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Show A Fire at Portland. I PoiMLAND. Ore., August 2. The oil refinery and warehouse of Kelly, Ilium ec Co., and t lie broom factory of an r.i'os . were ourncd to day. Loss estimated esti-mated at $70 000; insurance, 20,000. The l". r. Stulciiieiit. Rostov, August 12. The Union Pacilic Pa-cilic statement for .Tune, for the whole system, shows the neteainings, 4,127,-uiiO, 4,127,-uiiO, a decrease of ;;.S'.i,nn,'i. The six ! months to -lime Xhth. net earnings, !-", 707 ,000. it i)c reuse of $132,000. Dreaded Cholera. Si'uiNGKiKi.u, O., Aug. P). Henry Hilton is dow n with cholera and can-I can-I not recover. His daughter was stricken 1 down this morning. Roth the attend- ing plnsician and the health ollicer say : tin-re is no doubt of the nature of the disease. Some apprehension is felt in ! the city. Kentucky Wins. Chicago, August 13. The long-pending long-pending question of w ho is to be chief of the World's Fair Horticultural Bureau Bu-reau is settled at last. Di rectory-General Davis lust evening nominated James Samuels ot Kentucy and the nomination was promptly conlirmed by the board of control of national commission com-mission and the executive committee of the local directory. Mr. Samuels is the owner of severed orchards and nurs ries and has been employed in horticulture almost from childhood. i'irector-Oeneral Davis also fillet 1 another important posit ion by nominating nominat-ing ;:s chief of the department of liberal lib-eral art Dr. Selini H. Peabody, vice Piofessor Adams, resigned. This nomination nom-ination was also conlirmed. Dr. Pea-body Pea-body was regent ol the University of Illinois tor ten years, resigning in lune hist. He has been president of the nut ional education association for the past year. The Aeu-j says the work has been '( i. L i, . |