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NEWS OF THE,WEEK.
Portland.
The oily jail is being repaired and
made mor.3 securo.
A mill for the manufacture of super­
phosphate of lime is being built in East
Portland by J. L. Wickersbam.
Ou Monday-"after noon'"Dr. John
Wells, the well known physician, died
at his home, corner Fifth and Stark Sts.
The saw mill at Will’s station, above
the car shops, has an order for 140,000
feet of bridge timber to fill, and is run­
ning night and day.
■ “ ^.■^."Ttrieiw.’u-wivTheng
employ of the O. R. & N. Co., who has
been lying seriously ill at the St. Charles
Hotel, died on the 19th.
A. S. Kimball shipped to Fort Mis­
soula on tlielOth the first lot of govern­
ment supplies ever sent by rail from this
point. It consisted of 1000 pounds of
baggage for officers at the post. — *.
On the morning of the 19th a seven
year old «on of N. H. Powell who lives
on Fifteenth and E streets, fell from a
scaffold, dislocating one of the bones of
the forearm. Physicians were called in
to attend the child.
Monmouth and Vicinity.
The Polk County Lodge of Good
Templars has been in session here in
the College ohapel on Tuesday and
Wednesday of this week.
Mr. Levi Leland lectured for the
temperance cause and made faces for the
amusement of our people on Friday
evening of last week and Tuesday even­
ing of tliis week.
The Legislature has passed the bill
establishing a State Normal School at
MoBmouth. This is the most important
educational movement our. State has
ever made since establishing a public
school system. The Normal School is
specially for the training of teachers,
and good teachers will make good pub­
lic schools all over the State. Mon­
mouth was most fortunate in securing
the location.
The fine young voice of the steam
whistle at the wagon shop is added to
the musical acquirements of the town
during the past week.
We are having a delightful weather.
Pacific Coast.
The Dayf.on, W. T. woolen mills have
been sold to W. H. H. Fonts of Oregon
City and others, who will put in a large
amount of new and improved machinery
anti commence running''early Tn the
spring.
A few «lays ago at Laoonner, the in­
fant daughter of W. H. Tattersball was
slightly scratched by a domestic cat.
Pyiemia, or blood poisoning ensued,
and the.child died the next day.
The Malheur Indian reservation, or
nearly all of it has at last been restored
to the public domain. The territory
thus opened to settlement is about 60
miles square and lies partly in Baker
and partly in Grant county, all but a
small portion being in the latter.
Geo. F. Sharpe, of the firm of Sharpe
A Sharps, San Francisco, well known
Ikttorneys, dropped dead while address*
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ing a jury in Judge Mullivan’s court on
the 18th.
Frank Jonep, cashier for the firm of
Kenny & Dyer» stock brokers, San
Franoisco, committed suicide in his
room in the Russ house by shooting
himself through the head with a pistol.
Deceased was aged 27. Domestic trou-
■ 1.1a ia uHrihntnJ as the cause of the rash
deed.
Snow was 10 inches deep at Silver
City on the 7th.
The railroad line "through Grand
Ronde valley has been located and ac­
cepted.
Coquille fisheries.
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John B. Taylor, the architect who
shot himself in San Francisco, has since
died.
The new depot at Echo, Umatilla Co.,
will be 85x40 feet. The lumber for its
construction is already on the ground.
There are about 130,000 bushels of
wheat stored at Junction,
which is said V
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to be far .below the average storage at
that place.
Mrs. Jacob Miller of Milwaukee, died
on the 18th inst., after a protracted ill­
ness, aged 70 years. She had resided
in Oregon about 30 years.
Hon. 8. D; Haley, who died at his
home in Albany on the 12th inst., was
nearly 71 years old at the time of his
death, and had resided in Oregon since
1851.
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The train on the 18lh brought to
Olympia from Foster’s camp eight cars
loaded with loDg timbers, the sticks
running from eighty to ninety feet in
length.
Several large brick structures will be
built in Union during next spring.
Brick masons, and in fact all kinds of
mechanics will be in demand rj good
wages.
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Ice formed on shallow water in the
vicinity of Colfax last week.
A. J. Dexter, of Dayton, W. T., hus
burned this season 1,000,000 brick and
sold them nearly all.
The Elder took in her last trip from
New Tacoma 1499 bales of hops, repre­
senting a value of $156,600.
Three hundred car loads or about
4050 tons of wheat have been shipped
from Waitsburg this season.
The post office at Netarts, Tillamook
Co., has been discontinued.
It cost Washington county $161.50 to
keep her paupers during the month of
September.
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The largest crop of oats in Washing­
ton county is from a field belonging to
Wm. Tompkins, which yielded 105
bushels to the acre.
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The price of bet f cattle has so advanc­
ed of late that in southern Oregon
butchers are now compelled to ask 8,
10 and 12 cents for meat on the block,
Pork sells at a bit a pound and is Bearce
at that.
dumped a score of cars into the Susque-
hannah river.
Benj. Legault of Beauharnois, Can­
ada, has entered action to prevent his
widowed sister, 65 years of age, and
worth $100,000, from marrying a young
man.
At Atlanta,Ga.,on the 17th, the sheriff's
safe, the county safe and a private safe
Further Mexican reports say that
cholera is raging in To bus co.
The Title’s mail in Russia was robbed
and the postillion murdered ; 500,000
roubles were stolen. •
Gerrilla Reach, member of the cham­
ber of deputies for Gauduloupe, offers
to defend Arabi Pasha.
The lord lientenant has retnred to
$3000. Three men have been arrested.
On the morning of the 19th,while Mrs.
Lapham, of 4742 Paul St , Frankford,
w«is cleaning furniture with benzine, a
three-gallon can that contained the
liquid caught fire and a terrific explo­
sion occurred. The entire front and
walls of the building, a three-story
brick structure, were thrown down, and
the house No. 4744 partly demolished.
Mrs. Huff was seriously burned.
The prohibitionists of Chicago have
in thefield a ioli ticket.
Owing to repairs makingin-tbe White
Jlonse a cottage is being prepared for
tiro President.
Relief funds for Pensacola yellow
fever sufferers collected in New York,
amount to $2282.
Dr. Hamilton, of New York, claims
$25,000 fo? his services during Presi­
dent Garfield’s illness.
Urest’s large flouring mill in Minnes­
ota City burned on the 19th ; loss $70,-
000, insurance $40,000.
Dillion will not attend the conference
of the Irish nationalists.
Baker Pash i has been, commissioned
by the khedive to reorganize the Egyp­
tian army.
Chas. Chabol, the well known expert
in caligraphy at London, is dead.
Adolphe OhaTlee Bownegwuia-of Paris
the distinguished painter, is dead. —f 7—
An appeal by Victor Hugo, depreoat-
ing the execution of Arabi Pasha is pub­
lished is Paris.
The S wmk , Ninet, Ar aba Pasha’s ad­
viser, who was expelled from Egypt,
has arrived at Berlin.
Matters on the sooth coast have a
more pacific -tendency than for a long
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time past, and the pressure brought to
bear on the government or people of
Peru and Bolivia are having a marked
effect.
United States M inister Logan was re­
ceived by President Santa Maria, of
Chili, on the 8th ult. Complimentary
speeches were marie by both gentlemen.
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Eigh ty French men. assisted by 1400 »
African laborers, are about to commence
the construction of a railway between
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the Niger and Senegal rivers. Their
operations will ba protected by a mili­
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tary column which will plant the French
flag and erect two forts on the Niger.
A riot on tl e 17th in Limerick was
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caused by the arrest of a drunken man.
The mob stoned the police, one of whom
had his skull fractured.
The police
charged the mob and arrested the lead­
ers. A sentry stationed outside of the
barrack 1 at Brabrazon park was fired at
to-day and dangerously wounded.
Harbor, Ont., were drowned in the
Ottawa river by the upsetting of a
canoe.
Judge Edward Hammond died on the
18lh, in Howard county, Md , aged 70.
He was a member of Congress from' ’49
*to ’53.
Collingwood* P. Hallet was found
guilty of the murder of James Deputy,
near Milford, Del., in May last, but
was not sentenced as he appeared to be
deranged.
Twenty Mormon elders have left Salt
Lake City for missionary work in the
southern States, and 75 for the European
field. 4
C. Singer, of Detroit, Mich., Super­
intendent of the Imperator Gold Mine
Company, was murdered on the 16, in
Panama.
A $20,000 fire occurred at Lemars, la.1
resulting in the complete destruction of
6 business buildings. The fire is sup­
posed to be the work of an incendiary,
insurance about $12,000.
The prohibition State convention of
New Hampshire have nominated for
Governor, Joshua W. Fletcher; railroad
commissioners, 8. 8. Baker, Geo. D.
Dodge and Wm. H. Parker.
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A dispatch from Manilla says cholera
continues to decrease siuce last report
The average of deaths is four daily.
The disease still rages on the island of
Vessaya.
During the storm at Fairfield, Iowa,
wild ducks gathered around the electric
Eastern.
lights in the town and put out all but
The trial of 7 students of Bowdoin one, breaking several globes: Nearly
College for damages on account of inju­ 200 dead birds were picked up in three
ries inflicted while hazing freshmen was hours.
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concluded, with a verdict of $2700 dam­
Foreign.
ages against the 7 students.
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One
of
the
frequent
squabbles between
An acoident on the Albany and Bus-
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____ ,_ fa- Macao and the Chinese authorities of
quehannah
railroad
killed
person,
tally injured one or two more and I Canton is in progress.
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Ibminess I ah - h I s .
If you want to get a picture copied or
enlarged or a lot of fine views of Oregon
and Columbia river scenery, or a dozen
first-class photographs any size, go to
I. G. Davidson, the busiest and most
successful photographer in Portland.
When in Portland, don't forget the
Pacific Boot and Shoe House. The
leading Boot and Shoe dealers are
Cardwell, Bennett A Co., 109 First St.
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Jno. A. MacDonald, of the Salem
Marble and Granite Works, Commer­
cial Street, south of the poet office,
msnufactures all kinds of monuments:
Italian marble a speciality. Prices re-
duced one-h'an
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N ew M usic .—Send stamp to Wiley B.
Alien, most popular music dealer, Port­
land, Or., for complete catalogue and
sample copy ” Musical Pastime.” All
orders by mail filled promptly.
The Household Sewing Machine took
the first premium at the great Man- n
Chester (England) Exposition for the
best family Sewing Machine. John B.
Garrison, general agent, 167 3rd St.,
Portland, Oregon.
F. E. Beach & Co., 103 First
Street, Portland, carry a complete line
of painter’s stock, window glass, ready
mixethpaints, lubricating oils, brushes,
doors, gFazed
glazed windows, etc. Catalogue
and Price list furnished on application,
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