i
LOT OF THE FARMER
A Prosperous One Compared
With Many Callings.
SECRETARY MORTON'S REPORT
Treats of Foo4 Ioapectloe, Farm
" Mortgage, tha Waathar Bureau,
Fraa Seed!, Foreign Market.
Washington, Not. 24. Secretary
Morton, in hit fourth annanl report,
Just made pnbllo, ihowi that with
280,000, whioh may be saved from
the appropriations for the current fisoal
rear, there will hare been covered
back into the treasury aince March 7,
1893, over 2,000,000 of a toUl appro
priation of 111,179,455.
That thii great economy was effected
without any loss of efficiency, he attri
bute in a large degree to the improve
ment in the personnel of the force un
der civil serrioe rale, whioh he declares
to be "absolutely indispensable to the
maintenance of an eoonomio and effi
cient administration of the pnblio serv
ice." To complete the "already perfect sys
tem of oivil tervloe" in his department,
the secretary reoommends the appoint
ment of a permanent direotor in charge
of bureaus and scientific investigations.
The inspection of animals intended
for food is treated of at length, and
stress is laid upon the increased effiol
enoy of the work, dne to the extension
of oivll-aervioe roles, whioh has been
rapid in this service.
The total number of ante-mortem
inspection of oattle, sheep and hogs
j i .v. ok otif Ann m I..
orease over the previous year of over
60 per oent. The total number of post
mortem inspections was 23,164,868, an
increase of 26 per cent
For the sake of eoonomy, the exports
of miorosoopioally inspeoted pork to
countries not exaoting suoh inspection,
have been greatly discouraged. The
total amount thus inspected was in
round numbers 23,000,000 pounds, of
which 21,600,000 pounds went to conn-
tries requiring inspection.
Clearances were issued to 891 vessels
oarrying cattle and sheep. The num
ber of oattle tagged for export was
oa'f.eou, ana t,oua inspeoiea sneep
were exported. The percentage of lost
in transit was considerable less than
ever before.
Mr. Morton urges strongly that gov
ernment inspection should be extended
to all animals intended for human
food, whether for consumption in the
United States or abroad.
- The oattle and meat trade of Great
Britain is reviewed at length.. , Of live
meat arriving in the United Kingdom
, during the first six months of 1896, the
, United' .Sta.tei supplied 76 per oeni of
the oattle and 4, per eertf of the sheep.
The testimony of the department's
representatives abroad is that the oat
tie from tne United States arrive in
English porta in excellent oonditlon.
The Glasgow market is especially com
mended to American shippers.
' The report shows a steadily increas
ing demand in England for American
horses. During the first nine months
of the present year, more of these ani
mals were shipped to that oountry than
in any previous entire year.
The secretary again takes occasion to
express his opposition to the gratuitous
distribution of seeds and to express the
hope that the practice will be disoon
tinted. The report oonoludes with a
comprehensive review of the condition
of Amerioan farmers. Seventy-two per
oent of the farms in the United States,
occupied by their owners, are absolu
tely free from mortgages or other in
cumbrances. The secretary refutes the
idea- prevailing that the farms of the
West and South are more heavily bur
dened with mortgages than those of the
East and Northeast. States along the
North Atlantio, he says, are quite
heavily enoumbered with farm mort
gages, and New Jersey carried a debt
of this kind greater in proportion to its
farm valuation than any other state in
the Union. The frequent statement
that the farmers are almost universal
ly in debt, despondent and suffering,
be says deolares to be without any
foundation, a belittlement of agricul
ture and an indignity to every intelli
gent and practical farmer. The farm
ers are not mendioants nor wards of
the government to be treated to annui
ties, but the representatives of the old
est, most honorable, most essential oc
cupation of the human raoe, upon
whioh all other vooations depend for
subsistence and prosperity.
TRAINWRECKERS FOILED.
Planned to Hold Up the Union Pacific,
but Failed.
Salt Lake, Nov. 24. Just before the
7:45 Union Paoifio southbound train
reaohed Keyesville, fourteen miles
north, an employe of the road discov
ered men placing obstructions on the
track. When he approaohed and spoke,
he was answered by several shots, after
which the men fled. They had plaoed
ties aoross the track, and it is believed
it was the intention to hold-up the pas
senger train, due-in a short time. The
polioe of Farmington have - arrested
three suspioious oharaoters found in the
vicinity. ---
Accidentally Asphyxiated.,
New York, Nov. 24. An unknown
man and woman were found dead in
their bed in a room at the Standard ho
tel today, having been suffocated by
illuminating gas, whioh-was, flowing
from an open and unlighted burner in
the aprartmetnt. The polioe are still
ui v vnvign giusj u u v ejta aata v v ivuuu
nothing tending to indioate murder or
"k antnlriA. -anir thnv ata nf tha nnfntnn
i ii ipiisivi rra ri n it nnr rnav novaa xnnna-i
"s that that entire affair ir due to an ao-
' oident: -,: ' ,
i HIsslHlppl Steamer Sunk.
Memphis, Nov. 24. The Lee line
steamer City of Osoeola, Captain Henry
'Cooper, on her way from Ashpprt to
Memphis, sank at Craigshead point,
sixty miles above here tonight. Allot
the passengers and crew were' saved.
';" The cause of the aooident was a hidden
nr.atmnr.inn which the steamer struck
! - while making a landing.
... Penjaoola, FM.. , Nov. 24. The
schooner Red Wing, of Philadelphia,'
was lost sixty miles south of Pensaoola
last night - She sprung a leak and sank
la an boor.
RAYS AND THE
Kdlaoa
to Try HI Experiment
Millionaire Ron.
New York, Nov. 25. Charles Brad
way Rons is arranging with Mr. Edi
son for treatment with Roentgen rays
in the hope that his sight may be re
stored. Since the eleotrioian began
his experiments in applying "X" rays
for the restoration of sight no one has
taken more interest in the subject than
the millionaire merchant, who, for
more than two years, has been prao
tically blind.
'That is a single ray upon which to
base my hope," said Mr. Rouss, "I
have tried every oculist and every treat
ment that promised relief, and offered
11,000,000 for a cure, but it has all
been of no avail. If there is power in
this man called the "Wisard" to re
lieve me I want to know it"
John P. Martin has for some time
aoted as Rouss' proxy, hoping for a
restoration of his own sight, and has
submitted to all kinds of treatment,
but without favorable results. Now
he is to be a subject of the rays. Be
fore Martin becomes the subject of the
experiment, Edison wishes to investi
gate further and solve preliminary
problems. When this has been done,
a most elaborate and carefully prepared
line of treatment will be entered upon
with Mr. Martin as patient Every
step and effect will be carefully noted
and the result reported to eminent ocu
lists for their professional opinions.
Then if the treatment shows any ten
dency to restore sight or even to retard
the waste of the optio nerves Mr. Rouss
will be given the same treatment
THE LOST COLLIER.
Bight of Her Crew Lou Their Lives In
the Surf.
Point Arena, Cal., Nov. 25. The
steam collier San Benito, whioh went
aground a few miles north of this
place, will be a total wreck. Eight of
the vessel's orew have been drowned,
and the remaining thirty-five, after
suffering terribly from exposure, were
taken from the wreck today by boats
from the rescuing steamer Weeott In
the terrible fog of Sunday morning,
the San Benito crashed ashore in a dan
gerous locality, and is now resting on
the rocks gradually beating to pieces
by the oombined action of gale and
surf, . .When the steamer grounded two
boats were lowered, but they were all
drowned. The captain and remainder
of the orew stuok to the ship until
taken off by the resouing steamer. So
far as known those drowned are:
O. W. Soott, first assistant engineer.
C. H. Condon, second assistant en
gineer. M. Prendergast, fireman.
John H. Sheridan, messboy.
Three seamen, names unknown.
A Fatal Hunting Accident.
' Oakland, Cat, Nov. 26. A distress
ing hunting accident ocourred yester
day on the Newark marshes. Matthew
Peterson, son of a well-known contrac
tor of this oity, was shot and killed by
Albert Kline, a San Francisco commer
cial traveler, his oompanion in a duck
hunting trip. The shooting occurred
late in the afternoon not far from
Newark. Peterson and Kline were
seated near a blind in a duok pond,
awaiting a flight of birds. A flock of
ducks started near them, Kline oalled
to his companion to go to the blind, a
small platform hidden with tules. As
Peterson rose Kline reached for his
shotgun. The weapon was muddy,
and slipped in his hands. The oontents
of both barrels were emptied into Peter
son's head as the triggers were acci
dentally pulled.
Peterson was conscious almost until
he died. He made a statement to the
physioians and to the local justice of
the peaoe exonerating his oompanion.
He said the shooting was purely acci
dental. .
A Pallbearer Killed.
Double Springs, Ala., Nov. 25.
John Welton met a horrible death at
Shiloh burying-ground near here,
while aoting as one of the pallbearers
at the funeral of Junius Roberts, a
farmer. The coffin was lowered into
the grave by straps. The strap held
by Welton and another man snapped
as the ooffln was being lowered. Wel
ton lost his balanoe as the strap broke
and fell headlong into the grave,
which was six feet deep. At the same
time the rear end of the ooffln whioh
had been held by the broken strap also
plunged downward. The falling ooffln
atruok Welton on the head and banged
him against the side of - the grave,
which was of hard soil. Welton was
extricated, but died two hours after
ward. A Football Player Nearly Killed
Chioago, Nov. 26. During a foot
ball game this afternoon, Gavin
Wright, 15 years old, was ' taokled
around the neck and thrown to the
ground, the other players piling on top
of him. The ligaments of Wright's
neck were snapped and he received a
conoussion of the brain. He cannot
live twenty-four hours.
Busla Propose to Partition.
London, Nov. 2 5. The Daily Mall's
Berlin correspondent says the Grand
Duke Nicholas, of Russia, on a recent
visit to Vienna, took with him a pro
posal for the partition ot Turkey among
the powers and to make Constantinople
a free port Russia to have Asia
Minor and England to have Egypt,
Insult to the Spanish Flag.
New Castle, Del. , Nov. 26. It has
been learned here that the Duke of Te
tuan, Spain's . minister of foreign
affairs, has oabled to Senor de Lome,
minister to the United States, to pro
test to the Amerioan government
against the insult to the Spanish flag in
this oity last week, when a local mili
tary oompany oarried the Spanish col
ors from the armory and burned them.
The shortest time for circuiting the
globe at present is sixty-six days.
Wall Being Sunk In the Capitol.
Salem, 'Or., Nov.- 25. The work of
sinking a well on the artesian plan
was begun on the state oapitol grounds
today. Secretary of State Kinoaid has
contracted with the Watson Bros , ot
Portland, to bore into the earth nntil
water to his taste shall be found.
Four-inoh pipe ia to be used. The well
is being sunk close to the intorsoction
of the walls in the northwest angle of
the oapitol.: It is hoped to have' the
work completed in time for the mem
bersof the legislature to drink from
"X"
the fountain.
NORTHWEST BREVITIES
Evidence ot Steady Growth
and Enterprise.
ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST
Front All the Cities and Towns of the
Thriving Bister State
Oregon.
Grant's Pass is to have a custom
quart mill soon.
Cattle are being shipped from Pen
dleton to Kansas City. ,
Having secured the Coos oounty
sourthouse the Coqille people are now
talking of a $40,000 building.
It was shown by the recent election
that Wallowa oounty 'a vote tell short
about 100 fiom what it was in June.
A petition is being circulated for
signature in Lebanon, asking the ooun
ty court to raise the bounty for coyote
scalps to $5.
Work of rebuilding the bridge over
the Walla Walla river, south ot Mil
ton, will be begun at onoe, but the
bridge will not be ready for travel for
two weeks or more.
A Crook oounty man has just re
turned from Tennessee, where he went
soul time since with a oar load of horses.
He reports having found a ready mar
ket for his horses, though the prioe
was low.
The oitizens of Ashland have organ
ized "a registration law" olub, the
purpose being to secure the enactment
this winter by the legislature of a law
providing tor a system of registration
of voters.
On the banks of the Willamette
slough, near Soappoose landing, there
are nerhans more than 6.000 cords of
wood whioh have been plaoed there by
people living in the vioinity of Soap
poose. This is the result ot one years'
work.
The Indian school at Fort Bidwell
now seems an assured faot The speoial
agent who has been looking after the
matter will proceed to open the school
in a short time. It will require a oorps
of seventeen teaohers in all.
The woolgrowers of Grant oounty
will meet this week for the purpose ot
organizing a woolgrowers' association
for the mutual protection ot all sheep
men, and to oonsider the proposition of
levying a tax to be used for the exter
mination of coyotes.
.Municipal authorities of Silverton
are in correspondence with persons at
Eaton Rapids, Mich., who are desirous
of ooming to Silverton to start a woolen
mill, if a sufficient bonus can be raised
by Silverton people. The Eastern oom
pany wants enough money to pay
freight on the machinery, furnish a
site and put up a building.
As the East-bound overland was
leaving Latourell one day last week,
a rock was hurled through the window
of an O. R. & N. car, striking Mrs.
Harding, wife of Condnotor Harding o1
The Dalles, who was ocoupylng one ol
the berths. For a time it was thought
Mrs. Harding was seriously injured
but her injuries proved to be only
slight
Washington.
A number of mutton sheep have been
sold in Ellensburg reoently for $1.75 a
head.
The expenses of conducting the elec
tion in Whitman oounty amounted tc
$2,408.62.
Ten thousand bushels of red obafl
and olub wheat . were sold in Walls
Walla last week at 73 cents a bushel.
Three immense wagon loads of fruit
trees passed through Ellensburg last
week en route from Yakima to the
Wenatohee oountry.
Governor-elect Rogers has announced
publioly that he will not be a candi
date for the United States senatorshij
before the next legislature.
A wood famine is still threatened in
Garfield. But very little oan tx
brought in there, and the supply of dry
wood in the mountains is said to be
praotioally exhausted.
The other night a large rook, weigh
ing about ten tons, oame rolling down
the hill and landed in Herring's ware
house in Stella, Wahkiakum county,
The fall of the rook shook the whole
town.
As a result ot two days' hunting on
the Columbia, between Pasco and Wal
lula, a correspondent of the Walla
Walla Gazette says he killed three
geese, two eagles, one ooyote, six jaok-
rabbits, two cottontails, one sage hen
and one muskrat
There is talk of organizing a ooyote
drive on a large scale in Garfield. II
is proposed to make a oirole six or eight
miles in diameter, embraoing a large
part of the oountry between Garfield
and the mountains to the east, and sur
round the "varmints. "
While digging a well on a farm
near Walla Walla last week workmen
found a knife imbedded in a olay for
mation, eighteen feet below the sur
face. The instrument is about ten
inohes long, and looks as though it had
been fashioned out of hoop iron. It is
now in the possession of Colonel Sears
at the oounty clerk's offloe, in Walla
Walla.
v The motormen and conduootri of the
Taooma Street Railway Company have
been appointed speoial policemen, with
out salaries. They are empowered to
arrest boys under 16; years ot age who
attempt to board cars while they are in
motion. .
Mr. G. A. Van Anda, of Rockland,
has a oow that is capable of making a
world's reoorc.( , She id fifteen-sixteenths
Jersey, and has made 481
pounds of butter, besides furnishing
the family with all the milk and oream
tor their own use.
Last week the university of Wash
ington reoeiyed from Alaska a fine
specimen of jade, dark green in ooior,
and showing signs of having been used
by man first as a sort ot quarry from
whioh he slowly and laboriously out
stone knives and spear points. Later
one end was ground down to an edge
to permit the stone to be used as an ax.
Along the sides of the stone are deeply
out grooves, at the bottom of wbioh are
shattered edges, showing where a knife
or spear point bad been out out The
specimen was found on Kotzebue sound
and is highly prized by the officials of
the university.
HE NEVER MADE MISTAKES.
XT. tsalth Couldn't Convince the Tel
ler that He Waa In Error.
"Excuse me," remarked the little
man to the paying teller at the bauk.
;bnt I believe you remember nieT"
"Tee,' replied the teller, "I remem
ber toxt. Tour name is Smith John
Rmlth. I cashed a I2.BOO check for
you this morning. "
"Tea, air, that's right; and I'm glad
to see that you remember me, as yon
made a slight error this morning, and
"We never make errors In this bank,
sir."
"But, sir; It Isn't right"
"I can't help whether It's right or
wrong. You should have counted your
money before you left the desk."
"I did count it, sir, and It seemed all
right; but after I reached my hotel I
counted It again, and fouud that you
had made a mistake."
"I have told you, sir, that we never
make mistakes here."
"Bat, sir "
"Don't but me; I know my business
The money was all right when you
connted It hero, and you have either
lost some of It or else had your pocket
pinked. You will have to stand to one
side, as there are others who must be
attended to."
"I would Uko to convince you that
n
"You can't convince me of anything,
and you will oblige me by leaving the
premises."
"Had I not.better leave my card, so
yon may send for me In case you find
that you have made a mistake?" '
"Ne, sir; I don't want your card."
"Very well," replied the little man.
meekly, aa he slowly took his depart
ure. The next morning, however, and for
a week following, the following ad
vertisement appeared In all the princi
pal dally papers of the city:
"If Mr. John 8mtth, who cashed a
check for $2,B00 at the First National
Sand Bank on the morning of the 0th
Inst will call at the bank as early as
convenient, he will greatly oblige the
paying teller."
The paying teller had Inadvertently
overpaid Mr. Smith the sum of f.'SO.
Misplaced Admiration.
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps gives, In Mc
Clure's Magazine, some reminiscences
of Whtttler, the humorous side of his
nature as well as the serious one. II j
Was full' of frolic, tn ft gentle way; no
one of the world's people ever had a
keener sense of humor. From every
Interview with him one carried "away
a good story or a sense of having had
a good time. He never darkened th.s
day or shadowed the heart He Inspir
ited and Invigorated.
"I like," he wrote to a friend, "the
wise Chinese proverb: 'You cannot pre
vent the birds of sadness from flylu'
over your head, but you may prevent
them from stopping to build their nests
in your halr'P"
A certain Story with which Lucy Lar
com Is Connected made one of the
amusing Incidents In his life.
A caller, one of the "Innumerable
throng that moves" to the doors of the
distinguished, there to Indulge the weak
curiosity of an Ignorance too pitiable to
resent, made himself troublesome ono
day In the poet's home at Amesbury.
''I have come, sir," he said pompous
ly, "to take yon by the hand. I have
long wished to know the author of
'Hannah Binding Shoes "
Now, Lucy Larcom happened to bo
sitting, In her serene fashion, silently
by the window at that time, and Mr.
Whlrtier turned toward her with the
courtly, bow Into which the Quaker
poet's simple manner could bend so
finely when he chose.
"I am happy," he replied, waving his
hand toward the lady In the window,
"to have the opportunity to present thee
to the author of that admirable poem
Lucy Larcom I"
A Risky Service.
The African Lakes Company has be
come so careful that It compels Its
agents to pay their own funeral ex
penses; so many agents died that an
order was actually Issued compelling
the agents to die at their own expense.
For a long while the company has en
Joyed a monopoly of trade.
PHYSICIANS WISE IN THEIR GEN
ERATION. The above class of scientinta rccnKnlae, and
have repeatedly borne u-iitlmony, to Iheellleacy
ol ilnatc.tter'a stomach Hitters an a remedy and
preventive of fever and ague, rheumatism,
want of vlKor, liver complaint, and some other
ailments and Infirm conditiona of the system.
Experience and observation havo taiiKht them
Its value. They but echo the verdict long;
alnce pronounced by the public and the press.
Only the benljjhted now are ignorant of Amer
lca'a tonlo and alterative.
The banister of life is full of splint
ers, and mankind slides down it with
considerable rapidity.
DEAFNESS CANNOT UK CUIIKD.
By local applications, as they cannot reach the
diseased portion of the ear. There ia only one
vat in cure deafness, and that la
tlonal remedies. Deafness la caused by an in
tained condition of the mucona lining of the
Eustachian Tube. When this tube la inflamed
von
ing. and when It ia entirely closed, deafness is
ou have a rumbling sotina or impericct near-
the res u LI. and unless the
nd unless the Inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to Its normal
condition, hearing will be destroyed forever;
nine cases out of ten arc caused by catarrh,
which Is nothing but an inflamed condition of
the mucous aunacea.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for any
case of deafneaa (caused by catarrh) that can
not be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure, send for
circulars; free.
F. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, O.
Bold by druggists. 75o.
liull's Family Pills are the beat.
Great things are not accomplished by
idle dreams, bnt by years of patience
and wisely direoted study. '
nr.ERKS AND SATjERMKN MALE AND FE
j male Employed and unemployed; aend
stamped aelf addressed envelope at once for
registration application blank to Employer!
Industrial Association. Home ofllce, 2i6 W ash
ington street, Portland, Oregon.
We will forfeit $1,000 if any of our pub
lished testimonials ore proven to he not
genuine.. Tits Pjbo Co., Warren, Pa. ,
We want your tea-trade
for the rest of your life.
" Do you see now how we
can afford to say: "Get
every sort of Schilling's
Best of your grocer, and
get your money back on
what you don't like"?
A Schilling St Company
baa rrauciace
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
Downing, Honklna Co.'a Review
ot
Traile. t
Portland, Or., Nov. 25. Wheat
traders who bate their operations on
the prospective rather than the present
scarcity of wheat have had their posi
tion fortified during the past week by
reports of unfavorable seeding in
Russia and France, it being too wet in
the latter and too dry in Southern
Russia tor the crop to make good prog
ress. They were also enoouraged by
reports of damage by locusts in Argen
tine. Millers took wheat freely In all
markets, and operators bought a few
cargoes at Chioago and at the seaboard.
The millers appear to have the buying
craze about as badly as the speculators,
but the oondition ot the Hour trade is
not suoh as to make one radically bull
ish. In the Northwest the millers
have sold so much flour for export that
foreigners have supplied their wants
for the time being, and export sales for
the week shows a decided falling off.
While it Is admitted that there ia no
big surplus of wheat, and that exports
are the heaviest since September, 181)3,
and we have sent out 67,000,000 bush
els ot wheat and flour from the United
States and Canadian ports stuoe July
1, or 20,000,000 bushels more than last
year, aud that our exports of flour up
to the first of the year will be heavy,
there is every possibility of our haviug
enough to eat until another crop is har
vested. A trade paper is oredited with the
statement that, estimating our total
crop this year at 400,000,000 bushels,
we have loft only about 22,000,000
bushels available for export. That is
a trifle less than one-third of the (17,
000,000 bushels already gone from
both coasts siuoe the close ot last June.
We are not informed aa to the basis of
this estimate, but may remark that,
even if the orop weie 60,000,000 larger
than this, whioh hardly is a supposable
oase In view of recent advioes, there
still would be left little more to go out
in the next eight months than has been
taken away in the first third part ot the
orop year. There is little use in turn
ing out exaot figures tor quantity when
so muoh uncertainty exists in regard to
the actual yield, but enough is known
to make it reasonably oertain that the
United States does not contain as muoh
wheat in publio and private stores, in
cluding those of the farm, aa will be
wanted for home oonsumpiton and ex
port between this and the time of our
next harvest, and we think a good
many of our people will waken up to a
perception of this faot, and of its vast
importance long ere the departure ot
the last cargo whioh has been bought
by shrewd foreigners at 15 to 20 cents
per bushel less than they would have
to pay for the artiole today. It well
may be said that sharp declines here
are in order, but they will only furnish
opportunities for buying to greater ad
vantage, as we should have to go back
many years in the record to find a
season when the British people were
so completely dependent upon the
Uuited States for bread as they are
today.
THE COMING SESSION.
Senator! Look for Little Sara Routine
Leglalatlon.
Washington, Nov. 25. Members of
the senate are ooming to Washington
eaoh day, and from Interviews with
eaoh of the arrivals it is apparent that
the senators expeot little save rontine
legislation, inoloding the passage of
the annual appropriation bills, at the
short session of oongreis.
Senators Oookrell, of Missouri, and
Hawley, of Connecticut, both gave ex
pression to thier opinions today, and
both likewise agreed in the opinion
that nothing need be expected at the
ooming session in the way of helping
along an international bimetallic con
ference. Senator Hawley does not be
lieve the Dingley bill will be enaoted
into a law, adding:
"The Dingley bill is confessedly a
mere makeshift, with all the defeots
inoident to horizontal increase or de
crease of duties. If it should be passed
as it is, it seems to me It would be the
duty of the president to assemble oon
gress as soon as possible after March 4
for a diligent consderation and revi
sion of the whole tariff in a oonsiderate
and conservative spirit, to the end that
a bill might be passed that would stand
the test of years, subject, of oourse, to
an occasional oorreotion where new in
ventions and changes in trade may de
mand it. It ia to be remembered, also,
that the Dingley bill expires by its
own limitation in August, 1898, and
it is impossible to evade the question;
therefore, the more speedy action there
is taken, the better."
An Armenian Borap.
Lynn, Mass., Nov. 35. The timely
arrival of the polioe prevented a riot at
an Armenian meeting last night The
meeting was an attempt to amalgamate
two branohes of the Hechagist Revolu
tionary Soolety, an Armenian organ
ization, to whioh nearly every one of
the 800 Armenians In this oity belong.
Soon it was evident there was a strong
sentiment against the movement and
one of the speakers was interrupted.
He resented this and aroused the ire of
some in the audienoe. Some person in
the gallery hurled a ohair, which pre
cipitated a free fight on the floor, in
whioh knives were drawn, but the po
lioe lushed in and cleared the hall.
Vanoouver, B. O., Nov. 25. A. O.
Stewart, a sohoolteacher in the Mount
Pleasant publio school, was probably
fatally shot this afternoon. He was
examining a 88-callber revolver in
Bickard's oigar store, whioh was not
thought to be loaded, but one oartridge
had somehow been left in the gun. He
was in the aot of taking the revolver
from Biokards when It went off, the
bullet striking him in the left breast.
The doctors think there is but little
hope of Stewart's recovery.
Blamarek Warns Germany.
Hamburg, Nov. 25. The Hambur
ger Nachriohten, Bismarok's organ,
flatly aoonses England of trying to kin
dle an European blaze under the pre
text of helping the Armenians. The
Nachriohten says further that Europe,
with inoonoeivable blindness, is play
ing into England's hands, and warns
Germany not to be allured by the dan
gerous adventure.
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