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EUGENE CITY GUARD. l.L.CAHMIKl.L. . . Proprietor. EUGENE CITY. OREGON. The South African diamond fields last year yielded gems amounting to 3.646,899 carats and valued at over $20,000,000. It is now an imperial regulation in Brazil that erons who die from yel low fever shall be cremated, the Stale bearing the expanse. Qukkn Victokia is an autograph collector, and she has recently added to her American department an auto graph of Andrew Jackson. Bkkkv, the English hangman, has executed 113 persons up to the pres ent time, tixlecn of them h iving been in Ireland and two in Scotland. William 11. Kkwauu commenced the practice of law at twenty-one, at thirtv-oiie was president of a State convention, and at thirty-seven Gov ernor of New York. A gkandnikcb of Kent, Miss Elena Blockman, who has attained consider able distinction as a painter, is at work in Madrid upon a life sized portrait of tho Queen Regent and the infant ling. Bknjamin L. Hume, a native of Vir ginia, who was Stonewall Jackson's guide during the lain war, is now liv ing on a farm near Madison, Oa. He m a Methodist minister, now on the retired I'st. A philan niHOPiBr in London lias established a Spectacle mission, where poor printers, tailors, shoemakers and seamstresses can have their eyes tried, end obtain spectacles for little or noth ing. ' Tiik body of mil A. Knoster, form erly of VcJfe, was cremated at Fresh Pond, L I., recently, making the 18'Jlh incineration since the opening of the crematory. Tiik last public whipping in the State of Rhode Island took place in Providence, July 12, 1827. Two horse thieves were Hogged with a cat-o'-uino tails by order of tito court. A G human newspaper lolls of an eld gypsy tiddler who awoke one night to find bis hut Hooded with water, and who, having no movable goods except an old bed-stead, a stool and a bass viol, stated himself on the latter and addled to dry laud, using one of the lata of his bed as an oar. Sthanok as it may seem, nioro 'peo ple enter Russia than come out of it. Jlotweon 1873 and 1881 the number of emigrants was 8,000,000, and the num ber of immigrant 9,450,000, Exi'KitTS, it is said, uow value a per loot ruby of live karats as being ten times more vatuablo than a diamond of the sumo weight. A perfect ruby eoonis to bo the rarest of all gems. Tiik Emperor Frederick is said, by Loudon Truth, to be a comparatively poor man, having been left little under tho will of Emperor William, and has othing to dispose of by will except about 120,000. The job of Emperor m not as lucrative, it soeius, as it once was. Ir is seldom that throe Empresses aiect each other at the same time. That unusual sight whs seen in Berlin recently. Stranger still was the fact that they were mother, daughter and Bioihcr in-law. Perhaps a similar oc currence has never been seen in the world's history. Qukkn Ciikistina. of Spain, has a taiiia for being photographed in com pany with her children. A recent picture presents a most charming fam ily group. It represents the queen re gent pouring tea at table, the baby king in his high chair at her unit) and the two infants looking demure and beautiful in their plain white dresses. La Himi Ciianu, the viceroy of China, is six feet tall, 65 years old, well built, gray and swarthy ; his eyes are dark and piercing and his teeth dark and uneven. When receiving Ameri can guests ho wears a gray Astrakan aurUmt with long, flowing sit eves, loose silken trousers, felt shoes and a taring hat with the button of his rank en the top and a peacock's feather Clicking out behind. John Quincy Adams' body servant while he was President, was Barney Morris, a Virginia uegro, who has just died at Galena, 111., at an advanced age. When he wtis a boy he was a slave in Commodore Stephen Decatur's family, and ws present at the duel ing ground at Itltdciiahurg when his master was killed by Couinio.'ore , Barron. . TELEGRAPHIC. Epitome of the Principal Evtnii attraction Patlir IirtorMt Now Deacon Isaac Bronson.of Fokevillo, Conn., murdered his wife with an hx and cut his own throat wnh a razor. The motive is unknown. As the remit of a boyish quarrel, Horatio Hatfield, aged 12 yeais, 'hot and fatally wounded Thomas J. Allen, sged 10. Sheriff John Rains and his son weie killed at Jackson, Tex., by W. W. Ter rell. An old family feud was the cause of the tight. Terrell was shot in three places. Thomas Prentice and Patrick Rooney were instantly killed, ami Henry Millbach was seriously injured at Wellsvillo, N. V., by the premature explosion of a dynamite cartridge. Fire at Fort Apache, A. T., destroyed tho entire quartermas'er and commis sary supplies. The estimated loss to the government, including buildings, is 1100,000. The Mexican freight depot and an adjoining building in Paso del Norte, Texas, burned, also about seventy freight cars. A largo amount of freight humeri. The estimated loi-s is if 200, 000. George Wilson, wife murderer, was hanged in the jail at Albion, N. Y. lie strangled his wife in bed, owing to complications growing out of his as sociation with pretty lG-year-old Laura Thompson. Wallace Mitchell, the murderer, who was brought back from Trindad, Col., to Syracuse, Kas., charged with the murder of a boy named Johnson and the wounding of his father June DUi, wns taken from the sheiiir by a body of armed men and lynched. A colored man named George Deans, his three little children, Hud an other child, Anna Godfrey, ate break fast, and soon afterward ull were taken violently sick. Two of the children died. Deans and his other child are in a critical condition. The Godfrey child will recover. By tho burning of a small frame house on Edwards street, occupied by Mr. Burmeister and family in St. Paul, Burmeister's 15-year-old daughter, Maud, and Mrs. Maggio Ross, an ar tist from Chippewa, Wis., were suffo cated to death. Burmoister and three younger children had a narrow escape. The small steam pleasure yacht Kuia was struck by the steamer James W. Baldwin, a mile south of New- burgh. . x. more were eight per sons in the small boat, and two of them, Miss Annie Miller, and the wife of Benjamin Odcll, Jr., were drowned. Tho rest of tbcm weio rescued by the steamer. At a ranch near Cheyenne, Mont., John Cowan was apprehended in the act of rilling a fellow cowboy's trunk, and he was taken to a corral and was alnnit to be hanged, when the foreman interfered and allowed him to escape. The enraged cowboys followed him and administered ossligation. Cowan half dead, reached Cheyenne and told his story, but no arresls were made. Silas Robinson shot bis wife and Nick Wiess, with whom she was out walking, at Minneapolis, Minn., and aflerwards put throe bullets into his own body. Robinson had been a drunken fellow, and his wife left him about eight mouths ago. Wiess fell fatally wounded. Mrs. Robinson was killed inslantly, while her husband will probably die from his suicidal shots. Mrs. Robinson bore ail unsul lied reputation. Un tho Pennsylvania A Schuylkill Valley railroad, at Cable City, a f night train was shifting cars when a gravel train bound for Shaiiiokin, Pa., ran into the rear end of it and ten out of eleven laborers who were Boated on the front car of the gravel train were buried in the wreck. When assistance arrived, six dead men, horribly man gled, wero taken out, and four others, badly injured. It is not believed they can live. Tho victims are all Hungar ians, and their names are yet unknown. It is rcorled from the flooded dis tricts of Mexico that 1,500 lives were lost by the inundation. One thou sand bodies have been recovered. Leon is a city of 10,000 inhabitants, and a largo part of it is in ruins. The Mexicau collector of customs at Paso del Xorte has received an otlicial dis patch stating that 100 miles of the Mexican Central railroad u impass able. It will be ten days before mails can get through, and twenty days be fore freight can bo moved. A south-bound train proceeding to Mobile, Ala., went through a small bridge at Tensa v. John Morgan, en gineer, Saul William, fireman, and two tramps who were stealing a ride, were killed. Mail Acent Davis was dangerously hurt. Four passengers and the baggage matcr were slightly injured. The engine, baggage csr. mail car, two passenger coaches and one sleeper were totally wrecked. The killed and womule.l were taken to Mo bile. The cause of the accident was a weak bridge undermined by heavy rain i. Reports from the Navajo country, N. M., state that some of the roving members of that Indian tribe are lie coining turbulent. Ike W. Stevens, a ptvsjicctor has at rived at Gallup, and gives information that he was attacked ty Indians, ambushed, whose weapons weie bows and arrows. One arrow pent (rated his shoulder blade. He es caped from tin in, making his way to 1'iochete's place, a friendly Indiau, who guided him through the country; Piochtte claims that the Indians who attacked Stevens Were ix 1'niled i iit s scouts mipi iyiu in Ucrvuinios i. id, COAST CULLINGS. Devoted Principally to Washington Territrrj and California. A telephone is being constructed be tween Farmington and Belmont, W.T. It take-i ten minutes for a train to pars the Cascade tunnel. Palouse City, W. T., is putting in an $8,000 system of water works. A new Episcopal church is to lie built at Tacouia, W. T., to cost $5,000. A fire at Aberdeen, Chehalis county, W. T., destroyed a iortion of the busi ness part of the town. Iron deposits which bid fair to be come valuable properties, have been discovered on Hood's canal, near Lake Cushman, W. T. Puget sound fir for fine car work is replacing the higher priced walnut and the Lonisiana ash as well as West India mahogany. Erastus Hankins, of Florence, Cal., gave hiniKelf up, saying he had shot and killed Win. Everson in a dispute over 50 cents. Tho jury in the case of John George charged with tho murder of Valentine McDonald, at Lone Treo bland, Cal., brought in a verdict of manslaughter. Henry Wattler, a well known florist of San Francisco, committed suicide in his bedroom. Ho cut his throat from ear to ear with a razor. The cause is unknown. M. F. Gillmore, a tesmcter, and a G. A. R. veteran of the 14'Jth Indiana, was thrown from his wagon and killed at Palouse, W. T., by a runaway team. A passing train blow its whistle, fright ening the team. A hotel in San Diego, Cal., was to tally destroyed by lire. Antono Wur dingor and F. Greaber, parties who had the dining room and kitchen leased, have been arrested on a charge of arson in setting the hotel on tire. The total loss will be about $12,000. Gus Gounct was handling a pistol at Sacramento, Cal., when the weapon was discharged, the bullet striking Sam Moulin iu the right temple and entering his brain. Gounet surrend ered himself at the station house but was released on giving bonds in the sum of $10,000. . A 7 year-old daughter of W. L. Feather, of Colfax, W. T., in the ab sence of its mother, took the coal oil can and proceeded to pour its contents into the stove, causing an explosion and scattering the oil over her clothes, which soon wrapped her in a sheet of flames, tho child lingered in great agony for ten hours, and then expired. A fire broke out in the brass works of J. Roylauce, at San Frapcisco. The buildings being wooden the llames soon spread and enveloped Myers's wood turning establishment, and tho Columbus Machine Works, and the brass works of Weld & King well were also badly burned iu the rear. The total loss will be about $15, 000. Two boys of II. M. Shaw, aged 7 and 9 years, wero carrying wood into the huue and playing, at Seattle, W. T., when the younger brother climbed upon a chair and reached for a re volver that was hanging on the wall, cocked it, and pointing it at his brother, fired. The charge entered the elder boy 'a head, killing him in stantly. Doc. Gutliold and J. N. Scott, paint ers, swung on a platform suspended by ropes forty feet from the ground. A rope suddenly broke on the side where Gutliold was at work, and he was precipitated to tho ground. He was picked up in an unconscious con dition, badly mutilated and sutTured internal injuries, and his Minis were broken in several places. One arm will have to be amputated. Fire broke out and eon-mmed the hoisting works at the Belmont mine, near Ophir, Cal. Three men were at work on a drift 100 feet from the sur face. Tho fire from the timbers of the (haft was extinguished. The men were found dead near the mouth oi the drill. Their names are Janus Reardoa and Joseph Hawkins. In the attempt to rescue tin men, An drew Larson also lost his life. The city marshal's attention was at tracted by a disturbance in a house of ill fame at CoKax, W. T. Upon his arrival on the scene, he was nu t by one of its occupants, Tim Maloney, who deliberately commenced firing upon the marshal. The marshal re sponded with a few shots, one tating effect in Malonoy's right side, the ball following a rib and lodging in his backbone. Tho wound is not con sidetod falal. John Vaughan, a dwarf, as a joke, poured a glass of beer into the pockit of Luke Curry nt San Francisco. Curry told him not to repeat the tuck if he tlid cot want to get hit, but the dwarf did not heed the warning. Curry pushed or struck or kicked Vatighin, who Ml to the !lHr. Vaughan went to the hospital and died. At the morgue Vaughan's It ft t-ide and groin was found to be bruised and dis colored. An autopsy showed death to have resulted from jn'ritoiiitis, result ing from a kick or a blow. At Haslett. Cal., James Sullivan had some dillieulty with a Chinese laborer, and knocked him senseless Sullivan then went to Daggett, a fuw milts distant, saying he needed some thing for protection, and purchased a pistol. He returned to Haslett, and, with a pistol in each hand, went up to a ni it n named Sherlock and com niencod talking. Sherlock walked away, when Sullivan hied, hitting him in the leg. He then went after the Chinese, and shot Chow (jtiong Mi vim in the fori head, the bullet Com ing out behind tho left tur, causing dtth in a few hours. i AGRICULTURAL. Devoted to tho Interest! of Farm en and Stockmen. A little oilmeal fed judiciously will save carding atid elbow grease. A cow is a mill. You can't give poor hay and poor silage and justly expect her to produce good milk and butter. All hw and wet places should be , drained. A few rods of drain tile will prevent slush and mud around the house. In no way can a farmer with less trouble enrich a poor field with scanty herbage than by feeding sheep on it. So affirms an English sheep farmer. If a solution of London purple is used for spraying orchard trees, you may know it has betn applied too strong if yellow blotches appear on the leaves ; later, the whole tree turns yellow and assumes an autumnal ap pearance. The winds in the spring shake the young trees and thereby damage them to a certain extent, but this can lie partially avoided by cutting back the young trees as much as possible be fore putting them in. The peach tree will thrive better if cut back and also become more "stocky." Watermelon hills may be prepared. Lay off the rows ten feet apart each way, and at each intersection di a hole two feet dep. At the bottom place a few chips, than manure. Next make a hill' three feet square, and work plenty of manure into the soil. Plant beet, carrot and parsnip seed early, so as not only to get ahe id of the grass but to give plenty of time for growth. The most important mat ter with such crops is to havo a pi r fectly fine, rich, clean seed-bed, and to use plenty of seed. The seed is slow in germinating, and often fail to sprout at all. A dairy export suggests that the proper way to dry off a cow as the end of her milking season approaches is not to gradually cease milking her, but to keep on milking the cow just as you had been, but stop her food ; not starve her down, but give her the kind of food that makes more flesh than milk and give her only a little of it, just enough to keep her in good condition. Sprouts which start from the limbs of apple-trees after sawing off should be pulled off during the months of July and August, as then the wounds heal over more quickly than at any other time of the year, while if they are left on until the following spring and then taken off more new sprouts will put out to take their place. The same with trimming trees, June being the best time for the work and March the worst, as then the wounds bleed freely and the bark below becomes thereby more or less disfigured and subject to rot. T. M. Winslow, of tho Ayrshire Breeders Association, being asked what is the averago yield of Ayrshire cows, writes that he has collected about 1.000 records for a year yield, and he finds that for cows and heifers the geneial is 6,525 pounds of milk for the year, and of manure cows 7,000, for a selection . of 75 cows he obtained an average of 9,220 pounds and all of this average he believes was obtained from ordinary treatment, common to all careful dairymen and and may be considered an average of Ayreshire as a breed at this time. That there is such a disease of the peach tree as yellows is unfortunately loo well attested. Still, much that passes for yellows is due 10 other causes poverty of soil and winter killing of the previous year's growth. In any kind of tree the withering or dying out of branches will in time af fect i's vitali'y. The apple is a great deal hardier and stronger tree than the peach, but even on this a dead limb is, if i'ot speedily removed, soon followed by others until the treo dies. Iu many cases other causes of peach trees dying are ascribed to yellows; not infriquently the cause will be found near the root iu an attack from the borer. In two days lawns may often be greatly improved, by giving a denser growth of grass, and by enriching the soil with toicdr-ssing. For enriching use line compost or pulverized old manure, and if the soil is known to be of such a character as to be strongly beiulitid by superphosphate or other special fertilizer, mix them with the manure. First, and early in spring,1 loosen the soil with a steel rake or1 sharp, tine harrow; then spread evenly the top drissing, and rake it thor oughly: thru tow grass seed heavily,) and hghlly rake it in. A roller passed over it will piess the earth and seed in contact and promote free growth. This treatment is well adapted to lawns which have become thin of grass, and the harrowing or raking should be of ten enough r. pealed to give the sur face a fine pulverix ition. It is stated that Mr. J. C. Jones, the noted buffalo breeder, of Kansas, re cently made a sale of live stock which is out of the usual run of such trans fers. He sold to Mr. Austin Corbin of New York, whose country resi dence is near Babylon, L. I., six head of buffaloes three bulls and three heifers. These are part of Mr. Jone' herd of tame buffaloes and were cap tured by him as calves in the Indian Nation and Texas. They are destined for Mr. Corbin's farm on Long I -land, where a number of native American wild animals are to be gathered by thai gentleman. The price paid for these buffaloes his not transpired, but: that the tigtue was h:gh may I in-J ft rrvd from the fact th .t on more "ban i one decision Mr. Jones has r i- ' $5W) a he;.d for menitx rs of his bird. MARKET REPORT. Reliable Quotations Carefully Revised Every Week. WHEAT Valley, $1 25H 26 Walla Walla, $1 17J(3l 18$. BARLEY Whole, $1 101 12J; ground, per ton, 25 0027 00. OATS Milling, 42J45o. ; feed, 44 HAY Baled, $15 0t'17 00. SEED Bluo Grass, 14J16.!.; Tim othy, 9J10a; Red Clover, 1415c. FLOUR Patent Roller, ,$4 00; Country Brand, $3 75. EGGS Per doz, 20o. BUTTER Fancy roll, per pound. 40c: nickled. 15i20ij.: inferior grade, 1522j. CHEESE Eastern, 16ai20c.; Ore gon, 1416c; California, 14.Jc. VEGETABLES B.ets. pw sack, $1 50; cabbige, per lb., 2Ji3. ; carrots, perek., $1 25; lettuce, per doz. 20,:.; onions. $1 00; potatoes, per 100 lbs., 90c.$l; radishes, per doz., 1520o. ; rhubarb, ier lb., 6c. HONEY In comb, per lb., 18c; strained, 5 g&l. tins, per lb. 8 Jo. POULTRY Chickens, per doz.. $2 003 00; ducks, per doz., $5 00 6 00; geese, $6 00 8 00; turkeys, per lb., 16 18c. PROVISIONS Oregon hams, 12.Jc per Ik; Eastern, 1313Jc. ; Eastern breakfast bacon, 12-. per lb.; Oregon 1213c; Eastern lard, 10ll$c. per lb.; Oregon, lOJc. GREEN FRUITS Apples, $2 00 2 50; Sicily lemon-, $6 006 50; California, $3 505 00 ; N ival oranges $6 00; Riverside, $100; Mediterra nean, $4 25. DRIED FRUITS Sun dried ap ples, 7Jc. per lb. ; machine dried, 10 lie; pit 'ess plums, 13c,; I'alian prunes, 1014o. ; peaches, 12J14o. ; raisins, $2 252 50. WOOL Valley, 1216c; Eastern Oregon. 10 14c. HIDES Dry beef hides, 810-,; culls, 67.; kip and calf, 810j.; Murrain, 10 12o. ; tallow, 33c. LUMBER Rough, per M, $10 00; edged, per M, $12 00; T. and G. sheathing, per M, $13 00; No. 2 floor ing, per M, $18 00; No. 2 ceiling,, per M,$18 00; No. 2 rustic, per M, $18 00; clear rough, per M, $20 00 ; clear P. 4 S, per M, $22 50; No. 1 flooring, per M. $22 50; No. 1 ceiling, per M, $22 50; No. 1 rustic, per M, $22 50; stepping, per M, $25 00; over 12 inches wide, extra, $1 00; lengths 40 to 50, extra, $2 00; lengths 50 to 60, extra, $4 00; 1J lath, per M, $2 25; 1J lath, per M, $2 50. MEAT Beef, wholesale, 33$c; dressed, 7c; sheen, 3 Jc; dre-sed, bo.; hogs, dressed, 77ic; veal, 78c. BEANS Quote small whites,$2 25; pinks, $2; bayos, $2; butter, $2 50; Li m as, $3 00 per cental. COFFEE Quote Salvador, 16c; Costa Rica, 1820c; Ri , 1820c; Java, 25Jc. ; Arbuckle's's roasted, 21f :. SALT Liverjiool grades of fine quoted $18, $19 and $20 for the three sizes; stock salt, $10. PICKLES Kegu quoted steady at $1 35. SUGAR Prices for barrels; Golden C.5c; extra C,5J!. ; dry granulated, 6Jii. ; crushed, fine crushed, cube and powdered, .71). ; extra C, 5v; halves and boxes, higher. Fifteen years ago tho Methodists had but one conference in the State of Kansas with only 18,000 members. To-day tlicy have four conference -, and 70.0U0 church members, and 6:1,000 scholars In their Sunday-schools. The annual public expenditure for education in Italy has reached the sum of $6,701,218. The number of public primary day-schools h 42,890, in which are about 1,873,723 pupils. Thero are also 7, 129 primary private schools, with 163,102 pupils. Some of tho Western cities pension their public school teachers after cer tain years of service. In Wisci nsin twenty-one years of faithful work en titles n teacher to a pension; and Cleve land is considering a proposition to ward the same end. In a recent religious canvass of Buffalo, N. Y.. in which eight denomi nations participated, only forty per sons were found in a total of 6.095 who reported themselves unbelievers ' in Christianity, and only threo "who claimed to be infidels. A German has taken out a patent for usinr bone slate pencils for writing They do not wear quick, and do not require to be sharpened. It is also to be supposed that young Indies will nol acquire any mo b d appetite for them, as iscomnmnh supposed some of them do for slate pencils. The greatest trouble experienced by the young ladies who teach in Chi nose Sunday-schools in this city is to keep the Chinamen from thjnking they are in love with them. They are in tensely vain ns a n l and tho ugliest Mongolian will imagine ho is admired on tho slight'-st provocation.- -thila-delphii Times Rev. Dr. Franels L Tatton, presi-dent-elect of Princeton College, hat frequently declared himself heartily in favor of all sorts of athletic sports practiced by college men, provided that the games mo placed under the proper restrictions. Ho gave a prac tical instance of this last week, when he presented four tennis courts which hail been pr.-p n ed under bis own In structions, to iho gtudcnUof the Theo logical Seiuiiury. OREGON NEWS. Everything of General Inter w Condensed Form. Geo. 0. Bingham, of Salem k boon appointed deputy prosecnfis. lorney oi Marion county. iK .T.din Hrunftil. ,.i iv . county, while trimmi it rr it. "4 his hor-o, was kicked in the eve may loose the sight of that organ A store at Brooks, hoi entered. Droit iM hv .- m that rlu VJZtam m Little was obtained. ..... D. .... tU) . Fred Crump, the insane convict. i made two desperate attempt V cide at Salem, has been commit the a-ylum. k The building board at Salem, W J. M. Gi man. a cnntrnni t. - . 1 hydraulic elevator in the stat The price is $2485. h A. C. Barber has been recommit to the postoflioe department t... pointment as postmaster at the n tKised office at Glentona, Lane co The fnllnw-no i A luoions (ta, . vs.cfti.ii anginal inr Benj4min Vaubn. Imnaha; Nn mother of Liberty R. Pull. XnL?V Mexican survivor, Andrew Fiilw2" Rev. W. A. Will isnn r,t a.. City, started up the clw-kanm riven, marry a couple, and did not reach destination until 4 o'clock the U,C ..,wiiiii.B. Asnenaj the licen in his poi ket, the expectant bride and groom had to await his arrival. Grant Osborne, of Eugene Citr aged about 25, staggered into a Bali and fell unconscious from an ot dose of morphine. An effort made to 8ve the young nian'B tit but without avail. He was not am phine fiend and not in the habit taking it. His parents, who are ml to-do, reside at Eugene City. S.-nator Mitchell has introduced i bill providing for the establishment!); a lightship, with fog signals, at the mouth of the Columbia river, ft also introduced an amendment to the i-undry civil bill, appropriating JlO 000 for the purchase of addition ground for the custom house at Pon Towneend. G iv. Pennoyer has appointed the following notaries public : G. Wilson, Portland; Anton Ffaumer, Center ville; S. J. Day, Jacksonville; H. V Cox, Echo ; S. F. Harding, McMinn ville ; C. II. Canfield. Oreson Titv n R. R. Murphy, Portland; A.lI.Lo n . . ti i i - ... . 0 caMi l oruanu ; u. u. Warmer, Coruo copia; J. R. Hegins, Astoria; Sut art S. Denning, Canyon City. The pension case of Martha Wood- 1., .. ... . mm, a iiiiuu woman aim a eoMien widow, which was conferred to a u ference between the senate and hoiw committees, has been renorted hucktn the house, with a recommendation U an increase of pension from $12to50 per niontn, and the conference reoor: was adopted. Mrs. Woodlum renito in Gaston, Washington county. John Drummond. of Ashland, iH about 73, committed suicide by (tool ing himself in the head with a revolver He was slopping at the house ol . n. vantiuren, and attempted, or threatened to kill Mrs. Van Huren bt- fore he shot himself. Mrs. VanBurec ran to a neighbor's house and Droit mond followed her only as far t th gate of her yard, when he placed th muzzle of his pistol in his mouth ir rind. A team ownrd by John McEwan,i P.utland, slruck the delivery team i an Oil Company which was bnekede; uttherurb. The tongue struck oi of the horses just behind the bhonkV and penetrated to the depth of tt cfx inche-, making a wound wbu would admit of a man's hand. I was with some difficulty that the of the tongue was pul'ed out, and Ik the blood gushed from the wouiid. ft poor aniniiil died. Steiibt-n Simur tha 11 vo.ir.nld If' - i . ji - of Thomas L. Sueur. of East PoriM died at the hospital from injuries r ceiveo at Aibina. The boy was a' ing a team attached to an ice mc' when a lliiKsiiu' Wnnintivn frivliteoi- i n - r ll... I...- I . i . l I. ! I me Homes miu iney lurneo Misrjuj one side breaking ihe tongue. 3tiph held Pluekilv to ilm liups but" pulled from his seat and dragged sen; distance. When nicked up it fi found his skull was fractured. J never recovered conscii tisness li the accident. The following articles of incorp lion Were tilod in fl-o r.fliep of StC .tary of State: Grand Aimy CtnaU': Ai-fociation, Portland, OngonlF' lecting its organization recording the law, and eliding trusties as lows: G E. Ciiukin, A. E 13"r'bi;" Z. T. Wright. Z. W. Chit. pher K. M:irlin PI .n. P. liosdtf" Coiihtruction Compuiv; inci -rporai J. F. Hustler, J. W. Conn, Frai k J T.vl,,. C F1 T TJ .-..nun. t W. Fulton, F. W. Newill, C. H.T1 John Fi x, S. W. Gordon, V. Bo J ltanllii.rn . n.l f! H CoCV? object, the construction, ftc, of ' ai.d toll roads in Ihe vicinity ei loria : capital t-tot k, if 10,uw, m of f 25 each. A lli'h Ollice. VhatdoM father do?" asked the teacher ' u' new boy. "He's a contractor, , th reply. -A railroad coiitractor " No ma'am, a sausage contract"1'- ties up the ends after another ni.m lill..,l tli. .1.1 " 7V,-R,7 Suudav School Teacher-,,ffl does it mean, Johnny, in the pr. where it savs "Lead us not in'" t''1'. tatiou." johnny-'-W'y I -''""-ri. means, they needn't troiiliie tli- 'cve because we can g into it ;,r?" without leadin'." Critic