Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1899-01-27
EVENTS OF THE DAY
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TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items FrO1a
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in a Condensed Form.

An Interesting Collection of Items FroA
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in Condensed Form.
Chauncey M. Depew was elected to
the United States senate from New
York.
Senator Lodge has been reelected
from Massachusetts,, and Senator Davis
from Minnesota.
Francis M. Cockrell was elected to
the United States senate by the Mis-.
souri, legislature.
A fire broke out in the Wheeler
mine at Denver, COL, on the night Of
the 18th All the miners escaped.
The fire in confined to one room.
A state funeral almost majestic in it's
impressiveness was given the late Rep
resentative Dingley in the house of rep
resentatives.
A Madrid dispatch says the premier,
Senior Sagasta, in an interview de-
clared that he only awaited the United
States senate's ratification of the peace
treaty to oonvoke the cortes.
The secretary of the interior, in
Communication with the house COM
mittee on Indian affairs, said an in
vestigation shows the reports of q
threatened uprising of Indians of the
Northern Cheyenne reservation are TN
founded.
Reports from Pinar del Rio, Cuba,
say that the province is being ravaged
by bandits, who have broken away
from the insurgent forces. Thus far no
great damage has been done, and the
crimes committed are not of serious
nature, but the ranks of the outlaws
are constantly increasing. and the raids
are becoming more daring.
At the annual meeting of the Busi.
ness Mems League at St. Louis, two
hundred merchants and capitalists were
present. A resolution was adopted
heartily endorsing the action of the
delegates from the states and territor-
les comprised in the Louisiana pur-
chose in deciding to commemorate the
event of the purchase by holding a
worlds fair in St. Louis, and pledging
full support to the undertaking.
The congressional subcommission on
agriculture and agricultural labor of
the industrial commission has made
public its syllabus of the topical plan
of inquiry on the condition of labor
and capital employed in these pursuits.
The plan is divided into three general
heads, viz: Labor employed, capital
employed, and remedial legislation.
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questions on which the subcommission
desires information. They embrace so
in all. and thoroughly cover the field,
which the subcommission has in hand.
Witnesses making responses to the
questions asked are required to give
facts rather than opinions except in
such instances where suggestions are
invited.
King Humbert, of Italy, has signed
a decree amnestying or reducing the
punishment of the rioters who took
part in the disturbances last spring.
About roo persons who were sentenced
by court-martial and about 1000 who
were condemned by civil courts have
been liberated.
uc SSCT0LdTy VI tll6 lEL6TlUT HAS lOrs
warded to the senate the papers lear.
ing upon the proposition to remove the
Northern Cheyenne Indians from their
reservation in Northern Montana to
the Crow reservation. The secretary
states that the Cheyennes are averse to
the change, and he recommends that
they be allowed to remain where they
are, and that legislation be enacted
looking to the improvement of their
condition.
Herr Schmidt, socialist member of
the German reichstag, has voluntar-
lily informed the public prosecutor at
IIadgeburg that he was solely respons.
ible for the publication in the Social
ist Volks Stimme, of the article pur-
porting to be conversation between
the Prince of Bagdad and his tutor. on
account of which the editor, Herr Au-
gust Mueller, was sentenced last week
to 40 months Imprisonment on the
charge of lese majestic. The whole
case must now be reopened. The
Madgeburg court interpreted the alle-
CORY of which Herr Schmidt confesses
the authorship as an insult to the Sec
ond son OF Emperor William, Prince
Fitel.
A most daring attempt was made by
three youths of Boise, Idaho. to wreck
the Oregon Short Line pay-car a short
distance west OF Mountain Home. A
heavy log chain had been tied around
the track, but was fortunately dis
covered and removed by some section
men before the pay-car passed the
point. A search was instituted in the
neIghborhood, which resulted in find
ing Emmett ALLEN, Hugh Breen and
John Richardson, boys of Boise, rang
ing from 16 to 18 years of age, in hid
ing near by. They subsequently, con-
fessed to the attempt at wrecking the
pay-car for the puI pose of getting the
money. They are now in Jail at
Mountain Home.
Minor News Items.