Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-05-07
DESERVES HANGING.

day, and the result was the indict-
ment Of DR.. Mel Martin for the ruin
Of a 13 year-old child. DIR. Martin
is the city physician and an influen-
tial local politician. Little Katie Bro
zan waa a playmate of the DOCTORS
children. Her mother bad cause to
enquire into her condition, when
she confessed and made disclosures
which led to DR.. Martins prompt
arrest. The doctor denies the story,
but the prompt action of the grand
jury certainly sayed him from the
shotgun of the girls brother.
THE BEHRING SEA.
WASHINGTON, May T. The Post
to-day says that communications
are again passing between the Unit
cd States and the British govern
ment in relation to the Behring sea
controversy, and that, in conse
quence, the dispatch of revenue cut.
tiers and treasury agents to Behrihg
sea there has been delayed, in antic
ipatlon Of an order declaring closed
season in the seal fisheries.
cAR-wHEEL WORKS BURNED.
SYDNEY, o., May TAT o'clock
yesterday the shops of the Ameri-
can Wheel Company were burned
Loss on stock, 100000. The com.
pany carried $780, 900 insurance, part
of which has lapsed. Two hundred
are thrown out of employment.
GREAT LUMBER SYNDICATE,
DUBUQUE, Ia, May 7.--All the
property of the great lumber cor
poration, the Knapp-Stout com
pany, including yards at st. Louis
and Dubuque, mills at Menominee,
Wis, several hundred thousand
acres of timber land in Wisconsin,
and a fiat of raft-boats, will be short
~ transferred to an Eastern syDdi'
cate. f.. b. Flanders, of this city,
late agent for Bredstreeps CONNER.
clal agency, several months age
secured an option on the property
for between $7,OOO,0 900 and $s, 900, ,Oe0,
w. N. Balch, of New York, pro
fesslonal English and American
promoter, has charge of the Eastern
end of the deal. He has succeeded
in floating most of the bonds, and
the transaction will be shortly con-
summated.
LEPRosY IN NEW YORK.
New YORK, May 7.-Mr. Alonzo
Blauvelt believes he has discovered
an alarming case of leprosy in big
tenement-house In Oliver street.
He reported the case to the board of
health on Tuesday, and DIR. Edison,
chief of the Bureau of Contagious
Disease, at once took the matter In
hand, aud started on a tour of IN
vestigatlon. DIR. Edison refused to
reveal the place where the supposed
leper was found, and says he will
not make all the facts In the case
public until he has completed his
investigation. II is ascertained,
however, the patient is a Greek ped
dler, who came TO this country from
Mexico only six weeks ago.
RECEIVER ASKED FOR.
Sr. PAUL, MINI, May T. Russell
Sage, OF New York, has asked that
a receiver be appointed for st. Paul,
saltwater Il Taylol's Falls railroad,
A month ago he secured Judgment
against the company for $2ll,0OO,
but United States Marshal Dun
shower returned the judgment un-
satisfied. Judge Kelly issued tenn
poray injunction restraining the
company from removing its effects
from the state, and will nexr week
hear the request for receiver
REMAINS OF J. F. SWIFT
SAN FRANCISCO Cal, May THE
steamship Belgic arrived this morn
ing from China and Japan, bringing
the remains Of late United States
Minister, John +, Swift. The cas-
ket containing the remains was
placed on Calsson drawn by xix
horses draped In black and conveyed
20 Mortuary chapel Of Trinity
church, where they will lie in
state until Sunday, the day of the
funeral.
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