Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-01-28
PARAGRAPHS.

Carson, Nevada, was visited with
furious wind yesterday which
blew at the rate of fifty miles an
hour.
Forty employees in Buell's planning
mill, Stockton, Cal, went out yester-
day because the proprieters de-
manded ten hours work.
Three experts are examining the
books of the secretary of the state in
the basement of the state house.
They expect to consume the entire
session of the legislature in their iu-
vestigation,
The secretary of the state has al
ready purchased $4,000 worth OF
postage stamps for use during this
session of the legislature and will
have to buy more.
The figures "33l' stood on the
penitentiary bulletin board yester-
day as the lumber of prisoners,
Arthur Cox, city marshal of East
Portland, brought up an insane pa
tient yesterday. Mr.. Cox thinks
that there is strong sentiment
against consolidation in East Port
land and Albina, but that the peo-
pie Of those suburbs are not averse
to taking a vote on the matter of
joining with the city proper.
The Northern Pacific car shops at
Brainard, Mimi, burned yesterday
with their contents, including eight
or ten coaches. Loss $4,000 to $50,
900.
Thomas J. Newman, for twenty
two years editor and owner of the
GAINESVILLE (Ohio) Courier, died yes.
terday, aged so years.
John Herman, of New York, a
retired merchant, died suddenly
yesterday from a Paralytic stroke,
while riding in Madison avenue
car. Deceased was 50 years old.
The fourth trial of Sandy Olds for
the murder of Emil Weber in May,
1889, has been set for March 10th.
The trial will be held at Hillsboro.
By the caving in of roof in a
coal mine at Amoret, Mo-, two men
were killed by the falling timbers.
Five others were buried, and it is
feared they cannot BE- rescued alive,
Senator CamerOn's vote to shelve
the elections bill has given mortal
offense to his constituents, and on
Tuesday evening the republicans of
Allegheny City burnt him in etfigy,
Jay Gould threatens to withdraw
his railroads from the New York
stock board because some officials of
the exchange criticized the engraV-
ing on the Missouri Pacific bonds,
In the Nebraska senate to-day Il
resolution was adopted favoring the
election of United States senators
by a popular vote. A resolution
congratulating Kansas on the defeat
of ingalls, was lost.
In congress the senate to-day
passed the house bill to ratify and
confirm the agreements with the
Sac and Fox Nation of Indians and
the Iowa Tribe of Indians of Okla
homa.
Troop B. of the Washington state
militia have been holding themselves
il readiness, with horses hired, to
start at Is minutes notice to quell
the hostiles. Now the trouble Is
over, the question that perpleXes
their minds is whether the state owes
them anything.
A stabbing affray occurred in
Roseburg on Sunday evening, be
tween 7. E. Smith, bartender o
that place, and stranger named
George Popp, in which Smith re
ceiyed a serious wound. Popp wa'
discharged, as he acted in self
defense,
On Meagher's island, in the Go
lumbia, two brothers named Nc
graw got into a quarrel and ont
stabbed the other three times fatally
Whisky the cause.
The State National bank Of At
Gibson, Kansas, closed its doors this
morning and will go into voluntary
liquidation. The bank has capita
stock of S25O,00O.
The deadlock in the Illinois legis'
Iature 0VsF the election Of a United
States senator, Is still unbgoken.
Mrs Flack, formerly the wife of
ex-Sheriff James A. Flack, of New
York, died on Tuesday. Herillness
dates from the day she discovered
the peFfdloqs method her husband
took to rid himself of her by a
fraudulent divorce,
The compromise entered into by
the two factions Of the Montana
legislature failed to materialize to-
day. The republicans accuse the
democrats of bad faith, and the
democrats say ths republicans want
more than their share in the points
conceded.