Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1890-04-24
CONDENSED TELrGRANS.

Massachusetts protests against =
duty ON oranges. M
The floods on the lower Mississippi
continue, and suffering IL great.
Chicago pool-rooms are running,
without interference by the police.
The republican congressional eau
Gus has endorsed the Morrill, pension
bill.
1t is announced by the conductor
of the Casino at Monte Carlo, that
the winnings of the bank during
1889 were 80, 600, 900 francs.
Charley McFarlane, convicted Of
the murder oftwo railroad surveyors
in San Pete county last September
has been sentenced to the Utah pen
itentiary for life.
At Oregon City, Charles Dart
changed his plea on the indictment
for horse-stealing TO guilty, and was
sentenced to three years in the PEN
itentiary. Dart and Cummings
were taken to Salem.
The Sau Pedro hotel, San Pedro,
Cal, was burned to the ground
Wednesday morning, the guests
barely escaping with their lives.
Loss, 5000; insurance, $1,000.
J. Med. Cromars, agent at Ed.
monston, Canada, OF the Peoples
bank of Halifax, who left the
country with $4,000 belonging to
the bank, has been captured at Sand
Beach, Mich. He will return
voluntarily for trial.
Hon. Francis Dana Stedman
died in Boston Wednesday, aged SO
years. Stedman was the last sur
viving grandson of William Ellery,
of the signers of the Declaration of
Independence, and son of Hon.
VIM. Stedman.
The Pennsylvania railroad state
ment for March, shows an increase
of S6S, III in the net earnings over
March 1889. For the first three
months of 1890, the net earnings
have increased S2S7,ll0 over the
same period Of 1889.
At Il late meeting Of the stock
holders of the Portland Savings
bank it was. decided 10 increase the
capital stock of the bank from Sl25,-
600 to $26OiOOO. This with a surplus
of $4,000 which the concern has,
will make it a solid institution.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 23.-Presi-
dent Fuda this morning telegraph.
ed John l.. Sullivan as follows
"The California CLUB has voted a
$40, 900 purse for yourself ami Jack
son. Do you accept" The colored
champion was sent saimiiar mes
sage.
CHICAGO, April 23,-The fact that
the California Athletic club had
agreed on $4,000 purse was tele-
graphed Peter Jackson to-day, and
the answer came back promptly:
II accebt those terms" Sullivan's
answer is now awaited.
An Eastern Oregon man says that
John Nutting, brother of George
Mating, who disappeared in Crook
county several years ago, and was
supposed to have been murdered,
has also disappeared and fears are
entertained that he too may have
been victim of foul play.
Texas has "a great flood. ContIn-
uous rains have fallen for three days
past, The rivers and bayous in
many places are over their banks,
bridges swept away and travel de-
layed. A great deal of stock in the
lowlands has been drow ned, but no
loss Of life is yet reported.
The excursion of pioneers from
New England, $50 stroug, are at
San Diego. They start north on a
special. The argonauts of early
days are lost in wonder at times
changes. ave laid the cornerstone
and you built the edifice," is their
boast. About sixty members of the
party were here in ls49.
The Nottinghamshire miners,
comprising the constituency of John
Edward Ellis, Gladstonian member
of parliament for Rushclitfe, have
served notice on that gentleman that
unless ne will give his unqualified
support to the movement for
general working day of eight hours
they will consider that he has for
feited their confidence. He has not
replied TO the notice.
A special London cable says:
There are rumors in shipping circles
to the effect that an attempt is being
made 20 create a corner in grain. IL