The Seattle Star Newspaper, May 3, 1899, Page 2

senna, Fee ETAT TE PET OPTERON TTR PM SHATTLE VAI t schnell Mayor for Governor. N THE SEATTLE STAR TOLEDO, ©. ya cxitipheaingieiti . ja a candidate for governor, provited T. H, WELLS & CO., Pedlisders. the Republican party ¢ give dim the kind of platform he wants to | Every afternoon except Sunday. stand upon, Under no consideration | &u. WEL ae Nhe sacrifice his principles of | BM. WELLS, | BF. CHASE bess | Bbrron, | hoswess Managen |‘PUnteipal ownership and the other | Af theartes he is Wdvocating, If he is After Lite in a Convent for copy; Mx cents per Week, ‘not nominated at the Republican Forty Years. gr twenty-Bve cents per month del convention be will be run as an in | y 5 by carrier, always th advance No ire copies. Telephone Pike 16° Third Avenve STATE NEWS. Stevens county has 900 public roads, matter, miles of ‘The interest evinced by the peopl of Seattle in the proposed celebration | in honor of the Washington volun teers is fast taking on a me markable aspect, The entire com- munity, as by one voice, is epeaking | Spokane police court receipts aver- age $849.25 per month. re- eee | ‘The Myers Falls i moved to Colville. sign has been in faver of making the affair the | lS greatest event in the history of the Bhelton tinens complain of an epi- jdemic of small burglar elty, e.8-8 Not one discordant note has been) ‘T Ryder, a Walla Walla steno heard, and if there are any dissent. grapher, is under arrest <or forgery oo 8 ere among the cltizens, they are not putting themselves in evidence. The fact has been realized from the out set that there is no political aspect | to the project. This point was made Manifest at the meeting of the city council last Monday night, when the resolution proposing that the cele- Bration be held, was passed by un- animous vote of all of the members, Deing made more emphatic by the calling for ayes and noes. ‘The question as to what shall ulti- mately be dome with the Philippines ia In no sense involved, It i» merely intended to give hearty expression to the public regard for the men who Went forth at the call of their coun try to uphold the honor of the flag, | and who bravely performed their o- duty. The Washington volunteer Perry Morland, aged nineteen, was have achieved such distinction upon kicked by a horse and knocked sense the Meld of battle that thelr fame !e** &t Cheney last Saturday. has circled the clvilined world, Is Fe It tm eatimated that the hop crop Mt any wonder, then, that the citisens |\,. tye Yakima valley this year wil of Seattle and of the State of Wath~ pe 18,000 to 20,000 bales. Over 4000 ington generally feel anxious to bales have already been contracted make the home-coming of the volun- for. teers a red letter event in the history ‘ofessor Washburn, of the Unt- of the ctate? It would be as easy loathe ot Paha has Soeene for| to stem the flow of the waters of ine position of superintendent of the Niagara as to attempt to check the state oyster experimental stations Spring sowing Is finished In nearly all parts of eastern Washington eee The telephone line between Mor roe and Snohomish is now complete la merchants have sub- to ald the proposed fruit stom mill, to use the cynalde is to be bullt at Bossbure Walton jr. is under arrest u in Bossburg for passing worthile checks . - Clatiam county will build a sto} bridge across the canyon of the El- jwhat river, The share of Stevens county debt wumed by Ferry county amounts to about. $17,000, spontaneous movement in favor of which the last legisiature authors. | @ grand ovation to the returning hed. Professor Washburn conducted loxperiments on Yaquina bay for the Yolunteers. tate of Ore Kw t shows In today’s issue of the Star will Se je wan seccsastal te the propage- found expressions of the views of joe of eastern ecaneee syetare 0 58 in that » Sie avon te eomton = eos JLL-CUARDED FRONTIER attie upon the question of the best | way to celebrate. It will be noticed | that all are earnestly interested in Along Rio Grande Where Chi nese Are Smuggied In. making the affair one befitting the dignity and importance of the vcca- sion. EL PASO, Tex. May 3.—Govern- ‘There would be slight objection to! meat border guards re are much the formation of trusts if their real | disturbed over the fact that China- objects were those set forth by the men tn dro are er pase men who organize phold the: ing through the United States from | i prdetvesiens in paler and peasy [China via San Francisco, destined lor points In Mexico, These cross| tribution be the sole ends to be at-/tne United States in bond by rail. tained, who would insist that Jones,/and the Southern Pacific railway is Smith and Robinson should be pre-/dotng a Mand office business in this) vented from combining to produce | Kind of traffic. Jointly the merchandise which they |, Pe sagp nthe Bow month rap thavege: ~9 had previously produced singly and thule ‘way to Mexico Government severally? It ie when Jones, Smith omeiais are outepoken in the bellef and Robinson make use of effected that the great rush of Chinamen to economies, first to get possession Mexico means that the border will and monopoly of t! markets, and |%¢ besteged by them in the near fu- afterward to fd zi the consumer ture, in an effort to emugkie them- nd eT i eetves back into this country. the advantage which he might ob- | tt tain from competitive production, jand in Canada, but the vigilance « that they become public plunderers, the army of guards along that bor- and rightful appeal may be made to) od feo ations rg go to Mex: ent © instead, realtin: o exte state and federal power for Pro-| sive and iti-gusarded frontier slong the Rio Grande offers them every ‘The right of men to associate to- opportunity of crossing without gether for a common purpose so long hindrance. as that purpose be not contrary to ae is bomypenne a 9 — policy Is past dispu namen, and recently a batch o} 2 esos a dispute; but the i) forged certificates, manufactured have carried the principle of |i, gan Francisco, was seized there combination too far. They have by Treasury Acgent Dick Rule. made of it the opportunity for rob- rae a eases” &” S MODELS OF WARSHIPS brought face to face with the ques tion of how to restrain their opera- In a $100,000 Tank in the Navy Yard. tions within such bounds as to reap WASHINGTON, May 2—The navy the benefits which accrue from ag stegations of capital and effort with- out incurring the injuries arising thoretrom. i be, saree ge at 000 in an experimental ‘The superintendent of the public | money ts Invested In a echools of Seattle, Prof. Frank J.) Washington navy yard Barnard, suggests that the celebra-| inary tank, in fact the only one of tlon in honor of the home-coming of |!‘ kind in the United, Slates, Great . France and Germa © the Wartingten vetentews should | Smnitar (antes ad ours to modeled include chorus singin, by one thous-|arter theirs. In this specially devis- and children at the cid University ed tank the models of fighting ships grounds. The idea is certainly an under the supervision of competent excellent one. The more persons) participating, the better. | }department has just invested $100, way. The constructors, will be submitted to all sorts of practical tests. Models of hips have been constructed. They are about 9 fect in length and coated with paraffine to resist the action of lthe water. Their power of speed, Sanaa The poet of the future who at- tempts to recount the batties of this year will have a Philippines prob lem of his own on his hands when | other conditions calculated to devel he tries to work Bagbag, Calumpit oP defects are tested. From there | expensive toys the lessons of grim and Quingua into acceptable rhymed | war are drawn verse. _——_— Although Rear Admiral Kautz a WEATHER FC FORECAST. lected for King of Samoa a young | For Seattle and Vi Vicinity. —Tonight man whose wearing apparel con-'and Thursda occasional rain; iste of a cocked hat, Anthony Com- southerly wind stock has not yet filed a protest with| The ometric weerere Is above ent | normal over the whole Pacific coat - baits 2 sah region, but i# broken up Into thr It is to be feared that the military |“iferent centers of Bley ere eertaln, men of this country will never make 454 the weather In this vicinity ap- successful politicians. They have an pears likely to remain unsettied unfortunate habit of saying what in has fallen along the Wash- they think. ington coast and in the Sound coun- en try. The temperature has risen at near- ly all stations. To Visit South Pole. CHRISTIANA, May 3.—A letter has been received here from Captain Borcherevink, in mmand the ex It appears as though the French courts, in looking for justice in the Dreytus case, may yet meet with the unpleasant surprise of finding It. es One of the objects of sympathy at this time should be the man who is red o maki nh exploration o hesitating between 2 new spring sult er acerecie. otter cated heck and a new bicycle. Cape Adair, Victorialand, February Pweg aro age meng 28, in which h ” The new bicycle trust can have I have now landed on the great no more terrors than the old kind Anarctic continent, with my staff, of bicycle trust that called for $5 | instruments and seventy-five dogs The greatest discipline has prevatied th. per month. throughout. Aguinaldo's generalship consists simply in declining to stay In any one place long enough to be whip- Dewey Views. MANILA, May 3.—In @ recent In ped. terview with Admiral Dewey a cor- tliat tcritaite rexpondent told him that the foeling entertained againat € many in the It should be kept in mind by naval officers that the after-dinner speech may be mightier than the thirteen- inch shell. United Sta ry strong “Te ought he said gravely, rmans out here went as far |as they dared,” RUMI MONEE TORTI IF ENP TIOEAEN ROT & wee Mayor Jones | the resistance offered the water and | NUN BECOMES | TORONTO, Ont, May din 189 John Nolan, undertaker, of this city died, aged 89, leaving an estate ext! mated to be worth almost $100,000. | The executors pald all legacion ape Jotally provided under the will and SUL had from $50,000 to $60,000 to din ir of among the legal representa | Uvee It has been a diMoutt matter tc to cate all thene, but Lawyer 8. D. Har ris, of Toronto, found the lant of the heire ia of the « | » has| n been it first aa a student and then taking | the vell. Mra, Dumain, of Chicago, | 4 daughter of Je ‘olan, and John lan, a Canad the decean- | ed, are the other heirs, and today the superior court accepted the evi dence of identity of all, including Sister Agatha, who w nt, and had not seen any of her relatives for over 40 years. These three relatives will each receive about $20,000, ‘There has been no dispute about the will, the only delay being In tracing the heirs. Mra. Dumain is advanced in youre but helped in the Identification of her niece, Sister Agatha QUAY MAY BE SEATED sto Make tt a ebeethen and WASHINGTO May 3 | will known before congr again whether he has any being given @ seat in the began preparations today onate. He to canvass tho question with every senator, If pomsible, to get & definite expression from them | The scheme was conc data onference at Quay’s house which was attended by State Chairman El kin, Gen. Bingham of jand several politicians of le ‘The fact that Senator Hanna bas said he will vote to seat him will |be used by Quay tn his arguments with Republican senators. He wilt) attempt to make 4 pertisan and) not a judicial matter, | It that way it mmpected sufficient | Republicans will be induced to alter their former position of a year amo. Oldest D. A. R. Dea NEW REDFORD, Mass. May % “Aunt™ Mary Spooner, aged 105, died suddenly tonight while at the supper table. She had long been farmed an the oldest resident of Massachusetts ie well as the oldest member of the Daughters of American Revolution Her father, Micah Spooner, w one of the minute men summoned to the defense of Boston after the battie| joe Lexington. “Aunt” Mary was the| oldest old maid, so far as her rela tives could learn, tm the United States. In spite of her «reat age, jahe retained most of her facultios until about two months ago, since | which time she rapidly fated men- _, [aay CUBANS KILL A PRISONER, | formerly their practice to Resort to the Spanish Excuse | can secured Marr's rev | of Attempted Escape. | SANTIAGO DE CUBA, May 1- The Spanish practice of killing the prisoners and then reporting that |they were shot while attempting to Jescape is being followed in leases by the Cuban rural « At Palma Soriano the other day a small and of drigands were overtaken by the rurales, and a fight ensued in which one of the bandits was killed and another was captured. In mak ing his report of the occurrence the captain of the rurales says he re greta to have to state that the pris oner attempted to escape and was} kilied. There is evidence disploving | this statement. There is no serious trow “+ the bandits In this province except in Holguin, near which pla kflied and six were capture: Gum Trust May Stick. was CLEVELAND, 0., May 2—It Is now said that the consolidation of chewing gum manufacturers, which | has been under consideration for a long time, is nearly perfected and | that a company will be incorporated with a capital of $9,000,000, under |the lawa of the state of New Jersey |The headquarters of the trust may/ be here. W. J. White and Dr. E. M. Beman| have each been hard at work on the! details of the organization. Dr. Be man recently returned fro York, where he left Mr to} |handle that end of the business white he looked after the detatis| lat this end. THEY WILL PLEAD GUILTY PHILADELPHIA, May % — Ac-| cording to Chief Wilkie, of the § Service Bureau, all the men " ed In connection with the exposur of the great counterfeiting plot, with the exception of Ellery P. ine ham and Harvey K witt, will guilty when the! sea are call in United State € Be f Wilkie states that the chain jot evidence is #0 complete against | Jacobs, the pritne mover in th n Japiracy; Kendig and Burns, his as sociates in Lancaster; Taylor and Bredell, the young engineers of thia jcity, who made the counterfeit piat city, who made the counterfeit | plates, and Downey, the Deputy In ternal F enue Collector at Lan caster, who is charged with havir accepted bribes, that they will mpt to set up no defense, but will throw themselves upon the mercy of | the court | Before W. L. an accused | principal in the counterfeiting «ans, left Lancaster for this city yester day, he is said to have talked freely to officers mit the Inside featu of the famous case, He |s credited with having remarked that the «um of $2000 was the last bribe money paid to Newitt and Ingham. Ame the witnesses for the prosecution there will be the pay-| | Not a Judicial Question. | | nhs ing tollers of the Lancaster banks tn hich Jacobs an@ Kendig had their » in a bellef that both Jacobs and Kendig have promised » turn Btate fonce against Ing ham and New The government officials, white} latming to have very strong evi dence to support the bribery charges said to realixe that they are yut to confront a very sharp legal e In prosecuting the cases, Th ds of Ingham and Newitt con fdentiy declare that they will be able to entirely prove thelr asser tions of Innocence of the charges HE SHOT THE NEGRO Who Took Aieuitaei of His Weak-Minded Sister. COLUMBIA, Mo, May &—Willlam nklin, a white man of Stephe tion, @ emall village miles to north of Columbia, shot and al moat instantly killed John Benton, negro, aged 40 years, at Stephens Stat thie foren farm hand in Hh. Castioman Whit as lying on the ground dying, Peter mklin, the father of William Conk lin, took the pistol and shot at Ben ton. The shot did not take effect but the nero soon died of the injur ady Hoth of the Cor lumbia and surrer am Conkiin ting Was aused wronging hin sister the nix " Bento: employ of the h ne came to Co lered. stated that the by Renton 4 hia father Hoth tate worked for them eno took advantage who ix weak-min girl phys examine her. Whe the girl stated that DB: wullty party They verifies that the and of the nait tay int statement KrO Once aint mn of the when quest Mately nt in search found him near Ste The shooting occur r the negro had con- Seat at that the the cir made an oritios t justifiable by and have pot auth ne wa cumstances AMUSEMENTS. Tonight at the Seattle theater, Bostonians, heralded as the opera company to visit the « this will open an engagement of fine performan and when the curtain goes up on the Robin Hood.” the audience sembled will ever seen In the theater. The house has been nearly sold out, and un- doubtedly the 8. RK. O. sign will be put out late this a To morrow night the be changed to “The Se [arrest the ernoon ypera =owill nade.” Manager Russell hae a good at traction In “The Pay Train” at the Third avenu theater thin week, and the company t# playing to exception- ally good busines: Killed His Employer. ST. MARY'S, Mo., May 1.—Edw Marr, a young farmer living here, was shot and instantly kille at his home this morning by Gus ra ar Minister Killed by Lightning | GUTHRIE, Oklahoma, May Rev. W. J had just concly we ed a marriage ceremony near Afto when lightning struck s house bolt killed Mr. Reese, stunned his three children. and Iterally tore DEWEY WAS PLEASED Took a Snap Shot of Him. KINGSTON, N. Y., May 2—In a! letter received today by relatives tn thle ty from Mra. French, the wife ef Lieut French, who ts at Manila she tell how one day, when Admiral Dewey came on board the vessel on | which she was stopping, she took | @ snap shot with her camera and got a very good pleture of the ad miral al days later, while tn Manila met the admiral, who quickly asked “Arte the lady who took my picture? She answered In the aMrmative, and, after a chat, a» she was look ing for a launch to go on board ship, |he invited her to ta A eat in his launch. On the way to the vessel ahe tc him what a fuss the people wer making over him at which he seemed highly pleased, and remarked If I stay at Manila, I suppose I will die of ennul, and If I go t e 1 will b ed to death A Horseshoe Trust. m Wan the | firet act of | be one of the largest | AN OFFER TO LYMAN J. GAGE: He May Become President of a New York Bank. mW YORK, May 3 1 in Wall street today that « It ia rumor offer of the presidency of the nal | | Hank of Commerce, whieh will b come vacant on July 1 through the retirement of W. W. Sherman, had |been made to Lyman J. Gage, ne retary of the treasury. A friend of | Mr. Gage said that he thought — |might be foundation for the rep inination te Romie! of 16 could aot] » obtained at the bank | J. Plerpont Morgan, who is now in| Murope, is viee president of the Na- tional Bank of Commerce, and tte board of directors includes Freder- ick Stunrges, Charles Lanier, Cha H. Rursell, Alexander KE. Orr, Jobn 8. Kennedy, Woodbury Langd John Claffiin, Mr. Gag bef became secretary of the treasury, was president of the First National Hank of Chicago, the largest bank in the West. Highest Pric for Stee! PITTSRURY, Pa, May 3—Prices | in the Pittsburg steel market reach- ed high-water mark this week Since M jay steel billets have been solling at $26.00 per ton, and that in thousand-ton lots for delivery in three and four months ~ GLOUDBURST T AND WIND Disastrous idine ° and Tor- nado in Wisconsin. MILWAUKEE, Win, May 2—A heavy rain fel) throughout the state last night. Reports from different arts of the state show a very heavy I in some sections, with damaging with, Antigo reports a cloudburst | which lasted about 45 minutes. The | wind which accompanied the rain | leveled two amokestacks of the Anti- «o roller mills. At Madison the storm was in the nature of « cloudburst, accompanied | by a tornado from the southwest and & Nerce electrical storm. A bolt of) lihtning struck th German Lutheran church, shattering it. A class of chtidren, belonging to the parish school, were in the base- ment, but escaped injury, A tele phone cable fell acrons the street car trolley wire, blocking traffic, and hundreds of telephones were render- od useless At Wausau the storm was severe |A house was struck by lightning and | burned, and the telephone service wae badly crippled. At Dartford, Charies Thrasher's bla store, in process of erection, was blown down, and much damage is reported in the country. Brutal Robber Convicted SHARON, May 2.—Vinton Swog- ger, on trial for torturing and rob- | bing James Slater, an aged and wealthy farmer of Lake township, | was today found guilty. Slater iden- tiled Bwogeer as the robber who burned his feet eith « lighted lamp. HELLO GIRL | WANTS DIVORCE: ns levee of Brutal Treatment of | Her Rich Husband. CHICAGO, May 1.—From a tele- one girl to wife of the prospective | |helr to the greater part of a $10,- 000,000 estate, from a happy wife | back to the old position of telephone |airl, and now an applicant for di- | voree from the rich husband is the story of Mrs. Mary A. Davis, com- plainant in a divorcee case now on trial | The defendant, Edward A. Davin, \\s charged with general {i!-treatment of the complainant, habitual drunk- enness and extreme and repeated rueity. He is the son and heir ot the estate of Andrew Davis, a weal- |thy miner of Montana ‘The bill Magan. Harr was an industrious farmer, and through his kindness Hagan, who is regarded as a worth leas fellow, was permitted to ‘mame his home at the Harr farm ing small duties about the pode i“ payment of board Harr wished to get rid and this morning ordered leave. A quarre wutted iver and laid for him in the yard, and when he jappeared, shot him twice in the} loreast. He was and will be lodged tn jail a le, Mo. ‘He Weainnes eda ‘ioe Who [charges that the plaintiff struck th defendant and blackened her ¢: slapping her and hurling coffee and other things at her head. She fin- ally left him and resumed work as a telephone operator, Davis enters & general denial. From Tacoma. TACOMA, May 2-—Smalipox has broken out at Alderton on the | Northern Pacific, 12 miles west of | here, and stringent measures have been taken by County Physician He- liker and his deputies to prevent its spread. —— Former Mayor A. V. Fawcett has | Jectined the appointment tendered him by Gov. Rogers as a member of the atate fair commiasion on the plea that his business interests will not jadmit of his giving the necessary at- | |tention to state fair matters, HEAVY RAINS IN PALOUSE | Farming ‘tend Gots a Good | | Soakin COLFAX ,Wash., May 2—A_ very steady saking rain began falling at 6 o'clock last night and continued without cessation until daylight this | The rain was warmer than what had formerly fallen this spring and was followed today by warm | sunshine, although a cold wind ts] blowing from the south. While the ground is wet to a depth of sever- al inches, the rain will not inter fere with farm work if no more falls | oe tomorrow farmers can resume | rations *Athough the weather unusually cold and the ward, farm work has progress, and a large p |erain js in the ground |weat and south the seeding ly comp 1, but north and here the season is later much plowing done. The season #0 favorable for spring sown grain, and large yield is expected, although the acreage will be much less than liast year. Owing to large acreage the past two years, many farmers | find it necessary to summer fallow | morning has been spring back made good nt. of the om Colfax is ni eis be to far has been Mane, May %.—A trum trol the manufacture of horse shoes in this country, originating n Boston, is int mation The apital atock new trust | hase been fixed at Nearly u f the manufacturers of the ‘ountry are included been set for the debate ¢ U, of W. and the Wash ington A iitural colles This will t the first inter-collegiate de bate In the history of the university, and much taterest le centered In th event Kvangelists Holdridge and tckaon addressed the students several days ago Prof. Williams, late of Cornell, de livered an bt reatin, talk to the atudenta on ¢ ibjects, taking | up especially the matter of the hon- orary degrees Mins Reynolds, ward secretary for | the Y. W. C. A, delivered an inter eating talk to the girls Mond on the ¥. W, C. A. and its world organization and lafluence J. C, CALLISON, 4 portion of their land this year, and | jand quite pr | 000,000 and of sumr the acreage unusually large There will r than for to @ large per wown grain being hard winter, South o fax there are few fields of wint wheat that have been re thin spring, In focalition fields that stood winter promiae a big crop, Adjoining f have been winter Killed be resown this spring, There ‘ motsture in the ground than at son for a number of years pas and @ large yield spring sown grain in expect BUILDING AT ‘REPUBLIC New Brick Vords Opened to Meet the Demand. be lows fall grain a numbe owing | fail not ther the ot REPUBLIC, Wash., May 2—1. F Keck has 6,000 brick in the kiln and he expects to have ton thousand more in a few days, He will ha the briek market in about ten days, Louis Adams has a yard at a Mud Lak y, and is molding brick, He will burn a large quan Uty. The McGill Brick company are also in the feld, and expect to_have a kiln burned before long. From this preparation it ms probable that there will be plenty of brick to supply all demands in the near future M. RR. Btaight about one mile east camp, on the state road. It is of ex tient quality, claimed to be the best in Washington. There is a good demand for the artl« tons have already been contr for. Butiding 4s rapidity, The in course of erection company, will be a handsome place: entious in size. The contractor claims that he is some what delayed in getting material, principally brick for flues, Wo Salary, W Serm READING, Pa, May %—Kev H. Brensinger, of Fleetwood, hax |taken a novel method of collecting |his salary as pastor of Bt. F Heformed church, at Mertz He is accustomed to preach tn ¢ man on Sabbath morning and tn English in the evening, On account is burning lime of Monarch with great hotel building that ts sing on by the Towr lof recetving but a small amount of his semi-annual pay he hae informed the congregation that he will not preach for them Sunday evenings until @ portion of the sum is rained. AT THE IRON TRADE CENTERS From the various items given be- low, it will be seen that the indus- trial activity continues throughout the country, Wages are being « vanced, and improvements and ad- ditions are steadily going on. ‘The charcoal furnace of the Gay- lord Iron company, at Detroit, will soon be put in blast. Keystone Furnace, of the Thomar Iron company, at Hokendauqua, Pa., was recently blown In. The stack had been idle for about a year. It is stated that the Colbert tron| company, lessee of the Hattie Ens ley Furnace, at Sheffield, Als., is to expend several thousand dollars in| to repairing the stack preparatory putting It In blast. Helen Furnace, formerly ca’ \Gracey - Woodward Furnace. |Clarkaville, Tenn., will be put operation about June 1. The stack has been out of blast since 1896 All epartments at the plant of the | [Cambria Steel company, at Johns town, Pa., are in full operation. On May 1 the Steacy and Denney company, operating the York Roll- ing Mill at York, Pa., will advance the wages of its employes 29 per cent Two skelp mills are to be soon put in operation at the Jefferson Iron works, at Steubenville, Ohio ‘The above-named works were recently |purchased by the La Belle Iron | works, of Wheeling, W. V WARDWARE. COMBINE. Consoli vane with a Capital of $40,000,000. NEW YORK, May 3 mercial Advertiser says The report that a com the manufacturers of haré being effected was confirmed today The principal promoer of the new company, which Is to take over th existing interests, is Charles R Flint, of Flint, Eddy & company, the well known steamship owners and capitalists. The new company prob ably will be incorporated under the lawe of New Jersey, and will includ the principal manufacturers and builders of hardware, locks, ete., the United States. The aggregate value of the properties to be includ ed in the new company will be $40 the authorized capital ~The Com- |atock will be at least that amount It is expected that the charter of the company Will be filed In a few days A Constable Robbed. PADUCAH, K May < stable J. B. Burnett, o {Mayfield who was here attending the I. 0. ©. |. celebration, was s¢ized by unknown men on a eet ¢ t night and robbed of and a f valuable papers. One of the men held him while the other went through his pockets, The robbery took place in the main busine or tion of the city, The robbers es- caped erent ADAM'S 39c Vor i x No, 612 ond Avenue, wetween ‘Yosier and Jame 29 99OOSL VOD OCOD OOOGS _ DOMESTIC wing i. “Wioxi si STETSON BROS, The Grocers. At Their Fine Store No.1127 Yesler Way ° bik spo! ‘CASH PRICES For One Week Commencing Tuestay, My? Patent x imperia a Flour, Bie Per Sack. k Romy 1 Konst Ce ® bars for 2 e All our prices are for First- class Goods. “The Season's Latest At Your Om P Price.” “his Erin And Tomorrow THE™—— Sheriff's Sale—< paeeen & | 53000 WORTH OF.. ‘MILLINERY Will still continue At 308 Pike St Under the direction of | Mrs. Peas: WEEKLY CROP BULLETIN Seattle, Tuesday, May 2, 1899.< United States Department of Agri« ulture, Climate and Crop Bulletin of the Weather Bureau, Washington Section, for the week ending Mon- day, May 1, 1899: The last week of April was from four to five degrees below the norme al in temperature, and although |showery, much of the time, was ra- |ther below normal in the amount of rainfall. There were light fre n different localities on the 27th and 28th. Although there was sun- shine during the week, yet brisk, cold winds seemed to lessen the effect of the sun’s warmth. As a result of |conditions which could not be con= | sidered favorable, the star crops have ma headway. On the ontrary, growth has r er been re- rded by the cold winds and the scarcity of sunshine Wheat that is up is reported as ng well The sown is come ng up slowly, ng of spring wheat is now practically finished but considerable seeding of oats ree mains to be done in the bottom lands of the west and southwest counties, All te seeding and planting has Ja hiong, owing inter- rupti f the rainy spel App are not in general bloom yet. | Whether the acted sol and |rainy weather has prevented prune herry awsome from fertilize remains to be The trains an in Pierce Died From Grief. KNOXVILLE | Hall, father of at Crossville | murde ' de hie all to say ee Of Every Conceivable Kind. J. REDEL LSHEIMER & CO. and Best in the State 800-802 First Ave., Cor. Columbia. ogee Tal FRE} cH Rod, who the ecen and phys clent