Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-09-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK
From all Parts of the New
and Old World.
BRIEF AND INTERESTING ITEMS
amt Happenings Of the Cur
rent Week.

in session in Denver, Colo.
The coffee crop of Brazil promises to
reach 10, 900. 900 bags, as against 9, 9,000,-
900 last season.
Two young ladies from Alameda and
San Francisco have gone to Trinity
county upon prospecting tour They
are equipped with complete miners out
fits and are determined to work hard to
find a paying claim.
Edwin Corbin, of Chicago, has closed
deal amalgamating the United States
and Canadian Lakes Fisheries Com
panies, whereby the control of 20 COM
panies passed into the hands of the
British company with $4,000, 900 cap
ital.
The British, Russian and French
ministers to Greece have notified their
respective governments that it is i'm
possible for Greece to pay an indemnity
exceeding 3,0O0,o 900 Turkish. 1t is
understood that negotiations are on
foot to induce Turkey to accept a
smaller sum than the amount originally
demanded.
The county recorder in Great Bend,
Kan, has reported the release of over
$50, 600 in chattel and real estate mort
cages since August l, and half of the
crop mas not been threshed. 1t is pre-
dicted that by the new year the county
will be in better shape than ever before
and will look back on the largest acre
age of wheat in the history of the
county.
Paul J. Henning, who has just ar
rived in San Francisco, says the Amer
lean flag is flying on Clipperton island.
He has been living on the island with
two other men and they successfully
blocked the attempt of Captain Murt-
ray of the ship Kinkora, to hoist the
British flag there three months ago.
The Kinkora was wrecked and the three
Americans held as wreckage nearly a
million feet of lumber, which was
washed ashore. H. M. S. Comus WIS.,
tied the island later, but did not dis
turb the Stars and Stripes nor enter q
claim for the lumber.
Peters & Roberts furniture factory,
of Portland, Or, was damaged by fire
to the extent of So, 900.
President Faure, of the French re-
public, visited Russia, and was royalty
welcomed by the czar at Cronstadt.
1t is reported that the government of
Brazil is negotiating with European
nation for the sale of one of her war
ships in course of construction.
Governor Lord has pardoned Clar-
ence Wade out of the Oregon peniten-
tiary. He has been adjudged afflicted
with consumption and not expected to
live.
1t is officially announced at Buenos
Ayres that a very large crop of grain is
anticipated in the Argentine Republic.
The wool clip, it is further stated, will
be heavy one.
A Seattle man has gone to Boston to
secure 200 young ladies for an expedi-
tion to the Klondike gold fel Is. 1t is
said he will fit out steamer and start
early in the spring.
The warehouse of w. P. Fuller &
Co, in Portland, Or, was completely
destroyed by fire. The loss is about
$50, 900 partly insured. The origin of
the fire is uncertain.
A special from Lander, Wyo., says:
Daniel Tracy, a miner from Leadville,
has uncovered vein of gold ore two
feet eight inches wide in the Wind
River range, on Gold creek. The ore
is literally gemmed with gold the full
width of the vein.
G. H. Steel, sheriff, and Sam Young,
ex-sheriff of Leslie county. were both
killed in combat at Hyde, KY Both
men fought to desperation with pistols,
and both fell dead in the fifth round.
Steel was a Democratic leader and
Young Republican. They quarreled
over politics.
A great strike is on in the building
trades at Buda Pest. More than 20,-
900 men are involved. The strikers,
in the endeavor to prevent others from
working, came repeatedly in conflict
with the police, and desperate pitched
battles ensued in several of the princi-
pal streets of the city. Two hundred
persons have been injured, some dan
gerously. The police have arrested 100
of the ringleaders.
Telegraphic advices from the New
York Herald's correspondent in Rio
Janeiro state that the official report of
operations against the fanatics around
Canudos during the last few weeks
show that 2, 400 Brazilian troops have
been wounded. Great difficulty is
found in transporting arms, ammuni-
ton and stores to the government ow-
ing to interference by the fanatics. In
the meantime large forces of fanatics,
all well armed, have appeared in the
states of Sac Paulo and Haran. They
have invaded several plantations and
small towns.
S. J. Hatchett, formerly secretary of
the Los Angles chamber of commerce,
who had charge of the Los Angeles ex-
hibit at the worlds fair and mysteri-
ously disappeared before the exposition
closed, is said to have been seen in
Chicago. His wife has mourned him
as dead. The informant states that
Hatchett told him he had concluded to
drop out of sight, and cautioned him to
say nothing about having met him.
President Mckinley spoke at the
Grand Army encampment at Buffalo,
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