Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-09-17
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.

A terrible explosion of nitroglycerins
occurred in Cygnet, O., resulting in thG
death of six persons and the injury of a
large number.
It is said that John w. Mackay, the
American millionaire, will lay a Cana
dian Pacific cable from Vancouver, B.
c., to Australia.
Count Okuma, of Japan, has notified
his minister at Honolulu of the terms
and conditions of Japan's acceptance of
the proposal to arbitrate the dispute
with Hawaii.
A New York Herald special from
Barcelona says that it is stated on the
highest diplomatic authority that the
present Spanish government will go
out within fortnight, and that the
liberals will come in.
Customs inspectors at Laredo, Tex,
have found an unclaimed grip on a
train, containing 100000 worth Of
diamonds, jewelry and other valuables
The papers in the valise indicate that
it belonged to Spanish officer. 1t is
believed it was stolen by man who
lacked the courage to claim ownership
w. P. Atwell, commercial agent Of
the United States at Robaix, France,
sends to the state department. a report
on the short wheat crop in France.
He says the crop in France, and in fact
all Europe, has fallen much below the
average, and that it is estimated that
the United States and Canada will be
called U. IN to export from 100, 900, 900
to 130, 900, 900 bushels more than they
exported to Europe last year. France
will require about 60, 10000 bushels
to meet the deficit in that country.
A Portland company has offered to
build a sugar beet factory in La
Grande.
q. J. Layzell was killed and Claude
Hawthorne severely injured by a fire
on a launch in Astoria, Or.
Falls Company, manufacturers of
cotton goods, in Norwich, Conn.,, have
started up on full time, giving employ
ment to 500 hands.
The New Orleans health authorities
have sent out notice of death by vel
low fever in that city. Quarantine has
been declared by several Southern
cities.
A rich strike is reported in the
1,200-foot level, the vein averaging
four feet in width, and running $130 to
the ton.
Edward Lyons, patient at the Ore
gon state insane asylum hung himself
to tree in the asylum grounds. He
was committed from Multnomah county
last March.
In the Milford labor union, at its
games in Milford, Mass, H. S. Dono-
van, of Natick, ran 100 yards in 91s
seconds, breaking the world s record by
one-tenth of a second, according to the
timekeepers
George W. Clark broke the worlds
high-dive record by jumping off the
railing of the Halstead-street life bridge
in Chicago, when the structure was
raised to an elevation of l65 feet above
the Chicago river. The diver was
taken out of the river uninjured, and
was placed under arrest by the police.
The Washington Star says: It is
STATED that S. D. North, of Boston, has
been Selected as superintendent of the
next census, and that his appointment
will be made as soon as necessary legis-
lation can be enacted. The president
is said to favor the establishment of a
permanent bureau on census, and is
likely to express some views on that
subject in his next message to congress.
Wild horses have become a nuisance
in Northern Arizona, and Attorny-
General Frasier has been asked if they
may not be legally slaughtered. That
vicinity has been overrun by several
large bands, hundreds in number, un-
branded and unclaimed by any one.
They have rapidly increased in number
and have become wilder than deer and
vicious as we'll The matter has been
referred to the livestock board.
A Phoenix, Ariz., dispatch says it il
expected that work will be resumed
within so days on the great Rio Verde
irrigation enterprise which is to redeem
200, 600 acres of the finest land in the
Salt river valley. Of the $50 miles of
canals that will constitute the Rio
Verde irrigation system, % have been
dug, and a large amount of work, cost
ing altogether 100000, has been done
at and near the headworks.
''We are on the verge of great min
ing era," remarked Clarence King,
former chief of the United States geo.
logical survey, in Denver. ''The time
is not far distant when man can start
out of Denver and travel to Klondike,
stopping every night at a mining camp.
Already two American stamp mills are
pounding away on the border of the
Straits of Magellan, and the day is ap-
preaching when chain of mining
camps will extend from Cape Horn to
St. Michaels.'
A Philadelphia 6 Reading wrecking
engine crashed into wagon at a grade
crossing at Frush Valley, few miles
above Reading, Pa, and three lives
were lost.
The Marquis of Salisbury's proposal
for the constitution of an international
committee representing the six powers
to assume control of the revenues, with
which Greece will guarantee the pay
ment of interest for holders on old
bonds as we'll as payment of the indem-
nifty loan, has been accepted by the
powers.