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The JnlILLSBR6 VOL. 3. IIILLSBORO, OREGON. THURSDAY, APRIL 2. 18. NO. 2. TELEGRAPHIC RESUME Events ot the Day in a dcnscd Form. Con- UK INTEREST TO ALL READERS Items of Iniportano From DoineatIS ud Foreign Sources Cream or the Dlipetuhes. Iko Plzor, negro, was lynohod in Bhreveport, La. , for attempting to as sault two young ladles, The negotiations bt-twoon France and Great Britain, however, promises a satisfactory settlement A d input oh from Bombay report a tremendous fire in the native quarter of Calcutta, aa tho result of which many persona were killed. Governor MaGraw, of Washington, has offered $000 reward for the appro bousion, arrest and oonviotion of tho ninrilejn'ra of Dr. J. II. Lyon, otKoslyn. ThoiAiis Hughes, Q. C, the author of "Tow Brown's Sohool Days," "Tom Brown at Oxford," etc, and tho foun der of the British settlement at Rugby, Tenn , died in London, aged 70. It is asserted in Paris that more powers boiides France and Russia will seize the occasion of the BritiBh-Egyp-tiau export it iou np the Nile to demand guarantee for theevaotiation of Egypt Rebels recently attacked the Japan ese near Fusan. After sevoral days' figting the rebels were repulsed. Many Japanese have been murdered, and Japanese warships have been sent to the scene of the disturbance. The athlotio team ot the university of California has received a telegram from the Harvard team accepting a challenge to meet May 23. The Cali fornia team will meet tho athletes of aeveral other oolloges on their Eastern tour. Lools Molberg, a oar repairer on the Groat Northern railroad, was fatally injured in Seattle by being oaught be tween the drawheadB of two flat-oars. A ocupling link was driven through his body, tearing his intestines in a horrible manner. A prominent butcher and one of the stockholders of the American Dressed Meat Company of Walla Walla, and W. A. Montgomery, who was employ ed as a butcher at the company's slaughter-yards, have been arrested on a nnurnn rt anii 1 1 n n Aurrla . a uimigu vi nvvAiiMij uiusv Bioyole tourists from the United 1 States and other oonntrles will this I year be reqinred to deposit, at the Can radian oustoin-house, the retail prioe of tnoir wiioeis on entering uanaaa, ana when the are exported baok the money wUMtwiehmded to the owners. Tk American Eleotrio-Heating Cor ; poratfoui which includes all the oom pihloi of importance engaged in the manufacture of elcotrio-heating appar atus, has been formed, with headquar ters in Boston. The new corporation is ooutrollod by a syndicate of Boston, New York and Western capitalists. The Mexican government ia making preparations for the abolition of all interstate and inter-mnnioipal duties in July, and taxes will be apportioned soientifioally. The reform is of the greatest importance and far-reaohing, and will greatly facilitate interna tional trade. Hiram H. Morrison, arrested in Bos ton after his wife had been found dead in their home, with linger marks npon her throat, has confessed that he choked the woman to death in a fit of Jealous rage at ber having a crowd of neighbors in the house drinking. He alleges he was also drunk. The trans-Missouri roads have not been as liberal with the Grand Army as the roads in the WeBtern Passenger Association. They havo deoided npon a rate of one fare for the round trip for the annual enoampmont in . St. Paul, instead of a rate of 1 oent per mile, as authorized by the roads of the Western Passenger Association, A New York paper says the revolu tion iu Nioaragua, acoording to intel ligence received through private chan nels, is more serious than the dis patcher from that oountry would indi cate. The strict press censorship estab lished by President Zelaya renders it Impossible for news of any oharacter except what is favorable to the govern' c-wi i BtrMriBh wrernment has offloial .ft ly--disclaimed responsibility for the fiery views expressed in the oolnmnB of the Madrid newspaper El Epooa, de manding that the United States cease talking about the Cnban insurrection or else deolare war at onoe npon Spain. The government felt that it might be harmful because it was intimated that the artiole waa inspired by it. At a meeting of the Associated Chambers of Commerce of the United Kingdom, held in London, a resolu tion expressing appreciation of ' the i friendly feeling displayed by theoham ' " ber of oommeroe of New York and the Rational board of trade of Philadelphia and representing their strong desire that a method be found for settling in a oonoiliatory spirit any differences which may arise, was adopted. A disDatoh from Athens reports the renewal of the murders of Christians in the island of Croto, and the exist enoe of a panic there owing to the be lief prevailing among the Cretan dep uties that the Turkish troops are wait' , ing for the Christians to retaliate for outrages, when they will seize the oo- 4 -'ihe deputies have issoked Hie protec tion of Greece. The most important opinion handed down by the oourt of appeals from a publio standpoint was that the state ot . Missouri has oomplete Jurisdiction over the Missouri and MssUaippl rivers where those rivers form the boundary line of the state, so that the state would have Jurisdiction over gambling or illegal whisky on a boat iu these rivers or any other illegal act done on the river. The Constantinople correspondent of the London Times saya the Turkish minister and first secretary of the Turkish legation at Washington have been recalled, owing to the sympathy for the Armenians manifested in the United States. This has been denied at the leagtion, however. It is also said that the sultan has promised Abraham Pasha 10,000 if be succeeds in inducing the Armenian patriarch to retire. Judge Piper, of Moscow, Idaho, has fixed the date of the execution of Frank Smith for the murder of Emmett Fox. Smith will be hanged May 1. A Judg ment for $83,649,280 was filed against the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Rail road, in favor of the Union Trust Com pany as trustees for the holders of first mortgage bonds. The amount is for the deficiency Judgment obtainod in February last against the railroad oompauy in Kansas. The state department has reoeived a cablegram from United States Minister Sraythe, at Port au Prince, Haytl, con firming the Paris report of the death of President Hippolyte. A terrible explosion of fire damp took place in a mine at Brunnerton, N. Z. Five persons were killed outright, and sixty more were entombed, with no hope of being rescued. The Iron Horse group ot mines, among the best known in the Trail Creek district in British Columbia, has been sold for 170,000 to Peter Porter. The Iron Horse is a gold produoer, and has a denned ledge, and is Bhipping ore. The Vose block, one of the finest in Muohias, Me., was burned and several business firms renting offices in the building, as well as lodgo-rooms, lost all their effects. The total damage if estimated at $2(0,000; Insurance, 150,000. An attempt was made to derail the Oregon express between Tehama and Vina, Cal., by placing ties on the track. The engineer saw the obstruc tion in time to avert a smashnp. No motive oan be given for the attempted derailment The London Standard's Berlin corre spondent aays that China has granted a concession to Russia to build a railroad from the Chita, in the trans-Baikal district of Siberia, through Manchuria to Port Arthur, the latter port being oeded to Russia in exohaugo for oertain important concessions. The resignation of John I, Hall as assitsant attorney-general of the inter ior department, has been presented to the president to take effeot May 1. Juge Hall resigns to aooept the general oounsolship ot the Georgia Southern & Florida Railway Company. His sue oeBsor as assistant attorney-general will be W. A. Little, of Columbus, Ga. A new play is being written in San Francisco, in which Mattie Overman and Mrs. Tunnell aro to have star parts. The play will follow olosely the dramatio incidents ot the recent careers of the Rev. C. O. Brown and Mrs. Mary Davidson. Riohard C. White is the author of the play. He saya it will eclipse the famous Durrant play. 2 The two three-story warehouses of the Pleasure Ridge Park Distillery Comnanv were destroyed by fire in Louisville, Ky., with all their con tents, inolnding upwards of 80,000 barrels of whisky. The total loss is about 1150,000, of whioh 1390,000 on bonded whisky, (1 0,000 on free vrhiskv and the remainder on the buildings. Three hnndred Chinese were blown to atoms by the explosion ot a maga sine attaohed to the fort at Kiangyin, China. The disaster, acoording to mail advioea reoeived by steamer, was the work of mutiueus soldiers, who were preparing to Join the seoret so- oiety rebels in an attaok on an adjaoent town, but whether through oareiesBness or by intention is not known, In the last week ot mild weather, Grand Valley, Colo,, throughout its length and breadth, is riddled with holes dug for fruit trees. It is esti mated that between 750,000 and 1, 000,000 fruit trees, apples, peaohes, plums and pears, chiefly, will be planted as soon as water ia turned into the irrieatins ditches. This is far the largest planting the valley has ever known. A desperate fight took plaoe in the village of Berry, 111. James and Charles Horning, two prominent yonng farmers, and James Housiok were shot in the fight. One of the Homings re oeived a wound in the leg, and tne other had hia hand and his arm shat tered by a ball Housiok was shot in the nook, and his injury is regarded as serious. The trouble grew out of the sending ot a valentine. Consternation was thrown into the oamp of the numerous heirs and claim ants to the Davis millions, when At torney M. J. Civanaugh filed a petition in the district oourt in Butte, Mont. , in behalf of Mrs. Huldah Queen Davis, otherwise known as Huldah Snell, of Kern county, Cal., laying olaim to the whole of the estate, worth many mu lions, alleging she is the surviving wife of the dead millionaire. It is stated that the Rev. C. O. Brown, ot San Franolsoo, will be tried by the Bay oonferenoe on the oharge of unministerial oonauot. ine onarges, it ia said, will be presented by either Dr,.Rader or !, Williams, and among Jems allege against tne accused minister are saidlo be his attempted deception of the press-, the discrepancy in hia testimony in the Davidson trial, where he is alleged to have testified one way la the police oourt and direct ly opposite In the superior oourt NORTHWEST BREVITIES Evidence ot Steady Growth and Enterprise. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST All the Cities and Towns of the PaolBc States and Territories Washington. Port TownBend is to have a bioyole track. Diphthorla has entirely disappeared from Ellensburg, and the sohools were re-opened. Potatoes are very oheap this spring at Ellensburg. A hunderd pound sack oan be bought for 85 cents, The Paoiflo county papers are in formed that the aurveyB of townships 12-5 and 12-0 have been accepted. Lieutenant J. H. Hetherington, United States army, has taken oharge of the branoh hydrographio offloe at Port Townsend. The board of state land commission ers has deoided to accept Skamania county bonds to the amount of $5,000, subject to approval of the attorney general. One thousand acres of winter wheat belonging to Milts C. Moore, at Eu reka Flat, Walla Walla oounty, was killed by the oold spell, and the ground is being resoeded. Monday was squirrel day with the Spokane county commissioners, and the day netted a total of 0,171 squirrel tails, for whioh the county paid $01.71. Just an even twenty persons brought in this number. The Pullman Palace Car Company has paid the tax on its cars operated on the O. R. & N. railway in Spokane oounty. This was brought about through the seizure of one of the sleeping-oars in use on the Northern Pa oiflo. Counoilman Hill, of North Yakima, is in favor of the appointment of an inspector of weights and measures. He says that many of the scales used in the city are not true, owing to the springs losing their strength, and in consequence full value is not reoeived by purchasers. New York capitalists are negotiating for the purohase of the Andrew Cham bers prairie, near Rainier, with the in tention of setting out the entire traot in fruit It is estimated that 50,000 trees, about seventy-five per cent of whioh will be prunes, will be put out in the vicinity of Rainier this season. Robert Soott has 1,000 peach and apple trees, whioh he is setting out on his Natohez ranoh, twelve miles from North Yakima plowing up eight acres of bops to aooommodate tne orohard. For eight consecutive years this ranoh has had a splendid peach orop, and its owner alleges mat ne nas never lost a single bud or blossom in all that time, from frost. If the Whitman oounty board of commissioners is contemplating the appropriation ot oonnty funds toward the destruction of the squirrel pests, the Garfield Enterprise protests against its being expended in Bcalp bounties. It declares that if any appropriations are made it should be by way of assist ing the aotual wheat raisers to buy poison. A gentleman from Goldendale tells a Dalles paper that the mining excite ment that was so high in Kliokitat county a few weeks ago has subsided, and those who left their farms expect ing to make their fortunes in the mines have settled down to agricultural pur suits, satisfied with, the slower but surer way of aooumulating wealth by raising grain. James O'Neill, deputy olerk ot the United States court at Spokane, re oeived a request from the agent of the seoret service at San Franoisoo asking him to pack np and send all the ooun terfeit ooins and Implements used in making suoh ooins that have been used as evidence in oases that have already been disposed of. The collection is rather an odd one, and will be nsed by the seoret service department in other oases of like kind. At Orohard prairie, in Spokane couutv. the farmers have formed an anti-squirrel olubof forty-four mem bers. There are two oaptains, who choose sides from the membership, and with their respective bands, have entered into aotive competition for the destruoiton of the pests. At the end ot the Bauirrel season the two sides will meet and oount the squirrel tails, The winning side is to have a pionio dinnor furnished by the losers. Two of the most prominent orohard- ists of Oroas island, George W. Meyer and George Gibba, have cut down and uprooted their prune orchards this spring, whioh were among the finest in that oounty and Just ooming into bear ing. Mr. Meyer is setting out pear trees instead, in wihoh he thinks there is more money. His aotion in destroy' ing his prune trees Just as they were ooming moely into bearing nas occa sioned considerable oomment among fruitgrowers, and will be likely to dis courage many from going into prune raising extensively. Oregon, Kern & Chnroh have awarded a eon traot for a cannery building n the Siletz river. The battle between the fruitgrowers and the fruitpests is now on in dead earnest in Jaokson oounty. Rainier has seoured her long-sought creamery, and consequently is happy, A oompany has been incorporated with a capital stock of $2,600. The Linn oonnty authorities have reoeived $10,041.68, being the amount due from taxes from the distribution of the $100,000 fund created by the I sale of the Oregon Pacific George Kykstra recently brought into Dallas 114 pounds of mohair sheared from forty goats, and sold it at 80 cents a pound. The coating ot each animal brought him 85 cents. The Milling & Mining Company at Elgin has sold all of its ties in the Elgin yard, 60,000, to the Oregon Lumber Company, of Baker City. The ties will be shipped East and used on the Union Pacific system. The contracting' firm of Butler, Bar ret & Stewart,' has about completed ar rangements for opening up a brickyard on bis ten-acre tract of land in North west Medford. He will commence making brick in a short time, and will put np a kiln of 100,000 brick. The Astoria Box Company has pur chased from Thomas Boyle all the re maining timber at its oamp on Young's river. There is about 1,000,000 feet in the lot, and it ia arriving daily at the mills. The silver-tipped gray squirrels are occasionally seen onoe more on the oak trees in Hood River. If these beauti ful animals oould be protected from vandal hunters, they would soon be oome numerous again on the handsome shade trees of that town, says the Glaoier. The moral wave has struck Prine- ville. An effort will be made by the W. C. T. U. to enforce the Sunday law and see that the saloons are closed on Sunday. There is a difference of opinion as to whether or not suoh a law oan be enforced in incorporated towns. Grandma" Follett, who lives at Willow Ranch, in Lake county, is re ported by the Lakeview Examiner to have fallen heir to $3,000,000 worth of property in the heart of New York city, a 99-year lease which was given by her father having expired. She is 90 years old. A gentleman living about four miles out on The Dalles road from Hood River, says there were three batohes of the California quail in his neighbor hood last summer and about twenty five in each hatch. He recently saw flock of them numbering about forty. These quail are from the ones imported by Captain Coe. Mrs. Laurinda W. Reeves died at North Powder, Union oounty, Marob 19, 1896, at the age of 68. She was born in the state of New York, and re moved to Illinois in 1838, and to Ore gon in 1876, going to Union oounty in 1879. She left three ohildren, Robert Lloyd of Union and Mrs. J. E. Carroll and T. J. Lloyd of North Powder. The beautiful oountry residence of Thomas Tanner, about seven miles west of North Powder, in Union coun ty, was totally destroyed by fire last week. The fire originated in a defec tive flue. An old bouse and some sheds standing near were also destroyed. The loss will probably aggregate not leas than $3,000. There was no in suranoe. A whole mountain ot asbestos has been found on Beach creek, about four miles north of Mount Vernon, near Adam Gordon's residence The ma terial varies from a half inoh to two inohes in thickness and is of excellent quality. A band of sheep had been herded over the mountain, and where their hoof had beaten the rook the threads of the mineral could be gath ered np like so muoh wool. Idaho, A postoffloe has been established at Swanlake, Bannock oounty, Idaho, with Floyd F. Whitt as postmaster. This offloe is four miles north of Ox ford. The Northern Paoiflo steamer Georgia Oakes will oommenoe regular trips be tween Coeur d'Alene and Mission April 1. This boat connects the nar row-guage railroad to the Coeur d'Alene mines, and the Nortben Pa oiflo tram from Spokane. Captain S. G. Fisher, Indian agent at Lapwai, was in Lewiston recently, aooompanied by Robert Stainton, who is assisting in making np the Indian pay rolls. Captain Fisher says that about May 1 there will be another pay ment of $200,000 or more to the In dians. A mining boom has struok Moscow People are locating claims on the mountains north of town. Quarts has been fonnd on the surfaoe whioh assays well in both gold and silver. A olaim was staked on the very summit of Monnt Moscow, taking in 2,000 feet of the big ledge there. There is a town on the upper Snake river, called New Sweden. Hans Hansen is mayor of the town, Peter Petersen is clerk and the common oonnoil is oomposed of Peter Hansen, Hans Petersen, Peter Hans Petersen, Hans Peter Hansen, and Peter Hansen Hans Petersen. No relationship exists among these men. Montana. The several papers read before the Mining and Immigration convention held at Helena last week should be printed in book form and circulated through the East For the week ending Maroh 14 there were sold on the Chioago Mineral & Mining Board 780,800 shares of stock at an average value of 10 oents per share! There are at present twenty mining oompanies listed among them being but two from Montana. The Columbia & Red Mountain railroad has been granted right of way through the Colville reservation. The road will enter at a poiut near the Lit tle Dalles on the Columbia river in Ste vens oounty, from whioh point it will extend in a northerly directions to the international boundary line. There are twenty oreeks in this oountry whioh have been dignified with the name ot the Tiber. THE PLAN IS ILLEGAL Court Decides Against Hill's Consolidation Scheme. LAW ON PARALLEL RAILROADS Public Cannot Be Benefited by Joining of Competing Line Opinion De livered by Justice Brown. Washington, April 1. Justice Brown delivered an opinion of the su preme court today in the case of Thom as Pearsall vs. the Great Northern Railway Company, and the Louisville & Nashville Railway Company vs. the Commonwealth of Kentucky, as to the right of parallel competing railway lines to consolidate, holding in the case of the Great Northern that it could not under its charter, and in opposition to the aot of the Minnesota legislature of 1874, be consolidated with the Northern Pacific, as was sought to be accomplished. Justices Field and Brewer dissented. The case of Pearsall vs. the Great Northern railway oame to the supreme oourt from the United States circuit oourt for the district of Minnesota. It waa a bill in equity, filed by Pearsall, as a stockholder in the Great Northern oompany, against the oompany under the laws of the territory and the state of Minnesota to enjoin it from entering into an agreement with the Northern Paoiflo Railway Company, under which the property and franchises of the Northern Paoiflo Company were to be purchased. It appears that the Great Northern was originally incorporated under the name of the Minneapolis & St Cloud railway. The original char ter granted the company the right to connect with any railroad running in the same general direction and consoli date its stock or franchise with that of any other railway, and the question presented to the supreme oourt was whether the oompany could be deprived of this right by a subsequent aot of the state legislature, inhibiting the consol idation, lease or purchase by any rail way of the stock, property or franohise of any parallel or competing line, the legislature having such a law in 1874. The court answered the question in the affirmative. The oourt says that it was competent for the legislature to limit the charter and to "deolare that the power it had conferred npon the Minneapolis & St Cloud Company to consolidate its interest with other sim ilar corporations should not be exer- oised so far as applicable to parallel oompeting lines, inasmuch as it is for the interests of the peoople that there should be competition between parallel roads." 'The legislature," it continues, "has the right to assume in this connection that neither road would leduce its tar iff to a destructive or unprofitable fig ure or to a point where either road would become valueless to' its stock holders, and the objeot of the aot in question is to prevent suoh a combina tion between the two as would consti tute a monopoly." GOLD IN ALASKA. Keport of the Operation! of the Geolog ical Survey, Washington, April 1. The geolog ical survey has reported to Secretary Smith on the operations of the survey during the field season of last year. Discussing investigations in the Alaskan gold fields, the report says that many small veins of rather rich ore occur on the southern side of the Silver Bow basin, about three miles northeast of Juneau. The old lakebeds there are suooeBsfully worked for gold by the hydraulic process. At Seward City, fifty miles north of Juneau, there are also veins, extremely rioh at some points, which are yielding gold. On Admirality island there are promising veins, and mining there will be oommenced in the summer. Near Sitka, especially along Silver bay and in the oountry to the southeast, there are numerous veins, some of whioh have yielded a little gold. The report of Dr. Hall, the expert who investigated the ooal resouroes of Alaska, says large fields of a fairly good quality of brown coal exist on the eastern shores of Cook's inlet, and that veins of eoonomio value exist on the south shore of the Alaskan penin sula. Two Suicides In Portland. Portland, Or., April 1. Max Friendly, manager of the California wine depot, committed suicide by send' ing a bullet through his head, with inch fatal effeot that he only lived twenty minutes. Mr. Friendly was one of the old residents of Oregon, hav ing lived in Benton oounty for about thirty years, and he oame to Portland to make his home a little more than a year ago. He left no note telling why he oommitted the rash aot John E Bartosoh, living at 846 Rus sell street, Albina, a dealer in boots and shoes, oommitted suioide yesterday at the borne of his daughter, Mrs. C. E. Cluth, on Government island, in the Columbia river. Attacked Governor Hughes. Phoenix, Ariz., April 1. Governor L. C. Hughes was assaulted on the street this morning by P. J. Clark, correspondent at Phoenix for the Den ver Times. Clark struok the governor in the faoe, the blow breaking the gov ernor's spectacles and oausing several faoe wounds of small importance. Clark is now in the oity prison await' ing trial. He was formerly agent here of the Rooky Mountain News, and was dismissed by the paper, so Clark as' serts, at the governor's instigation, for sending telegrams reflecting npon the executive. CONGRESSIONAL NEWS. Condenaed Record of the Doings of the Nation's Lawmakers Senate- Washington, March 28. After a ses sion with the senate conference com mittee on the Cuban question today of leas than half an hour, the house con ferees agreed to aooept the senate reso lutions. This action will have the effect of taking the question enitrely out of the senate and tranBferringall further discussion to the house. The senate passed most of the day on the legislative appropriation bill, but did not oomplete it owing to Sherman's motion to strike out the proposition for the change from fees to salaires for United States district attorneys and marshals. The subject was debated at length. Allen introduced a resolution today declaring that congress should not adjourn without restoring free coinage and taking from the secretary of the treasury the power to issue bonds. Washington, March 80. The senate indulged in an acrimonious political debate today, whioh developed much personal and party feeling, and brought on two sharp personal exohanges be tween Hill and Elkins. The senate comimtee on public buildings and grounds today voted to recommend the passage of the bill appropriating $2, 000.000 for a new building at Indian apolis; the bill for a government building at Oakland, CaL, and the bill for the purchase of a site for a building at Salem, Or. At the olose of the day the senate passed the legislative appro priation bill, carrying $21,500,000. Aside from providing the usual appro priations, the bill is important, as effecting a reform of the system of compensation for United States dis trict attorneys and marshals, salaries being substituted for fees. Washington, April 1. The senate is to have a revival of financial and bond discussion as the result of an animated debate shortly before the session closed today. Peffer's resolution for the ap pointment of a speoial committee of five senators to investigate the recent bond issues bad been relegated to the calendar, owing to the opposition of Hill, but it was reaohed in the regular order today. Again Hill sought to have the resolution go over but he was met by energetio protests. Peffer gave notice that be would move to pro ceed with this bond inquiry resolution as soon as George concludes a speech on the Dupont case. This promises to bring a test vote unless dilatory taotios postpone the measure. Among the bills passed today were those appropri ating a $2,000,000 for a publio build ing at Indianapolis, and settling the long-pending accounts between the United States and Arkansas. House. Washington, March 28. The naval appropritaion bill was passed today by the house without substantial amend ment. An effort was made by the ad vocates of a larger increase of the naval strength than was authorized by the bill to increase the number of battle ships from four to six. This increase was supported on the floor by Hanley, Cummings and Johnson, and opposed by Boutelle, Lick and Robinson. The house by a large majority stood by the recommendation ot the oommittee, the proposition for six battleships muster ing only 82 votes against 134. The bill as passed oarries $31,611,034 and authorizes the construction of tour bat tleships and fifteen torpedo boats, the total cost of whioh will be in the neigh borhood of $35,000,000. Washington, Maroh 80. Hepburn of Iowa, in the house, anatagonized consideration of the sundry oivil appro priation bill, which Cannon, ohairman of the appropration committee, gave notice he would oall np today, by mov ing that the house proceed to the con sideration of the private olaim s. Can non opposed the motion of Hepburn, but on a rising vote he was defeated. He then demanded the ayes and noes, whioh were ordered. The roll oall re sulted 148 to 77. The house then went into committee of the whole for con sideration of bills on the private calen dar. Piok'er, ohairman of the oom mittee on invalid pensions, moved that bills from the oommittee on war claims be laid aside without prejudice, and that the oommittee consider only bills from the oommittee on. pensions, in valid pensions and military affairs. Some filibustering was attempted, but Pickler s motion was agreed to. Washington, April 1. The house to day took up the consideration of the sundry iovil appropriation bill and dis. posed of 15 of the 100 pages before ad' jonrnment . During the general de bate. Cannon, the present head of the appropriations oommittee, and - his predecessor, Sayres, interchanged opin ions as to present and passed appropria tions. Cannon, in the oourse of his remarks, expressed the opinion that the appropriations for this session oould not fall below $506,000,000. The ac tion of the oommittee in appropriating for contract work only until Maroh, 1897, was attacked, but Cannon justi fied it on the ground that the same thing had been done last year in the oase of the fortifloations bill. But few amendmens were added to the bill to day. Eight amendmens to increase the salaries of lighthouse superintend ents from 11,600 to 11,800 were adopted. Dlamlased From tho Service. Washington, Maroh 80. The result of the general court-martial in the oase of Medical Inspector Edward Kershner, U. S. N., oonvioted of violation of a lawful regulation issued by the secre tary of the navy, and also of eoandal ous conduct tending to the destruction of good morals, was made public in an order issued from the navy depatrment today. The officer was dismissed from be service. - The Nile, from its delta to the great lakes of Central Africa, is over 4,000 miles in length. ' SPAIN TO FIGHT ALONE None of the European Govern ments to Give Her Aid. PURELY PLATONIC SMPATHY She Should Dlaarm the Secessionists la Cuba and Conciliate American Sym pathies With Autonomy. New York, Maroh 80. A speoial to the World from Madrid, via Bayonne, France, says: It has leaked out in diplomatic cir oles here that the Spanish foreign offloe has been informed by its ambassadors in the principal European courts that Spain is not likely to receive more than purely platonio sympathy, even form the French government, in a con flict with the United States. The Spanish representatives in all the Eu ropean capitals have discovered that it is absurd to hope that any government would act in concert to support Spain, even by friendly mediation or moral influence. They have also discovered that both foreign governments and the whole European publio wonder why Spain does not immediately give Cuba and Porto Rico colony autonomy and self-government, suoh as England has given to Canada, in order to disarm the secessionists in Cuba and to concil iate American smypathies. NO GROUND FOR DAMAGES Franklin Mine Aeoldent Case Reverted bv the Supreme Court Olympia, March 80. The supreme oourt today reversed judgment in the case of Elizabeth Pugh et al., respond ents, vs. the Oregon Imporvement Company, appellant This aotion waa brought by the wife and children of John Pugh to recover damages for his death, whioh occurred in an aooident in the Franklin mine, in August, 1894, whereby thirty miners lost their lives. It is alleged the defendant negligently allowed fire to break out in the mine, and afterward negligently shut off ven tilation, suffocating the deceased. The judgment on the verdict rendered for the plaintiffs was for $4,000, whereupon appeal was taken on the grounds that there was no negligenoe on the part of the defendant proved, and, if there was, the deceased was guilty of contributory neglect. The supreme court, after reviewing the cir cumstances of the disaster, absolved the oompany of negligence, as the men foolishly neglected to leave the mine when it was apparent the fire had got ten beyond all control, and their situ ation was sufficient warning of their danger, as they were 900 feet under ground with a fire raging near them, whioh oould not be otherwise than a source of danger. They even failed to notify the men at the top to keep the fan going. The court holds Pugh had no right to depend upon the oompany 'a agents on the outside to do the right thing under such exciting circum stances, knowing a mistake might be fatal to him; but should have left the point of danger, as his fellow-workman, one Stevens, did, and as it was proven there was ample opportunity to da THE ZANTE CURRANTS CASE Decided by United Btatei Judge Mor row Teaterday. San Francisco, March 80. United States Judge Morrow rendered a deci sion in the celebrated "Zante currants" oase today, in whioh he held that all , ourrants ooming form Patras and Ceph-, alonia, in the island of Zante, were Zante currants in the meaning of the tariff law, and therefore subject to United States duties. The matter was brought up by Collector of Port Wise - in an application for a writ of review on questions of laws involved in the decision of the board ot United States appraisers at New York in the matter ot the classification of 5,000 barrels ot currants at San Franoisoo, whioh were invoiced as "plum-pudding label J cur rants. ' 1 The collector classified them as Zante currants, and assessed a duty of 1 W oents a pound thereon. The Im porters filed a protest with the general appraisers, olaiming the ourrants were not Zante ourarnts, but ourrants grown in the provinces of Greece, and there-; fore tree of duty as dried fruit, not otherwise provided for in the Wilson bill. The appraisers upheld the pro test, and thereupon Collector Wise re ferred the question to the United States oourt for final adjudication. In sum ming up, Judge Morrow says that, in his opinion, the classification of the ar ticle imported and involved in the oase made by Collector Wise was oorrect. and that the ourrants are subject to the duty ot 1 cents a pound. The oppo site decision of the general appraisers was declared erroneous and ordered re versed. Must Pay Damages. London, Maroh 80. In the libel suit brought by Mrs. Arthur Kitson against Dr. William Playfair, a verdiot was rendered today in favor of the plaintiff, awarding her $60,000 dam ages. The verdiot was greeted with loud cheering. The plaintiff fainted. The oase involved the right of an at tending physioian to disolose any seoret revealed in professional confi dence to him. The dootor, it appears, made a statement to his wife about Mrs. Kitson, and she communicated to Sir James Kitson, the brother ot Arthur Kitson, with the result that Sir James, who is a millionaire, withdrew an al lowance of $25,000, which he was mak ing to Mrs. Kits ju after her separation ' from his brother. Mrs. Playfair ia sister of Sir James and Arthur Kitson. . -.Every sneient oity of sots wsa lo oated on or near the sea or river. , . -