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oiixseeRe - VOL. 2. UH.LSUOUO. OREGON. TIIUKSDAY, KEHItUAKY 20. W. NORTHWEST BREVITIES Evidence ot Steady Growth and Enterprise. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST News From Our Sister Htatee Kiltom-Ued-The Leading Topics 1I cussed Washington, Aberdeen will have ouly nix mouths of school, tho turni ending thu latter part of this mouth. A permanent oouuty immigration convention was organized lu Taooma for Pieroe oounty last week. There will, it is eiamted, be from 8,000 to 13,000 bushels of apples shipped from Oroas island this year. M The wiuter school for farmers at Pulluiar Id proving popular. Farmers : from all parts of the state are iu at teuduuoe. Mrs. Caroline E. Hartman. who is i flpyears old, has taken up a oluim six niiles above Granite Falls, in Snoho mish oounty. Ex-Sheriff DeRaokin, of Linoaln oounty, has purohased the Populist pa per at Davenport, the People's Banner, from C. H. Scott There will be no ioe famine in Soo- kane, notwithstanding the mild win- i box fill "hnt-n In nlo... I. i UJ1 ' for taxes, from Sheriff Houser, and has remitted $2,500 of that sum to State Treasurer Metsohan. The Lawler syndicate, owning and developing the tyuartzville mine in the Bautiam district, paid out to those in its employ and for supplies over $10, 000 during January. A petition for the pardon of Frank Kolley, oonvloted of having deer meat in nis possession during the olosed sea son, Has been forwarded to Governor Lord from Pendleton. The Bandon Coal Conpamy is ao lively operating its mines at Riverton and expoots in the near future to keep two steamers plying between the Co quille and San Franosoo. The president of the Douglas Countv Pioneer Society will call a meeting some time in March or April for the purpose of electing officers, and decid ing upon the time and place for the next reunion. The telophone line between Canyon ville and John Day is finished, and the next work will be its extension to rrairle City and Long Creek. A move ment is on foot to extend the line on to Baker City. Two of the four prisoners in the Eu gene jail out through the board wall recently and made their escape. The jail has several iron oells, but it was not thought necessary to oonflne the prisoners therein. In Astoria, Officer A. Seafeldt stuck a key in the kevhole of a to turn in TELEGRAPHIC RESUME NO. 48. Events ot the Day in a Con densed Form. OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS an alarm. And was plenty of ioe in Silver , knocked lmt amituslaaa 'Pita U. lake, Medical lake and other lakes near j was heavily charged with electrioity aj ine wires naving become crossed. the city, As a reward for hard work on the part of the women, Snohomish now has The farmers of 8herman countv feel elated over oroo Drosaects. Mom . ...K rou.uug-ruom, weu ugntea ana j moisture is in the ground than there amply spplied with papers and other has been for years, which is an assur- reading matter. A buyer ot horses has been in North Yakima on the lookout for small ani mals to ship to Alaska. He has been paying from $5 to $10, and has bought np fourteen horses. Turner & Williams, of Spokane, re cently sent a large shipment of ore from the Le Hoi mine to the Everett smelter, from whioh they got $13,000. The ore averagod over $100 a ton. Jeff Letton, a former resident of Farmington, is in trouble at Wallace, Idaho. He is aooused of poisoning his 18-months' old child in order to obtain a legaoy to whioh the child was sup- jposed to be heir. which is of such a high grade that the The analysis of a deposit from a lake ounipany has deoided to make ship u Adams oounty has been made bv the ' meats to a smelter rather than treat it obief of the mineral division of the at the mill, anoe that an abundant harvest will re sult, ihere is a large demand for wheat land to rent in the oounty. The White Swan Mining Company, composed of Iowa capitalists, has sent out two repesontatives, who are busy adjusting the affairs of the oompany. They say all indebtedness will be paid and the mine will soon take its place among Baker county's bullion pro duoers. Reliable information has been re ceived from Cracker Creek, Baker oounty, of a rich strike in the upper tunnel of the North Pole mine. The ledge is seven feet wide, ore from Items of Importance From Domestic and Foreign Sources - Cream or the Dispatches. Three were killed and two iniured i uiuu-wreoK near Koohester, N. Y, Mrs. Nanoy Welch, an Oregon Dio. neer and the first white woman to set' tie in Astoria, died suddenly of heart lauure in Astoria. By the use of Roentgent's new dis oovery, the "X" rays, a buokshot was located in a man's hand, where it had been for two years. Grant Atterbury, a murderer, was taken from the jail at Sullivan, III., dragged to the courthouse in his night shirt by a mob, and hanged to a tree. The schooner Aida, twenty-six days from Shanghai to Port Townsend, has made the best passage across the Pa oiflo ocean on record for a sailing ves sel. Bartholomew Shea was electrocuted in Dannemora prison, New York, for tne murder of Robert Ross, at TW in March, 1894. He died protesting bis innocence. of the United States army, was found dead in his room in the Palmer house, Chioago. Death was caused by as phyxiation. Carter had the distinc tion of having eerved twenty-three years with the Seventh cavalry, Gen eral Custer's old regiment. He par ticipated in a dozen engagements with hostile Indians and earned a record as a brave soldier on the frontier. Dr. Cyrus Edson. of New York. claims to have discovered a remedy for tuDerouiosis. He terms it aseptolin. it is principally water and carbolic acid, and is used hynodermioallv, About fifty physicians in the country have piocured aseptolin from Dr, Ed- son s laboratory and are using it in their practice. It has cured every case oi malaria and la grippe in whioh it has been tried, seventy-seven in all of malaria and fifty-one of la grippe. The Cramp Shipbuilding Company, of Philadelphia has been awarded the contract for building revenue cutter No. 8, for the Pacific coast. The new outter is to be 160 feet long.- While the American steamer Paris. from New York, was docikng in South ampton, she came into collision with the steamer Majesty, belonging to the Isle of Wight. The Majesty was sunk. but all her crew were saved. Meager details have been received in San Francisco of a disastrous hurricane on tne louga islands, in the South seas. The barks Woosung and West Australia and the Samoan schooner Aele were wrecked, but no lives were lost. FRENZIED WITH FRIGHT Match Carelessy Thown Into a Pile ot Oily Waste. LOSS OF LIFE AND PROPERTY There is believed to be a Jack the Ripper abroad in San Francisco. The police say the murders recently nnm. mitted there are similar to those of the Lionaon terror. The city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, was visited by a terrible fire. The Peru vian oonsulate and several blocks were destroyed. The loss will aggregate over $4,000,000. rjoologioal survey. He found that the deposit oousistod of a mixture of ohlo ride sulphate and carbonate of sodium. The public sohoool of Weston is to be conducted for the remainder of the year by the normal school as a train ing department, an agreeemnt to that effect having been recently arrived at byj tho dirootors with the school man agers. The star mail servioe between Chelan and Stehekin, has been ordered in creased to three timos a week from June 1 to September 80 of each year. The poBtoilloe department has for warded a commission as postmaster to William D. Stark, at Seguin. The state mining bureau has ap pointed Harry Laudes as state geolo gist. The new appointee is professor to geology in the state university, and has accepted the new position with fhe understanding that he will receive no compensation except that paid by the university. C. N. Byles, assignee of the Wake field State bank, has filed his second re port. Claims aggregating $10,900 have beeu filed with him by 72 credit ors. He has oollected $389.88, and paid out $103.80. The assets are in such a condition that it will be a long time before the affuirscan be olosed up. Colonel George Hunter, who is over 70 years of age, was married in Wash ington, D. C, to a woman of 34, about a week ago, his first wife having been dead only six months. Colonel Hunter is one of the pioneer Indian fighters of this region, and is known all over Eastern Washington. During services in an Ilwaoo ohuroh the other day two or three dogs kept np a oontinual yelping not far from the building. On going out to ascer tain the cause, it was found that they had a flue eight-ppint (ilk at' bay, in the "timber a few yards back of the ohuroh. The animal esoaped oapture, hojwever. ' totvia. Spoor, ex-street commissioner and city oounoilman of Port Town send, died in that city, aged 68 years. He was a native of New York, and left that state when the rush to the Cali fornia gold fields took place in 1849. Then he drifted to the Sound country, and for the past thitry years made his home in Port Townsend. He was a prominent mason. Oregon. Wheat at Salem jumped fom 53 to 65 oents one day last week. The city oounoil of Hillsboro has levied a tax of 7 mills to raise revenue for the ooming year. Dr. Inman, of Umatilla oounty, has been .bound oyer In the sum of $1,500 to answer to the grand jury the oharge of manslaughter. '..Eugene .horsemen are making ar rangements to secure JBwene a nlaoe the racing ohcup;? O&Vhave' a Idaho. ThePotlntoh Horticultural Associa tion held its meeting last week. There was brought out some interesting data concerning the condition and prospects of the orohards of the Potlatch empire. The state board of land commission ers at Boise, on the 14th inst. took favorable action on the application of the American Falls canal and power oompany, for the reclamation, under the Carey act, of 75,000 aores of arid lands in Idaoh. It is said that the prospects for operating the mines of the Coeur d'Alenes, in Idaho, are fairly good for the ooming season. The price of lead is not, however, very encouraging, but it can not keep olosed such mines as the Standard, the Gem, 'Frisoo, Poor man and others. These and other properties are well equipped with the latest reduotion plants and the product can be handled economically. It is expected from this time on nearly every mine in this rioh country will be operated to its fullest oapaoity. The new mining exchange of Boise will soon be opened for business. This will not be a stock exchange, but will be an association devoid of brokerage or otner ooncerns, where the miner and prospeotor will oongregate, securing correct assay returns of their mines. etc. A description of the merits of all suoh properties will be conspicuously posted and filed with the, officers, and which will at all times be open to the inspection of investors. The work of the association is not oonflned to any one seotion 01 Idaho, but will take in the entire state. in uvb meet mere in may, Cods oounty farmers have agreed to furnishitb Myrtle Point oieamery the tnilfe 'df ao&' cows, and the oreamery will begin operations in the spirng. Railroad officials at LaGrande re pork that the new flange machine for clearing the track of snow and ioe is a success. The maohine in use was con strutted it Albina. Treasurer Kern, of Uamtilla county, has received $3,800, money colleoted Montana. The classification of the min eral land commissioners made last Sep tember has been made final. By this decision the Northern Paoiflo will ao quire title to about 50,000 aores of land in Missoula, Flathead and Ra valli counties. A oarload of ore was shipped from the Big Seven mine at Neihart last week that netted $22,000. This mine is located near the Benton group and is being managed by E. J. Barker, who, together with D. L. S. Barker, is fortunate enough to own the prop erty. The extension of the Anaoonda re finery was started up for the first time last week. It is an event of more than ordinary importance in the history of the Anaoonda Copper Mining Com pany, Bays the Recorder. After an ex penditure of $250,000, nearly all of whioh was paid out for Montana labor and prodnots in its construction, Ana oonda now enjoys the proud distinc tion of possessing the largest and most oomplete eleotrolytio refinery in the world. y -Chief Engineer Lombard of the Mon tana railroad has just returned from a trip of inspection along Sixteen Mile ornek. Work, he reports, is progressing as fast as oan be expected. The work is extremely difficult at portions and the men at this seotion are now at work, making a roadbed through the solid rook. A month's work after the frost is out of the ground next spring will oomplete -the road to within four teen miles of its terminus Castle. The remaining distance will be com paratively easy. As a result of a prizefight in Phila delphia, Frederick Sohleonter, one of the priniopals, died and ex-Policeman Pluokfelder, the other prinoipal, is in jail oharged with murder. A statement prepared at the treasury department, under the direotion of As sistant Secretary Curtis, shows that the government will realize from the new loan $111,878,836.97. Governor Lord received from the united htates land office a oertifled transcript of a dear list of school in demnity Beleotions in The Dalles dis trlot, embracing 5,522 acres. Minister Buchanan of Argentine caoies m reply to an inquiry about the wheat condition that it is unfavorable owing to excessive rains, and estimates the exportable surplus at 80,000,000 bushels. Justioe Morris, of Washington, D. C. , in announcing a decision nf th court of appeals for the District of Co lumbia, ruled that while intoxication may be a disease, yet if it is voluntary and leads to oouiinission of crime, it is a crime in itsolf. Mary Ellen Lease, the Kansas orator, will make her debut into the minis terial profession, and henceforth her literary prefix will be reverened in stead of colonel. Her recent sickness was the immediate cause of her mind taking a divine turn. It is announoed on authority that fol lowing the advice of the United States, Venezuela has praotioally deoided to send a representative to London with power to open negotiations with the government of Great Britain for the settlement of the boundary dispute. An aerolite exploded above Madrid. The loud report was followed by a general panic. All buildinss were shaken, and many windows were shat tered. According to the offloials of the Madrid observatory, the explosion 00 oured twenty miles above the earth. While proceeding from Yokohama to Kobe, the United States flagship Olym pia struck a gale, to escape whioh all steam was orowded on and a speed of twenty-one knots developed. The storm broke her forward deok stanch ions and carried away her bridge rails. The London Chronicle olaims the oredit for the conversion of England to arbitration, and says: "The speeches in parliament show that wa hnvA reached the point where a solution 1b a oertainty. The 8ohomburgk line is as defunot as the boundaries of Wes set." Barney Beok, a printer, shot and seriously wounded Mrs. E. B. Catlin in Anaoonda, Mont. He was pursued by an angry mob, but killed himself be fore they could oapture him. Infatua tion for the woman, and her refusal to aooept his attentions is given as the cause. Rev. J. H. Hunyoutt, a Baptist min ister, has been arrested at Morrilltown, Ark., oharged with infantioide. His housekeeper's 1 -year-old baby oried while he was preparing a sermon, and the preacher beoame enraged at the annoyance and choked the ohild to death. Martin Cleary, a oustom-house in spector, was arrested in San Francisco, oharged with accepting bribes from a Chinese opium manufacturer and from Chinese emigrants, who desired to land but did not possess the neoessary oertifioates authorizing them to enter the United States. Delegate Catron, of New Mexioo. the author of the anti-prizefight bill, is greatly displeased at the impression whioh has been formed that he was acting under the advice of Governor Thornton, of New Mexioo, in his ef forts to prevent prizefighting in the territory. Catron made a satement to the press aoousing the governor of standing in" with Stuart, in his de sire to pull off the fights. 'Jasiius R. Carter, retired sergeant Li Hung Chang and Shas Yu Lien have been appointed delegates to rep resent the emperor of China at the coronation of Emperor Nicholas II, of Kussia, at Moscow. Negotiations are still in progress looking to the conclu sion 01 a commercial treaty between China and Japan. Through Senor Andrade, its min ister in Washington, the government of Venezuela has notified Secretary Olney that it will respond affirmatively to the invitation of the Venezuela com mission to submit all the evidence in its possession touching the location of the true boundary line. Magnus C. Crosby died in Astoria. The deceased was one of Astoria's lead ing business men, and was twice elect ed mayor of the city. He left a widow and five children. The cause of his death was a complication of Bright's disease, from whioh he had been suf fering for several years. Count Zeppelin, of Germany, has de livered a lecture at Stuttgart in the presence of the king of Wurtemburi? and the military authorities on a steer ing airship, whioh, it is said, will cost about $75,000 and travels eleven miles an hour. It is claimed such an airship can remain in the air 1 days. The Brisbane river iu Queensland has been greatly swollen by floods. A small steamer crossing the river with about ninety passengers capsized, and only forty were saved. The capsized steamer was the ferryboat Peral. The current was very swift and the river banks and Victoria bridge were endan gered. Advices just received from Seoul, the capital of Corea, say an uprising took plaoe there February 11, during which the premier and seven officials were murdered. These disnatches add that the king and crown prince sought shelter in the Russian legation. The aiug ornerea tne ministers put to death. Two hundred Russian sailiors and mariners are now guarding the legation in that oountry. For the first time in half a century the American falls of Niagara praoti oally ran dry, by the formation of an ice bridge or dam, extending from Schlosser's dock, on the American bank, about half way aoross the river. The water was almost entirely diverted to the Canadian falls. It was possible for a time for a man with a plank to have walked from the mainland to Goat island without wetting his feet. During the debate on the address in reply to the queen's speech in the house of oommons, Sir William Vernon Har court, supporting the amendment for not proposing self-government for Ire land, pointed out that the colonies, from whioh there was evidently a splendid testimony of loyalty to the orown, enjoyed home rule, and he maintained that the polioy of home rule oould be as successful in Ireland as in the colonies. A great fire raged in Guayaquil JWJuaaor, resulting in the death of thirty persons. When the firemen and soldiers, who were hurriedly ordered out 10 neip tnem finally brought it under control, thousands of panic strioken persons were wandering home less in the streets, many lay dead in the morgue, and property worth nearly $2,000,000 had been destroyed, includ ing the noble cathedral and the oon vent whioh adjoined it. D. Willis James, of New York, has offered $25,000 toward paying the debt of the American board Of foreign missions. The gift is to be made on oondition that $90,000 additional be subscribed before March 1. The board members are making a determined effort to oarry out the conditions of the offer. The $90,000 has been appor tioned as follows: Boston, $36,000; New York, $80,000; Chioago, $25,000. Milton Evans, ohairmau of the farmers' committee, of Walla Walla, has received a letter from Washington, through Senator Squire, from W. R. Morrison, of the interstate commerce commission, iu whioh Morrison says the oommission had considered the complaint made by Evans against the Oregon Railway & Navigation Com pany, alleging that excessive freight rates were oharged on wheat, and that the oommission had deoided to make a slight reduotion from Walla Walla to Portland, and that an order to that effeot will be issued as soon as it oan be prepares and printed. Three Hundred Girls Fought for Life as the Hot Flames Chased Thein With Hungry Tongues. Troy, N. Y., Feb. 18.-A small boy, carelessly throwing a match into a pile of oily waste, a mass of flames and 300 gins ana women frenzied with fright "guung ror lire as the hot flames vuasea tnem with hungry tongues, was the beginning of, a fire tonight which consumed thousands of dollars worth of property and caused the destruction of many lives. From the outside of the high building the sight of a body of girls as they rushed out on the fire escapes from the windows, thorn whn were more fortunate nrnwdin.. . the entrance. Following them was a mass of smoke, with flfldriaa e9 list flame in luird streaks. Thn th. of frenzied humanity, findine the egresses too small for instant began climbing over the sidAa nf tho escapes and bundles of clothing filled with writhing humanity dropped at the feet of the horrified passers by. Within twenty minutes after the fire started there were three dead women laid upon the floor of an adjoining store, and at least a dozen burned and maimed girls and women taken to hos pitals or to their homes. Of the 350 girls and women in the building, it is presumed that at least half a dozen are in the ruins, for it is impossiDie to locate all, and there may possibly be a score of dead. It was just thirty IT) intl tad tuifavA rlin musing nour in Stettheimer & Co 's shirt-waist factory on River street, and the 350 girls and women were working rapidly to finish up. In the onttinJ. room, on the fifth floor, the 150 girls were closing up their day's work and preparing to leave when the whistle blew. Lillie Kreiger, who was work ing near a machine. callArl tn A email boy to light the gas over her work. The boy struck a match anrl th.n. ti.o burning stub to the floor. It struck a pile of oily waste and in an instant the girl was enveloped in flames. With her clothes and hair hnmino eh rushed to the window, and at on, th. 100m beoame a struggling, shrieking Wl uuuiauuy, ninng the windows, the fire-escapes and the only stairway. uaiuuimg ano pushing, tearing and pulling eaoh other's clothes from thi. backs, turning in narrow corridors to una a sister or mother, or friend, the number in the exits augmented every minute by those from the lower floors, these girls and women fought for their lives to get away from the flames which seeemd to be growing to a monstrous size. With rare presence of mind, Police man Farrell, who was on the street, seeing that in the panic a number were liable to jump, let down the awning over the entrance. Barely was it down when two or three forms came flying down from the fifth and., sixlh stories, and, bouncing from the awn ing, fell to the sidewalk. Lillie Kreiger, over- whose machine me ure started, wus one of these. She struck the awning, fell on he back and bounced to her hands and knees on the walk. She got up and stag gered about until people helped her to her feet again. By this time nearly every window had a female form dangling from it, and when the fire men arrived there was a hustle to get ladders up. The firemen and police worked like heroes, and to their enegy was due a geat saving of life. At least a dozen 01 me women and girls were oarried uuwu me ladders or dragged out of the oorridors, the officers and firemen going into the midst of the smoke. Captein Williard, of thepolioe foroe, says he saw a number of girls at win- uuws wno never came out, but fell uacK into tne flames. Lrttie and Nellie Hull, sisters, graspea eaon other tightly by the uanas and started down the stairs from the sixth story. At the landing of the fifth floor they encountered a wall of flame and smoke. Nellie had on only her oorset and skirts, having: luian ... .. 1.; 1 .... B " uinmug uer toilet. Lottie was only partially dressed. She threw her dress over Nellie's face, and together they went through the flames. Lot tie's hair was burned completely off, and when she reached the sidewalk Nellie was burned only about her bare arms. They were taken home. The loss by fire is from $350,000 to $400,000, with about $100,000 insurance. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. Condensed Record of the Doings of the nation's Lawmakers-Senate. nmsuingion, ei. 19. The senate today adopted a resolution by A 11 An calling on the secretary of the treasury for information as to the amount of money in the treasury March 4. issa and March 4, 1893, and whether there had been a decrease of revenue, and from what cause. Davis made a atrnnv speech in support of his resolution enunciating the Monroe doctrine. Mitchell of Oregon, chairman on privi leges and elections, presented thn viw of the majority of the committee favor ing the seating of Dnriont an Mitm- from Delaware. Mitchell has also pre sented a resolution directing the ju- uiciary committee to inquire if con gress has jurisdiction over the Colum bia river to such an extent that salmon may be protected, and asserting that if steps are not taken to protect salmon they will be destroyed. He saya he intends to have the committee make a decision on the matter. Washington, Feb. 15. The friends of the tariff bill met an unexrjeoterl repulse this afternoon, when, by the vote of 2 1 ayes nd 29 noes, the senate oeieated the motion of Morrill to take up the tariff bilL The negative vote, whioh defeated the motion, was given by Democrats, Populists and four Re publican senators Teller, Mantle, Du bois and Carter. The affirmative yote was entirely Republican, but its total of 21 is less than half of the aggregate Republican strength. The senate has passed the bill authorizing the leasing of lands in Arizona for educatonal pur poses; also, the bill authorizing the First National bank of 8prague,Wash., to change its name and location; also, the bill authorizing repairs for the public wharf at Sitka, Alaska. Washington, Feb. 18. The senate oommittee on foreign relations held a meeting today and praotioally deoided to faovrably report Pettigrew's biU for the amendment of the law regulating the seal fisheries. The main feature of the bill is a provision permitting the president to have a 1 the seals, male and female, on the Pribyloff islands, killed, in case other governments in terested will not agree upon a modus Vivendi for the better protection of the seals, while the matter of permanent protection is under consideration by an international oommission. for which the bill makes provision. The com mittee had also under consideration the proposition for a cable to Hawaii. The subcommittee which had this under consideration made a favorable report without reoommendine either nf Via propositions before the oommittee. THE FIELD AND FARM Practical Pointers on Proper Care of Farm. WE MUST SUIT THE MARKET So Sajs One of Consuls Abroad Pn. ventlve of Disease-Feeding Potatoes to Cows. One of our consuls writes that it i absurd that American tutter should go to England in very small quantities and at very moderate prices, while Denmark is sending England enormous quauntites that bring high prices, and its only serious competitor is Australia, whose butter has to traverse thB trrmi and make the passage on the Red Ha But the people of Denmark have taken pains to find out what oan ha anM in England and other foreion marlrAts and they have applied themselves with great energy and high intelligence to the task of producing those things. This hag not been the work of the eov- eminent or of the commercial olasses more than it has been the work of the peasantry themselves who have shown an enterprise and a business capacity that put the American farmer to shame. Preventlre of Disease. Exeroise on high ground may miti gate the hog-cholera trouble, by in creasing the extent of exhalation, so relieving the blood in some degree of the accumulated poisons. Regular daily exercise in good sized pastures, or in open grounds, together with a greater variety and more albnminnns quality of feed, preventive treatment that can exempt swine from the inva sion of bacteria. Keen the hlnnd nf the hogs sound by a healthy supply of oxygen from regular exeroise and full breathing, and bacteria or cholera, will not affect the hogs nor vex their owners. And the only sure preventive of lung fevers in oows, or other oattle, is regular, moderate- exercise in whole some air, thus cooling the circulation, while supplying a healthy proportion of oxygenated blood, that will not irri tate the lungs, while such a quality of blood certainly forms sound tissue, in renewing general growth, or in en larging size in growing oattle or swine. Newfoundland-French Shore. Montreal, Feb. 18 -The report comes from St. John's, N. F., and is said to be based on semi-official infor mation that negotiations are progress ing between England and France, whioh will for all time settle the Newfoundland-French shore question. The basis of the settlement is said to be the ceding toFraneo of Englanda' interests in the state of Tunis, Africa, in ex ohange for the French claim in New' foundland. , .,. Galveston's Exports or Corn. St. Louis, Feb. 17. A special from Galveston says: Edwin Webster, chief grain inspector, reports that from Oc tober 12 to January 29 there were ex ported from this port to foreign points 2,618,69 bushels of oorn. So far dur ing the present month there has been exported about 300,000 bushels, mak- ing the total grain exports thus far this season nearly 8,000,000 bushels, with xuuy 1,000,000 bushels on hand await ing teaaage. House. Washington, Feb. 15. After a ten days' debate the house today, by a vote of 80 to 190, in committee of the whole, rejected the senate free ooinage substitute to the bond bill, and re ported back to the house, with a recom mendation to nonconcur and insist upon the house bill. The most signifi cant statement came in form of an ultimatum from Dingley that a bill might be reported from the ways and means oommittee looking to the initia tion by this country of a project of an other international monetary confer ence to meet within a year. While Dingley said he was expressing his per sonal position in the matter, it . was generally understood from the manner in which he said it that the suggestion had already matured into a well-defined intention on the part of the Re publican leaders of the house. . Washington, Feb. 18. The attack on Secretary Morton for his refusal to cApcuu we appropriation lor seeds in the present agricultural aDuroDriation bill was transferred from the senate to the house today, and furnished the feature of the proceedings in the lower uuum). it was iea Dy Baker and was supported by Moses and Livingston. Boatner and Meredith. Some verv harsh things were said and applauded, especially by Boatner, who referred to Mr. Morton contemptuously as "that individual," and not a voice was raised in his defense. The general de bate on the agricultural bill during its consideration, when the attack was made, was olosed before adjournment. Several bills of minor importance were passed and a resolution was adopted directing the judiciary oommittee to inquire into the right of an exeoutive offioer to refuse to exeoute a law on the ground of its unconstitutionality, and to report by bill or otherwise. This investigation grows out of Controller Bowler's decision in the sugar-bounty oases. Washington, Feb. 19. The agricul tural appropriation bill occupied the attention of the house today. A great deal of criticism of Secretary Morton was indulged in on both sides of the politioal aisle, but, as on Monday, not one arose to his defense. At last, Pearson asked if there was not some member, Democratic, Populist or Re publican, who wonld raise a voice in his defense. His question was greeted with a chorus of "noes'! from all sides of the house. An amendment was pending when the house adjourned, making mandatory the execution of the provision in the bill for the distribu tion of seeds. It is understood Cousins will offer an amendment, directing the secretary of the treasury to withhold the payment of Secretary Morton's salary until this provision was exe cuted. A, dispatch from Tokio, Japan, say a there is great activity among all the naval forces. The Japanese govern ment is confident that Russia is en couraging the revolt in Corea, with a view to the early establishment of a Russian protectorate over the kingdom. The Beat of the Corean government is now in the Russian legation at Seoul, where the king remains guarded. It is said the king of Corea authorised thA onthrAfllr in rmn fnv tv. i r - ' -"i" vuv UlUIUVt 'f the queea. Feeding Potatoes. During a recent tour through the dairy sections of York state, in attend ance at the dairy meetings, the matter of feeding potatoes to miloh cows came up at about all the meetings, in the in diect way of "Why does not my milk cream better," "Why does not the but ter come, and what makes it salvy, and often grainless," and in one in stance the oreamery had been served notice by their New York house that unless there was less feeding of a cer tain food, not to send any more butter. In every case the trouble was traced to feeding potatoes to the cow in exces sive amounts, often as high as a bushel a day per cow. The low price of po tatoes, and their slow" sale, made it a tempting matter to feed them to the oows as a large part of the ration, and the,large per cent of the raw and im perfeotly digested staroh had a damag ing effect upon the milk, the. milk be ing very vioious, hence difficult for thn cream to rise, and the butter tlnhniAa being unable to free themselves from the milk, either in creaming or churn ing, oarries into the butter the milt element in too great proportion, and gives the mass a salvy texture. This is also increased from the faot that th milk fats are of a softer texture when potatoes are fed, and this only adds to the difficulty. Where only small amount of potatoes are fed, four to six quarts mixed with the food, there was little or no injury done, as the succu lence of the potato, then in small amount, was a sort of digestant to the dry food. Where potatoes were oooked, a much larger amount of them oould be fed, as the cooked staroh was not in its effects the same as the raw material. From all that oould be gathered, it seemed that with meal at $20 per ton, potatoes might have a feeding value not to exceed $8.25 a ton. ... . years Miscellaneous Notes. The breakfast food made at the Ta ooma mill out of wheat is growing in popularity and is taking the plaoe of oat meal. " : According to official statistics the importations of lemons into the United owies during the past ten amount to $38,500,680. . . One hardly knows what he" will plant next year, prices are so univer sally depressed. But fruit and vege table growing, under favorable bondi tions, will likely be favored. In England and Scotland the farmers raise large sheep, whole flocks averag ing over 800 pounds "each, alive, and when a wether is killed for family use that whioh is not desired , immediately is oomed the same as beef. Small breeds are not raised in Great Britain, and the farmers pay no attention to wool compared with mutton. In the February bulletin of the well known Thayer Fruit Farms, it is stated that after the land is put into high cultivation the actual cost of bringing an acre of blaokberries or raspberries, well set and with no miss ing hills, to a good bearing age. it from $126 to $150. It is predicted that within a fn years all the work of the farm will be done by electricity. Not in a few years. The time may come when ln. trioity will play a considerable part in farming, but it will take longer than a few years. It is true that It ma h. utilized for some portion of the power umu ou we iarm in tne not very dis. taat fatare, '