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VOL XUN, NO. 29.
ASTORIA, OREGON, SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 4, 1894.
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The Columbia River Appropri
ation Cut Down.
R. iG. DUNN'S TRADE REVIEW.
A California Judge Makes an Apol
ogy to Prisoner Worden
Other Dispatches.
Associated Press.
nro-M., a. tu hn.J
... , .Jlleved here that the United States
committee on uiiensunt; aim iuicibh
a . hn,,- fnrtnv t '
,iia..i, nf tho .wnin, rr svntpm. I
For a test it had Representative Brick
ner"s bill, which was Introduced during
the Chicago strike, and which provides
after January 1, 1895, such companies
engaged In the interstate commerce
shall own or control by lease, all sleep-l
Ing cars used on their roads or branches
operated or controlled by them, and
fixing a penalty of $10 a day for failure
to comply In each case.
Members of the committee believe a
measure of that kind will be reported
which will Include dining cars and all
palace cars, but the time will doubtless
he extended to 1896, with a view to
giving the companies time to adjust
their business to the change.
DUN & CO.'S RBVIEW.
New York. August 3. R. G. Dun &
Co.'s Weekly Review of Trade tomor
row will say:
An Important change In the state of
business is near at hand, and congress
will act on the tariff question one way
or another, within the week. If It
passes the pending bill or if it fails,
In either case a definite basis for fu
ture business will enable many to act
who are now waiting. Whether one
course or the other would stimulate
a greater increase, it la certain either
would give a relief from the present
paralyzing uncertainties, and cause
some Increase In business for at least
a time. So much business has been de
ferred during the past year, and mer-
oiiapdlRe stocks have been so reducedJoiounced- is 4o -gradually withdraw too
. - j T ta critnaHnn warrants. Sev-
that the mere approach of a decision
Without a certainty will, it Is believed,
encourage a large preparation for an
Increased business. In sjHte of the out
going gold and the sinking of the treas
ury reserves, and small railroad earn
ings, some injury to crops and an In
creased trouble in the coke regions, the
outlook is more hopeful. The injury to
crops by hot winds and drought, if as
great as some report, will affect all
interests, but at this season It Is never
easy to distinguish between a local nd
general damage.
The commercial liabilities thus far re
ported in failures during July, amount
ed to $8,016,775, of which $4,500,220 were
of manufacturing and $4,231,470 of trad
ing concerns, and a decrease for the
month, though great on comparison
with last year, Is hardly aa much as
had bean expected. The failures this
week have been 219 in the United States
against 436 last year.
NEARING A DECISION.
Washington. August 2. The tariff
conference appears to have reached
very nearly a point at which either an
early agreement) will be reached, or a
decision to report a disagreement. The
senate conferees apparently have ar-
rived at the conclusion that there hadi
already been a sufficient exchange of
views upon the general lines, and the
time had come when a direct Issue must
be raised. A stated sugar schedule has
been prepared which they say they will
accept. The schedule, it is said, still
provides a differential duty on refined
sugar, and la other particulars main
tains the protective features of the sen
ale schedule.
Representative Bland has introduced
a resolution instructing the committee
on ways and means to report a bill plac
ing all sugars on the free list, and for
raising $100,000,000 revenue by an Income
tax. Bland says concerning the reso
lution: "I have not consulted Mr. Wil
son, nor anyone else, but have acted on
ray own judgment in submitting the
resolution. My purpose la to press It,
If there Is any Indication of the gen
eral tariff Mil falling."
APPROPRIATION CUT DOWN.
Washington, August 3. The river and
harbor appripriation bill was reported
from the conferees to both houses today.
As finally presented the bill carried $11,.
488,180, an increase of $1,949,491 from the
house bill. The compromises were
reached on 65 of the amendments, the
senate receding from two and the re-
malnder being accepted by the house.
The sum for the Columbia river Is
reduced from $250,000 to $100,000, and
for ttalmon Bay, Wash., from $100,000 to,
$25 000.
THE JUDGE APOLOGIZED.
Woodland, Cal., August 3. At the
opening of the train wrecking case this,
morning Justice rUhtr apologized forj
having called the prisoner, Worden, a
vile, name during his excitement yes
terday. He said he would have held any
of the attorneys accountable for such
language aa he used. Almost the entire
morning session was consumed by the
arguments, quarreling and bickering
among the attorneys. But for the Inter
ference of others, Attorneys Cook and
Gaddls would have come to blows. Gad
dls openly charged that false testimony
had been given for the prosecution, and
that the attorneys for the prosecution
had countenanced it.
, THE CAMBRIAN SAFE.
The Charleston Will Probably Go
China.
to
San Francisco, August S.-It is be
, , ,
steamship Charleston, now lying In the
stream off Mare Island Navy Yard, ful
ly equipped for sea, is soon to sail for
the scenes of trouble In Asiatic waters.
The British ship Cambrian Chieftain,
supposed to have been lost en route to
Coqulmbo, and on which 85 per cent
was paid several weeks ago for re-ln
surance, Is reported safe in the harbor
at Taltal, Chill.
TO INVESTIGATE THE TROOPS.
Olympla, August 3. The governor has
appointed a military board of inquiry
to meet at Spokane August 13 for the
purpose of Investigating, the alleged
improper conduct of the members of
Companies B and K, Second Infantry,
and Troopnfcof Spraguc, and a general
Investigation fcf any and all companies
of troops, officers and privates. The
order covers particularly the mutiny of
the. men . Tacoma while returning
from camp, and the action of General
Curry In dealing with the mutinous
men. The detail of the court consists
of Col. Ev M. Carr, Assistant Adjutant
General, of Seattle, Capt. I. M. Howell,
of Tacoma, Csptaln Fred Reed, of Ya
kima, and Major E. C. MacDonald, re
corder. NO HURRY TO REMOVE TROOPS.
Omaha, Augusl. 3. The Department
of the Platte announced today that all
federal troops In Montana and the west
guarding railroad property would not
be withdrawn before September, even
if there Is no violence. The plan as an-
trnnnfi aa the situation warrants. Sev
eral companies were withdrawn today.
THE TREASURY RESERVE.
Washington, August 8. The cash bal
ance in the treasury today at the close
of business was $119,269,815. The stated
amount of gold reserve Is $53,839,176, less
$1,700,000 engaged for export yesterday
and today, leaving the
of reserve $52,239,176.
true amount
A COLD WAVE.
Chicago, August 3. The weather bu
reau ordered the frost signal displayed
throughout Wisconsin tonight. Last
night broke the record for cool weather
In August In Chicago, and serious dam
rge to crops In the northwest Is feared.
SECOND DAY'S SESSION.
Chicago, August 3. The second day's
Ksslon of the American Railway Union
convention was "devoted to hearing re
ports from the local organizations on
various railroad. President Debs urged
a more complete organization.
VOTED NON-CONCURRENCE.
Washington, August 3. The house
voted non-concurrence In the senate
amendments to the public printing bill,
and It was sent to the conference,
JVILL LOSE HIS HEAD.
Lyons, August 3. Caesero Santo,
murderer of President Camot, was to.
day sentenced to be executed by the
guillotine.
PASSED THE LAST BILL.
Waahinirton. August 3. The last of
the appropriation bills of the deficiency
was pascted by the senate today.
OF INTEREST TO AMERICANS.
Consul Read, at Tien Tain, China, has
sent a report to the state department
In which he says that he has received
Information from a reliable sourco that
the custom Taotal of that port, repre.
senttng officially and aa an Individual
the big cotton mills now being erected
at Shanghai and elsewhere In Central
China, has placed order with a Euro
pean firm In Tien Tsln fur cotton, mill
machinery amounting to nearly a mil
lion dollars (Mexican). It is said that
these orders will be executed for the
most part in England. The consul de
sires to call the attention of American
manufacturers of such machinery to the
fact that many mills are now springing
up In various parts of China, and they
are yet to be supplied with machinery
He understands that certain kinds of
cotton machinery manufactured in
America are productive of better results,
and are as cheap, la not cheaper, than
i Blmilar machinery made either In En.
gland or Uie continent, and he urges
that where such superiority exlsu
American manufacturer should be able
to obtain
a fair share of the Chinese
orders soon to be placett
IAL
The Report of (lie Battle Near
Seoul is Confirmed.
JAPS VICTORIOUS AT FIRST.
Chiuese Wer? R9iitcd, Hut a Second
Pattlo Proved Disnsterons to
the Japanese.
Associated Press.
Washington, August
3. The official
notincatlon of the battle between the
Japanese and Chinese land forces In
Corea waa received at the Japanese
legation tonight from tfte foreign office
at Toklo. The telegram stated that, on
the 28th of July a portion of the Japan
ese troops at Seoul marched against a
muoh superior force of Chinese en
trenched at s'hang Yeng. A battle en
sued, and after heavy fighting the
Chinese were put completely to rout
. ,i
nml a lanre number of prisoners and
anu a inige iiumi. r
munltlons of war were captured by the
Japanese,
On the morning of tne win
the Japanese proceeded
to ; march
against Yasa.n. A fight, resulting In
tho loss of 2,000 Japanese la reported to
have occurred.
QUEER SPRIGS OF GENTILITY.
Of all the adjuncts of an Imperial of
royal court, there is assuredly none
more unpopular than the small body of
functionaries known as masters of cere
monies,
Their duties consist mainly In pre
venting people who como to court eith
er for the purposa of being received In
audience or to attend some entertain
ment from assuming, either through ig
norance or presumption, places to which
they have no right. The result is that
they are all the time engaged In in
flicting snuba and humiliations of every
rank both high and,. low.. -Sometimes
it is a rray-haired.nd wound-svarrcU
general who attempts to enter, a room
reserved for tho diplomatic corps, to
the knlghU of a particular order, or for
royalty, and who rinds his progress
wi Or Dosstbly It Is somo high
dignitary of the state who. through In
advertence, remains sitting when he
ought to stand, orrwho assumes a pre
cedence higher than that to which his
offlje entitles him, and accordingly has
to be told like the man In the scripuire,
svipnd. bo down lower." 'ine resun
Is that not only do these masters of the
ceremonies become universally .hated,
but, moreover, they themselves grow
so imbued with exaggerated ideas of
their own Importance and power mat:
they not infrequently lose their heads.
This is all the more frequently the cuse
Inasmuch aa men of intellect and bril
liancy, as a rule, decline to accept any
such post as this, leaving it to be filled
by wealthy and well-born nonentities,
who end by bellevelng that .1 mere ques
tion of etiquette, of conventionality, or
of precedure, is of Infinitely greater mo
ment than any grave probiom or a po.
lltlcal or International character. Notlv
Ing Is more amusing, and at the same
time Instructive, than to observe the
Ineffable contempt with which such
men as Prince Bismarck, Field Marshal
von Blument.hal, and Oen. von Schoen
feld at Vienna refer to the masters of
the ceremonies of thejr respective
courts.
ConS3auently there Is a sort of 111
natured satisfaction whenever any one
of t'.iese unpopular functionaries gets
Into trouble. Baron von Kotze's arrest
at Berlin created wide-spread, gratifica
tion until it became clear that he was
merely the scapegoat, the real criminal
being. beyond the reach of the emperor.
And now similar pleasure what t.'.ie
Germans so appropriately describe ns
schadenfreude Is manifested at the
misfortune of another master of cere
monies. Baron von Boeder, who, while
driving Emperor William's eldest sister,
Princess Charlotte, of Saxe-Melnlngen,
from Eisenach to Llebensteln, In a
mall phaeton, clumsily upset the vehi
cle Into a ditch, pitching out her royal
highness and the footman, the princess
In particular receiving a severe shak
ing.
Highest of all In Leavening Power. Latest U. S. Gov't Report.
This Baron von Roeder, by the bye,
Is an elder brother of that Baron Max
on Roeder, who, for a time, was cele
brated as the bast non-professional
steeplechase rider on the German tuif,
but who was . subsequently forced to
leave the army on the startling dis
covery being made that Instead of cour
ageously having put to flight the rob
bers who had entered the German em
bassy at Berne, of which his father was
the chief, It was he, himself, who had
rifled the chaneelHrle and who hud
merely organized the mlse en scene of
the cleverly Imagined burglary In order
to divert attention and suspicion from
himself. Sa thoroughly did he succeed
In. getting his story believed that the
late emperor was on the point of con
ferring upon him the order of the Red
jf f hen his gul.t
Prlnoe Radolln, now ambassador at
Constantinople, was formerly one of
these masters of the cerlmonles, but
was clever enough to obtain by meuia
of intrigue promotion first to the cham
berlalncy, and , subsequently to the
comptrollershlp of the household of the
late Emperor Frederick, then crown
prince. Having once established him
self there, he proposed to make hlmut It
. " wiw u.e present emperor, and
'during Frederick's last Illness acted In
"
such a manner that ho was openly ac-
pusea by Empresg Frederick of treach-
cry to her husband and herself. Prince
Radolln Kept young William and Prince
Bismarck day by day Informed of the
condluon of his muflter'8 health, which
the empress was In vnln endeavoring
to conceal. Both she and her husband
would have been glad to dismiss Wm,
but were prevented from doing so by
the old emperor, who exercised a strict
control over the arpolntmcnts of his
son's establishment. Ab soon, howe.er,
as Frederick became emperor, Radolln's
services aa grand master of the house
hold were dispensed, and he was dis
missed with a purely honorary appoint
ment, beliu; promoted from the rank of
count to that of prince by way of con
solation. Prince Radolln has now the lucrative
post of German ambassador at Con
stantinople, where he has succeeded In
rendering himself most unpopular with
his countrymen, making a point of be
having -with -especial' discourtesy and
aggressiveness toward all the friends
of his predecessor, the universally liked
Baron von Riulowltz, whose transfer
to the minor mission of Madrid was duo
to tho fact that not only had he a Rus.
sian Wife, but also that his sister wna
the wife of the czar'a envoy In the
Turkish capital, Russian and German
Interests being now diametrically op
posed In that quarter. One of the most
Intimate friends of Baron von Radowlta
wa Gen. von Hope, of the German
army, who has been lent to the Ottoman
government for the purpose of reorgan
izing Its army, and who had won the
good will and confidence not alone of
the sultan," who appointed him his aide-de-camp,
hut also that of hla Turkish
fellow-officers. Gen. von Hope resented'
the discourteous behavior of Prlnco
Radolln, as not only slighting to hlnmelf
but also to his two Imperial masters,
the sultan of Turkey and the emperor
of Germany, and accordingly he wrote
to both, complaining of Prince Radolln.
Empe.'or William at once took up the
cudgels In the prince's behalf, and lm.
mediately wrote an autograph letter
to the sultan demanding the immediate
dismissal from the Turkish eervlca of
tho general, and at the same time he
caused Von Hope to bo notified that
never, under any circumstances, would
he permit the resumption of his place
und .t the German flag. The sultan had
no alternative and dismissed him,
thouiih with great regret and manifest
reluctance.
I need scarcely say that Prince Rad
olln and the emperor as well are most
severely condemned for their treatment
of General von Hope, not only In the
army, which sympathizes to a man
with tho general, but also among the
aristocracy, who regard Ihe general as
one of themsolves, whereas they do not
accord any sue consideration to Prince
Radolln, notwithstanding the fact that
he In undoubtedly the favorite of the
preoent emperor. Marquise de Fonte
noy. .
On to the Astoria Wood Yard for the
jest kinds of wood: also best grades of
out delivered In quantities to suit
Japanese noveltlee and fancy dry
?ooil4, can be had at half price, at the
tore of Wing Lee, next to Olsen's cigar
tore.
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