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Newspaper Page TextM rrn JL JL JJi ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY. AUGUST H, 189f. NO. VOL. 13. oi. r OREGON S EVENTS OF THE DAY Epitome ot the Telegraphic News of the World. TKfiSK TICKS FROM THE WIRKH A a lutareatlng Collection of Kama tfrorn lb Two llenl.iheres 1'reseuted la Voudenaed Porn. In a auvoro thunderstorm near Onm ba, Neb., throe people were killed by lightning. A dispatah from Neath, announors thut forty mluers were entombed lu the Briuoooh pit by an explosion. Mini Mh Fuller, a New York actress, while lu bathing at Mauhuttan ksMoh, wu grasped by uu octopua and Hourly drowned. Governor Altgcld has Issued mani festo declaring that eight boon ahull constitute a day 'a work on park im provements lu Chicago. Miss Anna Prltohard, a widow from Han Franoisoo, lift $1,280 In green backs done up In newspaper on the , Oakland ferryboat, and has not been able to find the package siuoo. John Basel lumped from an Illinois Central psengor train that was run- j nlng forty miles nu hour and was in- stnutly killed. Ho was in nuatody of an officer and was wanted for horse stealing in Missouri. j A detachment of ootnpuny I, who were guarding tho Brown hoisting works, near Clnvelund, O., fired open mob of strikers and wounded one of them. Excitement runs bigb, and more trouble is feared. A aale on tho oourthonse stops of ; Elissbethtown, Ky., was a reminder of antebellum days. Instead of a negro slave being transferred to another owner, it was a white man sold at suc tion for vagrancy undur an old law sel dom enforced. The administration of President Pie rola, of Peru, la to lie credited with another triumph in effecting a loan of , 60.000,000 francs. The loan, which ! will be guaranteed by a suit tax and other revennea, will be subscribed part ly in Paris and partly in Lima. Bill Doolin, tbe outlaw who escaped fiom the Jail in Guthrie, O. T., four weeks ago, was surrounded by deputy marshals at Wewoka. A desperate fight took place, and during a foailado of shots Doolin escaped. Deputies Gregor and Iluynolds were killed. In Chicago, twelve portions suo oumbed to tbe heat in one duy. Two or three of these are not expected to reoover. It was tbe hottest day of the ' year, tbe signal service thermometer registering ninety-four in the after noon. Thermometers on the streets , registered four aud five degrees more ' than that in the tower. ! A bloody affray occurred among crowd ot school boys at BuobviUe, Ark. Koliert Chew and Bonregard Poole became involved in a fight. Friends of the belligerents joined in tire fray. Pocket knives were used. ' Heveral boys weredageronsly wounded. Poole was stabbed in the breast aeveral times and died of bis wounds. j The Chicago stock exchange will re main olosed nntil the Moore Bros.' failure baa been settled. The action of tbe governing committee in oloaing tbe j. doors Is ssid by some financiers to bave ! verted a panic. "There is no telling where it would have ended," suld a ; member of the stock exchange. "H might have resulted in tbe ruination ; of a doaen business bouses and banks." j A special from Madrid says a great Are rages at Rueda de Medina, a town of about 4,000 inhabitants, twenty-five miles southwest of Valadolid. Hun dreds of buildings are said to have been i destroyed. Tbe inhabitants are report- j d as Being In a state of panto. The syndicate of foreign bankers whloh oa rue into existence to check the drain on the United States treasury reaerve exerted by Europe has been sig nally successful In Its efforts in tbat direotlon, but the withdrawls of gold for shipment to Cauada continues. James Fulton Shepard, a one-leggod boy of Alameda, Cal., saved a 13 year old lad named Durant from drowning In tbe tidal canal. Shepnrd rescued Dvrant as he was sinking for the last time. The boy had swallowed a qnan hirwo;rtobtBhrmq,,r8nhur',! bard work to bring him to, Another rebellion is reported from China, Two powerful bandit societies! aro In revolt. Several villages bave j been oaptnred. Helpless inhabitants j bave boon foully murdered and their J homes destroyed. Foreign missions bave been attacked, aud two French priests narrowly escaped with their; Uvea. Governor Molntyre, of Colorado, bas reoelved letter purporting to be from ' William Bmeiduth, for the murder of whom Columbus B. Bykes Is serving a life sentence. What were supposed to I be Bmeiduth remains were found on bis ranoh, near Dallas, Cola, March days by hiding in acorn field, but bun 18,1804. The chief of police of San ( ger drove him out. rancisoo oaa oeeu rcquosiinu w uuu tuo man claiming to be Bmeiduth, who writes that he is staying at the What Cheer house ou Sacramento street, San Franoisoo. While an attorney was looking over the papers of the late Eugene Wilhelm t his home near Nebraska City, Nob., an express order was fonnd for 1 1,600, whloh had been issued in 1663 at Placerville, Cal., sent by Wilhelm to his wife, Martha Wilhelm, and payable to her order. Wh. th. rdV..a i nevercasbed. Mrs. Wilhelm, who is an old woman, is nnable to explain. The bead of the company in New York has been notified that the order has been placed in the bank at Nebraska City tot oolleotlon. ' af atahaiea Defeated, Dstalla nave been received In Cape Town of a dooiaive viotory won by TOO British troopi composing (Jolonol Plom nier's oolamn, over a uatlve force esti mated at from 5,000 to 7,000. The liitter fought desperately and bravely, churning within a fow yardi of the Urltiah rapid-firing gam. Aboot 600 Matnbele warriors were iilaln daring the engagement, which laited aeveral houra. Aboot thirty of the British aoldlnri and air ollloers were killed and 60 wounded. , A Wlfe-Murderer Hanged. Charles Thlede was banged In the vard of the oounty jail, at Halt Lake. The execution wua wltneaaed by a large j numlwr of people. It i the aeoond I hanging in the biatory of Utah, i Thteile, who wua a saloon keeper, was convicted of murdering hla wife on the i night of April 80th, 1804, by ncalry aeverlug her bead from ber body with ! a knife. Ho asserted bit Inuooenoe to ! the last j Will Trnrerae the Globe. Mis Clura Parish, tbe seventh and youngest W. C. T. U. round-the-world j missionary, bus left Paris, III., for Ht. I Louis, starting on ber trip arouud the i world. Bhe will bo given a big reoop ' tton there. Hhe will lecture at several points in the West, and will sail from K(, wri,notsoo tor Jsoan Aoiiust 28. ' Blie will take about two years to make tbe trip. American Money Blacklisted. The Montreal chamber of ooinmeroe has passed a resolution expressing ap proval of the action of the banks in that district In oharging a discount of 10 per oent on all American money. It also Issued a warning to merchants, farmers and tho public generally not to accept American money upon any con sideration. ratal Kansas City fire. One man was killed outright, one perhaps fatally injured and five others sustained more or less serious injuries in a fire which started in Swift's pack ing plant in Kansas City, Mo. Tbe property loss Is nearly f 100, 000. Joseph Iioblowiti, a night watchmun, was suffocated or burned to doatb. A Fatal CouHacratlon. A disastrous fire occurred in fao tory lu Christiana, Norway, and before it was extinguished, several buildings were destroyed. A falling wall killed six mon and tbirtoon others were seri ously hurt, of which three have ainoe died.' It is believed that three children bave perished in the ruins. A Kavaraud Polaonar. Rev. J. C. Hull, a preacher, was ar rested in Bt. Paul at the request of bis wifu, oharged with attempting to kill her by administering poison in repeat ed araall.doses. Hull is prominent in BL Paul church circles. lie 1,1 I'p by Uobbara. James A. Campbell, a Honolulu millionaire, who disappeared from Ban Fraiioisoo, returned with a bullet bole through his bat and an exciting talu about an adventure with robbers. Campbell says that while he was drink ing in a private room iu a saloon he whs oonfrouted by two masked mon, who demanded money. Tbe millionaire re fused tbe demand, and iu the fight th.it followed a ballet went through hli hut, Campbell says be was robbed and kept a prisoner for two days. When released he was given a nickle for his oar fare. A Itaoa War Threatened. A war between whites and negroes is Imminent in Polk oounty, Ark., on the Hue of construction ot the Texarkana & Fort Smith railroad. It seems that tbe hardy old mountaineers of tbat seo tiou bave not allowed any negroea to stop in that seotion for several years. The oontraotors building the road bave employed oolored labor. Trouble Is feared and the contractors have blrod guards to protect the negroea. riooda In Nicaragua. Rains have canned the rivers Rama and Buqna, in Nicaragua to rise rapid ly, and the panic stricken inhabitants of El Rama bave taken to the high ground and on board steamers. Nearly all buildings in the latter place were destroyed. Plantations near tbe town were mined and the damage Is esti mated at 1 1,000.000. ruraiitt la Abandonad. Pursuit of the bandits who held np the Wilhoit stage has been abandoned,' ffiStfffS ,,ml,f. maktno- it well nigh impossible to further traoe them. Mcarngua Mutt Olva Vp. A government organ deolares that if Nicaragua refuses to relinquish Islas Mangla, which she seized oontrary to the wishes of the inhabitants, the Co lombian govenrment will regard the refusal as a oasus belli. Boy Murilerer SJurraudara. Amos Decker, the boy who murdered a playmate near Findlay, O., has given himself up to the authorities. He suc cessfully eluded oaptnre for several Tba Holler Kiplotleri. A traction engine boiler exploded an a farm near Anderson, Ind., and one mun was instantly killed and several others seriously injured. M. ny for Cuba. It is imported in Philadelphia thut I the Cuban junta In the United States 1 this week raised a fund amounting to 'o uu"1 ,n" u" ' m i a oA ,nt "WJ nd U " 'Vri i bou"'1 'or ub;w n nd ! n th b?nU of ,,he 1 m0r5mT"f; 1 1" he nsrBe"t .Th.e b,Hn,oe I f" l ' lh"u m L it ! uut laf Jl" in a wuy that will Uut serve the Cuban I cause. A DEATH-DEALING SUN The East Stricken by an Ex tremely Hot Wave. NUMBER OF THE DEAD NOW 128 fifty Alone la Greater Maw Vork-The Wit. Eitendea Ba Far Wast as Kansas City, Mo. Washington, Aug. 11. Tbe report of futalttius resulting from heat in vari- j cms sections of theoouutry Indicate that the present hot spell will be as disss 1 trous In effect as a national oalamity or plagne. The death roll of today ex- oeods 129 in the principal places. Fol- i lowing is the reported fattilitius: New York and vicinity, 60; Phil- ! adelphla, 18; Washington, 10; Balti more, 10; Bayoune, N. J , 8; Newark, 8; Albany, 13; Jorsey City, 1; Pitts burg, 1; Rochester, 1; Chloago, 16; Louisville, 1; Memphis, 1; Cleveland, 3; Cincinnati, 6; Ban Antonio, 1. THREE KILLED, FIFTEEN INJURED Trollajr Car Hashed llown an Incline at Columbia, i'snn. Columbia, Penn., Aug. 11. Three persona were Instantly killed and fifteen injured, some fatally, by tbe : derailment of a trolley oar on tbe Col I umbla & Donegal eleotrio road tonight, just outside the limits of Columbia. ; The dead are: i Aday Forelinger, motorman; Henry I M Intone, and probably' two. of tbe injured may die. Tbe place where tbe accident ooourred la at the baso of an incline, alongside of wbioh runs a high embankment Tbe oar was loaded with passengers and, as it reaobed tbe edge of the lnoliue, thore was no indi : cation of danger. Onoe on the inoline, however, the car began to slip on the ' wet track. The motorman applied the 1 air brakes, and at that moment tbe ! gear-wheel broke, rendering the brakes t useless. Tbe our dashed along at a tor ! rifJo rate, while tbe terror-stricken pas 1 sengers were helpless from fear. Tbe oar, upon reaching tbe bottom. took a sharp turn and was thrown up against the embankment Word was quickly sent to Columbia and a relief oar was sent to the soene. SEVEN PERSONS DROWNED Threa In Detroit Itlver at Det ult, and roar In Lake Michigan. Detroit, Aug. 11. A heavy wind aud thunder storm, which swept over this oity tbis evening, resulted in the j drowning of at least three men in the j Detroit river, and several yachtsmen had narrow escapes after the oap.izing ' of their craft Two others were 1 drowned during the afternoon from other causes. The oapsising of the yacht Corsair caused the drowning ot Frank Hughes. William J. Thiemerwas drowuei from the yacht Alberta. John Heike, jr., was drowned while swimming noar Peche island. A dispatch to the Free Press from Benton Harbor, Mich., says: Four persons were drowned in Lake Miohiitan this afternoon a mile north of here. They were M. Manning, James Butterlck, Frank Yerring and a stranger. The men, with a dozen othora, were bathing, when two of the number, who could not swim, were caught by tho undertow, and the others ! went to their rescue. WINE Fr.M RODBEO. I Weakly I'ayroll Taken by a Daring and Ingenl..ua Tlile '. San Franoisoo, Aug. 11. A daring ! and ingenious thief got away with f 1,300, the weekly pay of the employes ot Laohman & Jacob!, tbe big wine ! firm, today. Superintendent Ciprioo : had received tbe money from a mes : senger, and placed it in a cabinet in i tbe offloe. Then he made out his pay ; roll, and when he went for the money . it was gone. A search revealed the j fact that a square hole bad been out in a wooden partition against which the I back ot the oabiuet rested. Tbe piece I of wood sawed out bad been retained 1 in plaoe by binges, and the work must have been done the night before by some one familiar with the plaoe and its customs. While Ciprioo was en gaged with his payroll, tbe tbiof bad opened his little trapdoor, out out of the thin baok of the cabinet, and walked off with the two sacks of gold. No traoe of the robber hue been found. Between Japun and Germany. San Franoisoo, Aug. 11. Aooording to mall advioes from the Orient today, the commercial treaty between Japan and Germany bas been approved by tbe privy oounoil oi Japan. Tbe exchange of ratifications and the subsequent pub lication of the treaty are expeoted to take plaoe within sixty days. While the terms of the treaty are not kuown, it is believed that Japan has aonoeded more to Germany In tbe way of com mercial privileges to German residents in Japan than she aooorded to Great Britain lu the treaty made with the British government some time ago. Advices from Poking are to the effeot that a oommoroiul treaty has been rati fied between China and Japun. Havana, Aug. 11. News from Puerto Principe is that Samuel Nolly, an English teaman, and an American named Augusto Bortherrasn landed near Maternallis on June 11, and have surrendered to the iusurgeuta, having failed to pay the 100 monthly agreed npon, Ricardo Barroia Robado will be executed at Matauzas. To be "in brown study" is a oor ' rnption of brow study, requiring much thought and oontraotiou of the i brows. Massaere la Creto- Athena, Aug. 18. At Ananolia, i Pedadad, near Herkalion, in the ialand of Crete, on Saturday, 1000 armed Musselmen butchered thirty unarmed Christians In tbe precinct of St. John monastery. Heveral prieata, women and ohlldran are among the vlotima. One woman wai slaughtered for sav ing her children and her bniband. She wai butohered on her knees. several cnurones were aeseoraiea, and a priest named Jeremiah bad his ears and nose severed from bis bead and was then burned alive on a pile of sacred pictures. Tha Hoot Capslsed. Chicago, Aug. 18. Charles Johnson and Edward L. Schubel were drowned j In the lake by the capsizing of their jboet last evening. They went down i In sight of their wives and children and a number of friends who were pio i nicking on the shore and nnable to i help them. The boat was not more than 800 feet from tbe shore, and was. upset by two companions who jumped from its side into the water for a swim. Btorm at Saginaw. Saginaw, Mioh., Aug. 13 A lightn ing and wind storm oaused 9100,000 ! damage in this olty and vicinity early j this morning. Jefferson avenue Metho dist Episcopal church was struck by I lightning, and damaged to the extent of 50,000. Fifty other buildings and ; faotories were unroofed or badly wrecked, hundreds of trees down and wires prostrated. blown ' I , Fin Ware Or.iwn.d. Philadelphia, Aug. 12. Five persons were drowned last night in the Dela ware river, opposite Bridgeburg by tbe ! ' tJ tims were: Amelia Holman, Rose Beruinger, both of tbis oity; Charles Minnik, of Cincinnati; John T. Reeder, address unknown. Tbe boat was caught in a squall and upset 4frad Tannyann's Widow. London, Aug. 13. Baroness Tenny son, widow of the late poet laureate, is dead. Bhe was the daughter of Henry Sellwood, and married Alfred Tenny son in 1860. Her son, Rallman Tenny son, Is the present Baron Tennysoa Kldnapar Capturad. San Franoisco, Aug. 13. O. W. j Winthrop, who is accused of kidnaping ' James Campbell, the aged millionaire of Hawaii, was caught in Oakland this ; morning and brought to this oity. ! "TO END THE WAR Magotlatlona for Feaca to Ba Begun In Cuba. Key West, Aug. 11. It ia openly deolared here that Captain-General ' Weyler has reached an understanding : with the chief insurgent leaders and that negotiations will be begun with a ; view to the cessation of hostilities in Cuba npon terms satisfactory to all oonoerned. It is also stated here that the oaptain-general and bis deputy ; oommanders have held a conference in ! relation to this important movement I The authors of these striking deolara j tions say that the truth of their reports ' Is established by the fact that within 1 the last few days many influential ' emissaries bave arrived here and at other points in tbe United States, from ' Cuba, bearing important dispatches to i the Cuban junta in New York, gome j of the sympathizers in the revolution- ary cause admit that these dispatches may contain references to a possible truce, but they are not inclined to talk freely on the subject Other surmises wbioh have been aris ing owing to tbe arrival of the Cuban envoya are to the effect that insurgents are at tbis time dispatching messages to the United States, urging immediate aid in the way of arms and ammuni tion, of wbioh they are sorely in need. By far the greatest importance, bow ever, is attached here to the report that a truoe is likely to occur soon in the island. Ernesto Castro and Jose Ros sell, picked np by the pilot boat Jewett, and brought here last night, are still held in detention by the health authori ties, despite the efforts of their friends to have them released. Habeas oorpua proceedings were neia today, nowever, and the men may be released. The apparent anxiety and tbe un usual efforts made to secure tbe reloase of the two Cubans detained, in order to enable them to proceed to New York, are evidences ot tbe importanoe of their mission to tbe United States. Tbeir arrival was telegraphed to the junta in New York, and the dispatohes that they brought were entrusted to a messenger. Some prominent local members ot the Cuban revolutionary party ridionle the reports ascribed to the presenoe in this country of emissaries from tbe rebels. Recent wholesale arrests in Havana and elsewhere, of insnrgent agents, together with- the capture ot emissaries bearing dispatohes from the field, they state, has temporarily inter rupted tbe former means of sending messages and they have been oompelled to resort to dispatching them direct from the ooast I'olaon In Their rood. Brighton, N. J., Aug. 11. Five members ot the family of Jeremiah Frasier, a merchant of this plaoe, are dangerously ill from poison supposed to have been in something wbioh they had eaten. Mrs. Frasier and two sons were unconscious, and her two daught ers are in a dangerous oondition. ; Haw Y. rk Troueera-Makera' Strike. New York, Aug. 11. Fifteen hun dred trousers-makers struok yesterday, throwing 8000 women ont ot employ ment The strikers complain that their wages have been reduced 60 per oent and working hours increased. Mlaa Aabley Uald for Trial. 8an Franoisoo, Aug. 11. Miss Em ma Ashley, oharged with attempting I to shoot E. J. Baldwin, was arraigned ! for trial today. Bhe pleaded not I guilty, d was held tor trial, Aug. 88. FLED THE COUNTRY Escape ot a Woman Journal ist From Cuba. "STOW AWAY" OS A STEAMSHIP XV a. Onrroondcd by Ipanlarda and Kludad Tbem by Dousing Mala Autre. New York, Aug. 10. Miss Cecilia Charles, who says she went to Cuba several months ago for the purpose of obtaining material for a book, was a passenger by tbe Ward line steamship City of Washington, which arrived from Havana Wednesday, and whose passengers were sent to Hoffman island for investigation. - Miss Charles says that after travel ing through the island a newspaper correspondent warned ber that her lib erty and possibly her life was in dan ger. Bbe aoted upon tbe warning as socn as it was received, and, going to her hotel, made preparations for leav ing tbe city. Before (he could do so the bouse was 8nrrounded by Spaniards. Becoming then thoroughly alarmed, and fearing every moment that the would be hur ried to prison, (he decided to evade ar- tt8t disguise. Bbe arrayed nerselt in boy's olotbes, tucked her bair under an old straw hat. soiled ber face and ' hands, and unobserved stole out by a back door and made ber way to the city. Tbe Ward line steamship City of Washington was at anchor in the harbor and making ready to get under way. Miss Charles hired a small row boat and went alongside. The gang way ladders had been taken in, but a rope ladder was trailing over tbe side, and she suoceeded in getting on board. She "stowed away," she said, and did not make ber presence known until the chip was clear of the harbor. Then she revealed her identity, paid her pas sage, and was given stateroom and a stewardess fitted her out with female garb. THE VEIL LIFTED. Alleged Facte lu tba Brown-Overman Ca.e Belated by Mrs. Tunnell. San Francisco, Aug. 10. After many months of waiting and of eva sion, of buriied flight from town to town in California and across the southern border, Mrs. M. F. Tunnell has consented to tell the story of her relations with tbe Rev. C. O. Brown aud Mattie Overman, and to explain wby she fled at tbe very moment when ber pretence wss needed to dispel the shadows of scandal, or to condemn the pastor who was seriously accused. Mrs. Tunnell is the last witness to speak, and as far as facts are con cerned, the testimony she gives closes tbe great oase. She explains the important points npon which the clerical judges of Dr. Brown were in doubt Bbe removei the elements of uncertainty that made the ecclesiastical oonrt hesitate before pronouncing a final judgment of con demnation. Bhe fled from San Fran citco, she said, to shield Dr. Brown from tbe consequences of bis own guilt She says she knew of the love between Mattie Overman and the pastor, and would have revealed her knowledge if she had been summoned to tbe witness stand. She says that Dr. Brown paid her expenses while she was away, and when she returned, tried to induce her to go to Central America. She tells when and where she received the famous letters from Mattie Overman, and for tbe first time explains how they passed from ber possession into the keeping of a man who allowed them to be published. She traces in detail the career of Mattie Overman and she oame to know it through tbe confidences of ber young friend. The recital lifts the veil from the home ot the unfrocked pastor, and shows how be struggled to save bis pulpit and bis good name. Outlook Bright for Peach Crop New York, Aug. 10 Although' the annual wail of the American peach growers went up early in the season about alleged short orops in some pro lific peacb-prodooing seotions, the pres ent outlook is for abundant receipts from most of the old and some of the new sources ot supply for this market Shipments from Georgia are ended for tbe season, but tbe product ot Mary land, Delaware and California is com ing in freely. Tbe Maryland and Delaware frnlt first received was small and unsatisfac tory, but good peaches are now coming in. They are being sold at wholesale for from 85o to OOo a basket, according to quality and oondition, some extra ohoioe lots oommanding somewhat higher prices. California peaches ot small sizes are quoted from tl.80to 11.60 a box, and large ones f 1.80 to t3. 10 a box. Will This Move Russia Athens, Aug. 10. It is rumored that the Mussulmans bave invaded Herak lion and oommitted frightful exoesses. Many are reported killed and wounded. The Mussulmans forced the Russian consulate and severely maltreated Vioe-Consul Barrows. The troops are powerless to check the disorder. Valor's Better Part. Christiana, Norway, Aug. 10. A paper here publishes dispatoh received from Spitzbergen, saying Professor Andre declares that unless the wind soon ohangea be will paok away his balloon and postpone bis attempt to cross the Arctio regions nntil 1897, as there is no midnight sun after August 84- Women medical students will, in all probability, be admitted to the univers ity of Budapest during the next term. NEW NAME IN HISTORY. National Democratic Party Horn lula tba World ot rolltlos. Indianapolis, Ind., Aug. 10. Tbe name of tbe new party is tbe National Democratic party. Tbe national con vention of tbe party will beheld at In dianapolis th first week in September There was unanimity in tbe confer enoe in the selection of the name of the National Democratic party and in de terminlng to distinguish tbe two par ties by referring to those supporting tbe Chicago platform as tbe Populist-Democratic party. There was no difference of opnion in the provisional national oommittee, at which it was decided to call a convention and nominate another national ticket Some of tbe Eastern and Bontbern members opposed a third ticket, but when they were told in tbe Middle States party fealty was so re garded tbat many Democrats would not vote unless there was a third ticket, then all objections from the East and South were withdrawn, and the deci sion to bold a convention was unani- WHAT WILL THE "EQUITY" BE? Astoria Gambling-House Keepers Ob Jnet to Cn.qual "Pines." Astoria, Or., Aug. 10. There is a strong prospect of a lively fight at an early date over the so-called "fines" exacted monthly from the keepers of gambling houses in consideration of immunity from polios interference. For tbe past two years, each bouse in whiob games of chance, sucb as "craps," roulette, faro and the like, are conduoted bas paid the oity month ly the sum of f 30, but since the open ing here of a large saloon and sporting house, those of tbe gamblers who bave only sufficient money to make a show ing in a single bank-roll bave become dissatisfied, because of tbe fact that the more wealthy of their class run as high as five or six games and they pay no more for the privilege than do those who conduct a single "crap" table. It is likely that at the next meeting of tbe city counoil steps will be taken to bave the matter adjusted in an equitable manner. ' Tba Salmon Ind .atry. Astoria, Or., Aug. 10. M. J. Kin ney, in bis annual trade circular, just issued, ssye: Tbe season just about to close hat been one of tbe most remarkable in the history of tbe salmon canning industry on the Columbia river. Confronted with a strike at the opening of tbe sea son, and with but few fish packed un til June 21, it seemed at that time thai the output would of necessity fail fai short of that of any preceding year ainoe 1877. The abnormally heavj runs of salmon, however, and the pro digious efforts of canners ton cover th, losses sustained during the strike havi resulted in a pack aggregating 76 per oent of that for 1895. Throughout tb. year salmon bave been unusually large and in oolor, firmness of flesh anr quantity of oil exoelled those oaught at corresponding periods in any formei season. A noteworthy feature of tht year's business was the large proper tion ot chinook salmon, the paok C thii variety representing a muob larg percentage than usual of the entire out put Boston's Bo.ldenU Shocked. Boston, Aug. 10. The nude bronz statue of a bacchante or priestesn oi Bacchus, the work of Frederick Mo Monies, the famous sculptor, destinei as a gift to the Boston publio librr by tbe architect, Charles F. McKim arrived in New York last week from Paris, and is now stored in the office! of McKim, Meade & White. No soon er did this work of art reach th, American shore than a wail of purl tanical modesty went up in "Bean town", and Miss Bluestocking ooverMi ber eyes and deolared that she woulo not accept an immodest gift The figuie is about life size, and represents a girl laughing as sbe trip along, at a baby, who sits in the told of ber left arm and reaches down to ward a bunch of grapes which she it dangling above the child. It was firs' exhibited in Paris, and was so muob admired that tbe French government, unable to purchase the original, or dered a replica to be made for the ga' leries of the Luxemburg. . Tba Knot Ought to Ba Tight. New York, Aug. 10. Alioe Evans, of Los Angeles, who styles herself tbe California songbird, rushed into Polioe Justice Wood's office, in Jersey City, with Rex Forster, the wild aowboy pianist in tow. They are man and wife. "Judge," said the songbird, exoitedly, "I want to be married over again to my husband. We were mar ried out West several years ago,. and our marriage certificate was destroyed in a fire in Buffalo. I feel that f onght to have the knot tied over again." Polioe Justioe Wood did as requested, and the songbird and the oowboy went away smiling. Hohenlohe'e Krelgnatloa. Berlin, Aug. 10. Neusten Nachrioh ten announces that Prince Hohenlobe. tbe imperial ohnnoellor, bas resigned and left Berlin for Kaesel. It is adder1 that further changes are impending i the ministry of finance. A Boston dealer says that there l more steel used in the manufacture o pens than in all the sword and gun fac tories of the world. The Banter Mine at Mullau Shut Bown Mullan, Idabo, Aug. 10. The Hun ter mine has olosed its mill for an in definite period. Work In the mine wa practically suspended yesterday. The recent slump in lead, ooupled witn the low prioe of silver, made it inadvisable to put the ore on the market at tht present time. This is tbe mine who. flume was recently blown np with dynamite. Two weeks ago two rift balls were fired through tbe boarding boose. NORTHWEST BREVITIES Evidence ot Steady Growth and Enterprise ITEMS OP GEJTEKAL LNTEKES'f From All the Cities and Towna of tba TbrlTlng Slater States Oregon. Eight carloads of wool from Ueppner were reoelved in one day at a Dalles warehouse. The graders are at work on Tansy point on the line between Flavel and Warrenton, leveling off . the spaoe on wbioh will soon be built tho oar sheds of tbe Astoria road. An effort ia being made to plaoe Pen dleton and La Grande on tbe regular bicyole track raoe circuit A move ment to tbat end is now nnder way, and already purses are talked of tor a meet at La Grande. One day last week a freight train ran into a band of cattle that were bemmed in between a bluff and fenoe, near B la lock. All of tbe oattle were either killed by the accident or so badly maimed tbat they bad to be killed. John Riobie, who lives near Pendle ton, is the father of a two-months' old boy tbat was born with ten fingers and ten toes, besides tbe thumbs and great toes, all of wbioh are perfectly formed. The family physioian thinks these ex tra provisions may be of great value when the boy is grown up. The farmers of the Grand Ronde valley are engaged in putting np bay, but the orop is so heavy that in some sections much of it will be loft stand ing. Huge stacks dot the valley throughout its length and breadth. ' 1. will be but a few days before tbe farm-' era will turn tbeir attention to the grain harvest The National bank of Hcppner of which E. R. Bishop is cashier, baa gone into liquidation. Tbis step was taken for tbe reason that the bank can do no more business profitably for tbe present It has no more money to loan upon the security offered, and will pro oeed to collect outstanding money as fast as possible. A whale was driven ashore at Ban don the first ot last week. Captain Hans Reed secured it, and prepared to utilize tbe catch. It came on ..the beach lust above the lookout It is over thirty feet long, nd ten and one half feet across the flukes. It is of tbe kind oalled Greenland, or right whale. It will bring the captain about $300. It is reported tbat the hay orop in Clatsop county will this season be a very short one. In the month of June there was no rain whatever, an un precedented fact in the history of that county in a number of years, ine grass waa burned before it ripened, and it is probable that not enough hay haa been produced for borne consump tion. Tbe first car of frnit which left The Dalles last week billed for Chicago, consisted entirely of peach plums. There were 800 boxes. This, it ia said, is the finest carload of peach plnms that ever went ont of Ine Dalles. Tbis is because of the pack ing. There was not an overripe plum in the lot. and nearly all were pioked at jnst the right time, a trifle green. Washington. Two new warehouses are to be built in Garfield. It is estimated that tbe state's hop yield this year will be about 12,000 bales. Supreintendent Stevens bas appor tioned $3,284.67 to the sohool districts of Paoifio oounty. , , Tbe assessed valuation of personal property in Chebalia oounty ia $98,000 leas this year than last The flagship Philadelphia arrived in Port Angeles last week from Portland. Tbe Monterey and Bennington came a few days later. The prospect of ever catching the burglars who stole the balolt-boxes from a vanlt in the Taooma oity ball ia said to be growing less every day. The Indian war veterans held an ad journed meeting at Willapa, recently. The name adopted ia "The Indian War Veterans ot tbe Northwest Coast" There are thirty sores of growing flax in Whatcom oounty and ten in Skagit oounty. It will be worked np as soon as the scutch machinery at New Whatcom is made ready to receive it The treasurer of Lewis oounty has received a remittance of over $9,000 for the oounty sohool fund from the state treasurer. Chehalis district oomes iu for $1,100 and Centralia for $1,400. The war of prices tbat has been car ried on for a year by the bakers in Spokane ended last week. Tbe bakers oame to an understanding and a alight advanoe baa been made in the prioe of bread. Most ot the logging camps in tbe Gray's harbor oountry are shut down, and it is reported tbat there haa not been time in ten years when so little logging has been done. The burning of the Northwestern Lumber Com pany's plant bas muoh to do with it. . The oounty road between Bvenson and Enappa haa been opened and here after there will be considerable travel between tbe two communities. Tbis also connects Cathlamet with through road to Astoria. Sixteen farms in the vicinity of Pen dleton, some in Oregon and some in Washington, have bet u harvested, and tbe returns show tbe average to nave been 8 14 bushels of wheat and 80 bushels of barley to the sore, with tbe quality fair. Tbe heaviest yield so fa reported Is 80 bushels.