Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1891-08-19
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

OF DeeI chltlt w fHil 70 Dtdttit.
Nearly SS5, 800 has been raised in
stock for hosiery and underwear
factory to be built at Waterloo,
Linn county.
Last week at Yaquina while a
couple Of young men were shooting
At mark one Of the bullets passed
through the hat Of Roy stuart,
boy, who was playing near by.
A smart confidence man was at
work in a Pendleton saloon Friday
night and succeeded in getting
about SIG on a change racket. He
left the city ON freight train.
Several cases of diphtberia are re-
ported in Crook county. Two chill
dren of John Savage, who lives two
miles from Prineville, have died,
and another WAS dangerously i'll at
last accounts.
Saturday afternoon while Smith
Armstrong was standing near a saw
in mill at Milton, board twenty
feet loug and eight inches wide flew
from the saw and struck him on the
forehead, cutting fearful cash IN
his head. He will recover.
Farmers living on the east fork Of
Hood river have determined to
utilize the water Of that stream by
building an irrigation ditch four feet
wide at the bottom and about the
same depth. The head Of the ditch
will be 1900 feet above the Columbia
river.
Barnard q Co., of 81. Louis, have
sued Grants Paas for the sum OF
SlSS for books furnished the city on
the order of II. q. Smith, the former
recorder. The books failed to ar
rive in time for the old council TO
audit the bill, and the new body
refused to allow 1t.
james Garrity,a "a sheepherder, came
into Heppner the other day and
proceeded to get gloriousIy full. He
was proceeding to capture the town,
when the city marshal, after hard
struggle, with the help of several
citizens, succeeded in landing him
in jail little the worse for wear.
The suspension of the British
Bank of Australia of Melbourne is
announced. The liabilities are $780,
600 half of which IL owed by
creditors in England.
The comptroller of the currency
appointed William T.. Sakinson OF
Hutchinson, Kan, receiver of the
First National bank of Kansas City.
The creditors of John Thyson,
who failed Saturday. held meeting
In st. Louis. Thyson said he was
short $1,000 bushels of wheat, The
meeting adjourned without taking
any definite action.
Justice O'Brien at New York on
Monday appointed committee to
inquire into the sanity of Elliot
Roosevelt, a brother of Theodore
Roosevelt, United States civil ser
vice commissioner, and brother in-
law of Baron Won Zedlilz. The pt-
tition is made by Theodore Roost-
welt, with the consent of his wife.
He has three children and bonds
and stocks amounting to $4,000
Drink is said to have impaired Mr..
Roosevelt's reason.
AS M. Laur was leaving meet
ing at Cirque Hiver, Paris, Monday
an anarchist attempted to assassi
nate him, but failed. The anarchist
was arrested.
Andrew w. 0ppman, president of
the Oppman Brewing company, OF
Cleveland, was arrested Monday
on thecharge Of murder. Saturday
night he beat Fred Selgel, one of bis
hostlers, so badly that he died.
David Jacobs and Mrs, Mary
j johnson, the Chesterfield, 5. c.,
poisoners, whom Governor rillman
reprived on the gallows Friday, just
as the sheriff was about to swing
them off, had their sentences com.
muted to life imprisonment in the
penltentlary,
John Heming was mOFtally
wounded at Colorado Springs, Col,
Monday night by one of two men,
who attempted 10 rob him and l..
A. Ward. They are motorman aud
conductor on an electric street car,
Two men have been
arrested suspected of the crime.
The international hygienio con.
gress closed in London. Budha
Pesth was chosen as the next meet
ing place.
The international labor congress
did little at Brussels but complete
It's organization aud read fraternal
telegrams from all parts of the
world.
The road leading from Pine valley
q Little's Landing on Snake river,
10 the Seven Devils, which
has been under construction for
some time, ls reported as having