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CURRENT NOTES.

Owing to the new high license law
the saloon men of Paterson, y. j.,
have resolved 10 charge ten cents after
MAY for beer and all soft drinks. ="
Berlin. Cologne, Elberfeid. Dresden,
Breslau, Frankfort-on-Oder and Glau.
chau are already preparing 20 erect
statues of the late emperor.
The New York temperance people
are now waiting 20 see whether Gov.
Hill viii approve the high license isil
just passed by both branches of the
legislature. The bill makes liquor IL
censes cost $40, and for beer makes q
minimum rate of 500 and maximum
rate OF 500
In the savings banks 81 Rhode III.
and the'.ieposfts amount 10 s5y .DD. 600
The population IL little more than
5000. 80 that the average saving.
represented by the deposits In the saw.
ings banks alone are about SIT pei
capita for every man, woman and
child in the state.
II was generally believed In Wash.
ipgf0n that Senator ingalls, speech at
tacking President Cleveland would cui
oil ali social intercourse between ihs
White HOUSE family and the kanSa.
senator's people. but one day this
week Mrs. Ingalls, and her sister, Mrs.
Hughes. e4iisSi on Mrs. Cleveland and
we're politely received.
The Knights of Laisor +kickerz. =
who proved themselves worthy o,
their steei at the Minneapolis eonven.
ton. are ont with circular In which
fhey renew the eharges II mismanage
meut on the part Oi the executive
board, and call upon all true knight.
20 join in oyertbrowing the ring.
They claim that the membership d
the order has decreased from .tstsfs
in ISIS 20 go. go up 20 April I. sgins
vigorous york in the interest Of har.
rnony i the crying need 81 the order
Heavy machinery Is nov run By ar
te.ian vel power In mary parts 81
France. and the experience II the
French show that the deeper the vel
the greater the pres are aud the higsae;
the temperature. The fasious areAesls
well. sunk 10 the depth af 1ss feet
and flowing daily some 5sj astg gaiions
has pressure ef sixty posnds 20 It's
square inch. the wster being als0 81
bot that Il Is nsra isr heaiiag the ifes
pitgls. i
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LUCKY RAILROAD ACCIDENT.
Not . single Person WAS Killed or
Injured

sorTH SoEwALk, Conn. May ia
Displaced rail threw an engine and
four ears Of the short lin. owl train
from Boston off the track this morn
ing on the draw hridge. Just where.
thiTty-five years ago. over sEeniy lives
we're los; in an accident. There was
the widest kind of panic among the
passengers ss the train rifsrsed over the
bridge ties. and they were thrown
from their fsTths Bs miracle the
deraised train rar straight over the
broken tie- and srsslfesi. M, q per-
-oa was injured. bat the wiidest con
fusion and CONSERVATION seizesg she
psssenErF-- They were shrossn oai of
their t@rths ty the sle~Ters swaFing
and bounding over the tte-. Men ard
wstaea screamed as the sia<s crashed,
<ssj the hDErlfa.e expectation of top
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CHURCH MATTERS.
They Are Discussed in Sew
eral Conventions.


BslrfscKr. May is.-In the general
assembly al the Southern Presbyterian
church this morning an invitation
FROM the Methodist EFiscopal general
conference in New York proposing a
union committee Of all evangelical
churches and Sabbath schoolS. was
referred 10 the committee on sabbath
schools. Protests agains: recryanira>
tion were presented and referred. A
special committee was appointed 10
which viii referred all correspondence
referring 20 union with the northern
church.
The committee of missions forfreei-
men presented ~ exhaustive report
of the permanent fund Of xseao for
the extension Of the work. The re-
pert Was referred "a the standing CONS
nittee on freedmen. The report of
the committee on home missions indi-
Gated a very favorable progress in the
work.
Then came the question Of chief in
terest. in the report of the committee
on conference with the Northern Pres
byterian general assembly on the aues-
ton of union of the two bodies. The
report substantially stated that series
of formal inquiries had becn submit
ted by the southern 10 the northern
assembly. In regard 20 the colore.i
people. Il was stated in this eommuni-
cation that the southern church hal
adopted a policy of independence from
them. Another was in regard TO the
powers and responsibilities of the ec-
hoard. Another treat
ed principally Of the Calvanistic
articles Of faith, and another
was in regard To the question for the
spirit of the church. In regard To the
people. The answer was that
the northern church was not in favor
Of setting them of in separate organ
izat;ons. In regard 20 the doctrine or /
policy Of agitating the northern
In regard TO spirituality
was responded 10 that the general
is formed with the duty OF
of the manners and the !
promotion OF truth. charity and holi- /
ness. Union Is favored and consum-
mated with the fullest confidence in 4
The Christian character and doctrinal /
.oundness of both Friday next was
liked as the time for discussion of I
ihe report The discussion of the re- 1
port of the committee on education
occupied the remainder Of the session.
The American Baptist Educational
society elected Francis Wayland. of 1
Connecticut, president; l.. Il. Ely, OF /
and Hon. u. A. Pillsburr,
# Minnesota, vice presidents; Lam
ing Burrows, of Georgia. recording
secretary; Rev. J. Gales, of Minnesota,
secretary, and j. l.,
of Maryland, treasurer. A
,oard of managers was also chosen.
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OREGON ODD FELLOWS.


PosTLASp, Or. MAY Is. Today :
session of the Grand Lodge of I,de.
pendent Order Of Odd Fellows for Or
egun concluded its iat,ors. The fol-
lowing grand officers we're eiected
Grand master. ghas l.. Palmer: dep.
uty grand master. q. ID Doane; grand
warden, Geo. III. curnett: grand sec
retary. " Bacon: grand treasurer.
John q. Wright grand representative
X. Alexander; grand herald. J. T.
Brooks; grand chaplain. W. q. sifnp.
son.
The following officer we're appointed
Grand marshall, Co~per kalsli: grand
conductor. r. A. STEPHENS, grand
guardian, III. Ploeger.
The grand lodge has been in session
for three days, large let Of delegate
being In attendance from all parts o:
the state
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METHODIST CONFERENCE.
Que Discussion Parsskes Of the Na.
ture Of 4 Row.

NEw YoRK. May Is Bishop Hunt
presided at the Methodist Episcopal
conference today. The committee on
missions reported favorably on the
appointment of deaconesses. The re.
port, with an amendment that the
continuance in office of the appointees
shall depend on the action OF the an
nual conference, was adopted.
The report of the commission on
lay and ministerial delegates was then
taken up. Ii favored equal represen-
fation. This would increase the mum.
her OF lay delegates by li3. The re-
port called forth much heated discus.
sion which partook OF the nature of a
row between the lay and ministerial
delegates. Final action on the report
was deferred.
Greetings was sent TO the Presbyte-
rian assemblies at Philadelphia and
Baltimore.
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r<inr over into the rsrer adsie<i To the
terror of She situation. A rush was
made for the doors hy the half sawss<i
pess<nsers. To jump from the train
Was 10 leap into the water. Two made
the dive and were Afterwards ssshed
-.-xt
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cHrc,co-nosrcx.

CHICAGO. May Is. Today's game
was played ON very muddy grounds,
the players swimming and waeiing
after the ball. Radhoare was pounded
very easily, while Borrhers. the new
pitcher from California. made first
class showing and in the five innings
that were played held the veterans
from Boston down To four base hits.
His work at the bat was rather weak
today, hut il was done under adverse
circumstances for him.
The game was called a, the end of
the fifth inning on account OF fresh
rain and more mud. Score; Chicago
Is. Boston D.
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PErEEsBrRa, Va, May is.--An an IT,
Malone meeting remained in session
until an early hour this morning. A
committee OF twenty five was ar
ranged for. who viii issue an address
TO the Republicans of Virginia and
submit plans Of organization.
On motion of John $. Wise the plat
form to be agreed upon at the Chica-
go convention was adopted a. the
platform of the party here Al 2 30 a.
m. the convention adjourned with
three cheers for Blaine.
The convention elected delegates at
large TO the Chicago convention as fol-
lows. General v. ID. Grover, Samuel
r. Yost. X A, Paul and G. A. Her
man.
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Local option rnconstisutionai.

L,ssfse, Michigan, May ls.-The
supreme court has unanimously de-
clared the local option Law unconsti-
tut;oaal, ON the ground that the law
Is in direct violation of article four.
section twenty. of the constitution.
which provides that no las shall EN-
brace more than one object. which
shall he proclaimed in it, title. The
local option law is entitled IAN act 10
regulate the manufacture and sale Of
liquor" which i not a; all v hat the
las l. for.
There j. great rejoicing by the
liquor men in the dry counties Of
I've state. thirty-five in number. over
the decision. Saloons are reoT+ning
and the delivery Of feer j. being made
Conniets with the Police.
Loxpas, MAY is-A party of 1.-THE
collectors and police we're attacked by
a mob at 14amfela. Wales, yesterday
and in the conflict that followed thirty
five persons we're injured, seven Of
them seriously
The Egsn Jary Disagrees-
SsS Fssxcfsco, May fs.-Th~ trial
of James Eagan on the charge OF the
murder OF VIM. AubreY on new years
day, which has heen IN progress for
the past week vas closed today The
jury disagreed and Was discharged.
Coming Weather
skS FRsseTsco, May u. ls.-Iadications
for "a hour. commencing AZ a H..
oa May is'th, for Oregon and Wash
ington Territory generally fair weather
gSth the exception of le-csl rains along
the coast from the mouth cs the
Columbia river uertnward Nearly
stationary temperature.
Royal W indsor Races
L.yypos. May i-.--At tbs Royal
Windsor sp=iag nseetsng to-day the
Odds vas won nv kahessra; fsieSorsss
see0ad. George Frederick third. There
we-r Eve starters.
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RAsEnALl. GAMES.

Chicago. May Is-The league
games at Detroit, Indianapolis and
Piffsburg were prevented to-day by
rain. The American games at Gin
einnati and Baltimore were also pre-
vented
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SAN Francisco, May is.-This after
noon news was received OF an acci-
dent to the steamer Yaquina at Little
river, Mendocino county. The follow
ing dispatch was received from Cap
tain Leland. The Yaquina struck
bottom coming out OF Whiteboro this
morning. | beached her az Little
river. The water is up 60 the fire
room and gaining. Send n steamer 10
take the cargo and passengers. Await
ing instructions. A dispatch was
received later on requesting a
tug aud pumping apparatus as
the captain thought he could
get her OF without aiseharring. The
tug Wizard was az once got ready. n
diver and pumping apparatus being
placed on board. Ex-6overnor Per-
kins said this evening that he thought
the Yaquina would get off safely.
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Half . MILAN Lest.

SAN Francisco. May ls.-The South
ern Pacific company has received .
manifest OF the rieamer Eureka which
was lost on the south Atlantic coast,
ana the freight department Il now en-
gagged In sending out circulars % those
of the local merchants sustaining dam
ngcs. The losses 10 merchants in the
city, which the company viii Ray In .
few days. viii foot up half million
dollars. Eureka WIS on the line be-
tween New Orleans and New York.
forming part Of the sunset route.
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FeEr SMITH, Ark. May Is. The
grand jury found an Indictment today
for murder in the second degree
against l.. c. Bonslnot, Jr., clerk oi
the Cherokee senate, for killing B. II.
Stone, editor Of the 7sisphone. at Tab.
lesluah, Indian Territory.
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j. a. COOK, NJ. ID.
TtoNsULTISG PHysfcIAS THIRTY
- yeayx' practice. Late surgeon United
states Army if07 Pacific avenue. Tacoma
". r.. Dr. Cook win be II Hotel Brunswick,
seattle. every Thassdsy and Friday.
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Dir. VI. DItH w,
nEST1sr. II ASSOCIATED WITH DIR.
~ J. G. t,rasse, In suilisAn's Block, Front
de~fred
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Exhibition nt Cop~nhagrn.

corESHAeKS, May is.-The inter
national exhibition was opened today
by the king. All members OF the
royal family were present The
American and German men Of war
In the harbor fired a salute.
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ALMA. Ark, Nav is.-The harieSt
ram Tor many years has been falling IN
Arkansas for TIM last TIVE days. The
streams have all oyrrisowed. The Inn
nsense cotton field and corn lxsltoms
are Hooded, and the country has
suffered a general iuunIation. %
quick was the rise OF water, that many
people were driven from their housea
and forced to swim for their lives.
Many women and children are stand.
ing on the top Of their houses crying
for help, with water ten feet deep m
around them and still rising. There
are fears that many have been lost.
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Fatal Military CoIIi.ion.

AUSTIN, Tex, May is.--The grand
dedication ball was given tonight in
the capitol which was brilliantly Hum
mated frem dome to basement.
There were in fact three great balls in
progress at the same time---one in the
senate chamber, another In house
OF representatives and the other In the
great library room. General Stanley,
General Mexia. of Mexico. and Gen
erals sfoddar,l, Roberts and Smith.
attended by brilliant staff, were pres
ent. Governor Ross and staff and
staff and hundreds OF distinguished
citizens also graced the occasion.
Boyeotting Irish Policemen.
DUBLIN. May is.--The Moonlighters
have posted a notice in the Drum
Quin district. County Tyrone. order
ing the boycotting Of all communica-
fion with the police. aad warning the
people that all thore who disregard the
order shall he shot.
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IT n cANU.

HENRY II. I<DOMIa
A rTuRSKY At LAW-KENNEY BLOCK.
n cosn<r Of Fnpnt snd coinmbta s1feess,
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SAN fRAScIsco, May iS.--At the
freight meeting OF the tfans-continen-
tai association the western classified.
ton ef freight was taken Up and dis
cussed, article by article. but no
chaneeS.in in the rates were agreed npon
on any particular article. The qacs-
ton of intermediate rates heswecn
here and the Missouri river was Also
brought up, but nothing definite was
decided. Al the passenger meeting
the whole day was taken up in figuring
upon the proportion that each line
wks entitled 20 from the sale of
through tickets.
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LospoS. MAJ ia council Of tie
Literal Radical Union ef London, han
decided 20 hold q great meeting al fiss
st. James Hall. on Jtsne the tn, 10
protest against the coercion act. and
the government treatment II poiitirai
prisos.ers. Morley will preside. Tbe
Lord Mayor refuses 10 lend the Guild
Hall for public discussion on the
caantry's defense. lie ielieves that :
feeling exists that this discreiisabie
ambition has already conc too far.
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G.. HOI4ZsCHUHEIs, NJ. ID.
GENERAL NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
M Of the mind. nervous system and wo-
men q speciality. Ofice--Sos. 70 and 81.
Union block, Front street Take elevator.
Telephone 30. dw
, 1888-04-19
ANIMALS, WILD AND TAME.

Two lumbermen of Lycoming county, Pa,
while driving TO their work in q sleigh the
other night, were pursued for several miles
by six wolves, one of which attempted to
jump into the sleigh, but was shot.
A man In In Genesco, Ills, saw two mice
in his stable. He hastily ran to u neighbors
and borrowed a rat terrier The terrier was
thrown in tho barrel, and at the first nab
took OFF tho head of one of the mice with a
crack like breaking u clay pipe Both the
mice were frozen to death.
A farmer near Galena, Ills, saw largo
owl sitting on a tree. Ho got a gun and
blazed away but didn't disturb tho owl. His
sons and his neishbors tried their skill at
shooting with no better result. After oil the
ammunition on hand had been expended a
boy climbed the tree and found that the owl
was dead and frozen fast to tho limb.
An English firm Of pyrotechnists have at
their factory n Newfoundland dog which
positively revels in fireworks. Ho rushei
into a shower Of SPARKS with as much delight
as most Of his kind display in n cold bath,
and on n lighted squib being thrown within
his reach, he will run after tho smoderng
stump as il 1t were bone, and trample it
out with his paws.
The Hollencamp family, Of Xenia, O.. have
pct coon. lney also nau n loD OF cnlcRenS,
but woke up the other morning to find thir-
ty-two of them stiff in death, with their
throats cut and their blood all gone. The
coon was about looking sleek and fat and so
innocent that the family could not make up
their minds whether he was the guilty one or
not, and even yet they think it might have
been the work of u weasel
Samuel Wright, Of Albany, Ga, for want
of something better to pet, devoted his atten-
tion to kitten. He aftorward acquired an
owl, and housed the two together in the same
room, in the hopes of having nucleus for q
happy family. One day he went to look in
upon his pets, but was surprised to find the
room as silent as the graveyard of some de-
serted village. Instituting a Search he dis
covered evidences that the cat had been de-
voured by the voracious owl, and that his
owlship had died of too much cat meat.
, 1888-04-19
EUROPEAN JoTTlNGs.

Il IL seven hours and u quarter now from,
London to Paris
Electrical motors are to be introduced on
tho London undcrgrounds
One hundred million cubic feet Of gas are
used In London In one day of fog.
The international committee for putting
down gambling ut Monte Carlo Is now very
active.
A good many have been cut up and built
over, but there are still 444 buryin grounds
In London.
Two hundred and seventy-Ave thousand
tons less of sugar beet root werc grown ia
Europe during 1887 than in 1886.
Rear Admiral Louis Hutton Vcsturms
recently committed suicide by heating
poker redtot and thrusting it into his bowels
As result Of John l.. Sullivan's British
career, u dealer has sold 300 sets of boxing
gloves, as against about dozen the year be-
fore.
The jewish race made their entree into the
court of Vienna for the first time on Jan. 20
In the person of Baron and Baroness Roths-
child
"Spodobs volapuk" appears now at the
head of German French and Italian busi-
ness houses, meaning "We correspond in
Volapuk."
Germany has now more than seventy
manufactures of champagne francais." or
10000 bottles imported annually by Russia,
Germany provides 100000
The stones of Temple Bar, after having
been exposed for eleven years, have been
built up into a gateway of n brewers resi-
dence. IL is now called Temple Beer"
There is to be grand international exhi-
hilton In Rerlin uext Nav of limiting troDhios
of all sorts of game, ancient and modern
arms, and implements used in hunting.
The famous Coo Min sands in the British
channel are disappearing. They have re-
coded toward the kentish coast half milo
within short time, and show signs Of gener-
ally breaking up
The iron horse crossed the Oxus on Jan.
Is A train carrying Gen. Annenkoif and
tho beg of the district passed over the great
bridge, which is 6,315 feet long, The Rus
SLAMS and the gates of India are much r.arer
than they used to be.
The Vatican is the most polite court in Eu-
rope Replies to all communications are
addressed with the titles assumed by the orig
inol correspondents, be they counts, dukes,
or princes. The pope never stops to ask
waethe, the gentlemen are genuine noblemen
or not.
At the canonization of the new saints in
Rome, after the pope's speech, the cardinals
presented his holiness with the customary
gifts for tho lnwly canonized saints, which
consisted of a thick wax candle, two bowls,
one silver and the other gilt: three cages,
ono containing pigeons, another doves, and
the third canaries and greenlinches. There
were also two small barrel one filed with
water and tho other with wine.
, 1888-04-19
PLAYS AND ACTORS.

Helen Dauvray's return to the stage Ii al
ready forecast.
Manager J. II. Haverly again announces
his retirement from theatrical affairs.
Nine Modjeska has decided to become an
American citizen, and will live in California.
Nate Salisbury is rich and says he will
never work Oh tho stage again, unless poverty
compels him.
The five years. contract between Manager
Pitou and w. j. Seaman has been renewed
for another five years.
Ada Dyas says that the Silent acting of the
letter reading scene in slim, the Penman,nis is
a severer strain on her nerves than any other
part II the play.
Manchester, England, has burst into un-
wonted enterprise. 1t has n burlesque of
"Bufralo Bill" in one theatre and shows tho
heather Chineo in another.
Conductor NeucndorH says that little Josef
I'll lann is in first class condition, that his
travelling about seems tn brighten him all tho
more, and that as for his piano playing, that
seems to bc so natural to him as to be abso.
lutey elFortlcss. Mr.. NeuendoriY says: "He
was born TO play the piano"
NJ. Coqueiin has started on another tour.
He begins with Egypt, whore he gives ten
performances, and then goes to Nice, Cannes,
Mentone, Trieste, Vienna, Prague, Bucharest,
Belgrade and London. With the actor went
his son Jean and company of fourteen. The
manager is again NJ. TIL. de CHASER.
II is stated that Mrs Abbey win shortly TO
tire permanently from the stage Mr..
Abbey's laudable preference that his wife
should act no longer has something TO do will
this. and sho will probably accompany bin
shortly when no makes "trip westward tc
lC<.b after some OF his numerous interests