, 1888-12-13
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Expelled Office. Barry WI -rr t..,..
knights Of Labor ior Gc.a-a..aa OF
character.
Hon. c. ). Voorhees, VIII settle q
Colfax in the law hu-iu~--, 20 say
an indianapolis dispatch.
Sullivan has posted $1,000 fora.
fight for $1,000 with k.lra.u ,r
Mitchell inside Of SIX months
Governor Semplc has gone east, to.
be absent about month. Secretary
Owings Will be acting governor.
1t Is conceded in congress that the
next lower house Will bc republican
by from three to seven majority.
Edison has perfected Il phouo
graphic doll which talks and sings
distinctly. Let Us have ii before
Christmas.
Colonel Henry Watcrson calls
loudly upon every democratic fed
eral office holder TO resign on the t.h
of March.
December 9th Will be Charles
Wesley Sunday" among MegholI-ta
throughout the world. Wesley died
100 years ago.
The postmaster-geucraI has or
dered the establishment of free dc
livery at Spokane Falls, W T., and
Walla Walla, W. I.
General Curtis, the American
party's candidate for president, did
not get vote in his own town of
Bridgeport, Conn.
Olympia Collegiate Institute. Of
which Prof. Follansbee is President,
has $50 pupils, representing II couu-
ties in the Territory.
In 1910 General W. Ii. Harrison
had a majority in Pennsylvania OF
349 votes, His grandson in 1855
carried the state by 10000.
Montana pollsd 10000 votes at he1
recent election; Washington rolled
400. Both should be let into the
fold and don the garments of state
hood.
Congressman Sam Randall OF
Pennsylvania VIII again take his
place as leader Of the democratic
party in the National House of Rep
resentatiVes.
Benjamin Harrison will be the
centennial President George Wash
ington was first inaugGrated March
4, 1889. Harrison Will be inaugurat-
ed March 4, 1889.
In the late Presidential race Or
egon cast 81, ,914 votes, distributed as
follows: Harrison, 33,291; CIeye-
land, 26,52S; Fisk, 1,677; Sgreeter,
1863; scattering, 81. Harrison's pIu-
rality, 6,769.
The United States buys more from
Japan than any other foreign nation.
Last year our imports, including raw
silk, teas, fans, handkerchiefs, BAN
boo, etc, amounted to nearly SIC
100000.
During the past year the tonnage
built in this country was 2lS.OSG
tons, compared with 150,4 ,450 tons OF
the previous year. The total ton
mage of the country amounts to 49,
191, SIT tons.
Herbert f. Beecher, special agent
of the treasury, has been transferred
from Port Townsend to the San
Francisco district, vice agent Moore,
who is promoted to the charge of the
Detroit district
Well. it is Cleveland's last. 1t
would have provoked good deal of
comment if its author had not been
obliged to March 4th. As 1t Is it
will simply go into history as 4
harmless document.
George Reyes and C. F. Town
send, who were indicted by the
United States grand jury on Nov %
for attempting to smuggle fifty-four
FIVE -taei boxes OF Victoria opium off
the steamer Wilmington on October
22d, pleaded not guilty to>day in the
district court. with leave to demur or
oterwise plead within one week.
Chairman Dingley, of the house
committee on merchant marine and
fisheries, says that he has received
the reports published in several
newspapers of assaults committed
upon Indian women in Alaska by
employees of the Alaska CONNER
cial Company, without expressing
any opinion as to the truth and falls
ity of thess charges. He says that
subp9nas will be issued to the ac-
eusers, to give them an opportunity
to testify before the committee.
When the New York Journal OF
Commerce declares against further
agitation for tariff reduction and adj
vises the democrats to join the re
publicans in ab0Gshing internal rev
enue taxes. it becomes evident that
free trade has received a stunning
blow. As the representatives of the
commercial element of New York
which has urged free trade on purely
business principles, it practically in
Inmates to the south that its strong.
est northern allies are deserting it.
Assistant Secretary Maynard, in
letter sent to the collectors of Gus
toms at San Francisco to-day, says
while Chinese merchants are no
affected by the Chinese exclusion
act, a deputy must decline to issu
lnStTuCIlonS IeSdiuluS tno lHaOtS4 =
indentifying Chinese merchants OF
their arrival in the United States
In regard to the deputy's prior in
structions relating to certificate
which may for convenience be issue,
to Chinese persons other than labor
ers the collector has full authority L
disregard them, especially so in viey
of his iutimation that such certifi
Gates are fraudulently used by Chi
nese laborers."
The secretary Of the treasury In.
transmitted to congress estimates o.
the appropriation required for gov,
ernment service for the fiscal yeGl
ending June 80, 1890. They aggre,
gate 1923, ,467, ,4SS, which is S3S2, ,305
L. L.. L. ..-t;r,ntn. e. 1907 -