Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-11-12
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.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows at the close of business o.
tober 80, debt, less cash in tres sury,
amounting to 81, ,O2O, 563, ,9O1, an in
crease for the month of So, AL, 1873.
A section of scaholding around the
Wabash building in St. Louis, recently
partially destroyed by fire, gave way,
carrying eight workmen into a mass of
debris. Two were fatally injured and
four seriously hurt.
During a fire at Hornot's dyeing and
securing establishment in Philadelphia,
Pa, large can of benzine exploded.
Thirteen fremen were seriously burned.
1t is feared some of them may lose
their eyesight. The loss by fire was
slight.
The Sparta stage was held up by two
masked men three miles from Baker
City, Or. The highwaymen had
lantern, which frightened the horses,
and the coach was capsized. The driver
grabbed the mail sack and reached Ba-
ker City safely.
Attorney General Fitzgerald, of CAL
ifornia, submitted motion to the su-
preme court at Washington, to dismiss
or affirm in the case of w. H. T. Dur
rant. The case involves the proceed
ings against Durrant for murder. The
case was taken under advisement.
The people of Canton turned out in
large numbers to welcome President
Mckinley upon his arrival home. He
was escorted to his residence by the
Canton troop, where he was waited
upon by the Commercial Travellers AS
sociation and large delegation of
workmen from Dueber Heights, most
of them from the Dueber watch works.
There is intense excitement at Co
velo, CAL, the metropolis of the Round
valley region, over the arrest of most
of the merchants and saloon-men of
the place on charges of selling liquor
to Indians, and there is reason to fear
that blood will flow before the matter
can be transferred to the district court
at San Francisco. Indian police are
guarding the Jail, in which several
white men are confined, being unable
to furnish bail.
Great excitement has been caused in
Caracas by the discovery of plot to
start revolution in Venezuela in order
to prevent the meeting of congress.
Five hundred arrests have been made.
The largest cargo of wheat ever load
ed in a vessel on Puget sound was
placed on the steamer Glenfarg in Ia
coma, which cleared for st. Vincent.
The cargo consisted of ITO, 430 BUSH
els of wheat, valued at $40, 900.
The Ottoman government has notified
the powers that it objects to the appoint
ment of Colonel Schaeffer, an officer in
the army of Luxem burg, as provisional
commissioner of the powers for the
island of Crete. The German govern
ment supports the objection of Turkey.
The Spanish government signed con-
tracts last week with an important
firm of British shipbuilders, by which
it acquires some cruisers fitted with
uuick-fire guns, which the firm had
nearly completed for another govern
ment, whose consent, presumably, Spain
has secured by this arrangement.
The steamship Milwaukee sailed from
New Orleans for Liverpool with the
largest cargo of cotton, if not the largest
general cargo, ever foated. 1t con-
sisted of %, $50 bales of cotton; $4,000
bushels of grain; $3.50 pieces of
slaves; 2.300 oars; her entire cargo be-
ing equal to 26, 900 bales of cotton.
Boys celebrating Halloween at Fort
Branch, Ind, started fire which de-
stroyed Odd Fellows hall. the Fort
Branch Times Office, six business houses
and several dwellings. Total loss,
$35O,O00. In the course of the fire 80
pounds of dynamite exploded, causing
much damage to surrounding property.
Much surprise and ill feeling has
been occasioned in official circles in
Madrid by the statement in the ac-
counts of the demonstration in Havana
on Friday, which preceded General
Weyler's embarkation, that he had de-
clared while addressing the deputation
that he had been recalled in obedience
to the wishes of the rebels and the de-
mands of the United States.
It is understood that the diet of the
Greater Republic of Central America
has refused to agree with Secretary
Sherman in support of the arguments
put forward in support of the appoint
ment of Captain William L. Merry, of
San Francisco, as minister of the Uni
ted States to Nicaragua, Costa Rica and
Salvador. 1t is claimed in Managua
that this step was taken to force the
United States, if possible, to fully
recognize the diet, although it ia
claimed that that body may be over
turned any day by successful revolu-
tion in Nicaragua, Costa Rica or Sal
vador, or by the withdrawal from it OF
any of the presidents governing the
state he represents. The reply of the
diet will probably be forwarded to the
United States state department.
1t is expected that treaty or con-
vention between the United States,
Russia and Japan will be formally
signed and executed at the state de-
partment during the present week,
carrying out the proposition before the
Behring sea conference for suspension
of pelagic sealing. The present under
standing is that the signing of this
document will occur within the next
few days. 1t will represent the COM
pleted efforts of the conference, and,
with the signing concluded, the confer