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.River Glacier. It's a Cold Day When We Get Left. VOL. G. HOOD RIVER, OREGON, SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER 1, 1894. NO. 14. i i- I, I 1 f. 3ood Iiver Slacier. PUBLISHED EVERT SATURDAY MORNING BT . The Glacier Pablishlng Company. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. - On. year ........ft 00 bx month. I Three month. , 10 BnKle copy Cat THEGLACIER Grant Evans. Propr. Second St., near Oak. . Hood River Or. Shaving and Hair-cutting neatly don. Satisfaction Guaranteed. , SILVER ONCE MORE Organized Labor Demands Free Coinage of -That Metal. THE DECREASE , OF VALUES. Representative Hartman of Montana Presents Resolutions for the Free Coinage of Silver, Accompanied by an Address' of the Labor Leaders. " Washington, August 24. Representa tive Hartman of Montana has presented in the House resolutions for; the free coinage of silver, which are, regarded by the free-silver advocates as one of the most significant expressions in favor of their doctrine which have been elicited by the agitation of the past year. The resolutions have been considered and adopted during the present session by -the most powerful labor organizations of the country, are strongly worded and ,are signed by the' chief officers- of the various unions. . The signers are J.. D. Boveriegn, Grand Master Workman, and John W. Hayes, Secretary and Treasurer of the Knights of Labor; Samuel Gomp ers, President of the American Federa tion of Labor : Marion Butler, President of the National -Farmers' Alliance; Henry H. Trenor, President, and P. F. McGuire, Secretary of the Brotherhood of Carpenters and. Joiners; P. M. Ar thur, Chief of the Brotherhood of Lo comotive .Engineers ; X). A. - Rollinson, President of the Farmers' Mutual Bene fit Association; Frank Sargent, Grand Master Workman, and F. W. Arnold, Secretary of the Brotherhood of Locomo tive Firemen, and John McBride, Presi dent of the United Mine Workers of America.' ; i '. -Accompanying the resolution is an ad dress to the members of organized labor and all other producers and toilers throughout the United States. The ad dress declares " that in view of the gen eral distress at a time when granaries are full and in the natural order of things producers and toilers should be enjoying the fruits of their labors it seems the time has come for united action on the part o r those who create the wealth of the country." One of the causes which has brought about this condition, the address says, is the departure from the wise bimetallic financial principle of Washington, Jefferson and Hamilton and the substitution of the , monometallic policy dictated by the European money holders and their American allies. A review of the financial legislation is given to show what part was enacted in the interest of the producing and what in that of the non-producing classes. The proposition is set forth that before the demonetization of silver 3,500 bush els of wheat or 35,000 pounds of cotton equaled the annnal pay of a Senator or Congressman, while to-day 10,000 bush els of wheat or 100,000 pounds of cotton barely suffice; that formerly 35,000 bushels of wheat or 350,000 pounds of cotton would have paid the salary of the President, while to-day he receives the equivalent of 100,000 bushels of wheat or 1,000,000 pounds of cotton, "and the same proportion applies to all other fixed salaries and incomes. t . - . Demoralization of the food-producing sections is said to have caused the man ufacturers to lose the markets for their goods, bo that hundreds of thousands of workmen have been thrown out of em plovmenU and the demonetization of half of the world's volume of money makes it comparatively easy for capital ists to'corner and manipulate the other half. In the review of financial legisla tion it is charged that all the acts since the civil war have been in the interest of bondholders arid against the produ cers, and the Sherman law is said to have been repealed at the demand of European financiers, although a grand fight was made by the people's repre sentatives.. ... . ,; ' !' .,' The resolutions are as follows : " We demand of the present Congress the im mediate return to the money of the con stitution as established by our fathers by restoring the free and unlimited coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to 1, the coins of both metals to be equally full legal tender for all debts, public and private, as before the fraudulent demonetization of silver in 1873. We also condemn the increase of the public debt in a time of peace and the issue of interest-bearing bonds at any time." ;., : ' Barber ShoD SCARE AT HONOLULU. ' Talk ' of Another Uprising on the Ha waiian Islands.: ' '' , v San ' Francisco, , August 25. The United States cruiser Philadelphia 'ar rived this afternoon from Honolulu, bringing the following advices . dated August 12: '. Several days ago it was an nounced that the cruiser Philadelphia was to leave here, and about the same time the Captain of the British ship Champion stated that his vessel was about to leave on a two weeks', crujse, ostensibly to look over the route of the proposed Pacific cable. On the day fol lowing these announcements a petition was circulated by British residents ask ing that the Champion remain: The petitioners professed to be in fear of trouble if left without armed protection The Champion's commander then agreed to remain in port, whereupon Admiral Walker announced that he hal Chanced i i . 1 . i :iL XT 711 I nis minu auout gaums wuu tne ruiia- delphia, and that he, too, should remain in port.' This unexpected change in the plans ot the naval commanders caused unusual comment, The royalists pre fessed to believe that, had the Phila delphia left, there would have been an uprising against the government. ' Men h iirh in the government counsels, how ever declared they were anxious for the Philadelphia to leave, as it would give them an opportunity to show the royal ists that the government needed no out side protection. The wishes of these confident supporters of the government were fulfilled yesterday when the mail from San Francisco brought positive orders to Admiral Walker for the Phila delphia to proceed to Mare Island at once. The war between China and Japan threatens disturbance of more or less seriousness on the islands. A report has been received of one fight between Chi nese and Japanese laborers, and further outbreaks are , feared on some of the large plantations. PROTECTION OF SEALS. All Maritime Powers Asked to Join In an .Agreement.' - . Washington, August 25. The State Department has initiated the next phase of the sealing question by addressing similar notes to all maritime powers in viting them to agree to an agreement reached by the United States and Great Britain relative to the protection of seal fisheries. This was made necessary by the award of the Paris arbitration, which found the United States have no exclu sive jurisdiction over the seal waters, and. that these could be protected only by mutual agreement. By the terms of the treaty submitting her case to arbi tration Great. Britain was bound to agree to the arrangement as to closed seasons and closed seas imposed by the arbitration tribunal. . This, of course, could have no effect upon other nations, and ships sailing under the flags of Ger many, France, Russia, Sweden or even Hawaii were left by the award free to prey upon the seals anywhere outside i.ho t. hrno.milo lifen It. frfim A lata Iran omroD and islands. To meet this the tribunalUeive upon what principle a jury trial is recommended that an effort be made to secure the adhesion of other powers to the same arrangements that bound Great Britain and the United states.; There were indications that certain enterpris ing merchants were making ready to conduct a raid, on seals under other flags than out own and Great Britain's, prob ably the Hawaiian and German flags, and it was felt to be the only prudent course to avoid any disagreeable in cidents in the future by securing the ad hesion of the maritime nations to the agreement ; ... ... CANADA'S DEVOTION. The Dominion's Efforts for a Pacific Cable Praised. : t r . . , ..... London, August 25. In reviewing its own articles on the Ottawa intercolonial conference the Times says : Canada's keenness for the Pacific cable is remark able, because she already has direct and virtually unassailable telegraphic com munication with Great Britain. The Canadians in this are working for one of the noblest ideas they could entertain, namely, the unity of empire, its security and its prosperity. As regards the steam ship scheme the difficulty is with the Australian colonies, which do not yet display such devotion to the idea as is shown by Canada. For the cable scheme nevertheless there is abundant sympa thy, which doubtless will develop into active concurrence. It is expected that the Earl of Jersey's report will be in fa vor of subsidies for Atlantic and Pacific steamers. The idea of an imperial serv ice promises such solid advantages that no minor objections ought to be listened to for a moment. 1 On the contrary it would be sound policy and good finance to incur some expense in order to estab lish it, even although the prospect of its becoming fully self-supporting is some what remote. 'The stimulus to imperial commerce would be immense, and would indirectly bring imperial advantages far more liable than any that can be ap praised in a statistical abstract." - An Indiscreet Missionary. ' Washington, August 23. Some days ago dispatches from Mexico announced that Rev. H. R. Moseley, a Baptist min ister, had been imprisoned at Santillo, Mexicoj as the result of publishing a pamphlet entitled " Three Centuries of Romanism in Mexico." As the Mexi cans who profess any faith are generally Catholics, this publication caused great excitement in the country, and it is probable the reverend missionary was arrested by the authorities to preserve him from harm quite as much as to pun ish him. At any rate they made no objections when . United States Consul Donnelly requested his release, and the Consul-General notified the State De partment by telegraph that he had escorted the minister safely across the border. ;. THE. ANARCHISTS. House Judiciary Committee on ! ; ' Their Deportation. IT FAVORS EXCLUDING THEM And Declares Public Safety Demands the Immediate' Passage of the Bill for Deportation Full Constitutional 1 ' ' Power for the Laws' Enactment. Washington, August 23. A strong re port favoring the rigid exclusion and deportation of alien anarchists has been made by the Committee on Judiciarv. The report says:"'" It is admitted on all hands the question is one of very great importance, and that legislation on the subject is called for by every considera tion of public safety. The committee advises that, owing to the severe legisla tion recently adopted by France and Italy, a great many dangerous anarchists are making their way to the United States, and as under existing laws they cannot be denied admission to our ter ritory, the United States will soon be the rendezvous of these human monsters unless the proposed legislation is speedily adopted. xour committee is of the opinion the United States is fullv instified bv the existing conditions in using all its power to prevent the immigration and settlement in this country of men who repudiate all , law, all government and practically proclaim themselves enemies of mankind. " Your committee has no disposition to hamper the rigorous and prompt ex ecution of all laws providing for the ex clusion and deportation of these classes by unnecessary proceedings and delays. and is now willing to concede that the Superintendent of Immigration and the Secretary of the. Treasury may be fully trusted to confine the operation of the law to those justly subject to its provisions."- The report takes up the various ob jections made to the proDosed measures. and disposes of each of them. Concern ing the objection that the bill is faulty in not defining anarchy the report says : "As the meaning of the word is defined as 'absence of government; the state of society where there is no law or supreme power; a state of lawlessness.; political confusion,' and as its meaning is well' known, it is considered unnecessary to encumber -the act with a special defini tion. ' The committee meets the objec tion that persons could not be charged with anarchy and deported without jury trial by saying: "It would hardly be contended, we suppose, that the govern ment ought to maintain a jury at every port of entry for the purpose of passing on the qualifications of immigrants who desire to enter. We are unable to per- insisted upon in order to deport an alien whose residence in the country is con sidered detrimental to the public wel fare." In conclusion the report states there is full constitutional power for the en actment of the proposed law, and that there is urgent necessity for the imme diate passage of the bill. .... SOVEREIGN'S ADDRESS. i . . ; The Dude and the Tramp a Produot of ' . Our Civilization. ' Baltimore, August 25. Grand Master Workman Sovereign addressed a large meeting of workingmen last night, in the course of which he said : ; " In America to-day there are 3,000.000 men willing to work who are idle for want of work to do, molding themselves or rather being molded into felons and beggars. Uharity has been strained as it waB never strained before, but Btill the cry for bread from starving throats is heard all over the land. These men are being turned into tramps. The tramp has been described as a cross between poverty and crime, but I think the dude, a product of our civilization, can justly be described as a cross between nobody and nothing. Both are the results, the outcome of monopoly the monopoly that, unless it is throttled, will cause the death of the Republic." Ready lor the New Law. ' Washington,' August 25. Prepara tions for carrying into effect the new tar iff bill are going forward at the Treasury Department with all possible speed. Secretary Carlisle has already prepared a blank form of license for custom-house brokers provided for in the bill, and it is now in the hands of the printer. Sev eral clerks . are hard at work preparing an index for the new tariff. The tariff volume of the bill lor the convenience of customs officers will contain both the new laws and the McKinley law of 1890. It is expected by the time "the new bill becomes a law all preliminary work save that of issuing instructions to customs and internal revenue officials will have been done. . ' . . . The Nez Perce Treaty. Washington, August 25. The bill rat ifying the Nez Perce Indian treaty, now a law, carries with it $1,668,622; $668, 622 is to be paid as soon as the depart ment can arrange the necessary details. Representative Sweet of Idaho after sev eral interviews with department officials reports the work progressing rapidly. The division on accounts is preparing a list of those entitled to payments under the agreement. The land will be opened for settlement by proclamation of the President in ample time. The agricult ural land is to be sold at $3.75 per acre ; mineral, stone and timber lands at $5 an aer. CHINESE VICTORY. For Once the Japanese Are Routed With Heavy Loss. London, August 23. The Times has received the following dispatch from Shanghai, dated August 21: General Tio, commanding the Feng Tien division of the Chinese forces, telegraphs as fol lows;. The Chinese Friday attacked the Japanese forces at Ping . Yang, driving them back with a heavy loss a distance of- eleven miles to Chung Ho. The Chi nese made a second attack Saturday, and drove the Japanese from Chung Ho, which is now in Chinese hands. The Japanese again lost heavily in Saturday's lighting. Another great battle is ex pec ted to-dav. Admiral Freemantle, the British com mander, has established the headquar ters of his fleet at Chee Foo, where the British, Russian and American Minis ters now are. The Chinese fleet Is en- 'joying full possession of the Gulf Pei Chi Lei. The Japanese are embarking troops at Jbusan. .Nothing is known re garding their destination. '1 he Chinese force which occupied Ya shan has evacuated that - place and marched eastward in . the . direction of Seoul. The force, which is under Gen eral Yeh, has been augmented by the adhesion, of numbers of ' sympathizing uoreans. The Uhinese lorces are con verging on Ping Yang. The English line at the latter point remains in possession of the Chinese. Nine thousand Japan ese troops have left Seoul and marched in the direction of Ping Yang. . Two German fathers of the Catholic mission at Si Ning Cou in the southern part of the province of Shan Tune have been captured by banditti and held for ran som. A government posse is in pursuit of the robbers. f . GREAT .SLAUGHTER OP MEN.;' . .Shanghai, August 23. It is reported there was : a great slaughter of men in the' battle between Japanese and Chi nese forces at Chung Ho Saturday, in which the Japanese were driven from that place. - , It is stated that James Wylie, a Pres byterian minister, had died from inju ries received at the hands of Chinese soldiers. "" i ...: ; .; ; "WANTS TRANSPORTATION. The Corean Minister is Anxious to Get : , Back Home. . Washington, - August 23. Yee Sung Soo, Corean Minister, and Jarng Bong Whan, Secretary of legation, left Wash ington this morning at V 10 -.30 on the Pennsylvania, limited : for Chicago on their way home. They will leave San Francisco on the 28th instant, and. exr pect to reach Yokohama about , the middle of September. As the regular lines of commerce between Japan and Corea are interrupted, the Minister yes terday applied to Secretary Gresham for permission to go aboard an American warship at some convenient Japanese port, and that instructions be sent to Commodore Carpenter to have him and his Secretary landed on Corean soil. The State and Navy Departments have the matter -under consideration, and it is likely the Corean s will be taken aboard the Concord, Petrel or Monocacy at Nagasaki and landed at Chemulpo. , The only question arising is the taking of a foreign representative aboard a United States man-of-war under the existing condition of affairs in the East, especially when the United States is pursuing a policy of absolute neutrality. The Min ister has a wife and large family in Corea, and be goes to see them as well as to learn for himself the condition of affairs there'. -5 The usual time for leave of ab sence allowed the Ministers of the United States is six months. NEW TARIFF BILL. Only Three Errors That Need to Give . ; Any Concern. . Washington, August 25. The legisla tive and engrossing clerks of the Senate have been comparing the statement of errors in the tariff bill in various papers to-day, and say there, are only three errors that need to give officers of the treasury any concern. These are the paragraphs relating to free admission of alcohol in the arts, the diamond sched ule and perhaps the omission of a period in the paragraph relating to stamping foreign manufactures. ' : . in the case of diamonds they believe the construction placed will be that in tended by Congress, and they will pay the duty imposed on precious stones. As to the other errors enumerated it is claimed that by no system of construc tion can the alleged mistakes . be made to either impose higher duties or allow the free admission of the articles named. Members of the Finance Committee are of the same opinion. . ... Another California Railroad. San Francisco, Cal., August 23. The United States Railroad Company has incorporated with a capital of $5,000,000. It purposes building a railroad up the San Joaquin Valley from Stockton to Bakersfield. It is particularly described in the petition as follows : Commencing at Stockton, San Joaquin county, and extending in a southwesterly direction through the counties of San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Merced, Madera, fresno, Tu lare and Kings and thence in a southerly- direction through Kern county to Bakersfield, with branches from the main line to the towns of Modesto, Mer ced and Fresno. Also to acquire, hold, trade in and use all such real estate and othsr property as may be necessary for the construction and maintenance of such a railroad and for all stations, de pots, sidings and other purposes neces sary to successfully construct, work and carry on the business of such a railroad. The road shall be for transportation of passengers, mails, freight and express. The length is 250 miles. There are 50, 000 shares of stock, valued at $100 each. EUGENE V. DEBS. The Great Labor Leader Before c. the Strike Commission. PULLMAN CITED , TO APPEAR The Announcement Made That There is Now on Foot a Movement to Form a 1 United and Grand Railway Organlza - tiou An Earnest Recital.' - Chicago,' August 21. President E. V. Debs "of the American' Railway Union was a witness before the Strike Commis sion to-day . The courtroom was crowded from bench to doorways. " Now tell us in your own way, Mr. Debs," said Com missioner Wright, "what you know of the Pullman strike and results." " ' Leaning forward in his seat,' the tall leader of the great strike began in a low, clear voice a recital which gradually became more earnest and forcible as he proceeded until it developed into almost an oration. He told of having received word that a strike in Pullman was im minent and of his coming to Chicago to investigate "I found," he said, " the men were working for the Pullman Com pany at, wages upon which they could not live. " I found salaries had been cut time and again until skilled mechanics were working their lives away for wages not sufficient for day laborers ; that the town of Pullman was so schemed that every penny the workingman made found its way back to the company. In fact, I found ' the workingmen of Pullman in a pitiable condition, and determined I would do all in my power as President of the American Railway Union to im prove the condition of these men. The strike followed, ordered by the men themselves. Then came ' the boycott ordered by the duly elected delegates to j our convention, and then followed the railroad strikes, ordered by the various local unions, each of which had a griev ance of its own." " Would the railroad strike have oc curred if there had been no Pullman trouble," asked Commissioner Wright. ' No ; the Pullmau strike was the prime cause. We desired to stop full man's cars and shut off his income, thus forcing him to arbitrate, but the railroad men had grievances of their own. The General Managers' Association had been organized with the avowed intention of giving assistance to the railroads in la bor troubles. .-Its evident aim was to driveorganized labor from .: existence. Ho sooner had this association been formed than a systematic reduction of railroad wages all over the country be gan. The men were ready to strike, and telt they had cause, Dut tne trouDie would not have come when it did had it not been for the Pullman matter. The time was unpropitious. I did not order the strikes ; I had not the power. The men did that themselves. But I do not wish to shirk any responsibility, and am will ing to say I heartily concurred in and approved of the action taken by the men. As to violence i. nave always con demned it. I have written and spoken against it, believing and knowing a strike cannot be won by violence. As to the telegrams sent from our office counseling violence I know of no such epistles." ''.,- "What about the 'Buy a gun' tele gram?" asked a Commissioner. ' That is easily explained. The tele gram was sent by the private secretary to a friend in Butte, and was merely a playful expression. It was sent as such and so understood." Debs then said that within five days after the strike was declared the union had the railroads beaten. "They were paralyzed," he said. "But injunctions were sown broadcast, and shortly after ward the officials of the American Rail way Union were arrested for contempt of court. . That beat us. About this time General Miles came to Chicago, and called on the General Managers' Associ ation, and the next day was quoted in an interview as saying he had broken the backbone of the strike. Now I con sider that call of General Miles as vul garly out of place. He had no more right to consult with the General Mana gers Association than he had to consult with our unions. I might say, too, it seems strange that all our letters and telegrams were made public property, while not a line of the railroads' corre spondence was published. If it had been, I think we could prove the General Man agers at the secret meeting declared they would stamp the American Railway Union out of existence.'? , In reply to a question Debs said the union had taken every possible means to prevent riot and disorder, and added : " We objected to the presence of Fed eral troops, and not State troops and po lice. If I remember rightly, no serious outbreak occurred until Federal troops arrived, as their presence inflamed the men." He told of the trouble with railroad brotherhoods, and continued: " The brotherhoods haveoutlived their usefulness, and for that reason I left the firemen's organization. They were jeal ous of the American Railway Union. There is now a movement on foot to form a united and grand railway organ ization. Within a few days a proposi tion will be submitted to the other rail way organizations, whereby the officials of the American Railway; Union and other unions shall resign with no possi bility of election to office. The principal cause of strife being relieved, an organi zation will be effected, if the brother hoods will consent, which shall include all employes." . .r 1 1 . t " What is your opinion as to methods pf preventing strikes?" asked Commis sioner Worthington of Debs. ;- --v : " My own idea, and it is the idea of the union, is to notiiy au the railroads of the country. A power like that pru dently managed would avoid strikes. The railway managers would recognize the wisdom of treating it fairly and meeting it in a conciliatory spirit." " Do you believe a strike is justified that interferes with publicconvenience?" "I believe striking is justifiable, no ' matter wnat tne result, when it resists enslaving and degrading." "' Do you believe in government own ership of railways?" asked Mr. Kernan. , "Yes, sir; I believe that government ownership is decidedly better than rail-, road ownership of the government." Debs was followed by P. P. Morris Bey, First Grand Master of the Brother hood of Railway Trainmen. . The broth erhood, he said, did not believe in sym pathetic strikes, ' but individual. The witness believed in the government own ership of railroads. ., ,-'. r , E. E. Clark of Cedar Rapids, Grand Chief of the Order of Railway Conduct ors, told of the hostility between the brotherhood and the union. . . . ; ' ; ' The Strike Commissioners hava noti fied George M. Pullman to appear and testify, and Will also call for several members of the General Managers' As sociation. 7 r ' AFTER SEVEN TEARS. Mrs. MbLeod Baldwin Receives Indein- . - J , nlty From Mexico. - Washington, August 24. A celebrated case, which has occupied a good part ' of the attention' of the State Department -for. years and has also figured in Con-. gress several years, has just come to ti successful termination, and the Mexican government has placed with the State Department to the credit of Mrs. Mc Leod Baldwin the sum of $20,000 as in demnity for the assassination of ' her husband. Mr. Baldwin was superin- tendent or manager of the Valencia mines, in August, 1887, while making a tour of a group of mines belonging - to a party of American capitalists he was fired on by two desperadoes and badly wounded, and sought refuge in a tunnel. The desperadoes called upon the un armed miners to surrender Baldwin or they would fire on them. To save the li ves of the helpless Baldwin surrendered himself on the promise that he would be allowed to nav a ransom and ao freeJ The bandits put him on a mule, hurried him down the road, and m a lew min utes shot him through the brain' and disappeared. The Mexican government renounced responsibility for the assassi nation, and it has taken seven years to determine otherwise; t . The six assassins who participated in the crime were promptly killed. Mrs. Baldwin claimed an indemnity of $100,- 000 through, the United States govern ment, and Secretary Bayard wrote some strong dispatches on the subject to Mr. T. B. Con ley, American Charge d' Affaires at the City of Mexico. & -v u-i? ANOTHER NEW BRIDGE.; How the Long Island Road Will Gain : Entranoe Into New fork. '-"' New York, August "22. Ground, was broken to-day at the New York end of the new Blackwell's Island bridge, which ' is to furnish the Long Island railroad ah" entrance into New York city. There was no ceremony. The bridge will have " a capacity of four railroad tracks, if ; need be, besides a roadway arid foot ; walks on either side. The spans over . ' both channels of the river will each be 855 feet. ; The span on the island will be 7 635 feet between the centers of the piers. Ihe distance between the renters of the . two extreme piers will be 2,865 feet. It will reach squarely , across the river, reaching the Long Island shore at Ravens wood and forming . a junction , with the Long Island railroad at Bunny side, midway between Long Island City ' and Woodside. The approach on the -Long Island side will be by a. steel via duct. In order to furnish a more direct route to Manhatten and Brighton Beach a "cut-off" will probably be built con- ' necting with the Manhatten Beach di vision of the Long Island road., It is calculated that passengers from the Union station at Third avenue and Sixty fourth street, New York, can reach Man hatten Beach in forty minutes without changing cars. . This is a reduction of ,., more than 60 per cent. By most routes there are disagreeable changes. When the New York and New Jersey bridge is 1 completed the Long Island road will be ' able to tap directly all the greater roads ; centering in New "York., - ; HOPS IN EUROPE. . " ; ., Germany Will Not Require Any From . This Country.', ' ; :' -; Washington, August 24. The Ameri can Consul at Hamburg, Germany, fe- ports to the State Department that the hop harvest, which is but a ' few weeks' ' off, will equal the yield of the most favorable years in the past, and in conse- . quence American hops, which have been extensively used in Germany during the ' last year owing to the small local yield, will find few, if any, buyers in the Ger-. man market. Reports from England are of similar tenor, and it is thought likely " ii... i : 1 1 : i iL i bum x-jui ujj win laist) mure iiups una year than will be required lor home con- '-ii sumption. , '. ,.;., '. .-.-.i.. Elections in Norway. London, August 20. The Times' Ber-k lin correspondent says advices have ; reached Berlin from Christiana,' Nor- . way, showing the election of delegates 11 ' ' in the districts of Tromsoe and Finmark iya indicates no change in the Norwegian-it v political situation. ' .'"'.: ; ; ? Bank Dividends Declared. - - " Washington, August 21. The Comp troller of the Currency has declared divi dends in favor of creditors of insolvent banks as follows : Fifteen per cent of tne uoiumma JjanK, jxew Whatcom, Wash., and 10 per cent of the Linn'' County Bank, Albany, Or. .'"... ,i, ". Professor Herman III. ' New York, August 20. Prof. Her- ' mann, the magician, is seriously ill at his home in White Store. It was re ported to-night that his condition it very r r . 'i it '-f .