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! day, when the sound o f carriafe wheels
I on the gravel outride the window, the
j echo of a resounding knock, startle her
I out of her contemplated repose.
.And now there is a little quick rush
through the hall, a springing step up the
staircase, the rustle of silken skirts iu
the a nte-room beyond, a voice that makes
Vera start eagerly to her feet, and pres
ently Mrs. l ’eyton, looking supremely
happy, and, therefore, charming, flings
herself into her sister’s arms.
“ Oh, I am too glad to be surprised,
says Vera, fondly.
"You're an improvident person,” says
Mrs. Peyton, beaming on her from out
the masses of furs that clothe her dainty
form. “ Grace telegraphed for us, to help
her with a dinuer party that is to come
off to night; so come we did. And, being
so close to you, 1 felt I should see you
or die.”
“ Well, I guess I ’ll chance it,” says Sed
C H A P T E R X IX .
“ It's selfish, I know, but I'm so glad to
O f that night’s fatal work the country ley after a long glance at the young have you. Let me take off your furs.
side remains in complete ignorance. Of man’s pale, earnest face.
What a delicious coat! You hadn't that
Mr. Dysart’« sudden death it hears the
when I was down with you, eh ?”
C H APTE R XX.
following morning with a feeling of
“ No. It’ s a new one. Tom gave it to
W ith the fatal will clasped in his me. lie 's absurder than ever. But I
strong curiosity, but with none of regret.
The fimoral that ' ik s place on the third hand, Dysart goo* >traight to the small haven't braved the elements to talk
day is small, certainly, yet, considering morning room, where he knows he will about him. I t is about Seaton I want
all things—the dead man’s open hostility be sure to find Vera. Tw ilight is begin to tell yon."
to his neighbors, and the dearth of hos- ning to fall, and already the swift herald
“ Seaton? To come out such a day as
pitulity that characterized his sojourn of night is proclaiming the approach of this to talk of Seaton! But why ? It
among them—larger than might have his king. She starts slightly as he comes must bo something very serious,” says
been expected, and at all events select. in.
Vera, changing color perceptibly.
Among others Lord Uiversdale attended
“ I am sorry to disturb you,” says Dy-
“ Vera, 1 cannot help regarding us—you
—out of compimont, it was supposed, to sart, with an effort at calmness, “ but it and me—as in part criminals. Poor, dear
Seaton, as he and the obi man had never was so necessary that I should come, fellow, it must have been a blow to lose
that---- ’*
so much as seen each other’s features.
everything in one fell swoop. And yet
Hut it was found impossible to conceal
“ I am glad you have come. I, too, what more could we have done than what
the existence of Sedley from the two was anxious to see you,” says Vera, a we did do? T o the half of our kingdom
girla. Peyton hud undertaken to give touch of nervousness in her tone. “ I — we offered him, but, as you know, he
them a rather careful account of what you must know it Ls impossible that wo would none o f us!”
had happened; and in truth, wheu all should stay here any longer. Our uncle,
“ 1 know all that. W e have discussed
was told, he was almost as much at sea who was our guardian, is gone and” — It a thousand times."
about it as they were, as the stranger re she has risen to her feet and is looking
“ The face is, Seaton Is leaving Eng and
mained a stranger to him. Sedley had at him in sore distress—“ I have wanted forever, and he has a desire, a longing be
determined to reveal the secret hold he ! to speak to you about it for n long time; cannot subdue, and, I ’ m sure, a most
had had on Mr. Dysart to Seaton, thiuk- j I thought, perhaps, you would help us natural one, to see his old home before
iug the latter would make good his fath to find another home.” He can see that he goes.”
i she suffers terribly in having to throw
er’s promises.
“ W ell?” says Vera, coldly.
It is in the old man’s private den that herself upon his good nature, to openly
“ W ell,” in exactly the same tone, with
he does this. Going up to the old-fash demand his assistance. “ W e must leave a little mockery thrown in, “ that’ a the
ioned bureau he, by a subtle touch, un this, and at once," says she, stammering whole of it. He wants to get a last look
a little, and with a slight miserable break at the old place before leaving it for
locks the secret spring.
'Hie door falls back, the hudden shelves in her voice.
ever. A t least, that is how he puts it.
and their contents lie all unconcealed.
“ You will not have to look for another Can he come? that ia the question. I
Seizing upon a fast yellowing parchment, home,” says he; “ this is your own really think It would be only decent If
Sedley draws it out, and overcome by house.”
you were to drop him a line and ask him.
fatigue and excitement, drops upon his
“ Oh, no!’ ’ drnwdng back with a haughty It would lie the most graceful thiug, at
knees. Eagerly he opens and scans it, gesture; “ I have told you it is impossi all events.”
and then holds it out to Dysart.
ble. I shall certainly not stay here.”
An hour later Griselda drives back to
“ Compare that,” says he, in a high
“ .As you will,” quite as haughtily. “ It the fria rs with the coveted note from
tone of triumph, “ with the will of your will be in your power for the future to re Vera to Seaton in her hand.
grandfather, that left all to Gregory D y side exactly where you please, but if the
(T o be continued.)
sart. cutting out the elder son. Compare fear of seeing me here is deciding you
it, I say, and you will see that this was against this place, pray be satisfied on
B R E A D 1,800 Y E A R S OLD .
executed three years later than that oth that point; l have no longer the smallest
er—that other which is now’ in force, and claim to consider myself master here.”
L o a v e s t h a t W e r e H e i n s Hakeil W h e n
has been these twenty years.”
Warned by a change in his manner,
P o m p e i i Wan D estroyed.
Mechanically Dysart takes it. No word Vera looks at him.
Sufferers from Indigestion are ad
escapes him. Speech, indeed, is impossi
“ Something has happened?” she says,
vised to eat stale bread; the staler the
ble to him, so busy is his mind trying to abruptly.
take in all the miserable dishonor of the
“ Yes; something I find it difficult to ex better, they ure told. There ls in the
museum at Naples some bread which
story that as yet has but the bald out plain to you.”
lines laid before him.
Still ho manages to tell her all and to ought to be stale enough fo r anybody.
“ Xo one knew* of it but me,” says Sed show her her grandfather’s will—the will I t was baked one d ay in August, 79
ley, feverishly, yet with an undercurrent which his father had suppressed all these A. I*., in one o f the curious ovens still
of delicious excitement in the recital. years.
to be seen at I’ ompell.
“ Hot me
Grnnch. \v hat she made
M ore than eighteen centuries, there
“ But this is horrible!” f>he says, faint
out of it no one can tell, as the old chap’s
gone, but she’s as knowing a tile iu my ly. when he had finished. " I won’t have fore, have elapsed since It was drawn
opinion as you'd meet in a day’ s walk. It!” She throw’s out her hands as though “ all hot” and Indigestible from the
You can see our two signatures. Eh, in renunciation. “ Why should l deprive oven. So It may claim to he the old
can’t you read ’em? W e witnessed it. you of your home? Give me enough to est bread In the world. You m ay see
W e alone knew, and he bought us over. live on else vhere with Griselda, but---- ”
It in a glass case on the upper floor o f
“ You are quick to fall into error," says
Well, ’twas worth a quid or two; ’tis a
the museum. There are several loaves
he.
grimly.
“
I
have
begged
you
already
fine old place.”
o f it, oue still bearing the Impress of
to
try
to
.grasp
the
situation.
It
is
I,
Dysart makes no answer. lie has sup
the baker’ s name.
ported himself against a table near him. it appears, I who” —he hesitate«, and
In shape and size they resemble the
and is gazing blankly, hopelessly, through after finding it impossible to speak of
the window* at the dull landscape outside, his farher, goes on—“ who have deprived small cottage loaves o f England, but
lie sees nothing, heeds nothing, save the ; you of your home. You must see that. I not In appearance, fo r they are as
beg,” slowly, “ that you will not permit black as charcoal, which. In fact, they
voice of the man who is speaking.
“ ’Twas felony, mind you, besides the yourself any further foolish discussion closely resemble. This was not their
fact of having to give up the money, and on this subject.”
He turn» away abruptly.
There Is original color, but they have become
property, and all, so I knew’ I could turn
something
so
solitary,
so
utterly
alone in carbonized, and If eaten would proba
ou the screw as tight as I liked. But,”
b ly remiud one o f charcoal biscuits.
he laughs, “ you see, I counted without his whole air, that without giving her
my host. I never dreamed the old man self time for thought she springs to her W hen new they may have weighed
about a couple o f pounds each, and
would show fight like that. He took it feet and calls to him.
“ Where are you going? To sit alone? w ere most likely raised with leaven,
hardly, my return—guess he believed me
dead, and resented the breath in me— To brood over all this? Oh, do not. as Is most o f the bread In oriental
and I shouldn’t wonder if, after all these W hy,’\jfoing swiftly to him and standing countries at the present time.
years, he had got to believe the place, before him with downcast lips and trem
T h e popular idea that l ’om pell was
money and everything, was legally his bling fingers and quickened breath, “ why destroyed by lava is a fallacious one.
not stay here with me for a little while
ow n ”
and let us discuss ail this together and I f a lava stream had descended upon
Still Dysart soys nothing. He has in try to see a way out of it?”
the elty the broad and everythin g else
deed withdrawn his dull eyes from the
“ My way is plain before me; it wants in the place would have been utterly
scene without, and is now staring with no discussion,“ says Dysart, resolutely,
destroyed. Pom peii was really buried
unseeing eyes at the parchment that tells refusing to look at her.
uuder ashes and fine cinders, called by
him how’ the property was never his fath
“ You mean,“ tremulously, “ that you
er’ s, but was left to his uncle, and how will not Htay?” One white hand hanging the Italians lapilll. On that dreadful
his father suppressed the will, and kept
at her *ide closes upon a fold of her soft day In August, when the great erup
the property in spite of law and honor,
tion o f Vesuvius took place, showers
black gown and crushes it convulsively
and all things that go to give a sweet
“ I mean,” iu an uncompromising tone, o f flue ashes fell first upon the doomed
savor to man's life on earth. It had never “ that I fully understand your mistaken city, then showers o f lapilll, then more
been his father’s, all this huge property, kindness—the sacrifice of your inclina
ashes and more lapilli, until Pom peii
it never would be his. And if not, whose? tions you would make—and decline to
was covered over to a depth In places
Vera’s? He starts as if shot.
profit by it.”
o f fifteen and even tw enty feet.
“ Is that all?” he asks.
“ You are disingenuous.
What you
Other comestibles besides the bread
“ Well, no. Not quite. Your face says really mean is,” iu a low tone, “ that you
w ere preserved, and may now be seen
very politely that you’d be glad to see my will not forgive.”
back, but business first, pleasure after
“ There is nothing to forgive, save my In the same room in the museum. There
ward.” He grins. “ It is as good for us presumption.”
are various kimls o f grata, fruit, vege
to come to terms now as later.”
He opens the door deliberately and tables and even pieces o f meat. Most
“ Terms?” repeats Dysart, gazing at closes it with a firm hand behind him.
Interesting ls a dlsb o f walnuts, some
him darkly.
Vera, left standing thus cavalierly in the cracked ready fo r eating, others whole.
“ Ay, why not? D’ye think you’ll get middle of the room, with the knowledge
Though carbonized, like all the sther
out of it scot free?”
full upon her that «he has been slighted,
Dysart stares at him as if scarcely spurned, her kind iutenfion« ruthlessly eatables, they have preserved their
comprehending.
flung back upon her, leta the quirk, pas characteristic wrinkles and lines.
There are figs, too, and pears, the
“ Want time to think It over like your sionate blood rise upward, until it dyes
respected parent?’’ with a sneer. “ Not cheek and brow. She preeses her hand form er rather shriveled, as one would
for nte, my lad. W e’ll settle now or nev upon her throbbing heart, and then all at expect after all these years, the latter
er. You see you’ re in my power, and once it comes to her that she is no long certainly no longer “ Juicy.” But per
I'm not the one to---- ”
er poor, forlorn, but rich, one of the rich haps the most Interesting relic In the
“ Sir, I ara in no man's power,” ssy9 est commoners in England. And with
room is a honeycomb, every cell o f
Dysart. calmly. " I trust I never shall this comes, too, a sense of deeper deso
be. This will,’’ striking it with his hand, lation than she has ns yet known. Drop which can be distinctly made out. It
“ through which my uncle and his daugh ping into a chair, she covers her face Is so w ell preserved that it is hard to
ter have been—been fraudulently” —he with her hands and cries as if her heart realize that the comb Is no longer wax,
■ays the word with difficulty—“ kept out is broken.
| nor the honey, honey.
of their property for so many years, shall
A piece o f the comb seems to bare
be at once restored to its proper owner.”
C H A P T E R X X I.
I been cut o u t and one can Imagine
A yellow tint overspreads Sedley’s face.
Three months have come and gone.
some young Pompeiian having helped
As if entirely overcome, he sinks upon a
Great changes have these three months
him self to it and sitting down to eat
chair.
i
brought. They bare unhoused Seaton
it. when he had to Jump up and fly for
“ You’ll surrender?” he says with a Dysart and given his inheritance into the
hands,
the moat unwilling hands, o f hi* his life. One cannot help wondering
ga«p. “ And your father’s memory? How
Hands too «null to wield so what became o f the piece -whether the
will you like to bear him branded as a conaln.
young fellow took It with him and ate
common swindler, whom death alone sav large a scepter.
But Mr. Peyton haj nobly come to her I it as he ran, or whether he le ft It on
ed from the law's grip?”
Dysart blanches. Involuntarily he puts j rescue. It is to him that most of the his plate. Intending to return for It
out his hand and seizes the chair next innovations owe their birth. The hand | when the eruption was over.
him and cling« to it as if for support. No, some landau, the pony trap, the «ingle
brougham, all have been bought by him.
no. that he could not endure.
M ad* f t H erself.
“ I will give you £500 the day I see | He has perfectly reveled in the choosing
"D id yon dream on A m y’ s wedding
you on board a steamer sailing for Aus o f them, and ba* perforce dragged the re
! cake?"
tralia.” «ays Dysart with dry lips and a luctant Vera up and down to town, aid
"M m —yes; I thought It was safer to
heart that seems dead within him. “ I ed manfully by Griselda. now hia wife,
am n<*w. comparatively speaking, a poor who baa aUo been reveling, te view the put It under my pillow and dream on
man.” his words coming from him slowly, several carriages, and give her verdict It than to eat It and have the night
mare.” —Philadelphia Bulletin.
mechanically, in a dull, expressionless thereon.
way. “ I caa • flfer you no more.”
To-day la rich la storm and rain. The
T h e royal crow n o f Persia, which
“ IH mi M c it.” says Sedley, “ and I'll beavena seem to have opened.
Down
dates ba<k to rem ote agra, la In the
from their watery borne come the heavy
leave the country to-morrow.”
“ I haven’t it at this moment, but I drops, deluging the gaunt «hrubberiea, form o f a pot o f flowers, •urmounted
dare say I shall be able to manage it,” and beating Into the sodden earth auoh by an uncut ruby the s!xe o f a ben's
says Dysart. in the same wornout, indif presumptnoua anemone* and daffodlla aa < W
ferent manner. “ In the meantime, while have dared to ahow their faeee. Vera
T h e Joys o f meeting pay the pang*
1 try to get it, I shall require of you th at haa juat eoaconced herself cosily before
you stay within thia house and hold the leaping fire, book la hand, having o f abaence; else who could bear It.—
resigned all hope of seeing visitors to- Rewe.
•pvt“ h with do one sat « Crunch.”
C O U N T Y , OREGON, F R ID A Y , M ARCH 21, 1902.
a VENTS OF THE DAY
FR O M T H E
F O U R Q U A R T E R S OF
T H E W O R LD .
A Comprehensive Review of the Important
Happenings of the Past Week, Presented
in a Condensed Form, Which Is Most
Likely to Prove of Interest to Our Many
Readers.
The worst blizzard in years is raging
in North Dakota.
Japan’ s foreign trade shows a sub
stantial increase.
The em igration from Germany
1901 was the smallest in years.
in
Captain A . 8. Crcwninshield has
been promoted to a rear admiral.
Fifteen of the leaders of ttie students’
riots in Moscow have been deported to
•Siberia.
A number of British and Americans
SKYSCRAPERS
IN
D AN G E R.
Their Steel Framework, Says a Chicago Man,
Is Rapidly Corroding.
Chicago,
March 18.— "T h e
steel
framework in many of the big build
ings in tiie business district of Chicago
is corroding, making them very danger
ous. It is only a question of a few
years when those buildings w ill fall to
the ground.”
This statement was made by General
W illiam S.Smith, at the 35th annual
dinner of the Chicago real estate board.
H e added "th a t the steel framework of
some of the skyscra|H>rs is in the condi
tion stated is nothing short of a public
outrage.”
The speaKer explained that his state
ments w ere based on personal observa
tions and investigations.
“ The steel framework imbedded in
concrete w ill last 2,000 yea rs," ho said,
"h u t the steel framework in many ol
the big buildings is left free to the ac
tion of the air and gases which circu
late through the tile and a space abont
the steel. The owners of these struc
tures have the steel painted with oil.
This cil w ill withstand the corroding
NO.
IS .
NEW SOFTHESTATE
IT E M S O F I N T E R E S T F R O M A L '
— Latest Market Report.
The Coquille creamery lias resumed
operations.
Construction of acroam ery lias liegun
near M yrtle Point.
The town of Haines, Union
has been incorporated,
county,
A crusade against gamtiling lias been
inaugurated at Oregon C ity.
The Woodmen o f
building a hall at
county.
the W o n d are
Dusty, Bouton
Several men in Salem have been
found to have registered in more than
one precinct.
From March 1, 1901, to March 2,
1902, there were 19,000 acres patented
from the government to Wasco county.
Representative Tongue condemns the
move to hamper im provem ent of Lower
Columbia by p ittin g it against the up
per river.
Papers throughout the state report
that taxpayers are taking advantage of
the 3 per cent rebate for prompt pay
ment, and the new law is meeting gen
eral approval.
O il has l>een (truck near Denver.
The house has passed
appropriation bill.
the poetollire
The international treaty on warfare
has-been ratified by the senate.
A hill is before congress increasing the
number of senator* in pioportion to the
population.
The Spanish cabinet haa resigned.
The queen regent w ill take step* to
form a Liberal ministry.
Severe earthquakes in A sia M inor
have reiulted in the death of hundred!
of people and an immense loan of prop
erty.
A b ill has been introduce!] in tiie
senate for the relief of Eastern Oregon
settlers who were dispossessed by land
companies.
The United States Brewers’ associa
tion w ill hold its annual rneetng at Sar
atoga June 10, 11 and 12.
A three-oent street ear fare franchise
ordinance passed the Cleveland (O .)
city council without opposition.
An equestrian club o f nine New York
girls has discarded the side saddle and
adopted the divided skirt.
British naval estimates for the pres
ent year provide for an expendituia of
$ '(.0 0 0 ,0 0 0 for naw warships
AGUA
DULCE.
Eight Hundred Men on Both Sides Rtportcd
to Have Been Killed.
Colombia,
March
17.— The
and Improvements of the Many Industries ui»m Agua Dnlce, February 23, to lie
Throaghout Our thriving Commonwealth irresistible, ow ing to tiie enem y’ s su
The town council o f Prairie C ity lias
passed an ordinance prohibiting the use
of tobacco in all public meeting places.
The labor situation in Boston is grad
ually assuming normal conditions, and
in a few days all those who went out
on strike are expected to be at work
again.
OF
government troops, which arrived here
Commercial and Financial Happening« ol Im yesterday front Boras del T oro:
portance—A Brlcl Review of the Growth
Upon finding the revolutionary attack
N early 13 inches of rain fell at
Grants Pass during February, which
breaks tiie record for any one month.
have been imprisoned in Ecuador w ith process about three years. Then begins
the corroding of the steel and within
out cause.
a few years your skyscraper w ill fa ll.”
Andrew I>. W h ite , United States
Tiie speaker said that the elevated
minister to Germ any, ia making prepa
road structures would not withstand
rations to retire.
the corrosion. He asserted that within
A tornado in Alabama riwultisl in the 10 years they would bo dangerous and
death o l one person and the serious in within 20 years out of service. The
corrosion of one-fifth of the thickness of
jury of seveial others.
tlio steel framework of the structure,
The Northern Pacific strike at M is
he said, would render them incapable
soula, M ont., has been declared off
of liearing their own wfiight.
and all men who were out w ill bo rein
stated.
B ATTLE
follow ing report wag obtained from tho
The regular election of officers for the
city of Florence for the ensuing year
ill be held A p ril 1.
SOLDIERS MONUMENT AT OLYMPIA, WASH.
Address, Q b a ph ic , N ew b «rf. Orefon.
Colon,
PARTS OF OREGON.
$1.00
perior numbers, their a rtille ry and
their supplies of ammunition, General
Castro tried to retreat to D avid and
Chiriqui, which towns were known to
bo hard pressed by the revolutionists
under Quintero and 1’erez. This is a
long and tiresome march of over 200
m iles. Shortly alter leaving Horcon-
:tos a small U d y of government troops
was met. These men reported tiiat
Colonel Luquehad lieon tille d in battle
and that tho revolutionists were in | h > h -
session o f D avid.
General Castro,
therefore, decided to try to effect the
difficult march across tiie mountains to
Bocas de Toro. T h e march occupied 17
days, during the last five of which
bananas were tiie on ly obtainable food.
Drinking water was plentiful.
General Castro’ s soldiers report that
800 men were ki 1 loti on noth sides dur
ing tiie lighting at Agua Dulce.
The
revolutionists lost 550 ami the govern
ment forces 250 men. It is also said
that tho Indian chief, Lorenzo, and his
half-caste Indians participated in tho
attacks and k illed m any of the govern
ment soldiers w ith machetes.
Tiie
ritlo fire during the Agua Dulce battle
was deadly and persistent. The din
of tiie rifles was so great that the can
non tire could not be heard.
The
slaughter ami massacre at this battle
are described ns som ething awful.
Tiie governm ent is confident that the
revolutionists are s till unable to take
either Colon or Panama. Reinforce
ments w ill doubtless arrive here from
tiie interior.
Colonel U ribe, cousin of General
U ribe-U rilie, was k ille d in tho battle of
Agua Dulce.
F IG H T A N O L D ONE.
The market for Oregon prunes in the
East is iniproviong.
Every pound
Charges Against Ambassador Powell Clayton
shipped tills past year iias boon d is
Originated Months Ago.
posed of, and dealers say tiie/ could
have sold more had they had them.
Washington, M arch 17.— The charges
H . V . Gates, promoter of the pro against Ambassador Pow ell Clayton,
posed telegraph and telephone line from submitted to tiie state department,
Ashland to Iaikeview and other points were forwarded to him in order that he
lias filed an application with the faike may make reply if he cares to do so.
county court for a righ t of way along It appears that the figh t upon the am
bassador has lx»en in progress for sev
the public highway.
eral months, and ho is aware of all
The U m atilla county Republican con that lias been done by hisopponenta up
vention met in Pendleton March 12 and to this point.
Now the question is for
nominated a full county ticket and d el the first tim e raised formally as to tiie
egates to the state and congiessional propriety of an ambassador or minister
conventions. The delegates wore in engaging in business, or having finan
structed to work for W illiam son for cial interests in the country to which
congress and Furnish for governor.
he is accredited. It is believed that
Agitation has been started in fat there is no specific law upon the sub
Grande for a $25,000 public building. ject, and it is suggested that tiie deter
m ining point in this case w ill lie in
Tho first ticket in tho ¡Mold in Coos the character of Mr. Clayton’ s invest
county was that of the Socialist party. ments and to tiie extent which they
Tw enty-eix homestead entries were might Breni to tend to influence his am
filed at the Oregon C ity land office dur bassadorial actions.
ing February.
M»rican Officials Not Interested.
The Clackamas county Socaliists held
C ity "'of M exico, March 17.— Am bas
their convention in Oregon C ity March sador Clayton is now out o f tho city,
8 and nominated a full ticket.
and uis reply to the chaiges against
From six to twelve contracts for 1902 him in connection w ith the M ealy case
hop« are filed in Salem every day. cannot tie had. The Mexican Hernhl
says tiiat tho charge that General C lay
Prices range from 11 % to 12Ji cents.
ton is interested in Mexican mines is
Forty thousand pounds of hops, sim ply puerile, and cun only have been
owned by G. W. Perkins, of North introduced to throw doubt in the eye«
Y a m h ill, sold at 14% ornts per ponnd of the public who may fail to see tiie
a few days ago.
absolute lack of connection betiween tiie
fact in question and the act of which
M r. M ealy complains. It is not true,
PORTLAND MARKETS.
the pajier continues, that M exican offi
Wheat— W a lla W alla,
6 6 Q 6 6 ){e ; cials nre interested in these m ines w ith
General Clayton.
bluostem ,68® 6flX c; V alley, 65(865 ) { c
Barley— Food, $20(921.;
$21(921.50 per ton.
brewing,
Fatal Explosion in Powder Mills.
Cleveland,
O., March 18.— An e x
Oats— No. 1 white,
$1.15(81.25;
plosion in the powder m ixin g depart
gray, $1.10(81.20.
ment of the Fuirinount Manufacturing
Flour— Beat grade«, $2.80(83.40 per
Company early today, resulted in tho
barrel; graham, $2.50(92.80.
death of one girl em ploye, w h ile at
M ilistuffs— Bran, $19 per ton; m id least seven other persona were seriously
dlings, $21; ahorta, $21.50;
chop, injured. The cause of tiie explosion
$17.50.
ia not known. Tiie front o f the two
H ay — Tim othy, $12(913;
clover, story frame m iilding was blown com
$7.50(88; Oregon wild hay, $5(88 |>er pletely out, and tiie plant gutted by fire
ton.
which followed the explosion. The
Pntafffie*— Best Bnrhanka, $1.10(81.25 company manufactures railroad torpe
S A G A 8 T A C O M M IS S IO N E D .
per cen tal; ordinary, 70(t$80e • per cen does. Tiie pecuniary loss w ill not e x
tal, growers’ prices; sweets, $2(32.25 ceed $10,000. A Unit three weeks ago
au explosion sim ilar to the one of today
Queen Retail of Spain Call* Upon Him te per cental.
Form a New Cabinet.
Rutter— Creamery, 25<9^0r; dairy, I occurred at the torpedo factory.
Madrid, March 18.— Theqneen regent 1 8 (8 2 2 )ic; store, 13(916c.
Illinois Bank Robbery.
E gg«— 14c for Oregwt.
has commissioned Fenor Fagasta to
Joiiet, Ills ., March 15.— F ix men
C h e e se — Full cream, twins, 13(3 early today broke into the Exchange
form n new'enbinet. The queen regent
1 3 X c ; Yonng Am erica, 14<815c; fac
Bank in M inooka. nine m ile* west o f'
only called upon Fenor Saga*ta to re tory price«, UaiHc leas.
Joliet, wrecked the sale with dynam ite
construct tiie m inistry after she found
P on ltry— Chickens, mixed, $4.00(3 and secured l«etwe**ti $2,000 ami $3,-
it impossible to induce the various si
5.00; hens, $6.00(98.00 per dozen, 11(8 1000 in cash.
Theodore K rin e, who
tioiial leaders to attempt the formation 12X c per ponnd; springs. ll(* 1 2 c per | heard the explosions, rose from a sick
pound $ 3 ( 9 4 . per dffteu; ducks, $6(98 j bed anil went to wratn A. K . Napp,
of a coalition cabinet.
per dozen; turkeys,
live, 12(913c, i president o f the hank. T h e robbers as
Tiie pope has ap|iealed to her majesty
dressed, 14(918c per pound; geeee, $8t^ saulted K rin e on his return and left
not to permit the recent decree obliga (97 per dozen.
] him gagged. H e was not found until
ting religious congregations to com ply
Mutton— Gross, 4c per pound; dress- j nearly two hours after. Tho robber*
with tiie law of associations to lie pat id , 7(87 %c per pound,*
escaped on a handcar.
in force.
The decree 1 »-comes operative
Hogs— Gross, 5
dressed, 6%<37c
• »
March 21, so the new cabinet w ill be per pound.
Date of Adjournment.
early confronted with a question adm it
V eal— 8<9SX for am all; 7 (8 7 * for
W ashington,
March
15. -Senator
ted to lie extrem ely difficult to settle.
large.
On account of various threats regard
Beef— Grosa, cow«, S '* (9 4 c ; steers, Hale, who is a lending member o f the
ing tiie fomentation of disturbances, 4(84 %C, dressed, 9%Q 7% c per ponnd. senate com m ittee on appropriations and
also of the Republican steering commit-
the m ininstry of war lias directed the
H ope— 12(813c per ponnd.
soldiers who have recently completed
W oel— V a lley, 13(§ 15 c , Eastern Ore- J tee, today expressed the opinion that
their terms of service to remain with gon, 8(8 12 % e ; mohair, 21(82 l)$ c per congress would be prepared to adjourn
for tiie season about June 10.
the colors.
pound.
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Contracts tor English Warship«.
The Danish Treaty.
Snuff ia com ing into fashion again,
I.ondnn, March 15.— The
British,
Copenhagen, March 18.— The presi
saya tha f-ondon D ally Chronicle, with
adm iralty has contracted with various
dent of the lamlthing. I'r. Matsen, who
the early V ictorian fashions. Snuff
shipbuilding companies for the ron-
is opposed to the sale o f the Danish
taking increase* the size of tiie nose
strncti m of five first • class and tw o
W est Indies to the United Flats*, seems
and keep« it In a state of perpetual ir
third class ernisers and two battleship*.
inclined to delay consideration of the ritation.
treaty.
He haa called the first meet
ing of the landthing for March 19.
Bam and Street Cars Burned.
Australia haa, proportionately, more
Tiie pres- criticises his attitude, on tiie chnrrhea than any other country, the
St. Iiouis, March 15.— Fire at 1 :30
ground that the delay is considered dis I number being 8,013, or 210 eliache« to o'clock this m orning destroyed the west
courteous to the United States. I t ia every 100,000 people. England haa barn of the Eastern avenue sheds of,
thought a few of the president's own 144 churches to every lOO.OOOf KiMala the St. L ouis Transit Company, to
patty w ill ciipport tha government.
aaly 66 te the same number
gether with TO c*rs. 090 . f 125.000.