Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-11-19
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.


Rbind, q. S. N, is dead at his home
in New York city. He had been con.
fined to his bed for five weeks.
The labor troubles which have been
brewing in Randsburg, CAL, for soms
time eliminated Wednesday, when
about 100 members of the miners
union went in body to the Roxie
mine and peremptorily drove superin-
tendent Clarke and five men out of the
camp for working below the schedule
Of the union.
A new industry has started in
Owensboro, KY, with 100 employees.
It is to utilize cornstalk celluIose for
lining battleships. Materials for MAX
ing an imitation of silk and for making
celluloid are among the products. Pa
per is another product. w. w. Gibbs,
of Philadelphia, is president. and the
stockholders are Fasteners.
The owners of the German ship Po-
trimpos, stranded at Long Beach,
Wash, have bought two 10, O,0OO-pound
anchors of the United States warship
Vandalia, which was wrecked at Samoa
several years ago, and will ship them
from San Francisco at once, for use in
floating the Potrimpos next month. 1t
is expected that the ship will be put
into deep water in less than month.
A remonstrance against allowing
Chinese coal miners to be imported
into the state for the purpose of min
ing coal at Wilmington and other towns
in place of the striking miners, will be
placed before Governor Tanner in the
name of the United Mineworkers of
Illinois. The governor will also be
asked to cooperate with the secretary
of the miners federation in keeping
out the coolie labor. Secretary Ryan
says if the Chinese come b1oodshed
will surely result If Governor Tanner
refuses to interfere President Mckinley
will be appealed to-.
Three men were burned to death in
a fire at Hot Springs, Ark.
Marshal Blanco has extended a full
pardon to all rebels in Cuba.
A rumor has reached Simla that
native officer and So Sikhs belonging
to the Kurram column have been inter-
cepted by the tribesmen in a ravine
and slaughtered.
Two men met death in Southern Or
egon. One was struck and hurled
from trestle by train on the South
ern Pacific, the other was run over by
the same train while switching in the
yard at Grants Pass.
A Naples dispatc says Mount Vesu-
vius is in great activity. A mass of
lava is pouring out from the Artio de
Cavello crater, which opened in 1895.
Two wide streams are flowing down in
the direction of Vitrova and Hiano del
Inestro.
A terrible famine is raging in the
province of Archangel, Russia. Many
have already died of starvation. The
e.ople wander about reduced almost to
skeletons, the heads swollen to the size
Of baskets. The only means of subsist-
ence is tea.
The chamber of commerce of San
Francisco, has sent the following mes
sage to President Mckinley: ''In the
name of humanity and patriotism, the
cham ber of commerce of San Francisco
urges upon you the prompt
dispatch of the revenue cutter Bear to
The Arctic, under command of Captain
Healy, with discretionary orders, fully
equipped and provisioned, to rescue
over 400 men imprisoned by ice near
Point Barrow, and with authority to
Use, if necessary, reindeer, at the gov
station, to facilitate the land
ng."
The United States supreme court has
affirmed the decision of the lower court |
commission against the Alabama Mid
and and the Georgia Central railways,
md others. The case arose out of
charges by citizens of Alabama that the |
were disregarding the long
clause of the interstate
commerce law. The point at issue was
when there was competition
between railroads and water transpor-
alton, the roads must file lower rates
With Interstate commerce commmis-
ion, and it was decided in the mega
i've by the court.
The anarchists of New York cele-
,rated the 11th anniversary of the con-
fiction of their comrades in Chicago,
It public meeting. There were
bout 500 anarchists in the audience.
ohann Most presided and spoke of the
'canaille of capitalism which he said
itself that the social
uestion had been squelched, and that
eace and order prevailed. He wanted
o tell the political bandits that "the
anarchists were not gathered to mourn
r to shed tears, but to sing song of
for the future was not far off,
Ie called the governm ent a cowboy
overnment, with apologies to cowb boys,
nd tickled his hearers by saying only
ne bomb was fired in the Haymarket,
at it did excellent execution.
Consul Duester, at Crelfeldt, Ger.
,any, reports to the state department
t Washington discovery made there
'hich it is said revolutionizes the
lethods of illumination. It is an in
andescent gas lamp. Single jets of Or
mary size can emit light of much
lore than 1 900 candle power, and fine
rint can be read at distance of 100
,et. The inventor says the cost for
ght of / 800 candlepower is only ~
snts per hour, while that for an Or
mary electric light Of 40 candlepower
IA cents per hour.