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HILLSB VOL. 2." " "" " IIILLSBOKO, OREGON. THURSDAY, JANUARY 3oTl Evidence ot Steady Growth , and Enterprise. ITEMS OF GENERAL IMTEREST rroni All the Cities ami Town of the I'nclllo Mtate ana Territorial t , Watliliigton, All opera houso ami dunce hull oom biued is to be, eropted at Kalama. Washington has 112 members In her legislature, while the . new Btute of Utuh has sixty-three. A contract has boon signed to build At Everett a saw mill with a capacity of 50,000 feet a day. The Marysville labor exchange has started a depository, by selling shingles and laying in a stock of groceries. Washington's lumber product for 181)5 was the value of $0,800,000 of which $3,000,000 was In Shingles. A four-story brewery with stone foundation is to be erected at Turn- -Kfawir. Its dimouHiona will be 28x1)0 feet. An Iudian on the North beach cap tured ti fine speoimen of the Arctic owl one day lust week. The captain of the schooner Thayer paid f 5 for it. A oheese factory with all the latest machinery is to be ereoted at Daven port, and is expected to1 be ready to commence operations in the spring. A carload of cedar doors has been ordered from Taooma for England. This sample order gives promise of many lurge European shipments. The same firm several mouths ago shipped a, 700 doors to Portland, Me. The state iusuranoe commissioner's report for tho year shows receipts of 14,438. 80 and expenditures of $ 1 , 644. 50 during 181)5; excess of receipts, $3, 803, 80. The secretary of state baa de cided to strictly euforoe the provisions of the law licensing insurauoe agents during the present year. One poiut that was woll brought out at the immigration convention was that the state of Washington is, taken as a whole, a place where farmers to be suooossful do not require large hold ings. It is a state where ten aores Will give an iudustrious man indn- NO. 45. of the Klamath reservation is reported to be very high owing to the whooping coogn epwomio, and the redskins have returned to the aboriginal sweat-house treatment of the disease. One of Polk county's wealthiest land ownerB has bad the fever for some years to engage in raising coffee. He wauted to visit South or Central Amorioa in the interest of this sub. ject, but has at last decided to send to Mexico for coffee trees. i he Polk county tax lew is 14 mills, of which 4 8-10 mills is for the state; 4 2-10 mills for the oouuty and 5 for schools. This is an inorease of mill over last year's rate. The oouuty valuation has been left by the state Doard at 114,077,807. Umatilla county's rate is 18 mills. jaoKson county people may not be expooted to urge the next legislature to aotion in tne matter of reapportion ment, as they will be apt to lose one representative. The oounty assessor's census snows a population of 18,000 wnicn would entitle them, according to . 0 - - me new oeusus to a less representa tion. ine Uomooratio state convention nag been called to meet at Portland. April u. Nominations will be made tor one CUUdidute for nnnirrnaa frnm eHoh congressional distriot. and nan. didatos for such other state and district oraces as may be required under the law. Nominations will also be In ordor for four candidates for presiden tial electors and eight alternates to the national Domocratio convention. good sized ledge of high-grade car bonate of copper and black oxide of oopper ore has been struck in the cop per mines near Waldo. Because of the quantity and quality of the ores' the oompany will at onoe erect its smelter, so that within six weeks two smelters will be running in Josephine uuuuij, mo oeveiopement work on the copper mines oonsists of a tunnel on the south side of the creek eighty five feet in depth and two tunnels and a shaft a short distance to the south west and about 800 feet above the creek. TELEGRAPHIC RESUME Events ot the Day in a Con densed Form. - OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS item of Importance From Domestic and Foreign Source! Cream ' oC the DUpatebe. .' Earthquake have been noted in vari ous parte of the state of Oaxaca, Mexico. General Thomas Ewinsr. ex-member of congress from Ohio, is dead, at the age of 67. Three men were killed and four re- oeived serious injuries bv the emlosion of gas ir New Haven, Conn. England's application for the American loan will involve the exiiort of $2,000,000 of gold within a week. Advices from Crown Point. Ind.. state that bloodhounds are to be used to trail criminals hidinar in the Kan. kakee swamps. As the result of a fire in St. Louis five firemen were buried in the ruins. and another died from injuries received wnne righting the flames. Despite the prohibitory decree of the sultan, the Red Cross Society is pre paring an expedition to Turkey to dis tribute relief to the Armenian Buffer- ers. Idaho. has been closed for the Snake river season. A new Masonio lodge was organized at Blackfoot last Saturday evening. -I .ft f acres of irrigated laud ern Washla, tttJJ':.; j While the catching and marketing ti shrimps has been a considerable indus try in the waters about San Fraucisoo for nearly a soore of years, it was al ways thought that shrimps did not ex ist in Puget sound. Lately, however, they have been found there in large numbers, and a company has been formed. to catch them and ship thorn to . Eastern markets. The Sound shrimps 3w said to be finer than any yet found uWthtt Pacific coast. The increased interest taken in the prooeodiugB of the 'state dairy associa tion augurs well for the future. Dairy ing is destined to be the greatest of all the agricultural interests in the state. Its possibilities are almost limitless. Then it is to be remembered that dairy ing draws' in its train other interests. In fact the duiry is the foundation for successful mixed farming, and, all things considered, mixed farming is the safest and best for ninety-nine out of every hundrd ranohers in the state. Experience in hop and wheat-rainlug has shown the- unwisdom of oarrying all the eggs in one basket. The biggest logging industry on the Sound will probably be operated in Jofforson oounty this year, by Mr. Brown. He already has orders for 15, 000,000 foet of timber, and may pos sibly double' tliat amount before the Bummer is Over. Hois being looked to by the mill companies for - the best logs that will be floated into the Sound and the orders that he has already received makes it oertain that there will be more logging done in this section dur ing the coming season than has ever been known before. In the vioinity of the two or three camps that Mr. Brown proposes to establish, he claims that there are 200,000,000 feet of fine tim ber, ready for the ax, and that it will furnish profitable logging for twenty five years. A season's work, he says, win nardly make a noticeable loss in the timber thereabouts. Oregon. Last year's produot of oorn was 815,874 bushels. County assessment are S1.724.qrr. ; ' . I a ireignt train numbering fifty oars, fontaining wheat, was shipped trom tear Pendleton last week. 1 Junction City is to have an eieotrio Ught plant the council having granted I thirty-years' franohise to Robert Clow ind his associates. ; The two Nestucca valleys are to be Xraneoted by a wagon road, the court laving favorably passed on a recent petition to that effect. t ..The steel-head salmon have been so umerous at Coqnille this week that te good people there have been quite filing, for Lent to commence. ;f, fin base of urgent need of malitia foteotiou, about 1,600 men, including to batteries, oan . be rendezvoused in mty-four hours, at Portland. n Oregon man has attained con- lerable distinction in Philadelphia carrying off the prize for growing e fine yellow, Danver onions. o broom faotory at Bandon turned IV. 000 broom , handles for one ship. Hit to San Franoisbo. This industry, A the woolen mills, which have re itly resumed operations, have raised I population of that town to over 00. V V Fhe death ' rate , among the Indians The oity of Lewiston 1ia.110.I- in outstanding wtfceit? jtt rntxjrt n !, " am j-t-jj..; ... .... Vy.' . , 1ir,V,"It",J "twenty miles long Btt cost over 200,000. ine nrst annual meeting of the Idaho stute horticultural sooiety was uuiu ac uoiBe, January 22 and 23, 1806, ine ice season in Boise is over and all the largest ioe-houses are full, Aoout o.OOO pounds were put up this year, Of available farming land Idaho has nearly 10,000,000 aores and more than double this number of grazing land, Its forests embrace thousands of square or T.uuo.ooo aores of pine, spruce, nr ana manogany, A band of Bannock Indians, under the leadership of Jim Ballard, have been giving no little trouble of late. Threatening demonstrations have been made against Agent Teller compelling mm to can on tne Unitetd States mar shal for protection, The American Land and Power Com pany has reoeived a detailed statement rrom a. R. Grant, of Bookline, Mass., of the OOSt Of Constructing and nnnrnr. ing a two-set woolen mill at American J! ana. Mr. Grant assures the com pauy that he will invest a considerable sum in the enterprise himself and will induoe his associates in the East to do the same, and it is possible that actual construction , will commence in the spring. Aocording to the estimates, the cost of the mill will be 154,000. The facilities for obtaining wool in Iduho are ample and there is a looal market for the output of sudh a mill Montana'.. Referring to the new bounty law. the commissioners' report' says it 1b, the most beneficial law for toroteotion of the stock interests ever enacted in Montana. Wolves are fast disappear ing, and on some slopes have bepome soaroe. The report says It 1b a que tion of but a few years, when the wolves will be almost While feed is reported short on almost all of the ranges, oattle are in good condition. v . , ... One of the latest business enterprises of this oommunity iB the organization of the Danzer Sheep Company. The capitalization of this institution is placed at 60,000 shares, the par vulue of whioh is $1 each. The property whioh has thus been plaoed in the hands of a stock company is the mam moth possessions of G. F. Panzer, and inoludes some of the finest meadows or our valley. It lies along the north fork of Smith river for a distanoe of seven miles and commands a large lougo. ine premises are In a high state of cultivation and the new oom pany starts out With splendid prospects. The trustees for the first three months are G. F. Danzer, Michael Danzer and J. T. Anderson. The hoisting maohine in the convert ing department of the Ohio Steel Com pany, at Youngstown. O.. went wrorn? and one man was killed and two seri- usly injured. Ihe death of Prinoe Henry, of Bat tenberg, is announced He accom panied the British expeditionary forces to ooutn mca, and while there con tracted a fever of which he died. The supreme court rendered an im portant decision in San Francisoo. de. daring that the stockholders of the daJ funot Panifln hanlr an. lfc'- " --J liable for tfca lraj2J JSW'the -. ri xvhubu, nas . Deen .f'ippre8sed, and the country aptwnnea. 'mere have been many ex eoutions, inoluding the leaders of the insurrection. ine site for the United States peni tentiary, whioh was located by the commission about eighteen months ago near the state penitentiary in Walla Walla, has been approved by the gov eminent, and the title acoepted. A detailed aooount of the surrender of King Prempeh, of Ashantee, to the British expeditionary foroe in South Alrioa, state that his majesty actually groveled In the dust as a mark of his complete submission to England. A row between Theodore Luebcke, a carpenter, and William Solomon, a German oompatriot, at the home of the former in Portland, Or., ended in Luebcke stabbing to the heart and al most instantly killing Solomon. Fam ily troubles were the cause. It is stated that a rupture between Brazil and Italy is imminent, owing to Brazil's tardiness in satisfying Ital. ian olaims arising out of the civil war in Brazil. It is reported the warship Benjamin Constant has started to oc cupy tl island of Trinidade. A dispatoh from San Salvador savs the minister of war is mobilizing the militia, of which in this city alone there are 7,000 available. The'Kov- ernment asserts this is done for the purpose of aooustoming the militia to the use of arms and to perfect their drill. A dispatch from Ekaterinoslav. the oapitol of the government of that name, in Southern Russia, gives de- ' ui ure mat ooourred in a theater, causing a great loss of life. The fire was discovered while a per formance was going on. The specta tors beoame panio-Btrioken, and made a wild rush for the exits. Forty-nine bodies have already been taken out ringleaders were placed in buckets which were cut so as to give a full view of their ghastly oontents and the buckets were hung on the Fpo Chow bridge, where they remained on exhi bition for two days. Then they were taken to Ku Cheng, the scene of the massacre of the ten Christian girls, and were then hung on trees, where they are probably still hanging. To remove one of the heads means immediate death to the offender. The execution has had a great moral effect on the Chinese, and I think it will be a long time Deiore tnere will be murderous interference with the missionaries." j John Tyler, eldest son of President iyler, died in Washington, aged 76. 1 wenty -nine hundred miners at Co lumbus, O., returned to work, having setiiea tneir trouble. President Cleveland has consented to be present at the anniversary cele bration at Princeton college. A San Francisco paper says the presi dent has accepted an invitation from Attorney W. W. Foote to spend part of his vacation next summer on the Pacific coast. The ice gorge in the Maumee river, about eight miles above Toledo, broke and in running out carried away two spans of the new bridge in course of construction. The loss is estimated at 50,0O0. In a heavy fog, with the wind in the northeast and the surf running far up the beach, the American liner St Paul. 1 3 1.. . uuuua m, went ashore on Long Island. All of the 700 passengers were safely transferred to land. A special to Novoe Vremya from Vladivostock says news has been re oeived from Peking that the Chinese government has assigned a large sum for the creation of a fleet. The plan of construction is very large. Herr Knebel-Doeberitz, a high offi cial or tne ministry of the interior, who drafted the regulations excluding the American insurance oompanies from doing business in Germany, has reoeived a high decoration from Em peror William. The Hon. PARTITION OF TURKEY The Plans ot Peter the Gre About to Be Realized. THE DIVISION OF THE EMPIRE k i is . . - ZXttSFJWi?&tl ""TO e general con- Truly Shattuok, the vounir actress. has fled from San Francisoo to avMd testifying against her mother, who is being tried for the murder of Harry Poole. Truly was the chief witness her mother during the first trial, as Mrs. Shattuok shot the young man on aooount of the attentions to her daughter, and it was proved that Truly, at the oommand of her mother, wrote Poole a note which summoned him to her house the day he was shot There is to be a sensational contest in Andersonville, Ind., between Dr. British Columbia. f 7he Vancouver poultry show held reoently was well attended, and had upwards of 400 entries. A bridge 250 feet long is neihg built by the government, crossing Cranberry oreek at Paul's landing. Work was resumed on the Slough oreek drain tunnel about the first of the month. It is expeoted to have the drain across to the head of Nelson oreek by April 1. . . There was an extraordinary run' of herring in Departure bay last week. Afew strokes of the herring rake were sufficient, in almost every instance, to fill a boat with fish. covert, who has reoently sued - and been sued by the Indiana Spiritualists. and Dr. Harry Adams, of Crawfords vine who olaims , to represent the Spiritualists, but many disolaim him TO 1 ! 1 , . V. . . . cur nix uigncs vi. Aoams is to appear and Dr. Covert has wasrered that he will do everything Dr. Adams per forms, Covert not olaimingj any med ium assistance. The men have put up t500 with the judges. , . ; . Negotiations between the Rid Grande Western and the Wesern Passenger As sociation have been broken off -again. The Rio Grande Western has agreed, however, to cease paying, a commis sion on tiokets from Salt Lake to Den ver, reserving to itself the right to out rates whenever neoessary to meet the competition of the Union Pacific .The Western roads have agreed to make half fare rates for commissioned officers of the army and navy and the depend ent members of the families when they travel at their own expense. J. C. Oswold, who has just returned from the Orient, and who was a wit ness of the exeoution of the Chinese ringleaders of the recent massaores of missionaries in that oountry, in speak ing of it says: ."After the exeoution had taken place the heads of tha in m heart failure. Mr. Rnnvnn hart been in somewhat feeble health for some time past, but no immediate fatal results were anticipated. A special to the New York World from Kingston, Jamaica, Bays a serious uprising is reported in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Hayti. After three days' rioting in the streets, the insurrection was surpressed. There is general un easiness throughout the island. Colonel Crofton has been reqested to retire by Secretary Lamont. The col onel refuses to comply, and relies on the influenoe of his nephew, Dupont of Delaware, who olaims an election as United States senator, to retain for him his position in the army. A special to the Boston Traveller. from New York, says that the ban placed by the Catholio church upon the orders of Knichts of Pythias. Sons of Temperanoe and Odd Fellows is ab solute, and offers no further disoussion. This is the mandate of the none. through his representative. Cardinal Satolli. The imperial court of Leipsio, Ger many, has ruled on a case which affeots the rights of German-Amerioans. F. W. Beohine, of Brooklyn. N. Y.. was lined in September last the sum of 200 marks for evading military service by emigrating. The court quashed this sentence, as not being in accord with treaty rights. A bill has been introduced in the Kentucky legislature by Goebel to re peal the charter of the Southern Paoiflo Railway Company, obtained in 1884 by C. P. Huntington. The road has never been operated in Kentucky, but in California, and the action of the sena tor is prompted by resolutions of mass meetings of citizens of California. Postmaster-General Wilson has is sued a general order providing that in all cities and towns having free deliv ery postal servioe, the postal system be extended, to include house-to-house collections. For the convenience of the department, however, the introduc tion of boxes in houses, until further orders, will be confined to twenty-five places. A meeting of the American mer chants in Pretoria, was held, and it was deoided to telegraph to Seoretary of State Olney that in view of the in terests of American oitizens and the faot that their property was jeopar dized, it was requested that a diplo matic agent be sent to arrange matters with a view to any exigencies .whioh might arise. , The seoretary of the Oakland, Cal., bianoh of the American Railway Union has .reoeived a letter from the private seoretary oi Ji, v. Debs, in whioh the statement telegraphed from the. East that Debs is to resign the presidency of the union is denied. He says Debs will win the fight he is now engaged in on behalf of organized labor or die in the attempt. The Chinese government has agreed to open the West river, provided China is allowed to retain the territory oeded under the Burmah-China convention of 1894. The, opening of two ports on the West, or Si Kiang river, namely, Shao King and Wu Chow, was stipu lated for by the Japanese as part of the terms of peace. The cities of Canton and Hong Kong are situated on the bay into whioh the West river empties. At a-meeting of the grand officers of the Knights of Pythias, held in Cin cinnati, the following resolution was passed: . "Resolved, That it is the unanimous sense of the assembly that no encampment of the uniformed rank should be held during 1806, unless a guaranteed rate of one oent per mile by the shortest practicable route, with a limit of twejity days, oan be se cured." , The General Belief It That the Mo... ment of Troops Foreahadowe Action in the Spring. 5 London, Jan. 29. The Dailv Nnni mis morning prints a dispatch from Vienna asserting that news has been received there from Constantinople and Sebastopol, whioh agrees that Russia has a fleet lying at Sebastopol and at Odessa, and that the Cauoassian armies oi Kussia are beinir concentrated nnnn the Armenian frontiers in readinsess to move next spring to realize the plans ut jreter me ureat lor the partition of Turkey between the Powers. Rnnaia taking Armenia and Constantionple, France taking Syria and Palestine, and England taking Egypt and the eastern shores of the Persian gulf, the remain der of the Turkish empire to be divided among the other powers. The Daily News also has a dispatch from Sebas topol, which records the secret prepara tions going forward there, of shipping men and armaments for a volunteer fleet. It is the general belief, this din- patch affirms, that these preparations foreshadow some action in the spring. Constantinople, Jan. 29. There is a rumor here that Russia iB arranging with the sultan for the occupation of Armenia, but it is not confirmed by the discoverable signs and is discredited in diplomatic circles. THE SITUATION REVIEWED. General Condition of Affalri in the Dis turbed District of Turkey. Boston, Jan. 29. The following letter from Constantinople, under date CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. general condition Is nop good, jfrwdgb at some places it is improving, but confidence is weak. At Karpoot the destitution is terrible, beyond all com parison with other places yet heard from. At Madin it is still impossible to go outside of the walls of the city. At Bitlis more security is felt for the missionaries, who will probably remain all winter. At Marash, Mr. Terrell has had new cautions given to the gov ernor, and the promise of regular troops to replace the relief guards., Adana has suffered a good deal from panic. naagiu 1B mu sar6) Du(. reports are now circulated of trouble there. An escort was ordered to bring Miss Shat tuok away from Orfa. but she is unable to endure the journey. The oollege (male) of the Amerioan board at Karpoot has commenced its classes. At Sivas the missionary schools have been reopened, and the people are venturing out quite freely to services. The relief work grows apace. In Vanas about 3,000 people are being helped with funds. Consul Hapson at Moosh, reports the oassoun villagers still safe. He is fur. mshing them with grain. In Trebi zona aDout 8,000 people are being helped. At Karpoot relief work has been authorized after pressure from the English and Amerioan legations. At Constantinople, missionary rooms are transiormed into clothing warehouses. uiotning and bedding go mainly to near points, ireDizond and Caesarea, FIFTY-FOUR DEAD.. ; Condeneed Record of the Doing of the nation' Lawmaker -Senate. Washington, Jan. 24 Today's senate session was marked by notable speeches auu uuiaoie debates. .Late in the after noon a controversy ooourred between nerman, Teller, Gorman and others, which led to the most sniritod finan. cial debate since the present congress uuuvenea. snerman spoke at length " silver qustion. Teller and Gor man answered from their respective sianapoints. while Aldrioh. Lindsav. Gray and others took part in the excit ing debate. Wolcott's speech criticis ing tne president's attitude on the Venezuela question was the notable event of the early part of the day. For an hour the senator commanded the attention of a crowded ohabmer and overfloiwing gallery. Two important resolutions were reported by the com mittee on foreign affairs, one strongly presenting the serious condition of affairs in Turkey and urging prompt attention by the oivilized powers, and an adverse report on Mr. Call's resolu tion calling for the official disnatnhw of United States consuls in Cuba. Washington, Jan. 25. The three suDjects more prominently before the publio are the Monroe dootrine. finance ano tarin, each of which came np for consideration in the senate during the uuy. jjaniei spoke lor two hours in support of a vigorous upholding of tho monroe aoctrine as applicable to Ven ezuela; Dubois of Idaho dealt with the silver phase of the financial question. nd Warren of Wyoming pointed out me disastrous effects of the tariff legis lation of the last congress on farm pro ducts in general and on wool in par ticular. The senate committee on com merce today authorized McMillan to report favorably bills providing for two additional revenue cutters on the Great Lakes, two on the Pacific-coast, one in the vioinity of New Yflrk,and one on the Gulf of Mexico; also a bill for a lgbthouse tender on the Florida ooast. Vest introduced a bill in the senate today to create the territory of Indianola out of the part of the Indian ter.ritory occupied by the five civilized 2 &ti?j?tir new ORCHARD il FARM Budget ot General News for . Progressive Farmers. HOW TO . KEEP BROOD SOWS Cannon and Arttrar-t Profitable Mode of ratten In. nn.. c- Cownle Give Some Valu able Information. The first litter as a rule is not valuable as the following. The seo ond, third and fourth generally are reckoned most profitable, hnt T hava known sows to have eight or ten litters of good pigs. According to the Amer ican Agriculturist, when a sow brings a good litter in numbers. snnlrlAi thm well and they are fairly level in size, that sow is a money getter, and a man is foolish to sell her. and renlann with one he knows nothing about But immediately after a sow hrinmi unlevel litters, and seems in any way deteriorating as breeder, she should h sold or fattened. Some bows begin to deteriorate after the second and third utter. Some never are any good; the quioker these are got rid of the better. Some think old sows are more likely to have the milk fever; in my opinion it is more likely to happen to a sow with her seventh or eighth litter, than to one producing her second or third, if care be used? No doubt a four or five-year-old MurU made into bacon, is a bit hard41rat make up in the open market' . Jj f ((ht has suckled one r yt . f obstacle to keeping them am l ' - bring up unprofitable litters. Brtexriftf sows, and in fact all hogs, seem to acquire oertain amount of mineral ele ments to assist digestion, by counter acting acidity of the stomach, and un less hogs closely penned are supplied with something of the kind, they will lose their appetites and cease to feed as the should, and in some cases to lose rather than gain. While running on pasture and having free access to the soil, they do not require it so much. yej ftaold be able to get it when thev rwfA n j vinfliA ATa state of Utah, took the at .-7 LZJ r""ID V" of swine, given in Farmers Voice, by A. C. Moore, a noted breeder of swine in Illinois, and is as follows: Three bushels of wood ashes, one bushel of charcoal, small pieces; one-half bushel of slaoked lime, one bushel of fine salt, two pounds of Spanish brown, five pounds of sulphur, one-half pound of copperas and one-quarter pound of saltpeter. Pulverize the last two thor oughly, mix in a bin or box and keep it in an open trough where the hogs can have free access to it Anomer Terrible Colliery Disaster Reported From Wale. Cardiff, Wales, Jan. 29. The resi dents, of the town and. vicinity of lyierstown, near here, were terrified by terrifio reverbratiohs today, which shook the whole town. It was ascer tained in a short time that the oonous sion was oaused by an explosion in a neighboring colliery, with disastrous oonsequences of life and property. The latest rport places the number of dead at fifty-four, though it is feared the future exploration of the wrecked mine will develop the bodies of more. The mining population of the locality auow uu quicKiy wnat the muffled, thunderous rumble explosion meant, and rushed to the mouth of the pit, only, to have their worst fears con firmed. The shaft was found to be entirely shattered, and it was evident there was little hope for any of those in the pit. The despair of the women who flocked about the mouth of the pit was little more terrible than the horrible anxiety of those who hoped to find that those missing from their sides nad, by some chance, not entered the mine. The pit was found to have -caught fire, and the hindrance . this oaused to the work of rescue added to the excite ment and tension of feeling. It was only through braving the utmost peril that the living, were able to prosecute their quest for the dead. The number of dead removed grew from twelve to fifteen, and then twenty, and the list of those known to have been in the fated shaft kept constantly growing, and with it the number of bereaved families waiting at the surfaoe. International Copyright Law. London, Jan. 29. H. Rider Hag gard presided tonight at a meeting of the Sooiety of Authors, to whioh Mr. Hal Caine read his report upon his mission to Canada, with regard to an international oopyright. Mr. Hag gard, speaking on the report, said it was ridoulous to suppose any govern ment would put pressure upon Canada with regard to oopyrght law. Most of them, he said, would rather see the question dropped than to quarrel with Canada over a copyright. omce in the senate today, the former drawing the term ending March 8, 18, and the latter the term ending juarcn d, 18H7. With the exception of the contested Delaware case, this establishes the political division of the upper branch of congress, until March i, 1897, as follows: Republicans, 44; Democrats, 89; Populists, 6; Demo crats, 39; total, 89. Necessary for majority, 45. Aside from this event, the session was riven tn fnrthuT speeches on the silver bond bill, two of the new members of the body Nelson (Republican of Minnesota) and Baoon (Democrat of Georgia) making speeches, the former against the free coinage of silver and Baoon urging the evils of a gold standard. Hansbrough of North Dakota severely criticised the secret tary of agriculture for the alleged ianure to distribute seeds in accord ance with the law, and George of Mis sissippi defended the secretary's aotion. Lodge offered an amendment to the silver bond bill providing for a bond issue of $100,000,000 the proceeds to be used lor coast defenses. , Bonn, ;. Washington, Jan. 24. In the ab sece or any regular business in the house today, the session was, devoted to the consideration of minor matters and legislation by unanimous consent The major portion of the day was con sumed in the disoussion of the senate resolution appropriating 25,000 for architectural aid in the' preparation of plans far publio buildings. The house adopted the report of the elections oom mittee in favor of Harry Miner, of New York, in a, contest brought for unseat by Timothy Campbell Washington, Jan. 25. The house re sumed consideration of the rules and disposed of the last amendment offered by, the committee. It submitted for the rules of the fifty-first congress,, the method of . compelling the attendance of a quorum proposed in the forty-sixth oongress by J. Randolph Tucker, with some modifications. It was not until the rules of the fifty-first oonsrress stood adopted, ' with the few. modifications reported from the committee, that something like, excitement was engen dered by an eloquent speech from Dolliver. - He taunted the Demoorats with at least acquiesoing in' the adop tion of all the principles adopted in the rules of; the fifty-first oongress, against whioh they had raised their voices in 1890. This speeoh drew forth an in dignant reply from ex-Speaker Crisp, in the course of which he reviewed the whole history of the controversy and charged the other side with trying to make politioal oapital by false pre tenses. ' ': '' '' ' Washington, Jan. 29. The house today, after an interesting four-hour debate, adopted resolutions passed by the senate last week calling the pow ers signatory to the treaty, of Berlin to enforce the reforms in Turkey guar anteed to the Christian Armenians, aud pledging the support of congress to the president in the most vigorous aotion he might take for the pro tection and security of American oitizens in Turkey. The house com mittee had prepared some resoln- tions on the same subject, but it was deemed advisable, after the senate resolutions reached the house today, to substitute them for those prepared by iuo uuuiuiuiee. - Judgment Entered Against Pullman. Philadelphia, Jan. 27. Before Jndoe Dallas and Butler, today, there was entered a decree for $4,235,044 in favor of the Central Transportation Com pany against the Pullman Palaoe Car Company. ' ProB table Bog Fattening. Next to a well bred pie is the method of feeding, of importance for the highest success. Cleanliness, sys tematic method of feeding and water ing are presented in the American Swineherd by Mr. J. Cownie as fol lows: I have tried feeding three times per day, but the days are too short in win ter for that. Hogs do not like to be disturbed before it is day and they like to retire before it is dark. To fnH three times a day keeps them moving too much; it isnot the eating but the digestion that gives the fat I have tried watering after feeding and also to have water on the feeding floor that hogs might eat and . drink aa they please, but it is a ruinous policy. One hundred and fifty hogs, averaging over ' 300 pounds, being fed a few.years ago, were making a gain of. two poundaa day ' each on fourteen pounds of ear corn, watered before feeding. Wish ing to test the matter, I permitted . them to- return to the yard after feed ing,, giving them what water they wished, then allowing them to goto the hog -house". -At., tbei.end' of- the , month they .were.again. weighed, show ing a gain Of only Oije pound and a ; quarter :ea6h' day; The -Wite" and other fcireumstenoes were equally aa. favorable for feeding the second month aa the first, and 'no change bad been made in the amount or qualify of feed. The following month with a return to the sjstem of waterig before feeding, although the weather was ery tan favorable for feeding, showed again' of c fraction over two pounds daily. t r A bushel . of . corn for eaph five hogs . daily, is the average amount fed, or ' fourteen pounds of ear corn each whan 1 once brought to full feed. Care must be taken not to overfeed;, just enough and no more. If they do' not appear satisfied feed a little more next time and if it is left reduce the allowance. Onoe a week oats are substituted for porn, and when plenty; a few basket- - ruis or raw potatoes are 'occasionally scattered over the floor and . eaten with avidity. Salt and sifted wood ashes are kept in a trough accessible at; all times. The average weight at time of . confining, say November 1, ia usually about 200 pounds. The first two." months, if everything is favorable, will show a gain of over two pounds daily,' the third month somewhat less and the fourth month the amount of oorn fed will have to be reduced, and the gain ' ! will be " correspondingly decreased. J An average gain for the entire time of -A , two pounds daily is very satisfactory. Sixteen weeks ia the limit to whioh- ' auoh feeding should r extend; beyond that there is no profit. Agricultural Suggestion. . . Ground Kaffir corn .is pronouoed i tnost exoellent teefl for miloh powa. Com bran has about as muoh feeding value aa wheat bran, but it la not in aa good shape to feed. . - 'f Clean oulture means no rubbish for the insect! to breed in, and is a very important featnra. .... '. 181 1 V