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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 15, 1893)
THE NEWS IN IUUEF. CONDENSED COMPILATION OF CURRENT EVENTS. Important News of A11 Kind Ilollvd . Dovn and Arranged for Busy People. All Supertluou Word Removed and the Emnrc of the News Pratenred. " Over 6.000 people are employed in the . bo. y arils of Sonoma county. The grand council of the Young Men's Institute of California held its annual session at Morysville. Ormonde, the $150,000 stallion, the property of Mr. McDonough. has arrived safely at Menlo Park. The Pioneers" society of San Francisco has addpted resolutions condemning H. H. Bancroft's History of California. ,' . ' Seattle Parlor Xo 1, Native Sons of California, celebrated Admission day at Seattle with a grand banquet. The Breckinridge-Pollard breach of j promise suit at Washington will prob- J r ably never go into court. A settlement j is reported to have been reached. i ; Chris Buckley, the famous blind poll- j . - tician of San Francisco, with his wife I and child, has arrived at Boston from England. After a short stay in that V city he will come to San Francisco. The California state fair opened Mon day at Sacramento. The attendance was unusually large. The fair is said V 7iaMat70 till ibo j.u..wa w au j .V "particular. j J Governor Markh:un has offered a re-j V , ward of $300 for the arrest and convic- tion of George Clark, alias James Bar rett, the ex-convict who murdered V Special Officer Charles V. Wetzel at ,, "' . United States District Attorney Denis " of Los Angeles has received information I. from Secretary Carlisle and Attorney General Oinev that the government has no run ds witn wnicn to aepon cninese convicted under the Geary law. Henry Irving and Ellen Terry opened their American season at San Francisco. A tremendous crowd attended the first night. Mr. Irving and Miss Terry re ceived a flattering reception from both the audience and the critics, i Dr. Johnson, who analyzed the con ' tents of the stomach of the late John ! Martin of Weaverville, CaL, reports ' j that no poison was found in the viscera. : It was generally reported that Mrs. Martin had poisoned her husband. Gamblers who expected to make a Ktalca at the state fair at Sacramento. ) are sorely disappointed. The managers " I of the fair have shut down on all guinea prohibited by the penal code. Sheriff f O'Neill has prevented the games being run in the city and the sports are dia - gristed. : At the Pan-American Medical con ri gress at Washington Ernest Hart, editor of the British Medical Journal, delivered ; - . u .i L ,1: 1 t an aauxess on iae euiius ui uirujmi profession, in which he classed the homeopaths with quacks and as men not . to be recognized as doctors or to he con- suited with. Governor Markham of California has sent a dispatch to Secretary Gresham complaining that the Geary law has not j been enforced, and says he cannot be - held responsible for what may happen if there is much longer delay. "The fact t . it has not been enforced by those in authority furnishes an excuse for those r. ' lawlessly inclined to break the laws of : onr own state, and that, too, with the .-' sanction of many of our citizens." -, , Saturday, Sept. 9, was California's 'it day at the World'Fair, and the attend- ance was over 230,000. In comparison j5 ' with the celebration days of other states at the fair this number has been ex - exceeded only by that of Illinois. Large quantitiesof California fruit were given awayoir cue uvro.--su-.-r. xc-z. -r-zrmu livered the address of welcome, and Senator White, as orator of the Any, made a speech, giving a sketch of the history of California. The first license to mine by the hy draulic process under the Camiuetti law has been signed by the United States debris commissioners of California, and from now on the Eureka Lake and Yuba Canal company con begin taking out gold from their mine in Nevada connty. This is the first contested case that has come before the commissioners, and powerful argument was brought to bear by the anti-debris association against granting the license. The new Cunard Atlantic liner, the Lncania, has arrived at New York, hav ing made the fastest maiden voyago across the Atlantic on record. This new giantess is C2 feet 6 inches long over all, 43 feet deep to the upper deck, and has a gross tonnage of 12.950. Her horse power is 30.000. Each of the funnels is 160 feet high and 19 feet in diameter, and, gigantic as are the engines, every one of the Ixiilers. the engineers say. could be packed into one of those stacks. The lifeboats would make a fleet, and the life-preservers stowed in different parts of the ship would keep a regiment from drowning. There is a banquet hall where 430 can sit down to dinner. Monday last was celebrated by the workingmen throughout the country. Labor Day exercises and parade were held. The unemployed in the cities paraded in large numbers. Governor Altgeld addressed the workingmen at Chicago. Referring to the present in d as trial and commercial depression, he said: "You are not responsible for this condition. The men herj and in Eu rope who call themselves statesmen have inaugurated policies of which this is the natural result. Considering the increase in population, the increase in industries and the commercial activuy of the world, as well as the increased area over which business is do;ie. there has been in recent years a practical reduc tion in the volume of the money of the world from 33 to 40 per cent, and there had to follow of necessity a shrinkage in the value of property to a corresponding extent. Combination and concentration are the masters of this age. Let the laborers learn from this and act accord ingly." A dispatch from Adelaide. Australia, states that the government is losing m time in enforcing the provisions of the Chinese restriction act. Vessels from Hongkong and other eastern points are not allowed to carry Chinese only in proportion to the net tonnage instead of gross tonnage, as formerly. A bill is pending in the legislature providing for a restriction act that shall apply to all colored Asiatics. Three judges of the connty conrt of St. Clair county returned to Kansas City and went back to jail for contempt of the United States court for refusing to order a tax levy to pay a bonded indebt edness to construct a railroad never built. They were released from jail on furlough last spring, pending election to compromise the matter. The proposi tion was defeated. The judges will re main in jail until 1895, when their sen tence will be completed ' The fight' against the Chinese has be gun at Redlonds, but according to law. Deputy United States Marshal Faris ar rested seven Chinese on warrants issued by Judge Ross underthe Geary law, and five more warrants are out. Laborers from the ranches in the vicinity were selected. These 12 warrants are the first of 170 asked for by the citizens of Red lands. More will be issued as fast as the cases can be tried in the United States courts. Captain J. B.' Adams of Massachu setts has been chosen coiniuaiiiler-tii-chief of the Grand Army of iiie lit-public The police at Cleveland, O., had to club the Bohemians, IIiingari:t:is and Pol who were preventing laborers from working. Hamilton Fish, secretary of state under Grant, and o.le of te greatest statesmen of the century, died suddenly at New York. Major Muirhead has arrived at Vic toria, from Englard, to superintend the construction of the fortifications at Es I'.iimalt. Massachusetts Prohibitionists have se I cted a state ticket upon the usual plat iorui. The Virginia Prohibitionists did the same thing. The Woman's Board of Missions of the Pacific Coast met at Santa Cruz the other day. The board was organized 20 years ago at Santa Cruz. Thomas O'Doimell has sued the Oak hind and Haywards Electric Railroad company for $"0,000 damages. O'Don nell's 13-year-old son was killed by an electric car. The raisin-growers, in session at Fresno, divided on the rite to be paid laborers tin" season. White men will p-t $1.25 per day and Chinese $1. White labor will be given the preference. The United States troops have been forced to use fires to nnearth the sooners" on the Cherokee Strip. A number have been captured in this way and their names taken. in the mail race between the Ameri can line steamship New York and the White Star line steamship Teutonic, ended at London, the New York won by niore thin three hours. At the SuuJay-school congress at St. Louis a plan was adopted for the appoint ment of workers for Japan and south eastern Europe. The next convention will lie held in 1S. The city engin-vr of San Francisco has submitted plans for a sewage system for the city. He recommends that the supervisors at once provide tusuls for the work and give work to the unemployed thousands now in this city. J. A. Rounds, aged 22. the son of a well known citizen of Portland, haslieen arrested on a charge of attempted black mail. Yonn& Rounds wrote, letters to several prominent society women de manding (50. and threatened to make public scandals about them. Mill way Plaisa- ce is agog over a story that Miss Jenny Hammond of Bellaire. O., and Abdul Lati?f. the manager of the Turkish village, have fallen in Live and will be married. They first met while the young lady was visiting the fair. A syndicate, called the Lake Superior Consolidated Iron Mines, luis secured control of nine-tenths of all the iron ore production in the United Slates, with a cash capital of $:W,0OO.OtK) and a reserve of $100,000,000 more in aggregate prop erty. Yhe Russian Prince Galitzau. who has just arrived at Victoria. B. C. from Japan, will tell the New York Geo graphical society next month about the religion of an exclusive people he dis covered on his travels from Leiiseteng to Karukcsh. Henceforth no meinlx-rof the National Union of Brewery Workers can le a member of the militia of any state, and members of the union now enrolled in the state guard must get out at oace. and no member of the citizen soldiery of the country can be admitted to the union. Two-thirds of tho banks which sus pended throughout the country during the recent panic have resumed business or will do so shortly. In the great East ern manufacturing centers workshops and factories are being reopened. Money is getting easier, the premiums on cur rency in New York has disappeared, and the prospects for a good fall season ore imt)tviE,Z. RECORD OF CRIMES AND ACCIDENTS. The Sells-Rentfrew circus train w wrecked on the Nevada narrow-gang'-near Colfax, CaL Two men were killed. The 10-year-old son of H. A. Lammers of Portland was caught in machinery and so seriously injured that he died. Cashier M. J. Buffer ling of the Bank of MinneapoHs shot himself dead. It is supposed the deed was the result of brooding over the action of Paying Teller Scheig, who absconded with $15,000 of the bank's money. Bofferding's accounts are straight. Samuel Noble, a young man employed in a slaughter-house at Davisville. CaL. fell into a vat of scalding water and was badly burned, the skin slipping from the flesh about his shoulders and back. His injuries are not regarded as fatal, but his agony is something terrible. NEWS FROM ABROAD. Prince Bismarck is very ill at Kissin gcn. The Irish home rule bill in the house of lords was defeated bv an overwhelm- j ing majority the vote being 41D against ; the bill and41 for it. I , Gladstone lias announced that the , government his decided at the close of j the debato on supply to adjourn parlia ment uniu govern Der. A party of disbanded troops in Nica ragua captured a convoy of government treasure, killed all the escort and fled with the money $ lV.00O into Hon duras. Active hostilities have begun in Ger man East Africa with the natives. The Cennan forces stormed and captured the fortified camp of the Saltan at Kili manjaro. The French government his a-rred to call a conference of members of the I Latin Union in Paris to decide the ques tion of the nationalization of fractional silver currency. Work lias begun on the finest hotel in the world, on the site of her majesty's theatre, in Haymarket and Pall Mall. London. The site is a magnificent one. and the building is to cast $.000.000. It will be built by American capitalists. A night clerk in a drug store at Chi- ! cago was attacked bv two men. shot in the mouth and beaten alout the lierd with billies until he became insensiiile. The men then took the money in the cash register and $20 from the clerk. The United States Marine hospiial at Port Townsend was destroyed by fire, caused by a defective law. Loss, $3,500; no insurance. The patients were re moved to temimrary quarters pending the ccnslructiou of a new building. John Stockwell was stab!ed in the breast by Dan Sullivan at the San Jose racetrack, and his recovery is doubtful. The two men had come from Sacramento with some horses, and the crime is said to le the result of a drunken quarrel. Sullivan was arrested. Hall Miller, alias James Miller, son of Joaquin Miller, the poet, was released from San Quentin after serving a term of IS months for stage robbery in Men docino county. After leaving the prison he was again arrested and taken to Oregon to serve out his unexpired term He was serving a sentence of six years for burglary in the tregon state peni tentiary when he escaped. Advuvs by the steamer Emprwss of China state that a Japanese emigration stock company has been organized in Yokohama, which proposes to procure and dispatch to foreign places farmers, artisans and fishermen, who shall remain under the control of the com pan v, and thus promote the welfare and power of the state. The company will purchase desirable land on the Pacific Coast, United States and Canada, and send out emigrants, who shall send their products j to Japajj to sell on commission.
