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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-05-15
CONSULAR INSPECTOR Chiffon,
on His Way TO Washington With HIS
Report.

san Francisco. May I-Robert $.
Chiffon, OF Washington, D. c., chief ot
the consular bureau OF the department
Of state. Is here. He has just made
tour Of inspection OF American con-
sulates In Europe and the Orient and
is ON his way back to Washington.
Last evening Mr.. Chiffon said that the
consulate, like every other federal Of
flee, required inspection at stated inter-
walls, but for some reason the inspection
he is now making is the first general
inspection that has been made in 20
years.
THE purpose of such an inspection
trip as have been making" he said,
rs easily explained, The state depart
ment wants to know how well or how
poorly the government is represented
In the various places where consulates
are maintained and how the business
of each office Is conducted. AT the same
time II Is my province to make suS-
gestions or recommendations In respect
to the establishment of new consulates
where they are needed and the aboli-
tion of existing consulates where they
are not needed. left Washington Sep
tember last and have been on the so
ever since. | visited all the American
consulates I'm England. Scotland, Ire
land, France, Belgium, Italy and
Throughout Europe generally. | then
proceeded 10 the Orient, The resul; of
my labors Is of course a matter that
concerns only the state department
and my report win be of a confidential
nature. 1 can only say that l found
our government on the whole very well
! represented"
Mr.. Chiffon win leave today for
[ Washington.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-05-15
1r,Dcr MORROW PROMOTED.

Washington. May 1i.-Excellent au-
thority states that Judge Morrow, now
on the United States district beach in
California. has been decided upon TO
succeed Attorney General McKenna,
as the Judge Of the ninth circuit court
Of appeals. It is understood that Judge
Waymire win succeed Judge Morrow.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-05-15
A BLOODY BATTLE.

Athens. May H.--s y. ma brief dir
patch from Arta says bloody engage
ment has been going on since early
this morning near Grlbo. on the .oad
90 FiIiiplada B0uh sides sustained
heavy loves.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-05-15
THE QUEEN To oFFIcIATE,

Montreal. May 14.-Auangements are
being perfected by which Queen VIC
toria will start the electric works OF
the Hydraulic and Land Company at
Rapids on the jubilee day.
This win be done by means of the At
lantic cable, the queen touching the
button at Windsor Castle.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-05-15

New York May l4.--A Herald special
from Corfu says
Twenty Italian volunteers have ar
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-05-15

KEELING AN EMBEZZLER.
Portland. May l4.-Richard L. Keeling.
tcokkeeper for Grafton & Knight. was
arrested tonight for the embezzlement
of three thousand dollars,
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-05-15
WAR STILL GOES ON.

Greek warships and Land Forces to-
operating Together
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
THE NEWS OF THE DAY
SOUTH DAKOTA HAPPENINGS 80
CONDENSED FORM.
Dcadwood Bankers Take State Rev.
enue Warrants to the Amount of
$4,000 to Cover the Floating In.
debtedness OF the Commonwealth.
State Warrants.

Treasurer Kirk G. Phillips at Deadwood
received $50, 900 in state revenue warrants
Monday and placed them with the banks
of that city, the First National and the
American National each taking SG, 500.
They will become due January |, 1873. and
bear per cent. interest. These warrants
were negotiated March II, and were sent
from Pierre to Nermillion at once for the
governors signature, to be forwarded then
to Mr.. Phillips. They were delayed first by
snow blockades, and then by water and
washouts. Mr.. Phillips received offers
from banking institutions Of the Hills 10
take $3.50, 900 of these warrants at the same
rate of interest.
This issue of warrants represents the
total floating debt Of South Dakota. War
rants to the amount Of 100000 will be due
on April |, but there is money in the treas
ury to pay them. When it is considered
that Iowa has floating Indebtedness Of
81 100000 and Nebraska debt of 800 900,
South Dakota's debt OF $4,000 appears in
significant
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
WORLDS WHEAT CROP
1895 YIELD MANY BUSHELS LESS
THAN IN 1895.
The Forthcoming Report will Show
u Falling on for Last Year of
118.OOO,OOO Bushels-The Crop Is
the Smallest in Six Years.
Worlds Wheat Crop.


A Washington dispatch says that the
worlds wheat crop for 1896 is 2,42S, 1913 ,OOO
bushels This fact will be officially an
nounced by the secretary of agriculture in
a report to be issued this week. This inn
portant report will also cover the quality
and distribution of the corn, wheat and
oats grown in the United States during the
past year.
Although the total wheat crop is 49,
O00, 900 bushels less than in 1895, it is larger
than earlier estimates indicated. This is
largely due to an increase of 59,OOO,O COX
bushels in European Russia, as shown in
the final estimate of the central statistical
bureau over the November estimate of the
minister of agriculture of that country.
The crop for 1896 is the smallest for Sin
years. The comparative figures given by
the agricultural department are official
wherever obtainable, according to tho
distribution of the wheat crop of 1896. The
report will state:
The increase in price, which began in
the fall of 1896, SO stimulated sales thai
many parts of the country are now lef
with only sufficient for seed. All section.
report an exceptionally small percentage
on hand, the general average being 20.6
against 1858 last year, and showing but 49,
OO0, 600 bushels in farmers hands March l
Unusually little of the crop of 1895 remain!
but 8 per cent, against A. per cent. of thu
1894 crop SO held year ago.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
Two Children Drowned.

At Mckee's Rocks, a suburb of Pitts
burg, Kan, Willie De Wait, s years old,
and Elmer, his brother, 10 years of age,
were carried off by the swollen Charters
Creek to almost instant death. The little
fellows on their way home from Sunday
school stopped to play on the creek bank
and Willie slipped down the embankment
into the water and was carried rapidly
down stream. He called piteously for help,
and Elmer, though unable to swim, heroic
ally made an effort to save his brother, but
was carried off by the swift current and
both BOYS were drowned
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
PRIEST MIRAcULoUsLY CURED

Priest Made Well Through Inter.
cession Of Our Lady OF Lourdies.
Another miraculous cure is credited to
the powerful intercession Of Our Lady Of
Lourdes at the well known Catholic shrine
In southern France.
Rev. Edward r. Slattery, rector Of the
Church OF st. Catherine Of Genoa, New
York, announced to his congregation that
his young assistant, Rev. DIR. Edmund F.
Cronin, who sailed for Europe during
the latter part OF January physical
wreck, IL returning an absolutely well
man, and he attributes his marvellous re-
covery to his two weeks Of prayer at the
shrine Of Our Lady Of Lourdes.
Father Slattery, in speaking Of Father
Cronin's cure, said:
81 received letter from him last week
= which he said he had entirely con-
vaiesced. He also said that he was now
able to say mass daily, and that in all his
lie he never felt in better health.''
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
SNATcHED FROM THE SEA.
Sixteen Survivors of the st. Nazairc
Saved by British Ship.

Sixteen Survivors of the st. Nazairc
Saved by British Ship.
The British steamship Yanariva, Capt
Weston, which left Newport News March
10, bound for Glasgow, arrived at Greenock
Sunday night. The captain reports that
on March IL, while in latitude 81, longi-
tude II, he picked up small boat con-
tanning sixteen survivors of the steam
ship Vile de st. Nazaire, of the West
Indian line of the Compagnie Generate
Trans Atlantique, which founded in the
great storm of March off the Virginia
capes. They had been without food and
water for four days, and were in state of
extreme exhaustion and were bordering
on madness. The officers of the Yanariva
did all in their power for
the unhappy victims Of the
ocean horror, and finally learned their
pitiful story, piece by piece. They say
that four boats were launched, two con-
tanning 20 each, the third II and the fourth
+. The boat picked up by the Yanariva
was one of the two that took off %, but 10
Of these succumbed to exposure, hunger
and thirst. The last the survivors saw of
the other boats was on the day the vessel
foundered, when they sighted two Of them
dashed together and empty.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
Attempted Suicide.

Maj. NJ. Garland, a cousin Of Judge
John +. Garland, judge of the United
States Court for the district of South Da
kota, attempted suicide at Deadwood by
shooting himself in the left breast with a
32-caliber Smith and Wesson revolver.
The ball passed through the upper part of
the left lung, lodging just beneath the
shoulder blade. The injury will not neces
sarily result fatally. Garland is young
lawyer and went 10 Deadwood from Sioux
Falls to enter the employ of the Homestead
Mining Company. He says his cousin
Judge Garland, kept him out of the posi-
ton because of some grievance entertained
against him, and he has been there without
money or means of support. He entered
Ayers and Wardman's hardware store, and
while examining a revolver with a preten
sion of buying it, shot himself. Two or
three hours before this he had been as
suited by Hubbard Patterson. also of Sioux
Falls, who was drunk, and he had just
entered complaint against Patterson.
After the shooting he demanded the re-
volver, saying that he had been contem-
plating death for a week, and wanted TO
finish himself.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
FROM GOMEZ TO M'kINLEv.
Urges the President TO Stop the
Numbering Of Innocent.

Urges the President to Stop the
Numbering Of Innocent.
The following is copy Of q letter from
Insurgent General Gomez to President Me-
Kinley obtained by Chicago newspapers
correspondent in Cuba:
In the Field Near Sancti Espiritu, March
l, 1897. The Hon. William Mckinley,
President of the United States Of America
Dear Sir: Gen. Weyler has arrived in
this district Of Sancti Espiritus with a
numerous army. He comes not to fight
nor TO oppose his strength to the forces
with which / defend these parts, but as a
sanguinary and cruel general, who will
avoid combatS and spread crime and des-
Oiation everywhere. He comes to murder
the peasants in the field, to kill the chill
dren and to drive our prosecuted and out
ragged women to the woods, leaving their
homes to be burned. their hearths vio-
lated and their gardens destroyed. This
is how Gen. Weyler pacifies Sancti Espi-
ritz, or wherever he may be. Then he
authorizes those who ask him for bread for
their children and alienation for their
miseries, to go out into the country and to
steal and destroy whatever they may find.
With this permit me to send you copy
of q letter which had the honor to send
to your predecessor, Mr.. Grover Cleveland.
1t Is with the hope that may move you to
sacred action that induces me to take up
my pen to trouble you.
/ Crown your honorable history of states
manship with noble act of Christian char
ity. Say to Spain that murder must stop;
that cruelty must cease, and put the stamp
OF your authority on what you say.
Thousands of hearts will call down eternal
benedictions on your memory, and God
the supremacy merciful, will see in it the
most meritous work of your entire life.
am your humble servant, NJ. GOMEZ.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
MARKET QUOTATIONS

Chicago-Csttle, common to prime,
$3.50 to 1915: hogs. shipping grades,
$500 to $3.50: sheep, fair to choice. $500
to $4.75; wheat, No. . red. Tic to 73c;
corn. No. 2, 23c to 25c; oats, No. 2. 16c
choice creamery. lie to 19c: eggs, fresh,
DC to Zoe; potatoes, per bushel. zoe to
3Oc: broom corn, common growth to choice
green hurl. $40 to $50 per ton.
Indianapolis shipping, $500 to
1928: hogs. choice light, $500 to $4.25:
sheep, common to choice. $500 to $4.23:
wheat. No. 2. Sac to SEC; corn, No. >
white, DC to 2jc; oats, No. white, pic
to pc.
st. Lonis-Cattle. $500 to $3.50; hogs.
$500 to S4.25: sheep. $500 to $3.50;
wheat. No. 2. 94c to 96c; corn. No. > yell
low, PIC to pc: oats. No. 2 white, lie to
Zoe: rye. No. 2, 33c to 35c.
Cincinnati-Cattle, $3.50 to $500: hogs,
$500 to $4.25: sheep. $3.50 to $4.75:
wheat. No. 2, 0Oc to 92c; corn, No. 2
mixed, 24c to 2Gc: oats. No. mixed, 2Oc
to pc; rye. No. 2. 36c to 3Sc.
Detroit-Cattle. $3.50 to 1925: hogs.
$500 to $4.5O; sheep. $500 to $3.50;
wheat, No. red. Sc to SOC; corn, No. 2
yellow, 2sc to 25c: oats, No. 2 white, 21c
to pc: rye. 3,c to SIC.
Toledo-Wheat, No. red. Ole to 92c:
corn, No ? mixed, o4c to &c; oats. No.
white, Tie to 1Sc; rye, No. >, 37c to 3Sc;
clover seed, $5.lO to $3.50.
Observation-Disclosures, No. 2 spring, 7oc
to 74c; corn, No. 3, PIC to 23c: oats. No.
white, Zoe to 21c; barley. No. ?, Use to
BIC: rye. No. l, 34c to 35c; pork, mess.
$3.50 to $500.
Buffalo'-Cattle, $3.50 to $5.o5: hogs,
$500 to $3.50; sheep, $500 to $5.o5:
wheat, No. ? red, Soc to Ole; corn, No. 2
yellow. 26c to Csc; oats, No. white, PIC
to 23c.
New York Cattle, $500 to $3.50: hogs,
$3.50 to S4.75; sheep. $500 to $5.o5;
wheat, No. red, Soc to Sic; corn, No. 2.
Doc to Bic; oats, No. 2 white, PIC to 23c;
butter, creamery, 15c to zoe; eggs, West
ern, &c = lie.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
A TEXAS HURRICANE.
Several Persons Killed in the
Vicinity of Austin,

oCVer0l PERSONS hhlCO IN the
Vicinity Of Austin.
Texas was visited by general rain and
wind storm Sunday. While the wind
seems to have done its worst in the south
central section, Austin and Calvert suffered
most, three fatalaties resulting at the latter
place. Rain poured all day, the average
fall being one and one-half inches and as
much as three inches in some places. All
trains south of Dallas were abandoned on
account Of washOuts. The Santa Fee
was the worst sufferer, there being
nearly a half dozen breaks
on the line between Dallas and Temple.
The Missouri, Kansas and Texas aban-
doned all north and southbound trains on
the Dallas division on account of the track
being washed out at several points. The
Houston and Texas Central reports bridge
gone on the Fort Worth division and
several small washouts. The track is
obstructed by fallen telegraph poles and
debris about Calvert. The Texas Central
is washed out in several places between
Waco land Cisco. The Texas Midland
bulletined all trains between Greenyille
and Ennis ''indetinitely late.''
A dispatch from Austin says that that
city and surrounding country was visited
by a terrific hurricane that did great dam
age and caused the loss of several lives.
! Several large electric light towers were
blown down. The iron frames were
twisted as though they were of the smallest
| wire, and will be useless. In addition to
| this quite a number Of houses in the res
idence portion of the city were blown
down and in several eases narrow escapes
| from death are reported.
| The small town of Clarksville, near
Austin, was swept by the winds, a number
of small houses being blown down and
several of the inmates badly MANNED. Re-
ports from the surrounding country are to
the effect that the storm was general. The
small town of Buba, was badly handled by
the storm, quite number of houses being
blown down and one or two persons killed,
though their names are not obtainable.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
New River Boat for Pierre.

Capt. +. Senechal, who came up to Pierre
from Chamberlain with the little steamer
Pearl. last year, is now at work on boat
which will be put on the river there this
season in competition with the Northwest.
ern Railroads boat, the Jim Leighton
The boat which is being constructed is &c
be 2:,xS0 feet in size. and will be run by 6
thirty horsepower gasoline engine, Capt
Senechal expects TO have his boat ready tt
place in the river within shor, time. and
will do general ferry business. competing
with the Leighton for the cattle trade
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
SAILORS CRUELTY TREATED.
Survivors of the Clipper +. F.. Cakes
Tell a Story Of Suffering.

Survivors of the Clipper T. +. Cakes
Tell q Story of Suffering.
A story of alleged cruelty at sea told by
the survivors of the crew of the clipper I.
f. Cakes is being put in legal form by the
representatives of the Seaman's union
in New York city. 1t is understood
it will be used in an action soon
to be brought against Capt. Reed
and the owners of the clipper ship,
which reached New York after being $50
days out from Hong Hong. The emanci-
pated seamen, now in the marine hospital,
on the stand alleged that Reed was directly
responsible for the illness of all but two of
the crew; that they were kept on half
rations during the greater part Of the trip,
and the vessel could have made New York
harbor much sooner if the captain had
taken advantage of the favorable condi-
tons which prevailed during much Of the
nine months they were on the water.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01

A mysterious fire occurred in Huron al.
the residence of John l.. Pyle while all the
members Of the family except Miss Ethel
Wills, aged 20, were temporarily absent
The fire was confined to the kitchen, tC
which only small damage was done. Wien
entrance was made the body Of Miss Wills
was found on the floor. Nearly all her
clothes were burned, her face and limbs
charred and life extinct. Her mind was
impaired some months since. but she was
thought to have fully recovered and was
making her home with Attorney Pyle's
family
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
FiTz STARTS EAST WARD.
slopes TO Reap y Harvest from Rich
Exhibition Fields.

H40p0o 60 kteap y Harvest from fslcn
Exhibition Fields.
Champion Fitzsimmons and party have
Started east from San Francisco. The de-
cision was reached suddenly, the object
being, It is said, to precetle Corbett to the
supposedly rich exhibition fields to the
east Of the Sierras. The difficulty with
Arthur J. Meadows, at whose instance
Eitx was arrested Saturday, was arranged
~ . compromise settlement, and then the
start eastward was made. The arrest was
wrought about by the action Of &C. Haller,
Who claimed to represent Fitzsimmons,
aAd who arranged for the Australians ap-
pearance at the Peoples Palace Music Hall
Il Frisco on March 30.i Julian repudi-
ated the agreement, denying that Halter
Was In any way connected with the Fitzsim-
moas party and suit was brought for breach
~ N0nfr0ct
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
Object to the Treaty.

A memorial to congress in the form of a
petition, signed by the people Of California
interested in the beet sugar industry is be-
ing extensively circulated. 1t is a
petition Of protest against the con-
tinuance of the Hawaiian treaty of 1875 and
against the proposed annexation of the
islands. 1t sets forth that the treaty has
been operative against the revenues Of the
United States as well as vitality detrimen-
tai to the beet sugar industry in this coun-
try
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
Paint viii Be Plenty.

An old man residing at Pierre has beer
skirmishing along the bluffs of the Mis-
souri, near there, and claims to have found
a ledge Of rock whick makes the best of
mineral paint. He showed sample of the.
work the paint would do and said he Sc
cured the paint he used by burning the
rock which he had found, when it would
pulverize is his fingers, and mixing the
powder so secured with oil. He refuses to
divulgc the location of his find, hut says
there is enough Of the paint where he
secured that he used to paint the whole
United States"
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
Amendments Oy Gov. Lee.

Gov. Lee has re-appointed DR.. J. w.
Elliott OF Aberdeen, as state veterinary
surgeon. Commissions have also been
issued for Chas. d. Englesby of Water
town, as captain of Company II, S. d. n.
g.; Louis X. Slawson as first lieutenant,
and Frank IL. Adams, as second lieu
tenant of the same company, and for VIM.
5. Gray Of Iankton, as first lieutenant and
assistant quartermaster of the Third batal :
lion.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
BIG COAL MINE DEAL,
jackson County. Ohio, Field Sold to
London Syndicate.

JACKSON county. OhfO, Field Sold to
a London Syndicate.
Papers have been signed and delivered
transferring the entire Jackson County,
Ohio, coal field to the Kruger Syndicate
of London, limited" in consideration Of
s..00O,0OO. The following companies are
in the consolidation and transfer: Su-
perior Coal Company, the Wellston
Coal Company, the Fluhart Coal and
Mining Company, the Milton Coal Com
pany, the Eliza Coal Company, the Tom
Corwin Coal Company, the Alma Coal
Company, the Tom Corwin Mining Com
pany, the Comet Coal Company, the Jones
Coal Company, Emma Coal Company.
Chapman Coal Company, Gosline & Bar
bour, Jackson Hill Coal Company, Jones
IL Morgan, Standard Coal Company,
Northern Coal Company, Buckeye Coal
Company, and Central Coal Company.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
Repairing the Bridges,

The bridges on the main line of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul railway
have been repaired SO that now through
trains run east and west. On the Sioux
City division a train runs from Canton
north to Egan, but none south on this
division. Pile drivers are now at work on
bridges over the Sioux River, but it will be
some weeks before Sioux City trains will
run on this division.
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
Ready to Rush for Land.

Information received at Perry, o. T.,
from Washington is that the Wichita
Indian country, owned and occupied by
the klowa, Comanche and Apache Indians
will be opened by May l. The gold and
has drawn hundreds to the border of this
new country, and the opening is expected
to be of more note than the opening of t.le
Indian territory. With the exception of
one range of mountains these reservations
are the finest farming country in the Indian
territory
Union County courier. [volume] (Elk Point, Union County, D.T. [S.D.]) 187?-1913, 1897-04-01
WAR ON THE POWERS.
Has Been Practically Declared by
the Greek Commander in Crete.

Has Been Practically Declared by
the Greek Commander in Crete.
A long official dispatch from the British
admiral in Cretan waters concludes with
these words: 'Col. Stasses commander of
the Greek army in Crete) has practically
declared war against the powers"
Several British and Russian officers, says
an Athens dispatch, with strong detach-
ment of marines, landed at Retimo, @on the
Goth to notify the insurgents Of the de-
cision of the powers to grant the island
autonomy. While they were parleying
with the insurgents officers under a flag of
truce, hostilities between the Christians
and Turks in the town re-opened and the
detachment retired.