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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1893)
linroln fniintv Ipdpr wuvv,u vvumvj ivuuvi. J 11 w 1 J. F. ITIWtKT, Pobllibar. kota for (500.000. i The United State hat 686 vessels en TOLEDO OREGON f ,?ed exclusively in foreign trade. Great I Britain has 6,908. OCCIDENTAL NEWS. Beach-Combers in Old Tacoraa liaise Their Shacks. PORTLAND OPIUM-SEIZURE CASES Much Discussion and Alarm Among Southern California Iieemen Over a Bee Dlseasw. Astoria capital will erect salmon Roberts in time jor . BUI1IKJI1 cannery at 1'oint next season's run. No damage was done to the govern ment jetty til the mouth of the Colum bia Ijv the lecent storm. The work of raising the Hun Pedro, wrecked oil' Victoria three years ago, ' has been delimtely abandoned. Operations ill the Went Consolidated Virginia and California mine were begun recently through, the Consoli dated Virginia shult. There is only one woman among the 303 convicts ut the Oregon ieuileiiliary. hlie was sent from .Morrow county fur cutting a harm-Ms to pieces. At i'oi'ulello, Idaho, an edict has gone forth that henceforth no married woman or unmarried man shall be employed in the public schools as a teacher. A man mumd Agilar deliberately threw bhi.ing kerosene on his wifu at Los Angeles. Hlie was frightfully burned, and is not expected to live. A led is to 1)0 mailu ot Hie ieguiity of Haeninieiilo's new charter. It is be lieved a decision can bu secured from the .Supremo Court by the lirst of the year. The party in search of Mr. Winston, who is thought to be lost in the Kierra Mm I re, has returned to l'asadena. A search of the Arroyo Seco Canyon is now to bo made. The statement of the Southern l'a citic railroad freight ollice shows that the total (mil shipments to the East from han .lose lor the scitsou up i-j December 2 was 05,432,700 poll'N.'s. An active volcano On the American side of tho HtrxilH was one of the scenes witnessed by the passengers on the steamer Maud, which returned from Al berni to Victoria, B. C, recently. A break in thu main water pipe in a street in Tombstone, A. T., last week was loiind to have been caused by thu roots ot a tree, which had grown around the pipe and crushed it so that it burst, It is understood the government in tends to return another indictment con taining more Hpccilic charges auainst the (leleiiilniiis in the opium seiV.uro cases at at Portland, and also that several other persons will be included. The Canadian I'ai'ilhi railroad will take the business o( the Canadian Navi gation Company the first of the year, and will pliuo a new sido-wheeler with Sieed of eighteen knots an hour on the route between Victoria and Vancouver. A woman at Spokane, Wash., was fined (20 a fowduja uuo (or practical joking. Shu perpetrated tho exceed ingly humorous, though not exactly new, joke of mixing the sugar and salt on thu talile of a public dining-room. The court called it disorderly conduct. President liwight llrainau o( the San Diego Land and Town Company has announced that thu company has de rided to extend thu National City and Oiuy railroad irom La Prosa into thu Upper SwecUatcr through the Jamaclui country into the eastern end of Cajon Valley. II. K. Council lias been appointed general agent for the l'uget Sound anil British Columbia (or the Oceanic Steam Hhii Coiii liny of Sail Francisco. It is said that Mgorous competition will he inaugurated with the Canadian Austral ian Stcamidiip Company. Thu lietrick Steamship Company, which proposes running the new whale huck steamer Everett between l'uget Sound and San Eraiicisoo, announces that it has closed a contract with thu Aiueiicaii Steel liargu Company for two more whalchucka to run between J url lund and Sun Francisco. There is much discussion and alarm among hcciucn of dilleieut localities in Iais Angeles county, Cal., over a diffuse, couimonly called thu " nameless dts-ea-e," that has pluyed havoc among iiccs in the Mast mid has crossed the Rockies into Soiillieru Calliornia. Some apiarists havu loft as many as lllly and seventy-live stands, its ravages have ruiued'oiie or two apiaries in Ontario, and the Is-emon are puzzled to know how to check It. Since the waters of the Coqllillo have receded it is learned that thu tliiniuue to thu Cikis Hay and Koschurg railroad is found to have been overestimated, but as it was nearly all backwater with no current, the receding Hoods leave the track only slightly damaged. There was a heavy wash at Cedar l'oint, which twisted and shifted two small span (n idges, w hich were only temporary structure. ,u rails or lies were nam- nmn. anil mere was inn imiiiim ui 1 . .1 . 1 1 . ... i.:i, .... 1 !?. ".r. " . . V . iZlZ I to thu ballasting, which had Just been completed U'loro tho ruinv season , r . . , ... , Tl ... , opened. Tho total damage will not ex-ce-d (5.000. Samuel P. Moise, formerly a wealthy 1 . . t t 1 c... i : moil mull 01 VM11111111, raiiw iu 1-1111 1 '""'I ..Li., ii.ui u ..til. incuts. While at the Palace ho pro- l erha.s the most famous distributor Hetited several checks to dillerent people ' lll''' ' 'uriX w ,l "" w tor various sums of monev, tho clucks 1 lhown ol New Hampshire, lie Ih tsmigdrawn on Omaha hunks. These ' ' "'k !. d kept it up until ..1 L ........ ...i.i I.,.. 1. f..r ...,lU-!i., Ins death this year at the age of ,0. and have been returned as worthless, with the additlonaiiufoi malion that the signatures to them are toigerios. The I k.-.l. v r i.uiiv itenies II. hi Mors..' holds auv stis k in that eoriMiration, and the Omaha banks state that the S, P. Morse Company bus Ih cii out of exist ence (or twoxears. Meanwhile Morse lias left the Palace Hotel, l'urtieswho have lost by him are ol the opinion that he is mentally unbalanced. l'ro(. Wicksonol the California Slate University recently made an examina tion of reclaimed title lands near the mouth of the Sun Joaquin river, with the view of selecting a situ for the sugar culture exiM-rnnent station, llu was in accordance i piMpiiation nude bv the lust C6ligrcM. The pro. lessor dis-S Hot (eel at liberty to make public Ills selection. Ho has reported ! the proper othcial at Washington, If the selection bo approved by the Washington authorities, the expert- mental culture ol sugar rune under intveriinient direction win pmiwniy - L..I.I.I C, 1 forma durtnii the eoiiilmt , liia nitibublo that the station w ill bo established on one ui the Islands at the betid o! BuUuu Bay. BUSINESS BREVITIES. An English syndicate has purchased 300 wren of mining lands in south Da- New Zealanders boast of an orange orchard one acre of which yielded (1,000 wonu 01 oranges. TheWaltham watch-making establish merit employs 1,800 women among its u,uw worn people. A single sponge has been found on the coast of Florida with a circumference of live feet six inches. One hundred years ago the United States imports aggregated (31,000,000; to-day, fWitt,H,421. The bituminous or soft-coal ontpnt in the United States now aggregates 100, 000,000 tons annually. Completion of the Tehuantepec rail road will open Mexico's richest collec section to the United Suites Seven hundred and twenty tons of cardboard are fa id to lie utilized every year in the use ot postal cants. More roses are if row n in the nrettv . ... ... . ' '"cy. vi age m .,,a,,,TOn inan any nnviu uim: iii iiiu iiiiicu niuies. During the last lineal year the United States smoked up 3,(100,000,000 cigarettes ami borrowed alsiut mill ol them. Until 1859 no pig iron whh mannf.iet tired in I'lttshuig. In 1X02 a total of 1,775,257 grofs tons were prodhced. The total currency of the United States is alsiut HHHd, 000,000. of this amount alsiut taoO.OOO.t 00 is in silver dollars. It is estimated that more than (1,2 10,. 000,000 worth of radroad property h this country is in the hands of receivers Aluminium is beginning to be utilized for rooting, in sheets like tin, the cod of it for that purpose being alsmt thu saint' as copper. The assets of the life-insurance com panies of the United States aggregate (850,000,000, while the gross income is (220,000,000. Something over 7,000 tons of silver were purchased under the act id 1890 by toe kdici.it kuViJiitli.Llil.il iliOnlol iiiAjul (150,000,000. Thirteen years ago the Argentine He public imported 0,000,000 bushels of wheat. This year it has 40,000,000 bush els for export. The gold production of tho United Slates for 1803 will be over (35,000,000 au increase o( (2,000,000 as compared with thu previous year. . - . -. The lumber export of tho United State in 1H02 amounted to (28,000,000. At tho present rate of use our supply will lie exhausted in 100 years. The carrying capacity of the cables be tween Australia ami Europe is from 72,- 000 to 100,000 words a day. The uctual trallic is alioul r,000 words a day. Excluding alsiut (12,000 small crafts, the commerce of the world is carried on by 45,000 vessels of 20,500,000 registered tons, with a carrying capacity of 48,000, 000. The American Casualty Insurance Company has got rid of (1,700,000 in its four years' existence, the company's losses being muiiily ascribed to its rail road business. Upon a recent purchase of 10,000 tons of raw sugar, not more than two weeks' supply, the American Sugar Refining Company will net, it is estimated, u prolit of'(2:!l,()00. Mr. l'rcstou, the I i rector of the Mint, is ipioted us saving that the world's pro duction of void this year will be full V (115,000,000, to which South Africa will contribute aliout (24,000,000. A statistician finds that the average value of a mule ii (7 more thun that of a horse. In Texas the mice of a mule is iiIkiiiI twice that of a horse, and in other Southern Stales it takes u longer purse to buy the long-cared quadruped. FUKF.LY 1'KUSONAU Queen Victoria lias presented to the I'itcairn Inlanders a Hue lilelsiat, which will Is' taken to them from Esipiiinuull, II. C, by thu 1'ucillc Hag ship Hoyal Ar thur. Chief Engineer A. II. Able, U, S. S., w ho has roi'cntlv completed his sea duty on thu cruiser Newark, w ill be Chief En gineer at thu league Inland navy yard, Philadelphia. William K. Smith, who for many years has Ih-cii the Superintendent of the Bo tanical liardeiis in Washington, has, it is suid, personally directed the planting of more than li.lHHI.POO trees in dill'crciit parts of the United Mates. ticncrul Jose M. Hernandez, who has resided recently in New York, but who is a revolutionist, a inn riot and 11 candi date for thu I'resiiiency of Venezuela, has Itccu prominent in half a dozen rev olutions, lie has seen the inside of more prisons than any other distinguished man in South America. So fat is Uilietigulu, the Mataliele monarch, whoso lauds England has suc cessfully coveted, that, although he is nearly ix feet tall, he seems to lie much shorter. When in full dress he wears a broad-hriiumed lelt hat, w ith a hunch of monkey skins around his waist. "Toby, M. I'.," who is thu caricaturist of thu Imperial I'arliument with the pen (or Uuidon Punch, as much as is I lurry Fiirucss with the pencil, is (anion lor his diminutive phvsical proportions, On tho stieet or in the lobby of the House of Commons lie seems merely a walking tall hat with a thin little pair of legs. tieiieral O. O. Howard, commander of i:..:.: 1 .1... it..:. .i iiiu cncu-iii 1 'i muni, ui mil 1 uiicu W-t.? J. -...ent attendant at the louiiu .Men s I tinslian Association I meetings in New York. On a recent I Sunday he delivered an address on the subject. " l-oviug Kind nei-s Between Ka- llier and !on. 110 la one ot the most I noted Christian workers in tho I'uited oi, .,.. states arm during that time no fewer than 120.000 "l,'' Scriptures wore given out H,,,l despite his age 111 tho two year preceding his death he canvassed lies. Joseph II. Mauley, Blaine's old-time friend, remarks caMialiy in passing: "It is useless to sni'ulute aUnit Presidential iHUMbiiitics at this tune. I'crtuiniv no man who bus auv piesidential aspira tion would (hank any ol his friends fur launching his boom at this distance (mm the national convention. It would ho almost fatal to any man to have his friends begin to Ihhiui him (01 the Presi dency three vears Is (ore the meeting of ! "w "' w.nr.u.u.i. I There I a good deal a'suit the present Ird Mayor of Mtthchcidcr'l history w hich rv eiublcs that of the noted Dick Wlullingtoii. lie was Isim in Iho little village of Fareet In Huntingdonshire. He was apprenticed to a draper, and on the expiration ol his apprentices! ip left wun no resources to seeK his lortiine II nil to Manchester, loiind work, pros- percd and. like Wluttinvton, ihsde a lor- tuns and. returning to Ins native towu, uirtted bis first master's daughter. EASTERN MELANGE. Annual Report of the Comp troller of the Currency. DESTITUTE MICHIGAN MINERS. The Gross Receipts of the World's Fair Fostoflice The Virginia Marl Deposits. Mcl'herson will lead the fight in the Senate for the Wilson bill. A Chicago company lias cornered In diana's output of block coal. Iowa lines are to make an effort to have local freight rates raised. South Carolina has netted in four months (32,198.10 on her liquor. Chiefs of Police of many big cities are in league to stamp out anarchy. It cost Philadelphia (3,0iU'l to bring the lils-rty bell home from Chicago. The cable-car managers are giving se rious attention to hfe-faving devices. A new gold Held, twenty miles square, has been discovered near UarUel, Col. Richard Maiifficld declares that there are 8,000 starving actors in this country. A Sout hern newspaper says that nearly every house in Honolulu has a telephone. Oranges from the Salt Kiver Valley, A. T., are now arriving in Eastern cities. The in i 1 at Concord, Mich., has been utilized for a hotel by a lack of prison ers. Attorney-General Little is afler the Kansas lottery companies with a sharp stick. The destitute condition of the people on the South Carolina islands demands relief. A Cincinnati man lias lieen fined (50 and conln (or abuaiug uuoliiui ujtn ovci the telephone. A syndicate of American capitalists is said to he organizing to control Nova Scotia lime kilns. four hundred coal miners at Ishpem ing, Mich., havu struck against rwt'ivhijf their pay in store orders. Gre.-s' receipts of the World's Fair Kstollice amounted to (01,388, and the expenditures were (20,014. Cincinnati capitalists will invest (1, 000,000 in milling the marl deposits along the coast of Virginia., New York's World's Fair building, which cost (150,000, was bought by a wrecking company for (1,200. Hills providing for investigation of election methods in several counties of New York are in course of preparation. Representative taw! believes that the prune industry of his district will bu ru ined if the Wilson turill' bill becomes law. Cashier Imis A. Ilillitird, who embez zled (15,000 from the Chicago Tribune Company, will wear stripes for four years. A company lias been organized in tho new Territory of Oklahoma to put. a llouring mill in every county in Okla homa. The free list will be enlarged by Rep resentative Wilson's bill, should it be come a law, by the addition of some 450 articles. It is not any longer " swell " to wear a big chrysanthemum in the New Yorker's hutton-hole, because it is regarded an a " Western fad." This year surpasses any 0110 in history (or railroad accidents. From November, 1892, to November, 18li:i, 2,318 wore killed on thu railroads. The Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette says Honolulu has a charming climate, hut its pest is the mosquito, with no frost to cut short its career. All Chinese laborers in the United Stales must register before a Collector of Internal Kevenuu beforu May 3 next, or else lie subject to deportation. The total American supply of orange this vcar is expected to lie 7,000,000 boxes, and the greatest previous yield, that of 1802, was only 5,450,000 Ihixcs. The National U'ligue for tho Protec tion of American Institutions at New York has issued an address to the public in defense of thu American free common school system. A doctor of Alleghany, Pa., kept a prematurely-horn infant, which the mot her thought dead, in an incubator (our months, and surprised thu mother by re storing it to her. A bill prohibiting prize-lighting in South Carolina has passed the General . , , ,. , Assemblv. 1 he penally is three years . , -1 ihyi il, . r .. .. iMii.iim.iiitii-iiv mm Y-VVW .i.iv iv 'ii.... pals and seconds. It is slated at Chicago that Wells, Fargo A Co. lor a cash bonus of (1,7(M, 000 and 40 per cent of tho gross receipts hud secured a new contract with the Southern Pucillc Company. Mam ice Blots, a vote repeater, has Im cu sentenced in the Federal Court at Kansas City to two years in the peniten tiary (or fraudulent voting at tho general election held November 8, 1802. The Eiie Mad has cut the provisions rate Irom Chicago to Boston from SO1. cents to 21'd cents, and to New York and Philadelphia in proportion. The other lines w ill make tho same rates. Nearly 500 groggeries in Chicago have lieen lorceil out of business since No vcnitier 1 on account o( the dull times, and it is probable that from 500 to 1. 000 others will fail to renew their licenses. Tho Iowa Tontine Investment Com pany at IH'S Moines has (ailed. Presi dent Stone is missing, and so are the (unds. Among tho victims at Des Moines are the President o( one bunk and two or three cashiers ol others. The result o( tho canvass as to the condition ot the destitute miners in Iron Mountain, Mich., is that 150 families, or alsiut tiOO vcrsons, are found to he iu actual w ant. In many instances 1 hihlren were found with scarcely any covering on them. It will cost the State of Pennsylvania alsiut (300.000 to elect a Congressman-st-lurge to tilt the vacancy can -id by the death ol General William l.illv, which ' occurred levcmler 1. The entire elee I lion machinery ol the Stale w ill bo called into play. The annual reirt of the Comptroller of the t urrencv shows s.r.Ht national banks in operation at the clow ol the I tiscal vcar, with a capital stock of (,. .WH I'M. bed tV S0O, WW stock Holder: total resources o( the banks, (3.1iH,.Vvl,- 284 ; total emulation, e.W.ail.iW, a net increase during the year ol (3,8S.,mi2. Mrs. Matilda Simpson died In liar- rodshurg. Kv., last wee. Mi was know n all over that section as " the sa I ludv." (or the reSMin that (or thirty years she had never lcen known to smile. Her hulvud tuvsteritin.lv dis- . appeared a sliott tun ai fter their inar- roue, and was never neani 01 aiter- ward. This occurrence transformed her (nun a merry young girl to a heart biokvu woman. FROM WASHINGTON CITY. Hermann has introduced a bill to yt.j the Vaalem band of Tillamook Indiana (10,500 and interest since 1851. Delegate Rawlins of Utah baa intro duced a bill to extend the time for mak ing proof on desert lands to five years. The subcommittee of the House Bank ing and Currency Committee has agreed to report favorably the bill to issue cir culating notes to the full amount of the bonds deposited to secure circulation. In the Senate Jlr. Mitchell of Oregon introduced a bill providing for the ap propriation of (15,000 for a lighthouse at Caoe Arago. Or., and iC.OOO for ranee lights at the mouth of the Willamette river, The Secretary of the Treasury has eem 10 ixingreas an estimate ior me im provement of rivers and harbors, amounting to i.3.415.000 in addition to the emanates heretofore furnished for 1804-5. Uland has introduced a new free-coin age bill, repealing that portion of the bill of October, 1873, preventing the coinage of silver dollars and re-enacting the coinage act of 1837. liland expects the Committee on Coinage will report an absolutely free-silver bill to the I louse. The pension bureau officials believe another nest of pension frauds has been discovered in New Orleans The charac ter of the operations are believed to be identical with the frauds in Norfolk, Va., and the newly-discovered eases at Buf falo. A speciul examiner is now at work investigating. Captain Edmund Zulinnki, the noted inventor of the pneumatic dynamite gun, is to be placed on the retired list of the army. The report of the board of army ollice rs that examined Captain Za liiiffei at Governor's Island, New York llarlsjr, was received at the War Depart ment recently. In it the board recom mends that the Captain be retired on account of physical disability. The House Committee on Indian Af fairs has a mum cr of bills liefore it, and the intention of Chairman Ilolman is to commence active work as soon as pos sible. Probably the most iiiinnrLnnt measure is a bill introduced by Delegate Rawlins of Utah for the relinquishment of a portion of the Uintah and Uncom pahgre reservations in Utah. It is claimed that asphalt deposits, which are very valuable, are found on lands pro posed to lie ceded. There will be great opposition in the House Committee on Foreign Affairs to thu resolution o( llittof Illinois on the ground that it would not be right, in view of a further promised communica tion from the Executive on the subject, for the House to give expression to the sentiments contained in the Ilitt resolu tion. Ilitt will make every etl'ort to se cure a favorable report from the com mittee of his resolution; but, as it will take at least three Democratic votes to bring aliout such a result, it is doubtful if lie will bo successful. A decision upon the alien contract law was rendered in the Supreme Court of the United States by Justice Brewer. In the United States Court for tho eastern district of Pennsylvania John 8. and Jo seph Lees were lined (1,000 for violation of the law, ami appealed, attacking the constitutionality of tho act and the ju risdiction of the court. Justice Brewer announced that the Supremo Court found the law to be constitutional and the District Court Had jurisdiction. Hut the proceedmg against l.ees being crim- nal in .Is mitu e, the court bcUy erred 11 compelling the defendants Uigive tea-1 t moiiv 111 fnvnp of the imvi.nutieiit. Tins i.rmr u-ny Mil lticii.li t. In u-uri-fiiit ti ntvoi-Mul of the judgment and to remand the case to it new trial. Since the resignation of J. J. Van Alen from the position of Ambassador to It uly, w hich tisik cUVct November 25, the date of his second letter to the President on the subject, Mr. Cleveland has had . httlo opportunity to consider the ap- Hiointinent of his successor. It is said, uiwever, that he has thought the matter over ami will not long delay sending the 1 nomination of a new Ambassador to thu I Senate. The presence in Washington last week of Oscar Straus of New York has been coupled with tho resignation of Mr. Van Alen, and some astute New- York politicians givo credence to the story that Mr. Straus may be selected. It is 11I.-0 stated that the name of Judge Lambert Tree of Illinois, ex-Minister to Belgium, will be presented to the Presi dent by Hon. Don M. Dickinson, if ho has not already taken action. The contracts for three new gunboats have been awarded to the Newport News Company, tho Board of Naval Olliccrs having finished its considera tion of the iilans. Tho Union Iron Works through its representatives made a strong etl'ort to obtain a contract for one of the Imats. Thev oll'ored to hnild the two larger vessels for (202,000 each, and made a similar reduction from their bid on the third vessel. Tho ships will iiiiiib iiv 1 1 inn ilium 11 o v uiiiiiau mi 40j,. 'i-i....v .... 1. ......... v.. l built by Huntington's Compaiiv for 1 .',i 'v i III 1 m- niv niiunu ..v.o. 7, 8 and 0. As finally settled Uin by the department No. '7 w ill be 220 feet long by 30 feet beam, of 1,261 tons dis placement and 14 knots speed; Nos. 8 and 9 w ill he 2V) feet long by 50 feet beam, of 1,313 tons displacement and and thirteen knots speed. All three will 1h twin-screw vessels with triple expansion engines, and will carry arma ment of six-pounders and under. It is not known delinitely what tho House Committee on Banking and Cur rency will do upon the hill to repeal the 10 percent tax on Mate luniks. A bill will le rcpiwtcd us soon us a vote in the com mittee is reached. Of the seventeen members of the committee the six Ke iiublicans. Springer of Illinois and Sperrv of Connecticut w ill vote anainst report ing the bill. Johnson of Ohio, who was supMscd to Ik1 doubtful, says ho is against the bill, but w ill report it favor ably iMin the committee to get it before the House, lie thinks with a matter ol this importance, in which so many mem bers are interested, the question should lie brought before tho House lor consid eration, but w ill reserve tho right to vote atiit list the bill on the floor of the House. Several tueinliers who were lor repeal Ndore the message have expressed them selves since as indill'erent or believing it would nut lie wise to pass the measure now. Si nator Culloni has introduced a bill intended to meet one of the weak points that experience has found in the inter state commerce act. This proposed amendment is intended to (otce the ac ceptance by one railroad of the traflic of another, for the purpose of making a continuous line and Hi further purH-se of preventing railroads from discriminat ing I -el ween roads in the acceptance of tratlic. Section 3 of the original inter state eoininciee act w as meant to do this, but the railways, as Senator Ciillum puts it, are im bued to be technical, and there seems to Ih some ditlictilty in car rying out tho law in that rvcard. An other amendment by Mr. Culloni defines with positivcucss the meaning of the word " hue " applied to railroads, and is 1nie11d.1l to our th act of a defect and meet the decision ol Jude Itrcwcr, who in a case before him in the I'nitiil State Circuit Court construed the word line to mean something d tlerent from th con struction which aoiwiimg to Mr. Cull.mi the franier of the law intended it should mean. Th 'ast amendment repeat the present clauso making violators of the act subject to a tin only. FOREIGN FLASHES. Ex-King Milan Preparing to Overthrow His Son. THE NEW ITALIAN MINISTRY The Amount of Property In London Insured in Fire Insurance Companies Etc. Swiss Anarchists are to be expelled Russia mav build a railroad to the Arctic Ocean. One-seventh of the land owners in Great Britain are women. London Anarchists claim to have allies in the army, navy and police. Fifteen Anarchists will be tried at Bar celona for the fiendish bomb outrage. The influenza is epidemic in Hesse, Germany, lO.OH) cases being reported. Of this year's Russian conscription of 252.502 men only one-fourth can read or write. President Carnot is charged with not wanting a new Ministry created for awhile. The betrothal of the CzarowiU of Rus sia to Princess Heleue of Orleans is im minent. The - niece of John Morley has been converted to Catholicism, and will enter a convent. Influenza is stated to be raging terribly in Birmingham, and smallpox is also prevalent. Tho delimitation of the frontier of Ecuador and Peru will be submitted to arbitration. Friendly negotiations between Hon duras and Nicaragua have been tempora rily disturbed. Thorp nre indientinno that th phvs ical force party in Ireland intend resum ing operations. Kmperor William is said to be negoti ating for the purchase of the American shsiij) yacJit Vigil-nt. . - The war office of F'ngland has directed all Sergeant instructors, of volunteers to attend foot-ball mutches. In some parts of England barbed-wire fences are still classed as a nuisance, and their use is forbidden by law. The new French Ministry hud a bare majority of thirty-one in tho first en gagement with its opponents. Acertain Peruvian heiress paid Worth (24,000 for a gown trimmed with lace. Of this sum (23,000 was for the lace. Great swarms of locusts are devastat ing the country around Bloomfontein, the capital of the Orange Free State. Instead of using hair cloth an enter prising Parisian dressmaker has stillened the skirt of a ball gown with aluminium. In siiito of the notoriously bad condi tion of the Ita ian finances the civil list of the country is tho largest in Europe. Jerusalem lias been modernized bv a railroad, and now a concession to estab- 1 linli a water works is being demanded. T, H , , , u t , , , t ..orst since the tt,,)(,ttrallce of lu 1)hvuOXera and pero- 11 1 I riOwpora It is rumored in London that the de ficiencies in the Bank of England are about to be brought to the notice of Par liament. Last year according to the statistics recently compiled 24,000 men and 18,000 women left Japan to find homes for themselves abroad. All citizens of Ecuador now in Peru have been placed under German protec tection, owing to tho departure of the Ecuadorian Minister. Iron visiting cards are among the lat est novelties in Germany. Forty placed , on the other are said to be only one- tenth of an Inch in thickness. A Marseilles (France) cable from a larne importer of Russian wheat said: " Wheat very depressed because of large stocks and likely to continue so." During the last year the property in iAindon insured by fire insurance com panies and the underwriters at Lloyds amounted to more than (400,000.000." It is reported that Milan, ex-Kinz of Serviu, is preparing a roup to overthrow Ins son, King Alexander, again ascend the throne and till his own exhausted purse. Sir Thonins Esmond, M. P., is conduct ing a crusade against the English lan guage in County Cork, Ireland. The ell'ort is to make the Knglish language unpopular. The hanking house of Du Fresno, one of the oldest established banks in Flor ence, Italy, has supended payment. Em etas, the manager of the bank, commit ted suicide. The I.ord Mayor of Iyindon is manag ing a subscription for the bone tit of tho suHerers from the dynamite explosion at Suntander, Spain, "ixird Rosx-berv Bent a check for (125. I.ord Chai Irs Beresford's proposal that within the next four vears England shall expend 18,000,000 upon the navy has Ihh'U received with friendly criticism bv the Liberal press. The United Press correspondent in Paris has Ihhmi authorized to contradict tl ut I y and finally the report that the di vorced wife of Edward Parker Deacon is about to marry again. Last year the German Kmperor intro duced snow shoos into the etiuipinent of his army on the Eastern frontier, and this year the troops are to be thoroughly trained in using them. The Crown Princes of Austria has presented her bridal roU's to the Church 01 nozeu. inev have been made up uno a ocauuim chosutiio, winch lias been worn at mass by the dean. The railroads in Italy are now using coal cars of American pattern and thirt v- ton capacity, and thev are said to be giving greater satisfaction than the old type of twelve-ton cars previously nsed. Major Cioelil-Adams at Capetown. Africa, reports that King l.oU-ngula has w ritten asking that the (orces under Ma jor rorbes lie withdrawn in order that lie may come and discns the position of uuair. The inouest on the cause of th death ot Prof. Tvnd.ill at Indon resulted in a verdict that the pndessor died from an overdose of chloral. He had been aoc-,-S-toinod to take the drug to alleviate ais sufferings. It is expected that the betrothal of the widowed Crown Princess Stephanie of Austria to Archduke Fruni Ferdinand will take Place at Christmas. The Prin ces was born on May 21, IV-I, and the Archduke on IVceinlvr 18, isiu. Th following Italian Ministry ha len formed : Zanardelli, Premier and Minister of the Interior: aratiori. For eign Affairs : Kortis. Public Works; San Mariano. War; Kacchia. M.u-ine; Civ- rtil. Husbendnr ; Kiwis, pints an,i T.. raphs: Ya.rhelh. Treasury; ijallo, Lducatioq; Roselli, Financ. asargfci PORTLAND MARKET. Whiai Valley, 92Vc; Walla Walla, 82jc per cental. HOPS, WOOL AXO HIDES. Hops '92s, nominally at 1016c per pound, there being none in the market ; new crop, '93s, 10i216Kc for strictly choice, and nominally at 8c for medium. Wool Prices nominal. Hiois Dry selected prime, 5c; green, salted, 60 pounds and over, 3,4c; under (50 pounds, 2 3c; sheep pelts, shearlings, 10rrl5c: medium. 2035c: long wool, 30aoOc; tallow, good to choice, 33,SiC per pound. LTVl AND DBK88ID MI AT. Bxfcr Top steers, 2-ie per pound ; fair to good steers, 2c; No. 1 cows, 2c; fair cows, l'2c; dressed beef, (3.50(35.00 per 100 pounds. Mutton Best sheep, (2.00; choice mutton, (.175(52.00; lambs, (2.00(32.25, Hogs Choice heavy, (4.60W5.00; me dium, (4.00154.50; light and feeders, (4.00(84.50; dressed, (0.50. Vka (3.005.00. provisions. Eastern Smoked Meats and Labd Hams, medium, 135 13 Uc per pound; hams, large, 12Jigl3,lc; hams, picnic, U(al2c; breakfast bacon, 1516c; short clear sides, 11(3 13c; dry salt sides, lO'lgllc; dried beef hams, 12'i13e; lanl, compound, in tins, 94(2 IO.SjC per pound; pure, in tins, llL(ai3,H!c; pigs' feet, 80?, (5.50; pigs' feet, 40s, (3.00. cordage. Manilla rope, in.cir. and up, lOc; munilla rope. 12-thread. K diaui., 11c; manilla rope, 6 and 9-thread, and 5-16 diaui., ll'jc; manilla bail rope, in colls or on reeis, 10'.2c; manilla lath yarn, tarred, 9c ; manilla hawser-laid rope well- boring, etc., 13c; manilla transmission-of-power rope, 14c; manilla paper twine, lie: manilla snrintr twine. 14c: sisal rope, 1 '4 in. cir. and upward, 7c; sisal rojie, 12-thread, g diaui., i'oc; sisal rope, 6 and 9-thread, 1 and 6-16 diam., 8c; sisal lath yarn, tarred, 7c; hop-vine twine, tarred, 7c ; sisal paper twine, 8gc, FLOUR, FEED, ETC. Flour Portland, (2.90; Salem, (2.90; Cascadia, (2.90; Dayton, 2.90; Walla Walla, (3.15; Uraham, (2.o0; supernne. tZ.Zo uer barrel. Oats 3536e per bushel ; rolled, in bags, (6.25(g6.50; barrels, (6.757.00; cases, (3.75. Millstuffs Bran, (15.00; shorts, (16.OO ; ground barley, (18.00; chop feed, (15 per ton ; whole feed, barley, 70c per cental ; middlings, (23(528 per ton ; chicken wheat, (1.10(41.15 per cental. Hay Good, (10(5,12 per ton. DAIRY PRODUCE. Butter Oregon fancy creamery, 30 32,'ac; fancy dairy, 2527hc; fair to good, 20(u22,'jc; common, 15oil7-aC per pound. Chkksk Oregon, 1012;-sc; Califor nia, 13(.il4c; Young America, 1510c; Swiss, imported, 30(532c; domestic, 18 (5 20c per pound. Eoos Oregon, 30c per dozen; East ern, 25ii27)ac. Poultry Nominal; chickens, mixed, (3.00(54.00; ducks, (3.50(a5.50; geese, (9.00 per dozen ; turkeys, live, 13c per pound. VEGETABLES AND FRUITS. Veoetables Cabbage, Is pr pound; potatoes. Oreifon. 75c per sack : onions. 1 .25 per suck : sweet potatoes. l3.,c tier pound; Oregon celery, 3o(ft60c; toma- toes, $1.25(51.50 per box, Fruitb Sicily lemons, (5.00(25.50 per box; California new crop, (1.00(4.4.50 per box ; bananas, (1.50(5:3.00 per bunch ; Florida oranges, (4.50 per box; Cali fornia navels, (4.0054.50; seedlings, I Hil: 0 EA. M AO Cl0 -C. T I O.IAIIO.UO, ..ICXllUlL, qO.UVKtlo.ltJ , U Wp- j anese, (2.00 ; grapes, (1.00(5 1.25 per box ; apiiles (buving price), ereen, 60(S!75c per liox ; red, 65(500c ; cranlierrieB, (9.00 per barrel; persimmons, (1.50 per box. staple groceries. Coffee Costa Rica, 23c; Rio, 22c; Salvador, 23c; Mocha, 2b14(52c; Ar- r..... M.XOe n-r nonnd. Dried Fruits 1893 pack, Petite prunes, 8j 10c; silver, 10(a 12c; Italian, Oiitluc; German, 8;510c; plums, 6(5jl0c; evaporated apples, 8(5 10c; evaporated apricots, 15(516c; peaches, 10(o,12,lijc; pears, 7(3 He per pound. 8alt Liverpool, 200s, (15.50; 100s, (16.00; 50s, 16.50; stock, (8.50(59.50. Rice Island, (5. 75(56.00; Japan, nono in market; New Orleans, (5.60(5,6.25 per cental. Syrup Eastern, in barrels, 4055c; in half-barrels, 42(5 57c: in cases, 35(3 80c per gallon ; (2.25 per keg ; California, in barrels, 20(g40c per gallon; fl.vo per keg. Sugar D, 4'c ; Golden C, 4,'ii'c ; extra C, 4'.c; confectioners' A, 58c; dry gran ulated, 6'4c; cube, crushed and pow dered, Bc per pound; )c per pound discount on all grades for prompt cash; maple sugar, 15(5. 16c per pound. CANNED GOODS. Canned Goods Table fruits, assorted, (1.75(52.00; peaches, (1.85(4.2.00; Bart lett pears, (1.75(5 2.00; plums, (1.37.Si 1.60; strawberries, (2.25(52.45; cherries, (2.25(52.40; blackberries, (1.85(52.00; lasiilierrieH, (2.40; pineapples, (2.25(4, 2.80; apricots, (1.65. Pie fruits, assorted, (1.20; peaches, (1.25; plums, (1.00(51.20; blackberries, (1.25(1.40 per dozen. Pie fruits, gallons, assorted, (3.15(53.50; peaches, (3.50(54.00; apri cots, (3.60(44.00; plums, (2.75(53.00; blackberries, (4.25(54.50; tomatoes, (1.10. Meats Corned beef, Is, (1.40; 2s, (2.10; chipped, (2.35; lunch tongue, Is, (3.50; 2s, (6.75; deviled ham, (1.50(3 2.75 per dozen. Kisii Sardines, t-4's, 75o(2.25; (2.15(54.50; lobsters, (2.30(53.50; sal mon, tin 1-lb talis, (1.26(41.50; flats, (1.75;2-lbs, (2.25(32.50; -barrel, (5.50. Her PUn. They wsre seated on tin hotel piazza to grtlier.sml to tell the truth she found him very dnlL Suddenly she was seized with ail idea. "How far off Is that mountain, Mr. Mo GeorRef" "Two miles." "You couldn't walk there and back In twe hours." "Couldn't If Well, I guess I could. lean dolt in an hour." "Really Well. I don't believe it. I'll bet you a box of candy that you can't start now and be back here in an hour." And of course he hod to go. Harpcr't Buar. When we take intoeonsideration what a blessing a well-ordered creamery is to the community, it is hard to leel "charit able towanl a liadly-ordered one. The first is a gixxl tiling; the second a dis gusting nuisance. When fruit or vegetables are stored in a e!lar. lie careful to give them ample ventilation. This ran I accomplished w ithout raising the temperature too high by having it open during the night. Much of the trouble credited to in sects and fungi can be avoided by hay ing hardy, vigorous plants. "Weak growths are much more readily overcome by fungous diseases. Prof. Henry shows by experiment that it costs (2 61 "to produce 100 pounds of grain with lambs, and (3.03 to produce" tne same graiu wttn pigs ot about the same age. A violent eruption of Mount Vesuvius if predicted. FARM AND GARDj. Way in Which a Dairy Barn Should be Built. THE EARLY-HATCHED PCLLET. Carefully Breeding and Selecting to Secure Fall and Winter Lay ers Short Pointers. I wish to give as briefly as possible what I have learned by experience in carefully breeding and selecting to secure fall and winter layers, as our egg market here in Central New York is the best as to price during these months, savs a cor respondent of Farm Journal. I used to think that pullets hatched in June were just as good for winter layers as those hatched in April, but tne last lour or live vears I have bv careful selection and comparison found that theearly-hatched pullets are more prontauie, taking the year through, than late-hatched ones. I have found that the June pullets gener erally did not commence to lay beforu the last of January or the first of Fell ruary, even when the conditions were favorable, while the April-hatched ones would commence to lay by the last of September or first of October and con tinue to lay until next March or April without showing any disposition to set, giving me a very profitable return for feed and care bestowed upon them. It is " ell to have a lew pullets hatched out late fr the next summer egg-laying if one has a variety ol fowls which alter living all fall and winter do not lay as well the next summer. My pullets which were hatched out a year ago la-t April have laid well this summer. Of course, 1 have ha'1 to break them up from set ting two or tlnee times, but that is easily done; just shut them up a few days in a small coop, and they will get over it and go to laying again in a few days. As you ask about the varieties I keep, I would say in reply that I first tried the White Leghorns, and found that April-hutched pullets of that breed would commence to lay about October 1 and continue to lay until the next April or the very last of March before wanting to set, thus hav ing a nice profit during fall and winter. The laet tw o years I have used a cross, combining the following varieties : Hou dans, Dominick and White Leghorns. They did finely, laying a large number of eggs. I had a few pullets which were hatched out about April 10, which com menced to lay about the middle of Sep tember the same season, This year I have a cross between the Houdans, White Leghorns and Plymouth Rocks, and they promise to prove equal to the others. BUII.DIXa A DAIRY BABN. The Practical Farmer says : Within a few days the writer has received several letters seeking light in regard to bam building, with special reference to the keeping ot a dairy and a possibility of winter milk. When one takes expense and convenience into account, with the Influence that a burn has in the keetiimr ot stocK well, winch means a light, dry, clean anil weu-ventuated stable, we 'n- cliue to the idea that the barn should be the ration barrack, and the cows should be stabled in an L to that barn, ex tending to the south, so as to get sun light abundantly on three sides of it; that it should be of lumber, double- ; boarded, so as to have a dead-air space in the walls, a good-sized window for ; each three cows. The stable should not be less than thirty-four feet wide for two rows of cows and nine feet clear on the inside, and each cow should have at least three feet four inches of space to I eactl ) ,f possible, and one between every other cow in any event, and these cows tied either with halters or sns- fiended stanchions. Such a stable, with oft for hay or straw, ready for the cows, can be built for not far from (16 per cow, and is in every way In-Her for a dairy of cows than it is possible to construct a basement stable; and when once made it can be kept dry and free from chilli ness, which is the "damper" on profit able milk-making in the winter. In our opinion the great castle-like barn has no place in the economy of the modern dairy. What is wanted is a perfect as possible stable, and the barns that al ready exist may be cheaply made to hold ana protect tne teed tor the stock in the more concentrated form of silage, clover, hay and the erains that are now consid ered essential in making up the balanced ration. practical poisters. Better grow into dairying than go into A rough hide is a Bign that something is wrong. A safe rule to follow is to cultivate all newly-planted fruit trees the same as a crop of corn or potatoes. Some people are not verv particular about eating dirt, but they all object to paying for it at prices of butter. Inspect flocks often during warm weather to see that maggots do not get on the animals. They cause trouble. Do not breed from grade sires if it can be avoided. They alwavs give the prog eny a greater chance to "inherit " scrub " qualities. The progressive dairyman cannot af ford to use anything poorer than a lirst class bull. 1 he future of his herd de pends upon hi in. One of the principal points in muking a success in dairying is that of produc ing a uniformly lir-t-class product dur ing all seasons ol the year. Cover the pits of blackcaps now if von wish them to root. Better plants will be obtained this way than if they are left to do their own rooting. The money expended for pure-bred male animals is one of the best invest ments that can be made, and gains com pound interest in a short time. It takes a Christian to properly han dle a good cow ; a philosopher to" teach her calf to drink, and a bandit todo jus tice to the male ancestor of the calf. An apparatus for spraving will soen be counted a necessity where fruit is grown. It is the only "successful wav of fighting many insect and fungous pests. Fast-walking horses bIiouUI Ire classed as a breed and records made in order to encourage the brhng of them from pedigree stock. Such a breed would be in demand everywhere. Nrnllework an an ArromiiK.hmrtit. Before the Trojan war the women of bidon were famous for their erabroiderv; later the Greek women carried this art to such perfection that their work riv aled the finest paintings. Embroidered garment, wrought by the skillful hnmls or the Anglo-Saxon ladies, wrr teemed so precions in all r ul bur that they were called, by J.wtinction. An glicum opus. At that pen011 onamenZi al needlework was considV'1 the deairable accompluhment Vtch or aven ns. i Vee. W ora- C sAm wiuu an work.