The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1889-10-23

PORTLAND, Oct. 22.-AleXander Cor
don made daring attempt to garrotte
an old man this morning at 10 o'clock.
The victim cried out and Gordon see
ing officers approaching jumped into
the river to escape. Rather than drown
he swan to a wharf and was arrested.
TURK IN THE Tolls STILL.
This morning Judge Lorenzo Saw
yer caused the issuance of bench
warrant for the arrest of J. Walmer,
one of the deserters from the British
ship Lord Canning to be held as a
witness against James Turk In cases
now pending in the United States
court Walmer resisted the officer
making the arrest but finally landed
at the county jail. Walmer's mouth
and nose were considerably bruised
and answering as to how he got hurt
he said that morning he told Jas.
Turk that he would ship on the
CGnlbTiGfl Queen without the aid of a
shipping master whereat Turk grew
furious and struck him in the face
with a billet of wood.
JUDGE DEADY's PROPHECY.
Judge Deady was interviewed at
Washington, ID. C., yesterday in re-
gard to the Sharon-Hill case and pre-
dicted that Sarah would come to a vio-
lent.end.
| CONGRESSMAN HERNANN's DAUGHTER.
A report reached this city to-day to
the purport that for some time past
DIR. Miller of Roseburg had been pay
ing attention to a daughter of con-
gresham Hermann, but for some un-
known reason was Objectionable to
the young lady's parents. The report
alleges that last Sunday evening the
doctor visited congressman Hermann's
residence from which he was removed
without ceremony, but on the follow
ing morning the doctor and Miss
Hermann were united in marriage
No further details respecting the
affair could be had.
PATENT COMMISSIONER MITCHELL'S DE-
| CISION.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Oct. 22.-Patent
commissioner Mitchell to-day rem
dered an important decision, in which
he holds that attorneys can not be
permitted to inspect abandoned cases
in the patent Office. The case came
before the commissioner on the appli-
cation Of the attorneys for the Hy-
draulic Brick Machine company, of
St Louis. In their petition they al
lege that their clients were threatened
with suit for infringement of build
ing blocks or bricks, as they expressed
the belief that an application for pat
ent had been filed and abandoned for
the same kind of building block or
brick manufactured by their clients.
They requested permission to inspect
abandoned cases in the patent Office in
order to protect their clients from un-
necessary expense and suit" Com
missioner Mitchell, after stating that
q man may abandon his application
for two years without abandoning his
invention, and that until the inven-
tion has been two years in public use
or on sale the inventor has lost no
part of his inchoate property, says:
1T follows that to grant the present
application would be to uncover to
the scrutiny of the public many in
fCAIIcuo huICA dIO bIlI1 OllO property
of the applicants, and which will ulti-
mately mature into patents"
THE PRESIDENT AND THE MAsoNs.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., Oct. 22.-Am-
ong the many curious inquiries that
come to the White House in the daily
mail is an occasional one asking wheth-
er the President is a member of the
Masonic fraternity. That question
was submitted at the Executive Man
sion perhaps hundred times during
the past week, the presence of the
thousands OF Knights Templar in the
city. giving interest to the matter To
this query a uniform letter is written
to the effect that the President is not
Mason. He belongs to only one So
ciety that may be termed a secret or
ganization, and that is college frater-
nifty of the ''Greek letter order" the
Phi Delta Theta. He joined this col
lege fraternity in 1852, while student
at Miami University, Oxford, o. Only
two members of President Harrison's
Cabinet are Masons, and none OF them
is Knight Templar.
PENSION MATTERS.
| WASHINGTON, Oct. 22.-The annual
report for the fiscal year 18SS-S9 of
the commissioner of pensions shows
there were at the close of the year
4S9, ,729 pensioners. There were added
to the rolls during the year the names
OF 81, ,92l new pensioners, 1,754 were
restored to the rolls, and 16,507
dropped from the rolls for various
causes. The amount paid for pensions
during the year was S88,275, 113 and
the amount paid as fees to attorneys
81, ,363,533. Since 1861 there have been
filed 1.248.1 lat pension claims. of