Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-05-11

duration can prevent tremendous
damage.
GRAND RAPIDS, May ll.-Dcer
Lake, near Reed City, hundred
miles north has telephoned this city
for aid and a steamer has gone. For
ests are blaze and the Oysterhout
& Fox's immense lumber yards, with
$3.50, 600 worth Of lumber is suround-
ed by fire.
FOUND DYING.
WALLA WALLA, May ll.-At
midnight Saturday night Coroner
Y. G. Blalock received telegram
from Touchet station, twenty miles
west Of this city, on the Union Pa
clic, announcing that an unknown
man had been lying on the ground
fourteen miles north Of that place,
with bullet hole in his head, and
was in a dying condition. 1t has
been ascertained that the man was
Henry Helleny, German. When
found there was large hole in his
head. A pistol was lying at his feet
He was alive when found, but died
Sunday morning at o'clock. An
inquest will be held today. 1t If
supposed the man committed sui
eide, but no further particulars have
been obtained yet.
THE TRANSIT OF MERCURY.
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE OBJ
servation at the naval observatory
of the transit of Mercury, Saturday
evening was very satisfactory, SO far
as it went. The sun was too fai
down en- the horizon to permit of
complete observation. 1t was scarce
Iva degree and half above the hills
back of Fort Meyer when the first
contact occurred, and by the time
Mercury had got half way across
the big disk 1t had droppred out of
sight in the West. The officials and
astronomers at the observatory are
very jubilant over having seen even
portion of the transit. Had It oC-
Cured two or three days earlier 1t
would have been impossible to have
seen 1t.
New YORK, May 1.-THE transit
of Mercury was not visible In New
York. Smoke obscured the sun.
LICK OBSERVATORY, CAL, May II
The transit of Mercury was sue
cessfully observed here, and many
photographs were taken.
OIL WELLS BURNED,
OIL City, Pa, May ia mes.
sage just received form Superinten'
dent Strong, of the Oil City Fuel
company, from Pine Groye says:
"Thus far thirteen wells have burned
and the fire is still burning" The
Fuel company is In receipt of mes
sage today from Elk and Clearfield
counties announcing serious forest
fires which are spreading.
NEGLECTED EXHIBITION.
HALIFAX, N. s., May 1l.-Adam
s. Brown, Canadian commissioner
TO the Jamaica exhibition, has re-
turned from Kingston, Jamaica,
and reports the exhibition a great
success in everything but its finan-
ces. Brown says the people of ia
malca feel very sore over the neglect
of the United States, with which
country the largest part Of the trade
of the island is done, to take part in
the exhibition.
SUPREME COURT DECISION.
WASHINGTON, May IL. IT he
United States supreme court today
decided the case involving the con.
stltutlonalIty aud validity of the
law Of Pennsylvania taxing Pull
man Palace Car Company, on the
basis proportlonate TO the number
of miles Of railroad within the state
over which the company's cars run,
with the number Of miles
of railroad In the United States,
over which their cars run, The
court holds the law is constitutional
and not In violation OF the inter
state commerce law. The court also
has decided Ia the same way la a
case from Massachusetts,, involving
practically the same question ap-
piled 10 the lines OF the Western
Union Telegraph Co., in Massa.
chusetts.
DEMAND SUNDAY CLOSING.
KANSAS CITY, May ll,--In the
Y. Nj. g. A. convention Saturday