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ATTORNET AT LAW
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tS-Offlce with W. H. Parker.
J. S. HOWARD,
SURVEYOR AND CIVIL ENGINEER.
U. S. Deputy Mineral Surveyor for the State
of Oregon. Postoffice address:
Medford, Oregon.
VM. S. CROWELL,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
Jacksonville, Oregon.
"W. H- PARKER,
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Hamlin Block. Medford. Ore.
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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.
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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.
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