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ST. HELENS, OREGON, FRIDAY. AUGUST H, 189f.
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VOL. 13.
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OREGON
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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.