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in Minnesota, Wisconsin and the Da-
kotas
A bill in the interest of prize fight
ing was killed in the Arkansas House
last Saturday.
The average salary of the 600 rail-
road presidents in this country is
81, 900 each.
Two hundred acres have been plant
ed in carrots in the vicinity of Crys-
tai Springs, Miss.
Ebert county. Ga, has had 26
murders in as many months and not
a single conviction.
Three fires, two of them incendiary,
occurred at Pargoud, Ark within "a
hours, during last week.
One day last week a Georgia farmer
sold a Rome merchant I'll dozen
eggs at ten cents per dozen.
Floods did heavy damage in Wis
consin, Nebsaska, Michigan, New
York, Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
Wheat in Missouri has suffered
much from cold weather, and the
crop will no doubt be the shortest
for years.
The Governor of California has
signed the bill recently passed by the
Legislature prohibiting prize fights in
that State.
Thirteen Tennessee convicts, II of
them negroes, escaped from the mines
at Tracy City last Thursday by over
towering the guards.
Gov. Peter Turney, of Tennessee,
who was inaugurated in a sick bed in
January, has suffered relapse, and
his recovery is dispaired of.
There was cyclone at Caldwell
Texas, On Wednesday night of last
week, and the Methodist church and
several small houses were blown to
pieces.
Boston's 81, 100000 fire last Friday
ragged for four hours and burned over
an entire square. Three persons are
known to have been killed and some
thirty were injured.
Secretary Of the Treasury Carlisle
has accepted the offer of the Denver
clearing house to exchange 100000
in gold for $1,OOO,OOO of treasury
notes of the Issue of 1890.
The Illinois and Fox rivers were
filed with ice and overlooking THEN
banks. The electric light plant al
La Sale, Ill, was flooded and the city
was in darkness Thursday night.
Mrs. Edward Woods and foul
children attempted to cross Cedar
Creek at Glensville, near Rome, Ga,
last Thursday, and all were drowned
The creek was swollen from recent
rains.
The freshet in the Hudson river i!
the highest since 1883. The lowe
part of the city of Albany. New York
was under water last Monday. The
flood rose about one foot an houl
during Sunday night.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-16

Are you oppressed by the hard
times? What are doing to better
the situation ?-Cumberland Presby-
trian.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-16
Louisiana School Fund.

Baton Ronge, March S.-The fol-
ing is the March apportionment OF
the current school fund for the re-
spective parishes:
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-16

The New York divorce courts put
asunder about five couples per day.
The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1893-03-16

Hamilton News: When q man is
through his days work and sitting
down testing in his home, he cannot
read the advertisements on the fences,
and the hand bills that were left Oh
his door steps have blown away or
been destroyed. He calls for the
paper, and there he finds the mer-
clients announcements, and with
nothing to bother his mind he reads
it carefully and calls his wife's atten-
ton to it, and they decide to see the
merchants and examine what is aG-
vertised.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-17

weekly average, as will be seen, would be
$500. 'Ihe average theatrical season is
forty weeks. The entire 1000 companies,
with average nightly receipts of $500,
would produce weekly receipts at seven per-
formances persweek amounting to 81, 500, 200.
This multiplied by forty. the number of
weeks in a season, would yield gross receipts
amounting to SIP, DOC, 900. From the above
estimates some idea can be formed of what
the American people spend annually for
arnusements by companies which are known
as strictly professional. Thousands of dol
lars are also spent with amateur theatrical
organizations and lecture bureaus.
1t has been understood that in the first
symphonic composition TO which DIR. Dvorak
would give birth in America he would
illustrate in a measure the theories he had
advanced in regard to national thought and
color in music. The opus is now finished
and was played for the first time by the New
YORK philharmonic society at the concerts
Friday afternoon ana Saturday evening.
The descriptive text of the program an
nounces that in this symphony the distln-
guished composer offers an object lesson in
confirmation Of his theory Of the influence
of national and racial peculiarities in music.
ana in support of his claim that in Indian
and negro melodies there was to be
found the essence which would vitalize
American music. Thu program says that
DIR. Dvorak made q study of these melodies
and, identifying himself with their spirit,
'made their essential contents, not their
formal external traits, his own" 1t con-
tinues as follows: "While the contents of
the symphony have been suggested by In
dian and negro melodies, the symphony
form has been carefully observed. The COM
poser has created a work in accord with the
laws Of the highest type of music, but in the
spirit and moods to which these melodies
gave rise. The second and third movements
were written under the influence of Lougfei-
lows THE Song of Uiawatha,' for which the
composer had a profound admiration"
The performance of this work, which the
composer has ittingly termed "From the
New World I" will be one of the most inter
esting occurrences of which there is a record
in the sphere of music. 1t will have the sci
entihc value of proving to what extent en-.
vironnent controls temperament.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-17
TaE THEATEnS.

Edwin Milton Royle, the author OF
'FrIends," the comody.drama now playing
at the Boyd, spent hisivacation two summers
ago on his brothers cattle ranch in Utah,
and says he discovered a most remarkable
young man among the Indian herders on the
ranch. The phenomenon's name is Tab
wana, a son Of the old peace chief of the
Utes. Mr.. Royle taught the young Ute to
recite portions of "OtDello,' aud he how
30 much talent that he believes the young
savage will create a sensation in o play
which he is writing for him. Another season
will probably add q full FLOODED Indian TO
the list OF stars. This Is the author-actor's
first visit to Omaha with a company of his
own, and now that Friends" has pa we'd the
way for him so magniicently il is pretty
certain that our theater 1goers will be privi-
legged with witnessing more OF his work as
q dramatist and also more OF that OF his
company in portraying 1t. TIT present
engagement closes This Sunday evening AT
the Boyd.
"The Queen of Sheba," Rhea's new play,
which will be presented at Boyd's Wednes-
day, December 90, the second night of the
engagement, IS one of her greatest successes.
According to Oriental tradition King Solo
mon possessed such rare wisdom and intelli-
gence as 10 enable HIM TO control certain
supernatural powers and agencies, Among
these were the Jinns or working demons, who
were employed to transport and put in place
the huge stones OF the temple, which were
hern and prepared in distant quarries under
the direction OF Hiram Of Tyre. When the
queen OF Sheba mad started on her journey
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-17

the nations credit largely depends. Will
they remem Der that the more they buy home
manufactures the less heir fstheriand will
be in debt ard the better on WIFI DC our
populatioui Those who rail at woman's ex-
travagance In one breath white denounciug
In another their STUDY OF political economy,
fail TO realize that want OF thought makes
havoc with the family purse.
Patriotism Abroad.
When last in Europe | imported American
satin, determined 10 practice what l preach,
a performance OF such difficulty apparently
as rarely TO be attempted. went so far as
to prevail upon Worth TO make up TINS
material, though IL Is against his rules to
expend his taste on foreign fabrics. The re-
suit was a beautiful costume, yet it well
nigh required a surgical operation
the satin was American. lis 1t
possible!" I'D no idea such good looking
satin could be made in this
country Docs IL wearf' Are you
quito sure II is pure silkl' were the usual
EXPLANATIONS and questions. Bless their ig-
norant souls, women don't realize that Eu-
ropean black silk has been deteriorating so
rapidly as TO greatly help its successful pro-
duction in the United States. Our manufac.
turcrs take q foreign silk, find out its weak
nesses and improve upon il, while women
buy the imported article compiacently, be-
lleying that they show superior taste and
acumcn.
unfortunately there is much snobblshness
among well-to-do Americans, proving that
the old provincial feeling has not yet been
outPrown. 1t is unworthy of a great nation,
and until our women become disabused OF
the idea that they must go abroad for every
thing, from bonnets to wines, we need not
boast OF American independence.
Now then, my sisters, will you mend your
ways in shoppingl Instead of asking for
importations you will ask for home made
goods, and when merchants say they DO not
keep them will you seek such merchants as
doR Only a few days ago l heard of a prom
iuent citizen of Chicago who transferred his
custom to a tailor who was willing to make
up American material. Follow the example
of this patriot, dear sisters, and you will do
more toward restoring confidence among our
manufacturers than all the Hobbies aud
prayers and petitions against the new tariff
bill that ever were dreamed of.
What Is your answer, my ~sistersH
Kate FIELD.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-17
LOUH|lLLE'S DIRE DISASTER
Full Effect of the Falling of the Bridge Span
Now Known.
SIX KILLED AND SEVENTEEN ARE MISSING
many OF the Bodies Likely to Have Been
Carried a Long Way Down the
River-Heavy Loss to
Bridge Company.
SIX KILLED AND SEVENTEEN ARE MISSING

LOUISVILLE, KY, Dec. 16.-At the scene
OF yester' ly's bridge disaster everything is
pustle and confusion this morning. General
Foreman Mckee has a large force Of men at
work taking out the dead as rapidly as pos
siole. The iron and timbers that cover the
plllng are ton feet high. The general inn
preston prevails that most Of the missing
poules were in the water, and probably are
down over the falls. Should this be tho
case, II they do not find lodg ement on the
island or at the Portland dixie. they may be-
recovered miles down the river.
AS was stated last night, there were no
lives lost when the second span went down
at S;2?,. The only person that was near it
when IL collapsed was the Waterman and he
LETT IL a short time before IL fell. The span
was 300 feet long and the iron work was
elghty-four feet high. The entire network
or iron and steel now lies upon the bottom of
the river, forty feet below the surface.
Coroner McCommaugh will make an i'm
mediate investigation. The coroner at JEFF
iersonville IS to attend to the two cases at
Jefferson vile.
Frank Miller OF Buffalo, N, Y, is also
among the dead bodies reco yered ana George
Lacomptes is added TO the missing. The list
now stands six dead, sixteen injured and
seventeen missing.
Mr. NJ. j. Milliken, superintendent of COLI
strutcion for the company, SAYS: 'Ihe wind
oluit. we always contemplate wind pressure
ana brace for IT apart from the support OF
lead line. But this gale was too much for
US, j have no ldea when the work will be
resumed We shall care FOR the lead and
dying before going further"
Superintendent Kirby of the Bridge COM
pany said; The last span that fell was
weakened by the fall of the other and the
gust OF heavy wind did the rest. OF course
| cannot tell how great the damage is and
how much can be saved, but we will manage
10 got a deal OF 10 all right
The loss to the bridge company is esti-
mated at 100000, outside OF loss Incurred
for insurance on the dead men. Most of
them had their lives insured for various
amounts.
Reports from the hospital state the in.
iured men are doing well. They have been
given a whole ward in the west part of the
city hospital. No more deaths have occurred
up to 1890 ., m, and no more bodies have
been taken from the wreck.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-17

-
The Fifteenth Street theater,
ing a three nights engagement next Thurs
day hight will introduce an old favorite in n
new dress, no less a parsonage than the
charming Lottle Collins. Miss Collins is an
English girl, who has made an enormous
success with American audiences both by
her singing and dancing. Last season she
MADE AN enormous success in that peculiar
speciality, ''Ta-ra-ra-boom-de-ay," but it was
not 50 much her singing as the manner in
which she sang. She is the most graceful
and accomplished dancer, has an agreeable
voice, ana this year she sings a new song
called marguerite" and has a new dance
that Is known as the rainbow dance.
Her support is the New Howard Athe-
naeum company, which bears the reputa
ton, and has always deserved il, of being
the hest vaudeville entertainment ever pre-
Sented IN this or any other country.
vaudeville has become exceedingly fash
ionable within the last two or three sea
sons, and it is due to this fact that Miss Col
Inns has chosen that form of entertainment
to ill in the evening when she is not hpon
the stage, and her wisdom in this particular
has been proven by the large audiences
she has drawn to her entertainments and
the exceedingly fashionable color of these
assemblageS
The most fashionable audiences turn out
to see the famous "Ia-ra "a ra" Lottie Collins
and her ompany of vaudeville artists. Lot
tie Collins is of course the attraction. She
appears In q musical sketch bearing the
title OF The Naughty Substitute" The
ta-ra-ra blonde wig and scarlet dress disap.
pear and Miss Collins dances on the stage In
a gown, the variegated hues of which would
make American rainbows ~envious. AS
Dolly Capers she takes a part in the pol.
ished lIttle duo with Baritone Albert Chris
tian, which is capitally sung and acted.
Miss Collins also introduces her UNIQUE
specialties and her latest London furore,
Marguerite" said to outclipse her famous
''la-ra-ra." Take it ali in all, 1t will be one
of the most enjoyable entertainments seen
here in a long time, as every performer in
the company IS an artist and the highest sal
aried people in Europe.
The AVOIDS in musical numbers-xylo
phones and limitations of musical instru-
ments-contribute an enjoyable portion of
the program, and Messrs. Conroy and Fox as
the Irish sketch team are irresistible. Their
Jokes are now, and they keep the audience
in a roar throughout their act. Miss Katie
Cohen is a mezzo-s soprano with a pleasing
ana effective voice, and Lizzie and Albert
Atlas sang pretty duets, but their dancing
is the feature of the 'act.n Severus Schaf-
fer, equilibrist, Is certainly a master of his
profession. The entertainment concludes
with an amusing exposition of the POSSIBLE
ties in shadow work.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-17
SOUTH BUFFALO FLOODED.
Five Square Miles OF that Ciiy Under Water
Thousand People Homeless.

BUFFALO, N. Y, Dec. 10. South Buffalo
has been visited by a disastrous food. A
large section of that part of the city has
been covered with water TO the depth Of
several feet. 1t IS estimated that 1000 peo.
pie ave been driven from their homes on
account of the flood.
The heavy rain, melting snow and
high lake winds have caused Buff
falo river and Casanova creek to
overflow their banks. The flooded district
extends from the intersection of Elk and
Essecna streets and then westward to the
Lehigh Valley bridge. a distance OF a mile
and a half, and thence south ward about two
miles to the creeK.
A total area Of five square miles Is under
water and the money loss will be very neavy.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-17
MET BIZ ARMED NEGROES.
sherin's Officers O-verpoyyered and Serious
Race Trouble Threatened,

Race Trouble Threatened.
BIRMINGHAM, Ala, Dec. 10. Race trouble
is threatened in ST. Clair county. Two of.
fcers went to levy an attachment on Jake
Adams, colored. They got the mule and
were returning TO Asheyille when twenty
tye armed negroes stopped them and COM
PEELED them to give up the mule. A warrant
has been sworn out for the arrest of tho
negroes. IL Is said an attempt 10 arrest
them VIII be met with bloodshed. An armed
posse left Asheville late last night TO serve
the warrants and have not been heard from
yer.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-17
Orchestra for an Apollo Concert.

The orchestra for the Apollo Club concert
Monday evening will be the best ever heard
here composed of home talent exclusively.
The personnel is as follows:
Niolins -. 80. Messrs. Butler, Heck, Nordlne
..... lSSlnS
Viola Mr.. Saurwein
Altos ........ Messrs. Foebringer and Litowsky
MessrS. Pierce and Metz
Flute .......... .................. Mr.. Peterson
Clarinettes. =. Messrs. Huebuerd and Borghoff
Horns. 80. ........ Messrs. Borghoff and Eggers
CCnullhe
Tympani. ......... ..................M Mr.. Barnes
The work for the orchestra is very beauti-
full, the introduction and intermezzo being
especially fine.
Omaha daily bee., 1893-12-17

hero, Jack Manley, is played by that
forceful young actor, Viii, S. Harkins, who
has played the part for several seasons, ana
played it well.
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Number AZ

wages due the employees and the,
vast mass of receivers certificates
which have been issued from time
to time for years. This would
mean only about ten cents on the
dollar to the men on their back.
pay.
Tha amployes are anything but
satisfied at the outlook as may now
be expected. They had meeting
at Yaquina and also at Albany =,
and on Sunday special was run
from Albany ta Yaquina and the
employees held a meeting at the
latter place on Sunday, at which
time a committe OF FIVE was ap'
pointed to go aud consult Judge
Fullerton and see what can be done
for them. The committee left or
Sunday,
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The 0. r. Sale.

The long expected sale OF the
Oregon Pacific road at the hands
of the sheriff of Benton county took
place at Corvallis last Friday. Az
the appointed time, Sheriff Osborne
read the notice of sale, and an.
nounced that the sale was on. AT
this time protests against the sale
were made in the interest OF the
Hogg faction, the Grant Powder
Co., and the Willamette Valley *
Coast Wagon Grant Co. After
these protests were duly read the
sheriff announced that he was ready
for bids, A painful suspense EN-
sued, which was broken by Messrs,
Clarke and Hngllas. two New York
lawyers, representing the Blair
Wharton-Hagard people who, at
ter depositing q certified check Tor
5000, 900 made q bid for tat
amount, The sheriff, after calling
the required number of times
knocks the property down to the
property down to the bidders, and
the Oregon Pacific was sold for
the paltry sum Of 100000, or at
least one sixth Of its of its actual
worth. So ended another chapter
in the drama in real life which
has been Oh the boards for some
time,
The curtain raises again at
Corvallis next Tuesday, when the
court will be asked to confirm
the sale. The great question now
is, is whether the court will so
confirm the sale, and upon this
point there are many opinions,
The men, as is stated elsewhere
are making strong efforts to pre-
vent o confirmation and protest
upon protest from other interest
ed parties are being poured in
upon Judge Fullerton to the same
, end. Should the court confirm
tee sale the men are defrauded
, out Of their money and the most
outrageous steal of the times has
been perpetrared to finish. The
, developments of next Tuesday a
. Corvallis are anxiously awaited
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Employees Left.

The sale Of the o. p. last Friday
for the pitiful sum Of 1890, 900 have
blighted the mems hopes Of secur-
ing their back pay. 1t is now
understood than the claims in order
preferred will stand something like
this: First the court expenses o.
sale; second, the due and delin'
quent taxes against the road; third
the $4,000 in receiver certificates
issued by Receiver Hadley las
spring to pay the pretended 46 pc
cent. Of back pay; and fourth, tn
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-12-21

The Ashland Record says of a
deer hunt with hounds: William
Gee, in company with James Leabo,
his brother Moab Leabo, Of the
Willamette, and Cal. and Mark
Winingham, had big deer hunt
in the famous Elk creek district
last week. With four dogs they
killed 81 deer in six days. One
day they killed "a der"
Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-12-21

Representative Bowers OF Cal
ifornia, has introduced to bill Of an
important nature. 1t is to estab'.
lish system of postal savings banks
in the United States, every first,
second and third-class Office to be a
receiving point for depositors of not
less than IS or more than $500 OH
the same day, on which funds the
government is to guarantee interest
at three per cent. per annum. AT
the request Of the depositor bonds
will be issued to him by the Secre-
tary of the treasury in the denomi'
nation Of 500, to run twenty years.
at four per cent. interest.
Mr.. Bowers said that his idea
was two-fold: First, to provide
means by which the people could
put their savings in place where
its security would be absolutely
certain; second. TO open a way for
/, the raising OF funds for the govern
I ment without resorting to methods
of taxation which would be felt by
the people.
The small savings Of the people
had always, he said, been a means
of acquiring wealth by sharp per-
sons and corporations of various
kinds. For instance, savings
bank was now an adjunct of nearly
all commercial banks, and the
former was used as dumping
y ground for all the worthless Sc
e curities Of the latter, so that il
,. some cases Of failure the depositor'
in commercial banks had received
" four times as much Of their de
er posits as had the depositors in saw
,e ings institutions that were part ane
of parcel OF them and had failed at th'
-. same time they did.
Mr.. Bowers said he did not ex
u pect the bill to pass at this session
es though he would make a sroni
st fight tor it. The Wall-street in
er terests would antagonize it, and al
J.. banking interests would join them
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Volume |.
DIRECTORY.
LINCOLN COUNTY,

TOLEDO PRECINCT
Justice OF the Peace ia. Hall
Constable A. Z. Altree
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t2AHY. General superintendent
Corvallis, oregon,
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Notice Cor Publication.
Land once at oregon CITY, Oregon,

Land once At oregon City, OfegOn,'
November 10, 1893.
NOTICE Is hereby giyeu that the following
" named settler has filed notice Of his intefi'
ton 20 make final proof il support Of his claim
and that raid proof viii be made before me
County Clerk Of Lincoln county at Toledo, ore.
ROn on January 2, ls9i, viz:
Nicholas COnstAntinr, ". v. No. $3.50,
for the northeast u Of southeast = south y Oi
southeast a, southeast II southWestI Section
~ Township - south Range II west
lie names the following witnesses 10 prove hi
continuous residence upon aud cultivation Of
said land, viz: Allen FOrd en-, Lewis SOuthwOrth
A. &. Darling :. g. Mct cary, all of WAldpOri
ROjERT A. MILLER.
Register.
The morning call., 1893-12-14
THE VAN ALIEN LETTER.

The Boston Herald says the letter Of
Van Allen declining the italian mission
is not the production Of & man who is
capable of consciously buying an office
There are several possible points of view
to the act, If which the Herald takes but
one. Van Allen may have declined the
mission for the reason that be had become
convinced that It would be unpleasant to
hold an Office that had been bought; be
may have declined to relieve the admins
tration OF the odium Of his appointment,
and be may have declined on the discovery
that il was wrong TO buy an Office. All
these views are possible, but it is not pos
sible, 10 view Of the letter of Mr.. Whitney
and tie action of two of Mr.. CleyeIsnd'e
s'anchest mugwnDp friends. that Mr.. Van
Allen did no. expect 20 be compensated
for bis $4,000 contribution with the
Italian mission.