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Ihe V OL. IIILLSIiOItO. OREGON. THURSDAY, NOVKMIiKU 12. IrtW. NO. 34. EVENTS OF THE DAY Epitome ot the Telegraphic News of the World. TERSE TICKS FKOM THE WlitES Aa Interesting Collection of Items Front tin Two HoinWphoroa Fraaeuted In a Coud.iiMil Form. Id an opinion tiled in the inprerae court ot Illinois, the Torreus laud title at ii held to be unconstitutional. Rev. E. L. Reuediat ibot and fatally woanded Harry MoWhnrter, a promi nent druggist, of Lartabee, la. The hooting wai In aelf defense. Thare ii a shortage of dry wines in California, and the manufacturer wish to advanoe the prices, but to this the dealers object, for fear of foreign com petition. Pvident Zelaya, of Nicaragua, has issued a deoree making lard duty free from October to April, and floor and corn, which are also scarce, are made free of duty. The country borne at Clover Bend, Lawrenoe ooouty, Arkansas, of Mist French, authoress and magazine oon tnbuter, well known aa "Octave Thanet," waa deatrnyed by Are. A large and vlauable library waa burned. Berloua rioting bas occurred at Shot pot, near Bombay. Five thousand man looted 1,600 bugs of grain. The polioe fired upon the mob, killing four men and wounding six. A further outbreak ia feared aa Shotaput ia one of the worat famine traota. J A St. Petersburg dispatch to the London Tlmea qnotea the Novoati aa aying that towards the oloae ot the war with Japan, China offered to cede the island of Formosa to England with out condition, with a view to exuludlug the Japanese, but that Lord Rosebery, then prime minister, promptly declined the offer. Mrs. Walter M. Castle, of Ban Fran cisco, recently sentenced in London to three months' imprisonment without bard larbor, after having pleaded guilty to a oharge of shop-lifting, haa been re lea ted from prison on niedloal grounds, by order of the borne secretary, Sir Matthew White Ridley. The report tbat was recently sent ont from Constantinople that sixty Anne niana wer mnssaoerd there early last i week was not exaggerated. On the i contrary, the affair turuB out mora seri ous than waa at first announced The inasioie occurred at the village ot fcverek, where nearly one hundred per sous were killed and all the Armenian 1 bouses pillaged, " A tramp, while going over the Balti moke & Ohio, near Mitchell, lud., found enough dynamite on the traok to blow an engine to pieces as soon aa it truck it. He ran to the nearest witcb, tore off a lamp, and returning, signaled the approaohing express train. He waa shot at by the wreokera and waa found nnoousoioua by the train men. In Richmond, Mo., a mob collected around the jail and attempted to get bold ot Jesse Winner and Lon Lackey, charged witb the murder of Mrs. Eva Winner and her two ohildren. Theit evident purpose was to lynch them. A brother of the murdered woman ad dressed the mob and ploadod with them to leave the law take its oourse. They accepted bis counsel and retired. Samuel S, Tnoker, a painter, mel Dr. James S. Winteruiute on the street in Taooma. and snddenlv drew a re- volver, shooting Wintormute through the body. Tucker then turned the re-1 volver on himself, shooting himself through the bead, blowlug his bra ins ont. Wintormute waa not killed and may reoover. The latter professes not to know the cause of the shooting. Superintendent Keene who shot Mort Roderick, the supposed robber, at the Cariboo mines, waa acquitted by the coroner's jury. John B. Bartheltnan, a sewing-machine agent shot and killed his divorced wife in Loi Angeles, Cal. They quar reled over the possession of their 8-year-old daughter. ' In Ashland, Ky., Tobe Stanley, a mine superintendent, waa shot and killed by Ike Barker on hla way to the ' and pestilence during the year that has polls to vote. Stanley opened hostili- j passed; for the plenteous reward that tietby ontting Barker aoross the face have followed the labori of onr hus with a buggy whip. Family troubloi bandmeu; and for all the other bless were the cause About twenty fist fights ooourred near the polls in Lexington, Ky., on election day. Pistols were drawn in bait of them. An editor attempted tc assault Colonel Breckenridge, whe drew hit pistol. They were separatee before anyone was hurt. S. R. Clongh, a hotel proprietor ol Minneapolis, Minn., waa so deter-. mined to vote tbat he arose from hit iok bed to go to the polls. He hac rrnnn handed his ballot for marking when auddenlv he tonoled over dead, His heart had stopped beating, In Davenport, Cal., on elnotion daj William Granville entered the pollinj place, and, pointing a pistol at Lewii Chandler, an election olerk, attempted to fire it, and snapped the trigger tbret times before his hand was caught, There was no provocation for the deed, Ex-Chief Jnstios K Miller diet at bis home in Des Aoiiies, Ia., at the age of 78., He waa a member of th. grantea iuii -paraon to ex-sjueen iui nm nn.,rk fmm mm tn is7ft I ionkalani with the restoration of her ' The Bupreme oourt of Oregon hai handed down its third opinion in thi branch asylum oase, and this time hai affirmed the judgment of the lowei 'oourt in restraining the state treasure) from honoring the $25,000 warrant issued in payment of a Bite purchased , for the looation of the proposed asylum1 ibotldlng in Eastern Oregon I Aft Xxira D.tilon ef rtmgvua. An oxtra session following lmnWI' ritoly the innngoration of Mr. McKin ley is, in the prevalintf opinion in WashtPRton, tnrtaln, No one tito fpasoa to have word from Mr. MoKln loy direct on the wbjeot, but trior la pnnd authority for saying that Mark Hanna, during a recent visit in New York, laid enongh to give the imprp aion that an extra iMssion ii on the R--poblloan programme. Senator Qnny believes an extra session la certain. itorm on I. Rim Erie. Great damage has been done to the shipping interests on lake Erie by a high wind. The oanal boat Mayairle Way, while being towed tip the river from Tonawanda, broke her bawaor and was blovn on the rocka along shore. The captain was rosonod with a ropo, but hla mules were crnshod to death. The bout beoume a total wreck. An old excursion steamer waa blown btoss the ohannel noar Buffalo and will bo a total loss. nlrlite of a Capltnllit. .Tospph D. MoDonald. a prominent and wealthy citizen of Fromont, Neb., shot himself, causing almost inst'int death. The enure for the rash act was nieiit il nubnlnnoe, the result of flnnn oinl reverses in mining investmonts in Colorado. Ho was a railroad contractor and built all ot the South Platte branches of the Northwestern road in Nebraska cn the Elkhorn system, and waa roputed to be worth over $100,000. Of Interest to Minors, A New York attorney baa reoeived a cablegram auuounoiug that the high ccurt at Pretoria. South Africa, has de clared void the MaoArthur-Forest pat ents for the cyanide prooess for the re covery of (fold. This decision was givon in a suit brought by the com bined gold-mine owners of Johannes burg and the Transvaal. The an nouncement ia aaid to be of great inter est to gold mine owners. Mri, Caatle Sentenced In PrUon. Mrs. Waltor M. Castle, of San Fran oifloo, who was arrested in London, chargod with shoplifting, haa had her trial. She plonded guilty, and was sentenced to three months' imprison ment without labor. Mr. Castle was acquitted. Harper's Maxaxlne. An Important feature of Harper's Magazine for several months to come will be Poultney Bigelow'g series of papers on the "White Mau'g Africa," treating in the author's original and striking way the new continent recent' opened up to European exploitation, The first paper, in the November number, will give a novel view of Jameson's raid from material plaoed in the author's hand by au English phy- noiau and a Boer oflloiiil thus present ing both aides of this remarkable epi- sono. ine series is tne result of a journey to South Africa undertaken by Mr. Bigelow for Harper's Magazine, and is to be Illustrated from photo graphs specially made for the purpose. Thaukaglvlng Proclamation, The president baa issued the follow ing Thanksgiving proclamation: "By the President of the United States: "The people of the United States should never be numindful ot the grati tude they owe to the God of nations for bis watohful oare, which baa shielded them from disaster and point ed out to them the way of poaoe and happiness. Nor should they ever re fuse to acknowledge with oontrite hearts their pronenesa to turn away from Qod'i teaohlugs and to follow witb lintul pride after their own de vices. "To the end that these thoughts my be quickened, it ia fitting that, on dT especially appointed, we should loin together in approaching the throne of grace with praise and aupplioation "Therefore, I, Qrover Cleveland, president of the United States, do here by designate and sot apart Thuraday, the 26th day of the present month of November, to be kept and observed aa a day of 'thanksgiving and prayer throughout our land. On that day let all our people forego their usual work and oocupationi and assemble in their aooustomed plaoei of worship; let them with one aooord render thanks to the Ruler of the Universe for our preserva tion aa a nation, and our deliverance from every threatened danger; for the peace tbat haa dwelt within onr boun daries; for onr defense against disease ings that have been vonohsafed to ni. "And let us, through the mediation of Him who haa taught ns how to pray, implore the forgiveness of onr sins and a oontinnanoe of heavenly favor, "Let us not forget on thii day of thanksgiving the needy, and by deeds j of charity let onr offerings of praise be Blade more acceptable in the fight of th?kr1, , M . 1 Witness my hand and the leal of the United statM hion 1 haT oau"ea to be bento affixed. 1 "Done the citT Washington, thia 6th day of November, in the year of our Lord, 1896, and of the independ ence ef the United Statei of Amerioa, the 131st. (Seal.) "Grover Cleveland, "By the President. "Rlohard Olney, "Secretary of State." Lllioukalanl Pardoned. ' Hawaiian government bas The civil rights. When found gnilty of treason she waa sentenced to five years' imprisonment and fined $5,000. She wag released on parole one year ago and has sinoe kept suoh good faith witb tne government that a full pardon ba een granted. ' ; The Cascade looks, after eighteen 6n oi lBbor ha1 at la,t been 0Pened- THE BATTLE IS OVER Republican National Ticket Has Been Victorious. M'KINLttY AKD 110BABT CUOSBB tV aldington Is For Bryan and Or-on Fur AtoKlnlay Tha Southaru Vote Is Divided. With three states yet in doubt, it is known that the Republican national ticket is elected by a majority of nearly 100 in the electoral college, and ot 1,000,000 plurality of the popular vote. New York, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Massachusetts and Ohio have rolled up unprecedeutedly tremendous majorities, from 100,000 to 800,000. The rest is detail, to be settled by complete re turns. There are now three ate tea in the doubtful column Kentucky, Wyoming and South Dakota. In Kentucky it will require the official count to deter mine tiro result, owing to irregulari ties, hi Wyoming, the unoretainry is due to the slow returns. The latest re ports, however, indicate that Bryan will get two of the three votes. South Dakota's vote on presidential electors is tied, and an official count will be re quired to determine therenult. Repub lican managers have closed their office witb the above declaration. The Republican candidate ia now sure of 260 electoral votes. The other atates that were considered doubtful Kansas, North Carolina, Tennessee and Virginia have gone for Bryan. His vote ia 167, and witb Kentucky, Wyoming and South Dakota would be 187. Tlie Electoral College, The folllowing table gives the stand ing of the eleotoral college as far ae returns indioate: STATES. Alnhama ArkimsiiH Cftlll'ornlii Colorado Connecticut IH-I aware Florida Cleotgia Idaho Illinois Indiana Iowa Kalian Kenlni'ky lnlMiana. Maine.,... Maryland. , MnHehnsettfi MiclilKan Minnesota , Misidtdipi Missouri Montana Nebraska ,. Nevada New Hampshire New Jersey New York North Carolina North Dakota. Ohio Oreunn l'enusylvanla Ithnde Island. South Carolina South Dakota. Tennessee Texas , I'tnli Vermont Vli'Klnla Washington , WestV Irgtnia Wisconsin , Wyoming Totals.. 2B0 107 The returns uhow interesting features and in some respeota have been a sur prise to the leaders of both political parties. The New England states have, as was expeoted, given heavy pluralities for MaKinley, without ex ception. The Republican tioket was successful in Massachusetts beyond what was olaimed for it by the most enthusiastic prophet of Republican sue oess. New York and Pennsylvania have given the Republioan candidate be tween 275,000 and 285,000 each. The Virginia eleotorg will, without question, be for Bryan, but they have been eleoted by a heavily reduced vote. The Republicans have given Teiaa up. Illinois has given MoKinley about 176,000 plurality. In the guberna torial raoe Altgeld bas been beaten, bnt is 60,000 ahead of the Democratic national ticket. Ohio bas given MoKinley 62,438 plurality. Returns by oounties in Iowa have been completed. The total vote oast in the state is in exoess of 610,000 votes, estimating the Prohibition and Palmer votes together at only 6000. Of these votes 286,751 were oast for MoKinley, and 319,118 for Bryan. MoKinley 'a plurality, 67,688. This is the largest vote ever oast in the state.. In Kentuoky the situation is ma terially changed from early advloes. At first the Republicans olaimed the state by about 15,000, but late returns show large Democratic gains, and now the state is olaimed for Bryan, bnt this the Republicans will not oonoede. California has given MoKinley a plurality of 6,000. Kansas bas given Bryan 4,000 plu rality. With nearly oomplete returns from Miohigan Pingree's plurality is esti mated at abont 70,000 and MoKinley's 16,000 leas. Of the congressional dele gation 13 are Republioans and 3 fn sionists. Tennessee's 13 eleotoral votes will be oast for Bryan, but the Republioana may eleot the governor. South Carolina, Georgia, Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana are all for Bryan by about the normal Demooratia majorities. 1 Nebraska bas gone for Bryan, not withstanding the Republioan olaims. 1 Wisconsin is almost sure for the Re publicans. I Minnesota, which was regarded as doubtful by both parties, wi'l have 36,000 plurality for MoKinley. NORTHWEST STATES. Oregon. Complete returns have bam reoeived from U3 out of the 83 counties in Ore gon, and the retains from the It esbar oonntiei are practically complete. The number erf voles reported is 91,843, ot which HoElnley has 46,781 and Bryan 44,780, or a plurality ot 3,043 for Mo Klnley. Less than 500 votes remain tobe added to the 91,643 in order to give the full n amber of votes east for MoKlnley and Bryan. , The following table shows the vote by counties: Comities. McKlnley. Brvan- linker f7 llenton 97 Claekatnua..,., ..,. ...... 2,atrfl Clatsop i,m J , I : ' Columbia 5 W) Coos l,ln Crook Mo Ml Curry 27 2 Douglas ljds 2,ii4i (illiam 6:17 472 tirant 672 fc Harney , 2IH 4nS Jaekson .. 1,376 2,:iH3 Josephine.- . 1,H) l,Bn Klamath 'M6 4fii Lake 39 416 Une. 2,?2l 2,W8 Lincoln 676 ft Linn 2,(M 2.7S6 Malheur 210 408 Marion ... 8,(a) 2,6:11 Morrow SHU 642 Multnomah 11,8:hi ,4.'i Polk 1,218 1,:W Sherman 4Ji 419 Tillamook : m 620 L'matllla 1,411) 1,74 Union l,27.i 2,P Wallowa 4(8 M8 Wasco 1.4H7 1.1S7 Washington 2,"iH5 Yamhill 1,016 1,566 Totals 40,701 44,750 Washington. The later reports from Washington indicate that Bryan's plurality will be near 10,000. The Bryan vote was the strongest in the more thickly populated portion ot the state. The number of votes thua far reported 77,175 about equals that ot two years ago, so that, allowing for the increase, there remains about 10.000 more t3 bear from. John R. Rogers, Populist, baa been chosen governor over P. C. Sullivan, though by a majority probably 2,000 under the electoral ticket. The entire fusion tioket has been successful by majorities ranging from 8,000 to 8,000. The legislature is Populist on joint billot, though there is a possibility thai the Republicans may control the senate, as they have 14 hold-overs out of a total of 84 mem bers of the upper house. The returns from Washington as re ported for presidential electors appear in the table below. No returns have been reoeived from Okanogan and Skamania oounties: Counties. McKlnley. Bryan. Adams liio 2tl Asotin 7.1 86 Chehalls 1,W 1,476 Clallam 2A4 2S4 Clark 1,496 1.47S Columbia 4:f6 joa Cowlitz 1.4K7 1,4m Douglas SS 121 Franklin U 1117 Ciartield , .. 478 6:10 Island it........... 196 178 Jefferson 677 4ii7 King 6,370 7,508 Kitsap m 52 Kittitas 610 831 Klickitat 7iH) 5e0 Lewis 1,519 1,491 Lincoln 421 926 Mason 871 641 Okanogan . I'Hciho. 859 4.W l'leree 4,525 6,119 Kan Juan 4t Ml Sknglt 177 248 Skamania . Snohomish 1,497 2,250 Spokane 2,7efl 6,M1 Stevens 144 572 Thurston 1,052 1,304 Wahkiakum 199 281 Walla Walla 1,523 1,6113 Whatcom 1,500 1,7.50 Whitman 1,206 2,728 Yakima 801 1,139 Totals 84,144 43,030 The Mew Lawmakers. Washington. At Republican and Democratic congressional headquarters the ohairmen have been figuring on the oomplexion ot the next house. Chair man Baboock says be has complete re ports from 193 congressional districts, which have eleoted Republicans; that there are 185 districts that have elect ed Democrats and Populists, and 28 districts in wbioh the returns are in complete. These may all be olassed as doubtful, be says, with the prospects that the Republioans will aeoure at least one half of them, which would make a total Republioan membership in the fifty-fifth congress of 207. He olaims that, under uo ciroumstHnoes, will the Republioan membership fall below 200. Senator Faulkner, obairman ot the Demooiatio oommittee, although he does not concede the Republioans a majority in the next house, gives tbem 176, within three of a majority. The Democrats have made gains aa follows: Delaware, 1; Illinois, 1; Mis souri, 4; New Vork, 1; total, 11. The Republioans have gained as fol lows: Maryland, 8. The Demo-Populists have gained 1 in Colorado and 1 in Misaouri. The Next Senate. Washington, From returns thus far received, the next senate will probably stand as follows: Republioans, 44. Demoorats, 82. Independents and Populists, 1). Donbtfnl, 2. On the ourrenoy question, the senate undoubtedly will have an anti-ailver majority. Republioans who bolted the St. Louis tioket and platform are olassed as inde pendents. They are: Teller, Dubois, Mantle, Cannon. Another Utah senator to be eleoted to auoceed Brown will undotvdtadly be independent. Mr. Bryan's Congratulations. Mr. Bryan sent the following tele gram to Mr. MoKinley: "Hon. William MoKinley, jr., Canton: Senator Jones has just in formed me tbat the returns indicate your election, and I hasten to extend my congratulations. We have submit ted the issue to the people, and their will is law. W. J. BRYAN." The woman who always has some thing in hand seldom fuels the neces sity ot wearing gloves. TRADE Willi CHINA facific Coast States Will Reap Greatest Benefit. TBE CELESTIALS ABE WAKIXe CP A Good Field for A merloaa Moaej and KutarprUa Banking Ke forins Expected- Washington, Nov. 10. It bas al ways been held that China was a good field for American enterprise and American money. Americans who seek to engage in business enterprises in China or Japan find themselves bandi oapped by the fact tbat all their busi ness in the way of money must be done through English banking bouses. English money finds as good invest ment in China as it does elsewhere. English capitalists have their invest ments in tne East oovered by the ex change through English banking houses. By the same token Americana find it much more diffionlt to secure a foothold in the Eastern countries for their manufactures and wares, although sold as cheaply as those manufactured in Eugland. While it does not appear that there has been any obange in the matter of American banking business, it is a fact there ia a obange in the matter of enterprise in China. The son of min ister Denby haa noted several instances of late showing that Americans are be ginning to see that there is a future for them in the matter of Chinese trade and Chinese investment This bas been especially noticeable in the matter of ship and railroad building. Upon this line be saysi "Among these, the American Trad ing Company, of New York, London, Yokohama and Shanghai, haa been the longest in the field. In addition to its usual business of exporting and im porting, this oompany bas recently be come the agent of the Cramp Ship building Company and of the Union iron works. It also represents an American railroad syndicate, and bag submitted bids for the building ot a railroad from Soocbow to Chinkiang, and for the building of an eleotrio tramway in the foreign concessions at Shanghai. These bids have not aa yet been aocepted. Daring the past winter this oompany was also agent for an American banking syndicate, and entered into negotiations for j a loan to China. It is thin same j company that has scoured a conoes- sion for a railroad from Chemulpo to Seoul, iu Corea, and that haa sold two ' ships on behalf of the Cramp com pany to the Japanese government "Mr. A. W. Bash, of Port Town send, Wash., is the representative at Peking of a wealthy combination of capitalists in New York, who wish to seoure railroad, mining and other oon traots in China. The syndicate has or ganized a company called the American-China Development Company, in corporated under the laws ot the state of New Jersey. Their plans are far reaching and comprehensive, but they have not yet beeen brought to a suffi ciently definite form to justify a report thereon. It is supposed, however, that they will oonfine their attention to North China, and that they have at present no projects south of the Yang tse river. "The Bethlehem iron works have been represented in Peking during the winter by Captain Zalinski, U. 8. A., retired. This oompanv wishes to ob tain orders for ooast defenses, armor plates, disappearing guns, ammuni tion, etc., and its agent also submitted to the yainen plans for submarine boats. The yamen seems at present disinclined to enter on naval recon struction, against wbioh they are strongly advised by Sir Robert Hart, inspeotor-general of ouatoms. The foreign onstoms revenne is now almost entirely pledged to pay the Russian French and German-English loans of 200,000,000 taels. A further indebted ness of 60,000,000 taels, on similar terms, would require to meet it the balanoe of customs revenue now re maining, and would leave China with out revenue from this source for many years to oome. Want of funds will prevent the pnrohase of a large fleet or great investment in ooast defenses. Amerloan methods and American in vestments wonld no donbt do a great deal to stimulate trade with China. It is, of oourse, known that anything that i would increase the businoss with China would be ot immense advantages to the Pacifio slope, as the trade with the Orient must be oarried on from the Pa cific ooast. It is known that a great deal of big industries, snoh as railroad building, shipbuilding, and in faot anything of a modern oharaoter, mnst ot necessity draw from the outside world, and the United States oould best sapply such demands, and in turn these supplies would be taken from the ooast states. Chicago Stock Exchange Reopened. Chicago, Nov. 9. After having been closed tor over three months, the Chi cago stook exchange reopened today. Though one or two small failures were expeoted they failed to materialize, most trades held in abeyance by the ' closing of the eiohange having been amicably settled. Ban Down by a Car, Taooma, Nov.. 10. Martin Onnder son, a single Norwegian, aged 80 years, while partially intoxicated to night, attempted to step in front ot a moving oar on Paoiflo avenue. He was struok and fell to the ground, his bead striking the pavement, inflicting a slight ont on the side. He died in stantly. The dead man was employed by the Taooma Waerbonse & Elevator Company, as assistant foreman at ele vator B. WEEKLY MARKET LETTE1. Downing, Hopkins A Co.'a Heilew ol Trate. , j Portland, Or., Nov. 11. Wheat has1 reached a very high point since our last letter, which waa only natural and to be expected after so rapid a decline, and the situation grows stronger daily and all the best authorities in the grain trade throughout the world prediot con tinued enhancement in values of farm prodnots and say America holds the key to the situation. Eiports are enormous and ocean freight room cannot be se cured at any price. Tramp steamers from all corners of the world have been attracted to our shores. On the Great Lakes there is a blockade of grain-laden vessels at several ports, and trunk line railroads as well as those through out the N.rth west, are unable to supply bait of the demand for cars. There is every prospect ot another advanoe that will carry prioes far beyond anything we have yet seen, and we hope onr friends will take advantage of the breaks to buy wheat and make some money. The supply and demand exhibit of the world argues as strongly as ever for a higher range of values, but these conditions neither warrant blind en thusiasm nor license riotous specula tion. Pyramid builders will deal gently with wheat, if they are wise; for, just as Egypt owns and repents the monumental folly ot her ancients, so muBt the prodigious builders of these times pnt on sackoloth and ashes if they insist npon ignoring the law of commercial prudenoe. The immense surplus of wheat that for several years past menaced valnes, and aided specu lators in raiding the markets, has vanished Wheat is onoe more worth what the aoutal buyer will pay for it. We need not expeot that importers will buy a year's supplies within the spaoe of a week or two. Even though every bushel that can be brought for ward from the field of production may find a ready market before we harvest another orop, it does not follow that such demand will be thrust upon us wholesale as it were. These being facts it were well to proceed cautiously. Violent specula tive fluriea must be short lived and should not be allowed to control the movements of the millers and owners of grain. A HORRIBLE OUTRAGE. Another American Citizen Maltreated by Weyler'a Soldiers. Key West, Fla., Nov. 11. Advices reoeived from Havana last night per steamer Olivette give details of an out rage on au American oitizen and the butchery ot nineteen non-combatant Cubans, including four women, by Spanish soldiers. The massacre oo ourred last Thuraday near the town of San Franoisoo de las Layas, Havana provinoe. A detachment of Spanish soldiers surprised six insurgents, who, how ever, made their escape, which angered the Spanish and they began to raid the bouses in the neighborhood, alleging tbat the inhabitants were in sympathy with the rebels. They went to tho sugar estae of Frederick L. Craycroft, who oame here from Indiana about three years ago. Some of the soldiers entered the house, and two of them seized Mrs. Crayoroft and assaulted her. The husband in desperation rushed to his wife's aid, but was struck down by a sword in the hands of an officer. Two terrible gashes were made in nis necs and nis right arm was nearly severed. The Spaniards looted the house, took I860 in cash and then raided other houses on the estate. They burned eight buildings and shot nineteen inmates, four of whom were women. Crayoroft, when he had recovered sufficiently, wrote to Vice-ConBul Springer at Havana. It ia understood that the vice-oousul oabled an acoounj ot the outrage to Seoretary Olney. The Spanish authorities are greatly disturbed in Havana because several thousand insurgents from Gomez's army have entered Matanzas province. So serious does Weyler consider tlm situation that be haB withdrawn 6,004 troops from Piuar del Rio and des patched them into Matanzas to stay the advanoe. During the seige and subsequent cap ture of Guayamara City by the insur gents, the Spaniards lost 260 killed and wounded. Three hundred and seventy Spaniadrs surrendered to Garcia, com manding the besieging force. Garcia sent word to General Castelanos thai they would be exohanged for Cuban) held by the Spaniards. The Flood of Gold. New York, Nov. 11. The banki are contemplating the resumption ol specie payments wbioh they susponded in February, 1892, by refusing to sup ply gold for export and tor payment ol government dues. That action threw the burden ot supplying gold upon the treasury, and eventually forced the is sue of bonds by the government, which aroused so much complaint. Since thu election the metal has been ooming iniu the banks in suoh a flood that they seq their way dear to what can be termed a resumption of specie payments. By this action of the banks gold will be put into oiroulation, and no ocoasion whatever will exist for hoardingjt. They will also resume the task of sup plying gold for export and thus relieve the treasury of a great strain. Manchester 811k Mllla. Manchester, N. H., Nov. 11. The big silk mills of the Cheney Bros, be- ' gan a full time sohedule today. The ( works have been running at a redooed time for more than three years. The change effects 2,500 employes. I Plymouth, Mass., Nov. 11. The Hayden mills, at Chiltonville, which have been idle for two years, will be started at once, giving employment to 200 operatives. The- mills manufacture , octton duck. NORTHWEST BREVITIES Evidence ot Steady Growth and Enterprise. ITEMS OF GENERAL INTEREST From AU the Cltle. and Towns of the Thriving Slater Statei Oregon. The output of the Bandon cannery is being shipped to Astoria. The sturgeon oat oh this season at Tha Dalles has been remarkably good. The tax levy for Clatsop county this year will be between 12 and 13 mills. Insurance men have adjusted most ot the losses caused by the Wood burn fire. A tannery is being built about 2 miles above Enchanted prairie, in Coos county, and will soon be in operation. The wrecked steamer Arago bad on board when she went down t663 worth of property belonging to the Coos bay uitiamery. The telephone line between MoEwen and Sampter has been oompleted. Now trey will build to Granite and Cracker Creek, in Baker county. Eleven single-deck carloads of sheep ware shipped from The Dalles one day last week. Two oarloadg were for Ta ooma and the rest for Troutdale, Or. Milton's apple crop will bring her In thousands of dollars this fall, for only in that immediate neighborhood bna anything like a full orop been ob tained. Mr. Jaoobson, who had the oontraot fur erecting the Bandon lighthouse, has been awarded the oontraot for jetty work In Marsbfleld. His bid wag 52 cents a ton. Seven thousand cords of wood have 'been ont for the Virtue Mining Com pany in Baker county in the oourse of the last three months. One bnndred men were employed in getting out the wood. The ohinook salmon continne to run fn large numbers in Nestnoca bay and river. It is seldom tbey run as late as tbey have this season. The silver side run is very good, and they are very large. Heavy shipments of hops have been made from the Willamette valley dur ing the last few weeks, mostly to Eug land. One firm in Salem shipped 2,000 bales and baa large quantities yet to ship. Counterfeit coins of the denomina tions of $1 and 60 cents, have been passed on several business men- ia Salem within the past lew days. The dollars bear the date of 1879, and the half dollars that ot 1894. James Callahan is buying aheep in Eastern Oregon. He bas already bought 18,000 head and will buy 4,000 more. He buys lambs and yearlings only and ships them to Montgomery, 111. , where they are then fattened for the Chicago market The prices re ceived were from $1 to f 1.10 per bead. Washington. The total value of all school prop erty in Whitman county is estimated at $280,000. The Northern Paoiflo railway paid its Kittitas oounty taxes, amounting to about (8,000. There bag been more travel over the Wallula ferry this month than there ' has been at any time during the year. The total tax levy in Spokane ooun ty, as fixed last week by the county commissioners, is 81.8 mills. The estimated expenditures for the year will amount in the aggregate to flb8, 100. The Reservation Chief Mining & Milling Company and the Big Four Mining & Milling Company, eaob with (1,000,000 oapital stook, have been incorporated with heaquarters at -Spokane. Loggers around Kelso have reoeived the enconraging news from the North ern Paoiflo Mill Company that from now on the mill oompany will pay (4. 60 spot oash for logs. This is an advanoe of (1 per thousand. John O. Smith, formerly an en gineer on the Great Northern railway, has begun an action in Spokane against that corporation tor the sum ot 04, 588, as damages for injuries received in two accidents alleged to have been due to the carelessness and negligence of the defendant corporation. A corps of oivil engineers are at work surveying and staking out the new sidetracks and otber improvements oontemplated by the new management of the Northern Paoiflo Coal Company at Roslvn. A work train with a crew of about forty men bag arrived and the ; men have been put to work grading , and preparing for the new sidetracks. Oakesdale seems to be the leading potato market, as well as one of the leading grain markets of the Palnuse country. Every day large qnantities of potatoes are sold there, and two firms have already bought twenty oarloads, or 600,000 pounds of potatoes. ; It is estimated that this is only abont two thirds of what will be brought to Oakesdale this fall. The Lillia Lumber mill at Old Ta ooma will have all ot its maobinery in ' plaoe and will be ready to begin work by the middle ot this month. The oapaoity ot the mill will be abont 50. 000 feet per day, and the company will employ twenty-five men. The com pany will supply the cargo and mil trade, the Northern. Pacitio tracks pass ing directly in the rear of the plunt. Thomas Powell, ot LIUlo Kalauia, Cowlita oounty, killed a cougar la-t week, measuring from tip to tin seven feet
