The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-11-01
HELBGRAPHIC.
Specials to The AstOrian.
The Senatorial Visiting Committee.
Will Arrive Here at 2:30 this After
noon.
Specials From Europe and the East.

PORTLAND, Oct. 3L-The United
States senate committee on the fund
ed indebtedness of the Pacific roads,
arrived from San Francisco at 2:30
this afternoon in q special train of
Pullman palace cars. At 7:30 o'clock
tomorrow morning, the party, accom-
panied by a number of members of
the board of trade including president
Donald Macleay, will take the steamer
L. j. Potter and make a trip to the
mouth of the Columbia river, to view
the jetty and other government work.
RESTRAINING ORDER.
Judge Sawyer made an order this
morning that the bond of Jensen and
Fox, of Astoria, to restrain them from
further dealings with machinery, pat
ent for which L. Norton, and others
of Chicago are owners, be fixed at
$4,000. A preliminary injunction
was granted by the court which will
restrain defendants from making or
using the machines in question until
the case comes up for final hearing.
If the result is in favor of the plaintiff
the preliminary injunction will be
confirmed and if the result is other
wise the defendants can sue on bond
for damages for being deprived of the
use of their machines and consequent
necessity of shutting down their can
merry.
MARYE ARRESTED AGAIN.
w. b. Marye, a timber claim cruiser.
was arrested to-day. 1t IS claimed
that he has located forty men on
mythical claims.
FRENCH WRESTLERS.
PARIS, Oct. 31.-The match between
Cannon and Pietro, the champion
French wrestlers, took place last night.
They wrestled over an hour, neither
gaining any advantage. Finally the
referee declared the match a draw.
Another match will take place Friday.
RATE FOR GOVERNMENT MESSAGES.
WASHINGTON, Oct. Postmaster
general Wanamaker to-day made a
public order fixing the rates for tele-
graphic service for the government
for the present year. Day messages
not exceeding 400 miles, ten cents and
half a cent extra for each word in eX-
cess of ten over 400 and less than
1000 miles fifteen cents for first 10
words and three quarters of a cent
for each word IN excess over 1000
mile, half cent word added to 1000
mile rate. Night messages not eX-
ceeding twenty words. Fifteen cents
all distances and half a cent extra for
each word in excess of 30.
PRESIDENT GREEN OBJECTS.
New YORK, Oct. 31.-President
Norvin Green of the Western Union
Telegraph Co. says that the rates
fixed by postmaster general Wanna
maker are below cost and that he is
unprepared to say what action the
company will take till after meeting
of the executive committee next
Wednesday. The reduction from old
rates is an average of 33 per cent.
MRS. MACKAY's LIBEL SUIT.
LONDON, Oct. 31.-An action for
libel brought by Mrs. John W. Mac
kay against the Manchester Exam
il1er, came up in the court of Queens
Bench to-day. The libel complained
of is an allegation that the plaintiff
was a poor widow with two children
and that she was employed as a wash
erwoman by Nevada miners, when
Mackay fell in love with her and mar
ried her. The plaintiff contends that
the article declared she was not a
lady by birth or education, and that
she was not accustomed to associating
with persons of good position. De
fendant admits the first inuendo, but
denies the second: the defendant
had paid e10 into court, and the CUES
ton before the court to-day was
whether the payment applied to the
whole libel or to the inuendo adj.
mitted.