Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-11-05
NEWS OF THE WEEK
From all Parts of the New
and Old World.
BRIEF AND INTERESTING ITEMS
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Cur
rent Week.

The Union knitting mill, in Hudson,
N. j., was destroyed by fire, and many
of the 900 persons employed in the mill
had narrow escapes from death. The
loss is over 5000, 900, and the insurance
$1OO, 900.
A dispatch from Simla, India, says a
cyclone struck the town of Chittagong,
in the Bengal presidency. Half of the
houses of that place were demolished,
all the roads in its vicinity were blocked,
and several vessels sunk.
The statute under which for several
years the police department of Denver
has at will seized, confscated and de-
stroyed gambling implements, was de-
:lared by Judge Allen in the district
SQUIRT to be unconstitutional, and in
conflict with the federal statutes.
Since the cruiser Baltimore has been
anchored at San Francisco preparing to
20 to Honolulu, her commander has
reported to the police almost daily the
desertion of three or four of the crew.
Already 30 have succeeded in escaping,
and, unless stricter watch is kept, it
is believed another draft of men will
have to be sent from the East to fill
her complement.
There is movement on foot to con-
solidate the wire manufactures of the
United States into single corporation,
with capital of 100000, 900. To
evade the antitrust law, the wire in
dustries will surrender their independ-
snce, and sell their plants to a new
organization for cash at an appraised
value, the money to be furnished by
a syndicate of New York bankers.
Pierpont Morgan is SAID to be at the
head of the scheme.
The food of San Francisco laborers is
to be analyzed by the professors at the
State University.
The Fort Randall military reserva-
ton, which contains over 100, 900 acres
in South Dakota and Nebraska, has
been opened to settlers.
Negotiations of the Chinese govern
ment with the Hooly syndicate for
loan of $50, 00Q 600 have fallen through.
The government is now negotiating
with the Hong Kong & Shanghai bank.
The Washington state grain com mis-
sion announces that it will not lower
No. l wheat grade from SO to So pounds
to the bushel, Notwithstanding the agi
tation to that end in the eastern part
of the state.
The Long Island coast for distance
of six miles, between Far Rockaway
and Rockaway beach, was more or less
damaged by very high tide. The
Edmore hotel was damaged to the ex-
tent of $25, 900.
Speedy, the professional briigejump-
er, jumped from the Louisville & JEFF
fersonville bridge in Louisville, KY,
before an audience of $4,000. Speedy
made the jump of 1870 feet in safety,
and was mingling with the crowd a
few minutes later.
Frank Moon, aged so years, and Mrs.
Wells, were found dead at the bottom
of 30-foot we'll on Moons farm, near
Derby. Kan, having been asphyxiated.
Moon had been overcome while work
ing, and the woman, fearful at his not
returning home, went to the we'll late
at night to investigate, and fell in.
Admiral Matthews, chief of the bu-
rnau of yards and docks, in his annual
report to Secretary Long, recommends
the construction of four drydocks of the
best type He recommends that con-
crete docks be built at Boston, Norfolk
and Mare Island, and that a floating
dock be placed at either Key West, Tor
tugas, or Algiers, La. The estimates
for the maintenance of the yards next
year aggregate 50, 364, ,2O2.
Following close upon the recent an
of n SvnIi tn RI
troll the trade of Honduras comes the
information received from reliable
sources that gigantic syndicate is in
process of orga cation for the purpose
of promoting direct trade between the
United States and Russia. The project
originated with Russian merchants and
has the sanction, if not the direct sup
port, of the imperial government.
A dispatch from Managua, Nicaia-
qua, says John Augustine, an Ameri
can citizen, was arrested at San Carlos,
at the mouth of the San Juan river, by
order of President zelaya's brother,
and, without any pretense of a trial,
was imprisoned in the penitentiary.
Mr.. Augustine was formerly United
States consul at Bluefelds, Mosquito
territory, and is at present in charge Of
the navigation company's steamers on
the San Juan river.
John Griffith essayed Orchard III''
at the opera house in Butte, Mont. In
the closing scene Grifith's sword struck
John Fay Palmer, who was doing Rich
mond, in the face, cutting cash ex-
tending from above one eye across the
nose and cheek. The bone of the nose
was broken and a little more force
would have penetrated the brain.
Palmer turned his back to the audience
and finished the scene without any one
knowing what had happened.
All of the coal miners of Boulder
county, Colo, are out on strike. 1t
is said that at one of the mines in
Lafayette, the managers reduced the
wages of the machine men 10 cents a
ton. Word was sent to all the mines
in the district to close down and the
order was implicitly obeyed. The
strike is said to affect about 1000
miners. A number of the gold and
silver mines in the mountains wiK have
to close on account of the strike. An
effort will be made to have the matter
compromised as soon as possible.