement made at
Port Angeles was null and void under
Section 28 of the new law. Upon this
action petitioner applies to the Superior
Court for a writ of mandate to compel
the State Hoard to so certify In Morse's
behalf, as it would have done had no
question arisen as to repeal of law of
March 2(1, 1890.
A formal discussion of the proposed
World's Fair in San Francisco was held
recently at tlte Palace Hotel, prepara
tory toa general meeting later. Herr
Comely and Architect Bennett, who ac
companied him from Chicago, were
present. Herr Comely recited his ex
periences in the past with expositions,
and told the gentlemen that it was nec
essary for San Francisco to take some
action at once on the proposition to have
the fair, for, he said, 4,000 foreign ex
hibitors in Chicago, who had sent him
thither to represent them, were anxious
to know as soon as possible whether the
fair would bo held there ; otherwise they
would send their exhibits to Antwerp,
where an exhibition is to bo held imme
diately after the World's Fair. He also
assured the gentlemen that they could
certainly count on all the foreign exhib
itors coming there, and furthermore, if
it were necessary, they would gladly pay
for space for their exhibits and also pay
their own transportation.
It is now considered almost certain
that, contrary to the usual custom, the
canneries along the Columbia river will
bo compelled to pack salmon as far
along as October, on ' account of the
freat falling off in operations this year,
'all salmon are all of the silver-side,
species, and are considered second grade,
but. as there is no doubt that the July
pack, however large, will leave a dis
astrous shortngo, this is the only way
out of the difficulty. The total business
for the whole season to date is 122,280
ruses, and np to Juno 2(1 last, year the
figures were. 184. 017 cases. All the can
neries are fully 60 por cent behind their
ordinary records, Even the gillnets,
which up to two weeks ago were meet
ing with cxtraoiditiary success.'liave
followed in the wake of the traps and
seines and aro now catching next to
nothing. The continued high cold
water is no doubt mainly accountable
for this state of things. Eleven large
traps the other morning caught twenty
five small salmon between them, and
tho whole of the seines together have
not brought in more than ten tons of
fish since tho season started. The short
use has already alleeteil the circnlntiim
of nioney in Astoria by close on (300 00!!,
and 62 ' less men arb being employed
now than last ) ur.
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The act of Congress necessitating tfie
recent dismissal of sixty-sven clerks, of
the general land office provided for a re
duction of the field expellees of tlie of
fice. A large number of offices will lie
consolidated in such a way as to make
the number twenty less than heretofore.
Assistant Secretary Kcynolds of the
Interior Department lias made a pension
decision which will become welcome
news to a large number of women who
ministered to wounded soldiers in the
hospitals during tlie lute war. They are
to be placed on the pension rolls. The
?uestion arose upon a communication
rom the Commissioner of Pensions as
to whether those women who superin
tended the diet of the sick and wounded
soldiers are entitled to pensions. Under
the act's provisions Assistant Secretary
Reynolds holds these persons are entitled
to pensions.
The Collector of Customs at El Paso,
Tex., has been instructed by Assistant
Secretary Spaulding to discontinue at
once the practice of admitting sulphides
of silver from Mexico without consular
invoice and in future not to admit silver
bullion from Mexico exceeding $100 in
value, alleged to be imported as money,
unless accompanied by consular invoice,
unless the bullion is shown by the ship
per's declaration, made before the con
sular officer at the port of shipment, to
be forwarded as money or tlie medium
of exchange at a fixed value per ounce,
and not as merchandise.
Inquiry at the Treasury Department
discloses the fact that about $15,000 re
mains for the enforcement of the several
Chinese acts. In July the new appro
priation of $50,000 becomes available, so
that the aggregate fund available for car
rying out tlie Chinese exclusion acts, in
cluding the Geary law, will be $5,000.
As announced by Secretary Carlisle, the
policy of the administration will be in
view of a lack of funds to rid the coun
try of Chinese who have entered unlaw
fully in violation of the previously ex
isting laws before endeavoring to send
out Chinese who came in lawfully, but
are now under the ban of the Geary law,
because they failed to comply with its
requirements of registration, etc.
They are after fraudulent pensioners.
A list comprising the names of a number
of pensioners recommended by Commis
sioner Lochren to be dropped from the
pension rolls has been handed to Secre
tary Hoke Smith, and he has approved
the recommendations. It has been found
upon investigation by the pension bu
reau that the persona named are for va
rious reasons not entitled to draw pen
sions. The work of examining the rolls
with a view to the detection of fraud
will be prosecuted with vigor, and at the
same time the current issues will be care
fully scrutinized with the same object.
Secretary Smith and Commissioner
Lochren while prosecuting this work re
new the assurances previously given that
just as much care will be exercised to
secure pensions for those who are enti
tled to them under the law as will be
need to prevent fraud.
Attorney-General Olney hits decided
that the appropriations in ide by the act
of Congress approved August 5, 181)2, In
aid of the World's Fair,' including the
appropriation fur the government ex
hibit, are as available now as before the
decision of tho Circuit Court of Appeal"
permanently opening tlie World's fair
Sundays, with iliu "iiule '-x.-.mi -hi
no more money ought to Ii - p i I tii
linois corporation known a ihd W01 i .
Columbian Exposition. Tho gMitin-.
for the opinion are thai Congress nn a-i
that the exposition as a whole should U
closed Sunday. It did not, however, un
dertake to pass a law to thai effect, Inn
contented itself with making certain ap
propriations conditional, not uton the
fact of Sunday-closing, but upon the
Illinois corporation agreeing to the
proposition of Sunday-closing, so that
regulations to that effect might be made
by the government. Representatives of
tlie World's Columbian Commission, the
Illinois corporation, did agree to the
E reposition. Proper rules were made
y the Columbian Commission, and the
condition upon yhich the appropriations
referred to were made must be regarded
as fully satisfied.
WORLD'S FAIR NOTES.
Five days, beginning with October 20,
have been designated as Veterans' day at
the fair.
The New York Sun Informs a corre
spondent that it requires $2,000 and
three months' time to see the World's
Fair. Not many New Yorkers can afford
to go West on those terms.
Tho postofflce on the World's Fair
grounds at Chicago will be left open
Sunday hereafter for the purpose of
giving the needed mail facilities. This
must be regarded as a concession on the
part of the government, as the working
postofllce on the fair grounds has always
been maintained as a part of the exhibit
of the Postoffice Department and is
therefore a part of the government
exhibit. 1
The World's Fair officials authorise
the statement that there is no truth in
the report that the government has
determined to pay out the $750,000
reserve belonging to the exposition from
tho United States appropriation. How
tlie report that the government intended
to issue this money in souvenir coins,
thus practically throwing them on the
market, started the officials do not
know, but it is authoritatively denied.
J. C. Bovd, "the Oregon colonizer,"
has brought suit for $2,000 damages
ag.tinat E. W. Allen of Portland for
libel and defamation of character. In
Illinois conviction might mean impris
onment for one year. Boyd alleges that
Allen wrote a letter to Dr. J. Guy Iewis(
superintendent of Oregon's exhibits,
charging him (Boyd) with obtaining
money fraudulently in New Orleans.
This report, it is alleged, was circulated
around the horticultural-building, caus
ing great dainngo to tho business and
reputation of Boyd. There promises to
be a lively legal skirmish.
Unless the unexpected should happen,
there will be a dairy exhibit at the
World's Fair this month. This an
nouncement, which was issued by Chief
Buchanan of the department of agri
culture was received with thanksgiving
bv some 1,500 exhibitors, who for the
past two nvnithx have been compelled
to submit to exasperating delays and
financial losses by the failure of the ex
position company to furnish facilities
lor displaving their products. The chiet
cause of complaint was the absence ol
any kind of refrigerator service, nnd tht
pr .mi-ie is now mad' that this tuaitoi
will be recti lied at ouuw.
EASTERN NEWS.
failures Among New York
' Diamond Houses.
BROTHER DAY AT PITTSBURG.
Secretary Carlisle Request Collect
or to Exercise More Care in
Choosing Subordinate.
fit. Ps.nl, Minn., claims population
of 225,000.
Chinch bugs are doing great damage
to the Kansas wheat crop.
The State of Texas has won a suit to
recover lands grabbed by railroads.
The woman suffragists of Kansas
have raised a campaign fund of $50,000.
Maine towns this year have paid a
bounty of $5 each on thirty-two bears.
The St. Louis health officers have be
gun to inspect emigrants arriving in the
city.
Just before it adjourned the Illinois
Legislature passed a very radical anti
trust bill.
Thirty-two sites are offered for the
new Philadelphia mint at prices ranging
from $1 to $600,000.
A telephone line 3,500 miles long is
planned in Canada to connect Halifax
with Vancouver.
Dr. Ernest Hart, the London sanitary
expert, says that Chicago's water is baa
and may cause trouble.
The women of Kansas, who are to open
their campaign for suffrage in September
next, are already afield. .
A plot of ground was sold in Chicago
the other dav for $400,000, which was
purchased in 1850 for $8,500.
Iron wood, Mich., has such an epidemic
of typhoid fever that the public build
ings' have been made hospitals.
Bv a recent order of the authorities of
Carthage, III., courting has been forbid
den in tiie public parks of that place.
George Vanderbilt has purchased 20,
000 acres of land in North Carolina,
with a view of making it a game pre
serve. Lieutenant-Governor Percy Daniels,
Populist, of Kansas has a scheme by
which no one will be taxed but million
aires. A New York printer has been sen
tenced toa vear in State Prison and
fined $1,000 'for printing green-goods
circulars.
The big Chicago telescope will be ap
proximately 64 feet long and 4 feet m
diameter, and the dome will be 70 feet
in diameter.
The Kansas Railroad Commissioner
are going to compel a wholesale reform
in freight charges on the part of the
roads in that State.
It is claimed that there is now due the
government in royalties for coal mined
on government lands in Kunew from
500,000 to 600,000.
The widow of one of the Italians
vnched at New Orleans tried to bring
-uit as an alien, but the courts decided
that she was an American.
Southern papers say that the machine
cot ton-picker is a success, and that in
many districts that commodity can now
be raised at a cost of 2 cents a pound. !
A company has just been formed in
Oklahoma to develop the immense beds
of asphaltum recently discovered neat
the Arbuckle Mountains on toe Uhicka
saw reservation.
The World's Labor Congress at
Chicago, August 29 to September 4, will
conclude with what is proposed to be
the greatest labor demonstration evei
seen in America. '
Charles T. Yerkes, the Chicago cable
railway magnate, has commenced the
building of a brownstone mansion which
is to cost $1,500,000. Mrs. Yerkes' room
is to cost $30,000.
The Berry trust law in Illinois, it is
stated, will enable the Attorney-General
to break up the passenger and freight
associations now controlling and fixing
rates to and from Chicago.
Secretary Carlisle has issued a circular
requesting Collectors of Customs to ex
ercise more care in the selection of sub
ordinates. This notice has been called
forth by the Puget Sound scandal.
The rain-making experiments in Kan
sas have resulted in the death of a
Captain of tlie Kansas National Guard
and the serious injury of two men
through the bursting of the cannon
employed in the experiments.
"Victory" monument designed by
Casper Buberl, which is to be erected
by the State of New York to her dead
heroes on the battle field of Gettysburg,
measures from base to top 96 feet. The
figure is 13 feet 9 inches high.
A. W. Glover of Windsor Locks, Wis.,
claims to have discovered in the founda
tions of an old foundry a stone covered
with hieroglyphics, supposed to be of
Indiau origin, though no one versed in
Indian lore can decipher them.
The law passed by the late Indiana
Legislature, plncing nearly all the State
and county officers on salaries and re
ducing their compensation mora than
one-half, has been declared unconstitu
tional in a test case in the Circuit Court.
The Gulf, California and Santa Fe
railway has contracted to deliver 6,000
c:j.rs of wheat at the port of Galveston,
Tex., as fast as possible for shipment to
Europe. The wheat crop of most coun
ties iu Texas is far above the average in
quantity and quality.
The Stale of Michigan is experiment
ing with the gold cure and the result
will be watched with interest. Every
offender who commits a crime through
drink may, it he elects, undergo a
Keeley treatment at the expense of the
county in which he lives.
There have been no less than six fail
ures among the wholesale diamond
homes of New York dnrinir the month
of June, with liabilities of from $100,000
to $800,000 in each case, due entirely to
the falling off of retail demand, caused
by commercial aud unancial depression,
" Brother" Day, the colored successor
of Father Mullinecr at Pittsbursr, is said
to be perforniinjt miracles in the way of
cures equal to those claimed : to have
been performed by Father Mollioger.
Dav is a full-blooded negro, but his
and tors nrenearlv all while. Tito cures
are mostly by faith.
INDUSTRIAL' ITEMS.
Thirty million dollars worth of ready
made clothing is produced iu Paris
yearly.
Coal that is sold for SO cents a ton is
mined in large quantities in Lebanon
county, l'a.
New York has a population of work
ing women reaching in round figures to
about 300,000.
Another bonanza lode of silver with
ore worth $3,000,000 in sight is reported
at Chihuahua, ,
Steps have been taken for a general
reduction in the force of employes of the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad.
Last year only 4,033,000 hogs were
killed in the West for packing the low
est figures in twenty-two years.
In Great Britain the daily cost of a
laborer's food is 45 per cent of bin wages;
in tlie United States 33 per cent.
Thirty firms in Pittsburg each do a
business of over $1,000,000 a venr, Car
negie leading with nearly $10,000,000.
In Manchuria dogs are raised for their
skins. A fairly prosperous Manchurian
dog farmer will own a thousand or more
dogs.
Germany has one postoffice to every
1,774 inhabitants. In proportion to pop
ulation the United States has twice as
many.
There are sixty-four steamers doing
excursion business out of Chicago this
summer, but so far none has made ex
penses. According to Bradstrcet's the income
of American life insurance companies
rose from $8,450,000 in 1861 to $109,500,
000 in 1885.
B. W. Jones, Secretary of the South
Georgia Pear Growers' Association, says
the yield in that section this year will
be over 20,000 barrels.
An English watchmaker exhibits an
engine of 122 distinct pieces (not includ
ing thirty-three bolts and screws) which
could be hidden in a lady's thimble,
A new cigarette machine has been in
vented by a man in Winston, N.'C, that,
it is said, will feed, roll, paste and make
10,000 perfect cigarettes in ten hours.
An electrically oV'-en rotary planet
that is operated like a lawn mower is
used in some of the ship vards in Glas
gow for smoothing the decks of vessels.
And now comes a project to build a
six-track railroad on tlie viaduct plan
from New York city forty miles north,
to cost $35,500,000, right of way $75,000,
000. A society of ladies is forming in Lon
don for the adoption of day servants,
who will come into the house by the day
only and return at night to their own
Homes.
In Bengal. India, there are three har
vests reaped every year; peas and oil
seeds in April, the ear,y rice crop in
September and the great rice crop in
December.
Most of tlie transportation in Havana.
Cuba, is furnished bv little horses
hitched to a victoria. There are 3,000
of those rigs in that city and but one
horse-car line.
In the central part of the State of New
York over 15,000 people ase engaged in
the cultivation of more than 20.(KK)acre
of grapes, which produce annually from
w.ikhi to OU.ow tons.
In its manufacture the knife is hat
died by seventy different, artisans from
the moment the blade is forired until the
instrument is nnisned and smoothly
wrapped up for the mat ket.
Practically all cheap paper is which
wholly or in part from wood pulp which
comes from the forests of Maine, the
Adirondocks and Pennsylvania. Wood
pulp was first made from poplar trees
altogether, but spruce makes a stronger
and better stock. ''
- PERSONAL MENTION.
The Czar has sent as a present to the
Pope two superb vases, each eight feet
in height, with pedestals of jasper.
William Waldorf Astor has been
elected a member of the Marlborough
Club of London on the proposal of the
Prince of Wales.
Dr. Dele van Bloodgood, U. S. N., who
became widely known on account of his
striking resemblance to the late James
G. Blaine, is to be retired in August.
Mrs. Proctor, widow of the late Rich
ard A. Proctor, the famous astronomer,
and the principal assistant in his profes
sional work, has been appointed curator
of the Proctor University at San Diego,
Cal.
Captain Soufflot, who died in Paris
the other day, was the nephew of the
architect who built the Pantheon, and
enlisted in 1810 at the age of 17. He
was made a commander of the Legion ol
Honor last year.
Charles W. Dayton, the new postmas
ter of New York, is the principal owner
of the Harlem Reporter a society jour
nal. He is also what is more impor
tant a member of Tammany and an
intimate friend of Secretary Lamont.
Prof. T. K. Cheyne, the eminent Bib
lical scholar of Oxford, has the sight of
only one eye, and he cannot use that ex
cept in natural light. And yet he has
written a large number of books requir
ing an immense amount of original in
vestigation. It is not generally known that a
brother survives Edwin Booth. He is
Dr. Joseph A. Booth, who was born in
Baltimore and studied medicine at the
South Carolina Medical College at
Charleston. He is at present practicing
his profession and lecturing on surgery
in New York. -
Joseph H. Choate of New York, the
silver-tongued orator and defender of
the heathen Chinee, is an epicure, and
delights in choice viands as much as he
does in choice language. He has made
no record as a big eater, however, and
may be called a dilettante gourmet with
a refined appetite.
Lady Pauncefote, the wife of the Brit
ish Embassador, announced informally
the other dav that she would be "at
home " on a certain afternoon from 4 to
6. She expected to welcome a few visit.
ors, but during the two hours 1,400 per
sons, most of whom she did not know,
dronrjed in to see her, and the butler run
out of tea before tlie reception was half
over.
Walter Besant, tho English novelist,
arrived on the steamer Ktruria to attend
the convention of authors in I'lncngo,
Mr. Bcwint will spend about live weeks
in tho United States. He will go to New
Kmrlaiul first, and anticipates much
pleasure in meeting Oliver Wendell
liolines end other literary men. It is
also lifcetv that, he will speiid a few d:ivs
with Kud yard Kipling at Biattleboro, V U
FOREIGN CABLES.
"'any Italian Lailcs Petition
Ajala3t DiVOiXi.
MLLE. GABRIELLE BOHPARD.
Endeavors Being Made to Realize
the Contemplated Swedish '
Exhibition in 1896,
The Thames river is at the lowest
ever known.
Cholera has appeared among the pil
grims at Jeddah.
The present British Parliament has
among its members sixteen brewers.
English hold of Argentine bonds
have accepted t ; ! Rothschilds' compro
mise. ' . .
A German physician has revived the
apple tisijment for the cure of in
ebriates. A postal reform nnder the manage
ment of Europeans is to be inaugurated
in India. .
Consul-General Collins at London is
alert in trying to prevent the importa
tion of cholera.
The scarlet fever epidemic of last
winter in London has revived with in
creased virulence.
The town of Schneidmehul, Posen,
Germany, is slowly sinking into the
workings of a colliery.
The London City Council want to
spend $3,750,000 on new buildings for
their official occupancy.
The French government will ask tho
Deputies for a loan of $1,000,000 to help
drought-stricken farmers.
The Berlin correspondents of the
London News and London Standard say ;
the army bill will surely be passed.
Germany is looking for Russia to open
a commercial war against her, owing to
the failure recently of a proposed com
mercial treaty.
Herr Liebknecht, the Social Demo
cratic leader of Germany, favors a mi
litia system in place of the present
standing army.
A number of German army officers
are to visit the United States for the
purpose of studying the immense sys
tem of railways.'
French paupers are provided for by
the funds arising from a 10 per cent tax
on theater tickets. The tax averages
$10,500,0u0 a year.
Three lots on the corner of Oxford
street and Oxford circus, London.brouirht
at auction the other day a price equal to
$115 a square foot.
The Czar has officially thanked the
CommHsioners who negotiated the
extraction treaty between Russia and
the United states.
The Oueen has decided that there
shall be ten bridesmaid at the Pyal
weildinsr, and that tliei jiuii aU be her
own grandchildren.
A new cruiser to be called Minerva
md to cost i 2.000,iWO is to be built for
the British navy, and its construction
will be beun at once.
The attention of the British House of
Lords has been directed to the increas
ina danger of navigation in the Red Sea.
owing to the absence of lights.
On many of the railways in Germany
the practice of starting locomotive tire
with gas instead of wood has been
adopted, and proves economical.
H. L. Williams. United States In
spector of Emigrants at Liverpool, is
being denounced in tne local press lor
the undue severity of his methods.
The London Times savs there are
fresh rumors Of trade failures in Aus
tralasia and the banks there do not
want to send gold back to England.
Mrs. Lanetry and the Duchess of
Montrose have joined John Strange
Winter's No Crinoline League. The
league now numbers 11,000 members.
Sixty-thousand Italian ladies, led by
the flower of the aristocracy of Rome, are
petitioning the (J number against divorce,
which they contend is an offset against
religion.
Endeavors are being, made to realize
the contemplated Scandinavian exhibi
tion, which has been discussed a good
deal the last year or two, in Stockholm
in the year 1896.
Only four prominent Australian banks
are solvent at the present time, and in
the failure of the fourteen or more
banks in that country England lost
about $130,000,000.
There have been Bet on foot in Glas
gow an association for the protection of
v...? j j ...... .!:
uulllBlireu uepoeitoio iu rtunuouau .
banks, and one for the protection of
insured depositors.
The Chinese government appears to
be awakening to the fact that the rapid
increase in the sale of Indian teas in
Europe may be due in part to causes for
which the Chinese growers are respon-
Bible. .
A curious and very objectionable
crank is one who has developed in Birm-inghs-n,
England. He goes about with
a Ion ' steel hat pin, and stabs all fash
ionably dressed . ladies whom he en
counters. The private secretary of Lord Rose
bery, government leader of the House
of Lords, has been made a Peer simply
to enable him to have unimpeded access
to his noble master at all times when
the upper branch is in session.
The Italian Cabinet threatens to re
sign unless the bank law advocated by
the government is adopted by tlie
Deputies. The Premier said the conn
try is likely to be shaken by a financial
panic unless something is done.
Prince Bismarck is due at Kissingen
July 15, and will remain there at least
three weeks. The Prince Regent has
addressed him an autograph letter in
which he offers to place a State carriage
and some of the court servants at his
disposal. ,
Gabrielle Bompard the accomplice of
the notorious murderer Eyraud, is re
ceiving daily offers of marriage in the
prison whitre she is undergoing punish
ment. She receives dozens of letters
weekly, of all kinds and front every
p.irt of Eu'ope, come coining even from
America. One sho vman offers her a
salary of $300,a week and all expense
paid if she will exhibit herself nnder
his management after hot release.