OREGON CITY COURIER-HERALD, FRIDAY, MAY 10, 1901 SUMMONS. Ia the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon , lor he County of Clackamas. Hannah C. Shepherd, Plaintiff, vs Walter 8. Shepherd Defendant. To Walter 8. Shenberd, Defendant: Iu the name of the State of Oregon you are hereby required to appear and answe r to the complaint filed against you In the above entitled suit on or before the 11th day of May, 1901, that fcgnie the time .prescribed In the order for pub lication of this summonB the date of the first publication of this summons being on the 20th day of March, 1901; and if you fall to so appear and answer, the plaintiff herein will apply to the said court for the relief prayed for iu the com plaint: to-wit, a decree dissolving the marriage contract now existing between you and the plaintiff, and for such other relief prayed for in said complaint. This summons Is, published by order of the Hon. T. F. Eyan, Judge of the County Court, of the State of Oregon, for Clackamas County, dated and entered on the 26th day of March, 1901. C. H. DYE, attorney for Plaintiff. SUMMONS. In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, for the County of Clackamas. W. W. Smith, plaintiff, f vs. Anr ie E. Smith, defendant. To Annie E. Smlib, said defendant. In the n ame of the Stale of Oregon, you are hereby required to appear and answer thecom p'alnt filed against you In the above entitled suit on or before the 28th day of June, 1901, that being the last day prescribed in the order of publication of this summons, and if you fail to appear and answer said complaint, the plaintiff will apply to the Court for the relief prayed for therein, to-wit: A dissolution of the bondB of matrimony between you ind the plain tiff. This summons is published by order of the Hon, Thomas A. McBride, Judge of the 6th Ju dicial district of the state of Oregon, for the county of Clackamas, made and entered on the 8lh day of May, 1901, and the first publication be ing the 10th day of May, 1901 . U'REN 4 SCUUEBE Ii, , Attorneys for Plain tiff. SUMMONS. In the circuit court of the state of Oregon for the county of Clackamas. ' " Eliza Beebs, Flalnun, vs. Hugo Beebs, Defendant To Hugo Keebs, said defendant . In the name of the State of Oregon, you aie hereby required to appear and answer the com. plaint filed against you in the above entitled suit or before the 81st day of May, 1901, and if you fall to so answer, for want thereof the plaintiff will apply to the above entitled oourt for a decree forever dissolving the bonds of matrimony now existing between the plaintiff and defendant,' and for such other relief as shall seem meet ana proper. lhls summons Is ordered published in the Ore gon City Courier-Herald for the period of six weeks from date of first publication thereof. such order being made by the Hon. T. A. McBride, Juda-e of the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon, for the County of Clackamas, on the 23rd day of April, 1901. A. B. MENDENHALL, Attorney for Plaintiff. First publication Iprll 20th, 1901. , Timber Land, Act June 8, 1879. NOTICE FOR PUBLICATION , United States Lawd Ornoi. Oregon City, Oregon, April 26, 1901, Notice Is hereby given that In compliance with the provisions ot the act of Congress of June t, 1878. entitled "An act for the sale of timber lands In the States ot California, Oregon, Nevada, and Washington Territory," as extended to all the publio land states by act of August 4, 1892, George L. Curry, of Portland, county of Multnomah, (tale of Oregon, has this day filed in this office hl sworn statement No. 5395, for the purchase of the v. w. W of S. K. M and 8. W. ot B. E. a ot section No. 12 In township 4; south, range 4 east, and will offer proof to show that the land sought Is more valuable for its timber or atone than for anlcnluiral ourposes, and to establish his claim to said land before the Register and Receiver of this effiee at Oregon City, Oregon, on Saturday, the 20'.b day of July, 1901. Ha names as witnesses: 3. C. Welch, E. J Haleht. C. P.Haight H. Wlberg, all of Portland Any and all persons claiming adversely the above-described lands are requested to me tneir claims In this office un or before said 20th day of July, 1901. CHARLES B. MOORE3, Register. ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed by the Hon. Thos. F. Ryan, county Judge of Clackamas County, Oregon, as administrator of the estate of Martha J . suaw. deceased. All persons having claims against the said state are hereby notified to present their claims to the undersigned at the law office of C. V D. C. Latourette, my attorneys, in Oregon City Oregon, within six mouths from this date R. L. Shaw, Administrator aforesaid. Dated, April 17, 1901. NOTICE TO CREDITORS. Notice Is hereby given that the undersigned has been duly appoinied by the County Cou rt of the State of Oregon, for the County of Clacka mas, executrix of the estate of Philip Wolf, de ceased. All persons having claims against said estate are hereby required to present the same to toy attorneys, U'Ren & Schuebel. properly veri fied, as toy law required, at Oregon City, Oregon, Within six months frrm the date hereof. MARGERETHA WOLF, . Executrix of the estate of Philip Wolf, deceased. Datd this Sth day of April, 191 ADMINISTRATOR'S NOTICE. Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been duly appointed by the County Court of Clackamas County, Oregon, administrator of the estate of Wm. SUudinger, deceased. All persons ha vine claims against said estate are notified to present such claims to me duly verified at Clack amas. Oregon, within six month! from date of this notice. 1. W. 8TACDINGER. Administrator as Aforesaid. Dated, April 25, 1901. Continued from page 2. Nouutaln View. Born, May 3, 1901, to the wife of M. Smnlley, a eon, weighing ll'pounds. Miss Curran and her mother are visit ing with Portland friends this week. Henry Henrici expects to leave eoon for Klondike. Mrs. Dolan visited last week with her mother, MrB. Albright. Will Howitt and wife, of Russelville, were visiting relatives here on Sunday. J. K. Graham and wife, of Oarus, spent Friday at the home of J. L. Swaf ford. Sam Francis was severely injured at the mill Wednesday, hut is getting on nicely. Mrs. Nellie Ferrier, of Aberdeen, is spending the week here with relatives. JHarry Swattord, of Salem; visited on Sunday with his uncle, J. L. gwafford. Harvev Hickman is practicing surgery with DrCarll. Air. Lewelling'B daughter is slowly im proving and will be brought home this week. Winter seems to be coming again as the rain is almost cold enough for snow. May 9, Sauna. For sale cheap, a windmill, tank and tower, complete. Apply at this office. , Evergreen. Sunshiny days and dusty roads will soon be a sad leality. The farm work of sawing and planting is nearly-all done in this section. There were about 50 people out to hear Rev. F. W. Parker deliver his lec ture on "Some of the Great Things of the Universe." To eay the least, Rev. Parker is a speaker of rare ability. He bad the attention of the' audience from beginning to end. " F. Taylor had the misfortune to have his knee struck with an ax, but it ienot a serious wound. - - J. J. Yoder was transacting business in Portland last week. Rev. F. W. ParKer was the guest ot A. Yoder and family last Monday. Mrs. Jennie Yoder went to Forest Grove last Friday to visit her mother. Mrs. Laurence Hein, of Elliott Prai rie, was visiting her parent last Bun day. May 7. S3. Liberal. A great deal of coin and potatoes is being planted this spring. Diversified farming is the order of the day among the farmers here. P.M. Graves finished seeding on his upper placa last Saturday. Dan h raves ana J acs: uoage are put ting ud a shingle mill on the VY. H.H Samson place. They expect to be run ning in about thirty days, naving bought, the last bunch of cedar timber on the river. Miss Jennie Akins spent Saturday and Sunday visiting friends near Needy Johnnie, has the bauy learned to piay patty cake There was a show at Liberal last Fri day evening and the elite of Liberal turned out en masse. The show was excellent but some of the scenes among the audience were more interesting than those on the tanvas. John Akins, our blacksmith, was out Tuesday evening taking a spin in his new cart. Emily Case left Tuesday for Medino, Ohio, to visit her father and brothers, whom she has not seen lor 12 years. Her many friends wish her a safe jour ney. A. J. Maville and family went to Ore gon City Monday. Frank Bruner leaves Tuesday on a business trip to Prineville. Misses Yerdie Maville and brama Case were visiting Mrs. Wright and Miss Cochran last Sunday. Clarence Look leaves today lor east ern Oregon. Leonard Heint, ol Liberal, owns five head of Red Polled cattle. They are thoroughbreds and one, a bull 13 months old, weighs 800 pounds. Only one other man in this county, George Lazelle, of New Era, owns any of the Red Polled cattle. Mr. Heinz ia one of the foremost stock men in this section . Spring grain is making rapid growth The wheat apbisr have made their ap pearance on the fall wheat. May 8. SYLVIA Meadowbrook. The weather has been quite pleasant for a few days. A. L. Larking recently purchased i fine horse. He must be going into bus iness. Mi. Saver and wife and Miss.Hiegins are out on the farm for a couple of weeks' eniovment. D. H. Looney and Mrs, Kay made a flving trio to Oregon City Monday. Mrs. V. a. looney is quite sick at me present writing. Mr. and Mr". Jasper Trullinger at tended quarterly meeting atScotts Mills last Sunday. A L. Larkins and family were visit ing Mr. Cooper's folks Sunday. Giles Looney called on Mrs. Amanda Looney a few days ago. Frank Manning sheared Mr. Holman's sheep last week. William Baker is moving to Mi k creek again. Lou Pendleton was in town Monday. School is progressing nicelv, with Miss Gleason as teacher. May 7. Topby. Pie se send name if stationery is wanted. Ed. Springwater, Jack Marrs has sold his place of 90 acres to James Guttridge for $1800. There are other farms for Bale in this vicinity. If homeReekers will call on A. M. Sbibley he will show them some cheap and desi'able property. A. Lacey has begun sawing lumbei for the plank road from Springwater to Lo gan. P.orn, to wife of J. W. Marrs. a daugh ter. Elder J. Lewellen and wife started on the 6th to attend the Presbyterian Gen eral Assembly, which will be held in Philadelphia. Several head of mutton sheep and beef cattle have been sold from this neigh borhood this spring. The Grange is becoming more inter esting as new members are being taken in ft almost every meeting. Miss Ora Lewellealias returned home. Her school closed at Currinsville last Friday. May 7. 1901. Maple Lane. Mrs. Stodinger, of Harmony, visited her sister, Mrs. John Davies,several days last week. It is thought that pome of the early fruit is damaged by frost in some locali ties, but I think we have escaped with out any serious damage. We can now hear the school bell ring from the Maple Lane school house, which is a pleasure to all. Mrs. H. A. Batiin and sister, Miss Ethel Clark, of Harmony, took a spin on their wheels Monday and spent the day Willi Miss Elsie Gtbbs, of this place. Mis. Walton called on Mrs. Gihbs Tuesday afternoon. Corporal J. M. Myers was out on drees parade a few days ago. John Gaffney drove his trotting horse down to Harmony Saturday to visit his parents. Hairy Shelly took a spin on his bicy cle the other evening. Miss Annie Mautz spent Monday night with friends in town, Mr. Gerber is able to be about again. Mr. Robbs and wife entertained rela tives from town the first of the week. Miss Bailey and her brother, Arthur, visited friends in town Sunday. Frank Shannon called at Mr. Gtbbs' home Sunday. G. F. Gibbs attended the Grange at Clurkes Saturday. Mr. Baumann had the mistortune to sprain his ankle quite badly, which is causing him considerable trouble. Anna Shortledge visited at toe county seat Tuesday. ' : Mrs. Roman, or Mount Pleasant, was the guest of her daughter, Mrs. Gerber, Wednesday. . Thomas Gibbs recently purchased what will make a tine trotting horse. . Pansy Blossom. : Needy. . Mr. Fish is quite ill at the home of his daughter, Mrs. R. Garretts. Mr. and Mrs. Uoleman Marts were seen on our streets Friday. . Mr. and Mrs. Gib JNoe are moving to John Bartle's place, near where Mr. Noe is teaching. Miss Goldsmith, of your city, is to be in our little berg with a fine line of mil linery Thursday and Friday. Vern Ransdell returned to bis home in Antelope Saturday. Miss Sherd, of Macksdurg, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Schwauber. . Miss Gertrude Noblitt and friend were visiting Needy friends Sunday. Mrs. C. C. Molson went to Portland Sunday. - Mis May Price was given a surprise by ber school mates on her 14th birth- 'fHed, Wednesday, May 1, 1901, Pheba Miller, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Issac Miller, aged 18 years, 0 months and 10 days. May 7. 8. Molalla. Molalla is moving along in the same old groove. By the way, Molalla has a steam laundry, and is getting there too. There is no excuse now for the good housewives in this vicinity of breaking their backs over the wash tub when they can have their washing done so cheaply. The proprietor, Mr. Newton, hasn't all of his machinery up yet, but he has enouch in position to do washing. U. W.Kobbinsis bunding a Darn lor G. Feirer. John K. Dickey is making his farewell visit to friends and relatives before start ing to Washington. It is said by those.tbat ought to know, that W. H. ingle, our present r jad su pervisor, hag made in the southern part of this district the best piece of road that money and labor considered that has ever been done under the new sys tem. O. Robbins and W. A. Shaver will drive their cattle to the mountains this week. Mr. Robbins expects to spend the summer in the mountains. He will stav at the Henry Russell place now owned by W. A. Shaver. If thire wasn't any one to look after tbe things there would be nothing out me land leit. Last fall someone tore the side out of tbe barn and took out part of the h y and left the barn open do that stock could so in, and all that remained of between three ana four tons ot bay were destroyed. This winter someone broke into the house and outbuildings. There seems to be a certain class of people that think when they are in'the mountains thev are licensed to do lust as they please. They take, use and destroy other people s property with Impunity Such has been the ct.se in that certain part of the mountains for years past. The owners let It go, simply be cause they were good natured ana diS' liked to take the advantage of the law but should that certain class visit the forks of the Molalla this season and in dulge in their usual proceedure there will he a surprise in store for them Last season there seemed to be an un usual amount of mischief done in that section. Miss Lilly ol Corvallis, ts visiting her sister, Mrs. O. W. Robbins. Bob Bfghy is preparing to move to the mountains to look after things at the up per bee yard. Peter Andersin and wife through here recently on their way to Klondike. , I guess our bear must have summed that Teddy might possibly come with the McKinley crowd so he thought it best to take a walk. May 8th. X.Y.Z. Beaver Creek. An ice cream social will be given by fie Presbyterian church of Beaver Creek, on Friday, May 24, at the home of Mrs. Jane Edwards. All are tordially in vited to attend. Notice to Creditors. Notice is hereby given that on the27lh day of April, l'.IOl, D. M. Klemsen, of Oregon City, Oregon, was duly adjudi cated bankrupt; and that the first meet ing of his creditors will be hell at rdom COO, Chamber of Commerce Building, Portland, Oregon, on the 15th day of May, 1901, at 10 o'clock, a. m., at which time the said creditors may attend, prove their claims, appoint a trustee, examine the bankrupt and transact such other business as may properly come be fore said meeting. Alex. Sweek, Referee in Bankruptcy. U'Ren k Schuebel, Attorneys for Petitioner. Dated, Portland, Ore., May 1, 1901. g J. -d VV C VSX X X .JUi VV I 41 JA.-V I ' Friday, May 3. Chicago capitalists will invest millions in building railroads, developing silver, iron and coal-mines and establishing bonded warehouses in the republic of Mexico. The coal miners of England threaten to strike, as a protest against the gov ernment's proposed duty on coal. If they do they will oeat the government. A British eleettic company has order ed for its new plant several million dol lars' worth of machinery in this country. The Morgan combine has for $8,000,000 secured control of the coal industry of the Hocking and Sunday Creek valleys, iu Ohio. King Leopold, of Belgium will build electric railways from Brussels to Ant werp, to Ostend and to Paris. Russia has virtually arranged with France for loans amounting to 600,000, 000 francs. At Philadelphia, three negroes will be executed for the murder of Roy Wilson White. At St. Paul, Minn.,WiHiamR)senfield drowned himself and four children. Starvation and typhus prevail among the people of Bessarabia, Russia. The government of Manitoba proposes to lease the railroads within the prud ence for 999 years, in order to control passenger and freight tariff. The retail grocers of St. Joseph, Mo., have combined and will buy together in carload lots. More English steamship companies are willing t sell out to J. P. Morgan, in order that they may build new and better vessels. A normal school of one minth will begin at Newport, Ore., July 17. The Tacoraa Smelting Co. will spend 250,000 in enlarging its plant. The Gray's Harbor. Wash., Oil Co. has sold $100,000 of stock and will bore for oil at Peterson's Point. The daughter of W. B. Matthews of Prosser, Wash., five years old, perished while out alone on the plains, naving got lost while hunting cattle. A New York company will build a $1,500,000 gas plant at the city of Mexico Ed son Bradley, president of Ky. Dis tillers' and Warehouse Co., has cornered 20,000,000 gallons of whisky, and a whis ky famine is pending. One-third of Canada. 1.250,000 square miles, has never been explored . During tbe next five years the Dominion gov ernment will build several thousand miles of railroad into this wilderness. The hard times have produced a min isterial crisis in Japan. On account of their opposition to his canal, the German kaiser has dismissed some of the members of bis cabinet, Phillips, the Cbicagoan who has a cor ner on corn, made a profit today of $100,- 000 on the sale of 600,000 bushels. A survey is being made for a railroad from Washougalon the Columbia to the Washougal mining district, where Port land capitalists own thousands of acres of valuable mineral lands. A Copenhagen steamship company will build six 12,000 ton steamers for the United States trade. The mill owners of North Carolina have pledged that they will not work children under 10 years of age over 66 hours a week. The bitterness of feeling between Cath olics and Lutherans in numerous impor tan t districts of Germany threatens to become a danger to tbe empire. War Secret ry Broderlck's new army scheme is regarded as a hopeless failure in London,. but no one oners a better one. Poultney Bigelow.the American writer and lecturer, expressed the opinion on his return to London, that, on account of the all-pervading greed that exists in the United States, a revolution will take place there. If John Hopkins university will beg $100,000,000,Henry Walters of Baltimore promises to give it another hundred million. English stockholder in the Manila railroad ask the United States for $2, 300,000 damage inflicted on it during the Philippine war. A French writer shows that among ar my and navy men 199 in every 100,000 become hopeless lunatics, but among mechanics only o in 100,000. '. Saturday, May 4. Forty thousand Italian emigrants will come to the United States this month Before the Colorado Athletic Associa' tion, Denver, last night, Sailor Tom Shaikev put out "Big Fred" Russell, th California heavy-weight,in fourth round At Denver, Hugh Masterson.a soldier shot a bartender, and was himself killed by three policemen. In a (ferryboat wreck on the river Dnieper, near Katchkarovka, almost hundred mothers with their babies were drowned. Ttiey were returning from the evening milking. Near Little Current, Out. (Can.), three persons were drowned by the sinking, at sea, ol the tug lecumseli. England's shipyards launched 100,000 less tonnage last year than In 1899 A $70,000,000 ship combination ha been formed in New York. At Bangor, a $200,000 sawml I was de stroyed by fire. . At Rhodesia, La.,'Felt.Brigman, a ne gro, wan lynched for assaulting a 6 year old colored girl, and at Alden Bridge Grant Johnson, colored, was lvnched for killing a negro. ' Window glass will oe advanced in price. The London Daily Exprexs asserts con trol of the European canals u to he part i J. P. Morgan s plan to secure delivery of steel into the heart of Lurope at th smallest possible expense. Missionary Oweu, of the London mi tion at Pekln, says the provinces are i a deplorable state and predicts that afte withdrawal of the troops conditions will be worse man before. At DesMoines, Iowa, Mrs.Geo.Rank! brained her 13-year-old daughter with a natctiet. . A Pretoria correspondent of the Lon don Standard writes that if it be true of tbe mass of the Boers still in arms some ( 1 20,000 or more that . they intend to fight to the end, and there is every rea son for believing that it is, the fooner the reinforcements are here the better ; the task that faces Lord Kitchemr Is as heavy as possible to conceive. 'I tell you," says Mark Hanna, "J.P. Morgan is a great man." . The fire which started in Jacksonville, la., yesterday, destroyed proporty to the value of $10,000,000 "and made 10,000 people homeless. The burned district is 13 blocks wide and two miles long; 148 blocks of the city have been laid waste. How many lives wete lost can not be determined. All the churches have been ' burned. The strong wind made the fire uncontrollable as soon as it had obtained headway, embers and sparks flying a distance of several blocks. Brigadier-General Bell, just arrived in Washington from the Philippines, says that in the last two years one-sixth of the population of the islands has died of the dengue fever or been killed in battle E. B. McElroy, Oregon state school superintendent for 12 years, died at Eu gene early this morning aged 62 years. Sunday, May 5. At Richfield, Utah, Martin Whinfler was drawn into the cogs of the big gear wheels in the mill of the Annie Laurie mine and killed. General Delarey, the Boer comman der, is annoying the British bv appear ing in the hills about Hartebeestfonlein with about 4500 men. Kitchener reports a few more Boers killed. About 8500 men in the 40 car shops of the Illinois Central Railway system have been given an increase iu wages of 5 per cent nearly $300,000 in a year. Near Richfield Springs, N. Y., Benja min Hoyt shot and killed Mrs. J. 0. Wal lace, because she, though 20 years older than he, would not elope with him the second time, and then old man Wallace killed Hoyt. In a pitched battle at El Paso, Texas, between American and Mexican small boys, Anasticio Pailen, Mexican, aged 9 years, was killed. At Burns, John Burns shot and killed Jamea Wyatt and then served himself in the same way. The Peter Dow Dartv which has ar rived in Dawson from the Tanana coun try reports finding a great mountain of porphvntic gold-bearing quart west of the Tulvana river, pinnacles of which. shooting upward 300 feet, could be seen ur uiiibb glistening in me sun uxes now. Monday, May 6. McKinley has informed Kruger that he will not receive him. At Kapoliya, Hungarv. 15 persons died from the effects of poison put in the wens oy gypsies. The Ameer of Afghanistan has order ed six batteries of Krupp guns. In return for standing in with the' railroads, the members of the U. S. sen ate were allowed to make about K4.000.' 000 last winter by speculating in railroad stock. The administration has decided to re' uce the army in the Philippines to 40.- uuu men. Three persons perished in the flames which destroyed Brunnell'g hotel, Mon treal, Canada. In a fire on Marquette avenue, Chi' cago, seven people were burned to death nd three fatally injured. To sti-m tbe revolutionary movement, several hundred persons have been ar rested in St. Petersburg, The Boers have captured Colonel Den- nison with a patrol oi Bcouts. . Jans will be emoloved in the Grand Ronde beet fields this season. Ten thousand Pennsylvania coat mln era will march to Harrisburg to demand certain laws from the legislature. Tbe Berlin Tageblatt says : "Unquse tionably there is danger ahead for the iron industry in Europe." By the introduction of economic meth ods and adding $1 per ton to the price of coal, J. r. Morgan, J. JJ. Rockefeller ana the Vanderbiits.who control tbe anthra cite coal trust, have decided to add $75,' 000,000 to their prouts. In the last three months securities worth at par $11,500,000,000 have been sold in the New York Stock Exchange Maud Gonne, the Irish Joan of Arc said in her address at Pittstoi that ten years trom now Ireland will be a free and Independent nation. Boon England will be obliged to engage in a war with one of the great powers. Then Ireland will strike the blow. The 63 ships comprising the Leyiand line bought by J, P. Morgan are worth $:i0,000,000. To other steamship lines in which the Morgan combine has oh tained control bring the total value of the consolidation to $100,000,000. In the Sweetwater country, Wyoming the conflict between the cattle and sheep men has beco.ne alarming. I he cattle men have informed the heep men that if they cross a certain line on the range there will be trouble. The sheepmen are about to cross the line and offer $250 lor the arrest of any one who interferes with any sheep man. On the island of St. Helena, Mrs. Gen. Cronje and five of the Boer prisoners have become insane, The women ot France have presented Mrs. Cronje with several thousand do lura. The people of Switzerland have raised 10,000 for a home for destitute Boer women. According to advices received from China bv the state department, 1,000,000 Chinese loi-t their lives by violence or starvation about Pekin and Tien Tsin since the allies came, to which must be added the pillage and destruction over a large area of thickly populated country In Macon county, Mo., eight fire bugs have been arret-ted for arson and swin dling insurance companion. In one sec tion ihey burned 10 schoolhoiif-es, The treasurer of the Cuvahoga Savings Bank, Cleveland, has skipped out and the bank's doors are closed. Mrs. Mary Schilling, of Portland, aged 73 years, committed suicide on Saturday last with a dose of rough on rats. Tuesday, May 7. The measure placing a duty of one shilling a ton on coal passed parliament by a majority of 106. Hon. Fred. Lamb ton, in referring to the coal industry, denounced the government ai "a pack of riotous hounds after a ewe lamb." and proolai ned the right of miners to strike. The Crockers and others uill hnihl in San Francisco a 10-story hotel costing $1,500,000. . Boer forces have aeain dentrnveH tha Delagoa Bay railroad. Commander Krit- zinger recently burned a supply train near Royner. ' Venezuela is in the market for a sup ply of cruisers, torpedoboats and the like. , A $75,000,000 watchmaking syndicate is being formed at Walthaiii, Mass. A $3,500,000 sheet music trust is being formed in Chicago. . The destruction by fire of the Fifleld Tool Factory at Lowell, ' -., caused a loss of $250,000. - Robert Harris of Arcadia. Ore . was drowned in the Snake river while fish ing at Riverside, Idaho. Leigh S. J. Hunt, the Seattle million aire, has formed an American-European syndicate with $15,000,000 capital to operate the concessions vested in Hunt by the Corean government. Robert Rohr, a well to do steamship steward, killed himself atSanFrancisco. ,At Scottsdale, Ariz., Walter Nigh and an Indian were killed by a crazy mail carrier natnad John Rubenstein, Near Millheim.Pa., Jesse P. King kill ed imself and his young w'fe. While Emit Rohr and Ohas. Reis were pretending to nang Aug. uiunck in a brewery yard at Davenport, Iowa, the gear overhead, breaking front the strain, fell and killed them both. A railway collision at Thayer, Iowa, killed the engineer and wounded a num ber of passengers. The 1000 street car employes in Alba ny, Troy, Oohoes, Watervliet and Rens selaer are on a strike. Nearly 2000 Lack- awana railroad employes are on a strike at Scranton, Pa. In St. Louis 700 tile factory operatives are on a strike. The Alaska canneries will consolidate itli a capital of $32,000,000. J P. Morgan and others have formed 83,000.000 real estate comoanv in New York city. The engineers who have investigated the route of the Nicaragua canal, esti mate the canal can be built for 1250.- 000,000. The surviving seamen of the battle ship Maine and the kin of those killed by explosion of the ihip will file claims for $5,000,000. " Lizzie Halladav, of Warwick, N. Y., while crazy killed her soldier husband and now claims the pension of a sol dier's widow. , Wednesday, May 8. In the city election in Baltimore the republicans gained a sweeping victory. One of the Johannesburg mines has started up and 150 stamps are running. Lord Kitchener's military drag-net has captured another 100 Boers. Miss Bonnie was knocked on the head stealthily while gathering mushrooms near Lansing, Kan., assaulted and. caBt into an old well. She crawled out. went home and died. Charles iFrancis Adams, as umnire.' settled the difference between the brick layers and builders of Boston by splitting the difference, thus preventing a Btrixe. It la recognized In Washington that the demand of the Cubans for free trade in sugar with the United States and the opposition to such a step by our own su gar producers, creates a conflict of In terests that the president and congress mast settle, and settle to satisfy Cuba. The Southern Peanut Co.. of Rich mond, Va.,will install in all parts of the woria tu.uuu nicxei-tn-tne-siot machines which will dispense peanuts roasted, boiled in cocoanut oil and salted. According to the London Dallv Mail. Germany is trying to pursuade the mid- European states to form a tariff union against American competition. The labor troubles in Montana have thrown 2700 men out of work at East Helena, Deer Lodge and Bridger. AtTroutdale the steam drill of the Watson Oil Co. is workintr ceaselessly. nlght'and day. J. P. Morgan contemplates the build ing of two passenger steamers de luxe, containing a dairy, a doggery, and other nign-pnced luxuries, tbe fare on which, for the five-day trip across the Atlantic, will be $1000. At Watervliet, N. Y.. a 16-inch gun Is nearing completion that is designed to throw a ball of 2370 pounds 21 miles. The gun weighs 130 tons. At St. Louis, Ida Baare.aged 20, killed her father, Gustavo Baare, because he insulted her mother, and then with the same revolver killed herself. At Augusta, Ga,, a fire destroyed cot ton and buildings worth a quarter of a million of dollars. Much comment has been made In Eu ropean political circles on this remark made by the American General Chaffee in his speech at a smoking concert given at Pekin in the Temple of Heaven by a British general : "I can tell you this that never will you see Americans and Brit ishers facing each other on the field," Jules Siegfried, minister of commerce in France in 1892 and 1893, now in Chi cago, predicts that if tbe American trusts aim to crowd European manufacturers out of their tome markets, the nations of Europe will put prohibitive tariffs on American goods. In a fire in a Lexington avenue, New York, apartment house, two women were burned to duath. On the Hawaiian plantations 6000 Por to Ricans are established and it is ex pected that thousands more will follow. ' Thursday, May 0. Charles W. Foster, of Toledo. O . ex- secretary of the treasury, ia bankrupt: liabilities $747,000. During the furore in Wall street yes terday, Harriman, of the Union Pacific, and the Vanderbilts obuined control of the Northern Pacific and unset tho plans of the Morgan-Hill combine, thus pre venting the consummation of their pur chase of the Biiiluiglon line. The London Times cays thut the fe verich speculation by ,he Americans In inflated railroad st' cks will reault iu a seri'jiH collapse. At Harney, on the morning of the 4th, John Maher shot ami k'lleil Jul.n tV'yutt, and then killed himself. They had oc cupied the NKiim b', an I had been friends. Both were hig'ily respocte 1. J R. N. Pollock, the f.itlve preiidea of the defunct Unvoting B ink of ! . land, Ohio, killed him wlf at Ssattlo. J V