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EVENTS OF THE DAY
EPITOME OF THE TELEGRAPHIC
NtWS OF THE WORLD.
Lb Interesting Collection of Item From
the Two Hemispheres Presented in
Condensed Form A Large Amount
of Information In a Small Space.
The strike of 13,600 Berlin Jointers
was ended this week. The workmen
have obtained higher pay and shorter
. hours.
The British oolonial offloe has been
asked to sanction a chartered company
to exploit Ashantee, but it is unlikely
it will consent.
. i
While sitting in his oabin at Eliza
bethtown, N. J., Jeff Bailey was
blown to atoms by the explosion of 85
pounds of giant powder.
To escape arrest for the embezzle
ment of government funds, Frank
Mapes, postmaster of Kansas City,
Kan. , oommitted suicide at ; his resi
dence in that city. ','
The Anglo-German loan of 100,000,
000 taels has been issued at 94, with
interest at 5 per oent. The oontraot
stipulates that the customs administra
tion is to remain unohanged. '
A Moscow correspondent of the Lon
don News believes it true that the porte
has deoided up oil the expulsion of the
British and Amerioan missionaries in
Asia Minor. "Suoh a measure would
be oonsonant with the wishes of Rus
sia." the correspondent adds.
At the request of the state depart
, ment at Washington, the United States
embassy at Berlin has formally invited
all the German universities to send
delegates to the Prinoeton' celebration
in October next. Some of them, in
cluding the universities of Goettingen,
have aooepted.
A terrible tragedy ocourred in Seneca
Falls, N. Y. It was themurder of a
highly respectable youngvgirl, Miss
Mary Mansel, by Thomas Pelkinton.
Immediately after the murderXand
with the same weapon with whioh.'he
oommitted the murder, he took his own
life. The girl reoeived two bullets in
the head, and one entered the brain.
1 One hundred students of Muhlen
berg college, Allen town, Pa., partici
pated in an anti-Spanish demonstra
tion. They paraded the college oorri
dors and campus, singing patriotio
songs amid oheering, and ended by
burning the Spanish flag and hanging
General Weyler in efflgy.
Lord Dunraven presided at a meeting
held in London of the Yacht Raoing
Association. Before the meeting was
called to order the question of the ad
visability of making a reply to the
New York Yaoht Club in regard to the
expulsion of Dunrayen was informally
disoussed, and it was deoided that it
would not be good taste to do so. 1 The
matter was dropped.
The Pope Manufacturing Company's
building, Boston, Mass., was oom
pletely gutted by Are, necessitating a
general alarm. The loss is between
1 350,000 and $400,000. The block was
a five-story structure of brick, profuse
ly ornamented with terra ootta trim
mings. Seventeen hunrded bioycles
and parts were destroyed in tne names.
The Goulds will not be compelled to
pay taxes on $10',600,000 assessed in
New York for the year 1895. Five
suits had been filed against the estate
of Jay Gould and his sons and daugh
ters to enforce the finding of the com
missioners of taxes and assessments.
The defendants pleaded non-residenoe.
The corporation oounsel has announoed
that it has been decided to abandon tne
suits
Tt Is now generally thou eh t that the
river and harbor bill, will carry about
ti2. 000.000 for the whole oountry,
though it may fall below that. This
is what the cruel ol engineers oi tne
army says is absolutely neoessary to
oronerlv oarry on the work. Kepresen
tative Hermann says that, whatever
the amount. Oregon and Washington
will get their share and perhaps a
larger per oent of the whole amount
than ever before.
The whole of the republic of Hon
duras has been placed under martial
law, pending the settlement of the oivil
revolt in Nioaragua, in whioh the
president of Honduras has espoused the
cause of the Zelaya government against
the rebels. The near approaoh of the
contending forces in Nioaragua to the
Honduras forntier, and the disposition
of the president of Guatemala to inter
pose for the settlement of the war, are
the considerations that made the step
seem advisable of plaoing the oountry
under martial law.
It is reported that the sugar refiner
ies in the vioinity of New York will
probably shut down. John A. Searles,
treasurer, said that some of the re
fineries might be olosed, but that there
was no speoial Bignifioanoe in this.
Times were dull and it is said the pirce
may be reduoed again. The Cuban
controversy in congress is giivng the
sugar trust some oonoern, for 11 the
belligerenoy of the insurgents is recog
nized the trust may be cut off from re
ceiving supplies from that source for an
indefinite period, whereas, if the de
bate on the resolution is postponed the
shipment of sugar from Cuba will con
tinue for a while longer. .
Frank Robinson, pf Spokane, who
was possessed of a comfortable home,
an estimable wife and three interesting
ohildren, and who had always borne a
good reputation, was shot by Horace
Mann, a lawyer, while in the aot of
burglarizing his residenoe. He is dead,
but the strangest part of the thing is
that the shot fired by Mr. Mann and
whioh took effect in his right breast,
was not the shot that caused his death.
He esoaped from Mann's residenoe, ran
two blocks, and was found after day
light with a bullet through his brain.
Who fired the seoond shot, whioh must
have caused instant death, will proba
bly never be known.
Two young men, named Montgomery
and Fox, rivals in a love affair, fought
a duel with revolvers on Biroh creek,
Alaska. Fox reoeived two wounds,
neither of them fatal.
Complete arrangements have been
made by the Prinoeton Athletic Asso
ciation to send a team to represent
America in the Olympian games, to be
held in Athens, Greece, April 6 to 11.
A Cairo dispatoh says: The Egypt
ian troops have started for Wady
Haifa, where the entire Soudan expe
ditionary foroe is expected to assemble
April 1, when the advanoe on Dongola
will be oommenced.
Kid Thompson, convicted of partioi?
panoy in the Rosooe train-robbery, was
sentenoed by Judge Smith, in the Los
Angeles superior oourt, to be hanged at
Folsom on May 22, between the hours
of 10 and 4 o'clock.
The case of the United States vs. the
state of Texas, involving the owner
ship of Greer county1, has been deoided
in favor of the United States. Justice
Harlan handed down the opinion. The
oase involves 1,500,000 acres.
The New York Herald correspondent
in Rio Janeiro says that the Brazilian
government will present to oongress an
agreement with Franoe upon the ques
tion Of the contested territory in
Amapa, on the .. border of Frenoh
Guiana.
A powder mill whioh gives employ
ment to seventy-five men at Riflon,
Ulster oounty, N. Y., blew up. The
mangled bodies of five men have been
found in the ruins. The same mill
blew up eighteen months ago, killing
four men.
A Paris paper says it has been in
formed at the ministry of the interior
that John L. Waller is still in prison,
no order for his release having been re
oeived, and that negotiations between
Franoe and the United States on this
subject are still proceeding.
In Chioago, J. J. Colvin, . a promi
nent manufacturer of galvanized iron
oornice, was superintending the work
of the new station on the Lake-street
elevated road, when the temporary
soaffold on which he stood was struck
by a train, and he was hurled into the
street, being almost instantly killed.
. A San Franoisoo man has telegraphed
from Mexioo that he has struok the
riohest body of ore yet enoountered in
the Candelaria mine. - The ore runs
80 per oent gold to 70 per cent silver
in value, and is similar in appearanoe,
characteristics and ohemioal properties
to the Comstook minerals. ,
The United States supreme oourt has
reversed the decision of Judge Maxey,
of the Texas federal court, in the oase
of Consul Ornales, of Mexioo, asking
for the extradition of certain men
olaimed to. have been engaged in the
Garza insurrection of 1891 and 1892
The decision has the effect of holding
them subject to extradition. Chief
Justioe Fuller read the opinion.
Senator Mitohell of Oregon is pre
paring his report in favor of an amend
ment to the constitution providing for
the eleotion of United States senators
by a direot vote of the people. At its
last meeting the committee on privi
leges and elections, by a vote of five to
four, ordered a joint resolution looking
to a change in this particular to be re
ported to the senate. It is Mr. Mitoh
ell's intention to press the resolution
for consideration.
NEIGHBORING TOWNS
PROGRESS AND DOINGS OF THE
PACIFIC NORTHWEST.
A. Budget of Interesting and' Spicy
News From All the Cities and Towns
on the Coast Thrift and Industry
in Every Quarter Oregon.
. Two gray eagles were killed last
week in Curry county, near Wedder
burn. The thermometer registered 13 de
grees below zero at Joseph, in Wallowa
oounty, on March 1.
Sheriff Osburn, of Benton oounty,
turned over to the county treasurer,
$4,042.79 taxes oolleoted. .
Three double-deoked oarloads of hogs
irom the Elgin stockyards were
shipped last week to Chicago.
The enrollment in the publio sohools
of Heppner for the ourrent year is 265,
and the average daily attendance 225.
A ' rioh strike is reported to have
been made in Quartz Guloh, near Rob
insonville, by Albert Stearns, who
hunted five years for it
The grand jury of Lane oounty is apt
to prove one of the most expensive that
oounty has had for many years because
of the Siuslaw fishermen's strike last
fall. , - ' .
The Pendleton Wool SoouriDg Com
pany has declared a 10 per oent divi
dend. It is thought that it will take
almost a year 'to scour and paok this
year's crop.
Arrangements are being made to ship
copper from Grant's Pass to Baltimore,
by rail. It will be hauled in from the
Waldo mines in mattes, and the copper
will be extracted' when it has reached
its destination. '
Inquiry is being made in Pendleton
for oattle and fat mutton sheep. There
are several buyers in Pendleton and
vioinity, and the market seems to be
about ready to open in full blast. Fat
muttons are most in demand, and a
buyer quoted oents per pound for a
good quality. :
The Roseburg Plaindealer says that
W. Laugh and his two partners Were
offered $15,000 for their oopper mine.
Mr. Laugh refused to sell at that fig
ure, saying that he wanted $25,000 for
his interest in a mine that assays from
superficial rWk $96 in gold per ton and
from 40 to 0 per oent oopper.
The manager of the Pendleton Soour-
ing & Paokng Company is in Boise,
Idaho, mak)g arrangements for the es
tablishment -a soonring plant there.-
He says ths Boise hot water' would ma
terially lenSen the cost of scouring.
The lnrgiflT percentage of soda renders
the watef peouliarly adaptable to
cleansing purposes.
Considerable progress was made in
the dredging work at the cascades dur
ing the fester part of last week, and
with fay.' rable weather for a few days
the channel leading to the upper end of
the canal will be "pen. After that
work is finished the dredger will likely
be taken through the locks and put to
work removing the lower bulkhead.
The weather observer at Pendleton
says that the general opinion among
the fruit men of that seotion is that
early fruit was injured, in some local
ities ruined for this year, while some
think the trees were killed in many
orchards by the reoent cold snap.' Late
fruit probably has not been greatly
damaged, and comparatively few late
fruit trees were killed.
T. Letsom met with quite an aooi-
dent while en route to his ranoh on In
dian creek, in Grant oounty, last week.
The road on the grade was quite nar
row and icy, and, in attempting to go
over it, his wagon slid off the grade,
taking his team along, falling a dis
tance of about forty fee into the oreek
below. Neither Mr. Letsom nor his
team were seroiusly injured.
The Albany creamery reoeived dur
ing February, with its 29 days, 89,000
pounds of milk over 8,000 pounds a
day. The receipts from the butter
made from it were $1,060. The net
return to the patrons was 25 cents per
pound. Had they made their own but
ter it would not have been half that
amount The receipts for December
were $640. SO, showng a big increase.
The oreamery is in splendid hands,
and its business is a matter of local
pride. . .
A Heppner correspondent of the East
Oregonian says that there is now in
the banks of Heppner at least $150,000
whioh is to be offered for sheep at last
y ear's prioes, whioh were $1 for year
lings, and $1.50 for 2-year-olds.
Sheepmen do not feel inclined to sell
at these prices. It is estimated that
the Heppner sheep market at the pres
ent time oonsists of nearly 160,000
sheep. Prospects for the oomlng wool
dip, the wheat crop and the sale of
sheep in Morrow oounty cause antici
pation of the good old times.
Washington.
Arrangements are being made to take
a ohurch census of Walla Walla.
A farmer of Whaeoom oounty has a
cow that has brought him four heifer
calves in five days short of . eleven
months.
Parties- from Taooma and Everett
are going to Cook's inlet to establish a
brewery at one of the principal mining
centers on the inlet
Applications have been filed with
the school directors at Centralia for an
exohange of warrants for bonds nnder
the provisions of the new Milroy law.
The Beaver Leader says that there are
in Clallam oounty 150,000 acres of land
worth $1,500,000, held for state pur
poses, and it wants a portion of it ap
plied to road building.
Speaking of the squirrel bounty in
Spokane oounty, the Davenport Times
says: "Linooln oounty tried it one
year and squandered over $30,000,
without perceptibly reduoing the squir
rel population."
The Bellingham Bay Improvement
Conmpany, of New Whatcom, is put
ting in new boilers and making other
improvements with the view to extend
ing its cargo capaoity. : A large timber
planer may be added.
The Chelan Leader learns from J.
A. Green that a week or two ago Alan
Royoe saw a deer swimming across the
lake near his plaoe, about fifteen miles
up the north shore, and, getting into
a boat, he gave ohase. After a while
by heading it one way and then an
other, he managed to get alongside of
it, and finally to get it by the tail, and
then it towed him toward the shore
faster than he could have rowed. He
was met by Mr. Green in a boat with
a rifle, who killed the deer. It was a
fine, large buok. ,
The Pullman oar Cinnabar was seized
at Spokane one day last week by Coun
ty Treasurer Mudgett, for - alleged de
linquent taxes amounting to $161.62.
The taxes were assessed against the
Pullman oompany in 1894.
The Fidalgo cannery has completed
one building and a seoond is well ad
vanced. The Anaoortes cannery has
finished one building and work is be
ing pushed on a seoond. Maohinery,
net material, etc., are beginning to ar
rive. ' ; ' . 1
The LeRoi Mining & Smelting Com
pany, of Spokane, has declared a divi
dend of 6 oents a share, or a total of
$25,000, the second for $50,000, and
the present one of $25,000, making a
total of $100,000 paid within the past
few months. ' 1 -
Elberton wants to be an incorporated
town. A petition with sixty-seven
names of leading citizens has been pre
sentd to the oounty commissioners, ask
ing them to grant incorporation and
order an eleotion, and the petition has
been favorably aoted upon. ,
'The steel wire-nail . works of Port
Townsend, after being closed eighteen
months has resinned work. : The ma
chinery" will be operated dy and
night, and the output will be 800 kegs
of nails daily. Manager Lively now
has orders for 100,000 kegs of nails.
The hotel at Maohias. Snohomish
oounty, was set on fire by sonjiB-WflenT J,
diary. There being no fire apparatus
or means for fighitng fire in the village,
the structure was a oomplete ruin in a
very short time, the inmates barely es
caping being burned. . Nothing was
saved V
A shipment of flax grown on Black
river was made by the chamber of com
merce of Seattle to Lisburn,. Ireland.
This is the first return from, the flax
seed reoeived from Ireland last year for
experimentation. The new product
will be thoroughly tested on its arrival
at Lisburn.
Idaho.
An original pension has been issued
to Charles H. Seekins, of Idaho City.
The Star mail servioe between Fraser
and Leyburn has been ordered discon
tinued. , . . ;: '
' Speoial mail servioe from Southwiok
to Crescent in Latah oounty has been
ordered discontinued Maroh 31 next
The mines olosed down by the recent
freeze-up are gradually - resuming
work. They will be running in full
blast again shortly. : - J ;
A speoial eleotion is ordered for
April 7 in Wallaoe, the same day as
the regular city eleotion, on a proposi
tion to issue $75,000 in bonds to put
in a sewage system. There is consider
able opposition to the soheme.
Superintendent F. F. Church, of the
Boise assay office, has completed and
forwarded to the director of the mint
his report of the mineral output of
Idaho for 1895. The total output was
$10,110,485, an increase of $316,405
over the previous year. -
A rietition is to. be circulated in the
Coenr d' Alenes asking the Oregon Rail
way & Navigation to run Sunday pas
senger and mail trains. . There is no
complaint about the present manage
ment of train servioe, exoept that it is
only for six days a week. The Coeur
d'Alene country has a populaiton of
about 8,000 direotly aneoteaa Dy tne
desired change, and they advanoe tne
argument that it will be a paving prop
osition. The matter will be laid be
fore Receiver MoNeill at an early day.
. No Great Northern Reductions.
St Paul, Maroh 19, Offloials of the
Great Northern deny the statement in
a Seattle dispatoh about a forthcoming
strike because the men's pay was re
duoed. They deny that reduotions
have been made, and say the strike
talk will amount to nothing.
IN A TELEPHONE CELL
JACKSON AND WALLING WOULD
NOT CONFESS.
Evidently Discovered it Was a Trap,
and Maintained Perfect Silence
The Police at Newport Instructed to
Exercise Great Vigilance.
Cincinnati, Maroh 19. Jackson and
Walling, the indioted murderers of
Pearl Bryan, are in the Nepwort, Ky.,
jail. John Bitzer, the jailer, has in
creased the guards, and the polioe of
Newport have been instructed to exer
cise great vigl'anoe. The prisoners
were first put in a sensitive cell, abso
lutely dark, in which were twenty tele
phone transmitters.. In a floor above
were stenographers and other wit
nesses. So far as hearing any com
munication between the prisoners is
oonoerned, it . was a failure. . They
evidently discovered that it was a trap,
and maintained perfect silence. Judge
Helm announoed that next Thursday
the case would be called without the
presenceof the prisoners, to enable the
attorneys to arrange for the regular
hearing. Today it has been forty-five
days since the murder, and forty days
sinoe the arreBt of the prisoners.
Sheriff Plummer has been untiring in
his efforts to detect the murderers and
seoure their extradition. ; He has spent
over $400, without any assurance that
the state would reimburse him. The
general belief is that the trial will
begin next week, as the criminal oourt
is in session. On the trip to Ken
tucky the prisoners were handcuffed to
the offloers. The detectives say that
both of the prisoners trembled like
aspen leaves as they entered Newport.
All who saw them landed at the jail
testify that their f aceB were pale as
those of dead men.
' No Consolidation Contemplated.
New York, Maroh 19. William
Nelson Cromwell, the American ooun
sel of the new Panama Canal Com
pany, of Paris, referring to reoent
statements that a consolidation of the
Nioaragua and Panama oonmpanies
had been agreed upon or was nnder
negotiation, made the following state
ment: - . ..
"I have just filed with Seoretary of
State , Olney a formal declaration in
"behalf of the new Panama Canal Com
pany that there does not " exist nor is
there in contemplation any agreement
or plan lor the consolidation or acquisi
tion of the Panama company with
the Nioaragua company nnder any form
of ownership or control; furthermore,
there not been any negotiation to
that end) Without commenting upon
the Nicaraguaprojeot, my client un
equivocally ' denieilm44hereirany
foundation in fact or design for the
rumors referred to." . '
No Longer a Town.
Spokane, ' Wash. , Maroh 19. Presi
dent Hill, of the Great Northern, has
his way. Hillyard has ceased to be a
municipality corporation. The oar-
shops of the Great Northern are looated
there, five miles from Spokane. Their
location built the town. When the
plaoe took on airs and voted to incor
porate, Hill fought the move, but was
beaten. He objeoted to paying taxes
to keep up a town government, and a
short time ago sent word to the town
that unless it was disincorporated he
would remove the shops. After many
preliminaries, the city government
was legally killed today in the oourst.
Christening of the Iowa.
. Des Moines, Maroh 19. Governor
Drake has reoeived from Seoretary
Herbert, of the navy, an invitation to
be present at the launching of the bat
tleship Iowa. Miss Mary Lord Drake,
daughter of the governor, is at the
same time, invited to ohristen the ship.
Governor Drake will aooeptt he invita
tion for Maroh 28, and will be accom
panied by his staff and many promi
nent men of Iowa. Aotion has also
been taken by the legislature looking
to the presentation of a silver service
to the equipment of the ship.
Italy Will Continue Hostilities.
Rome, Maroh 19. In the ohamber
of deputies today the new premier,
Marquis Rudini, announoed that the
government would continue hostilities
in Abyssinia until peaoe could be con
cluded on honorable teims agreebale
to Italy. The annoucement was re
oeived with cheers, and a credit of
140,000,000 lire for expenses of the
campaign in Africa was unanimously
voted. - When the news came to be
known the populace cheered heartily for
the government and for the Italian
goldiery.
A Successful Trial.
Washington, Maroh 19. Reports
from Mare island navy-yard as to the
perforanoe of the monitor Monadnook
on her trial trip are most gratifying to
the naval officers. With green fire
men and defective grate bars the en
gines developed easily "2,210 horse
power, and the boat ran at the rate of
eleven knots. The steam pressure was
115 pounds, and with new grates it is
expeoted it will run up to 160, giving
the monitor thirteen knots speed.
DOINGS OF CONGRESS.
Routine Work of the Fifty-Fourth Ses
sion Senate,
Washington, March 16. Theexoite
ment of the Cuban debate gave way to
Cookrell today, his elaborate speech on .
the financial question oooupying four
hours. There was a spirited referenoe
to Cuba early in the day, when it de
veloped during an ' explanation by
Lodge that the committee on foreign
relations had received from Seoretary
Olney a statement by Senor de ' Lome,
the Spanish minister, giving the Span
ish view of the oase. This brought
out animated suggestions from Hoar ,
and Woloott that the senate be put in
possession of this important testimony.
Cockrell's speech was an elaborate
presentation of the financial question
from the silver standpoint, so much so
that Hoar stated that it was the ablest
silver speech he had ever listened to.
Washington, March 18. The senate
had an hour of spirited Cuban debate
today, after the early part of the day
had been : given to set speeches by
Lodge on immigration and Pugh on
silver. The Cuban disoussion was
mainly important in bringing out the
full reading of a statement of the
Spanish side -of the case by Senor Du
puy de Lome, the Spanish minister.
This had been referred to some days
ago, but could not be made publio.
Today, however, Morgan read a letter
from Seoretary Olney saying the Span- 1
ish minister gave his permission for .
the publio use of the statement. It
olaimed to .detail the insurgent meth
ods of guerilla warfare, the bunring
of oanefields and the disorganized
oharaoter of the insurgent bands. ' ,
Washington, March 19. The Cu
ban debate in the senate is drawing to
a close, and the expectation is that a
final vote will be taken in a day or
two. Sherman is keeping the question
before the senate continuously, so that
the speeches are not likely to last muoh
longer. . Mills and Piatt are yet to be
heard, but their remarks will not be
lengthy. Morgan occupied almost the -entire
session today,- speaking until
nearly 6 o'clock tonight in support of
the resolutions. It was mainly an
argument without dramatic interest
The senator severely arraigned Minis
ter Dupuy de Lome, of Spain, for im
propriety in critioising senators. 1 He
also recited many evidences of the .
cruelties and atrocities with whioh
Spain was prosecuting the war. Mor
gan said that he feared that the fanatic
ism of Spain would lead her to take
up the ease of war. no : matter how
mild and proper the course of congress
might be. -i
Boom,
Washington, Maroh J 6. Provisions
for putting several craft of the navy
into condition for servioe as soon as
possible was made today by the house
oomZnlttee-mfooiayal affairs.' Commo
dore Hiohborne, onleJLjOtihQbureau of
construction and repairs of the
department, made a request for a spe
cial appropriation of $350,000, to be
available for use immediately, explain
ing that several gunboats and other
oraft could be put in shape to go into
commission, if needed, for compara
tively small expenditures, and the de
partment considered it advisable that
the work should be done at onoe." To
partly balance the allowances for Com
modore Hiohborne's bureau, the gen
eral appropriation therefor was out
down from $14,000,000 to $12,500,000.
There are twelve boats whioh the ce
partment will put into oondition for
servioe, and for which the appropria
tion is asked. Some of them are new
craft, and others old ones now out of
commission.
Washington, Maroh 18. This was
suspension day in the house, and sev
er eal bills were passed. - The most im
portant was the Oklahoma homestead
bill, which relieves homesteaders in
Oklahoma of the payment of the, pur
chase prioe of their homesteads. The
house also deoided, at the request of
Hitt, ohairman of the oommittee on
foreign affairs to consider the resolu
tions censuring Ambassador Bayard on
Friday. A bill was passed' granting
to the Chioago, Burlington & Quincy
Railroad Company the right of way
through the Sao and Fox Indian reser
vations. Bills were passed granting
to the First National bank of Sprague,
Wash., the right to change its location
to Spokane, Wash., and to increase the
rank and pay of the judge-advocate of
the navy when appointed from the
navy,- '
Washington, Maroh 19. The nouse'
devoted the day to the bill to amend
the administrative tariff act of 1890,
and passed it without substantial
amendment. The purpose of the bill
is to strengthen the aot of 1890, some :
weak spots having been developed dur
ing the six years it has been in opera
tion. The bill was drawn after exten
sive hearings and upon the advioe and
with the assistance of the treasury de
partment, the. board of general ap
praisers, importers and others with
practioal experience on the subjeot.
One of the most important ohanges
makes inoreased duties and penalties
for undervaluation, commencing at the
point of undervaluation, and not at 10
per cent above the undervaluation, as
provided by the present law. '
Hogs should have a dry bed. Wet
beds produoe sickness.