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JOURNALIST, REPORTER, EDITOR.
4 Witty Newspaper Mans Definition o
the Three Stages of Development.

At the recent annual dinner of the Pitts
burg Press Club, George S. Welshons (St.
Geo., one of the best-known and wittiest
newspaper men in the State, got off the
following in response to the toast, "The
Reporter"
"There are three grand divisions" Mr..
Welshons said, Gin newspaper work-jour-
nalists, reporters and editors. Speaking
more accurately, there are three stages of
development. A journalist is calf re-
porter. He is reporter in the miniature
tadpole stage. when his head is so big that
it takes all the rest of his person to shove
it around. If he is lucky, by and by he
becomes a reporter. After reporters legs
wear out they make an editor out of him.
The final stage of frog, you know-the
extreme removal from the tadpole-is the
bullfrog, too stiff to jump, too old and
tough to eat, who just sits on the bank and
bellows. That is an editor.
'In the old days the editor called a man
chicken chief nowadays the reporter
finds the feathers in his backyard. The
weapon of the old-time editor was the
epithet; that of the modern reporter is
the evidence. What the editor used to
assert the reporter now proves.
"If the people who complain of what
the reporter writes about them would only
consider what he does not write about
them, they would shrine him in the
friendliest corner of their hearts. The
waste-baskets in daily newspaper office OF
any town do more to keep its citizens in
good repute than any other agency, ex-
cepting the fear of the law and the here
after. Not all that the reporter writes Is
truth. He is not infallible himself, and
those who are the sources of his informa-
ton are much less so. There are very
many men who cannot tell straight story,
There are others who do not try to. The
man who tells the story TO the reporter is
usually an interested party. He has a
purpose to serve in metamorphosing this OF
suppressing that. The reporter has no de-
sire except to get the truth accurately and
completely, and to write it quickly and
entertainingly.
"All men do not love thereporter, and
am glad of it. The fear and hatred of bad
men is as a chaplet above his brows. 1t is
the assurance of his honesty to his badge
of honor as a servant of truth. If a time
ever comes when all men love the reporter
it will be time to bury him. He will have
forgotten his mission, betrayed his trust
and shamed the noble fellowship Of men
who have made the white cross Of the
Pittsburg reporter the decoration of q
| legion of honor"
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plans some, but an informal reception
took place at the hotel. There was a great
crush. He will spend tomorrow sight
seeing, and on Monday lecture in the thea
ter. leaving here Tuesday on g special
steamer for Vancouver, where he viii take
the Abyssinia for the Orient and his trip
around the world.
Baseball in the North.
TACOMA (Wash), March 14th.-It is now
assured that baseball league will be es-
tablished in this section the coming sum-
mer. Delegates from Portland, Seattle and
Spokane meet here o-morrow to organize
the league and decide whether to take in
Port Townsend and Victoria or Butte and
Helena, Mont. Citizens in the circuit are
enthusiastic, and first-class clubs will be
put IN the field.
What the Fruit-Growers Want.
Los ANGELES, March 14th.-A resolution
was adopted by the State Fruit-Growers'
Convention favoring the repeal by Congress
of the long and short-haul clause of the
interstate commerce law ; also, resolution
that California prunes be called by their
right name, not French prunes. Papers
were read on table-grapes, pruning rasin
vines, culture of small fruit, soit.shell wal
nuts and walnut culture.
That "Bold Briton."
MARYsvILLE, March 14th.-The conf
dence operator known as the BOLD Briton,
recently sentenced to a long term of I'M
prisonment from here, is believed to have
opersted extensively in other parts Of Cali
fornia A letter received from Judge Cof-
fey, of San Francisco shows that the pris-
oner undoubtedly imposed upon the Judge
by borrowing money under false pretenses,
not long ago.
Dempsey's special Train.
TACOMA (Wash.), March 14th. = Jack
Dempsey, who has been sparring lately in
Tacoma and Seattle, passed through here
this morning from Seattle TO Portland on
special train. Dempsey missed the regular
train, and as be has important engage
ments at San Francisco, was forced to
charter special.
smuggler Holt Dead.
SEATTLE. March 14th.-Smuggler Holt
died at 11:30 this morning from his injuries
Inspector Cobleniz is TO be arrested on
charge Of murder. Holt leaves an estate
valued at $40 600.
Redding's Bridge.
REDDING, March 14th-The contract for
repairing the Redding bridge was awarded
to the California Bridge Company at 81 100,
for ls0-foot steel span, and a 40 foot
treStle
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DYNAMITE CARTRIDGES.
They Can Be Fired Successfully From
Rif1ed Gun.

UTICA N. ", March 14th.-A success
full test of the Justin explosive cartridge,
as fired from a nine-inoh riaed gun, took
place in ravine at Perryville Falls near
Canastota, to- day. The rifle used was 8
Blakesley, made by Falcett, Preston. & Co.,
of Liverpool, England, for the Confederates
in 1868. It was used and captured at the
siege of Charleston, since which time it
had not been fred until to-day. 1t had a
test of forty-five pounds of powder with a
275 pound proiectile. The Justin cart
ridge which was used in the test is the in-
vention of DR.. Justin of Syracuse. The
object test was TO determine whether a
large amount of dynamite could be fred
from a rifle, using gunpowder as the pro-
jectile force without the dynamite explod-
ing in the cartridge before it left the gun.
Four shells were fired at a solid quartz
cliff. over third of mile away. The last
shell weighed $50 pounds, or 100 pounds
more than the regulation, and contained
nearly nineteen pounds of dynamite. 1t
blew to powder the quartz block it hit, and
the bullet ricocheted up the cliff and out OF
sight. The third shell contained 81 pounds
of dynamite and weighed 300 pounds,
and did great execution on striking the
rocky side of the ravine. It tore up the
rocks generally and split the shell bullet
in hall, one piece landing nearly mile
away. The dynamite all exploded at the
moment of contact and would have blown
q ship out of the water.
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MURDER or BENMELL.
BurcheI Tells About His Experience as
Pupil Farmer"

Burcheil Tells About His Experience as
a"Pupil Farmer"
WOODSTOCK (Ont.) }, March 14th. ..-Burchell
was induced last night to make state
ment concerning the purpose of his coming
TO Canada, but could not be persuaded to
say anything that would throw light on
Benwells murder, or his own movements
on that fatal day He said he came to
Canada as pupil farmer"
The firm of Ford. Rathbone & Co.. of
England, took go from him and promised
him first-class place on fine Canadian
farm. AT Woodstock ne met the farming
agent, one Mcdonald, who sent him out to
farm near Springfield. Burchell could
not stand it. however, and two days later
came back TO Woodstock. Pickthall is also
pupil sent out by the same firm. This
firm, Buchell says. is making piles of
money, and has agents in several States in
America.
Burehell's counsel say that the principal
line of defense will be that the prisoner
could not possibly have walked the dis
tance from Princeton Station to the place
where the body was found. committed the
murder, cut out the names from the cloth
ing and got back to the station between IL
and O'Clock
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Tariff on Sugar.

WASHINGTON; March 14th.-The Repub-
lican members of the House Illinois dele
CATION held a conference to-day-there
being but two absentees-to consider the
tariff question, so far as it relates to the
duty on sugar. The conference was an
earnest and harmonious one, and upon mo-
ton of Pavson, the following was unani-
mously adopted:
Resolved, As the Judgment Republican mem
bers of the Illinois delegation in Congress, that
in any bill to be reported by the Committee on
Ways and Means revising the present tariff,
sugar below number 10 should be admitted free
of duty.
WASHINGTON, March 14th-The Senate
committee has added the following items
to the urgent deficiency bill: Refuge sta
ton at Point Barrow, $4,000; Courthouse
at Leavenworth, Kas., 81, ,359i publication
of official war records, S50, 900; boats, furni-
ture, etc., for new cruisers, $50, 600; free
bath house at Arkansas Hot Springs, Ark,
S3. 200; agricultural experiment stations in
Arizona. New Mexico and Utah, $4,000;
SURVEYS to locate sites OF artesiau wells,
$50 600. Senate contingent fund for pay of
new Senators and Senate investigations,
etc, STA 200.
Circuit Court of Appeals.
ASHIAGION. lhdICn 1tLu.-Oe4IdlOl
gins bill. introduced to-day in the Senate
10 establish Circuit Court of Appeals, pro-
vides that the Court shall consist of three
Judges, who shall receive salary OF $1,000
wear, and the terms of Court are to be
held in several judicial districts. It shall
have final jurisdiction of all cases arising
in District and Circuit Courts, except where
constitutional questions are involved, and
in cases of patents and copyright, when
review of the whole controversy may be
had by the Supreme Court.
Court-martEal.
WASHINGTON, March 14th.-The House
! Committee on Military Affairs has ordered
favorable report upon the Senate bill to
amend the one hundred and third article
| of war so as to prohibit trial by Court
martial of persons who deserted in time of
peace more than two years before his ar
raignment, provided that this limitation
shall not begin until the end Of his term Of
enlistment.
WASHINGTON, March 14th.-The House
! Committee on Elections to-day heard the
argument upon the contested election case
Of Miller VS.. Elliott, from the Seventh Dis.
trict of South Carolina. The contestant
was represented by Dudley and Wheeler,
/ Wnhe EpPd hUAteh aPpedfSu 4Of ine ooA-
testee.
Expenses of the Marine Conference.
WASHINGTON, March 14th. - Secretary
Window to-day transmitted to the Senate
q letter from Secretary Blaine, asking fol
an additional appropriation of SO 600 tC
meet the expenses of the international
Marine Conference. The original appro
priation was $1,000.
They VIII Be Eloquent.
WASHINGTON, March 14ih.-The eulogie:
on the late William P. Kelley, which vii
take place at 2 O'Clock tomorrow afternoon
promise TO form striking tribute to th,
dead statesman
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siberian CrueIties,

BERLIN, March 14th.-Dispatches from
Tomsk, the central Siberian depot for pris-
oners, say that the prison now holds 400
healthy and 275 sick exiles but that in
1856 the number of exiles brought to the
prison was 161S4. In 1887 the arrivals
numbered 14277, and in 1855 there were
1905, and in 1888, up to September, over
1000. Of these prisoners most of them
were taken to the interior. An official re-
port declares that owing TO lack of room
hundreds of sick beds had to be placed in
the open air, while the temperature was as
low as six degrees, and in consequence of
this exposure the mortality was enormous.
England's Statesmen.
LONDON, March 14th.-In the House of
Lords oday, Lord Salisbury gave notice of
motion approving the report of the Par
nell Commission, and thanking the judges
for their just and impartial conduct.
In the Commons, Secretary Ferguson re-
fused to reply to questions regarding the
Behring Sea negotiations until he should
be able to give information without detri-
ment to the negotiations. A motion by
Trevelyan that Parliament shall adjourn
in July and hold winter session was re-
jected.
News from Mexico.
CRY OF MEXICO, March 14th.-The Of
feja5 Gazette publishes some correspond
ence with tie United States Government
about the Apaches in which Mexico pro-
tests agsinsts the Apaches being liberated
near the frontier, and Secretary Blaine
promises to study the question.
The statement of Louis Huller that Ger
many would lend $50 000 600 to pay rail-
road subsidies is ridiculed here as the Mex
ican Government is able 10 pay the subsidies
without loan.
Cover Successful.
LONDON. March 14th.-The election at
Stoke-on Trent, to fill the vacancy in the
Commons by the resignation Of Latham
Bright, came off to day. G. Leveson
Cover, Liberal defeated W. Shepard
Allen, Liberal Unionist, by 1,231 majority.
Clerical Support Needed.
BERLIN. March l4,h.-It is stated that
Bismarck has asked Windthorst, the cleri-
cal leader, to give his support to the start
ling financial and military proposals which
the Government will soon lay before the
Reiehstag.
Confidence in Tisza.
VIENNA, March 14th.-The ORciaI Ga
sette published the Emperors autograph let
ter accepting the resignation of Tisza. The
Emperor conveys to the retiring Minister
his expression Of highest esteem and conf
dence
Bombarded by the French.
PARIS, March l4th.-The French gun
boat Emersde bombarded Abomey, the
capital of Dshomey. and Kalary. The
Dahomians were panic stricken by the at
tacks.
Stanley's Return.
LONDON, March I4th.-Stanley win arrive
April 25th. He lectures at Albert Hall on
May 9th. Emin has accepted an invitation
to visit London.
Defaulter.
LONDON, March 14lh.-Herr Vetter, Bank
Treasurer Of Bremen, has been arrested for
embezzling $l75,000 Of the funds OF the
Another Strike.
LONDON, March l4Th-Twenty thousand
engineers in northeastern England have
organized a strike for shorter hours.
Disastrous Flood in Australia.
LONDON March Brisbane, Aus
tralia, is flooded. Damage, s., 500. 600.
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FRESNO VINEYARDS.
An Oakland Syndicate Buys One and
Gets Right to Work.

An Oakland Syndicate Buys One and
Gets Right to Work.
FRESNO, March 14th.-On Tuesday last
an Oakland syndicate consisting Of DR..
Merritt. and others, purchased go acres of
the RichlsDd Tract, one of the finest bodies
of land in Fresno county. The tract joins
Buffers famous vineyard on the east
The consideration was $3.50 per acre. AL
though the company have been in posses
sion of the land but few days there are
eighty teams and large force of men en-
gagged in preparing the soil for the plant
ing of vineyard. Every acre viii be
planted to vines, and no expense spared to
accomplish that purpose at the earliest pos
sible moment. The weather has at last
settled down to the genuine California arti-
Gle. The plains are covered with wild
flowers, and everywhere the farmers are
very busy planting vineyards and plowing.
The prospects were never better for most
prosperous year in fruits and grapes.
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The Cabinet Resigns Because of the Sem
ate's Action.

The Cabinet Resigns Because of the Sem
ate's Action.
PARIS March 14th-The adverse action
OF the Senate yesterday on Prime Minister
Firard's demand for the adoption of the
order of the day when the matter of COM
mereial treaty with Turkey was brought
up, has caused the downfall of the entire
Ministry. An Interpolation had been SUBJ
mitted during Yesterdays sitting regarding
the treaty, and IN response to this Tirard
moved the adoption of the order of the day.
The Senate, by a majority of seventy
eight, refused 10 adopt the motion.
Tirard then rendered his resignation to
the President, bat the latter persuaded him
to remain in Office until after Easter.
A Cabinet meeting was held to-day. at
which Tirard reeonsidered his determina-
ton to remain, and after the meeting was
over he rendered the designations of all the
members of the Cabinet.
De Freycinet will probably form new
Ministry
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WASHINGTON CULLINGS.
The Race Problem Brought Up in the
Stnate.
GEN. FREMONT,S RETIREMENT.
Eulogizing a Dead Statesman-Vig-
orous Discussion Over a
Pension Bill.
GEN. FREMoNT,s RETIREMENT.
ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REcoRD-unOs.l
AN ExTINGUIsHER.
Speaker Reed is Presented with a Testi
monial from Maine.

Speaker Reed is Presented with Testi-
monial from Maine.
WASHINGTON, March 14th.-SDeakerR Reed
has been presented by the Young Mems
Republican Club of Portland, Me-, with q
solid silver candle extinguisher, in the
shape of a cone of gigantic size. 1t is four
and one-half or i've inches high as il
stands on the Speakers table. The sur
face of the cone is elegantly engraved with
an historical picture representing the vic
tory of the Speaker over obstruction, and
with appropriate inscriptions. In the pict-
ure an aged dame, representing the Demo-
cratic party, is industriously blowing with
bellows, labeled Springer Mouth
piece" fire fed by faggots labeled "Ob-
struction of Public Business" and Fill
buster" Just as the old lady gets the tire
blazing well, Speaker Reed ian unmistak-
able hkeness) steps up and puts over the
fire a conical extlnguisher labeled Com
mon Sense" On the other side OF the cone,
opposite this engraving, is the inscription,
Presented to Speaker Reed by the Young
Mems Republican Club of Portland, Maine" "
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sILvERwARE uNEARrHED.
One of General BidweIls PIowmen Makes
Find

CHICO, March 14th.-A workman by the
name of Reidel, on the Rancho Chico,
while plowing in a field near town this
morning unearthed a large quantity OF
buried silverware. consisting OF a teapot,
water pitcher, sugar bowl. napkin rings,
spoons, forks, knives, salver, etc. They
were considerably taTnished by damp and
dirt and showed evidences of being in the
ground number of years.
This find is valuable. The owner has
not yet been found. 1t is supposed that il
is the property planted by a burglar who
intended returning for his booty, bur was
frightened away from town.
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SENSATION BREWING.
Mayor Grant May be Indicted by the
Grand jury.

Grand jury.
New YORK, March 15th.-According to
the Horld this morning, a rumor was cur
rent yesterday that the present investiga-
ton of Ludlow street jail affairs by the
Grand Jury is reaching out in an extraor-
dinary fashion, and the outcome Of the
whole affair will be an Indictment of
Mayor Grant for alleged collection of illegal
fees while he was Sheriff
The rumor is received seriously in some
quarters, owing to the recognized attitude
ofthe Mayor towards the District Attorney s
Office, which is in charge of the opposing
faction, and the District Attorneys Office
towards the Mayor. The District Attorney
refuses to talk of the matter.
Mayor Grant last evening said: 81 have
never taken any illegal fees while in the
Sheriffs Office or any other Office"
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Bears and wolves have become such a
nuisance this winter in the Department of
Orel, in Russia, that the military have
been asked to turn in and help hunt them.
They have invaded the farms almost
nightly and carried off cattle from the
farms.
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CONGRESSIONAL.
N The SENATE.

WASHINGTON, March l4th.-In the Senate,
after the consideration of a number OF public
building and other measures, Hale, Hom the
Committee on Appropriations, reported the
urgency deficiency bill. and said he would call
1t up for action next Monday.
The Blair educational bill was then taken up
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UNION PACIFIC GRANTS.
Secretary Noble Says He Has Not Com
nIeted His Investigation.

WASHINGTON, March 14th.-In response
to the Senate resolution calling upon the
Secretary of the Interior for report as 10
the cause of withholding patents for lands
within the limits of the Union Pacific
grant which are free from claims and not
reserved at the date of the definite location
of the company's road, Secretary Noble
saws he is still considering the questions as
to these lands as to whether they are free
from all claims and not reserved, and other
Questions of law and fact in connection
with the grant. These questions, the Sec
retary saws, are of more than ordinary i'm
portance, and he has not yet been able to
complete the inquiry.
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LIVE STOCK RATES.
A Reduction in Them Would Not Work
Satisfactorily.

SIOUX CRY, March 14th.-Messrs. Morri-
son and Veasey of the Interstate Commerce
Commission arrived here this morning and
had hearing at which number of lead
ing jobbers and packers testified. The
principal subject discussed was the rates in
live stock and packing-house products.
The Commissioners emphatieally expressed
the opinion that the present relation be-
tween the live stock and packing-house
producers ought not to be disturbed, and
that q reduction of rates on live stock
would destroy or seriously and unjustly
iniure the Western packing ceuters. The
Commissioners will leave here tomorrow
for Omaha.
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ENGLAND's DIAGNOSIS.
DakOta's and California,s Destitution
Pointed AT.

Pointed AT.
LONDON, March 14th.-The Evening Post
calls attention to the destitution in parts of
Dakota and the cry of the UNEMPLOYED
laborers in San Francisco, as proofs that
emigration TO the United States is over for
the time being; that best untitled farming
lands are in the possession of spectators,
and, in the case of the California troubles,
that wages in the United States, notwith-
standing the artificial bolsteriDg of dema-
goguss, will soon be nearly, if not quite, on
level with those paid in Europe Aus
ualia, the Post adds, lis going through the
same experience"
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Richard Dawes, Second Baron of the Ex-
chequer. Division of the High Court of
Justice in Ireland, is dead.
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the river is from five to seven miles wide
LEvEEs STRENGTHENED,


NEW ORLEANS, March 14th-A dispatch
from Greenyille, Miss, late tonight, says
the situation there is much improved and
that the weak spots in the leyee have been
strengthened SO that the fear of breaks is
much lessened. The Arkansas levees op-
posite Greenville are also all right.
DESTRUCTION TO STOCK.
MEMPHIS, March 14th.-A correspondent
of the appeal telegraphs from Arkansas
City that the condition of the levees be-
tween Memphis and that place are not
alarming. The circle of the river back of
Laconia, he says, will break before Tues
day next. There are 1000 people living
inside the circle, nine-tenths of whom are
negroes.
The destruction to stock and other prop
erty will be enormous.
The levees on the Arkansas river are
washing aWaY,
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Freight Train pitched.

DALLEs Tor J. March 14th-This morning
about l o'clock the engine of the freight
tram was ditehed two miles west of Blalock,
the rails spreading from the tracks George
Baker, engineer. was badly scslded in the
face, arms and breast; J. J. Burns, brake
man. had leg sprsined; A. Carsiens, fire.
man, had an eye injured. 4 train East
bound. with two locomotives was ahead.
The first engine passed the obstruction
safely. The second one was thrown on the
side. The brakeman and fireman jumped,
but the engineer was imprisoned in the cab
with the hot steam pouring over him until
released. The injured were brought to this
city II is expected Baker will be taken to
the hospital at Portland. His injuries are
very serious.
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NO NtsseIs i IOII LuIUFe ATIISIns, ftV @No"
York.
New YORK, March 14th.-The agent of
the Guion line to-day received a cable dis
patch stating that the Arizona would not
sail from Liverpool on account of the
strike among the stevedores, which affects
all steamers sailing from Liverpool. 1t is
thought the strike will extend all over the
British Isles, if not the whole of Europe
All engagements for freight have been de-
clared off, and passage tickets called in.
The Guion line has not bad a ship in here
for two weeks. The Inman lines ship,
City of Paris, which arrived Wednesday,
had hard work to get out of Liverpool.
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Train at Tacoma.

TACOMA WASH. March 14th.-George
Francis Train arrived here this afternoon
and was received by an immense throng Of
citizens, headed By the Mayor. A heavy
rain was falling, which interiered with the
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Tn FOREIGN LANDS.
The French Cabinet Steps Down and
Out Of Office.
TIE TURKISH TREATY THE CAUSE.
England Points at San Francisco's
Unemployed and MoraIizes-
The BenwelI Murder.
IN FOREIGN LANDS.
TIE TURKISH TREATY THE CAUSE.
FRENCH CRISIS.

ESPECIAL DISPATCHES TO THE REooRD-uMos.l