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M 4 VOL. XXXIII. CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY. OREGON v THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1896. NO. 20. TRANSPORTATION. East and South -VIA- The Shasta Route OF THE Southern Pacific Co. EXPRESS TRAINS RUN DAILY. .Mrm ' Leave Pottland Anive I 8:10 1 1 12:10 A M J I.eave Albany Arrive 4:45 A M i 10:45 am . Anive 8. Frsncicco Leave 7:00 p m ; Above tre.'ns stop at Eat Portland, Oregon ' City, Woodbmo, ealem, Tomer, Mariou, Jeffer son, Albany. Albany Juucliou,Tau; ut,Shedds, Hairey, Hmiirbing. Junction City Eugene, Cieswell, Disius, and all stations from kose borg to Asb'and, inclusive. j ROSEBDRG MAIL DAILY. " ' 8:S a M Leave rorumui Air ve 4.40 rK 12:25 p m Leave Albuy Arrive 1 12:5 p m 6:2UPM Anive Robbing Leave I 8:00 am Pullman Buffet sleepers and second-class sleeping cars attached to all through trains. SALEM PASSENGER DAILY. 4:00 pm Leave Portland Ai rive 1 19:15 a m 6:16pm Arrive Salem Leave I 8:00 am WEST SIDE DIVISION. Between Portland and. Corvallis Hall train . daily (except Sunday). 7'30 A M Leave For lnud Anne t.a r u 12:15 P M Arrive Coiva'.Ha Leave! 1:86 PM At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains of the Oregon Central fc Eastern Ry. EXPRESS TRAINS DAILY (Except Sunday). 4:46 p M Leave Po tliind Arrive 8:25 A M 7:25 P M I Arrive McMinnville leave 5:50 a m Tnrongh tickets to all points irrthe Eastern states, Canada and Europe can be obta'ned at lowest rate from A. K.Miller, agent, Corvallis. R. KOEHLER, Manager. E. P. ROGE1S9, A. G. F. fc P. A., PorUaud, Or. ttt iilo E. McNEIL, Receiver. TO THE EAST GIVES THE CHOICE OF TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL VIA VIA : GREAT NORTHERN RY. SPOKANE MINNEAPOLIS UNION PACIFIC RY, DENVER OMAHA i AND AXD PAUL 47" KANSAS CITY- X)W RATES TO ALL EASTERN CITIES ' OCEAN STEAMERS kEAVE PORTLAND EVERY 5 DAYS FOR SAN FRANCISCO For fall details, call oa or address W. H. HURLBURT, Gen'l Pass. Agent, Portland, Oregon. OREGON CENTRAL AND EASTERNER. CO. Yaquina Bay Route Connecting at Yaqaina Bay with the San Francisco & Yaquina Bay STEAMSHIP COMPANY. Steamship "Farallon'" Bails from Yaquina every 8 days for San Fran cisco, Coos Bay, Port Orford, Trinidad and Humboldt Bay. Passenger ace immodations ansurpasted. Shortest route between the Wil lamette valley and California. rare From Albany or Point West to San Francisco: Cabin... . I Steerage To Coos Bay and Port Orlord Cabin To Humboldt Bay Cabin - Round trip, good for f 0 days, speclaL 1 River Division. Sfsmers ALBANY and WM. M. HOAO, newly furnished. leave Corvallis did y, except Satur days, at 7 a. m., arriving at i-onland the same day at 5 p m. Returning, boats leave Portland same days as above at 6 a. m., arriving at Cor vallis at V r. m. J. C. Mato, EDWIN STONE, Sunt River rtlvision. Manager. H. B. Lowmak, . - W. Schmidt, Depot Act., Corvallis. Agt River Division, . Occidental HoteL BENTON COUNTY. ABSTRACT : COMPANY Complete Set of Abstracts of Benton County. Conveyancingand Perfecting Titles a Specialty. Money to Loan on Improved City and Country Property. V. E. WATTERS, Prop. Ofllee at Courthouse, Corvallis, Or. DR. L. G. ALTMAN H0M0E0PATHIST Diseases of women and children and general practice. ...... Office C7er Allen & Woodward's drug store. Office hours 8 to 12 A. M., and 2 to 5 and 7 to 8 P.M. At residence, corner of 3rd and Harrison after hours and on Sundays. G.R..FARRA.10. Office In Farra A Allen's brick, on the corner of Second and Adams. Residence on Third street in front of court house. Office hours 8 to 9 A. v., and 1 to 2 and 7 to p. M. All cails attended promptly. BOWEN LESTER . DENTIST Office upstairs oyer First National Bank. Strictly. First-Class Work Guaranteed Corvallis, Oregon F. M. JOHNSON ATTORNEY - AT - LAW , Corvallis, Oregon Does a general practice In all the courts. Also agent for all the first-class insurance com panies. NOTARY PUBLIC. JUSTICE PEACE. E. E. WILSON ATTORNEY - AT - LAW Office in Zeiroff building, opposite postoffice. Jobiph H. Wilson. Thomas E. Wimoh WILSON & WILSON ATTORNEYS -AT-LAW Office over First National Bank, Corvallis, Or Will practice in all the state and federal courts Abstracting, collections. Notary public Con veyancing. E. HOLGATE. Notary Public H. L. HOLGATE. Justice of the Peace. HOLGATE & SON ATTOBNEYS-AT-LAW Corvallis - - - . - 'Oregon W. E. YATES. J. FRED YATES Lawyers.-' CORVALLIS OREGON A AViso Judge. A curious judgment was pronounc ed the other day by a Judge in a court of law at Volisso, in the. Island of Scio. An action for damages was brought by two persons against the local railway company for losses sustained by a col lision. It appeared that a man had lost an arm and a young woman had lost her husband. The judge, a Greek, assessed the damages thus: He gave 6,000 piasters to the man for the loss of his arm and 2,000 to the woman for the loss of her husband. At this there were loud murmurs, whereupon the judge gave his reasons In these terms: "My dear people, my verdict must re main, for you will see it is a Just one. Poor Nikola has lost his arm and noth ing on earth can restore that priceless limb. But you" (turning to the woman "you are still young and pretty. Ton have now some money; you will easily find another husband, who possibly may be as good as perhaps better than your dead lord. That Is my ver dict,' my people, and so it must go forth." So saying the judge left the hall. The people cheered him and con gratulated themselves on having such a Judge. '-:, r aster than Sound. A curious circumstance Illustrating, the difference in speed between sound, which travels through the air, and elec tricity, through wire as Its guide and conductor, occurred in California. A certain powder works blew up in a town while a railway telegraph opera tor was telegraphing to another In a neighboring town. At the instant of the . occurrence he telegraphed the news to the operator, who, 60 seconds afterwards, heard the report of the ex plosion. He knew it had occurred by wire ?ust one minute before he heard the report. Sound travels at about the rate of 1,140. feet per second, while electricity accomplishes 186,000 miles in the same short period of time. Phil adelphia" Record. Corn Culture in Boston. The proposed "corn laws" In the Legislature have brought to light the fact that some. 200,000 Bostonians are treated for corns annually. True cul ture must take care of the feet as well as of the head. Boston Globe. Richest Man in the World. Mr. John B. Robinson of South Afri ca is said to be the richest man in the world. His fortune is estimated at 70,000,000 ($340,620,000). In 1878 Rob inson was In debt. He had kept a gro cery store in the Orange Free State, but he could not make both ends meet He and his wife begged their way for 300 miles to Kimberly. Here .Robinson laid the foundation of his enormous fortune by picking up a rough diamond worth 250 ($1,216). Postmaster General Wilson is the most studious member of the Cabinet He goes into society very little, and spends most of his leisure In bis library. BRYAN IS NOMINATED Selection of the Populist Na tional Convention. WATSON FOR VICE-PRESIDENT The National Committee Given Plenary Power in All Things Connected With the Party. " William Jennings Bryan, of Ne braska, who was nominated by the Demooratio national convention at Chi cago, a fortnight ago, was, Saturday, at St. LoniB, made the standard-bearer of the People's party by a vote of 1,043 to 821. The Demooratio candidate was nomi nated in the face of his own protest, in the shape of a telegram, directing the withdrawal of bis name, sent to Sena tor Jones, after Sewall, his running mate, had been ditched for the vice presidential nomination Friday night, and Thomas, F. Watson, of Georgia, had been named, for the second place on the ticket. It was also made in the face of an opposition so bitter that, after the convention adjourned, some of the radicals held a "rump" conven tion. The last session of the convention, which lasted from 9:80 o'olook in the morning until 5 o'olook in the evening, was marked by scenes of turbulence W J Bryant and noisy excitement, whiob several times bordered on actual riot, and which almost preoipitated personal col lisions. The Texas delegates headed the opposition and clung to the middlt of the road to the last The Populist Bryan managers deoid ed early Saturday tpdfaregard' Mr Bryan's telegram of Friday and to nominate him and straighten out the tangle afterward a . They started out to rush his nomination through before any other candidate could' be put in the field. General Weaver, of Iowa, the Popu list oandidate in 1893, in a masterly address, placed Bryan in nomination, and General Field, of Virginia, wbc was formerly Weaver's running mate, after a brief speeoh, moved to make the nomination unanimous. About fifty seconding speeches were then made, and some of them were both eloquent and brilliant. The middle-of-the-road contingent insisted upon knowing at every oppor tunity whether, in view of his tele gram, Bryan wou'd stand on the plat form and accept the nomination. Bui all these pointed questions were neatlj parried. Judge Green, of Nebraska, and others, vouched for Bryan's sym pathy with Populistia principles, but that was all the satisfaction the radi cals could get A roll-call by states was taken, and when it was completed,- it was found that Bryan bad 1,043 out of -the 1 ,341 votes in the convention. Frank S. Norton, of Chicago, was the only othei candidate. Ignatius Donnelly, of Min nesota, and General Coxey, of Ohio, were nomfhated, but their names were withdrawn. Norton reoeived 821 votes, Debs 10, and Donnelly 1. Norton got the majority of the solid vote of Texas, Michigan, Missouri, Rhode Island and Wisconsin, and a respectable portion of the votes of Alabama, California, Kentucky, Illinois and Ohio. The demonstration when Bryan wai declared to be the ohoioe of the conven tion lasted fifteen minutes, and was fully as enthusiastic as that tendered the Nebraska man at the Chicago con vention. - Saturday morning a motion was" in troduced and carried that the national committee be given plenary power is all things oonnnected with the party. The Vice-Presidential Nominee. Thomas F. Watson, of Georgia, who was a member of the Fifty-first con gress, and who, in the Fifty-second and Fifty-third congresses, unsuccess fully contested Colonel Black's seat, was nominated for vice-president by the convention on the first ballot, short ly after midnight Friday night The nomination was made unanimous be fore the result of the roll-oall was an nounced. . The nominating speeches occupied exactly six hours. The convention adjourned after Bryan had been declared the nominee. . After the adjournment" of the con vention the national committee held a meeting, and after a spirited contest, electro Senator Butler, of North Caro lina, on the second ballot as national chairman. . - The first three days of the convention were consumed in organizing, appoint ing of committees, etc The platform was adopted Friday afternoon. ' Senator Butler was temporary chair man, and Senator Allen, of Nebraska, permanent chairman. General Weaver was ohairman of platform committee. POPULIST PLATFORM. Adopted by the National Convention Held at St. Louis. Following is the Populist platform, as agreed upon by the committee on resolutions and adopted by the St Louis convention: '" The People's Party, assembled in na tional convention, reaffirms its Allegi ance to the principles declared by the founders of the republic, and also to the fundamental principles of just gov ernment as enonoiated in the platform of the party in 1893.'.; We recognize that, through the connivance of the present and preceding administrations, the country has reached a crisis in its national life, as predicted in our dec laration four years ago, and that prompt and patriotic action is the su preme duty of the hour. We realize that, while we have political independ ence, our flnanoial and. industrial in dependence is yet to be obtained by re storing to our country the constitution al control and exercise of the functions necessary to a people's government, which functions have been basely sur rendered by our public servants to cor porate monopolies. The influence of European money changers has been more potent in shaping legislation than the voice of the American people Executive power and patronage have been used to corrupt our legislatures and defeat the will of the people, and plutocracy has thereby been enthroned upon, the ruins of demooraoy. Tore store the government intended by the fathers of the country, for the welfare and prosperity of this and future gen erations, we demand the establishment of an eoonomio and flnanoial system which shall make us masters of our own affairs and Independent of Eu ropean control by the adoption of the following declaration of principles: Finance. :. First We demand a national money, safe and sound, issued by the general government only, without the interven tion of banks of issue, to be a full legal tender for all dfbts, publio and private; a just, equitable and efficient means of distribution direct to the people and through the lawful disbursements of the government, r: ' Second We demand the free and unrestricted coinage of "silver and gold at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, and without waiting for the oonsent of foreign nations. Third We demand that the vol ume of circulating medium be speedily inoreased to as amount sufficient . to meet the demands of the business and the population of this country, and to restore the just level of prices and la bor production. . Fourth We denounce the sale of bonds and the increase of the publio Interest-bearing debt, made by the pT'eserSdmTntstratton.Tss -mmeoessaTy and without authority of law, and we demand that no more bonds be issued except by speoiflo action of congress. . Fifth We demand such legislation as will prevent the demonetizing of the lawful money of the United, States by private contract. Sixth We demand that the govern ment, in payment of its obligations. shall use its option as to . the kind of lawful money in which they are to be paid, and we denounce the present and preoeeding administrations for surren dering this option to ' the holders of government obligation securities. Seventh We demand a graduated in oome -tax, to the end that aggregate wealth shall bear its just proportion of taxation, and we regard the reoent de oision of the supreme court, relative to the income-tax law, as a misinterpreta tion of the constitution, an invasion of the rightful powers of congress on the subject of taxation. Eighth We demand that postal sav ings banks be established by the gov ernment for the safe deposit of the sav ings of the people and to facilitate ex change. ' - :; Transportation. First Transportation being a means of exchange and a publio necessity, the government should own and operate the railroads in the interest oi tne people on a nonpartisan basis, to the end that all may be aooorded the same treatment in transportation, and that the tyranny of political power, now SBxeroised by the great railroad corporations, which result in the impairment, if not the destruction of . the political rights and personal liberty of the citizen may be destroyed. Such ownership is to be accomplished gradually in a manner consistent with sound publio policy. Second The interest of the United States in the publio highways built with publio moneys and the proceeds of extensive grants ox land to tne pa cifio railroads should never have been alienated, mortgaged or sold, but guarded and protected for the general welfare as provided or tne laws organ izing such railroad The foreclosure of existing liens of the United States on these roads should at once follow default in the payment thereof by the debtor - companies, and at the fore closure sales of said roads the govern ment should purohase the same, if it becomes necessry, to jproteot its inter ests, or if they can be purchased at a reasonable price, and the government shall operate said railroads as publio highways for the oenent oi tne wnoxe people, and not in the interest of the few, under suitable provisions for pro tection of life and property, giving to all the transportation interests equal privileges and equal rates lor lares and freights. Third We denounce the present in famous schemes for refunding the said debts, and demand that the laws now applicable thereto be executed and ad' ministered according to their true in tent and spirit. Fourth The telegraph, like the post- office system, being a necessity for the transaction of news, should be owned and operated by the government in the interest of the people. v , Land. First -Tbs true policy demands that the national and state legislation shall be such as will " ultimately enable every prudent and industrious citizen to secure a home, and . therefore the land should not be monopolized for speculative purposes. All lands now held by railways and other corporations in excess of their actual needs should, by lawful means, be reclaimed by the government and held for actual settlers only, and private land monopoly, as well as alien ownership, should be pro hibited. Second We condemn the frauds by whioh the land grants to Pacific rail road companies have, through the oon nivance of the interior department, robbed multitudes of bona-fide settlers of ; their homes and miners of their claims, and we demand legislation by congress whioh will enforce the exemp tion of mineral land from snob grants after, as well as before, patenting. Third We demand that bona fide settlers on all publio lands be granted free homes, as provided in the national homestead law, and that no exception be made in the oase of Indian reserva tions when opened for settlement, and that all lands not now patented oome under this demand. ' Direct Legislation. We favor a system of direct legisla tion through the initiative and referen dum, under proper constitutional safe guards. . - - General Propositions. ' First We demand the election of president, vice-president and United States senators by direct vote of the people. Second We tender to the patriotic people of Cuba our deepest sympathy in their struggle for political freedom and independence, and we believe the time has come when the United States, the great republic of the world, should recognize that Cuba is, and of right ought to be, a free and independent state. Third We favor home rule in the territories and the District of Colum bia, and the early admission of the ter ritories as states. - Fourth All publio salaries should be made to correspond to the price of labor and its products. Fifth In tunes of great industrial depression, idle labor should be em ployed on publio works as far as prac ticable. - Sixth The arbitrary course of the court in assuming to imprison citizens for indirect contempt and ruling them by injunction should be prevented by proper legislation. ..',- Seventh We favor just pensions fur every disabled Union soldier. Eighth Believing that the election franchise and uhtrammeied ballot are essential to a government of, for and by the people, the People's party con- ds-thewhoWsystemisfra chisement adopted in some of the states adopted as nnrepublioan and undemocratic, and we declare it to be the duty of the sev eral state legislatures to take suoh ao tion as will secure a full and free and fair ballot and an honest count Ninth While the foregoing proposi tions constitute the platform which our party stands upon and for the vindica tion of its organization will be main tained, we recognize that the great and pressing issue of the pending campaign upon which the presidential eleotion will turn, is the financial question, and upon this great and specific issue between the parties we cordially invite the aid and co-operation of all organi zations and citizens agreeing with us upon this vital question. A METEOR IN MEXICO. Carried Down the Side of a Mountain in Its Fall. Mexico, July 37. A remarkable phenomenon at- the mine of Carlos Reyes, in the state of Chihuahua, oc curred at 8 o'clock yesterday. - A tre menduous explosion was heard and an enormous mass of burning matter was seen to fall from the heavens, striking the side of the mountain and bringing with it in its course entire oliffs, and finally plunged 700 feet into the ground making a hole from whioh boiling water still issues. One of the most singular pehnomena observed was the heavy rain falling from the sky immediately after the descent of the meteor. The people are very supersti tious, as this is one of the many reali zations of the prophecies of the vision seeing girl, of Tobasoo. The same meteor destroyed the house of a miner killing his two children. Fired on an American Ship. The sohooner Governor J. V. Smith, Captain Patrick, from Gibrara, Cuba, to Wilmington, N. C, has arrived at quarantine, at South port N. C. The sohooner left Gibrara July 14. Two days later, while off the Cuban coast in the neighborhood of Neuvitas har bor, she passed a Spanish gunboat about a mile and a half away. The gunboat opened fire on the sohooner, sending a solid shot over her deck. The shell fell in the sea a quarter of a mile .to starboard, doing no damage. Captain Patrick immediately ran up the American . ensign and left the neighborhood as quickly as possible. He was not able to learn the name of the gunboat, whioh remained station- ary. firing no more shots. It is ex peoted that Captain Patrick will make an offloial report as the schooner is entered at the custom-house. Fatal Shooting Accident. A fatal shooting accident occurred at Addy, Wash. Thomas Smith's boy, 17 years old, shot and instantly killed the son of H. Skeel, about 14 years old. The Smith boy had taken a rifle with him to school for the purpose of kill ing birds on his way. Returning home with a number of children, he J shot at a mark on a tree, the bullet . glancing and penetrating the heart of' tne oaeei rxy, xiumg nun iobiuiuj. There were a number of children stand ing around at the time. An inquest will be held, as different rumors seem to exist -. . . THE . SILVER CONVENTION. Bryan Nominated for President and Sewall lor Vice-President. . St Louis, Mo. At the first day's session of the silver convention not muoh headway was made. The pro gramme of the conference was all ar ranged in advance. It included simply the adoption of a lS-to-1 platform and the nomination of Bryan and Sewall, but those in charge of it deemed it good policy to go slow in the belief that they might, by remaining in season, be able to exercise an influence in shaping things in the Populist convention. To this end, they appointed a committee of seven, headed by Judge Scott, of Cali fornia, to meet a similar committee of the Populists for the purpose of reach ing a common plan of action. The convention was called to order by Na tional Chairman Mott, who introduced Francis B. Newlanda, of Nevada, as temporary chairman. Mr. Newlands addressed the convention at some length, and was followed by ... other speakers setting forth the claims of the silver! tea '""-"' ' The Second Day, The second day's session of the silver convention was given over to speeches and songs. No business of any im portance was transacted. The v ladies were in evidence, and the assembly was addressed by Mrs. Helen" Conger, of Indiana, who denounced the gold bug monopolists as "Wall street plu tocrats" and "English bond sharks" and said the only salvation of the peo ple from serfdom was to declare for the free coinage of silver. The Third Day. It was ten minutes to 11 o'olook when Chairman St John oalled the silver convention to order. G. W. Baker, of California, said - that the People's Party convention had appoint a conference committee and moved that the convention defer ' action on the platform and postpone the nom ination until 8:80 P. M. The motion prevailed. No business was transacted during the day, the time being taken np in the rendering of silver speeches, poems and songs. Friday night, after the oommittee of seven appointed to confer with the Populists, had reported that no agree ment could be reached, the convention proceeded to olose its business. The platform was read and adopted with out change. : A motion was then made to nominate Bryan and Sewall by ac clamation. Amid much exoitement the motion carried." The convention then adjourned sine die. The Platform. The demonetization of silver in 1878 enormously increased the demand for gold, enhancing the purchasing power J l : .it v i j7T1 J, . . .1 . " I and indispensable act, the prices of American products have fallen upon an average nearly 50 per cent carrying down with them proportionately the money value of all other forms of prop erty. Suoh fall of prices has destroyed the profits of legitimate industry, in juring the producer for- the benefit of the non-producer, increasing the bur den of the debtor, swelling the gains of the creditor, paralyzing the productive energies of the American people, rele gating to idleness vast numbers of willing workers, sending the shadows of despair into the home of the honest toiler, filling the land with tramps and paupers, and building np colossal for tunes at the money centers. In the effort to maintain the gold standard, the country has, within the last four years, in a time of profound peace and plenty, been loaded down with a $262,000,000 of additional interest-bearing debt, under suoh cir oumtsances as to allow a syndicate of native and foreign bankers to realize a net profit of millions on a single deaL It stands confessed that the gold standard can only be upheld by so de pleting our paper currency as to force the prices of our produots below the European and below the - Asiatic level, and enable us to sell in foreign mar kets, thus aggravating the very misery of whioh our people so bitterly com plain, degrading Amerioan labor and striking at the foundations of our civ ilization itself. The advocates of the gold standard persistently claim that the oause of our distress is overproduction; that . we have produced so muoh that it has made us poor; whioh implies that the true remedy is to olose the factory, abandon the farm and throw a multi tude of people out of employment, a doctrine that leaves us disheartened and without hope for the future. We affirm it to be unqestionable that there can be no suoh eoonomio paradox as overproduction and at the same time tens of thousands of our fellow-citizens remain half-clothed and half fed, and who are piteously clamoring for the common necessities of life. Inasmuch as the patriotic majority of the Chicago convention embodied in the flnanoial plank of its platform the principles enunciated by the Amerioan bimetallio party, promulgated at Wash ington, D. C., January 33, 1896, and herein reiterated, whiob is not only paramount, but the only real issue in the pending cam.aign; therefore, rec ognizing that their nominees embody ! these patriotio principles, we reoom mend that this convention nominate W. J. Bryan, of Nebraska, for presi dent, and Arthur Sewall, of Maine, for vioe-president A cloudburst occurred at Springfield, O., flooding everything. People in the East End moved np stairs on account of the overflow of Buok creek. Front and North streets were partially under vtnr. A crowd of campers at Red- mond min w6re perched in trees all njght The magnificent Snyder Park, costing 126,000 is almost ruined. - In Europe thrushes build their nests as near to human habitations as they can, to escape the persecutions of the magpies. EVENTS OF THE DAY Epitome ot the Telegraphic News of the World. TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES A n Interesting Collection of Items From the Two Hemispheres Presented in a Condensed Form. Cleveland, O., is oelebrating its cen tennial with 'due ceremony. News comes from the Washington state Republican headquarters that the state convention will probably be held at Taooiaa, some time between Angust 16 and September 15. Hon. Samuel Layman, a prominent ' and well-known Oregonian, died at his home near Woodbnrn from the effects of injuries whioh 'he sustained some weeks ago by falling from a cherry tree. Mr. Layman was 63 years of age. A meeting of representatives from the large foreign banking-houses was held in New York, to consider plans for the protection of the treasury gold reserve. It is understood a plan was arranged to ease the exohange market until the crop movement starts the balance in our favor. A San Francisco dispatch says: .. Ed win B. Webster, the young paymaster" who was recently court-martialed at Mare Island and found guilty of a charge of embezzlement, does not in tend to abide by the judgment of the court He will appeal to President Cleveland for clemency before the navy department shall bave an oppor tunity to pass upon the recently found' verdiot Peroival Lowell, Boston's famous astronomer, who is now on his way to Flagstaff, Aria, is at the bead of the most important soientifio expedition planned for more than half a oentury. The object of the expedition is to make observations on Mars, and to procure, if possible, evidence to support the theory held by Mr. Lowell and other astronomers that the "red star of war'" is inhabited by human beings. Three members of the revolutionary oommittee have just arrived in Athens from Crete on a special mission. In the course of an interview they made the following statement on an author ity of their committee: "We wish to say it has been deoided that we must bave granted to us the demands we ' have sent to the sultan or else we shall fight The powers must either give us autonomy or see us crushed. Should " our demands be neglected, then within fifteen days of July 15, the date at which Iheywere made, we shall break the armistice." a - ' - " Advices from Hong Kong say that imperial Chinese troops were recently sent to Lanohou to suppress the Mo bammedan rebels, who ' had risen against the authorities. The rebels surrounded the imperial troops and seem to have totally annihilated them, although the imperial troops were bet ter provisioned and equipped. There were 6,000 troops sent to subdue the rebels and all are either killed or miss ing. The rebels are now mad for blood, massaoreing all in authority, killing and pillaging on their triumph ant mar oh through the country. Chinatown in San Francisco is in a fever of exoitement and another high binder war has been declared. Cloolin's sawmill, situated on Deep creek, near Medical lake, Wash., was burned to the ground. The loss is $3,600. . , Cholera is abating in Egypt Bat tles in Crete are almost of hourly occur rence, and the Turks have suffered heavy losses. . ' The remains of Ed Moran were found floating In the Puyallup river. Moran is supposed to have drowned himself on June 80 last : The storthing, the representative body of Norway, has defeated the bill for the temporary increase of duties on petroleum- and -sugar, and for the imposition of a duty on meat. Mrs. T. H. Tofree, who was Grover Cleveland's secretary while he was mayor of Buffalo, committed suicide in Mojave, CaL, by drinking oarbolio acid. It is supposed she was temporarily in sane. ' Adjutant-General Tuttle has reoeived from the secretary of the state of Ore gon a warrant for $6,917, with which to pay the militia boys for their serv ices at Astoria during the reoent fishing troubles. . Near Dry den, Mich., George Swayne, a farmer, about 46 years old, killed his three small . children and set fire to his house, then blew bis brains out His wife died a short time ago. It is thought that this deranged his mind. The barken tine Herbert Fuller, Cap tain Nash, from Boston for Rosario, ilU pUS IUMI UaiAAOA, There bad been a mutiny on board. The captain, bis wife and the second mate were killed in their berths in the night The first offioer, who was on watch, knew nothing about the affair. The murderer or murderers crawled aft to the cabin, descended, and with axes chopped the viotims to death. Upon the arrival of the barkentine all the crew were looked up in the police station to await trial. There is no longer doubt that the wheat crop in Eastern Washington has been badly damaged by hot winds, says . a Walla Walla dispatch. Reports from the Palouse country are to the effect that the damage is about 76 per cent, and that many fields are not worth cutting. The grain on Eureka flat, in this county, is damaged about 60 per cent and will only average about fif teen bushels to the acre. One farm er along the YeIJow Hawk now esti mates bis yield at about 'fifty bushels to the aore.