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IN THE HANDS OF A RECEIVER.

Denver, April 9.-The United Coal
Company, with s1,OOOOOO capital, was
placed in the hands of a receiver to-
day, on the application Of the German
National bank. creditor for $4,000.
The bank charges General Manager
James Cannon, jr., with mismanaging
the company's affairs and with mis-
SO, ass.
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sToRM IN BOSTON.

Boston, April 9.-Not until this after
noon did the storm which ragged in this
city and vicinity since Sunday clear
up. Since last night It has showed con-
tinuously, but 1t melted as fast as Il fell
and there is now not more than three
inches Of snow on the ground. The
telegraph and telephone systems in all
directions have been badly crippled. A
large fleet Of storm-bound vessels are
in the harbor.
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REpUcTIoN or 1NrEREsT.

San Francisco. April &C. p. Hunt
ington has instructed the land depart
ment Of the Central Pacific Railroad
Company to reduce the rate of interest
on all land sales hereafter made from
7 to G per cent. This is a reduction Of
! per cent in the rate Of interest on
nearly sl.5OO.OOO.
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MEXICAN DOLLARS FOR CHINA.

Washington. April 9.-In the senate
the Wolcoit resolution looking 10 the
coinage Of Mexican dollars for the
China trade was discussed, but action
On it was deferred until tomorrow. II
provides for the negotiation Of a treaty
with Mexico allowing the coinage Of
Mexican dollars at the United States
mInts for export to China walcott ad-
dressed the senate in support Of the
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HE UNITED STATES paid Russia $7,2O0OOO for

THE UNITED STATES paid Russia $7,2OOOOO for
Alaska and the seals. The English have said, if they
Il swim out of creeks they belong to them. It's
just like the crows coming from Washington every
day. They're sure to return towards night They belong
Washington We don't claim them That's the dispute
in nutshell It's just about like that with fancy work
baskets AS they get away from store the
chants of Portland San Francisco get credit for having
sold them. We don't want war; however Well arbitrate
Give the other fellows all the creditbut buying
baskets. Griffin & Reed.
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THE ARMY LOCKED UP.

Pueblo, Col, April s.-Bert Hamil-
ton. captain Of the Colorado division of
coxeys army and 40 Of his followers
were arrested in the railroad yards
here and spent the night in Jail. They
were released today on condition that
they leave town Immediately.
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cAPERs OF THE WIND.

st. Johns, N. B.. April 9.-In over
half century a storm equalling the
one prevailing now, commencing last
night, cannot be recalled Since day
light the wind has blown a hurricane
and snow has been falling. All traffic
Is suspended. All railroad communica-
ton is shut off, and the public schools
re clneed
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THE ARMY AT RENO.

Reno, New, April 9.-Capt Kelly, Of
the industrial army, passed through
here this morning, en- route to Ogden,
The regiment here numbers so, and.
recruits are still arriving from the sur
rounding towns. This afternoon they
paraded the principal streets. led by a
bearer of the stars and stripes and a
drummer.
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OPERATIONS RESUMED.

Connellsville, April 9.--Nearly all the
works closed down by the strikers
have resumed operations and are
peaceful The operators, however fear
the ominous silence The strikers are
assembling in the vicinity of Trotter
and Leisenring, ostensibly for meet
ing. but the impression prevails that
they are contemplating an attack
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HERMANN RE-NoMINATEp.

Salem, Ore, April 9.-Hermann was
nominated by acclimation for congress-
man from the flrst district. Tongues
name was presented to the convention
amidst applause, but he declined to en-
ter the race
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IN THE HOUSE.

Washington, April 9.-The house was
depopulated today. Three-quarters of
the members were at the senate listen
ing to Senator Hills speech on the
tariff. Those who remained were oc-
cupied with District of Columbia af-
fairs, but little actual business was
transacted.
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WRECKED ON BEACON HILL BAR.

Chatham. Mass. April 9-Tne bark
Belmont, OF Boston. bound from Trini-
dad for Boston with a cargo Of 5000
bags Of sugar. went ashore on Beacon
Hin bar during last nights storm and
Is a total wreck. Six OF the crew were
lost.
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THE wEATHER TODAY.

Portland, April 9.-For Washington
and Western ooregon; Showers and
cooler a..a -
For Eastern Oregon: Fair weather.
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INVESTIGATION BEGuN.

Milwaukee, April s.-The investiga-
tion Of Judge Jenkins began this after
noon. ~
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puNozNT PARAGRAPHS.

y. She-'sI see that one sewing ma-
chine is supposed to dosthework OF
twelve women. - He-"What IDIOT h&s
gone and invented talking attach
ent?n-Inter Ocean.
-Gus--s.If you don't give it to me at
once, IN kiss you" Madge-"And if !
give it to you, you viii let me alone?'
Gus-"Certainly" Madge-"Well-you
can't have itr-Demorest's.
-He-"Funny, isn't it, how we men
get baldheaded and You women donit?'
She'll don't think it's strange. You
know we never get to be old enough
for that."--South Boston News. .sss-'s--
-Visitor-"Who's that man" Dime
Museum Proprietor "That, sir, is the
man who once heard Mr.. Mckinley
made speech In which he did not
speak of fostering care for American
industries. '"-Chicago Record.
Still she hesitated "Yop are poor, I"
she argued; while / have a million
Springing forward impetuously, he
gathered her to his bosom II will
marry you," he cried, ''for all that!"-
Truth.
What are you here for, George?"
''I's been tuck up. sub, fer raisin'
hogs" "Why, there's no law against
that?s ''Dat's what I tell um, sab; but
dey sorter found out dat / raise de
hogs over de ence."-Atlanta Contitu-
ton.
-Thinkitt-"How complete the big
dry goods stores are nowadays! Do you
know that they serve luncheon for
shoppers?'' Knowitt--"Yes, but they
don't provide board and lodging for
customers waiting for their change.
N. Y. Sun. ee
-Professor-''In Russia criminals are
often sentenced to be kept awake until
insanity and death result. Now, how
do you suppose they keep them from
falling asleep?" Little Girl oldest of
small family)-'T expect they give 'em
baby to take care of."-Truth.
-Hicks-.H women were given the
ballot, do you think the greater part OF
them would become republicans or dem
ocrats?' Wicks-'It is impossible tc
say; but SO far as the homework girls
are concerned, they would probably re-
main as at present-independent.
Boston Transcript.
The conversation had turned on the
transportation question, and Mr.. Jag
way, who was indulging in one of his
regular spells of being perfectly sober.
observed: IF had my way about il
the government would own the railways
and carry people anywhere for one rate
Of fare without regard to distance, just
as it carries letters in the mails
"H'mph!T said old Hunks. "You don't
need to wait for that. You could put
stamp on your forehead and go through
the mails any day as periodical. -
Chicago Tribune. e
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HER MAIDEN FEARS.
And Though She Was Timid rs q Titmous
She Got There just the Same.

And Though She Was Timid as Titmouse
She Got There just the Same.
George
There was anxiety-just little of
tin the girls tone.
''What is it, love?"
81 read something in the paper to-day
that alarmed me-"
what was it?'
Niagara Falls is wearing away at
the rate of more that twelve inches a
year; and in the course of some hum
dreds of years it will be gone entirely. /"
what of that?'
''You know it is such a delightful
place for honeymoon trips"
.'Yes."
81 had set my heart on going there
on our own bridal tour" s
s'Y-e-es?''
1--WE have been engaged four years
now"
about that length Of time
She laid her head on his shoulder
and sobbed.
I'm that time-boo-hoo! fully fifty
inches of the falls have been worn
away-boo-hoo!- I'm afraid they'll
be all gone before-before-O, dearl
what am saying?"
Never mind, love, said George, ten
DERBY, as he kissed her cheeks. Don't
cry. Wen GO before the falls are worn
away. How would next June suit?''
That will do nicely, sweetheart
And she was hsupy again. Puck
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FOREIGNERS IN JAPAN.

they Are Arrested by the Native Police,
but Are Tried by Their Own Consul.
There are sixteen nations having
treaties with Japan, and they present,
in the foreign concessions, the singular
spectacle of sixteen little governments
all independent of each other, dispens-
ing justice and administering as many
different forms of law within the same
territory.
Each foreigner is registered in, the
consulate of his country. All legal pro
cesses and suits against him, brought
by other foreigners or by Japanese, are
entered with and tried before his con.
sui, except in the case of Great Britain,
which maintains a court separate from
its consulate. If the alien commits an
offense against Japanese law or regula-
ton outside the treaty limits, he can
be arrested by the native police, but he
must be tried and punished, if guilty.
by his consul, the Japanese govern
ment prosecuting the case, and it is
also bound, on the request of consul,
to arrest deserters and fugitives from
justice who have fed outside treaty
limits. Certain customs fees and regu-
lations are provided for, but failure to
pay the former or any dispute about
the latter can be settled only by
consul.
On the other hand, the land in the
foreign concessions is the property of
the Japanese government, and is leased
in perpetuity to the foreigner at rate
per tsubo (six feet square) which varies
according to the location of the land, is
payable annually, and is the only tax
levied. The lease may be bought and
sold, but always subject to the ground
rent
In the Kencho (the Office of the mu-
nicipal authorities is vested all police
and sanitary control, and the care OF
all streets and roads, but the police
cannot enter the premises of foreign
er without the written permission of
his consul. In Kobe, the foreign set
Element of Hiogo, the residents own
the land they occupy. = Harper
Weekly.
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NATURAL HISTORY.
The Professor Is Frustrated by . Previous
pa PUPILS Poser.

The Professor IL Frustrated by Previous
Pupils Poser.
Professor of Natural Science-Nature
my dear young ladies, while tranquil
to contemplate, teens with warriors.
The animal creation is well armed for
defense. Behold this apparently feeble
insect If dangerous adversary should
approach, it has in reserve an acrid and
corrosive fluid, by discharging which it
.defies its enemies.
A litter of incredulity from the young
ladies. 81
Here" continued the professor, dis
creetly ignoring the litter, mote the
inferiority Of the vegetable kingdom.
Plants cannot defend themselves from
depredations. They are continual prey
for the animal world. Insects make
them repositories for their eggs; birds
take without leave their branches in
nesting time; bees force them to yield
up their sweets"
'.Ah, but professor, pardon me" says
one of the young ladies.
The professor. frightened by this
CLEAN of prospective intelligence, starts
perceptibly.
If the vegetable kingdom, professor, !"
says the young woman sweetly, lis not
endowed with the means for self-de-
Tense, how is it that flower has q
pistil and shoots?s
= The janitor is called and conveys the
inanimate body of the professor to Sc
clusion.-Detroit Free Press
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lently along. Now and then he would
be carried beneath the surface by the
plunges of the monster. 1t would only
be temporarily, for the animal would
come up again with a wild leap. But
Dave was becoming weak and faint
from these rude jerks and submersions.
He feared that the dugong, when 1t
reached the deeper water ahead would
dive far down. dragging him along un-
der the sea, where he must soon per-
ish. Its course was parallel with the
reef, about fifteen feet from it. and
away from the Kanaka boy. who, firm
~ grasping his knife, was hurrying
along the rocky border to try to attain
a position which would enable him to
effect the imperiled lads rescue by
swimming out to him and cutting the
line.
Presently the dugong, as ii con-
scious that 1t could not extricate itself
from the line by thus speeding on.
commenced to swim to and fro in Zig
gag directions, now and then rolling,
plunging, springing, bending itself al
most double and beating the sea to
foam with its strong tail.
The Kanaka soon arrived opposite
to 1t. Needless of his danger, with his
knife between his teeth, he swan out
into the midst of the foaming waters,
which the alarmed dugong, now cir
cling round and round, was constantly
thrashing with his fiukes. Nimbly
lodging these tremendous strokes and
narrowly escaping them, he had near
ly succeeded in reaching that part of
the line which must be cut to free
Dave, when the monster. as if fright.
ened, gave one mad leap away from
him and slantingly dived. The line,
quickly receding from Little Jack, be-
came taut before he could swim to
it, and Dave was dragged under the
water. which was here about thirty
feet deep
As he was drawn down strange
sights met his vision there in the
depth. He saw below him submarine
weeds, waving their long. dropping
fibers, which. illumined by a faint
light from above, looked like silver
threads. AS he sank among these
Shiny, glisteninQ meshes shoals of
curious fish, startled in their sea
bower, darted round him with big,
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lish would hinder his understanding
orders, the lieutenant at first objected.
His son, however, SO earnestly pleaded
for the boy tina. the first officer at last
consented to give him trial. 1t was
then found that he correctly guessed,
II he did not exactly comprehend,
what was said to him, aud, as he was
neat, active and obedient, the captain.
before many days had passed, told the
lieutenant he was very well satisfied
with the little fellow. Now and then
he was permitted to accompany Dave
in his canoe, when, being very CRATE
full to his benefactor, he would some
times dive and bring him up presents
of beautiful shells from the rocks
under the ocean.
The Kanakas. who 90 in the surf al
most from infancy. are wonderfully
expert at swimming or diving. and
Jack conld remain for q minute under
water, daytins Into snd out Of sue.
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DOWN WENT HIS AGILE PORN.

globular, protruding eyes Other eyes,
evil and staring, seemed to glare at
him from the multitude of little crea-
tures-the cephalates that chung to
the holes in the tall. porous rock from
which the weeds hung. But the
dugong's downward speed after the
line became taut had been somewhat
checked by the resistance of the over
turned canoe, which it had also drawn
with it. and which, as the rope was
fastened to the middle thwart (seat],
had operated as sort of drag. This
would enable Jack, who had dived
after Dave, to reach him in about ten
seconds.
The Kanaka, as already implied, was
''at home" in the water. Down went
his agile form, sliding as easily as q
dolphin's through the depth, and. with
one stroke of his keen blade, he cut
the line that held his friend. He soon
rose to the surface with the gasping
lad, and, still supporting him, he
swan with him to the reef
Dave had been under water nearly
half minute. While, attended by
his rescuer. he was recovering from
the effects of his late trying expert
ence, fragments of the canoe, which,
dragged among submarine rocks, had
been crushed, rose near the reef to
the sea surface, ahead.
Assisting the tired lad, the Kanaka
now proceeded along the reef to it's
extremity, for the purpose of signaling
the bark, which was at anchor league
away. The boys then beheld the du-
gong. now free from the coils of line,
extended on fat rock that rose few
inches above the sea, not far off.
Putting through its big mouth and nos
trils. and with its Handicapped flip
pers spread out, it lay as If for rest
after its late exertions. Presently,
turning its great head. which had been
averted from the lads. it saw them,
and instantly plunged beneath the
water. Jack now signaled the Plover
by waving his kerchief. A cutter came
and the boys were picked up and taken
to the bark. where Dave gave his par
ent an account of his adventure.
The lieutenant was very grateful to
Jack for rescuing his son, and prom
ised to promote him if chance for SO
doing should offer. He now realized
how fortunate it was that he had
chosen for his cabin boy this Kanaka,
who, by his courage. united to his
skill in swimming and diving. had
saved the life of his only son.-N. Y.
Ledger.
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the few settlers who lived ashore OPP
posite to her learned that her captain
was in want of a cabin-boy, there were
many applications for the berth. But
the first lieutenant, Mr.. Darrell, who
was to choose the new hand, could
find no lad to suit him. While he was
still waiting TO be satisfied, David Oar
rel. his son, fine, spirited youth of
sixteen, was, one morning, padding a
small canoe among the rocks, reefs and
sandy islets that skirted the. shore, as
he had been in the habit of doing, now
and then, since the vessel came to an
anchor, when he noticed four boys on
q little island ahead breaking to pieces,
with q Ratchet and the butts of oars,
which they had taken from their own
boat, skiff evidently belonging to
another boy, who was vainly strug-
Cling with them to save his property.
Dawes canoe was light, swift one,
which the lieutenant had bought for
him at Sumatra, to enable him, when
he had the time. to amuse himself by
cruising about the shores of such
places as the bark might visit during
the voyage.
Urging the vessel swiftly forward,
and calling upon the boys to desist
from their destructive work he soon
reached the island.
The lads there who had been break
ing the skiff had not needed him; the
little boat now lay shattered at their
feet, and they were about to attack
and beat the owner of the destroyed
skiff when Dave arrived.
The prosecuted boy, not more than
fourteen years old, was a Kanaka, or
native of the Sandwich islands, slim
and straight, with long, black hair
and weird, bright eyes.
Back, there!" shouted Darrell, as his
canoe grated on the sand. and he
sprang out. confronting the young
ruffians
Hes nothing but Jonah OF a
Kanaka!" cried one. "He wanted to
go and try to ship as cabin-boy aboard
your gun-bark, but they wouldn't
take any of us whites there, and we.
wasn't a-goin' to give this coppery
savage q chance for the place. He's
no good. Nobody cares for 'Kanaka
Jack"
"You are mean ours for breaking his
skiff," said Dave.
Are we? Well, you'll see we are
ours that can bite as we'll as bark"
The speaker and his companions
were then about to spring past Dave
at the Kanaka, when the lieutenant's'
son, again confronting them, hurled
the foremost one against his followers
Touch that boy at your perill' he
cried. Away with your
Not daring longer to run the risk
of opposing this youthful officer from
a war vessel, the young scoundrels
took to their boat and sullenly rowed
away.
The little Kanaka thanked Dave for
befriending him. He said that he had
been cast away, months before, from a
wrecked brig, on this coast. Disliked
by the boys among the settlers, he
wanted to leave the place, and would
be glad to ship aboard the gun-bark
Now they been break 'Kanaka
Jacks skiff, him not can earn nothing
at fishing any more" he mournfully
added.
Darrell took him to the bark and
tried to persuade his father to enlist
him as cabin-boy. But fearing that
the lads imperfect knowledge of Eng
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People overlooked the importance OF pen.
manently beneficial effects and were salts
ned with tranpient action, but now that II
y generally kt4wn that Syrup of Figs VIII
permanently cure hnbitual constipation,
ell-inform1d people will not buy other lax
stives, which act for q time, but finally inr
lure the system.
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Halls Catarrh Cure
Is q Constitutional Cure. Price &c.

A Coon TINE CoMINo.-Farmer Brown
(efter fourteen hours at haying)-"NeveR
mind, Tommy; hayiu' don't last forever
Just remember that winter's comm soon
an nothin' to do but saw wood, an tend
the cattle an 60 to school an study n:ghts-"
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LULU, aged two and one-half years, had
been out playing and came in with dirty
face. Her mamma said: sWhat a dirty
face! We will have to ca2}-4aalu ,namma's
little pig. Come, dear. ant have your face
washed" But Lulu objected stoutly,. say
ing: pigs don't have their fat IS washed"
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Fame.

Look you," said Constance Multi
gatawney. Then she Tilted him in IA
vor of policeman who had got his
picture in the paper for accepting q
bride. Il cannot marry an obscure
man." she explained, coldly II will be
avenged" he cried, merely. He was
true to his word. When he was cured
of a torpid liver and was honored with
a quarter-page portrait in the press he
wouldn't notice the little girl he once
had loved. She in turn could only
kick herself as if her heart would
break. detroit Tribune.
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LIKE OIL Upon Troubled Waters Is Hales
Honey Of Horehound and Tar upon o cold
Pixies Toothache Drops Cure in one minute
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SEE you wanter fiattah er mans vanity
good,n said Uncle Eben, ''tell i'm ne ain's got
none."-Washington Star.
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"TBAr's q good idea Garry it out" said
the editor to the man who came in with q
better plan for running the paper.-Pl.la-
delphia Record.
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SO great is the effect of CLEANLINESS,
upon man. that it extends even t. biz
moral character. Rumsoyd
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Hoods pile cure all liver Ills, biliousness
jaundice, indigestion, sick headache &c