B. CHANCEY, Publisher, Union, Or.
PACIFIC COAST.
The BritlSll I US' Lome
Seized and Fined.
OREGON SHEEP NOT FOR SALE.
New Sugar Refinery Started in San
Franoisco in Opposition to the
Two Old Refineries.
Hop growers of Washington are selling
this season's crop at 15 cents a pound.
Spokane's land ollice is crowded daily
with men seeking to make homestead
entries.
Surveyors are locating a telephone linn
from Ellensburgh to Selah, Burge and
Yakima.
Tacoma people are building a steam
boat,' which they claim will be the fast
est on the Sound.
A celebration of the discovery of Gray's
harlior in 1702 is proposed to be held "at
Gray's Harbor city on July 1.
British Columbia wants an increase in
thu Chinese head tax. It is now $50, and
Victoria wants it made $100.
Salem is beginning to realize the im
portance of the fact that she has a first
class stone quarry just outside her limits.
Twelve union miners at Wellington,
II. C, aro under arrest for beating a non
union man until his life was despaired of.
The British tug Irnu has been seized
and lined $814 at Port Angeles for towing
vessels from that port to other American
7ortfl.
The Timti says the expenditures in
s Angeles this year for street railroads,
improvements and buildings will reach
$5,000,000.
E. Iluinason, a prominent cattlo dealer
nt Spokane, convicted of cattle stealing,
has neon sentenced to two years in the
penitentiary.
Tito Attorney-General of Washington
has given an opinion that the census
must bo taken by counties this year as
well as in 1805.
East Oregon sheepmen are getting
ready for shearing. The wool clip will
bring a large amount of money to the
State this year.
Judge Wood of Port Townsend has de
cided that iiolieoinen have no right to
search a man for concealed weapons
without a warrant.
The ordinance passed by the Taconm
City Council on April 11, compelling the
powder storago and the Standard oil
works to locate outside of the city limits,
has been reconsidered and killed.
It is generally understood that most of
tbe Eastern sheep buyers in urogon this
year will be compelled to return homo
with their contracts only partially filled.
The fact is the sheen are not for sale.
Paul P. Rieckor of Seattle and 11. E.
Parrish of Tacoma have been appointed
assistant geologists to aid in prosecuting
a survey of the btato ot N asliington.
MeCloud trout that were put in the
Truckee river years ago have increased
and distributed themselves in the river
from Truckee to Pyramid and Mud hakes.
Tacomii has nearly sulllcient money
subscribed to finish the "Western Wash
ington Industrial Exposition" building,
Vork will commence on it at once.
At a recent meeting of the California
Hoard of Health at Sacramento a resolu
tion was adopted declaring that heart
failure, fever, dropsy, childbirth, etc.,
shall not hereafter bo recognized as satis
factory causes of death when returned in
the physicians' certificates. It was the
expression of the board that these terms
meant no more than that death occurred
for want of breath.
The Oregon agricultural authorities,
boliedng that acquaintance with the ap
pearance of our native animals on the
part of students is advantageous, denim
that there should be represented in the
college's zoological museum typical spec
imens of Oregon birds, mammals and
reptiles. Quito an interesting museum
has alreadv been established at the col
lege, which, is being added to daily.
President Pulda rotKirted at a meeting
of the Directors of the California Ath
letic Club at Sau Francisco the other
night that lie had visited Peter Jackson's
quarters and found Peter feeling well
and able to walk alxiut without crutches
or even a eaue. Jackson assured Presi
dent Pulda that he would be all right for
Ids match with Corlett in due time. He
is now suffering no pain from his recent
ly injured leg, and all inflammation has
uisapjHiared.
Oregon agricultural experiment station
has issued its April bulletin, which will
ho of more than usual interest to fruit
growers and farmers, as it contains an
ttccountof practical work at the station
in experimenting on the codling moth
with parts green and with a combined
fungicide and insecticide ; also an article 1
on tdo hop louse, giving a history of the
animal, remedies lor it, etc. This bulle
tin will be sunt free to all residents of
the State applying for it. and it is'worthy
of jHirusal by all who raise fruit or hops, j
A meeting of representatives from I
twenty Irrigation districts of California
was held one day Inst week to take action
toward promoting the sale of irrigation
bonds, Isador Jacobs presided, and sail I
the Ban Prancisco Chamber of Commerce
would assist as far as lwsslble in aid of
the cause of irrigation, lie considered
the bondH Issued under the Wright irriga
tion law a good investment forcapltalists,
they having been passed uoii by the Su
preme Court. Judge llaxcn then read a
paper holding the name of these IkiiiiIh'
should Imi made as well known as those I
n( other gilt-edge biu'iultioH. Two hun-1
uriMl iiioimanii noun worm nan linen
Imiiglit by Kuu PmucUon lsinkwin, and
Willi of tlioni hud Wen hold abroad. It
was decided to jHsmiudo tint bun Piuii
risen huiikitM to ilidoiku thu lirluntlun
IxiiuU, so that n market for tSiuin mifjld
u joiiihi in inti num.
MISCELLANEOUS NEWS.
Oenernl SlH-rmHn" Frlciul Silcrl1e
.11 tut 1 11 rent Sum for HI Children.
The gtip is n ore fatal in New York
this year than last.
! The dreaded typhus fever hns made its
I appearance in New York city.
Secretary Tracy is introducing civil
; service reform in the navy yards.
J The Italians of Cincinnati arc endeav
oring to have Consul Bavogli removed
I from office.
I rt i... I V T t I,,,, ,1fl.!i1iul
erect n building in which all its chanties
are to be combined.
St. Louis unions oppose the bill to give
the police fund 10 per cent, of the fines
and 50 per cent, of dog license.
The President has recognized Rafael
Gallogos as Consul-Gcneral of Costa Rica
for California at San Prancisco.
Mrs. James K. Polk owes $2,000 taxes
on her Nashville residence, and the house
is advertised for sale to meet them.
A comic opera company has canceled
its dates in Minnesota on account of the
anti-tights bill passed by the Legislature.
If. is renorted that manv national
l banks in Kansas will surrender their
j charters and reorganize under the State
! system.
' The Exposition Committee of the
Hoard of Lady Managers of tbe World's
Pair says Miss Couzins' removal was im
perative. Peeretarv Nob o savs that he will lay
ofY the Indian reservations, soon to be
opened, in counties containing 70J square
miles eacii
The President of the wbiskv trust does
not believe Secretary Gibson guilty of
tne cnarge oi conspiring io uesuu
distillery at Chicago.
Major I). P. Heath of the Engineer
Corps, U. S. A., is endeavoring to have
Liberty's torch in New York harbor
flamed with the colors of the flag of the
country
Friends of the late General Sherman
have quietly subscribed $70,000 to a fund
for the children, who have heretofore in
sisted on their abilitv to take care of
themselves.
Tho corner stone of the new building
of the great Carmelite Convent in New
Orleans was laid with imposing ceremo
nies. Archbishop .) unseens coiuiucteu
the ceremonies.
Tho President of the Innian line is
authority for the statement that a sturdy
American line for thirty Atlantic steam
ships is to bo built, to lie manned by
American sailors.
"The Anticipators" is the name of a
new religious sect just sprung up in Pike
county. Pa. They believe the world will
end before this century closes. The mem
bership is increasing.
Now that New Hampshire has enacted
a ballot-reform bill, the Senate having
passed without amendment the bill pre
viously adopted by the I louse, New ling
land is solid for the secret ballot.
The American Consul at Kingston, On
tario, reports that the amount of fees
l.w.t .if l.tu nltWut fm- itvnnrtu U'nu
smaiior lasi quiii ici mini ii nu nun uv
foro since ho was stationed there.
There will bo thirty-six new vessels in
Now York harbor in 1893 to participate
in what Secretary Tracy says will bo the
grandest naval demonstration ever wit
nessed in the western hemisphere.
The negro colonization of Oklahoma
seems to be going on with considerable
svstem and persistence. The new "city"
i . .1..... ...,r... l,.,
of Langston is exclusively a negro city.
Tho climate seems suited to tho colored
people.
Negotiations are going on for the pur
chase of 100,000 acres of pine timber
land in Southeastern Arkansas by an
English syndicate. Tho deal is made
through Chicago parties. The price
agreed on is $5 an acre.
A highly desirable site has been se
lected by the Kansas committee which
recently went to Chicago to secure space
for an exhibit at tho World's Pair. The
lot decided upon is 120x170 feet, and has
a frontage on two streets.
As a result of the war talk the manu
facturers at Pittsburg who have contracts
with the government for the manufacture
of iron and steel, to be used in tho con
struction of naval vessels, have been or
dored to hurry along the work.
An official at Castle Garden, who in
spects immigrants, is authority for tho
statement that nine-tenths of the Ital
ians who come to this country expect to
return to their peninsular home as soon
as they gather a tidy sum here.
The Kentucky Constitutional Conven
tion has finished its work after a session
of 100 days. The proposed changes will
be voted upon next August. There are
aliout 21,000 words in the now Constitu
tion. The old one contained 12,580 words.
It is stated at Minneapolis that the
Canadian Pacific railroad intends to com
plete tho western extension of the Soo
route and make it the main line between
Boston, Montreal and the Pacific Coast,
making it a transcontinental short line.
Thu United States District Court at
Omaha has decided that the South Omaha
Live Stock Exchange has the right to
prohibit parties not momlierH of thu ex
change from selling stock at the yard.
The life-saving service along the New
Jersey coast has been crippled by the ill
ness of many of the men on duty. The
report along'the entire shore front from
Cape May to Sandy Hook shows that the
grip and VheiimatUni are general.
The great horse Tenny is considered
out of all danger of a breakdown, and
his lameness is fast tlisapjx'iirinu. There
is now little doubt that he will be in
racing condition this summer, and there
is hope that he will be able to start in
the suburban.
The Canadian Pacific railroad has
everything ready to commence the con
struction of its new bridge across the
Niagara river. The bridge will cost the
company over $2,000,1X10, but it will lie
one of tde most sulwtantial structures in
America,
St. Paul, Minn., rejxirts a corner on
hay, tbe result of a hav famine in Iowa,
Nebraska and Missouri. The stock in
the Northwest has been liought up at 17
tM $8.25, and commands $17 per ton in
St. bmis. In St. Joseph and Kaasas
City there ia a howl for hay at any price.
The i-eiibiis officer's statement uf the
uciuHgo and yield of tobacoo for 1880
shows an ineriNine ovur the but euwitiof
M,m uciotf and 10,Wtd,to ihmiiuU. Ken
tucky dhows thu gi outwit Inarwuftt. 'IVre
MUD umi U HUIMIAIIMRI liiil. Hi.. in N .rll
Ljjtiuuiiu, luu.msti.uiiK. rurt uik niui .
iiKuiiMii.
EASTERN' ITEMS.
Trunk Lines Boycott the
Chicago and Alton.
NEW YORK'S DIVES CLOSED.
Cornell Students Elect Bob Ingersoll to
Make the Annual Address, But
the Faculty Vetoes It.
A bath-tub combine is the latest.
Sugar is being smuggled into Canada.
Tenement-house inspection is now go
ing on in Boton.
The New York police have been or
dered to "close the dives."
A big soldiers' reunion will be held at
New York July 4 next.
New Hampshire has adopted the Aus
tralian ballot system of voting.
A whole family has been arrested at
Topeka for mailing obscene letters.
Many horses have died at Hed Hank,
N. J., of a disease similar to the grip.
Anna Dickinson has written to George
Francis Train, who sympathizes with
her.
The steamer Olympia from Palermo
has just landed 150 Sicilians at New Or
leans. At the close of its first year of high
license Baltimore pronounces the system
a success.
Mexico will send the finest specimens
of various kinds of woods to the Chicago
Exposition.
A New York poolseller has been sen
tenced to pay $1,000 fine and spend three
months in jail.
Mayor-elect Rose of Cleveland is said
to lx so annoyed by oflicescekcrs that he
has fled the city.
Archbishop Ryan of Philadelphia has
forbidden Catholics to bury relatives or
friends on Sunday.
In nearly every instance the women
candidates for School Commissioners
were defeated this spring in Missouri.
A party of 1100 impoverished Central
Kansas settlers have left for Tojiolobam
jk), the Soeialiet colony on the west coast
of .Mexico.
Tho Baltimore and Ohio road has se
cured a number of new and powerful en
gines, said to be the finest and swiftest
over built.
Tennessee is growing a little restless
over the thought that her Legislature ad
journed without appropriating for the
World's Pair.
Five hundred immigrants have landed
at Halifax, and are coming into the
United States b' rail to avoid the new
immigration law.
Delaware's new tramp labor bill pro
vides that all tramps in Delaware may
be set to work for sixtv davs breaking
stones and mending roads.
There is a bill still pending in the Leg
islature at Springfield providing for ap
propriation of $500,000 for the Illinois
exhibit at tho World's Fair.
Treasury locks are to lie placed on Ca
nadian goods in transit through the
United States, and tho use of Consular
seals is to be done away with.
President Harrison has unpointed Hall
G. Parker (colored) of Missouri to be an
alternate Commissioner at large to the
World's Columbian Exposition.
The new Constitution of Kentucky,
framed bv the convention which has hist
adjourned, forbids members of the Legis
lature from accepting railroad passes.
A bill was reported in the Massachu
setts Senate one day last week authoriz
ing the city of Jtoston to borrow $11,500,
000 outside of debt limit as a park loan.
The officers of the Alton road profess
to be cheerful in tho face of tho trunk
lino Iwyeott, but add that it may not bo
long before they will have to slash rates.
Petitions have been filed at Ottawa to
unseat Sir Adolphe Caron, Minister of
Militia, and Sir Hector Langevin, Minis
ter of Public Works, for corrupt prac
tices. The captains of tho various fire-engine
houses In Cincinnati have received strict
orders to put a stop to the custom fol
lowed by policemen of sleeping in en
gine houses.
A sensational article in a New York
paper says Mrs. Leslie Carter and David
BoIiibco bavo gone to Europe together.
It is claimed by others the trip is only a
business one.
The Committee on Territories will
probably not visit Alaska, as authorized
to do by Congress. The question of tho
proper government to give Alaska ha
not yet been decided.
The first official act of the now Mavor
of Philadelphia, Mr. Stuart, was to give
iK)licemon ten days in which to withdraw
from all campaign and political commit
tees of which they may lie members.
Hereafter they are to kee'p out of politics
on pain of instant dismissal.
Tho impeachment trial of Judge The
odore llotkin of the Thirty-second Judi
cial District of Kansas lias' begun by the
Kansas State Senate. The charges are
diunkeiinesflj oppressive and malicious
abuse of judicial authority, willful and
malicious partiality, corruption and mis
conduct. The Mormons of Utah under the lead
ership of John W. Young did not pur
chase tho 2,500,000 acres of land in tho
State of Chihuahua, Mexico. Young's
followets had an option on the laud for
three months, but at the expiration of
that time failed to come forward with
sufficient funds,
William J. Florence, a talented fisher
man, had five boxes of flue flies con-
signed to him from England by mail, and
as tins line oi goois is not innllahle, he
can only get tho flies by paying av tine
equal to the duty on them, and they are
billed for $55. flu may prefer to content
himself with flies from some theater
stage.
The Treasury Department in consider
ing the advisability of dWuoiitlnuiug thu
iimu of thi distinctive imperii iiihiii wliioli
uovtu'iiinoitl uottM and ueourfUtM havu
Utttn print!, Thu movement fur a
change arieiw (rum thu fact that tin , ..m,
WfOlU Of the latitat tWO-dull.ii tiUer , . r
uimuiw Mia printtul uinm gj Mi d
(luguuitituiu iruiu iiiu genuine. I
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
The Collector of C'liKtomi. for Alnkn Will
Appoint nn AMorlnn a Deputy.
A court of inquiry having found Lieu
tenant Commander" Bicknell responsible
for thestrandingof theNinaand Galena,
a court-martial has been ordered.
The exports of merchandise from the
United States for the twelve months
ended March 31 were $872,010,377, and
the imports $8oj,0;l,4,.0. During March
the gold exorts exceeded the imports
by $4,541, 500, and the silver ex(orts ex
ceeded the imports by $1,021,572.
Commander C. C. Reiter has been or
dered to command the United smt
steamship Thetis, relieving Gominaniter
C. H. Stookson, who is granted two
months' leave. Commander Reiter was
in command of the Ranger at the time
of the killing of General Barrundia, after
which he was relieved from command
and placed on waiting orders.
Under authority conferred by Congress
the Secretary of the Navy is making ar
rangements to open tl'ie Boston and
League Island now vards for construc
tion and repair work. The docking of
the .Newark at League Island one uay
last week was the first work of that sort
done nt Philadelphia on naval vessels
under government auspices for six years.
Edward T. Hatch, who was recently
appointed Collector of Customs for the
district of Alaska, has promised to ap
point .s Deputy Collector at Juneau
Frank A. Ward of Astoria, Or. The
treasury oflicials believe that the present
Deputy at Juneau was implicated in the
violation of the liquor law, for which
Pracht was removed. It is believed that
he allowed the entry of liquors, well
knowing that they were intended for tbe
use of saloons. It is said that in Juneau,
a town of 1,500 people, there have been
forty-eight saloons in full blast, and no
attempt whatever was made by the pub
lie oflicials to suppress them. "It is also
understood at the Treasury Department
that this deputy, as well as the District
Attorney and Territorial Judge, are
bondsmen for several saloonkeepers. So
far no other appointments have been
agreed upon. Collector Hatch will be
influenced by the Oiegon delegation, all
of whom aro now in Washington, in
choosing his deputies. Two additional
deputies will be designated by him, to
be stationed at the new ports. Senator
Plumb is backing a Kansas man for one
of the places, and Representative Lind
will secure one appointment from Min
nesota. PERSONAL MENTION.
Tli
llrn.IIIan MIllNI..
Art Collection In
r Una tlu Fluent
WitMliltiKtoii.
Emin Pasha has been honored by Ger
man botanists. A new plain has been
called Eminia Emmons.
Mrs. Sarah Wainwright, the last sur
viving granddaughter of Dr. Priestly,
tho discoverer of oxygen, recently died
at Rrighton, England.
The ex-Emperor of Brazil is going to
reside with the Duke de Nemours at
Rushey Park in England this summer.
He is In good health and spirits.
Emperor William will make a tour of
the fortresses in Alsace-Lorraine at tho
end of the month. The prefecture of
Metz is preparing to give him a reception.
General Albert Pike once told a citizen
of Alexandria that he removed from that
city to Washington because the people
whistled so much they disturbed his lit
erary labors.
Ixjrd Salisbury recently lost a favorite
servant by diphtheria atllatfield House,
and tfie next day lie Had the whole cas
tle drainage overhauled at the expense
of several hundred pounds.
Senor Mendonca, the Brazilian Minis
ter, is credited with having tho finest
private art collection in Washington. If
so, he did not have it selected for him
by New York picture brokers.
Jefferson R. Rrowne, the new Presi
dent of the Honda Senate, is but .'$
vears ot age, and refers with pride to the
fact that bo kept a Florida lighthouse to
obtain money for an education in law.
Dr. William I. Harris, tho United
States Commissioner of Education, is a
tall, straight and rather thin man. His
beard is short and all gray. He speaks
rapidly and easily, and is a very enter
taining talker.
Sketches of Edwin Booth almost unan
imously speak of Hartford county, Md.,
as bis birthplace, and this basso wearied
a fellow-countian of his that the latter
has published a card, pointing out that
tho tragedian was born in Hartford coun
ty in that State.
General John A. Wiley, the well
known National Guard man of Pennsvl
vanla, at ono time drove a mule in a coal
mine, and when he is trying to break in
a squad of green guardsmen he doubt
less wishes lie was back at his old his
business.
Mavor Ashley of New Bedford will di
vide tho citv deposits between the five
banks in town, believing this to be the
wisest course, rather than award the
same to the highest bidder, as has been
the custom. In a short tune there will
be some interesting financial news from
Now Bedford.
Rev. J. W. Mendenhall, whom a Chi
cago dispatch announced a few days ago
as the self-confessed author of "The
Bread Winners," has written to a New
York newspaper to say that, though ho
knowH who did write the book, the re
luirt that he claimed the authorship for
htniseu is a baseless absurdity.
The Asian and Australian mail steam
ship line, which is owned by the North
German Lloyd and has received an an
nual subsidy of 4,500,000 marks from tho
government, lost nearly 2,000,000 marks
on its last year's business, or 4ltf per
cent, on its i'mmense capital.
According to n leading Marseilles pa
per the French government in view of
the prospective failure of tho harvest of
wheat and the dearness of bread will
propose in the Chambers a temporary
suspension of the tariff on cereals. That
the rejiort is tmo is improbable, but it is
notable as an indication of difficulties
that aro awaiting the govornmoutduriug
tariff dohitos in the face of diminution
of crops.
The Earl of Derby has thu question
able distinction of owning inonuii inking
i luce man any ottier KngiUli Peer, lie
1ih t-oveuty-tuo uf thu pweti to his
cmlit or illaoitnlii, wlilU tint nwt larnMl
owner in the Earl of 111 ford, with forty
eight yitf ehu(tt. The I kike uf lvuu
l.ir, in but nnm Whiud liUonl, HIMl W
p UK" IM.M.Liii m hot I U- IVrrs n
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FOREIGN NEWS.
Phylloxera Devastating
Hungarian Vines.
BRITISH STEAMER FIRED ON.
Owing to Failure of the Wheat Crop,
France Will Probably Suspend
the Tariff on Cereals.
Tho strike at Essen, Germany, affects
fifteen collieries, employing 2,000 men.
Ladv Florence Dixev publishes a letter
appealing for justice for Mrs. Maybrick.
Petty thieves have been lately operat
ing with much success at the botels of
Cannes.
The French government will consent
to the burial of Prince Najwleon's body
at Ajaccio.
Welsh tinplaters are obliged to shut
down for a mouth on account of the Mc
Kinloy bill.
All idea of the transatlantic steamers
landing atMilford haven appears to have
been abandoned.
An unusually large number of the o
tentates of Europe are on the sick list at
the present time.
Queen Victoria has presented a richly
caparisoned Indian elephant to the Em
peror of Morocco.
Ireland is only visited now by people
who are anxious for a light or have im
portant business to transact.
The much-talked-of Siberian railway
will soon Ihj begun, the condemnation of
land for the first section having taken
place.
A petition against the employment of
young girls as barmaids has been pre
sented the King of Sweden. The petition
has 10,000 signatures.
The Portuguese in Africa have fired
upon the British steamer Agnes, convey
ing the Willoughby expedition, arid
seized the cargo of boats.
Crop reports from Hungary say that
phylloxera is devastating the vineyards
there. The price of Hungarian wine has
risen one-third within a year.
Revolutionary documents have been
discovered baked in rolls sold by a St.
Petersburg baker, whose customers are
revolutionary. The baker has been ar
rested. The first installation of electric trac
tion in France is soon to take place at
.Marseilles, where a street railway com
pany is about to introduce the overhead
system.
The census returns just completed
show the population of the Indian em
pire to be 2S5,000,000,an increase of fully
110,000,000 since the last census taken in
1881.
The pope has ordered 100 churches in
Rome to he closed, they being unable to
support themselves on account of the se
questration of. their goods by the govern
ment. (
Referring to tho New Orleans lynching,
the London papers print statistics show
ing that the Italian murder returns ex
ceed those of every other nation on the
earth.
A consignment of 183,000 francs in
gold from the Bank of Genoa to n Venice
firm has been stolen in transit. The po
lice are as yet without a clew to the
guilty parties.
Tho Chilian men-of-war Imperial,
Lynch and Condell are starting for the
north under orders to attack the squad
ron commanded by the officers who re
volted against the government.
The Berlin J'ost says that assurances
have been given in the most authorita
tive quarters that peace is less endan
gered than ever, and that the relations
of Germany and Russia are friendly.
Fifty thousand francs have recently
been given to the American charity fund
in Paris. The management of the fund
last year devoted 170,000 francs to send
ing penniless American citizens home.
The Baroness Alexanderissa is enter
taining Berlin young men nightly at a
cafe chantant with abbreviated "skirts
and riskv songs. She is the wife of ono
of the proudest of Hungarian magnates.
The Gorman government has deter
mined to strongly fortify the important
commercial city of Osna'bruck, Hanover.
Beside tho defenses of the city itself
three forts will be erected outsido the
lines.
Denunciations sent to the German
government, protesting against the ring
in wheat and rye forcing prices to a ficti
tious height, have caused the govern
ment to open an official inquiry into the
matter.
A serious riot hag just occurred at
Cerda, Sicily, growing out of tho opposi
tion to the poll tax. Two thousand peas
ants took part, and released a comrade
from prison. Troops have been dis
patched to tho scene.
The reported successes of the insur
gents in Chili come in such shape that it
requires considerable credulity to believe
them. Ono thing seems to be assured,
and that is there is much suffering for
tho want of provisions.
Tho British government has decided to
strengthen the existing fortifications of
the Thames and to erect a new heavy
battery at Sheerness, and all the river
forts are to lo supplied with now guns of
late and approved patterns.
Signor Inibriani has given notice in
the Italian House of Deputies that ho
intends to question Premier di Rudiui in
regard to the refusal of Inspector Byrnes
of New York city to accept the decora
tion sent to him by King Humbert.
A lively encounter has just taken place
lHtweenthe gendarmes ami brigands in
tho province of Poggia. about 100 miles j
ironi sanies, ine oaiinits wuromsiuire'eu
after one had Ihiou killed and u nuinbor
woiindwl. lilt) Iwulor of the outlaws
wiu captured.
Every telegraph ijU in the remote
country dUlncW of Nurwuy lu to !
floutiuuMlly watched on a.. nut t the
Utfirri, which litti! a nmi.U l r i hn.l.iii
till ) m I 4 U I I blltlllP' oil th. l.'K U-ui..
iiiolv ntmll) full.
CRIME AND CRIMINALS.
Tlir AVIfe of rroinlnent SpokunM Man
I'liitf to llnve II tin Killed.
Two men, who tried to swindle Levi
Slusser of Mark West, Cal., out of $.,
000, are supposed to be the same who so
cruelly murdered Mrs. Greenwood of
Napa.
For every five miles of the Georgia,
Carolina and Northern railroad a murder
has been committed, with which the
gangs at work on the road hnve been
connected.
The accounts of T. O. Owens, Tax Col
lector of the .Modesto (Cal.) irrigation
district, are $2,245 short. He left Mo
desto on the 4th, and has not been heard
from since.
A startling disclosuie has been made
at Spokane, Wash., that the wife of P.
A. Bettis, a prominent citizen and ex
city official, had been plotting to bring
alxmt his murder. The woman is under
arrest.
II. Allen has been arrested at Tacoma
for the rejorted wholesale robbery and
sale of Northern Pacific property. He
is said to be the head of a conspiracy of
Tocoma, Seattle and Portland employes
to rob the freight depots and box cars
and sell the plunder.
Of the seventeen Georgia negroes who
got life sentences for their shares in the
Eastman riot nine years ago, only five
are now living. Twelve have died m the
Dade City mines.
New York's opium dens were raided
tbe other dav, and thirty-nine white girls
were brought into the police station.
One was claimed by the husband, whom
she left, two months ago.
In Sacramento the other day John
Haggerty, 00 years of age, a tailor by
trade, murdered his son, John Haggerty,
Jr., .'10 years of age, in cold blood bV
stabbing him to tho heart with a pocket
knife.
ALONG THE COAST.
The Common Council of San Dleo line.
tin- lVnliiMilnr ICallroiiil Kill.
The crowd of tourists entering Yosem
ite Valley is unusually large for this sea
son of the year.,
Tacoma has decided to take in much of
the outlying country, and the district to
be taken in has given its consent.
San Diego has closed a contract by
which it gains control of a water system
for twenty years, thus insuring cheap
and abundant water.
The ship Embleton from Androsan,
Scotland, has reached Tacoma after a
voyage of 041 days. The trip is usually
made in five months by a sailing vessel.
The third annual bench show of the
Southern California Kennel Club openel
at Los Angeles one day last week with
the best and largest list "of entries iu its
history.
The Washington Strife Board of Agri
culture states that California packers
I shall relieve oranges of the scale before
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Mujini-iii. ur provisions w in oe lateen io
prevent the landing of the fruit at Wash
ington ports.
Agent Moorehouse of the Umatilla res
ervation is in receipt of a letter from the
department requesting his resignation,
which has been forwarded to take etfeet
May Ml. The charge against him is that
the Indians are retrograding under hie
management.
There is great rejoicing at San Diego
because its Common Council has passed
its Peninsular railroad bill, which in
sured tho building of a first-class standard-gauge
railroad from San Diego at le.st
300 miles southward and to Yuma. Work
will be commenced at once.
The other day the Trustees of th Ka
weah colony appeared for sentence at
Los Angeles, but a motion for a new
trial had been interposed. The sec
ond case, the one in which the real titles
to tho timber lands were involved, the
government tried to postpone for the
term. Counsel objected. The govern
ment then dismissed the case, refusing
to go to trial, and ordered the defendants
discharged. This is regarded as a con
fession of weakness on the government's
part so far as the Kaweah titles are
concerned.
LATEST CABLEGRAMS.
A ruiuililt Aildri'Huml to tli ICmixror
lteiilet Hint to I'aelfy UlKiiutrck.
The Pope urges the founding of a Cath
olic University in Ireland.
The English pajers all printed ionr
editorial articles on the career and death
of iiarmiin.
Jewish emigration from Bessarabia is
rapidly assuming the dimensions of a
general exodus.
Russia proposes to use her convict in
constructing tho eastern end of the great
Siberian railway.
The quantity of wheat now afloat fc
European markets :i0.480,000 bushels
is the largest on record.
"Young Mr. Vandorbilt " is said to
have had extraordinary luck recently at
the Monte Carlo gambling tables.
It is believed in St. Petersburg that
the Persian government had decided to
give the English the privilege of coining
their money.
The President of Venezuela will make
reciprocity with the United States the
subject of a special message to the Ven
ezuelan Congress.
In the British House of Commons the
bill making permanent the closing of
public houses iu Ireland on Sunday, in
cluding in its scope the cities of Dublin,
Cork, Belfast, Waterford and Limerick,
has passed to second reading by a vote
of 24S to 04. '
The Premier of New South Wales has
announced that the government would
introduce a bill providing for the enfran
chisement of women.
An attempt is being mado to get up a
company for the establishment of gam
bling tables at the little Republic of An
dorra in the Pyrenees.
A large force of British troops lias boon
sent against tho Munipuris. who aro pre
I ring for ; defense by making rllle piu
and building atom gtockndus.
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