The Seattle Star Newspaper, April 12, 1899, Page 3

cp . ro “~ % i fi cope receee nse TNT RT PET VET I ET eI MEI THE SEATTLE STAR. 38 Pacific Coast Steamship Company Tor San Francisco The company want at Queen, Walla Watla, and Umatilla leave Seattle § a. m via Port Townsend and Victoria, Maroh 5, 10, 15, 20, 90, April 4, 8 14, 19, 24, 2%, May 4, and every fifth day there- after, Leave San Francisco For Seattle 10 a, m., via Victoria and Port Townsend, Maroh 2 7, 12, 27, $3, April 1, 6, U4, 16, 21, 26, May 1, and every fifth day thereafter, FOR ALASKA The elegant steamships Cottage City, City of Topeka and Al-Ki leave Seattic 9 a. m, March 1, 6, 11, 16, 26, ‘S1, April 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 20, May 5, and every fifth day thereafter, For further information obtain folder. The company reserves the right to change, without previous notice, steamers, sailing date, and hours of walling. J. F. TROWPRIDGR, Puget Sd. Supt., Ocean Dk, Seattle. Uptown ticket office, 618 First av., Seattle; Goodall, Perkins & Co., Gen, Washington & Alaska __ STEAMSHIP COMPANT. Alaska Lightning Express STEAMSHIP (TTY OF SEATTLE Salis from Yesier Whart Thorsday, April 13, at 10 P.M. FoR-—— Skagway and Dyed DIRECT ‘Subsequent Sailings, April 20M, May Od and Me G. F. THORNDYKE, Agent. “Phone Man 470,116 YESLER WAY 612 First ave im 147. ey 66h m= Grae JAPAN-AMERICAN LINE Carrying U. & Mail to ai! Oriental Points “Idzumi Maru” Will Sail For Sale Room 4 New York BLocx. REAL E Real estate transfers fled terday were: KR. O, Hangen to R. O. Mangen, $80, Jota 9 and 10 bike 61, 8 PB. 1. Co’ TRANSFERS yen. Huntington Park add, to Dew Mot Wash, Clara M. Yoakam and husband to Joseph W. Townley and Mike Wells, $75, lots 76, TT and 78 bik 1 Portland & Puget Sound raiiroad ada, Michael Love and wife to Philbert Lassoie $275, lot 3 bik 2, Renton, Manfor A. Van Valey to Josephine Gooding, $2000, lots 1 and 2 Judkins add. Sheriff Van De Vanter to Parts- 89 Vietorio, $1100, lots 1 and 12 bIK 14, Commercial street steam motor add, also lot 11 bik 28 South Beat- tle add., platted by John J. Moss, Witiam Goodman to Rebecea Goodman, lot 4 bik 35, 8 A, Bell's second add. J. B. Marvin and wife to Corwin) 8. Shank, $2000, aw \% of aw % feo) 29 tp 26 nr 5 @ of W. M, contain. ing 40 acres, George Fowler and wife to Jamen) Strouf, $400, lot & bik 9 tp of Sno-| quaimie Fails. / John Anderson and wife to Ole Holek, $320, lot 7 bik 11, Gilman park add, | add. Fall City. Dolay Return of Fla, INDIANAPOLIS, Ind., April 12. legistature that it would be impos- sible for the State of Indiana to re- turn the flag of the Texas rangers until next fall, The reason given by | the governor i# that the small appro- priatton and the short period 07 tine would not permit the making of ar- rangements for a proper represen~- tation for Indiana on the retura of the trophy. “Speaking of railway securities,” said Flint, “what do you understand by ‘common’ and ‘prefprred’ stgck ?" “As nearly as I can make out.” re~ plied Tompkins, “commen stock Is what it i before it's run over by the cars, and preferred stock kind it is when the injured owner sends his bill to the company.” 1431 Second Ave. - - - New New People See The Star To These Every Day The Facts May Again That THE STAR i tended for busy people. all of the news crisp, condensed Be Stated Is a newspaper in- It contains of the world in a form. The reader is not obliged to wade through dreary columns of matte facts. Short, sna that is THE STAR'S motto. ONE MORE THE STAR is strictly non-partisan, and is not an org anybody. a trifle—only 25 Telephone Pike STAR for a month It simply prints the news. As for the subscription price, it is or to get at a few ppy, to the point— INTIMATION. an for anything or cents per month. 150 and get THE jat Scents a pound, It ON TRUSTS ‘An Evangelist Defends Them. ATLANTA, Ga. April 12.—Sam Jones, the sensational evangetint,” is out In @ newspaper statement in which he defends trusts in his own Pecullar manner. He says in part “I have heard much about the Standard O61 trust, but I am not go- ing to kick against it as long an it furni me and my nelmhbor oll at 10 cents a gation, I have no kick on the Pennsylvania or Southern Railway companies, even if they are called combines and monop: ton they furnish me and my no Frances M. Weaverling to J. P.| neighbor with swift-moving trains Baumgard, $75, lot 2 bik 4 Ross) with a minimum of danger and a maximum of comfort for the least Lennie Gibson and husband to J. | price humanity ever traveled at, and A. Cooper, $85, lot 16 bik 13, plat of ship our goods 1000 miles cheaper than we could haul them In a wagon ten mile The great sugar trust don't give us much room for kick~ ing when they furnish us with sugar oma to me these great combines are made Gov, Mount today notified the Texas) not go much to equeese the public, but to pool issues and profits. with there were trusts enough for all of us, but there are not course the thing will go to seed some day, and these massive fortunes and monumental combines will crumble and fall of their own weight, and woe b unto him on whom they fall.” MARKET QUOTATIONS Wednesday Morning. ~ Trade was quite brisk on West street this morn- jing. Greenstuff is about cleaned up. There are no cabbages or cauli- flower. Native rhubarb i scarce. the | There is no change in the hay, arain and feed mark are still stig quoting at Ifo and selling at Ife. The fish market Is quiet. Saimon are scarce, The Columbia river season opens next Saturday and the market will ease up a trifle then, The Cottage City brought down 4,000 pounds of halibut this morn- ing. The following prices are being of- fered to the producer by the local dealers for delivery in round lots on the dock or in the car at Seatth Grain — Oats, $26; barley, $24; wheat, chicken feed, 09; bran, $15; shorts, $16. May — Puget sound. $7 per ton; Eastern Washington timothy, $11.00 @1%; alfalfa, $8. Eggs — Strictly fresh ranch, 16@ We. 10Glle: Butter — Fresn creamery, 22@25e. Poultry — Chickens, live, Me; live turkeys, 12¢. Live Stock—Choice beef cattle, cows 4c; atecrs, 44 (Se; good hogs, live, essed, ranch, Ke; hogs, a 4c; calves, dreaned, large, 6c; small, 9c; calves, live, large, small be. Hides, Pelta and Wool — Heavy sound salted steers, over @ pounds, So; medium sound, per pound, Tc. Nght sound, under % pounds, Te; cows, sound, all weights, Tc; stags, bulls and oxen, 4@Sc; salted kips, Te; calves, per pound, Se; green hides, te leas than salted; dry hides, per pound, 12e; dry culls, one-third leas; summer deer, per pound, 2@ 2c; winter deer, dry. M@isc; papery deer, 9@12c; dry elke, 9@10e; ereen elk, (@5e; sheep pelts, 26@%4e; ah lings, 15@26e; Eastern Washington wool, fe; Western Washington wool, 120; dirty or timber burned, 160; tal- low, 4OT%C. Jo! 1c Quotati: ‘The jobbing quotations today were as follows: Sugar (jobbing)—Golden C, In bbls, 4%; extra C, in bbla, 4%; powdered, S%c; Ary granulated, 5%c; cube, 6%; an aged negro woman who has turn-| beet, 6%; spot cash prices. Flour, etc. Uobbing)—Patent Fx- cellent, $3.25; Novelty A, $2.00; Star (bakers), $2.76; California brands, 4.10; corn meal, yellow, $1.00 per 100 Ibs tn 10-tb sacks; corn meal, white, $1.55 per 100 Iba In 10-1b sacks; buck~ wheat flour, pure, $3.60 per 90 Ibs in 9-Ib sacks; cracked wheat, $2.25 per 100 Ibs In 10-Ib sacks; farina, $2.85 per 100 Ibe in 10-Ib xacks; farina, $3 per 100 Iba in 5-Ib sacks; steel-cut oat meal, $3.90 per 100 Ibe in 10-Ib sacks; graham flour, $1.15 per 100 Ibs in 10-1b sacks; whole wheat flour, $1.85 per 100 Ibs in 10-Ib sack: per 100 Ibs in 10-1b sacks; rye flour, $2.25 per 100 Ibs in 10-Ib aacks; split peas, 100-Ib sacks, $2.50; eplit peas, $2 per 100 Ibs in 25-Ib boxes: pearl barley, $4.25 per 100 Ibe in sacks wheat flakes, 75-Ib boxes, $2.10; wheat flakes, $2.50 per case of 36 2-Ib pkgs; fancy rolled oats, $2.85 per bale, in 9-Ib sacks; corn meal, yellow, $2.80 per bbl in 50-Ib sacks; corn meal white, $2.90 per bbi in 60-Ib sacks; buckwheat flour, pure, $7.20 per bbl. in 60-lb sacks; cracked wheat, 4 per bb! in 50-ib sacks; atee! cut oat meal, $6.50 per bbl in 50-1b sacks; graham flour, $2.90 per bbi in 50-1b sacks; whole wheat flour, $3 per bbl in 60-Ib sacks; rye meal, $3.75 per bbl in, 60-Ib sacks; rye flour, % per bbl; fancy rolled oats, 180 Ibs net bbia, $5.45; fancy rolled oats, 90-Ib sa } filberts, Me; almonds, fancy, 18@200; almonds, No. peanuts, 6@7e; pine, Me; 100; eoeonnuts, doxen, corn, 40 per Ib, Hay, Grain and Food May Gobbing) Pu Sound, per ton, $19; Baatern Washington tims othy, $1904; alfalfa, $10. Oats Gobbing)-Per ton, $24, Rarley-Itolled Corn—Whole, $22.00; cracked, $23; feed meal, per ton, $23, d—Wheat, $21; oil cake meal, b; middiings, $210°23; bran, $17; jshorts, $18; chopp: 1 feed, $20022; dairy chopped feed, $16; seed oate, $003) Fresh Meat Gobbing)—Cow beef, Se per Ib Ib; pork, 7% per Ib; Veal, large, Se per 1b; small, 100. Provisions Gobbing)—Hams, large, 10% Mio; breakfast bacon, 11 ted sides, Te. Lard Gobbing)—Home-made, perlb, } Moat Prices. | to; White Star, Se; Coin Special, Se; lard, compound, tlerees, 640; Rex, 8% Frosh Fish Gobbing)=Matibut, % steelhead # trout, 1% ml, bo; 124%@15e; shrimps, le; shad, amelt, 4@5e; Columbia river amelt, 24; herring, 34P4e; tom cod, do; oysters, Olympia, 3.60 per sack, $1.80 per gallon; clama, $1.0 per snack; Dungeness craba, live, $1.10; cooked, $1.20. Vegotadi: Potatoes (obbing) -— White River Durbanks, #7440; Island Barly Rose $35; Island White, $35@38; Yakima and Oregon, $4; native —_ sil- ver akin onlons, $12618 per ton gon an. Yakima sliver akin, fancy, H18G2 per ton; beets, $1 per sack; carrots @o per sack; rutabagas, Glo per sack; turnt Ge per sack; cabbage, 2c: paranips, Wce@H per sack; cauliflower, We per dozen; green peas, 6c; artichokes, 60 per dozen; garlic, 9; celery, California asparagus, 5@60 per tb rhubarb, 2@4%c per Ib; tomatoes, $2.25 per case. Tike; falmon salmon, S4P 100; flounders, 9@4; soles, 40; rock trout, Freits. Gebbing) — Or soedling, $202.00; navele, §2,75@4; lemon $24; apples, fancy, $1.25 @2 per box; cooking appies, 66e@6i per be Dananas, §1.76@2.00 per buneh; California black fig, 20-Ib | boxes, $1.00; Smyrna figs, tbe per Ib: new dates, Tie; sweet apple cid cartons, $1 Med. sweets, $2259 | 2.00; tangarines, $1. Green Fruit Loge—#uperior quality, per M, No. 1 fir, 4@7; merchantable fr, H.4@ | 5.75; No, 1 cedar, $607; common, per | M. $2.40@5; spruce logs, $6.50; cedar shingle bolita, §2.2562.0. Fir Lumber—Rough, $8; thick fin- ish, surfaced, one or two aides, §, 10 and 12 Inches wide, 15@20, lengths 12 to 16 feet; special lengths, We per | M extra; one-ineh finish, $19@18; all | vertical grain, $4 per M extra. | Flooring, dressed and matched, }$1; stock board S-inch, 89@1) ; | inch, $9.40@ 18; 12-inch, $18@19. Fene-| ing, No. 4 or ¢-ineh finish, $9; No. 3, $9; V or channel rustic or drop sid- fing, welght 2000 Ibe, $1114. Fir tim~ antiings, rough, 016; 8181 KB, cogs; 8 4 8, HiGM. Box boards, i-inch and up, ns. Washington Red Cedar Lumber —| ding, weight 700) | Rough, $8@9; bevet | tbe, $14015. 0; ceiling, welehts Noa, 1. }2 and & %-ineh, 1200 Ibe; Now 4, 2 nd 3, %-inch 700 ibn, $19¢P27; wains- coting, S1OG14; runtic, $26@29; A shingles, $1.25; standard shingles, | $1.10; I-inch finish, 12, 14 and 16 feet, | $254; thick fintsh, $28@2¢; cedar | squares, 7, %, 9 and 10 feet, $2499; | pickets, $12. | Kiln-dried, $1 in advance of green. | Drayage, 5c. (CHANGIN HER FACE | BS ARE EO An Old Nogress of Newark | Has Turned White. NPWARK, April 12 Newark has almost entirely tors say th white, The doc- t if she Hves a few years * fair as a Circassian. f thie When she was ago, and up to her 70th birthday , her complexion was of a rich dark brown. One day when she was combing her hair she notice ed queer on her head ahe will be Dinah Thompson is then am remarkable woman. born 85 years white spots They enlarged and others appeared | Now|} and spread all over her body nothing is left of her original color except a few dark cpots on her face and neck. Hér hair, which ten years ago was coal black, is whi Her hands are as smooth, white and dell- ate as if she had been provided with a skin entirely new Biue strongly marked, show plain- ly through her skin. She has lived In this « all her life, and has been a widow for many years. year ago her cane came to the atten- tion of physicians, and they have watched the ca with great Inter- eat Three Railway Men De WOODLAND, April 12-—One of the queerest superstitions among railroad men t# that one fatality among the employes Is almost cer- tainly followed by two othera before $5.20; fancy rolled oats, per case, ine hooder” ta broken. Henry F $2.75. * ~ : thac wa. brakem and , Coffee (obbing)—Green ieee at lear ‘ms bag gece fon per tb, 29@310; Java, per Ib, 24@ Gieiaae che aa Conta Rica, choice, ‘per Ib, 15@ide, | T°"! pets. od RE us Roasted—Arbuckle’s, In 100-1b cases, |) in were employed on this divislor per cwt., $11.75; 60-Ib cases, per cwt, |” P . ny 5 - Young r was taken ill on Fri $11.46; 16-1b cases, per ewt, $11.95; |} Paved mciyitone dave’ wiene Java, {0-1b tins, per Ib, Gin cotaat in bieen Bachvh Ras Agen Moahe, #05 was confined to his bed but five days Guatemala, 21c; ground coffe nate compa ge Magenta 20c; Lion, 1008, $11.76; 658, $11.86; 360, |S2Me May and at the same hour, $11.96. on Saturday their bodies were s by in the same undertaking Butter, Cheese, Eggs and Poultry Pir! ‘ These coincidences set the railroad Butter — Ranch = 10@120; fancy men to discussing the old superatt dairy, in squares, 15@17c; Washing-| tion, and there were many gloomy 1b 2@26c; | conjectures as to where on the dl Eastern, Iowa and ¥ vision death would make a third vi Cheese Gobbing) Waah tation. ‘They re not kept long 12%@1e;. Eastern, 12%@ jn suepen This morning RB. L Dunlap, a brat yn the Redain ae (Jobbing) — Strictly fresh | freight train, met a violent death ranch, 180. While engaged In uncoupling cars Comb honey — California, 180; | at Conant toh, near Red Bluff, strained, 7% h imbled and fell, and before h Poultry—Dreased chickens, @6es| eouid yecover wheels of a car live chickens, Ie: live turkeys, 4@ upon him. He was killed tn ibe; dressed geese, 12@14c; dressed tl turkeys, 16@1T¢ — : Ruts. ag 1 DF, Alb rt a ores t ie in ew York, his dental practiee will be Walnuts, per 1b, sacks, 12@14c;| attended to by Albin & Smith, den Eastern black walnuts, 10¢; pecans, | tists, oom 10, Sullivan Mlock, ii AM lpi ga IN i i ii eon, FROM ABOVE ‘Bombard a Vessel on | the Atlantic. ! NDW YORK, April 12.—As far as the north pole and the equator are jar t are the stories told by the skippers of the St, Andrew and the Carrle A. Bucknam, One veracious chronicle is likely to freeze your | blood while the other might set your imagination aflame. One narrative is all lee, the other all fire Taking his word for it, Captain Fitegerald of the St. Andrew sight- ed the largest iceberg ever seen by mortal man in sane moments. This remarkable mountain of ice was seen only four days ago while the St. Andrew wan speeding for this port from Neweastle. In addition to making a trip lasting 14 days, t. Pitegerald w 13 leebergs ‘The first was sighted at noon, April %. To the eye of Captain Fitagerald the bere was 600 feet high and near- ly half a mile long. ‘The skipper of the Carrie A. Buck- nam, from Haytl, did not meet any foe. Hie te a hotter story. fire, seemingly dropping from the heavens, made the trip of his little schooner interesting. Yesterday H. Brawn, one of the crew, was trying to figure out what he had been doing for three days after receiving an electric shock. It happened in storm which the vessel encountered off Cape Lookout. The storm broke at nightfall and the lightning was terrific, It struck the vessel twice and each time it looked as if balls of Gre were coming from the sky. The balls were about a foot in di- ameter. The frat one struck and the schooner and ripped a piece out of the bow of the vessel. On the Morning of March 3 Brown waa found conscious on the deck and he didn’t recover for three days, He was on the lookout when the light- ning struck the water. JUROR CANNOT SLEEP | } Has Not Rested Since Con- victing Clemmer. | NORRISTOWN, Pa., April 12.—ITr- jvin Levy, of Penneburg, one of the jurors who convicted James A. mmer of the murder of Mra, Em- ma P. Kaiser, has signed a petition \idressed to the board of pardons or a communtation of the condemn. jed man’s sentence to life imprison Clemmer's father, who ts cir- culating the petitio and getting | many signatures, will try to get the jeleven other jarore to follow Mr. Levy's example” Mr. Levy claims |that he has been unable to sleep : hanged. The Rérks county prison inspec- tors yesterday signed the petition in behait of Clemmer, who, they say, ‘was a tespectable citizen” of the ounty twenty years. | WILMINGTON, Del, April 12.— The first tidings of the fate of the five men compriaing the crew of the sturgeon Oshing emack Reuben An- derson, whidh left Delaware City, and which was found going to pieces for the night they dug their way) in Delaware bay tn the Bllezard of February 14, were recetved today, when the body of Herman Wilson, Jone of the crew, waa found at Bo era beach. The body had been in the ater nearly two months, but w lrecognized by fishermen at K:tts | Hammock and also by letters in his pocke. ; CITY MUST Pi In the matter of a petition of the |city of Seattle for Just compensa- tion to owners of property along First avenue, which was damaged by the regrading of that street, the jury returned a verdict Inte yester- day afternoon for $1615.60 in favor of the respondents, Margaret J. Mitchell, Fidelity Trust Company, and Louisa C, Jarrold. The jury being especially impancled for this case, were discharged after bringing jin the verdict. Jenoonteelieaassitiianiniy Will Wed a Millionaire. SPRINGFIPLD, O., April 12.—Miss Catherine E. Miller attended the na- tlonal convention of adventists at Roston in March. During that time the became acquainted with Captain Henry Norman, of Bath, Me. and they fell in love, It ended in a proposal of marriage, and the wed- ding will take place some time this month, Capt. Norman and his bride will leave for a tour of the world May i Capt, Norman t# a millionaire, Re- cently he gave 400,000 to the adventiat church, to be used for missions, He was for a long time captain of a boat plying between Melbourne and Sing- apore. “TO BE OR NOT TO BE” Whether 'Tis Better to—-Have the Saloon or Church. NEW YORK, April 12 Interesting a struggle seen in Brooklyn for About as rs between th church and the saloon, ta in progress at Fort Hamilton avenue and Thirty-ninth street, On th 50 men are working to ad by rare north corne a temporary church ere On the opposite corr have Sunday workingmen, plying trowel and mor- | 1 frantic endeavor to have a for its opening Satur- tar in m ready day evening Roth sets of men broke ground on Monday, and are working like beavy- ers, If the church wines the race, the saloon cannot open its doors, be- cause it Is not 200 fect from the William McCormick says; "I have my et, and they can sacred edifie the saloon ke not oust me, The law is on my aide, for 1 first, I shall open up here Saturday evening, and 1 | invited all my friends to be j have |present and give me a send-off." Balle of | since Cletrimer was sentenced to be | 8 has been | The church people say that Mr MeCormack has no license. He car not wet a license unless he has building, can he they asked We have imeued notices yuncing thar the dedication services of the churel will & ' lock Bunday afte noon, when Kev, Dr, Kent will be the preacher Mrs. McKinley ‘Part Owner CANTON, ©, April 12—Mre McKinley, wife of the President, her sinters and the heirs of the late G D, Saxton own the off and mineral rights in 260 acres of land in the vicinity of the Belo ol! held, 7 1id not know it until informed by a man who wanted a In looking up an abstract tt transpired that the present owner owns only the surface, Jam Baxton, father lof Mra. MeKiniey, when he sold it over 30 years ago, having reserved the mineral righ A niract was made with the Saxton heirs to sink @ test well and if ofl is found to op- erate under royalties to the heirs, < Disguised as a Student. OMAHA, April 12.—1n ofa clal college, John Conrad, a of being an expert bi wanted in half the co oming, Nebraska and South Dako- ta, was today captured, S80 sur- prised was he when Sheriff Smink of Sundance, Wyo., grabbed him aa he was leaving the school with oth- er students that he could make no re ance. The officers allege that for years Conrad, with a small bana rustlers,” operated in | that stretch of range country where South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyo- }ing and Coloradm join. Conrad's only admission im that he had dis- posed of stolen cattle, but he denies |that he has done any stealing di- rectly. the guise tudent at an Omaha commer cused MISTAKE OF — _ THE RANCHERS They Now Regret Leasing Their Land. VISALIA, April 12.—That fs an fl | wind which blows nobody any good js a sentiment that is realized in Tulare county this year. Four weeks co, when no clouds flicked the sky and when the grain fields of this region apparently were slowly going to waste from the rays of a scorch- ing sun, the outlook for a grain crop were discouraging. Smarting from the losses of last season and solici- tous regarding the future, there were many ranchers in Tulare coun- ty who made contracts for which they are now repenting. month of March there were hun- dreds of acres of grain rented to sheep herders at 25 cents an acre by owners or tenants who had given up all hope of a crop. But later on the rains came, the grain began to row and now these acres acres of rented pasture land show signs of producing at least a two- thirds crop, The sheep men who Tented these lands at 25 cents an acre will make a small fortune out lof their investments, but the luck- less ranchers in a wretched frame of mind and refuse to be | comforted. CLEARFIELD, April 12—Edwar4d Viard and William Morris, charged | with larceny, and awaiting trial at ‘the May term of court, escaped from the county jall last night and | | |have not yet been recaptured. at the guards had locked the men up \through the jail wall and dropped |to the ground by the use of a blan- \ket. A pick, supposed to have been “|furnished by the wife of one of the prisoners, was the instrument used to effect @ passage to freedom, Statesmen to Visit Alaska WASHINGTON, April 12.--Genator Fairbanks, of Indiana, ts here ar- ranging for a Journey to Alaska with the American members of the high Joint commission that has been ne- rotiating for a settiement of the dif- ferences with Canada, As the boun dary line between the United State: and Canada is the most serious sub- \Ject In controversy, he thinks the | American members of the commis- |ston could strengthen themselves by ja personal investigation, He | n- tends to leave Chicago for San Fran- cisco about the middie of May. Senator Faulkner and Mr. Kasson have already agreed to go; Rrepre- jsentative Payne is expecting to j dota them, and they hope to per- suade Mr. Coolidge also, jafety Pin Angered Her. WILMINGTON, Del, April 12— United States Commissioner 8. R. Smith today held Mrs, Mary Clen- daniel, of Milford, under $500 bail for sending scurilous letters through the mall to Miss Lydia BE. Hawes, of Philadelphia, The postoffice Inspectors say that some time ago, while Miss Hawes, who is a trained nurse, was visit- ing in Milford, she happened to go through a mill where Millard H. Clendantel, the husband, was em- ployed. Clendaniel had burst his | finger, and was complaining of the |pain, when Miss Hawes dressed the wound for him and fixed the band- jage with a safety pin. | ‘That night, when Mrs. Clendante? | | During the | upon | LIFE CORPS — T CMA Will Have Finest Sta- tion in the U. S. CHICAGO, April 12—This elty will soon have the largest and fine jest life-saving station in the couns try. It will be built on the lake jfront, just inside the retaining pier, at the north end of the park, near Randolph street, on land that is now Junder water, The structure ts td |be a permanent building of a sulte able architectural style, and will coat from $60,000 to $70,000, It will replace the frame struéture atthe mouth of the river, The present station is tnaccessible to the public; and very few are aware that there is any such instie tution, To get to it one must cros@ the Randolph street viaduct and go a long ways through lumber yards and a maze of warehouses and freight cars. Its location is also inconvenient for practical service, for the same reasons. These faults might often cause a fatal delay in wetting the lifeboat hauled to tha part of the lake shore nearest the eraft or the people in danger. With the new building fronting on the ine ner harbor, just south of Randolph street, the lifeboat could be quickly hauled via Randolph street and Mi- chigan avenue and launched at any |place on the lake shore in muc \quicker time. ‘The life corps wit! have a conventent place for service drills on iand and on water, where _the public can observe the maneue vers. Sensational Murder. MACON, Ga., April 12.—Gus well, a butcher, was stabbed death here today by Charles Burg, a plumber. The crime was commite ted in full view of 20 policemen, nu: merous shoppers and citizens, and created the greatest excitement. The murder was Gone at the entrance of the city hall, where the victim and his slayer met, both having been summoned to the police court for fighting last night about the murderer's sister, the same motivd | that actuated the fatal assault toe j day. n Incendiary Fire. | ST. JOHN'S, N. F., April 12. news has reached here today of burning of a French lobster fac on St. John’s island, off the wi \coast, the largest fishing center on the treaty shore of Newfoundland. Besides the factory, eleven large boats and a lot of valuable fishing pplances were destroyed, | It ts believed that the fire was the |wWork of an incendiary an@ the cir- |cumstances may serve to bring @ jerisis about regarding the French shore question. THE WAR ON _ LIVING PICTURES Alameda Church Ladies Are to Have Them Anyway. ALAMEDA, April 12.—The living picture subject refuses to be sub dued. The ladies of the Unitarian church, in direct opposition to the views expressed by their brothers of Christ church, will stand sponsors for a living picture entertainment. Not only will it be given for the | benefit of the church, but the living bronze statuary will be exhibited in the auditorium of the house of wore ship. | St. Agnes’ guild of Christ church | had such a show planned, but F. Ey Mason and Flieman Drake, of the vestry, heard of it and they were 80 shocked that the whole business was squelched at once to save their feelings, The gentlemen were just recovering from their first shock when the ladies of Unity Circle of {the Unitarian church defied their opinions and it is now feared that Mr. Mason and Mr Drake gray suf+ fer a relapse. | The ladies will not only champion |the cause of the artists in tights and bronze paint, but are determined to |make the affair the swellest social function ever given in the town, They propose to make living ples tures the proper thing In Alameda society and Mr. Mason and Mr, Drake will have to submit to theit decree or relinquish all claims ta social leadership. Unity Circle will exhibit bronzed artists Tuesday evening, April 18 The price of admission has been put at $1 and no one will be admitted who {fs not tn full evening dress, A new picture will be shown every, 10 minutes. THIS TRUST _ WON'T PAY [Raw the safety pin she became &”-'No Dividends to Spare on jerily jealous, it is alleged, and sent |letters and comte valentines to Mias | The latter turned the mat- government. Mr. on his wife's bail, | Haw |ter over to the hae went | Young D LYNN, Mass., April 12 and girls forced an entrance to the Six boys Zion Baptist church, situated on Church street, this forer Y pane of glass, demolished the chandeliers, overturned the pulpit, tore the carpets behind the chancel | rail and demolished the seats The names of th known to the police, and their par jents will be called upon to repair the siderable sum, Services have not been held in the church of late, The congregation | became divic f and the meetings sin n have been held at irregular intervals, The building has suffe in the past from depre . but the police have always found the persons to bl nd restitution ha been made. the inside of the edifice red Now mbles a building struck by a hurricane, n, broke | ehildren are all/ milis could not be exp damage which will amount to a con- | g¢ Watered Stocks. BOSTON, Mass., April {2.—The d carpet mill trust, so far as ngland is concerned, ts im- ble. Arthur T. Lyman, the treasurer of the Lowell Manufac- turing company, the largest concern of the kind in the country, today said of this abandoned project; “I do not think that business would admit of any such excessive capitalization as has marked some of the recent trade combinations, With the present small margins the sted to pay dividends on a capitalization larg~ er than they are now working un< he carpet business Just now is re- ted to be in excellent shape, and to what it was pe in marked contrast a year ago, PIGOTT & FR Washington street, Dexter Horton Bank Building, have the ye Job printing machine in the Northwest. Catalogues, pamphlets, ete, at specially low prices. SAVE MONBY by giving them an opportunity to figure, EO