Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-10-29
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

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perintendent of Alaskan schools, whe
has just returned from Alaska, says:
There is but one solution to the trans
portation problem in Alaska, and that
is the reindeer.
A special to the Kansas City Journal
from Muskogee, I. T., says: The
treaty between the Dawes and Creek
commissions, which was concluded
here last month, was rejected by the
Greek council in session at Okmulgee.
A patrol of dervish horsemen raided
village seven miles from Berber, kill
ing IL men and capturing many
women, children and cattle. A detach-
ment of Anglo Egyptian cavalry sent in
pursuit of the dervishes overlook them
and routed them with heavy loss. The
dervishes abandoned their booty and
fed.
The body of William J. Lyons, an
employe of the Pacific Gas Improve
ment Company, of San Francisco, was
found in the hills back of Berkley with
q bullet-hole in his head. He was
short in his accounts and attempted to
burn his books to hide his crime. Be-
ing discovered in this he killed him
self in despair.
Senator Morgan, who has just re-
turned from an extended visit to Ha-
waii, has expressed himsetlf as well
pleased with what he saw and the man
ner in which he was entertained on
the islands. He is more than ever en-
thusiastic on the subject of annexation,
and intimates that Hawaii will become
a part of this country before the close
of the coming year.
According to Chinese advices just re-
ceived in Tacoma, Earl Lii Hung Chang
will no longer take an active part in
government affairs.
Twenty million feet of hemlock and
2,000 cords of bark have been con-
sumed, resulting in a loss of 100000
by forest fire near Austin, Pa.
The government has completed ar
rangements with the Canadian author
tiles to have letter mail taken into
Dawson City once a month during the
winter season. The first carrier has
just left Dyea for Circle City and Daw-
son.
By an explosion at the Colma fuse
works, at Colma, CAL, Mary Beck was
killed and eight were sreiously and four
slightly wounded. The remains of the
dead girl have not been recovered from
the building, and it is believed they
burned.
The London Daily Mail says it has
information from a reliable source that
cholera has attacked a battalion of the
Shropshire regiment, which is stationed
at Sitapura, Northwest India, and that
40 non commissioned officers and pri-
Yates have already succumbed.
The Nueste Nachrichten, of Leipsic,
has published report of a converse
tion in which Prince Bismarck is
quoted as saying that the Monroe doc
trine is uncommon insolence towards
the rest of the world, and does violence
to the other American interests"
A census OF the Russian empire has
just been completed. The population,
as now published, is 129, ,211, ,113, Of
which 64,6116, ,280 are males and 64,-
594, 1888 are females. The population
of Russia in Europe is nearly 100, 000,-
900, or more than three-fourths of the
whole.
Telegraphic advices from the New
York Heradl's correspondent in Rio de
Janeiro state that servant in the en-
ploy of William 7. ToWnes, the United
States consul-general in Rio Janerio,
made an unsuccessful attempt to MUIR
der the consul-general. Mr.. Towne's
assailant was placed under arrest.
Admiral John L. Worden, retired,
died in Washington. He commanded
the Monitor during its engagement
with the Merrimac in Hampton Roads
during the late war. In 1886 he was
retired with full rank and the pay of
an admiral, the only instance of the
kind.
The director of the mint has submit
ted to the secretary of the treasury a
report for the fiscal year covering the
operations of the mints and assay off,
ces, together with statistics of foreign
countries relative to production, COIN
age and monetary condition. The value
of the gold deposited at the mints and
assay offices during the fiscal year 1897
was 1929, 9,1O5, 500. OF this amount
$87, ,003, 337 was original deposits, and
$42, 102, 162 redeposits.
By the explosion of the boiler of the
steamer g. B. Force, in Charleroi, Pa,
the captain, James Ryan, and the cook,
William Patterson, were killed. The
body of Patterson was found buried in
the sand and terribly mutilated. The
body of the captain has not yet been
found. The others of the crew were
badly scorched and bruised. The ex-
plosion was SO heavy that the earth
trembled for more than a mile, and
windows were broken throughout the
town.
John Falongos, resident of Clifton,
Or, for the past six years, was killed
by the caving of an embankment on
the grade of the Astoria & Columbia
River railroad.
A dispatch from Madrid says there is
much discussion at the Spanish capital
on the subject of an alliance between
Spain and Portugal, reported to be in
process of negotiation. The Portu-
guese minister of marine, who is now
in Madrid, has expressed the belief
that such an alliance may be accom-
plished at any moment.