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The MSI JnllLLSB VOL. 111. iiiLLs-nouo, oukc.ox, tiiijksway, )i:cKMiii:ii 24, iww. NO. 40. R0, ! - , , ,. . . . , , EVENTS iff THE DAY Epitome ot the Telegraphic News of the World. TEHHK TICKS FROM THE WIRES An Interesting Collection of Items From tlx Two Hemispheres Presented In a Condensed Form, The oouveution of the American Fed eration of Labor hut adopted a resolu tion declaring that no ollloial of the federation ' should affiliate with any political party. Antonio J or 00, a religious fanatic, who murdered his father near Vine land, N. J., last week, hai been killed by the sheriff, lie wat trying to mur der big keeper, and the sheriff felled him with a club. In anticipation of mere fighting there, two German warships hare been ordered from Hong Koug to Manila. TlDvovernmeut is acting iu this mat ter iiragrceiiiont with other powers for the protection of their subjects. A I'h r Is paper publishes interviewi with prominent men of France and a foreign diplomat, all of whom reproach Great Britain and Hpaiu for abandon ing France in the Mextoan expedition ot lfjfii, the olijoot of which, they ay, v;ia to create an American government to counterbalance the power of the Uuiteil States. The Russian ambassador, M. de Noli dolf, bus had an andieuoe with the aultan of Turkey, at which he nrged the introduction of reform! and the grunting of amnesty to imprisoned Armenian. The sultan asserted that the reforms agreed upon by the powers already had been executed and prom ised to issue an amnesty decree in a few days. M. Phillipe Eugene Cuissart, radical L'nmitv fur thn first division nf I.UAn -uoe, Is dead. I Rouen dispatch says the French inier Marie Fuuny is a total loss, the inland of Alderuoy, The cap V was saved. Fourteen members of ,wirew were, drowned. Ernest Chwse, of Dotrolt, Mich., out tllrnukl ...1,. ....J .:.U J ,JUiL"veapon out his own throat from ear to etir and full deud beside her. lhe tragedy was the ohmax of a life of unhappiuess. Alexander Salvini, son of Tomaso Sulviiil, the great Italiiu actor, died in Florence, Italy. He died of Intes tinal tuberculosis. The Italian news papers publish eulogistia obituaries of the deceased actor. The Loudon News has a dispatch from Berlin with reference to rumor - ft reprisals against American pv.ro lini. It says that German consumers I Jikely to suitor wore by thii move . a American exporters, Russia biiu, Aarcely able to supply Ujrinany. Governor MoGraw, of Washington, has oflerod a reward of $ ibO for the ar rest and rtouviotiou of the person or persons who placed dynamite or othei explosives under the building occupied by L. A. Plant and brother, at Prairie, in Skagit county. This is in addition to the reward of 2B0 offered by the commissioners of that oounty. Representative KUis, if U egou, had introduced a bill extending until Janu ary 1, 181)9, the time iu which settlen upon forfeited railroau lands can ruukt payments. The hard times have mudi it difficult for settlers to make Iheii payments, and Mr. Kllis has been asked to scoure an extension. Thort ought to be no objection to the bill, and it will no doubt pas?, if time oau be obtained for its consideration. Senator Squire, of Washington, hai prepared an amendment wlii h he in tends offering to the sundry civil ap propriation bill, directing the secretary of the interior to apply $25,4-10 upon the penitentiary at Walla Walla. This is the amount that still remains unex pended of the appropriation of $30,001) made by congress for the purpose oi building a penitentiary in Washington It is the intention to have the balauoi used to oonstruot a wing on the peni tentiary. Hon. A. G. Blair, Canadian minister of railways and canals, and Colonel James Douiville, member of parliament, wore in Seattle recently and while there Mr. lilair reoited the results of Jhis investigations of Crow's Nest Pass Railway in British Columbia. Ho says the oountry is undoubtedly such that it will demand better railway facilities Cdonol Douiville, one ot the leading liberalista in the Dominion, says gov ernment aid should be extended to the Crow's Nest Pass railway. His idea is to run it as a public highway. The net results of the experiments of the board which is investigating the battleship steel has resulted in the con demnation of nearly the whole amount now Btaoked up in the Newport News Ship-Building Company's yard. Six out of twelve test pieces, which Should have been folded back on the vessels without breaking, either broke short off as readily as oasl-iron,.prj;ore apart with less brittleness, bu iue the less certainty of failing to meet contract re quirements. These disclosures will lead the board to extend their investi gations ration further than anticipated. Another race riot occurred near May-, field, Ky. , and a hundred shots were fired at the residence of Tom Chambers, colored, andjtie house afterwards burned. A number of negroes have been warned to leave town, and more . trouble is expeoted. The Southern Paoifio train was held up by masked men about 200 miles from San . Antonio, Tex. Three men ordered the engineer to stop the train, and, while one stood guard at the en gine, the two others went through the express oar and aeonred about 170. CONGRESS IN SESSION. " (taunts Seventh day The session of the sen ate .developed the most eventful and exoiting debate that either branch of congress has heard in a long time. It brought forward the recognized loaders of the various parties and elements, in cluding such oouspiouous figures as Sherman, Fryn, Teller, Gorman, Vest, Aldrich, Piatt, Mitchell of Oregon, Chandler, Hale and Allen, in notable statements on the leading questions which have engaged the attention of the oouutry of late. Not only was the line laid down on tariff and finance, but the debate partook of all the pent up fueling resultant from the national contest. It was dramatia in its inten sity, aud at all times absorbingly in teresting to the crowded galleries aud body ot senators. The debate came un expectedly when Vest called up the Allen resolution for consideration ot the Ding ley bill, in order to make re marks on it. But it remained for Sher man to formally announce that the Dingloy bill was dead. He said he oould not always speak for his asso ciates, but, iu view1 of what had been said on the floor, ho felt that he could safuly announce now that the Dingley bill oould not be pased, and that it was useless to waste futher time on it. Eighth day The senate today passed the immigration bill,- known as the Lodge bill, with a new section provid ing that the exclusion shall not apply to persons arriving from Cuba during the continuance of the present disor ders there. The strength of the bill was greater than had been expeoted, the final vote beiug 53 to 10. As passed, the bill amends the immigra tion laws so as to exclude from admis sion to the United States all persons over 10 years old who cannot read and write the language of their native country or some other language, but an admirable immigrant over the age of 16 may bring in with him, or send for bis wife or parent or grandparent or minor children or graudohildren, not withstanding their inability to read or write. The Cuban section added to the bill provides that the act shall cot apply to persons arriving in the United States from any port or place in the island ot Cuba during the oontinuauce of the present disorders there; provided suoh persons have heretofore been In habitants of that blind. The house amendments to the bill ' concerning lands of the Atlantlo road Company were and Hill, Piatt and & Paoifio Kail nouoouourred in Clark named as senate conferees. Ninth day The main event of the day was the presentation by Mr. Came ron ot tho report of the oommittee on foreign relations favorable to bis reso lution, reooguigiug the independence of Cuba. The proceeding was brief and perfunctory, the report not being read, and an agreement was speedily reached by which the resolution and report go over until after the holidays. Aside from the Cameron report Morgan of Alabama presented a further report on the same lines, embodying the views ot himself and Mills. ' The offer ing of the reports severd as a prelude to several brisk exohangos between sena tors. Mr. Gear made an nnsuooessful attempt to take up the Paoifio railroad funding bill, aud then gave notioe it would be urged after the holidays. Houm. Seventh day Bailey of Texas, creat ed a ripple of exoitement in ' the house today by asking iipmediate oonsidera iton of the resolution to investigate the construction of the battle-Bhip Texas. Dingloy of Maine, thought the resolu tion ought to be considered by the oom mittee on naval affairs before being acted npon; he therefore objeoted. On motion of Chairman Hull of the oom mittee on military affairs, the house went into oommittee of the whole for consideration of the army appro priation bill. Several amendments looking to the abandonment of the army and navy hospital at Hot Springs, Ark., and the surrender and transfer of the reservaiton to the interior de partment were offered. Eighth day The house today passed the third of the regular appropriation bills (that for the support of the army), and entered upon consideration ot the legislative, executive and judicial bill. The latter bill carries $21,669,809, or $36,399 more than the law for the cur rent year. . Fair progress was made to day. It is expected this bill and the military aoademy appropriation bill Will be passed before the holiday re cess. The army bill, as passed, makes no provision for the army and navy hospital at Hot Springs, Ark. Ninth day Almost the whole day was devoted to a debate on the pro vision of the bill relating to the con trol of the new congressional library. Both the appropriations and library committees offered plans for the future care of the building. After a some what aorimonions contest, the appro priations oommittee gained the vic tory, defeating the substitute of the library committee by a vote of 27 to 05. An amendment designed to plaoe the employes of the library under civil ser vice law was also defeated, 27 to 73. Librarian Spofford's salary was raised from $4,000 to $5,000. The senate amendments to the immigration bill were nonoonourred in. Bartholdt, chairman of the immigration oommit tee, sought to have the bill and amend ments recommitted to bis oommittee. New York, Deo. 48.-I! competi tion between the American' sugar re finery and the firm of Arbuckle Bros., coffee merchants, is on in earnest. Another reduction of one-half a oent per pound in the wholesale price of roasted .ooffee was made today, the second reduction this far, and there is a margin yet of four or five cents, it is said, before rook-bottom prices can be i reaped; that is the price at wbioh a , bans margin of profit can be made by the roasters, if any at all. WASHINGTON ROADS Commissioners File Their Annual Reports. VERY ELABORATE AND COUPLET lleoouimended Appropriations for Completion of State Hoad Dairy Coui-nlsslouer's Heport. Olympia, Wash., Deo. 22. The state road commissioner have filed their final report with the governor. It is very elaborate and oomplete, illus trated with photographs taken from different points in the mountains along the proposed Cascade road. Altogether the report does great credit to the com mission. The retiring board, believing that the state road should bo oarried on to final completion on all its branches, has recommended the following appro priations: For widening into a wagon road of that part of the present tour-foot road torn a point seven miles above Marble mountain to Gilbert Landie's cabin, to make the road available for heavy wagon traffio, $-1,000. For improvement of the trail be tween Landie's cabin aud Persball's cabin, $1,000. For widening into a wagon road of the present tour-foot roud from Per shall's cabin, near Casoade pass, to the mouth of Bridge creek, including the oonstruotion of a bridge at the lat ter point, $2,200. For the oonstruotion of a wagon road from the mouth of Bridge oreek to the head of Lake Chelan, $3,000. For the improvement of the trail from the mouth of Bridge oreek to Twitsp pass, $1,000. For wideniug into a wagon road of the present four-foot roadway from the mining camp ot Gilbert to the mouth of the Twitsp, including a bridge aoross Twitsp river, near the latter point, $2,500. , For extending the wagon road on the Colville Indian reservation from Crow's Nest, its present terminus, on Granite creek, to Eureka camp, $1,200. For the oonstruotion of a wagon road from Curlew lake, on the Colville reservation, to the present terminus of the wagon road on Sherwood (or Dead man) oreek, $7,000. Total appropriations recommended, $21,900. The Washington state dairy commis sioner, in his report to the governor for the year 1890, says, the past season has been one ot lower prices for dairy produota than any previous season, but says further that when one oonsiders the general average low prices of all farm produots, it cannot be wondered st that dairy produots should come in for their share of the general depres sion. Our markets have, however, maintained, exoept for a very short period, a generally higher average price than in any of our neighboring pro ducing states. The question of competition with California and Oregon produots, says the commissioner, is a serious one. A solution of the question of meeting this competition must be found with the understanding that it is impossible to keep this butter out when our mar kets warrant its importation, and this question will be a very hard one to grapple with. During the past year there havqyw-ui several new oreameries and oheesev tories started, the majority, however. being to a oeratin extent experimental , in nature and neoessarily small; but several with large capacities have been built. Following is an approximate esti mate of our imports: Butter, about 877,500 pounds; cheese, about 87,500, boisig about one half the importation ot the previous year. , The exports from here to Alaska have been the means of relieving our markets at various times. With our inoreased trade in that terri tory and a probible demand from the Orient, the outlook for the future is not without hope. , The total estimated value of our dairy produots is $840,643. 1 The expenses of the commission for the year has been $3,595. The Cruiser Brooklyn Philadelphia, Deo. 23 The oruiser Brooklyn, wbioh has been lying at League Island, navy -yard sinoe going into commission four weeks ago, will start on her first official oruise next Saturday. She will steam for the j naval station at Newport, K. 1. After her torpedoes have been taken on board, the oruiser will prooeed to' Brooklyn where the oitiz ns of that municipality will formally present to the ship a handsome silver service, After this oeremony and the attendant festivities are oonoluded, the ship will go to Hampton Roads and join the At lantio squadron. Smelting' Works to Start Up. Kansas City, Deo. 22. It is an nounced that the Kansas City Smelting & Refining Company's works, wbioh for some time past have been operated with a reduced foroe, will start up January 1 in all departments. The greatest number of men which have ever been employed by the works, namely 609, will be exceeded by 100 hands. Police OIHcer Killed. Kansas City, Deo. 22. Patrolman George W. Noah, the oldest man in point of servioe on the Kansas City police force, was found dead in a gully a mile from the oity tbis morning. A bullet had pierced his heart, and it is believed he was killed in a fight while trying to arrest some one. Of all the men, women and ohildren ,.rlZ" T"T. . .uVSf. " uri ...i is a uepuBiiiur iu tuo ubiuiiiub onviugt bank. CARLISLE'S REPORT. Statement of the Government's Finan cial Condition Vobt U luereaslng. Washington, Deo. - 28. Seoretary Carlisle, in bis annual report on the state of the finances shows the revenues of the government from all sources to have been $109,475,408, and the expen ditures $484,678,654, which leaves a defioit for the year ended June 1, 1896, of $25,203,245. In addition to the ordinary revenues collected during the year the oash in the treasury was increased by the fol lowing sums: From the sale of 100,000,000 4 per oent thirty-year bonds $111,166,240; aud from the issue of 4 per oent bondi in liquidation of interest accrued on refunding certificates converted durius the year, $4,130, making a total oi $111,170,876. As compared with the fiscal yeai 18U5, the receipts for 1896 increased $19,102,215, of which the following ar the principal items of increase: Crfntnmi 7,wi3,i:n Internal revenue . y,:ni,r.4 l'roftl on colimxe of bullion dopoijlu-d, etc....... l,2fVSia Postal service u,ill,iwu There is shown to , have been a de crease in ordinary expenditures of $4, 015,852. ESTIMATE FOR THIS YEAR. The revenues of the government for the ourrent fisoal year are thus esti mated upon the basis of existing laws: From custom" IHS.OOO.OOU Knim InteriiHl revenue lSu.ocio.iou Miscellaneous wmreen ai.iHKi.iMI ! From liontal service li,"!ia,120 j Total estimated revenue IIU7.71W.12U ! The expenditures tor the same period j are estimated at $472,293,120, leaving an estimated deficiency for the year of j $64,500,000. These estimates of receipts and ex penditures, the secretary says, are made upon the assumption that there will be no substantial ohange in exist ing business conditions, and that the present scale of public expenditures j will not be reduoed. But if our ordin ary business activity should be resumed and the consumption of artioles subject to taxation should increase to its normal proportions, there may be, in faot, no deficiency in our revenues. LAWYER STEEVES ACQUITTED. Jury Cain to an Agreement After Three Days. Portland, Or., Deo. 23. Xenophon N. Steeves is a free man. This morn ing at Hillsboro at 10- o'clock the one juror who bung out for conviction cap itulated, and a verdict of acquittal was returned to Judge McBride's court. For over twenty-four hours the ballot stood eleven for acquittal and oue for conviction. Saturday the jury stood ten for acquittal and two for convic tion, but yesterday one of the obstinate jurors gave np and sometime last night the twelfth man voted "not guilty" and the jury went to sleep. This morning when the baliff of the court was oalled he was informed that an agreement had been reached. Juror Ca tunings was indisposed from the long . confinement. He beoame so ill yesterday that he had to be taken to a physioian. The great expense of the trial and the time and oare expended in trying the oase demanded a verdict one way or another, aud when the result was announced in Portland general satis-, faction -was expressed. The Steeves jury locked up last Friday evening and up ft last night it was generally expeoted there would, be a disagree ment. ' Stoeves returns to Portland thia eveumK- He was the reoipient of many congratulations from friends to day on his acquittal. His friends in Portland have. been confident of bis ao quittal throughout, and have resolutely stood by him during the trial. A HEAVY FAILURE. National Bank of Illinois Closes lti , Doors Was a Large Concern. 1 Chicago, Deo. 23. The National i Bank of Illinois, one of the oldest anq best-known banking institutions in the oity, with assets.ot between $12,000, 000 and $15,000,000, closed today. The following notice was posted on the doors before banking hours: "This bank is in the hands of the national bank examiner, by , order of the controller of the treasury." This aotion was deoided upon at a meeting of the direotora last night after the bauk had been suspended from the Clearing House Association oi Chioago. Of the sixteen banks that oleared through the National Bank of Illinois, two are olosed E. S. Dyer & Co and Warmansdorf & Heineman. These two are mortgage loan banks and savings societies in a small way, failure is not expeoted to and their affect any business houses. The assets of E. S. Dyer & Co. are given at $1,000,000; liabiliites, $1,200,000- Warraansdorf's assets are $650,000; liabilities, $400, 000. The Security Title & Trust Com pany was appointed reoeiver for both firms. Six banks have made arrangements to clear through other' banks, and the remainder of the sixteen are making similar arrangements as fast as possible. The failure was a great surprise in ilnanoial and business oiroles. The cause of the suspension, as given in resolutions, are "unwarrantable and injudioious loans'" Ca dlnal BatollTi Church. Rome, Deo. 22. In the presence of numerous prelates and the best-known ' members of the American oolony, Car- dinal Satolli today took formal posses sion of the titular churoh ot Santa Maria dol Ara Cooli, to whioh he was assigned by the pope at the last con sistory. Cardinal Satolli delivered an eloqnent discourse in oonneotion with 'n ceremony. The room in whioh Napoleon died is now used at a stable. NOT A Burglars Made a Clean Sweep In Oregon City. THE POSTOFFICE IS BOBBED Broke Open Bare and Got Stamps and Caeh Amounting- to About twenty Eight Hundred Dollars.' Oregon City, Or., Deo. 21. When Postmaster S. K. Green opened the postoffioe a little before 7 o'clock this morning be found that somebody bad been there before bim. The door lead ing from the postoffioe proper into the front corridor was ajar. The rear door was also open, though the iron shutters had been pushed together so that a rtasnal inspection from the out side would not show anything wrong. This led to more careful scrutiny, and the outside door of the safe was found to be open. Upon swinging the inner door back, the postmaster discovered that the safe bad been robbed ot every thing of value postage stamps, cash, and even bis private papers, including three notes amounting to about $500. A few pennies bad been left in the till at the stamp window, and these were also .taken. Upon checking np the business ot the office this afternoon, it was ascertained that stamps ot the value of $2,159.69 and $624.92 in cash were missing. The registered pack ages were mostly notices sent out from the land office here, and contained nothing of negotiable value. Two of them had been torn open and their oharaoter ascertained, and the remain der were unmolested. In addition to the $2,784.61 above mentioned, $9 be longing to Miss Gray, the assistant postmaster, was also missing. A gold filled watch and chain that were in the registered mail were left Entranoe through the baok door oi the postoffioe was effeoted by prying open with a jimmy the strong iron bars that guard the outside of the door. So much foroe was used that the bar that fastens the doors inside was greatly bent, and the doors born dis tinct marks of the iron instrument. The inner doors seem to have been opened with a skeleton key. The burglars bored two boles in the outer door of the safe, one just missing the combination, and the other being just right to expose the tumblers. A match shed sufficient light through the bole to enable the tumblers to be watched as the dial knob was turned, and thus the door was opened withont further violence. The inner door, however, bears marks showing that a considera ble effort must have been made before it yielded. A ragged hole, about eight inches in diameter, was made in the lower part of the door with a oold ohisel or some similar instrument, and through the hole the lock Inside oould be released. That done, the contents of the safe were entirely exposed to the thieves. The indications are that two men were engaged in the active work of the burglary, with a third as a lookout. There is no evidenoe that anything was hurriedly done. . AMERICANS IN NICARAGUA. PubUe Improvement Oontraoti Awarded to American Citizen!. New Orleans, Deo. 21. Eduardo Taluro, of Blueflelds, general adminis trator of the custom-house of the Nio araugan republic, who baa arrived here, gives an interesting aooount of the contracts awarded to Amerioans In Nioaragua and the struggle between American interests. "The contract for a telephone ser vioe in Bluefileds was awarded to Amerioans, as well as the contraot for the construction of the oharity hospi tal; the paving of streets1; the con struction of an eleotrio-light servioe and the deepening of the channels be tween Pearl lagoon and Blueflelds bay. The most important oontraot is for the construction ot a telephone overland from Blueflelds to Managua, which will plaoe the former port in direct cable oommunioatlon with the United States. i Senor Taluro deolared that President Zelaya is especially favorable to Amer ioans, but he is much hampered and opposed by Minister Luoiano Gomez, who is very hostile to Amerioans and favorable to the extension of German commercial interests. The probabili ties are there will be a split between Zelaya and Gomez, who is baoked in his policy by the conservative party of Nioaragua. Frozen 8 tin In a Sleigh. Middletown, N. Y,, Deo. 21. Peroy Middlebrook, Frank Roe and Patrick Powers, sons of prominent citizens of Florida, took a ride in a sleigh last night, returning at midnight Roe aud Powers attempted to assist Middlebrook from the sleigh, but found he was froaen stiff. Itevolt In Po'tuguese India. Bombay, Deo. 21. Advices from Goaj Goa, Portuguese India, say that tne insurgent Ranes have attaoked Pernem, and have burned and saoked the treasury. A foroe of 600 Portu guese troops were sent against the Ranes and scattered them, killing sev eral of their number. Killed by a Fall. , San Fianoisoo, Cal., Deo. 21. Frank Brown, foreman of the carpenters em ployed at the new ferry depot, fell sixty feet today. He struck iron gird era in falling, and reoeived injuries whioh oauBed death. Wheat Shortage In Mew South Walei Sydney, N. 8. W., Deo. 21. The government statistician estimates that the wheat yield of New South Wales is 7,864,000 bushels, which is 1,260, 000 bushels below the looal wants. SEALSKINS CHEAPER. Owing to the Falling OA la She De sand. San Franoisoo, Deo. 21. The sleek and costly sealskin seems to be some what out of fashion. The tale of a falling demand in the produot of Bear ing sea and the Paeiflo has just been told by tbe yearly sale at Lampson't, London. Telegrams have been re ceived in tbis oity, stating that the prioe for the Alaskan fur was 16 per oent less than that ot last year; that of Copper island (Russia) furs l4 per oent, and that ot Coast furs, Winding California and Japan, 30 per oent lower than in 1895. This news comes at a turpirse to lo cal tradesmen, for the catch of this year was muoh lower tbaq that of 1895. Tbe entire oatoh of the Canadian seal ers in Japanese waters and Bebring sea' amounted to 65,677 seals. In 1895, tbe oatob of . tbe Canadians amounted to 74,124, and 1894 to 97, 474 akins. The oatoh of the American pelagio sealers entered at tbit port amounted to only 5,040 teals, as against 16,000 In 1895. To tbe former number, 80,067 skins are added as tbe oatoh of the North Amerioan Com mercial Company on the seal islands. MINING TOWN BURNED. Jamestown, Cal., Had No Means or Fighting Fire. Sonora, Cal., Deo. 81. The little town of Jamestown, located right in the heart of the mother lode't riohest section, wat vitited by a costly fire this morning. The fire originated in a bakery, and tbe whole business seotion was at the flames mercy, and the disor ganized bucket brigade fought furious ly but feebly against odds. When it was seen that the volunteeri were un albe to successfully oope with the fire, telegrams were sent for assistance to near-by towns, and many persons re sponded. Giant powder wat used to cheok and confine the fire when the limited water supply and crude meant of getting it on the fire failed.. Nine buildings, all on the north tide of the street, were consumed with almost the entire contents. The loss it $40,000, with barely $5,000 lnturanoe. A favor able breeze saved the town from oom plete destruction. A HORRIBLE ATROCITY.. Bucket of Lye Water Thrown In Face of a Woman and Child. Cbillioothe, O., Deo. 21. There it great exoitement at Bethel, a small town three miles south of Kingston, tbit oounty, occasioned by a horrible atroolty which oocurred this afternoon. Two married women named Moon and Shell got into a quarrel over a trivial matter, which resulted in tbe Shell woman throwing a bucket of strong lye water into tbe faoe of Mrt. Moon and her infant daughter. Both have their eyes burned out and their heads and faoes were also horribly burned. The baby died in a short time, and the mother is in terrible agony, her death being looked for at any moment. Mrt, Shell made her escape, but is being pbraued by several hundred men and boys, assisted by dogs, and if oap- tured a lynching will follow. The po lice of tbis oity have been tummoned to the scene. Herrmann, the Magician, Dead. Roohester, N. Y., Deo. 21. Her mann, the magloian, died today oi heart disease in his private car at Great Valley, near Salamanca, on his way to Bradford. His remains will be forwarded to New York. Hermann oompleted hit engagement at tbe Ly ceum theater in this oity last night, and later was entertained at the Gene see Valley Club. (Professor Hermann, whose father was a sleight-of-hand performer, made bis debut at a magloian when he wat but 8 years old. He hat traveled all over Europe and Amerloa and has amassed a great fortune. Of late years he has made New York hit home. He spoke aeven different language! fluent ly, and had traveled around the world three times. He was naturalized in Boston in 1876.) Fardoned by Cleveland. Seattle, Wash., Deo. 31. Today Sheriff Van de Vanter, of thii oounty, reoeived notification from Washington, D. C, that Mrs. Margaret Morrison, a young woman ot Port Townsend, had been granted a conditional pardon by President Cleveland. She wat sen tenced to eight months' imprisonment and fined $50 and oosts tor smuggling opium from Viotoria. She has now been in jail five months, and her little daughter bat been permitted to share the same cell. President Cleveland grants the pardon on oondition that the fine and oosts are paid. They now amount to over $100, but the money will be subscribed by sympathizers. Goto't leprosy medicine, a new cure put forward by a Japanese physioian, is being tested in the San Franoisoo (Cal.) pesthouBe. Let's . take hold hands, Mr. Grocer, and dance I : ,We've got sorne beautiful business for you and with you, and for and with your customer. . Schilling's Best is the tea. Pay every customer's money back that don't like it. We'll payyou. There's money in it Bchli'tnff k Company NORTHWEST BREVITIES Evidence of Steady Growth and Enterprise. . ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST From All the Cities and Towns ef the Thriving Sliter States Oregon. The tbeep inspector ot Benton ooun ty says there are very few soabby sheep in that oounty. Prominent men in Heppner say that they will build a telephone line from Heppner to Long Creek, in Grant oounty, if they oan arrange for a satis factory bonus. Tbe legal complications that have to long arretted tbe operationi of the Divilbise quarti mill in Coot oounty, have finally been satisfactorily adjust ed, and tbe minert of tbe Johnson oreek distriot will now have free on of the mill. Superintendent Morrison, of the Westeren Union construction dpart ment, hat finished receiving and stor ing at Flavel 8,000 poles for tbe main telegraph line between Astoria and Portland. It required two aoree on -which to ttack thii material. While leveling off the groundt about the house on hit Blind Slough ranch, in Clatsop, Martin Impo found buried two feet in the earth an Indian stone weapon, shaped like a thip't marlin spike, having a hole bored through the handle, wbioh had evidently been made by a ttone implement, tayt the Astorian. , Some very old residents claim that Rogue river wat up' where the Grant'a Past depot now stands in 1863. The. river bed has deepened and widened very muob tinoe then, and' there it1 very little probability that it will ever overflow Jts left, bank .again. The winter of '62 made gullies and gulohes .' where all was level before. Fully 100. men are bard at work along the Alderbrook water front oat- -. . ting wood for their winter's use, says the Astorian. During the recent freshet hundreds of oords of wood, and about 2,000 shingle' bolts from the Cowlita river were thrown npon the beaob. It wat an intetetting sight to see these men cutting huge log into ' stove-wood lengths, and rolling them up the beach to their homes. They used a large instrument like a pair ot ioe tongs with whioh to drag the logt along. Fisher and William Logan, brothers, were caught out in tbe oold snap of last -month In Crook county, while driving oattle. They left their cattle and tried to reaoh the oabin that wat their dot-"' tination, but, thinking they oonld not -find it, they built a fire under a rim rook and remained there all night. It . wat the ooldett night, and othert who were nut tay it wat thirty-four degrest below zero. The men made .them selves at comfortable at they oould. They had no blankets, and while tit-1 ting around tbe fire both fell asleep, . and after awhile young Logan, wat. ,if awakened by hit olothet catching on ' fire. On waking np be found that both of hit feet were frozen. ' They also discovered when daylight oamt that they were in tight ot tbe .cabin. , - Washington. ,," , - There are said to be fully 500 cases of measlea reported and unreported la Walla Walla. Tbe Northern Paoifio Railway Com pany paid $9,008.60 taxes into the Lewis oounty treasury last week. Burglars attempted to open the safe hi the offloe of js-Ajaa-Agenl ; Krwln, at jr ort oiujoifl, of failed to get value. , The United Statet revenuebu Bear bat been taken to Quartermaster harbor to be put on the drydook for re pairs to her bull. A $0,000 oontraot has been let, and extensive repairs are to be made. Work will be returned at the Cowee man shingle mill, in Cowlitz oounty, st soon as the water recedes sufficiently to permit ot it. Attorney Fisk will have obarge of the plant It it the inten tion of the oompany to pay off all olalmt at toon at possible, A mandamus sued out to oompel tht commissioners of Jefferson oounty tp make a special levy to pay certain road warrantt wat quashed last Saturday at Fort Townsend. Tbe effect of the de cision it thought to be to invalidate the road warranto itsued under the law ot Maroh 7, 1800. . It it estimated that to build the tele pohne line from Eastern Washington to Puget sound pointt it will take 16, 000 polea, 1,884 milet of No. 10 bard drawn copper wire, 15,000 oross-arms and braoea and 83,000 pint and insu lators. The estimated oost of material and labor is $72,000. The Washington Mining Company has been incorporated for .$1,000,000. the , stook it divided into a million shares ot the' par value of $1 eaob. Tbe t'ru'feteet for the. first tlx montbi are J. " Lynch Montgomery, ' of New-, Yorkf Ralph L. Clarke and T. JH, Jefferson, , of Spokane, and John L. Retallack, of KrtSlO. I''. , ' ''.'.. The latt season's Work wt Hall Bishop's logging oamp, inf. Clallam: oounty, is one to be proud of. At the beginning ot tbe year two milet of rail-' . road were put down, and since then the loggers have been busy getting out logs. The season's out amounted to 7, 000,000 feet, most of which wat towed to Hadlook, and from there wat dis tributed to difforeiit pointt on the Sound and British Columbia. - Forty ' men were employed In the oamp throughout the year, it an average of $2 60 per dt . 1? , .J
