The Lebanon express. (Lebanon, Linn County, Or.) 1887-1898, 1897-04-15
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
From All Parts of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
amt Happenings of the Past week
O1lIed From the Telegraph Columns.

The president has named Theodore
Roosevelt, of New York, to be assistant
secretary of the navy.
The board of control of the state of
Washington unanimously appointed J.
B. Catron warden of the penitentiary
at Walla Walla.
The London Truth says that it learns
that Queen Victoria is doing her best
to secure the appointment of Francis
Joseph Battenburg as governor of Crete
The Oregon City land office, in an
swer to numerous letters of inquiry,
announces that no date has vet been
announced by the president for the
opening TO the public of the Klamath
reservation
1t is reported that the foreign am
bassadors at Constantinople have drawn
up broad scheme of autonomy for
Crete, giving the assembly power to
choose a governor, to be afterward
approved by the sultan, and granting
other concessions.
A London dispatch says the arch
bishop of Canterbury will personally
deliver into the hands of Mr.. Bayard,
on the latter's return to London, the
log of the Mayfiower, which the con-
sistorial court recently decided to pre-
sent to the United States
There is a scarcity of onions in the
California markets. Dealers say that
all the California onion crop was ship
ped as soon as gathered to the Eastern
and Southeastern states, and that a
corner has been effected in the Wash
ington and Oregon crop
The prisoners in the Clatsop county
Jail at Astoria, dug hole under an old
sink in the Jail and some of them made
an effort to escape. Sheriff Hare ar
rived just in time to catch Peter Fus-
tin, who had crawled through the hole
and hidden under the sidewalk.
William Rothlage, an inmate of the
county Jail at Union, committed sui
eide in his cell, by hanging. He was
insane and was in Jail waiting TO be
transported to Salem. The body was
taken to La Grande for burial, in ac-
cordance with the last request of the
deceased.
The supreme courtroom in Washing
ton, D. c., and the corridors without
were crowded with spectators, attracted
by the appearance of William J. Bryan
as counsel in case. The case on
hearing involved the constitutionality
of the law of the state of Nebraska to
regulate railroads, to classify freights
and to fix rates.
The city authorities of Memphis,
Tenn, have issued an appeal for aid for
the sufferers along the submerged Mis-
sissippi valley.
The Turkish porte is endeavoring to
negotiate with the Ottoman bank for
loan of c2o0, 900, for the purchase of
la,,4 - =
tempt will be successful.
A body of coolies numbering 5000,
who struck recently against an increase
of taxes, engaged in an anti-foreign
demonstration in Shanghai, China.
Two men were killed, and it was neces-
cary to call the marines to assist in
Quelling the riot.
The Pacific can factory at Astoria,
Or, turned out p, 900, 900 cans last
year, s, 200, 600 of which were shipped
to the Sound. Superintendent Kendall
says he expects to manufacture more
cans this year than last. The company
paid $22, 900 duty on tinplate on April L.
As result of the serious disagree
ment between President Errazuriz and
the minister of the interior, growing
out of the appointment by the latter of
anu OAI1Vl OIlACldiS llOI cdbAS-
factory to the president, the entire
Chilean cabinet has resigned in order
to give the president full liberty of ac-
tion.
Bradstreet's reports that the tinplate
factories of the United States are pro-
ducing at the rate of $50, 900 tons, or
4, 800, 900 boxes a year. The official
figures in tons of the decrease in imports
BRIT follaI1-c-
1898, 225, 62S; 1894, 226, ,S79; 1895,
222, ,9OI; 1896, 113, ,O51, showing fall
ing off of so per cent in two years.
Governor W. T. Thornton has wired
to Washington his resignation as gov
ernor of New Mexico. His commits
sion will expire on the l 9TH inst, but
he has always declared he would resign
as soon as the Borrego gang of conspira-
tors was executed. Most of the COVER
nor's time for the next year will be
spent in the Sonora, Mexico, gold fields.
A snowslide occurred at the Corinth
mine in the SLOGAN country, killing
three men and carrying away the head
of the Aerial tramway recently erected
there. John R. Brown, hotel pro-
prietor of Harrison hot springs, is
thought to have perished in a slide
while out prospee ting in the Harrison
lake district. Brown was tracked to
the slide by Indians, but no further
trace of him can be found.
Great enthusiasm was manifested in
Athens, Greece, during the fetes or
ganized to celebrate the anniversary of
the declaration of 1921 of the indie
pendence of Greece from Turkish rule.
The scenes throughout the day, al
though very brilliant, were lacking in
the usual imposing military display,
ON account of the large number of
troops sent to the frontier. The abb
sence of pleasant exchange between the
people here was also in striking con-
trast with other years. Otherwise the
usual customs were followed.