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The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-08-14
ELDER WILL SAIL TOMORROW.


Portland. August iy-gne steamer Geo.
" Elder will star, on her second voy-
.g, TO Dyca. Alaska, next sunday night
us IL has bcon found impossible to get
h,r on tomorrow The Elder probably
will not have so many passengers rs on
the first trip. but viii have much more
freight as the result Of the efforts Of
Portland drummers who went on the
Elder 10 see what could DE done in the
way OF establishing trade with Alaska.
In addition To miscellaneous cargo
the steamer will take deckload or
about 1000 feet Of lumber consigned to
Skaguay a frame house will also be
sent
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-08-14
WEYLER TO LEAVE.

New York. August ia cable to the
Journal from Madrid says that intimate
friends of General Weyler state that he
will shortly leave Cuba, finding a good
pretext in the death of Canovas, who
almost alone supported him. Moreover,
weyler and General Azcarraga, the min
lster of war and now president Of the
cabinet, have never been good friends.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-08-14
ATTEMPTED SUICIDE.

Oaksdale, Wash, August 1S.-J. A. Ilol-
oway. of Genesee. Idaho, attempted to
commit suicide here this afternoon by
Jumping from car window while the
train was moving at high rate of speed.
No cause can be assigned, as Holloway
Is still unconscious. He was accompa-
MED by his wife, The would-be suicide
was returning home from a visit to the
East
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-08-14
DUN's REPORT.

New York. August l3-R. G.. Dun &
Company's Weekly Review tomorrow
viii say.
Every city reporting thiS week notes
en increase in trade and nearly all re-
port big crop prospects.
The strong rise in stocks, the growth
OF bank clearings and railroad earnings,
the increased speculation in may prod
ucts. but most Of all in wheat. have
made the week one of SURPRISING IN
terest, even to those who best remember
the upward rush in 1879.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-08-14
THE CALL CHANGES HANDS.

San Francisco, August 13-The an
nouncement was made this afternoon
that the management of the Morning
Cali has been changed. Charles NJ. Short
ridge, formerly of San Jose, being sue
ceeded by W. S. Leake, formerly editor
of the Dixon Tribune, a leading demo-
crat in state politics.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-08-14
WHEAT DECLINES.

New York. August 13.-Wheat values
today tumbled and 8 cents from yes
terday's high point of sO%c for Septem-
her. The decline was attended by heavy
unloading OF long wheat It piled into
the market from all quarters. Influenced
by weakness abroad.
The daily morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1883-1899, 1897-08-14
THE MARKETS.

Liverpool August S.-Wheat-Strong.
san Francisco August 13.-Wheat-
Shipping, 81. 45l5 for No. l and S1.4Sa. for
choice milling, Sl52ls and $1.57l4.
New York. August 13.-Hops-Qulet
Portland. August 13.-Wheat-Valley
SIC: Walla Walla, Sic
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25
A WEEKS RECORD
ALI the News of the Past Seven
Days Condensed.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
News of the Industrial Field, Personal
and Political Items, Happenings
at Home and Abroad.
HOME AND FOREIGN ITEMS
THE NEWS FROM ALL THE WORLD
CONGRESSIONAL.

Proceedings OF First Regular Session.
A bill was passed In the senate on the
18th providing for the prohibition of pela-
gic sealing by Americans. The session
closed with spirited civil service debate
upon the bill providing for the appoint
ment of director of the census. The
house spent the day In the consideration
of the legislative, executive and judicial
appropriation bill and SO of the 112 pages
of the bill were covered. A resolution was
adopted for holiday recess from Decem-
ber Is to January 8.
A bill was passed in the senate on the
10th appropriating S25O,000 for the relief of
American miners and other sufferers in the
Yukon valley in Alaska. A resolution was
adopted for holiday recess from Decem-
ber is to January g. The nominations of
Joseph McKenna, of California, to be as
sociate justice of the supreme court, and
Charles G. Dawes, of Illinois, to be comp
troller of the currency, were received from
the presdent....In the house a bill requir-
ing all immigrants on reaching here to be
able to read or write was favorably re-
ported, and bill was passed appropriating
$l75,000 for relief of people in the Yukon
valley. A bin prepared by Secretary Gage
for revision of the national currency sys-
TEN was introduced.
A joint resolution accepting the invitation
of Norway to participate in an interna-
tional fisheries exposition next year was
passed in the senate on the 18th, also 13S
private pension bills. Resolutions on the
death of William Steele Holman, late rep
resentative from Indiana, were adopted.
In the house the consideration of the legis-
lative, executive and judicial appropriation
bill was completed, excepting the para
graph relating to the civil service.
The senate on the 18th received and
adopted the conference report on the bill
appropriating 100000 for the relief of min
A,,A -,
nation of William Penn Nixon as collector
of customs at Chicago was confirmed Ad-
journed to January 5....In the house the
conference report on the emergency re-
lief measure for the Klondike country was
presented and agreed to. Adjourned to
January &
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25

James Mitchell, solicitor-general In
the New Brunswick cabinet and former.
| ly premier OF the province, died at ST.
Stephen.
A dispatch from Shanghai asserts
that China will acquiesce in Germany's
retention of Kiao-Chou.
In bull fight at Guadalajara, Mexico.
three persons were killed and nine
,thers seriously injured, and in sim
liar performance in the City Of Mex
leo ten horses and six bulls were killed.
The total output of sugar from the
Hawaiian islands for the year just clos
ing is 24s,567 tons, against 24s,555 tons
last year.
The Canadian government has decided
TO permit Americans to ship goods into
Alaska through Canadian territory in
bond.
A Russian squadron took possession
of Port Arthur, on the Chinese coast.
The Cuban insurgents put to death
Col. Ruiz, who was sent by Gen. Blanco
to induce the insurgent leader Arangu-
ren to surrender.
La Minerve, the only French morning
newspaper in Montreal has suspended
after an existence of nearly so years.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25

MAINE has IS starch factories, the
largest number of any one state. Over
$1,000 persons are employed in this in.
dustry in the United States, and the
annual value of the output is $40, ,OOO,.
GEO. About 1884, 512 bushels OF potatoes
ARE used yearly to produce $1,000, 200
pounds of starch the value of which is
1854, 69T. In the west starch is made
chiefly from wheat and Indian corn.
in respect to the amount of capital
represented il starch works New Y York
stands away and beyond all others.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25
500 Reward 500.

The readers of this paper will be pleased
10 learn that there is at least one dreaded
disease that science has been able to cure in
all its stages, and that is Catarrh. Halls
known to the medical fraternity. Catarrh
being a constitutional disease, requires o.
constitutional treatment. Hallr Catarrh
Cure is taken internally, acting directly
upon the blood and mucous surfaces of the
system, thereby destroying the foundation
strength by building up the constitution and
assisting nature in doing its work. The
proprietors have so much faith in its cura.
tive, powers that they offer One Hundred
Dollars for any case that it fails to cure.
Send for list of testimonials.
address Z j. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o.
Sold by Druggists, 75c.
Halle Family Pills are the best.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25
VIII Work for uanna's Election.

Cleveland, Dec. 1s.-The members OF
the Republican Business Mems club,
who did great service for Mckinley
during the campaign Of tsDe. will visi,
Columbus in the interest of Hanna,
and will be present at ihe opening OF
the Legislature. The great majority
of the club are Hanna men. A special
train has been chartered and will be
decorated with Hanna banners. 1t is
expected that 600 business men will
descend on the legislators and work
for Hanna
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25

FoR 40 years the old stone house at
Tappan, N. Y, which was converted
into prison during the revolutionary
war, and about which cluster memoir
les of one of the most tragic incidents
of that dark time, has been closed to
public view. 1t was behind those gray
walls that Maj. John Andre spent the
last days of his short life, and it was
from that house that he was taken on
October 2, 1850, and executed as a spy.
Now it is being converted into a pub.
lie resorted, and those darkened room, +,
will re-echo with merry laughter and
the rhythmic shuttle of dancing feet
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25

AMONG the bills introduced at the
present session is one which proposes
to put on the retired list as officers of
the United States navy, without pay,
past, present or future all surviving
nctive volunteer officers who served
for year or more in the rebel
lion. 1t is further provided that
each of these officers being on the re-
tired list shall be presented with a
regulation sword, with the inscriptions:
Presented by the United States in
recognition of services in the United
States navy during the war of the re.
bellion"
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25
LAT Err,

AT Pawtucket, r. l., on the 21st 100
operatives employed in the mills of the
Royal Weaving Co. left work and
Joined the silk weavers who were dis
charged because they would not teach
beginner. The strikers now include
about two-thirds of the entire force
The retirement of national bank
notes during the first 20 days of this
month reached the sum of So, 600, 900.
This is said to be the first time in ten
years that the voluntary retirements
have reached this amount in any one
month.
MAYOR HARRISON, of Chicago, vetoed
the bill giving aldermen salary of
81, 500 year, but the council passed
the measure over his head
ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF THE TREAS
URY SPAULDING has ordered the re-
lease of the schooner Silver Heels at
Wilmington, N. C. This step was ta-
ken on report by the United States
attorney that he could obtain no evil
dence upon which to proceed against
the vessel for flibustering.
GEN. ALEXANDER b. CAMPLELL of
Rushville, Ind, committed suicide at
hotel in Chicago ON the 21st. He took
morphine. Ten years ago he was the
leading republican of Kansas and ad-
jutant general of that state AT one
time he was quite wealthy.
JUDGE LoCHREN has decided that the
Minnesota pink law" providing that
all oleomargarine or butterine offered
for sale in that state must be colored a
bright pink, is constitutional.
NOTICE of reduction in wages was
posted at the Farnumsville, Mass, car
pet mill on the 21st, but the amount of
decrease was not stated. The cut
down will take place on December 27
and will affect 200 hands. The mill
started up last September after being
idle about year.
The action of the French chamber of
deputies in passing a bill increasing
the duties on hogs hog products, lard,
etc, is regarded in Washington as re-
taliatory in effect against the United
States.
Two men were killed and two were
seriously injured by rear-end colli-
sion on the Chicago & Eastern Illinois
railway at Cayuga, Ind, on the 21st.
Passenger Train No. 7 ran into an open
switch and crashed into the rear end
of freight train which lay ON the
sidetrack.
OWING to the depressed price of
sugar in the island of jamaica busi-
ness there is almost paralyzed, Many
owners of sugar plantations are selling
their property at half its value and
leaving Jamaica
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25

Two thousand dollars deposited by a
man named Samuel Lord has been pill.
ing up interest at the Somersworth, N.
H, bank for 36 years, during which
time nobody has appeared to claim it.
The fact was published, and after in.
vestigations and other necessary de
lays, Mrs. Lucy S. Towle, of Newfield,
a granddaughter of Mr.. Samuel Lord,
of Parsonsfeld, has been proved the
lawful heir, and comes into the inher.
itance of the $1,000 plus the sum OF
IS. .667. 81 interest.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25
INTERESTING OHIO NEWS
Gathered By Telegraph from All
Parts of the State.
No Lnck Of nanna Headquarters.

Columbus. Dec. 81. Hanna leaders
have secured three separate headquar-
ters at the state capital. They will be
lively hooks until after the Legislature
has elected its candidate for the United
States senate. Senator Hanna him
self will be stationed in commodious
quarters at the Neil house. Howard
Burgess, of Cleveland, will do the
honors at the Chittenden, while Charlie
Leach, also of Cleveland will take
care of other parties at headquarters
In. the Great Southern hotel.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25

BEFORE sailing for Europe and en-.
countering the perils of a globe trot-
er, George w. Vanderbilt took out
81 100000 insurance on his life. The
policy was taken in the Mutual Life
Insurance company. 1t is the largest
policy ever issued by any company in
the world. The next largest policy
ever written is said to have been en-.
tered into by an English concern,
which reinsured much of the risk in
other companies The policy is in the
straight life, twenty-year class, and
the annual premium is S35, 900.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25

The Belgians are extremely careful
of their historic souvenirs. In the
front of house situated in the Eau.
ibourg de Shearbuch in Brussels, there
is to be seen, half buried in plaster, a
cannon ball which was fred from a
Dutch cannon some time during the
revolution of 1880, and has ever since
been permitted to remain where it
struck. Recently it was determined
to restore and refront the house, and
at was decided to make the repairs
without disturbing the cannon ball.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25
MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

The British post office makes $4,000
year by unclaimed money orders.
More than third of the French
crown jewels have been bought by
Americans.
The savings banks of the dominion
have on deposit $49,O0o00o of the money
of the people of Canada.
Dennis Shea, the originator of the
mistit clothing business, died at his
home in New York in his 65th year.
Great Britain's marine steam tonnage
is to-day 6,T2o, ,703-about as much as
that of all other nations addedtogether.
The Carlisle (Pa.) Indian school foot
ball team cleared $1,000 as result of
the games played during the past sea-
Bon.
British capital is pouring into Brit
ish Columbia. 1t is estimated that i S.
o0000o will be taken there by syndi-
Gates.
About 100000 kilograms were sent
10 the United States last year, while
the telephone was used ten times as
often.
According to the chief fire warden of
Minnesota the total damage 10 forests
in that state by fire this year will not be
over $4,000.
A Georgia paper offers a years sub
scription for every adult 'possum. and
two years subscription for full-grown
male 'possum.
Miss Minnie Powers. of Lockport, n.
Y. is eight feet in height, lacking one
inch. She is the tallest woman in the
United States.
A treaty between the United States
and the Seminole nation has been con-
cluded and signed by the Dawes and
Seminole commissioners.
Colorado expects to receive not less
than S6,0O0,0OO fom the states big
fruit crop this year, the greatest which
the centennial state has ever known.
The Society of the Army of the Po-
tomac has decided 10 erect $4,000
monument at Washington to George b.
Mcclellan, the first commander of that
army.
Trunk line railroads are said to have
secured control of nearly the entire
water front of Greater New York and
to be freezing out the lighterage and
barge concerns.
The Congregational church in Gisum,
n. H., completed 1875 years of existence
the other day. The damask linen cloth.
woven on a hand loom. about 1890. is
still used to cover the communion table.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25

THE agricultural department is now
engaged in series of experiments
with the laying of steel tracks on
country roads which open up possibili-
ties of economical hauling of which
past generations never dreamed. 1t
appears that roads may be equipped
with these rails at cost not greatly if
at all in excess of macadamizing, and
perhaps much more cheaply. Private
experimenters are working along the
same lines, and the results obtained by
some of them are truly astonishing.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25

The Luke Bros, who received the
contract for manufacturing postal
cards, have completed the building for
the plant at Luke, near Cumberland,
Md. 1t is estimated that 1000, 900 cards
q day will be about the capacity of the
plant This is the first time that postal
cards have been manufactured south
OF Mason and DiXon's line. There will
be two sizes of cards, the larger meas.
nring five and one-half inches long and
three and one-quarter inches wide. On
the larger card the profile of jefferson
will be printed, while the smaller card
will carry the likeness of John Adams.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25
T.lre destroved ihe nntnl nncntnh nna

two wholesale grocery stores in Crane
Forks, N. D., the total loss being $500,
900, and a. G. Howe and his wife per
ished in the hotel fire.
Two children of Albert Kellner, oil
Muchakinock, Ia, perlshed in the
flames which burned his dwelling.
Murderers were hanged as follows:
Grady Reynolds and Bud Brooks j eff.
ferson, Ca; Bud Beerd (colored), aged
IA years, at Carrollton, Ala; William
johnson at Covington, Tenn, and viii.
liam Carr at Liberty, Mo.
The two children of Mrs. Granville
Morgan were cremated in Kansas City,
Kan, during the absence of their moth
er.
The Citizens bank at 0elwein, Ia, Fl.
G. Sturgis & Co., proprietors, made a
voluntary assignment and closed its
, doors. Liabilities, $4,000.
Twenty-Five horses were burned to
death in Joseph Badenoch's barn in
Chicago.
jacob We'll, aged SO, one of Chicago's
best known real estate owners and cap
italists, shot himself dead in his Office
while temporarily insane.
In fight in New York for the middle
weight championship of the world Dan
Creedon, of New Zealand, was whipped
by kid" Mccoy, of Indiana, in the
fifteenth round.
William w. Thomas, Jr,, of Maine,
has been selected as minister plenipo-
tentiary of the United States to Swe-
den and Norway, and Hamilton King,
of Michigan, as minister to Siam.
In Chicago j. Hanrahan and Patrick
Ferris, judges of election, were con-
victed of falsifying returns and sem
fenced to the penitentiary.
At the session of the American Fed
GRAFTON of Labor in Nashville, Tenn,
it was ordered that representative be
ordered to stay in Washington and
watch legislation.
The National Civil Service Reform
league in session in Cincinnati reelected
Carl Schurz president.
1t has developed that the bill relating
topelagic sealing, which has just passed
both branches of congress, prohibits
the further bringing of sealskins into
the United States from any source
whatever.
A gasoline stove exploded in Holy
olSe, Mass, killing Mrs. Amelia Koegel,
aged 35, and Alfred Kenell, aged two
years.
The Northwestern overland limited
train was wrecked at Vail, Ia, and 10
persons were injured.
r. Monarch, one of the largest dis
tillers in Kentucky, failed at Owens
boro for S75o.OOO.
Slight shocks of earthquake were felt
at Ashland and Richmond. Va.
In the convention of the American
Federation of Labor at Nashville Sam
uel Gompers was reelected president
and Kansas City was chosen as the
next place of meeting.
The wages of 10000 window glass
workers in the Pittsburgh district have
been raised Is per cent.
The Mermod G. Jaccard jewelry COM
pany in ST. Louis lost $685., 900 by fire
that destroyed their stock.
Thirty-three men were injured. two
fatally, in collision on the Rio Grande
road near Castle Rock, Col.
John Straus was dead and his two
sons were dying from drinking coffee
at Elk City, Kan, into which rat poison
had dropped accidentally.
A locomotive exploded near Repton,
Ala, killing the engineer, John O'Con-
nor, the fireman, Jack Clipper, and two
trainmen, John johnson and Henry
Vickery.
Snow fell to the depth of two feet
over the greater portion of Nebraska.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25

Columbus, Dec, IA northbound
freight train on the Little Miami rail-
way collided with southbound freight
near West jefferson yesterday. The
engines were badly wrecked. as were
also a number of cars. The trainmen
jumped and saved their lives. The
wrecked cars contained hogs and a
large number were killed
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25
All About Alaska.

Descriptive folder containing five maps OF
most complete publication of the kind in
print. Send cents in stamps to +. |. Whit.
ney G. p. q t. A. Great Northern railway,
Sd and Broadway, st. Paul, MINI. Alaska,
Land of Gold and Glacier" beautifully
Illustrated booklet, sent for fifteen cents
in stamps. The Great Northern is over 100
miles the, shortest line from st. Paul and
Minneapolis to Seattle and Portland, the
outhtting points whence steamers sail for
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25

ATTEMPTS to evade the death duties
act are causing queer complications in
England An old man transferred all
his property by deed of gift to his
young wife, not expecting that he
would survive her She made will leav.
ing it to former beau of hers, and
then was killed on the hunting field.
The husband was thus left dependent
on the lovers generosity.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25

Columbus, Dec. 1S-Robert Richard
son, of Martins Ferry, charged with
impersonating pension officer, was
acquitted yesterday in the United
States court by jury 1t developed
that Richardson had been arrested by
a man who impersonated deputy
United States marshal and this had
much to do with Richardson's acquit-
tai
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25

CHARLES HULsHIZER, an Erie railroad
engineer, who runs one of the fastest
trains over the Delaware division, had
an exciting experience in three mile
race between a deer and his engine,
No. III Just as his train bowled int
Sinners cut he saw noble buck
standing on the railroad track in ad.
vance of him. AS the train reached
the animal it started to run. HUI
shizer let out his engine, but the deer
kept fully 20 yards ahead of him, and
for three miles kept up pace equal to
the train, and finally jumped from TIL,
track, gave snort and disappeared in
the woods
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25
Reached an Agreement.

Columbus, Dec. 2S.-As result of
the recent conference in New York be-
tween the officers of the Ohio soft coal
railroads it was announced yesterday
that an agreement regarding prices
and rates of transportation had been
reached. the agreement is said to be
for two years and is expected to put
the trade on a better basis than for
wears naSt.
Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1897-12-25
Is Wanted tor swindlinr.

Columbus, Dec. 22.-James Morgan,
under arrest in ST. Louis, is wanted
here for obtaining $50 from II. w.
Longneclser, an employe of the Colum.
bus Buggy Co, for an interest in pat
ent which it afterwards developed
Morgan did not own. He operated the
swindle thronrhont Ohin