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OREGON COURIER
A, W. CHKNKV, fubllthar.
OREGON CITY OREGON
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News ot the World.
TKESE TICKS FKOM THE WIRES
Am Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented
In a Condensed Form.
George Haag, 25 years old, killed
himself in San Francisco by taking
stryohnine. He wai a member of a
suicide club.
The First Congregational chnrob,
Bn Franoisoo, of wbioh Rev. C. C.
Brown was pastor, will be sold to the
highest bidder.
The controller of" the onrronoy hasde
lared a dividend of 15 per cent in favor
of the creditors of the insolvent Stock
Growers' National bank, of Miles
City, Mont
At A Ion so province, in Hnelva,
Spain, a miscreant set fire to a build
ing in which a danoe was in progress.
Six persons were bnrned to death, and
many were injured.
A telegram received from Santo Do
mingo says that the president, Ulysses
Heureaux, has had the minister of war,
Castillo, and Governor Estay, of Ma
ooris, shot for conspiracy.
Senator Kyle, from the committee on
forest reservations, has reported favor
ably the bill authorizing the purchase
of toll roads in Yosemite National
Park, and making them free.
Twenty special agents of the general
land office in Washington, D. C, have
been ordered suspended from May 10
to Jane 80, inolusive, on account of an
inadequate appropriation for the our
rent fiscal year.
rne Denver on amber ol oommeroe
authorizes the statement that no oon
tribntions for the Cripple Creek fire
sufferers from other states are needed
The contributions in sight in Colorado
amount to nearly $50,000.
The senate oommittee on public
lands has agreed to press upon the sen
ate steering oommittee consideration of
the bill granting 6 per cent of the pro
coeds of the sale of pnblio lands to the
states where the sales have been or may
be made.
The schooner Viking, wbioh arrived
in San Franoisoo, bropght news of the
probable loss of the schooner Norma,
The N jrma sailed on February 9 with
ten persons aboard, for the South seas,
and should have arrived at its destina
tion six weeks ago.
A dispatch from Valparaiso says:
lne statistics of the general army
staff, whioh have just been issued,
show that the national guard now num
bers throughout Chile 400.000 men.
The figures were made np immediately
after the late enrollment.
A disptoah form Havana says: An
American newspaper man named Ham
ilton, captured on board the Key West
filibustering schooner Competitor, will
be released, but the other persons cap
tared at the same time will be shot, in
spite of protests from Washington.
The New York Herald's correspond
ent in Salvador writes that congress
has approved the treaty of Amalpa
whioh unites the republics of San Sal
vador, Nicaragua and Honduras, which
will henceforth be called by the name
Bepublioa Major de Centro America.
At Port Townsend an unofficial test
of the new revenue launch Scout show
ed her to be able to easily make four
teen to sixteu knots an hour. Revenue
offioers are delighted to think that the
first government boat constructed on
Paget sound is such an eminent success.
It is said, on what is considered good
authority in Washington, that the ex
pert accountant employed by the secre
tary of state has found a shortage of
137,000 in the trust fund aooouut of
V. J. Kieokhoefer, until recently the
disbursing officer of the state depart
ment. The aeoretary of the treasury has ac
cepted offers for the sale of sites for
government buildings as follows: Boise
City, Idaho. Sera M. Jaokson, f 17, 600,
bounded by Seventh and Eighth and
Bannock streets; Helena, Mont., O. F.
Ellis & Co., 130,000, oorner Park ave
nue and Clark strreet
The Herald's correspondent in Guay
aquil!, Ecuador, telegraphs that the
province of Manabi suffered terribly
from earthquakos. In Puerto Viejo
houses were thrown down, many per
sons were buried alive in the ruins and
many injured. The proviuoe of Man
abi is in the northeastern part of Ecua
dor. Almost 80,000 government employes
were brought at one sweep under the
nmteotion of the civil service bv the
v I
iaasanoe of an order by the president,
New York Journal, have been expelled
from Cuba, on the ground that they
caluminated Goneral Weyler, the gov
ernment and army, and attributed. the
insurgents' orimes to the Spanish army.
They have been ordered to leave Cuba
by the first steamer sailing.
Renters and owners of land in the
Umatilla reservation met in Pendleton,
Or. , and organized a vigilance oommit
tee, to shoot down cattle straying upon
grain lands. The movement is caused
by the Indians tearing down fences
and turning stock loose. It is expected
this action will provoke a test law case
to more dearly define to what extent
the Umatilla Indian is a citizen.
J. Simons, the oook on the pilot
boat schooner San Jose, was washed
overboard and lost while the schooner
was crossing the Columbia river bar
bound in. The weather was rongb
outside, and a hearvy swell on the bar
tossed the little schooner about con
siderably, one hnge wave striking ber
midships and turning her over almost
on her beam ends. Simons was stand
ing at the time in the cockpit, and the
receding wave oarried him over the
side. The orew was nnable to render
any asslsatanoe, the unfortunate man
disappearing as soon as be went over
the schooner's side.
It is said that the war costs Spain
$100,000,0000 annually and 10,000 sol
diers every year.
A fight between negroes and Hun
garians at Keystone, W. Va. , resulted
in two negroes und one Hun being
kiled. Wilson Worthington and Geo.
Manard were also injured.
Rear Admiral Kirkland has been or
dered to oommand the Mare Island
navy-yard in place of Captain H. L.
Howison,who is ordered to special duty
in connection with the Oregon.
Carl Albreoht, who killed his wife
in Marshfield, Or., February IB last,
was oonvioted at Empire City
of murder in the first degree. The
jury brought in a verdict alter fifteen
minutes' deliberation.
The railroad station in Florin, Cal.,
was entered by burglars. The burglars
robbed the railroad station, the post
office and Wells-Fargo express office.
whioh are all in the same building. A
small sum of money was taken.
The Northern Paoifio & Manitoba
Terminal ' bondholders have been ad
mitted to the Northern Paoifio reorgan
ization and have accepted 60 ner oent
In new threes and a like amount in pre
ferred stock as a basis of settlement.
Crazed with drink and brooding over
trouble whioh be considered a disgrace
to himself and relatives, Frank Wal
ton, aged 80, threw himself in front of
an engine on the Rock Island track
near Lincoln, Neb., and was ground to
a pulp.
In the Canadian prohibition oase, the
p.-ivy council has deoided that parlia
ment oannot pass a general prohibitory
law, nor can the provinces abolish the
trafno in liquor, but they can pass laws
to regulate it by licenses, unaer reason
Able conditions.
THE FLYING. MACHINE
Successful Tryout of Professor
Langley's Aerodrome.
PRACTICABILITY DEMONSTRATED
Notioe has been given by the Soo line
of its intention to put into effect a
round-trip rate of $U0 from St. Paul
and Minneapolis to Kootenai points.
The tickets will have limits in both di
rections of forty days and final return
limits of ninety days.
The oity of L'Anse, at the head of
Kewana bay, Michigan, has been wiped
ont by fire. The L'Anse company's
lumber mill and nearly all the business
nouses were burned. Two hundred
persons are homeless. The total loss is
$1360,000; insnranoe small.
a aispaton irom ranama says:
Puerto Vijo, the capital of Manabi,
with a population of 10,000, has been
entirely destroyed by two earthquakes.
The shocks were succeeded by floods,
inundaitng the oity. Many lives are
supposed to have been lost.
In a boxing match between John
r-r 1:1. ...
nuuunau ana rut jNoian, wnicn came
off in Farmington, Conn., Houlihan
was knocked out in the eleventh round
and rendered unoonsoious. He was not
resuscitated, and it is belived his in-
uriea will prove fatal.
It is stated in Kansas City that the
firm of Swift & Co. will shut down
their big packing plant at that point
for an indefinite period. Their plant
gives employment to 1,800 men, and in
oapaoity ranks seoond among the pack
ing establishments of Kansas City.
In Rome, N. Y., J. Watson Hil
dreth, the boy trainwrecker, reueievd a
life sentence. His oompauious, Plato
and Hibbard, who pleaded guilty of
manslaughter in the first degree, "were
setenoed to twenty years' imprison
ment on two iudiotments, or for forty
years in all.
William Laverone and Jack Roberts,
Highwaymen, captured a few dtys
since, overpowered the jailer in Ma
uera, ai., neating mm severely over
the bead with a brick. They took his
keys and arms and escaped. They are
desperate characters and it is feared
will kill some of the posse before they
are captured.
News is received of a brutal murder
committed in Oconto. Wis . in a dis
pute between two larmers about a team
of horses, in which a man named Olsen
shot one named Lissot. He then oar
It Good Work Vouched for by Indorse'
meats from Alexander Graham
. Bell, the Noted Inventor. "
Washington, May 14. The first
publio statement regarding the flying
machine experiments oon d noted by
Professor Samuel P. Langley, the sec
retary of the Smithsonian institute, for
some months past, was made today
by Alexander Graham Bell, the well
known inventor, with the authority of
Professor Langley. In it be .says:
"Last Wednesday, May 6,' I wit
nessed a very remarkable experiment
with Professor Langley a aerodrome,
on the Potomao river. Indeed, it seem
ed to me that the experiment was of
snob historical importance that it
should be made publio. I should not
feel at liberty to give an aooouut of all
the details, but the main faota I have
Professor Langley's oonsent for giving
you, and they are as follows:
"The aerodrome, or 'flying ma
chine,' in question was of steel, driven
by a steam engine. It resembled an
enormous bird, soaring in the air with
extreme regularity, in large curves
sweeping steadily upward in a spiral
path, the spirals with a diameter ot per
baps 100 yards, until it reaobed a
height of about 100 feet in the air.
"At the end of a course of about half
a mile, when the steam gave out, the
propellers whioh had movel it stopped
and then, to my surprise, the whole,
instead of tumbling down, settled as
slowly and graoefully as it is possible
for any bird to do, touohed the water
without any damage, and was immed
iately picked out and ready to be tried
agair.
"A second trial was like the first,
except that the maobine went in a
different direotion, moving in one con
tinuous gentle asoent, as it swung
around in circles, like a great soaring
bird. At one time it seemed to be in
danger, as its course carried it to a
neighboring wooded promontory, but
apprehension was immediately allayed,
as it passed twenty-five or thirty feet
above the top of the highest trees there,
and then asoended , still further; : its
steam finally gave but again and it
settled into the water of the river, not
quite a quarter of a mile from the
point where it rose.
"No one oould have witnessed these
experiments without being convinced
that the practicability of mechanical
flight had been demonstrated."
CONGRESSIONAL NEWS.
Condensed Record of the Doings ot the
' Nation's Lawmakers-Meant.
Washington, May 11. All Oregon
and Washington items in the river and
harbor bill went through the senate
without opposition today, including the
appropriation for the boat railway at
The Dulles and the Seattle canal
There will be a fight on both items in
the conference. With the bond resolu
tion out of the way, the senate gave its
attention to the accumulation of minor
measures before going on with the
river and harbor bill. Mitchell of Or
egon gave notioe that when the last ap
propriation bill was passed, he .would
press the joint resolution for election of
senators by the people, not for the sake
of having further Bpeeohes, bat to ac
tually adopt the resolution. Bills
were passsed to establish a classifica
tion division in the United States pat
ent office, and granting permission for
the ereotion of a monument in Wash
ington in honor of Samnel Hahne
mann, and appropriating $4,000 for a
loundatlon.
Washington, May 18. The Califor
nia deep-water harbor project was be
fore the senate most of the day. It is
seldom that a local improvement
arouses so muoh feeling among sena
tors, manifesting itself in a debate of
WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW.
American Federations ot La-
bor Meet at New York.
TWO MILLION HKN REPRESENTED
Propose to Unite All American Labor
Organisations Favor Arbitra
tion of All Difficulties.
New York, May 18. The Herald
this morning says:
A long step toward a permanent
onion between the Ametioan Federa
tions of Labor, whioh together control
about 3,000,000 organized working
men, was taken at last night's meeting
of the Central Labor Union, whioh is
Prevailing Contldence In Batter Things.
O lOUJOt
New York, May 11. R. G. Don A
Co. 's weekly review of trade isys:
"That the exports of $6,860,000 gold
this week have produced no monetary
distrnbanoe is at onoe proof of the
soundness of financial conditions and
of the prevailing confidence in better
things to oome. Much of the hesita
tion at present is doe to temporarily re
duced demand inall industries, and in
iron and steel the power of the new
combination is being tested by refusal
of orders, so that production exceeds
consumption, but consumption exoeeda
new bnying. The general irregularity
of prices and slackness of domand for
finished products do not prevent the
marking up of prioes by combinations,
but are largely due to doubt whether
such prices ss are fixed can b main
tained. Pig-iron is weaker in the
n nnrniv iimui tiniv nnaHunhorf tn
either, but containing anions owing fT' a?d b1bo t Pittsbnrg, and most
allegiance to lmth t finished products are weaker, with a
ceived from Samuel Gompers, president renlrkDly low demand. Minor metals
oi the federation, asking the Central
are inactive, with oopner weak, tin
steady and lead slightly lower, and
Amerioan tin-plates thirty cents below,
foreign.
"Traders in wheat have lifted price
a little, and yet nobody questions the
feeling. Berry began the de- ljaDor- ,0 roIer Gompers' offer to affil- "
, deolaring that this proposed la"a nmon" Ior te, was oarried by ""H" "urD" lu
of $3,000,000 was against "rff .... . 'ttttZ. .v ..... . .u
. i a wiior whi KOHiTM irnm uismnr. . uuu. ...
Labor Union to sink all differences and
join the federation. When the letter
was read, Charles W. Hoadley, of the
Eleotrioal Workers' Union, a Knight
of Labor, warm I v wnrinruid it A mn.
unusuTanTm
personal
bate today
expenditure
f h a nnh in aa. J 1 .
vuv uhuiiu luwim IUU 1U lun U1IYHIO I -..
n d Assembly No. 76. Knights of Labor. time of the Tar, speculation for ad
outvawov v -KJt UUliUUKVVUi Jl iJJTJ I ... . 1 I n n ma n 1 U - . .
HnnfWn Plfl v. j . wnicn OOUtrOlS the streut railway uuuurmuiwns.
auiuu. T GOV OUU VHUOIT I ' 1 L r . 1 . .Tit .
union ol Brooklyn, alleging that Presi- w.u icuiopwi me ouu u per
dent C. L. Rossiter. of th Rrnnvlvn lar&er than last year, while At
Heights trollev rod. rini.KH .. lantio exports, flour inolnded, are for
ments entered into with it h dlanrim. the week 843,067 bushels, against 1,
inating asainst nnlon mn 616,000 a year ago. After a fall to
The district autnmhl nl.in th.t 88 oents, the price rose about 2 cents.
it did not wish to inconvenience the CorD U also a Bnade lweri bnt without
miblio bv another erriba .mi .kai a definite reason
that the members of the Central Labor
Union patronize the rival loads.
Caffery
took the ground that the appropriation
should not be made at present. Frye,
chairman of the oommeroe oommittee,
replied to the strictures upon the prop
osition, and vehemently characterized
the criticism of Huntington as "savor
ing of the slogan of the sand-lots."
Washington, May 14. The animated
contest whioh has proceeded for the last
four days in the senate over the deep
water harbor on the southern coast of
California was brought to a close today
by a compromise between the conflict
ing interests. The issue has been be
tween the ports of Santa Monioa, the
terminus of the Southern Paoifio, and
Kallwar Kmployes Convene.
St Louis, May 13. One of the most
important meetings of railway em
ployes ever held took place at the head
quarters of the Order of Railway Con
rirtnrnH rtn f . nnAt -....J.- T i.
Sin D.n u l ii. j i. iL - ""V,,",D bmooi veaioruur. it
"JO "HIOHIJ UIKCU UY tlUB on.onntJ W1 .11 1
.. i Mo, uiuLucruuuuH. in mac. rney
the oommeroe oommittee. finally v. nj t ' "Z
ho,mnnlJ .1,. Jiff u' i " " lUMJrilHHOOa., 8B (OB
Z?::! membership of each includes men em.
ployed on lines in Canada and Mexico.
"Failures for the week have been
238 in the United States, against 227
last year, and 24 in Canada, against 84
last year."
MOBBED AT PUERTO BARRIOS
ried the body to a brush nile and set
it on fire. A deputy sheriff arrested
Olsen and had him handcuffed by one
hand, but by a desperate effort the man
s:aped and hid in the woods.
As an indication of the unprecedent
ed mining activity in the state of
Washington, the reoords in the office
Of the storetarv of stata at (llimni.
mat mo raws uuarpcu uu. i.ir iu snow toat mere nave been filed for reo-
them, considering the risks involved, ord ln the last three months articles for
The opinion is expressea tnai tnis ad- eighty-three mining corporations.
Tanoe in freights may check the present These, in connection with others,
outward movement of gold. have netted to the state an amount for
James Creelman, correspondent of recording fees little short of the rui
the New Yorkk World, and Frederick Ding expenses of the secretary of state's
W. Lawrenoe, correspondent of the office for the same time.
making a general revision of the civil
ervioe rales. The order is the most
important since the inauguration of the
system more than a decade ago. It
takes effect immediately.
All of the trans-Atlantic steamship
lines have advanoed the rate on gold
from 1-83 to 6 83. For some time past
the companies have held the opinion
An American Lynched for Kllllnf a
Train Dispatcher.
Memphis, May 14 Letters were re
ceived in this oity four days ago an
nouncing the hanging of Euroepe
Adrian Harper Dewitt, of this oity, by
a mob at Puerto Barrois, Guatemala.
They were forwarded by W. J. C.arke,
who failed to give any details. Clarke
was located at Montgomery, Ala. , last
night. His story of the affair is as follows:
"I was ready to return to the states,
and the afternoon of April 28 1 went to
the wharf to see abont a passage to New
Orleans or Mobile. The Breakwater
had just landed and Dewitt came
ashore. He went with me to my lodg
ing house and we spent the night to
gether. Next day we went to the tele'
graph office, and while there Dewitt be
came involved in a quarrel with Mo
Namara, a train dispatcher on theFer
ro Carril del Norte railroad. MoNa
mara struck him a severe blow in the
face. I helped Dewitt up and took him
to the lodging-house, where he ohanced
his olothing. He told me he would
oall MoNamara to account Later in
the day we returned to the telegraph
office and the quarrel was renewed
Dewitt caught MoNamara by the oollar
and drawing his pistol shot him
through the head, killing him in
stantly.
"Dewitt surrendered himself to the
authorities. Shortly afterward a crowd
of Americans, mostly mechanics,
gathered for the purpose of taking the
law in their own hands. They made a
successful attack on the jail. Several
guards were killed and Dewitt was
taken out and hanged."
Dewitt was related to the Harpers,
publishers of New York; he has an
aunt of that name living in Washing
ton, and was a oivil and mechanical
engineer of national reputation.
POST EXCHANGES.
Right of Government to Maintain Them
Without Interference,
Omaha, May 11. Jndge Sbiras, of
the federal court, today passed upon
the habeas corpus cases at Fort Robin
son, In which Lieutenant Langdon and
Sergeant Braden had been held under
state authority for selling liquor with
out license as offloials in oharge of the
post exchange. The opinion of Judge
Sbiras was a comprehensive and elabor
ate statement of law pertaining to mil
itary reservations in gent ral through
out the United States. It cxhanstively
reviewed all the authorities. He up
held in the opinion a complete and
absolute jurisdiction of the general gov
ernment over the military reservation
in quetsion, and, farther, that the
J .. fc t. J 1 .
passed by the flfty-second congress, the out was earned with only two or three ZTZtoJ ta Honor
members of subsequent congresses re- dissenting votes. The officers of the )SliiSiZf
OHivtHi mi mi iiHT mnnrn tai ninrir hiw orann itviirn m Ka a4 i
. - ww". f" v I B'"" wsjw v wiD pa a U1UC1 0 XUJJrCBOUv I Qjy
uui,u6 oosDiuAio. xuuajr buo uruuu- ou no iua iuetiuu&f were auiflonzea ana Tk.-. 0fna u .ju.
sition to extend this allowance to mem- instructed to formulate a plan te Ltorarttt
ben during the recesses of congress mg the six under a general council. exoh witW intnrf " nV
came up in tne lorm of the Hartman similar to the governing bodv of the
reBoiutiun, adversely reported from the Federation of Labor. The convention
oommittee on aocounts. It occasioned adopted resolutions favoring arbitra-
some very aeep aenate. It had the tion and aDDeals from ifeniainna nf the
federal oourts, after which the conven
tion adjourned sine die.
the determination as between Santa
Monioa and San Pedro to a commis
sion, to consist of three oivil engineers,
naval officer and an officer of the
coast geodetio survey. The compromise
was accepted by the California sena
tors, and was unanimously passed.
House,
Washington.May 11. The members
of the house voted themselves $100
per month for olerk hire during the re
cesses of congress. Under a resolution
Ihere were some 600 present. The
chief result of the convention was the
i d iption of a resolution to form a fed'
eration of the six orders named. Every
speaker favored the federation and ev
ery man present voted for it The only
ainerence of opinion was on the ques.
tion of admitting the American Kail
way Union. As first submitted, the
proposition included Eugene V. Debs'
irder, but an amendment to strike it
exchanges without interference in any
manner by state authorities.
support of Cannon, obairman of the
appropriations oommittee, bnt was op
posed Dy Dingley, the floor leader of
the majority. Aldrioh said it would
involve an additional expenditure of
$316,000 per annum. The resolution
was amended so as to except members
who are ohairmen of committees, hav
ing annual olerks, and
was pased, 130 to 108.
Washington, May
SOURCE OF THE. MISSOURI
It Is Discovered by a Minnesota Geo
grapher.
St Paul, May 13 Colonel J. V,
as amended Brower. Minnesota's state geographer.
nas made tne sensational discovery that
13. The session tne source ot the Missouri river is not
Omaha Flooded.
Omaha, May 14. A cloudburst in
the vioinity of Omaha occurred late
this evening, and a deluge of water
was the result The streets of the oity
were running several inches deep for
two hours, and all low places were
flooded. Tbe downpour covered the
state during the afternoon. Tbe dam
age in the city was considerable. There
are rumors here of a disastrous cyclone
in the interior of the state.
of the house today was almost entirely Red Rook lake, Montana, as previously
devoted to the consideration of Distriot stated. Colonel Brower has explored
Columbia business. Bills were passed the whole region of the upper Missouri
to authorize the seoretary of the tress- ad today made public the result of his
ury to detail revenue cutters to en- discoveries. He says the longest upper
loroo regulations at regattas; to grant oranoh ot the Missouri, does not flow
the Denver, Cripple Creek & South- through the lower Red Rock lake in
western railroad a right of way through Montana, but comes from a hole in the
the South Platte and Plum creek forest mountains, voloanio in its oharaoter, at
reservations; to grant pipe line rights tne summit of the Hooky mountains,
of way over tbe publio domain in Colo- west of Helery's lake, Idaho, and at a
rado and Montana; to grant the Flag- point bordering the boundary between
staff dz Canyon railroad right of way that state and Montana. The minia'
through the Grand canyon, and to ex- tore river, at its commencement, striv-
tend the charter of tbe Dennison & iDR to secure existence from the inner
Northern railroad. A preliminary oon- walls of the surrounding voloanio vents,
lerenoe report on the Indian appropria- near perpetual snowbanks, has by its
tion mn was agreed to, and the title of eroding oapaoity out its way ont from
Mr. Maddox, of Georgia, to his seat that rugged and precipitous mountain
was confirmed. uplift of enoromus size until a solid
Washington, May 14. The house to- rck of mountain has been severed in
day entered npon the contested eleotlon twain, a oanoyn formed and assuming
oase of Rinker vs. Downing, from the the proportions of a river, from the
sum nunois District, rne aenate was nowage or innuraera Die creeks, coming shipping failities which would be
very spirited. Moody joined with the In the side, reaohea tbe valleys be afforded by tbe canaL At present all
Democrats in asking the adoption of a low flowing into and through nDDer coal used on the Pnnifln nnast ha
resolution ior an omoial recount of the ea Kock lake, twenty miles from its stated, is mined in Australia, Janan
KaI In.. In "t 1. . T . I J il .. . . 1 I .... .. '
ana Vancouver island. He predicted
Postal Card Duns.
Chicago, May 11. Untied States
Judge Grossoup and the present federal
grand jury view "postal card dun"
cases alike. At the last term of the
district court, the former advised As
sistant District Attorney Rosenthal to
use discretion in the proseontion of per
sons who unwittingly, and in many
cases on acoount of poverty, had offend
ed against tbe statute inhibiting postal
cards whioh bear written or printed
matter reflecting discredit on the re
cipient Yesterady two more cases of
the same sort were brought before the
grand jury and that body was prompt
in throwing them out.
Judge Grossoup says that if a man .
simply asks for what is due him he
commits no offense. It is further stat
ed that tbe statute in question is in
voked chiefly by debtors who are desir
ous of swindling or getting revenege
upon those they owe and that the ohief
sufferers are the poor and ignorant
The Nicaragua Canal.
Washington, May 11. Governor
MoCorkle, of . West Virginia, appeared
before the house oommittee on oom
meroe today to advocate the construc
tion of the Nicaragua canal. He spoke
in behalf of the coal interests in bis
own and adjacent states, declaring that
that section would be able to control
the ooal markets of the Paoifio coast.
of North and South Amerioa, with the
ballots in dispute. Cook and Leonard source in the mountains, thence west.
spoke for the contestants today and wardly, northerly and northeasterly.
Bartlett and Moody for the contestee. Pa8t Red Butte and Beaver Head rook
Before the case was brought np Wheel- to Three Fork, thence to the Mississip
er was taken to task for abusing the pi nd thence to the Gnlf of Mexico.
privileges of printing in the Reoord, through and past thirteen states.a dis-
and some extensive interpolations in a tance of 4,221.
reoent speech of his were expunged from The Ked cross m Armenia
the permanent reoord by a vote of 176 Congtantinnnlfl i s ti, . t
tr. 1 AA 1 V.J: . j
"". vuouicuco to toe of the agents of the American
, Ul ,uo wy ""a means Cross Society, under the
uuuiuii.tct), Ko notice mat ne WOUW Mina Clara Rartnn u.
call np the "free alcohol bill" at the
first oppportunity.
Sunday Shaving I'pheld.
Springfield, May 14. Tbe supreme
court today rendered a decision hold
ing the barber shop Sunday law uncon
stitutional, as class legislation operat
ing against tbe receipts of tbe owners
which are const rued as property.
The Hollers Xipluried.
Vioksburg, Miss., May 13. The
boiler of tbe large towboat Harrv
Brown exploded twenty-five miles be
low this oity at 11:30 last night, and
in less than one minute she sank ont of formed here, and will be placed at the
sight Eleven persons, all white were disposal of Ira Hurris, for the work in
killed. When tbe explosion ooourred the Marasb and Zeitoun districts. where
tbe towboat Brown broke in two. Of typhus fever and dsyenterr are rasino-
Red
direction of
president, is
mi
very puocessiui. iney nave Keen re
lieving a very great deal of distress by
distributing seeds and tools, especially
in tne tiarpoot distriot, where Dr. J.
D. Hubbell's party has been urged to
make a lengthy stay.
A Red Cros medical corns is beinir
.
FItc Officers Were Killed.
Algiers, May IS. A train loaded
with troops for Madagascar collided
yesterday between Adela and Vesonlbei
man with another train. Five officers
were killed, and three officers and
thirty soldiers and the crew of tbe
train were injured.
tne crew ot ioriy-two men, tnree are
here dead, eight missing, and the cap
tain and four others badly injured.
Many were slightly hnrt
Holla Convicted.
Omaha, Neb., May 13. Shortly be
fore noon the jury in the case of Henry Waa
conn, tne oeianiting city treasurer,
returned a verdict of guilty rn very
count, me amount or tne d al stion
in the finding aggregates $105,ovO.
By vote of 435 to 98, the Methodist
general conference, in session in Cleve
land, O., decided tbe four women dele
gates might retain their seats. This
does not mean tbst the women have
won a complete victory. The decision
tbe result of a oomoromiie. and
with the understanding that it should
not prejudice the claims ot women in
the future or establish a precedent for
future conferences to follow.
that with the advancement of the Jap
anese they would monopolise the coal
business of tbe coast unless tbe canal
should be built, when the freight rates
would enable West Virginia to under
sell tbe Japanese.
Civil Service List Kztended.
Washington, May 11. The presi
dent has issued an order exetnding the
civil servioe rules to the interstate oom
meroe commission. This brings all
offices in the commission here and out
side of Washington in tbe classified
service, except the chief executive of
fices requiring presidential nomination
and confirmation by the senate. This
order makes a total of about 86,900
government positions now included in
the oivil service.
To Force a right.
New York.May 13. A World snecial
from Havana says 6.000 volunteers are
to be sent to the trocha to relieve reira.
. ... "
tars needed to operste against Macho.
Ten siege guns have been sent to the
trocha. Weyler is anxions to force a
general engagement in Pinar del Rio be
fore tbe heavy rain set in. It is esti
mated that he has now about 60.000
troops in Pinar del Rio. Maoeo's
forces is a"" nn
There is tuiy one sodden
among woman to eighty among
death