The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-08-21
TELEeRaPKlC DISPATCHES.
GENERAL NEWS.
EXTRA SESSION OF CONGRESS.

EXTRA SESSlON Or SoE>Df@Eoo'
P1rrsBURG, Aug. l4.-Trades organiza-
tions throughout the United States will is-
sue petition to morrow requesting Presl-
dent Cleveland to call an extra session of
congress, to be devoted exclusively to con-
sideration of measures for the relief OF the
industrial classes of the country and revl-
val of business. The petition, after calling
the attention of the president to the general
stagnation of business, says: The consequen-
ces of this depression are especially severe
upon labnring people-small manufacturers
and farmers who are without any reserve
means upon which to live or pay debts and
save their homes and small property from
forced sales. Employer and employed are
involved in common disaster, and 1t IS be-
lleved 1t is in the power of congress and the
executive greatly to relieve the depression
by wise legislation. 1t is asked that an ex-
ira session be convened on or before the last
Monday in September, 1885,
MAXWELL RETURNED TO ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. l6.--Wilter A. Lenn0x,
Maxwell, alias Z. c. Daughter. alias Hugh
NJ Bruuks, tte supposed murderer of e.
Arthur Preller, at the Southern hotel IN
this city, on the 9th of last April, arrived
here about O'Clock this morning froil San
Francisco, in char, of detective Tracy and
officer Badger of the St. Louis police force.
H. absolutel, refused to talk about his case
and positively asserted that he has at no
time or place made any statement in regard
to it, or in any way Acknowledged that he
had anything TO d. with Prellers murder,
or knew anything about it. He says that
all stories to the contrary are wholly untrue.
Detective Tracy thinks that further devel-
opments will show Maxwell to be weak
mentally, but that he has got one idea
wed Led into his mini his safety de-
pends on his silence and that he will st rtle
nobody with a romantic defense. Tracy
thinks that he killed Preller for money, ami
that the few admissions he has made pol"t
in that direction; that his voyage from st.
Louis to Auckland was a money spending
debauch, and not well planned escape from
Justice Charles Bigler, trunk maker, rec
oguized Maxwell the man to whom heI
sol trunk in which Prellers body was
found, and the purt-r in the Southern hotel
recognized him as having been IL guest of
that hotel in April last Maxwell will be
turned over by the police authorities to NOR
row to the 81 .riff, and will he placed in Jail.
GEN. GRANTS MEMOIRS.
NEW YORK, Aug. Is. The first edition
of the personal Memoirs of U. =. Grant,
is l5O, 900 copies. The publishers say they
may add so, 600 to it. The edition is now
in the nds Of the printers, who are print
ing the book as rapidly as is consistent with
good work The second edition is already
made necessary by the large number of su }
scriptinns received. The first edition will
not be delivered until December. Orders
have been coming i'll at the rate of 5000 dai-
". The South is doing its share of order
ing. Webster sailed for England August l,
to arrange for the sale uf the book there In
French, German, Spanish and Italian. The
general wrote the entire manuscript OF the
first volume, and dictated all of the second.
STEAMER BLOWN GP BY DYNAMITE.
PHILADELPHIA, Aug. 7.-An explosion
on the steamer FELTON, occurred just as she
left her dock on her trip to Wilmington,
Delaware. As she was opposite pier No. s
north, the passengers and crew were startled
by an explosion which shook the boat from
stem to stern. When the smoke cleared
away it was found that the entire forwarr
part of the vessel over the water line hid
been badly damaged. A number of passeu,
gers were injured, some severely. The pi
lot honse and entire upper deck are reported
a scene of complete wreck. The injured, ST.
far as known, are: John E. Medium, injured
about the legs; Silas Reed, badly shocked
j, Bradley, ankle dislocated, and Sam
Cooper, injured about the head and body.
Capt. Wiley, Mr.. Laurence, Mr.. Mershon
and MIR. Linder made a careful examination
of the wreck for the purpose of ascertainin=
the cause of the explosion. The iuvestiga-
tion establishes the fact that the explosion
was caused y dynamite.
IMPROVEMENT IN THE IRON TRADE.
P1TTsBURG, Pa, Aug 1.-THE outlook
in the nn trade has not been more favorable
for number Of years than at present.
Signs of improvement are coming to the
surface every day and manufacturers are