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About Moro leader. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1898-1900 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1899)
r ♦ r THE LEADER LEADS And ii the Xewtieat, Brightest Home Paper in the County. A d v e r t ia e r a , M a k e a N o t e o f T h ia . !#! n s OF IKE IH 'I' i MORO LEADER. p ♦♦4 PUBLISHED.... ♦ I IN THE INTEREST OF SHER MAN COUNTY. K eep Y our K ye on th e L ead er. N O . 25. Manila is soon to have an ioe-mnking OUR F IN A N C IA L POW ER. plant. Hu ff e r e r « . L o n d o n C a n n o t ( l o t F r o m N e w Y o rk t h e In 1898 there were 53 Saturdays, a «»old T h a t I t N e e d s . Washington, Agu. 14.—The war de /act of interest to those having to pay The smeltermen’s union in Colorado partment today took prompt measures weekly wages. R. G. Dunn & Co. iu their weekly From All Parts of the New has declared the strike off. Devastation W rought in the for the relief of the hurricane sufferers Southerners Wreak Vengance A slot machine concern in Youngs review of trade say: M. Labori, attorney for Dreyfus, was M. Labori Shot Down While July failures have been smaller than World and the Old. in Porto Rico. When the press dis Island of Porto Rico. town, O., says that its profits last year shot down while going to court at on Ravishers. patches and Generl Davis' advices in any month of which there is record on 200 machines was <15,000. on His Way to Court. Rennes. made known the extent of the disas excepting May, ami trading failures While the turkey’s natural life is ter, steps were immediately taken to Paul de Ronlede, a French deputy, O F IN T E R E S T T O O U R READERS smaller than in any other mouth. DEATH L IS T W IL L BE LARGE send supplies, and the transport Mc V IC T IM S WERE ALL NEGROES only 10 years, the goose some tiuies was arrested at Palis for conspiring to lives to 50 years. THE W O U N D PROBABLY FATAL Surprising contrasts are shown by com overthrow the government. Pherson was ordered put in readiness parisons of small witii large failures in Tiie chances at birth that a hahv will C e » n ip r e h e n e lv e K e v ie e r o f t h e I m p o r t different years and in no class of busi Blockade of the island of Luzon may F h « P r o p e r t y L a w W i l l K lin I n t o t h e to sail from New York at once. She O n a » r T h e m W a a T a k e n F r o m a M la - eventually marry aie nine in 20, or a n t K a p p e n i n Ca o f t h e l ’a a t W e e k will carry grains and other necessaries. ness without some large failures not at M l l l l n i i a —O n e H u n d r e d L e r a e n a l ’e r - lie necessary ,o suppress illegal trading rather less than one-half. This result 1 « •» M e n R u s tle « ! O u t o f w N a r r o w I.w n e tributable to present influence, does the a la a ip p l J a i l a n d H a n g e d H l t l i u u t C u lle d F r o m t h e T e le g r a p h t 'o lu m n a . The secretary of war this afternoon ia t i e il in M u n la e r r a t . m i k I F i r e d x t H im F r o m n R e v o lv e r between Filipino insurgents. O fT id x ln * K in* B I ♦* tl g ga t may stem surprising, hut it is largely sent tiie following appeal to the rnayoii aggregate equal the average of the past — B u l l e t E u te r e d S t o m a c h . When the new regiments now form accounted for by the great mortality of of cities of more than 150,000 popula six years. Loudon again recognizes San Juan de Porto Rico, Aug. 13.— persons uuder marriageable age, espe A movement is on foot to form an ing have been tilled, it is said Secre tion: the financial power of this country. Port Gibson, Miss., Aug. 14. — Bill A hurricane broke over tiie south coast tary Root rnav ask for more volunteers cially of infants up to tiie age of 5. opposing whisky trust. Rennes, Aug 15—Two men am I he Bank of England virtually admits “ Sir—The goveinor-general of Porto to relieve those who have served in and swept northwest. There was no Rico confiims the report that u | m iii the •' ilson, colored, was lynched here to Dentists in Germany are using false bushed Maitre Labori, counsel for that it canrict draw from New York Quiet lias been ieslore.1 in Cevelaml, day under peculiar circumstauces. abatement for nine hiaurt, the greatest tropical countries. Dreyfus, and one shot was fired. M. but the stiik e is stili on. damage being done between 8 and 10 8th inst. a hurrcane swept over that Last Tuesday Wilson was arrested it' teeth made of paper, instead of porce Labori fell iu the roadway. He is still tiie gold it needs; exchange moves to lain or mineral composition. These island, entirely demolishing many of Tiie British commander, Percy St. the importing point; over <1,000,000 Hermanville on a charge of assault. o’clock A. M. The wires were down Thirty tliousaiiil Finns will form a John, denies most emphatically having and communication witli the interior the towns, destroying many lives and This afternoon the jailor, upon enter paper teeth are said to he very satisfac alive. starts from Sidney to gan Francisco. colony in New found bin.1. Maitre Labori left iris house alone London’s net buying of stocks has been tory, as they do not break or chip, are criticised Major-General Otis, and de reducing, so near as he can estimate, Former Governor W. Y. Atkinson, nounces the purported interview as a was for a time im(xrssihie. It is now not less than 100,000 of the inhab ing \\ ilson’s cell, discovered tiie pris not sensitive to heat or cold or to the for the court at about 6 oclock this 40,000 shares and hills against produce chiefly carried on by couriers. oner hanging to the county gallows (if Georgia, died at Newman. action of the moisture of the mouth, morning. His residence is situated in to be shipped are very heavy. fake of the worst kind. At San Juan four natives were itants to the condition of absolute des with several bullet wounds iu hie and are very cheap. tiie suburbs of tiie town, about a quar A woman of noble birth died in a •This describes a re|ietition cf finance Colonel Burt’s colored troops have drowned in the haihor; 80 houses titution. without homes and fool. neck and shoulders. The coroner’s ‘‘Unless immediate and effective re jury rendered a verdict of death by A Russian officer has been making ter of an hour’s walk from the Lycee, not unlike that in industries. Eurone hovel in Chicago. Up to the last «lie participated in their first engagement where demolished and hundreds were the route being along a solitary road is searching for wool here at 60 cents ref use, 1 all favors. at the capture of San Mateo. They be unroofed. The damage to property is lief is given to these unfoitunaies they hanging ami shooting by unknown par experiments, with very successful re beside the river Vilaine. He had a pound, scouted, and for pig iron at will perish. Under these conditions, sults. in the use of falcons instead of ties. The execution took place so Cavalry horses for Manila will bo haved well, their leaders having diffi estimated at <500.000. Commissary reached a point half way on his journey <20 a ton. A vast demand for both ma pigeons as carriers. It seems that they the president deems that an api>ea. quickly that none of the officials knew stores to the value of <50,000 were de taken via the Aleutian islands arid culty in holding them hack. when two men, who had evidentlv terials has fallen upon the commercial can fly veiy much faster. A pigeon should he made to tiie humanity of the wiiat was going on. Japan to allow rest. An Ariaona recruit, while on a spree stroyed. A dispatch by cable from American people. It is an appeal to covers 10 or 12 leagues in an hour, been lying in wait for him, rushea out rid which this countiy alone appears Encouraged by the movement in oth in Denver, shot and killed two police Ponce, sent at 10 o’clock this morning, their patriotism also, for the inhab of a narrow lane and one of them fired able to meet for its own needs. Wool A L o u is ia n a L y n c h i n g . whereas a falcon can do 15. It can er cities the messenger l«»ys of Buffalo, men who had attempted to arrest him. says that the town was almost de itants of Porto Rico have fieely and New Orleans. Aug. 14.—News of a also cany with ease a fairly heavy a single shot from a revolver. The as si ipments from Australia have been He escape,! and a reward has been of stroyed. Almost all the frame build gladly submitted themselves to the lynching in Grant parish, La., lias been weight. N . Y., aie on a strike. sassins were only a couple of yards be surprisingly little below those of last ings are down, the bridge is swept hind their victim. The bullet struck year, hut Europe talks of a wool fam brought out through tiie findiug of a A tank car loaded with naptha ex fered for his capture dead or alive. guardinship of the United States and A Gorman doctor who has been col away, and theie is no communication Captain A. H. Otis, of the First between tiie coast and the city proper. have voluntarily surrendered the pro negro’s mutilated body in Naytchai lecting information about the habits Laliori in the hack. The wounded man ine, while this country has on hand a ploded in a tunnel near Somerset, K y., M ashington volunteer infantry, has The damage to the port is estimated at tection of Spain, to which thev were creek. The victim was Max Singleton, of long-lived persons, finds that he ma uttered an agonized cry and fell flat on year’s consumption or more, besides wrecking a train of 20 cars. cleared himself of the charge of looting. <350.000. Two natives aie known to formerly entitled, confidently relying who some days ago went to the house jority of those who attained old age liia fac». The assassins immediately this year’s clip, and prices are not yet A Washington special says Bitishers fled through the lane from which they as high as they were in February ol •re gelling a firm hold on Cuban tiade His name was forged to a letter, and have been drowned. The records and upon more generous and beneficent of O. V. Boyett, a planter, ami asked indulged in late hums. Eight out of had emerged and both escaped. for food of Mrs. Boyett, who was alone efforts are being made to find the treatment at out hands. The highest last year, when stocaa were many mil 10 persons over 80 never went to bed and American capital is slaw. the property of the customs house are forger. At 7:80 o'clock it was announced lion pounds larger. considerations of honor and good faith in tiie house. She brought some food till well into the small hours, and did mined and all the vessles are ashore. Carlisle, Ky., was visited hy a half that tiie bullet had entered tiie stom Failures for the week have been 18S A Seattle dispatch says the recent At Abonito very little remains stand unite with the promptings of huuiaii- to tiie front gate, when the negro order not get up again till late in the day. million dollar lire, winch destroyed ach; that there was no outward bleed n the United States, against 196 last ed hex to carry it for him across the itv to teqiure from tiie United States seizure of six Canadian fishing boats In 1898 vessels to the number of ing except tiie cathedial and the bar nearly the entire business (notion ing and that the physicians believe that year, and 23 iu Canada against 21 last near Pointy Roberts by the Unite,! racks. Four natives perished and three a generous response to the demand of road. Mrs. Boyett immediately ran f,624, with a tonnage of 5,265.659 M. Labori will die from the wound. year. into the field where her husband was tons passed through the Chicago river. A Chicago man has been taken with States customs officials will probably United States soldieis weie badly in Porto Rico in distress. a fit of laughing and is unable to check be settled m a day or so by the release jure,!. As the town is without pro ‘‘This department lias directed the at work. The details of the pursuit of In 1888 the number was 10,158, and SAW OUR D EFEN S ES. P A C IFIC C O A ST TRADE. negro, of his capture and execu the tonnage 3.990,921. Vessels using it. He is unconscious, but continues of the boats. visions, government relief has been dis immediate distribution of rations to tiie the tion, are very meager. to giggle. suffeieis by tiie army in Potto Rico, the Calumet harbor in 1888 numbered B r it is h O fficer I n s p e c t s C o lu m b ia R i v e r P o r t la n d M a r k e t. In Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Iowa patched thither. 412. with a tonnage of 318.000 tons; J. C. Hildebrand, an advertising so and Wisconsin, a great deal of damage El Caney was leveled to the gionnd, so far as it is witiiin the power of the F o r t« . N e g r o F ie n d L y n c h e d . Wheat—Walla Walla. 66@57e; executive, but in the absence of any ap in 1898 there were 15,652 vesels with licitor in the employ of the Portland was done hy a storm. In some places 200 houses being demolished. Two Fort Stevens, Or., Aug. 15.— The Valley, 57 *^c; Blues tern, 68c per bushel. Nashville, Tenn., Aug. 14. —Will a tonnage of 2,208,370 tons. propriation we must rely largely upon Oregonian, fell from a veranda and met there was loss of life, due to lightning, United States soldiers weie injured officer in charge at this post received Chambers, oolored, arrested on a charge Flour—Best grades. <3.25; graham, private contributions. with instant death. on August 2 a dispatch from the secre <2.66; superfine, <2.15 per barrel. and the loss in crops and destroyed there and many cavalry borsee killed. of criminally assaulting the 14-year- P r o t e c t O u r F u n d . “ I beg you will call upon the public- At Catano, the entire plant of the The coroner’s jury has found that buildings teaches a heavy figure. old daughter of William Watson, was Oats—Choice white. 43@45c; choice The doctors inform ns that alum is a tary of war ordering him to meet at Standard Oil Company was tuined. spirited and humane people of your lyncher! near Bellhuckle at an early the cause of the Bar Harbor catastro ooiaon, and that alum bakiug powders Astoria Colonel Lee, military attache gray, 42 @ 43c per bushel. The Americans have taken San The loss of the property is <300,000. city to take active and immediate phe was due to insufficient construc Matso, 10 miles north of Manila Their hour today. He was identified by his should be avoided because they make of the British government, convey him Barley—Feed barley, <19@20; brew At Bayamon, a majority of the measures in this exigency. The gov tion of the ferry slip. Prominent to and show him through the fortifica- ing, <21.00 per ton. loss was three killed and 13 wounded, houses were destroyed and the rest ernment transport McPherson will b, victim, who is in a critical condition. the food unwholesome. Millstuffs—Bran, <17 per ton; mid hygienists, who have given the matter lons at the mouth of (he Columbia, Ambassador Choate says there will including a lieutenant of the Twenty- were flooded. Two hundred cattle sent directly from the port of New iu obedience to this order, the govern dlings, <22; abort«, <18; chop, <16.00 L y n c h i n g In G e o r g ia . most study, regard these powders as York to Porto Rico to carry all sup first infantry. Twenty-three of the be no war over the Alaskan boundary were killed and the railroad was ser Clem, Ga., Aug. 14. — Will McClure, an evil tiiat should be suppressed bv ment transport George H. Wendel was per ton. dispute. Negotiations are always slow enemy are known to have been killed. iously damaged. The village of Caro plies of food which can be ohtaiued. a negro, was lynched this afternoon for state action. In Minnesota and Wis promptly dispatched to Astoria, and, Hay—Timothy. <8(3»; clover. <7 Further transports will he sent at fu in such matters, hut are piogressing. Government commissioners have el lina was literally razed. At Caguas an attempted assault on Mrs. George consin alum powders are not permitted returning, landed Colonel Lee and his @8; Oregon wild hay, <6 per Ton. ture dates, ol which public notice will Aguinaldo has appeals,! to the pow ected an agreement with the Crow In four persons were killed. A. Moore, wife of a respectable farmer to be sold unless they are branded to escort at Fort Stevens early on the dav Butter—Fancy creamery, 40 <3 45c; A courier who has just arrived from be given. Any committee charged witli of Carroll county. ers for recognition of ‘‘Filipino inde dians, which will become a treatv mentioned. Later, accompanied by seconds, 35@37^c; dairy, 80® 35c; warn consumers of their true character, the raising of funds will receive full About Humacao, capital of that province, on pendence” in a document dated Tar- when ratified by congress. while in the District of Columbia the .the officers of this post, Colonel Lee ■tore. 2 2 ^ (327^ 0. information and advice upon commu lac. July 27, and signed by Buencami- 1,000,000 acres of land will be pur the eastern coast of the island, reports Cheese—Oregon fall cream, 12o; F IL E S BA NK R U PTC Y P E T IT IO N . authorities have under the direction of went through the fortifications recently nicating with this department. Yours hio. chased on the northern end of the Crow awful destruction. The loss to the completed, both on the Oregon and Young America. 13c; new cheeae, congress, adopted regulations to pro respectfully, “ ELIHU ROOT, property is estimated at <500,000, but F a il u r e o f A l e x a n d e r M c U o n a ld , K in g hibit the use of alum in bread alto Washington shores, the latter at Scar 10c per pound. The Santo Domingo rebels have reservation from Fort Custer to Yel this is the least item in the disaster. Secretary of War.” lowstone river and thrown open to set o f t h e K lo n d ik e . borough head, now officially known as gether. Poultry—Chickens, mixed, <3(34.50 taken possession of Dajalxtn, driving tlement. The war department today received Tiie courier brought an official report Foit Columbia, and the former consti per dozen; hens, <4.50(35.00; springs, Chicago, Aug. 14.—A special to the the garrison before them. The foreign Are not the people of other states, as a cablegram from General Davis, giv The transport Continental has ar Horn Captain Eben Swift, of the Fifth ing fuller details of the damage done Times-llerald from San Francisco says: well as those of Minnesota and Wis tuting tiie new defenses several hun <2(33.50; geese, <4.00®5.00 for old. population and Haytiau consul have rived in San Francisco from Manila. United States cavalry, who says: <4® 6.60 for young; dneks, <5.00® left the place. Alexander McDonald, king of tiie Klon consin, entitled to warning of a danger dred yards west of old Fort Stevens. “ Humacoa was totally destroyed by iu Porto Rico hy tiie hurricane: With his visit to these fortifications, 5.50 per dozen; turkeys, live, 12® She narrowly missed a couple of ty dike. has failed. His liabilities are which is apparently menacing them at ‘‘Later reports show the hurricane A broken flange on a wheel caused the storm. Eight privates of troop C Colonel Lee completed the inspection 13*^c per pound. wreck on the Southern Pacific near phoons, and was ashore on a coral reef were injured, two fatally. Sergeant was far more severe in tiie interior estimated at <6.000,000. His assets close hand, and is not the whole coun- of all of the principal coast defenses where the entire crew barely escaped Potatoes—<1®1.25 per sack; sweets, are of uncertain value. After know Dos Palos, Cal. Engineer Ford and King, of the Eleventh infantiy, was and southern part of tiie island than ing for two years what it is to be a mil try entitled to absolute protection, as of the United States, except those at 2c per pound. capture at the hands of the Filipinos. the people of the District of Columbia here. Data for an estimate ol the Fireman Wood were scalded to death. injure,!. North, a discharged private, the Presidio, where he went direct from Vegetables— Beets, <]; tornipa, 90c Two others weie seriously and a num One of the sailors eras killed by a part is missing. At the port of Hntuacoa, number of Porto Ricans who have lost lionaire many times over, he has ate protected, hy legislation which is here, and which he has doubtless in per aack; garlic, 7c per pound; cab ing hawser, and one of the quartermas shouldeted his pick, and, without com entirely prohibitive? everything is deficient, but I am forced ber slightly injured. 81 bodies have been recovered. Eight ters was stabbed by a colored cook. Until we can have protection in the spected before this time. He paid a bage, l)^@2c per pound; cauli to lielieve the number on the island plaining, has started again as a poor hundred people are starving here.” An Eastern syndicate will build a miner, leaving his bride in Dawson form of a statute, how can our state very high compliment to the work flower, 76c per dozen; parsnips, <1 cannot fall below 100,000 souls and Cleveland strikera blew up another Three persons were killed at Las railway 252 miles in length in Mexico. I ask that with a score of creditors for whose ben boards of health, state analysts or food here, both as to the engineering and beans, 6® 6c per pound; celery, car w ith nitro-glycerin. Nobody was Pie,Iras, and five at Junoo. Cornier« famine is impending. constructive sk:ll displayed, and was 70® 75c per dozen; cucumbers, 60c per efit all his interests, both mining and Troops A, D and M, Third cavalry injured. from the other districts are anxiously 3,500,000 pounds ol nee and beaus, trading, have been assigned. In his commissions better serve the public nodoubt dulv impressed with the power box; peas, 8® 4c per pound; tomatoes, will embark from Seattle for Manila. than by publishing in the newspapers equal in quantity each, be immediate An English torpedo boat killed the expected at the palace. of the formidable disappearing guns <1 per boj,. formal declaration of insolvency, filed The New Yoik Sun is badly tie-1 up helmsman of a French fisherman who Tiie steamer Slocum, Captain ly shipper on transports to Ponce, am at Dawson, July 29. McDonald stated from time to time the names of tiie mounted behind and witiiin the soli-' Hops— ll® 1 3 c ; 1897 crop, 4®6c. baking powders which they find to he by the strike of the printers and stereo- had come within tiie thiee-mile limit. Thomas, enroute from Mayagneato San some here. Urgent appeals come to all walip of masonry to oommand the et Wool—Valley, 12®13c per pound; made from alum? his liabilities to be approximately lost commanders for food for the desti typers. trance of the Columbia river. Eastern Oregon, 8® 13c; mohair, In the translation of words in the Juan, was canght in the storm, but tute. Am I authorized to relieve dis <6,000,000, while there is no way of Meantime, it will aid the housewife The new Samoan treaty will not lie- secret dossier the French court was of her passengers and ctew were saved Whether he will make any use of 8 7 <3 30c per pound. re tress by food issues? Rice and beaus fully computing his assets, as his in in designating the alum powders come effective until ratified by the ten pnzxled. Dreyfus helped them out through the heroism of Mr. Single, the only are desired. the information thus specifically gained, Mutton—Gross, beet sheep, wethers vestments are of largely problematical member that all powders sold at twen first officer powers. for the benefit of his country, depends and ewes, S.^c; dressed mutton. 6@6c; value. As thev will have to be sacri ty-five cents or less per pound are of ‘‘There have been many deaths ol The San Dominican rebels are meet The coffee crop is ruined and the lose Catholics and freethinkers indulged ing with success and the government is will teach millons. Veiy great injury natives by falling walls. So far, only ficed, McDonald himself says there this dangerous class. Pure cream of nnon the always possible event of war lamb«, S)4c per lb. It is certain that he is supplied with Hogs— Gres«, choice heavy, <4.50; in a riot iu Spain and a number were helpless. The rebel forces increase has been done also to the orange crop. one soldier is repoted dangerously in will not he enough to go around, al tartar powders are usually sold at sufficient data to make such infoima light and feeders. <4.00; dressed, <5.00 injured. though he believes their ultimate value from forty-five to fifty cents a pound. daily. No definite returns have yet been re jured. Several towns are reported en tron of great value in such a contin ®6.00 per 100 pounds. will prove <20,000,000 at least. He is tirely demolished. As vet we have re In a race riot five negroes and one G h u r k a i a n il F i r i n g F l a h . The insurgents wrecked the steamer ceive,! from the southern section of tha gency. Beef—Gross, top steers, 4.00® <4.25; white man were wounded at Green Saturnus flying the American flag. island, apait from Ponoe. It is certain, ports from only four ports; complete not at all disheartened hy hs sudden Three men of the Fifth Ghurkas change of fortune. Indeed, lie appears cows, <3.00® 3.60; dreesed beef, destruction of all the barracks at twe ville, S. C. however, that the food supplies in the were trained by experienced Swiss They secured <100.000 in specie and a W IL L BE FA ILU R E S. 6®6 J4C per ponnd. relieved. and at two others one company each stricken districts have been destroyed During the examination of the secret cargo of general merchandise. " It’s too much worry,” he declares, guides—one with Lieutenant Bruce in H u r r ic a n e W i l l S e r i o u s l y A f f e c t B u l l Veal—U rge, 6® 7c; small, 7 fc « 8 c and in these quarters the quantity of had their barracks destroyed. No re dossier the Dreyfus court will sit in A barkeeper at Wallace. Idaho, government stores on hand is small. ports yet come from the largest ports, “ to be a millionaire.'* McDonald was the early ’90s, and the others with Sir per pound. neaa o n th e la l a a d . Martin Conway in 1894. Good-tem secret session. knocked a woman down in a dancehall. Relief wagons will he sent tomorrow iu hut they were in the vortex of the one of the first, as well as one of the Ponce, Porto Rico, Aug. 15.—A1 pered, cheerful, keen and full of fun, S e a ttle M a rk ets. Marshal de Campos, president of He was shot and killed by a soldier various directions. Geneial George W. storm. At least half of the people of most fortunate of the Klondike pio though the disasters which fnllwed the they became general favorites wherever neers. His bride, an English girl, al the senate, predicts a ministerial crisis who witnessed the man’s brutality. Onions, new, <1.26 per sack. Porto Rico subsist entirely on fruit and Davis, the governor-general, has cabled they went. They, on their part, hurricane have not been over-estimated, in Spain in November. Potatoes, new, l g l ^ c p e i l h . England will send more troops to the to the war department an appeal for vegetables, and the storm has entirely most 20 years his junior, looks at the thoroughly appreciated the kindness tiie people are peaceul and endeavor situation with philosophical fortitude. Beets, per sack, <1®1 25. destroyed this source of support. An American is to lie tried in Japan Transvaal, and will not wait 25 years assistance. ing to make the best of the situation. She says she is quite satisfied as long with which they were treated, and Dead bodies are buried where they are Turnips, per sack. 50® 60c. A report has been received at the tor ronnlering three people. It is the lor redress. Secretary Chamberlain their wonderful and delightful exper M o n la a r r a t U a v a a t a t n d . as he keeps his health and courage. Carrots, per sack, <1®1.25. first case under the new treaty. says the present state of affairs cannot found. Food supplies are being dis St. Thomas, Aug. 12. —The Island war department from an officer at San When McDonald married Margaret iences in Europe still afford an end tributed and repairs to bridges 1 Parsnips, per sack, <1. (Juan, Porto Rico, estimating that the be tolerated. less topic of conversation. Tiie little Dewey will next go to Genoa or Nice. of Montserrat, British West Indies, Chisholm in London. February 6 last, Cauliflower. 40® 60c per doa. number of killed amounts to 500. The roads are being pushed forward under A letter received in ’Frisco from was completely devastated by a hurri He refuses positively to discuss any his wealth was variously estimated Himalayans were intensely interested Cabbage, native and California public questions. He was banqueted Alaska asaerts that the crew of the cane. All the churches, estates and same officer says a very serious tondi at from <10.000,000 to five times that in everything they saw. the sea and military supervision with payments to <1.60 per 100 pounds. tion of affairs exists in Ponce. workmen daily. It is gathered fr Jessie were murdered and robbed by villages are destroyed and nearly 100 by die Italian vice-admiral. sura. McDonald passed through Taco the ships proving a source of delight Cherries, 75c®<I. 'iterviews with merchants and plaut- G IV E E N G LA N D W A R N IN G . ma last October en route from Dawson Flying fish, however, they oould not is, some of whom owe European President McKinley will he in Chi Indians while they slept, and not persons killed. In addition, many are Peaches, 75c. at all understand. To such great injured and rendered homeless. Terri- City to London, and it was stated then cago during the fall festival in Octo diowned as at first reported. Apples. <1.25®1.75 per box. houses, that there will be numerous Two Cuban editors are on their way hie distress exists among the sufferer«. B o e r s N e t tin g F o r th t h e E n o r m o u s C ost in various dispatches that he cariieti weilders of the rod this mode of piscine failures. ber, ami will participate in the laving Pears, <1.75 per box. o f B rltlw h V ic t o r y In T r a n s v a a l. locomotion seemed most improper. with him for expense money fully Prunes, <1 per box. of tiie corner stone of the new federal to Washington to complain of the As later advices come in t is seen that The steamer Australia, with cargo London, Aug. 14.—The Boer organ <2,000,000. It was also related hy One of these fish having fallen on board wrongs they suffered by being confined the first reports conveyer only a faint building. Butter—Creamery, 22c per pound; in a Cuban prison and later required idea of the sufferings of the people and in London, tire Standard, and Diggers’ the press that foui years ago he passed of the ship, was immediately pounced was wrecked during tiie hurricane on dairy 15® 18c ranch, 12® 16c per lb. The Lake Shore & Mciiiigan South to break stones on the streets of Ha their deploarable condition. The ad News today published a Johannesburg the southeast coast aud the Vasco on upon hy Karhir and Amar Sing. Be Eggs, 28c. through Tacoma practically penniless, ern Railroad Company has placed an vana. dispatch threatening Great Britain in headed for the Klondike with the ing asked what their friends in the reg the noith coast ministration aptRials for help. Cheese— Native. 10® 12c. order with the Brooks Locomotive iment would think when told that fish At La Pointe-a-Pi(re, island of Gna- event of war, saying the Boers are de avoweil putpose of “ pulling out his At Canton, O., Mrs. Edward Eckin- Poultry—18® 14c; dressed. 19%c. A T L IN M IN E R S ’ C L A IM S . Works for 15 10-wheel passenger en could fly, the Ghurkas naively replied ,1, lou|ie, immense damage was wrought, termined to wreck the mines and irre stake.” ger killed her husband and daughter Fresh meats—Choice dieseed beef gines, to bo delivered as soon as possi that they hadn’t the slightest inten trievably ruin the general body of with a shotgun, and then put another ami according to a report not yet con When McDonald went to England, a prime, 8c; oows, prime, C a n a d ia n K x c ln a io n A c t H a s C a u se d steers, ble. shareholders by blowing up millions of few mouths ago, to oiganize a svndi- tion of mentioning the fact, as their T h e m t o L o s e SIO.OOO.OOO. ciiarge through her own heart. Do firmed. 102 persona were" killed. 7)$c; mutton. 8c; pork, 7)40; trimmed, reputations for veracity were at pres dollars’ worth of machinery, adding The retnrning Samoan commission mestic troubles ate supposed to have In the island of St. Croix, the largest cate to sontiol the tiausportation and New York, Aug. 14.—A special to 8 So; veal, 8®10o. ers say that an agreement to the pres been the cause of the tragedy. of the Virgin islands, the destruction that war will mean absolute ruin of provision business of the far north, ha ent good, and, should they try their Wheat—Feed wheat. <21. the Tribune from Washington says: Johannesburg, both as a town and min left his affairs 111 the hands of incom comrades’ credulity with this ttavel- ent form of government lias been Oats—Choice, per ton, <80. In spite of denials on the subject, it was appalling. It was chiefly wrought ing centei, and saying- James Hamilton Lewis, of Seattle, vis ers’ tale, no one would lielieve a word signed by the chiefs from all trilies and is said Piesident Roca, of Argentine at the west end, where the smaller petent agents. On his return, credit- Hay—Puget Sound timothy, <8® 9 “ While it will doubtless end in vie 018 made demands which lie could not they might say for the test of their ited the state department today to lay factions, among whom there area num republic, who is now in Rio Janeiro as houses are a tangled mass of wreckage. choioe Eastern Washington tim before it the complaints of some Araer service.—Blackwood’s. tory for England, the price of victory ber of intelligent men. a guest of Brazil, ia desirous of nego Thirty-three persona were killed and will be the ruin of thousands who meet. Before going to the Klondike, ican miners in British Columbia for othy, <14.00. The situation in Santo Domingo is tiating an alliance Detween Argentina, the inhabitants are in great distress. McDonald prospected in Colorado. Corn—Whole. <23.60; cracked, <24; N o t H a rd to F it . whom he 1« counsel. They claim that ought to consider the price they must Y e l l o w F e v e r H ( s n i p e 4 O u t. grave. Thiee thousand soldiers are Brazil and Chile against the United feed meal, <25.00. tliey located a number of claims and New Girl—Please, mum, while C r o p F a i l u r e In I t u a a ia . Newport News, Va., Aug. 12.—The pay before authorizing the government under arms to pievent an insurrection, States. Barley— Rolled or ground, per ton" you’re down town would ye he so kind developed them under the British Co to declare war.” Washington, Aug. 14.— The state de as to order me a pair o’ shoes? yellow fifler epidemic is practically at and armed steamers ate patrolling the <23®24; whole, <22. lumbia law and that afteiward a law A captain of a sailing vessel just Another Johannesburg dispatch pre partment has received a report from ooast. The inferior is reported quiet, fiom the Philippines has arrived in an end. The quarantine established Flout—Patent, per barrel, <3.50; Mrs. De Style—I—er—I do not know was passed excluding them from the dicts further concessions, and says: Consul Henal, at Odessa, Russia, stat your size. but business continues depressed. hy the city against Hampton and vicin bleuded straights, <3.26; California Dominion. Canadians came in and Victoria. The captain severely criti “ The reply of Transvaal to the pro ing that the failure of the crops in The local <3.25; buckwheat flour, <3.50; graham, New Girl—Nor 1, nitim; but I think took their mines. The heaviest batteries yet placed on cises the management of the campaign ity was raised tonight. posal for joint inquiry is being delayed many provinces in European Russia is quarantine against Norfolk will ha The Americans estimate their loss at per barrel, <8.60; whole wheat flour. if ye get them about the size of yours, any naval vessel in the world will be and eaya ‘‘Otis is a ailly old man with until the government has prepared a about <10,000,000. There will be other <3.75; rye flour, <4.60. carried by the Georgia, New Jersey out knowledge of the necessities or the raised Saturday evening. The record scheme granting Uitlandres immediate much more serious than is generally they’ll do. admitted. Energet'c steps have been of the scourge to date shows 43 cases, Millstuffs—Bran, per ton, <16; claims for damages, making the total Mrs. De Styles (hesitatingly)—Do and Pennsylvania, the new battleships responsibilities of his position, without and substantial representation, as the about <25,000,000. Mr. Lewie wants shorts, per ton, <17. authorized by the last congress, if the ability to improve it. and the diet ac of which 11 resulted fatally. Twelve Transvaal will make every effort to taken to meet the situation. The you think you could wear them? Feed—Chopped feed, <21.60 per New Girl—Oh. yes, mum. After the claims arbitrated with other pend suggestions of Rear-Admiral O’Neil tion of this government should he his cases weie discharged as cured, and 20 avert intervention iu the internal af- famine districts are divided up and the convalescents at the Soldiers’ Home. government is acquiring knowledge of new shoes is wet they shrinks.—N. Y. ing niatteis before the joint high com ton; middlings, pei ton, <22; oil cake recall.” are carried out. airs of the country. ” the failure in the several districts. meal, per ton, <33. mission. Weekly. B r ic k m a k e r s* S t r ik e . K e ltc a o f ClIlTd w c lle r a . During the fiscal year of 1897-8 the Spain has had 81 wars in the last C r o s s e d B o m t n lc a u L in e . Chicago, Aug. 12.—The bookmak B a a F r a n c ia o o M a r k a L S u m m a r C o a t u n a ln f . W a r P r e p a r a t io n * In I n d ia . Los Angeles, Aug. 11.—Laden with Unite,! States sold <29,000 worth of 100 years. ers’ stiike has leacbed a critical stage, relics of the cliffdwellers, Rev. Dr. Wool—Spring—Nevada, 10®12c per Cape Haytien, Aug. 16.—Twelve “ I don’t believe in girls a-dressin* Bombay, Aug. 14.—Preparations are typewriters in Mexico and <18,000 Two thousand saloons have been and, from assertions made by tiie man George L. Cole has returned from a about completed for the dispatch of in stiff clothes durin’ the hot weath hundred insurgents today crossed the pound; Oregon, Eastern, 10®14o; Val a worth in Argentina. opened in Cnba since the war. ufacturers in answer to the demands journey to the ruined cities of South 12,000 troops to South Africa. A er,” said the adipcee elderly lady with Yaque river under fiie of mitrailleuses. ley, 17® 19c; Noithern, 8® 10c. J. P Bryant, the Bardwell (Ky.) of tiie strikers, it is believed a general eastern Colorado and New Mexico. number of transports are in readiness the iarge diamond earings and finger In the engagment the government Millstuffs—Middlings, <17®19.60; The first cotton mill in Kansas will millionaire, owns tiie largest straw tie up of building operations in Chi Valuable results were secured hy exca in Indian waters, and in the event of rings at the boarding-honse breakfast forcej lost 18 men killed, hut there bran, <16® 16.50 per ton. soon commence operations in Independ berry patoh in tire world. It coverà ence. cago and a strike of 60,000 ciaftsmen vations in an ancient communal dwell war troops will be embarked simultan table the other morning. “ I make my were no fatalities among the ineur- Onions— Silverskin, <1.10®1.35 per 1,700 aurea and Iras made Iris fortune. sack. is imminent. eously here, at Karachee and at Cal two daughters dress in negligent cos gents. ing, as yet unnamed, which stands on The fraternities of the United States cutta. Butter — Fancy creamery, 2 0)t® tumes all summer, no matter where A dispatch from Banica announces In Kansas since 1859 every year end- have 6.000,000 members. A Frenchman has invented a du- the cliffs of the Santa Fe tiver, 14 they're goin’. ” “ Mawl” said her that the entire pioivnce of Nevba is 21)40; do seconds, 19® 20c; fancy dairy, T ing with the figure 9 has been a great miles from Espanol. There were not __ All the sawmills in Coos county are daughter, warningly, from the other ready to rise in favor of Geneial Jim 18® 19c do seconds, 14® 16c per pound. There was a falling off of nearlv 50 plex piano, at which two p e o p le can oom year, while every year ending on different keyboards at the same less than 1,600 rooms in the larger running steadily and on full time, with side of the table, and the fox terrier inea. Geneial Torribo Garcia is ex Eggs — Store, 16® 18c; fancy ranch, with a cipher has shown a failure of per cent in the numlier of embezzle play building in its prime. It was 340x300 the exception of the Empire mill, ments reported in theoountry last year. time. pup turned a fit out in the basement pected from Cuba to assume command 21® 22o. the corn crop. feet. Dr. Cole estimates that from which, it is hoped, will start up. of the revolutionary movement Hope—1898 crop, 17Xo. vestibule. — Washington Post. Knoxville, Tenn., Aug. 12.—A fend 4,800 to 6,000 peple lived in the pueblo. Maine’s adjutant-general is about to A movement has been started in Citrus Fruit—Oranges, Valencia, has broken out betwen the Robinson B l e w O u t t h e G a s. Among the bones taken from the organize her naval reserve. Its nucleus Texas to bring about tiie incorporation A l l » « p a n d a nn O tla . f lo c la lia t lc P la n In F ra n ce* Chicago, Aug. 15.—Mortimer Cun 62.76® 8.26; Mexican limes, <4®4.60; of manual training in the curriculum will be taken from the men from Port ami Savage families, in the mountains burial mound were a woman’s femur, At Roubaix, one of the socialist New 'York, Aug. 14.—A special to of Union county, near tiie Kentucky 19 inches long, showing a giantess ningham and a man named “ Big Jim ,” California lemons, 75c®<1.60; do land who served on the Montauk dur of the public schools in that state. the Herald from Washington says: strongholds of Fiance, the 11,000 pub line. William Savage was shot and feet tall. The cliffs on which tiie ruins lioth stable hands at the Harlem race •hoioe, <2.76®2.00 per box. ing the war with Spain. B. D. Maxham, who was buried the killed hy Jack Robinson, who ia stand rise 1,000 feet above the sur Major-General Otis will remain in su lic school children receive free food and track, were asphyxiated by gas in th, Hay—Wheat, <5.50®9; wheat an 1 preme command of the Philippines. clothing at the expense of the town.— A unique order has been recieved by thought to be fatally wounded. other day at Vinelaml, N. J., amassed it, <6.60® 8; oat, <8®9; beet bar- rounding country. New Era hotel last night, their belies Chioago Chronicle. Should he request to he relieved, Ma <6.000.000 as a gambler on the Pacific the National Electric Company of Mil being found today. Both are said to» ey, <5®6; alfalfa, <6®7.26 per ton; W a r s h ip s In t h e S to r m . Denver, Aug 12.—The Denver Smel- jor-General Lawton will lie assigned to • loj-e. He devoted his fortune and the ford. Cono. It is for 50 complete sets M o re P o w e r N e e d e d . have been intoxicated when they retired itraw, 20® 40c per bale. Washington, Aug. 12.—Additional duty as his successor. THis is the de of aleotric hells and fire alarm boxes termen’s union has voted almost unan latter part of his life to church woik. Potatoes— Early Rose, 7 6 c® |l; Minister—I think we should have last night, and it ia thought they blew news of the West Indian huriicane wag imously to continue its strike until the cision reached by the president and Sec congregational singing. for Windsor castle in London. Oregon Buikanks. <1.65®<1.85; liver out the gas. Cunningham formerly Nicholas Lebrun who wrote the Lin American Smelting & Refining Com received at the navy department this Burbanks, 76o®<l; Salinas Buibanks. Organist—Then we must have a lived in Butte, Mont. Governor Charles 8. Thomas, of Col pany shall agree to pay the wages morning. All American naval vessels retary Root during their confeience at coln dead march which was played at Lake Champlain. Secretary Root <1.25@1.60 per sack. the funeral of the martyred pieaident, orado, is the head of a committee to awarded by the state boatd of arbitra in West Indian waters are undoubtedly made no secret today of the purpose of new organ. Parliament was prorogued by royal “ Why so?” Tropical fruits—Bananas, <1.60® .'alsa fund« to provide bronze medals died at St. Louis, and at his funeral tion. Two large smelters in Pueblo, safe. The New Orleans steamed out ol the president to retain General Otis “This instrument Isn’t powerful decree. In her speech Queen Victoria 2.50 per bunch; pineapples, <2® was played the same march which he for all members of the Colorado regi as well as two in Denver, are closed. Santo Domingo harbor iu anticipation in control at Manila, and so informed enough to drown 'em out. ” —N. Y, said relations with all powarg were 4.00; Peisian dates, 6®6)»c per ment which served in the Philippines. wrote for Lincoln’s funeral. of the storm. General Miles at a long conference. (liendly. pound. Weekly.