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About The Medford mail. (Medford, Or.) 1893-1909 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 14, 1896)
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WHITMAN, ABSTRACTOR AND ATTORNEY AT LAW. Office in bask building, Medford, Or Have the most complete and reliable abstract, of title in Jackson county. JJAMMOND & VAWTER, ' Austin S. Hammond. : Win. L Vawter. ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ' Office 1. 0. 0. F. building, Medford, Or yiIITE & JEFFREY, e. W. White J. A Jeffrey. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. - Medford, Oregon. Will practice in all the courts of the state. Special attention gives to all kinds of convey ancing. Notary work and collections at reas onable rates and remittances promptly made. Mining law a specialty. Office on Seventh street, opposite Opera House. Qm B. COLE, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON Chronic ..diseases, and diseases peculiar to women a specialty. Office Opera Block. p Medford. Oregon. Yf9 B. OFFICER, M PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Eagle Point, Oregon. Office Inlow residence. . J B. WAIT, PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON, Office in Childers' Block, Medford, Or QEARY & PICKEL, PHYSICIANS AND SURGEONS. - Office honre 10 to 12 a. m. and 2 to 4 p. 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All of these are strictly carried out at the WILLIAHS BROS., Proprietors, Woman's old stand, - - MEDFORD, OREGON Legal Blanks at CAMPERS! N i M H M h h r M ORE. ca ea ea ca ea ca wa r.a ca LJ ra ca ca ca ca ca ca m RgriGuilurai impieinenls g ana venicies t a ra ca ca ca ca ca r.a ca ca ca ra ca r.a a ca ra i ca ca LJ FREE SAMPLE ROOMS thoroughly renovated. Accomodations try us once you win surely come again. DAY. Sought by Many People The Mail Office NEWS OF THE WORLD. Robert J., one of C J. Hamlin's Buf- j falo, N. Y., horses, won a pacing race at Columbus, O., in the remarktXle time of 2:02. An election tragedy occurred near Columbia, S. C, Monday, in which two Democrats and three Populists were wounded. A firedamp explosion in a mine in Wales resulted in the death of forty people. The first ship to sail in the new Japanese-Seattle line is reported to have tailed from Kobe for Seattle last week. Phe is due to arrive about the 30th. Lawrence Peak, a white man, was lold at auction for six months as a vag rant under an old law still in force in Kentucky. Tho highest bid was $12 75, for which Peak's services were secured for six months. The wife of Henry E. Abbey, the well know theatrical manager, has sued for divorce on the grounds of cruelty and desertion. The New York peach market is well supplied this season, fifteen to twenty million baskets being in sight and prices rule low. An epidemic of diptheria is raging in the town of Russell, Mo. A receiver has been appointed for the Howe Pump Works of Indianapolis. Liabilities, $50,000; assets, $125,000 to $150,000. rhillipa S. Abbott, assistant attorney of the Wisconsin Central Railway, was fatally injured at Laggan, B. C, by fall ing over a precipice. Sprague, Smith & Co. of Chicago, wholesale dealers in plate and window glass and furniture manufacturers, have failed. Liabilities, $125,000; assets, much larger. A battle between British troops and Matabeles took place on the 6th of Aug ust in which 700 British troops were at tacked by 7000 natives. The latter were repulsed with several hundred slain. A masked man entered a bank at Jacksonville.'' Fla., and demanded money on penal tv of being burned with vitrioL The cashier got the drop on the robber. and-killed him.' On removing the mask a well known business man was found. The city council of Cripple Creek unanimously suspended Police Judge R. O. Mullen, who is accused of numerous outrages against peaceable citizens. This action was. precipitated by a brutal as sault committed by Mullen upon . J. Kerr, a newspaper correspondent. Mul len had command of the deputy sheriffs during the celebrated strike of 1894. Franklin Seaman, son of Samuel Sea man, a wealthy retired shipowner, and himself long a leader in Brooklyn soci ety, shot himself to death with a rifle. The shooting is believed to have been accidental. Seaman, it is said, was en gaged to be married to Miss Sewall of Maine, niece of the Democratic candi date for Vice-President. Three cloudbursts in succession fell in Richmond, Ind. Whitewater river in the highest for twenty-five years, rising after the first cloudburst five feet with in twenty minutes. iHimage to prop- ertv w tremendous and manv horses and cattle were drowned. Two lives are reported lost. The nearby town of Ilagerstown suffered very heavy loss. In its second report of the season on crops in tirvat liritam the tunes, tak ing 100 per cent as representing the average, snows ine condition oi Hie wheat crop to be 10(1 per cent, that of barley a fraction lower and that of oats at 84 per cent. Sir Charles Tupper has been served with papers protesting his election to Parliament for the Cape Breton district. A freight train ran off the track near Marengo, la. Four tramps were killed. The assets and liabilities of the Col umbus Buggy company are about $900, 000 each. Claud Hoover was hanged in Omaha for the murder of Sam Dubos, his brother-in-law. The Quincy Mining company of Michigan has filed a claim against the state of New York for $7200 for exces sive tax levy. Tho stockholders of tho Columbus, Toledo and Hooking Valley railroad will meet Sept. 8 to vote upon a pro posed issue of $30,000,000 of 4 per cent gold bonds. The United States embassy at Berlin has communicated to the German olliee a message of condolence in the namo of the President and people of the United States at the loss of the German cruiser Itlis, wrecked off tho Shangtung pro montory on July 23d, only ten men being saved oat of tho entire crew. At a picnic of tho Baptist Sunday school near Fort Scott, Kan., 25 persons were poisoned by either icecream or a tainted spring from which they obtained water. It is feared that several of the victims will die. For the third successive day St. Louis led tho entire country, with a tempera ture of 86 degrees at 7 a. m. From then until 4 o'clock tho temperature roso at the rate of one degree or more an hour. At that time the thermometers in the signal service bureau .registered 100 de grees in tho simile, the. highest point of tne aay". 1T15 fecoro of "the street and in exposed places was over 110. The city hospital is overcrowded with prostration cases. Physicians eay the like has not been known for many years. At the morgue bodies were brought in so fast that the superintend ent had hard work keeping track of them, and he was crowded fof" room. At one time there were 27 corpses there waiting identification.- Nine persons of the 43 prostrated by heat at New York died. The decrease in humidity and a brisk breeze brought some relief. The total number of prostrations officially reported Saturday was 38. At Chicago, Aug. 8 was the hottest day, not only the hottest day in 1806, but the hottest day in the history of observations in Chicago. At 2 o'clock p. m. the mer cury had risen.tp 97 degrees. At an executive meeting of the Pants makers' union in New York resolutions ordering a general strike of the union were offered and unanimously adopted. This strike adds over 2000 men to the present 12,000 that are now out on strike in that city. The trial at Brussels of Major Lo thaire, the officer of the Congo Free State who was accused of illegally or dering the execution in Africa of the English trader and ex-missionary Stokes, ended in his acquittal. The cotton fields in Lonoke county, Ark., are burning. Reports from Eng land state that the fire is approaching that town. The citizens organized a bucket brigade to protect residences. A hundred convicts were sent to England to assist in fighting the fire. The Lehigh Coal and Iron Company's mammoth Logan colliery breaker at Centralia, Pa., valued at $90,000, was burned. - Pasadena restaurant men have been arrested for illegally selling liquor. The Nevada Methodist Mission con ference will meet in Carton Aug. 2S, Bishop Fobs presiding. lnewadswortn (ev.) Dispatch re ports the sale of the Jim Blaine mine, in White Horse district, to San Fran cisco parties for $14,000. The San Bernardino county super visors have an ordinance forbidding any person from catching over 50 fish from the mountain streams in a dav. OUR COUNTRY'S HOPE. lUrrdow iDMUIgmea of Billiard JJaU Teas Hfm. . "Man told me 'a morning," said one of our best young men, "that Harri son, Indiana man. been elected judge-" "Don't elect judges," said the well informed best young man, who sucked information daily from two kinds of canes, morning cane and afternoon cane. "President appoints 'em." -What's President?" asked the best young man whose mother is his sole support, and she a widow. "President Harrison; same fellow man told you was 'looted judge." "Harrison President?" echoed the first best young man, in feeble aston ishment "Why where's Cleveland? Thought all time Cleveland President" "Discharged, reckon," said the well informed best young man, and the con vention was thrown into a very mael strom of doubt, perplexity and uneasi ness as this appalling, mystery con fronted them, so suddenly, when the best young man, who wears his watch chain outside of his coat cleared up the matter by explaining: "Why, Cleveland, he's Vice-President now; that's the way it's fixed, Harrison and Cleveland take it turn about" V The best-Informed young man turned green with envy. "Harrison," he said, "used to be judge .onoa before. Long ago, when he was Governor of New York." - , He regained, by this clever stroke, his former reputation of being a walk ing encyclopedia of universal knowl edge. President's place worth much?" asked the best young man, who clerked in a billiard store and was believed to have vast ideas upon the subject of values. The best young man, who wears his watch chain outside his coat was in clined to think that it was $40 aspionth and meals, but he was soornfully 6neored down by the well-informed best young man, who said itdldn'tpay a cent under $700 a year and sleep in the store. Robert J. Burdette, in Brooklyn Eagle. 4' The Warrior and Ills Snaltoox. At some maneuvers of the volunteers in Dumfriesshire the troops were divid ed into two parts, an attacking and a defending force. The former were posted behind a hedge during some nkirmishing, when oue of the defend ers suddenly burst through and was immediately surrounded. "Down with your arms you're my prisoner!" cried tho sergeant "Nae, nae, mou." re turned the intruder, coolly, "I'm nae preesoner." "I toll you we are the enemy," cried the sergeant "I dinna care whether ye're tho enem3 or nae," retorted the intrepid volunteer; "I hae lost ma snuffbox and I'm ne gaun back without it" Amid general laughter the valiant warrior was allowed to look for "ma snuffbox," and when he had found it he departed in peace. N. Y. World. PACIFIC'COAST NEWS. Gibson Bell, a young man recently in jured by the explosion of a soda water tank in a drug store at Colfax, CaL,' had to have his leg amputated below the knee. ...... : James Campbell, a wealthy gentle man from Honolulu, was stopping with his wife at a hotel in San Francisco when be mysteriously disappeared. Af ter two days he turned tip again and tells a strange story. He claims to have been decoyed into an isolated cottage, bound hand and foot to the floor and held without food or drink for two days in an effort to force bim to sign an order for a large sum of money. He was fin ally robbed of what coin he had on his person and released. His alleged tor mentors are known but cannot be found. John C Simonds, a wealthy mining man of San Francisco, died recently and his will leaves all his estate to Mrs. Henrietta Rosengarden, a typewriter, to whom the miner was engaged to be married. Five robbers attacked the Internation al bank at Nogales, Ariz., at noon, and while one man covered the cashier the otherawere looking after the remaining people in the bank. The eye of the cashier's guard was withdrawn from his victim and in an instant the cashier grabbed his gun and fired. A stampede ensued. One robber is reported dead and the president of the bank is wounded. Mrs. Mary S. Albertson of Portland came near being buried alive a few days ago. She was sick and apparently died. A grave had been dug and her body laid in the casket A nurse objected to burial, claiming the woman was not dead, but in a trance. An electric bat tery was applied and from iis effects burial was deferred. After several days had elapsed the woman revived and is rapidly convalescing. Miss Kate Jagoe, the expert huntress of Healdsburg, CaL, was shot and seri ously wounded near the home of her father. Miss Jagoe was returning from a hunt and had sat down under a tree to rest, when an unknown hunter, mis taking her for a deer, took a 6 hot at her. The ball, a Winchester, struck her left leg and passed entirely through, mak ing a painful flesh wound. Miss Jeanette Say re of Napa commit ted suicide by drowning on account of the persecutions of the anonymous letter writers, who accused the young woman to her friends of various crimes. Specimens of asbestos have been found at Winchester, Cal. The placer gravel in Santa Maria val ley, San Diego county, is to be worked by an incorporated company. . One of the Redlands fruit exchanges received $J!9 50 for a carload of Valen cia oranges. The water company of Redlands has won its suit to have the rates" annulled, as fixed by the city trustees. Tho Tostal Telegraph Company had: several telegraph jwles destroyed by lightning in Merced county, Cal., in sv recent storm. The Southern Pacific Company is dis charging all the Chollos employed ons that road through .Arizona and. filling -their places with Indians. The Watsonville, Cal., beet sugar fac tory has opened for the season- with about 110,000 pounds of beets in sight. The Riverside county board of Super visors has removed 11. W. Bordweil from the office of public adnunistator for the reason that he left the state in. May to visit Michigan, and was absent over two-months without obtaining per mission from the supervisors, as the law requires. Warren Taylor was appointed to fill the vacancy. . - A crowd numbering fully 2000 .assem bled on the Btate capitoJ grounds'at Sac ramento to witness Shakespeare's "As You Like It" The play was given as a benefit to the Elks, and the sylvan scene formed by the trees iu the park, lit up by hundreds of incandescent lights, was charming and realistic. Antonio Saeohicia was sentenced at Santa Ana, Cal., to San Quentin for life for the murder of Pete Julian, better known as " Fisherman rete," at New port beach last May, The trouble was over a young Mexican girl, and Pete was butchered iu his cabiu while asleep. Dave Neagle, a reputed bad man of San Francisco, who killed Judge Terry and a half dozen other men in his career, who assaulted Editor Barry a few days ago, was arrested for assault on an ex-employee of the railroad. The Brown church scandal of San Francisco has received a finishing touch in the alleged confession of Mrs. M. F. Tunnell, who disappeared from the scene when the case first broke out. She claims to have acted the role of mutual confidential friend, and de parted to avoid testifying iu the case to screen Brown. She intimates full knowledge of the guilt of Brown, and now tells the story because of his final desertion of Miss Overman. ROYAL Bilking Powder. Highest of all in leavening Strensrth.V Jff1 government Report ' Superior job printing Mail office, '