Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-11
Another Damage Suit; Lake
Labish Wreck.
GRAY BEATS TIE WORLDS RECORD
Condition Of Labor, Steamship
Seized, The New Postal Treaty,
Found Drowned, Will Steel's Body
Found, Balfour on Ireland, State
and Foreign News, Etc.
noLprNa FOR A RAISE.

| IOHEh A. nus @fANN|ffrN1
president of the Farmers Alliance,
has returned from a trip through
the state. He says large amount
II wheat is being held by farmers
with the expectation that the price
will materially advance.
BEATS WORLDS RECORD.
ST. CATHARINEs. ONT, Aug IL
At the amateur athletic association
uoeting here Geo. r. Gray Of the
Vew York athletic association took
irst prize at putting the shot. He
eat tile worlds record with both
,!xteen and twenty one pound shot.
STEAMSHIP sIEzED.
SAN SALVADOR, Aug. 1.-THE
Pacific mail steamship City of Pans-
pa, Captain White, the fastest OF
The Panama fleet, has been siezed
by lhe authorities Of La Libertad,
because the vessel had left La Union
without "a premit from the officer Of
hat port. The states of Guatemala,
Nicaragua and Salvador passed laws
making IL Illegal 20 employ natives
20 load steamers at night. II is
stated fhis legislation was caused by |
he fact that the people were incensed
It the rates charged the company,
which they deemed excessive. The
company has been loading its vessels
day and night, so as to make quick
er time, to meet the subsidy fof
carrying mails. 1t is said Captain
White, In his desire, to maintain
his time schedule, left La Union
without a permit, as the authorities
insisted on lot of goods, then on
the dock, being shipped, and this
would delay him considerably. The
| United States steamer Ranger is in
these waters, and it is expected her
commander will assist in adjusting
the difficulty.
NEW POSIAB TREATY
WASHINGTON, Aug. ll.-Captain
Brooks, superintendent of foreign
mails, has just returned from vi
emma, where he was in attendance
as u delegate to the Internationa
postal convention. The principa
event of the Vienna convention wa
the admission of the Australia
= countries. They agreed to come Il
r October 1st Of this year, provide
n the international postal rates wer
Y not reduced. They claimed tina
t they could not stand the reduction
e The present rate between this cour
n try aud Australia 10 IL vvnGs, aIl
e from that country to this 9 penc
II per half ounce. This country wi
It at once reduce the rate to 3 centi
Australia may keep its rate at
cents, but 1t Is likely that 1t Will rt
, duce IL at once to cents. Anothe
A matter of interest is the change /
n the size of sample packages of me-
n chandise which may be sent throug
the mails to and from the countrie
I In the union. %he new tre9ty IL
4 creases the limit to 12X8x4 inches
almost double the old limit. Ye
, another measure Of public interes
is included In the new treaty; that
! the clause requiring each country II
, the union, after July /, 1892, to issu
: double postal card for foreign sci
vice. The double postal card will
cost cents. The writes indites hi
, message on one of these cards, put
the address on the same card, ant
mails the combination. When tn
addressee receives IL, he tears OIL th
card not written on, writes his repl
on 1t, addresses and mails IL. An
country in the union may be n
quired to forward the card, and th
country In which the double comb
nation card Is bought will receiv
free postage both ways. The ne'
; treaty, which IL to go into etle'
July, 1892, was concluded aud signe
July 4, 1891. Washington is mad
the place Of meeting,
BALFouR ON IRELAND,
LONDON, Aug. Balfour, chl'
> secretary for Ireland, In "a speec
, delivered Mt Plymouth, yesterda.
:" outlined his ideas of Irish local go
ernment, A great many membe
, Of the conservative party dislike Il
70 proposal but he argued there we
d two reasons why local governmeI
should be withheld from Irelan
N First the sentimental one because
n had already been given EnglaI
le and Scotland and second becau
Q, local government had been repes
edly promised ireland. The poll
question, Balfour continued, eaus'
alarm, he would never consent
! decentralization OF the force
handing over the local police eth
toa council or to councils in assooi
tion with the grand jury. /
further believed there would be
serious attempt by counties TO seeu
control OF 80 costly u folce, He W
IL compelled To admit he feared d
" first result of the change would
~ 20 oust the landlords nom sha
OF In the government but he truSt
aud believed us the political stor
subsldpd rs the effect Of the laI