The Albany register. [volume] (Albany, Or.) 1868-18??, 1874-12-04
Coal is worth IS SO per ton in

A disease not unlike tie Texas
cattle fever has broken out among
the cattle in PORTIONS of Wyoming.
Excongress,nan Slater was report
ed dangerously i'll at his residence
i'll La Grande, last week, of pneumo-
MIA.
The Nports in regard to the re-
cent gold find in Sitka are exciting,
some of the quartz assaying is high
as s11 200 yer ton.
On Monday afternoon Alderman
Vance took the oath of Office as
Mayor OF New York city.
WIN. o. Key, cousin of the au-
thor of the ssStar Spangled Ban
ner, committed suicide at the Ken
nard House, Baltimore, November
Goth.
a collision of accommodation
trains on the iron bridge over Lake
Poland, on the Central Railroad ,
Maryland, on the Both nlt., caused
the death of ore passenger and the
injury of four employees.
In the trot between Copper
bottom and American Girl, at
Poughkcepsie, Nov, Goth, mile
heats, two in three, for purse of
$4,000, Copperbottom was declared
the winner. Time-2:251, s:27,
1921.
The Corinne Nail says: "Now
that the Governor has signed the
Portland, Dalles and Salt Lake
Railroad bill, and it has become a
Jaw we may expect work to CON-
mence without delay. IT won't
hurt our feelings if big force OF
men should be put to work at this
end cf the road III a few weeks; III
fact we should rather like it."
Mayor Havemeyer died at his
office in the City Hall, New York,
on last Monday. He visited Flush
ing that day, and on ret r.ling the
train broke down, and he was
obliged to walk two miles against a
strong wind. lie died of apoplexy
shortly after arriving at his office in
the City Hall.
Notice is given in tie official,
Ottawa, Gazette that application
will he made at the next session of
the Dominion Parliament for an
act to incorporate a railway COM
pany with powers to construct, own
and operate line of railway from
Red River province, of Manitoba
to some point in British Columbia,
on tie Pacific coast.
The first year of Boss Tweed's
Imprisonment expired on tie 29tll
Of November. His counsel, beliey-
ing the sentence for successive terms
Of one year each to be illegal, will
1t is said, within day or two, ap-
ply for writ of habeas corpus tc
bring Tweed before the courts to
| have the sentence revised. The bill
of exec ptions is ready to present te
the Appellate Court.
In Para, Brazil, there is the most
violent feeling against foreigners
owing to the continued publication
OF violent articles against all for.
eigners in the columns of the T'I.
enc. The citizens of Para. having
arisen against foreigners, the Gov
ernment has sent 10000 troops
there to suppress the demonstra
ton.
Here is an item from the State o
New York: Recently a carpentel
named Elisha Williams began tht
erection of frame house in an un
frequented district, sixteen mile,
north of Wellstown, Hamilton
county. He hired Geo. Smith t,
assist him. One day, when drunk
the two men began to quarrel
Williams, i'll the course of the strug
gle, threw Smith over a woodel
saw-horse and sawed his head of
severing it entirely from the body
Williams soon afterward cut hi
own throat.
A Washington special says th
President, it is believed, will, in hi
message, review the Arkansas sitr
alton, and will request Congress t
take speedy action and not della
: the decision of the question as ws
the case with Louisiana. The Cla,
ton-Dorsey party claim the invest
: eating committee will be ready
, report on the first week of the Sc
!. sion. The Committee, by joint re
olution, will recommend the reco,
milton of the constitution of 1856