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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-14
Railway Employees Convene.


st. Louis, May 13.-One Of the most
important meetings of railway en-
ployes ever held took place at the head
quarters of the Order of Railway Con-
ductors, on Market street yesterday. It
represented officially six national or
ders and brotheThoods. In fact, they
may be called international, as the
membership of each includes men en-
ployed on lines in Canada and Mexico.
There were some 600 present.. The
chief result of the convention was the
adoption of a resolution to form fed
Grafton of the six orders named. Every
speaker favored the federation and ev-
cry man present voted for it. The only
difference of opinion was on the ques-
ton of admitting the American Rail-
way Union. As first submitted. the
proposition included Eugene v. Debs'
order, but an amendment to strike it
out was carried with only two or three
dissenting votes. The officers of the
grand lodge of the six orders represent
ed at the meeting were authorized and
instructed to formulate plan for unit
ing the six under general council.
similar to the governing body of the
Federation of Labor. The convention
adopted resolutions favoring arbitra-
tion and appeals from decisions of the
federal courts, after which the conven-
tion adjourned sine die.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-14
The Nicaragua Canal.

Washington, May ii. Governor
McCorkle, of West Virginia, appeared
before the house committee on COM
merce today to advocate the construc-
tion of the Nicaragua canal. He spoke
in behalf Of the coal interests in his
own and adjacent states, declaring that
that section would be able to control
the coal markets Of the Pacific coast,
of North and South America, with the
shipping failities which would be
afforded by the canal. At present all
coal used on the Pacific coast, he
stated, is mined in Australia, Japan
and Vancouver island. He predicted
that with the advancement of the jap
anese they would monopolize the coal
business of the coast unless the canal
should be built, when the freight rates
would enable West Virginia to under
sell the Japanese.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-14
WEEKLY TRADE REVIEW.
Prevailing Confidence in Better Things
to Come.

Prevailing Confidence In Better Thinge
to Come.
New York, May 11.-R. g. Dun &
Co. g weekly review of trade says:
That the exports of IS, $50, 600 gold
this week have produced no monetary
disturbance is at once proof of the
soundness of financial conditions and
Of the prevailing confidence in better
things to come. Much of the hesita-
tion at present is due to temporarily re-
duced demand in all industries, and in
iron and steel the power Of the new
combination is being tested by refusal
of orders, SO that production exceeds
consumption, but. consumption exceeds
of prices and slackness of demand for
finished products do not prevent the
marking up of prices by combinations,
but are largely due to doubt whether
such prices as are fixed can be main
tanned. Pig-iron is weaker in the
East, and also at Pittsburg, and most
finished products are weaker, with a
remarkably low demand. Minor metals
are inactive, with copper weak, tin
5oOduy dAu ASdu SA4SAeAy AOW0E, dAu
American tin-plates thirty cents below
foreign.
TRADERS in wheat have lifted price
little, and yet nobody questions the
correctness Of Western reports indicat-
ing more than ordinary yield of winter
wheat and unusual progress in the
planting of spring.
with the narrow stock usual at this
time of the year, speculation for ad.
vance always has many opportunities.
but Western RECEIPTS are still 40 per
cent larger than last year, while At
lantic exports, -four included, are for
the week 943, 3,667 bushels. against L.
615, 900 year ago. After fall to
681a cents, the price rose about cents.
Corn is also shade lower, but without
definite reason.
Failures for the week have been
288 in the United States, against 227
last year, and "a in Canada, against "a
last year,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-14
A PlLEDRlvER scuTTLED.

Will Probably Be No Salmon Packed
During the Present Month.
Astoria, Or, May IA dispatch
received this afternoon from nwaco
states that piledriver belonging to
Sam Gilmore was scuttled and sunk to-
day at the easterly end of Sand island.
No particulars were given, and it is
not known who the guilty parties are.
It is also stated that large numher of
fshtrap piles were pulled up at Desde-
mona Sands yesterday afternoon by a
number of men using the donkey en-.
gine on the snagboat Pathfinder.
M. j. Kinney was called upon this
evening and asked rgarding the fishing
situation.
There is no change" he replied.
"The situation remains just as it was
a month ago. The cannerymen feel
that under existing conditions they can
not pack salmon and pay five cents per
pound for raw material, while the fish,
ermen refuse to accept four cents. It is
unfortunate that no arrangements can
be made for settlement of the diff
Guilty, but it seems impossible to effect
any compromise.
For several days it has been whisp-
cred that Mr.. Kinney would probably
break away from the combine about
Monday, but since that hope has been
dispelled, it is safe to say there will be
no salmon packed in the vicinity of As
toria during the present month at least.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-14
Postal Card Duns.

Chicago. May 11.-Untied States
Judge Grosscup and the present federal
grand jury view postal card dun"
cases alike. At the last term of the
district court, the former advised As
sistant District Attorney Rosenthal to
use discretion in the prosecution Of per-
sons who unwittingly, and in many
cases on account Of poverty, had offend
ed against the statute inhibiting postal
cards which bear written or printed
matter rejecting discredit on the re-
cipient. Yesterday two more cases OF
the same sort were brought before the
grand jury and that body was prompt
in throwing them out.
Judge Grosscup says that if a man
simply asks for what is due him he
commits no offense. 1t is further stat
ed that the statute in question is in
voked chiefly by debtors who are desir-
GUS of swindling or getting revenge
upon those they owe and that the chief
sufferers are the poor and ignorant
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-14
To Force . Fight.

New York. May IA World special
from Havana says 5000 volunteers are
to be sent to the trocha to relieve regu-
lars needed to operate against Macho.
Ten siege guns have been sent to the
trocha. Weyler is anxious to force a
general engagement in Pinar del Rio be-
fore the heavy rain set in. 1t is esti-
mated that he has now about 80, 600
troops in Pinar del Rio. Maoeo's
forces is about 10, 600.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-14
POST EXCHANGES.
Right of Government to Maintain Them
Without Interference.

Right of Government to Maintain Them
without Interference.
Omaha, May 11.-Judge Shiras, of
the federal court, today passed upon
the habeas corpus cases at Fort Robin
son, in which Lieutenant Langdon and
Sergeant Braden had been held under
state authority for selling liquor with
out license as officials in charge of the
post exchange. The opinion of Judge
Sbiras was comprehensive and elabor-
ate statement of law pertaining to mil
itary reservations in general through
out the United States. 1t exhaustively
reviewed all the authorities. He up
held in the opinion complete and
absolute jurisdiction OF the general gov
ernment over the military reservation
in quetsion, and, further, that the
amendatory act of Nebraska seeking to
reclaim authority to enforce it's liquor
law upon this reservation was mega.
tory.
This settles the question of the right
of the government to maintain it's post
exchanges without interference in any
manner by state authorities.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-14

By vote of 425 to 90, the Methodist
general conference, in session in Cleve-
land, O., decided the four women dele
gates might retain their SEATS This
does not mean that the women have
won complete victory. The decision
was the result Of compromise, and
with the understanding that it should
not prejudice the claims of women in
the future or establish q precedent for
future conferences to follow.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-14
Civil Service List Extended.

Washington, May 1.-THE presi-
dent has issued an order extending the
civil service rules to the interstate COM
merce commission. This brings all
offices in the commission here and out
side of Washington in the classified
service, except the chief executive Of
fees requiring presidential nomination
and confirmation by the senate. This
order makes total of about 85, 900
government positions now included in
the civil service.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-14
Bolin Convicted.

Omaha, Neb., May 12.-Shortly be-
fore noon the jury in the case of Henry
Bolin, the defaulting city treasurer,
returned q verdict of guilty on every
count. The amount of the defalcation
in the finding aggregates $105,50
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-14

T. A. Phillips, a merchant at La
than, Mo. ,on returning home from his
place of business, was shot from am
bush by neighbor's youth, aged IA
years, named Stout. The young rob-
ber was hid behind tree, and, as
Phillips passed by, he shot him, the
ball taking effect in the arm. Phillips
ran for his home, but was overtaken
by his assailant and struck over the
head with the weapon and felled to the
ground. In the encounter, Phillips
seized Stout by the throat and choked
him to death.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-14
SOURCE OF THE MISSOURI

1t Is Discovered by 8 Minnesota Geo
grapher.
st. Paul, May 13-Colonel J. v.
Brewer. Minnesota's state geographer,
has made the sensational discovery that
the source of the Missouri river is not
Red Rock lake, Montana, as previously
stated. Colonel Brewer has explored
the whole region Of the upper Missouri
and today made public the result Of his
discoveries. He says the longest upper
branch Of the Missouri does not flow
through the lower Red Rock lake in
Montana, but comes from hole in the
mountains, volcanic in it's character, at
the summit of the Rocky mountains,
west of Helery's lake, Idaho, and at a
point bordering the boundary between
that state and Montana. The minia-
ture river, at its commencement, striv.
ing to secure existence from the inner
walls of the surrounding volcanic vents,
near perpetual snowbanks, has by its
eroding capacity cut it's way ont from
that rugged and precipitous mountain
uplift of enoromus size until solid
rock of mountain has been severed in
twain, canoyn formed and assuming
the proportions Of river, from the
howage Of innumerable creeks, coming
in at the side, reaches the valleys be-
low flowing into and through upper
Red Rock lake, twenty miles from its
source in the mountains, thence west.
wardly, northerly and northeasterly,
past Red Butte and Beaver Head rock
tn Three Fork thence To the Mississin-
pi and thence to the Gulf of Mexico,
through and past thirteen states,a dis.
tance of 4,221.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-14
The Red Cross in Armenia.

Constantinople, May 13.-The work
of the agents Of the American Red
Cross Society, under the direction of
Miss Clara Barton, its president. is
very successful. They have been re-
lieving very great deal of distress by
distributing seeds and tools, especially
in the Harpoot district, where DIR. J.
D. Hubbell's party has been urged to
make a lengthy stay.
A Red Cross medical corps is being
formed here, and will be placed at the
disposal of Ira Harris, for the work in
the Marash and Zeitoun districts, where
typhus fever and dsyentery are raging.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-14

The Vulcan iron works of San Fran
cisco were destroyed by fire, and the
loss is estimated at 500, 900, with in
surance at $31, 500. The fire spread to
the third floor of the Reliance machine
works, damaging the building slightly
and destroying considerable stock.
The loss of the Reliance company is
more than covered by the $25, 200 in
suraLce.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-14

While chasing a robber from his
store, T. J. Marshall, proprietor of the
Golden Rule dry goods store, at 274
West Madison street, Chicago, was
shot twice, and died few moments
later on the sidewalk in front of his
place. The robber escaped, after firing
several shots to intimidate the people
in the street. He wounded two other
persons.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-14

There is only one sudden death
among women to eighty among mon.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-14

"A man sS years old was recently
fatally injured while coasting down a
hill in Connecticut.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-14

The sin we spare will not spare
us-Ram's Horn.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-14
Steamship "Farallon

Sails from Yaquina every days for San Fran
CISCO Coos Bay, Port Oxford, Trinidad and
Humboldt Bay. Passenger acc mmodations
unsurpassed. Shortest route between the Will
lamette valley and California.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-03-18
The Stubborn Juror.

The Msysville "PaJIjc Lsdger'' prints
this story. told 10y an old citizen, as Illus
tratinC that the one stubborn juryman
may sometimes be right and his II col
leagues wrong: "In the poor house in
SOFT county there were two blind men,
both Of whom had beautiful wives. They
kept the neighborhood in a perfect up
roar = party determined to break il mp
aller trying fair means. They went one
night. the snow foot deep, and took the
doors and windows and piled them to-
gelher and burned them up; also stoned
the houses. and ran the inmates upstairs.
The consequence was several persons
were arrested, among them a Methodist
preacher-one OF the best men that ever
mounted pulpit. He wore am overcoat
with FIVE capes, and a broad brimmed hat
with a round top, and there was not one
like il in the county. Well, jury was
summoned. was too young. but they
sent r,r me to be one of the jury. Al
proved an alibi except the parson, and
the women knew him by his hat and
coat. There were Ii for finding him guilty
aud one man hung the jury. The squirss
made Us come the next morning, and
kept Us all that day and then dismissed
rs. saying il was a shame-as plain a cas-
a. that ought to be decided in two min
uies. The fact was, wore the parson'.
hat and coat that night myself; and tina
jury would have been hanging yet befor'
/ would have seen him hurt"
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-03-18
=: !: As: ;::::; # !. RHEUMATISM
ST. JACOBS Oil s$::: =. a.s..ss i
Peunsylvania's Schools.

The annual report of the Superintend-
ent of Public instruction shows that last
wear in this State there was total OF
slg. SOC. 70 paid to institute lecturers; s1'-
2q5. 20 paid fo- hall rental for institute
purposes: -. s.262 35 for printing, and ~
aS2 a for miscellaneous items; the totai
institute expenditures were 50. .;}J1-5o ana
,bare ;s n State deficit of si07.34 in certain
counties. while the other counties hoid a
balance OFFS. .q24 So as an institute surplus
There were in the State last year 70 te'ich-
ers who had no previous experience; =
:4ss VINO had taught } or more schools; l.
o4I who held provisional certificates; l.
60 who held professional certificates l.
s47 who held permanent certificates; 80
who had graduated at some normal sch"oi
ofthis State: 29i undergraduates of State
normal schools; ,7l5 who were educated
entirely in the Pennsylvania puoic
schools; 526 educated in seminaries or
academies: AZ who were college graduates
Fonr tbousand two hundred and eighty
schools were visited 10y the State Super
intendent; 90 only he was unable TO IN
sDect. the total number of school Vlslts
made by the State Superintendent wa
AZ 55S: I g73 schools were inspected by di'
rectors: =. 40 children were not enrolled
AS between the ages of 6 and Is; there are
| Is colleges in the State; 1873 academies an'
saminaries. and 29,054 pupils enrolled IL
these latter. There are 25.54S schoo
houses in the state, with seating capaci
fv of 2Is.47l
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-03-18
Women as Cattle Raisers.

Forty young women who went 10 No
Mans Land, now Beaver county. Okla
homa, two years ago to teach school, have
organized the Panhandle Cattle Com
pany, and Will hereafter devote half o;
their incomes TO the raising of cattle for
the Eastern market. Capt. Smartwood,
who arrived here tonight from Beaver
City, says about dozen of these young
women met in that place Saturday and
entered into articles disagreement. Thirty
i've Of these young women have taken
claims on the Beaver River and will cul-
tivate them this year. They receive 81
a month for teaching. the terms Of school
being six months. The aggregate amount
of these salaries is S7.2e0, one-half OF
which i to be annually invested in range
cattle. Capt. Smartwod says all the wo.
men Of the county are going into the
scheme TO test the ability of women tC
handle this line of business. The pro.
III ptors have agreed not 10 marry for five
years
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-03-18
Sheep Claims Disputed

Messrs u. W. and J. II. Steele, sons of
Hiram steele, wealthy farmer, Of Ale
gheny township. WestmOreland county,
were summoned before the board Of cOun-
IL auditors, ~ Grecnsburg, Thursday, to
explain Inc large amounts Of money they
have been collecting from the county for
sheep killed by dogs. Their claims dar
ing 1884 and 1885 aggregate over $1,000,
and gross irregularities in the papers
fled are charged. The auditors claim
that the papers are forgeries, and that the
young men never owned sheep enough
70 cover oue-third the amount they claim
to have had killed. The Steeles claim
that they have dealt extensively in sheep
and that the neighbors are jealous of
their success. The investigation will be
resumed during the present week, when
the Steeies propose to establish the valid
ity of their claims.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-03-18
rsit Constitutional.

~, law passed in recent years by me
legislature Of this state has caused more
confusion than the one enacted last year
which nrovided for the election OF con-
stable, sf the election just held IN All
to,snshins boroughs and wards IN the
state. The act WAS called AN aci 10 cor
rc..t tbo ambiguity as TO the beginning Of
tho terms of Office of constalies- IN
stead Of doing away with ambiguity, the
ACT went far to create more and confuse
every one who tried to study il out
In the first place. the question arose a.
10 whether, under it, high constable a.
well As a constable, should be elected III
every borough, or only in borOughs that
are divided into wards. This question
was decided. and the law was accepted to
mean that a high constable and bor-
o,ob constable should be elected in every
borough Nominations were made IN
this way and the tickets in this county
were printed and constables elected IN
accordance with this view \ new ques-
fian has now been brought mp regarding
the law. and il is as 10 its constitution
alifv. Il i claimed that, as the con-
s.ita.ion of Pennsylvania prohibits the
massage of any law which shall diminish
the salary Of an officer after his election,
the law providing for the election of con-
stables in all districts this year Is uncon-
stitutional. The claim is that the law
cuts short the terms of many constabies,
some being elected only last year and
many the year before, and therefore
diminishes their emoluments. What VIII
he the outcome OF this development re-
gartiing the new law Will De Of interest
in every township and borough in the
state.
The matter has already been brought
T. the attention of court for a decision,
an action having heen brought in Pitts
barg court to determine whether con-
stables elected under the law should
be commissioned. The matter is before
Jrdre Ewing. and his decision viii be
looked for with interest. fit should be
decided that the law is unconstitutional
IL viii throw out of Office all the con-
stables elected AT the last election, except
perhaps those elected in districts where
an election would have been held any
how, on account Of the expiration OF the
three-vear term OF the elected officers
Predecessor.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-03-18
Solonon'E Wisdom Wanted,

\ very interesting viii case is puzzling
Judicial authorities at Magdeburg. GER
many. About a year ago a wealthy bach
elor married, and since he became i'll. he
made a VIII dividing his fortune of $780,
90 marks in the following way; An in
crease in the family being expected, he
decided that if boy was born two-thirds
OF the fortune was 10 be kept in trust for
the child. while one-third would go to
the mother; but, if a girl was to issue.
one-third was to be held in trust for the
cirl, while the two-thirds would be the
mothers share in that ease. The man
died soon after, his viii being admitted To
probate. About three weeks ago his
wife gave birth UO-twins. a boy and girl.
Now the COuri and the lawyers are at log
;-erheads how the fortune Is 10 he divid-
cd; whether all is 10 go to the children
aud nothing to the mother. or all 10 the
mother and nothing to be kept in trusl
30 the children.
The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1896-03-18
A Miners Experience.
= l.-rSy Welsh Miner OF Dravosburg
Tells j Story of Deep
iatcreSt to All.

t.c-oss The river f-o.l McKeesport Is tbs
ilI.e town OF Draycsbarg. Its residents
;Te mostly miners, hardy men who work
l. The coal pits nearby. Many of them
ere NelslIIaen, and such is Mr.. Roger
llnGuds, q weii-known man throughout
Iae valley When Mr. Edmunds became
ai.,icied with back trouble that made
han practically cripple his case CON-
rIandtd the attention and sympathy of
LIS numerous friends: but those DAYS are
Dlst and gone. the miner ouce ulore can
a. = miners work: and tbs the cause OF
;,i;s wondrouS change that Mr.. Edmunds
peaks OF here. We will let him tell Il
Z he d;d TO our representative. lie says.
For txO years or more ] have been O
cripple from INV back Il would be an
i:lpossibilitv 10 describe the tortures |
have Suffered during that time. I could
not use from chair without aid; re-
quiTed assistance 10 ST down. I am coal
miner. and l have often crawled to the
II IL The morning, SO bad was my con-
dili0r. and be forced TO return home
again unable TO do anything. Sometimes
was SO bad | have loaded wagons on
INV kEees. utterly unable 10 stand ND.
! tried everything for cure of my trou.
hie. and exhau-.ed every means that ]
ki.eN OF. but medicine seemed to have
lost lis virtue so far as / was concerned.
] dOctored until / finally gave up in
despair. completely disguised, and doubt
lag the existence II z cure for nv case,
and believing there was no help for me
ScGe time ago my wife got az the drug
store of J. {. Smith. McKeesport, box
OF Deans Kidney Pills, persuading me to
Try ther;. ] took them TO please her,
never expecting 10 be well man again.
! ieit better after The third dose. ] used
three boxes in all, and am now as strong
and supple man as ] ever was. For
two years could only load one wagon
day; a: the PIT now frequently load FIVE.
aiy back IS strong once more, and my cure
nothing short Of miracle. Doan's Kid
fey P;-ls have been blessing TO me.
shall never be without them IN the
Eousc."
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