The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1888-11-04
CAUGHT ON THE FLY.

Orders for Christmas trees are already
being received in Maine.
Julia Beck, Kansas City girl, killed
herself because some one had told her
she twas too homely to live."
There were 100000 bushels of wheat,
intended for export, stored at New York
last week awaiting fall in price.
An election will be held in mo Mans
Land" next month to provide for organi-
zation as Territory, with courts and
laws.
Mrs. Alex Young apparently died at
Brookings, ID. T. As the coffin was about
to be closed she revived and is expected
to recover.
The amount of lumber that will be
scaled and sawed before the close OF the
season by the Minneapolis mills is esti-
mated at 25,00O,0OO feet.
Speculator Corwith of Chicago found
lead heavy thing to hold, and has ac-
cordingly failed for a fortune. Little
Jumps of lead kill in peace as well as in
war time.
The Chesapeake and Ohio has given
orders to double its freight equipment,
proposing to build up great export bust
ness at Newport News by shading export
rates.
Mortgages to the amount of $4,000 per
mile have been filed for the building of a
railroad from Sioux City to Salt Lake.
The Manhattan Trust company of New
York is the trustee.
Jay Gould and the Union Pacific peo-
pie have revived the Duluth, Huron and
Denver scheme, and will build the road
from Duluth southwest to tap the Union
Pacific at North Platte.
The passenger trains on the Rock Is
land and Santa Fe run races from Abb
lene to Salina, a distance of twenty-five
miles. The tracks are parallel with each
other, and the races are novel and ex-
citing.
Chief John of the Sioux says that east
ern slaughterers have swept the Indian
hunting grounds bare, and that there is
no hope for them unless they learn the
ways of the whites and intermarry with
them.
The Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
company has added another state to the
list of ten states and territories which
its lines already penetrate by the COM
pletion of a branch to Superior, in Ne
braska, few miles north of the Kansas
border.
A report is circulated that the Northern
Pacific had contracted for the construc-
tion of eight new vestibuled passenger
trains, which were to be constructed in
March and put on the road as through
trains between Chicago and the Pacific
coast, running over the Wisconsin Cen
tral Road.
The Scotch population in North Caro-
lima, which in great measure consists of
the descendants of those who left their
country to share the fortunes of the ILL
fated House of Stuart, has become SO
numerous that weekly paper-the Scot
tiSh Chief-has been started, devoted to
Scotch interests.
The Alabama legislature is to be petit
toned at its next session to buy the town
of Decatur and wipe it out of existence.
in order to prevent future outbreaks of
yellow fever. 1t is claimed that most of
the epidemics originate there, and that
it will be an act of economy and mercy
to remove it.
A horse thief, arrested at Mexico, Mo-,
boasts that he has cut his way out of
seventeen jails.
New York employing bakers have voted
5 not to reduce the size of loaves or in
crease the price of bread.
ob6pe nave Detu bdheu W pIONlUe special
voting booths for the women in the com
ing municipal election at Boston.
It is estimated that third of the popu-
lation and voters of Minnesota are Scan.
dinavians, principally Swedes and Nor.
wegians.
Hanging is evidently going out OF
fashion in Canada. There have been
fourteen murders since the year opened
and only one execution.
The season of the year has arrived in
Kansas when, notes local paper, a man
who goes ten miles from home wants to
take along at least three grades of under
wear.
The farmers near Colfax, Wis, raised
such an enormous crop of potatoes this
season that they do not know what to do