The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-03-31
BY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH.

1t took four men eleven minutes to
hold negro at Chatham, Va, last
Friday, while he was being legally
choked to death.
The Kodiak, Alaska, Packing COM
pany has increased its capital stock
from 100000, divided into 1000
shares, to 100000, in 5000 shares.
Terrible prairie fires are reported in
northeastern Dakota, the wind blow
ing forty miles an hour and driving
the flames before it; the loss is great.
The senate is making a personal
matter of the nomination of Murat
Halstead as minister to Russia, and
refuses to confirm it because he told
the exact truth about some of the
tricks in the senate some years ago.
Postmaster general Wanamaker has
issued an order reinstating the four
Portland railway mail clerks who
we're removed just before the last
election in Oregon for participating
in Grand Army torchlight process
sion.
The o. r. & N. warehouse and de.
pot at Endicott was burned last
Thursday night. Loss on building
and contents, $1,000; insurance,
$1,000. The fire is supposed to have
been the work of tramps, who were
sleeping on bales Of hay.
Five companies of troops are now
IN the Ocklahoma territory cleaning
out the intruders. Many of the
boomers are leaving of their own ac-
cord, and Pesident Harrison's re-
peated warnings to premature settlers
seem to have made strong impress
sion.
A man calling himself @. J. Wells
compelled president Mofatt, of the
FIRST National bank, of Denver, Col,
last Friday afternoon to draw check
for $4,000, sign it and have the teller
cash it and give him the money.
The clever robber has not been ar
rested.
President Harrison is said to have
given semi-official notice to the SEN
ators that they may adjourn Tues
day, SO far as the business of the exc
cutive is concerned. 1t is believed
that a successor to the late associate
| justice. Stanley Matthews will not be
nominated before adjournment.
Dispatches from Samoa state that
the American men of war Trenton,
VdndGliG and NipSic, and the Ger
man men-of-war Adler, Olga and
Eber we're driven on O reef during
violent storm and totally wrecked.
OF the American crews four officers
and forty-six men were drowned, and
of the German crews nine officers and
eighty seven men lost their lives.
In the Canadian senate, last Friday
Mr.. Mcdonald, OF British Columbia,
gave notice that next Wednesday he
will ask the Dominion government
whether the government of the Unit
ed States still adhered to its conten-
ton that the portion of Behring sea
conveyed by Russia, together with
the territory of Alaska, is under its
exclusive jurisdiction, regardless o +
international usage.
An Ellensburg dispatch says: Wat
er in the upper Columbia is sufficient
ly high to admit the passage of
steamers, and the city Of ElleflSbarg
is now being placed in readiness to
resume regular trips April 6. Travel
to the Conconully mines, the Big
Bend, Okanogan and Lake Chelsn
continues lively by way of Ellens-
burg, and good reports are now COM
ing ID, causing many miners to come
from Idaho, Montana and California.
A Washington dispatch says: The
name of senator Dolph is mentioned
in connection with the vacant asso-
ciate justiceship of the supreme
court. There are a number of prom
inent Oregonians now in this city
who are pushing him for the place.
Senator Dolph, however, says that he
possesses no aspirations for the posi-
tion. His friends state that the
trouble with his getting the position
lies in the fact that, should he tend
er his resignation as member of the
senate, Governor Pennoyer would ap-
point Democrat to fill the vacancy,
|. and that Mr.. Dolph would not sacri-
fee his principles or those Of his
party by having a democrat appointed
as his successor in the senate, parti-
cularly as the Republican majority is
now so small.