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y aunty hi trf VOL. XXXII. COR V ALLIS, BENTON COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1895. NO. 32. 0 .ninrBa TRANSPORTATION. East and South VIA The Shasta Route OF THE Southern Pacific R'y Co. EXPRESS TP.AIN3 EON DAILY. IS oO P M Leave Portland Arrive I 8:10 A M 2:10 p M j lave Albany Arrive) l:SUa 10:46 i M Arrive 3. Francisco Leave 6:00 r M A ove trains stop at Eai-t Portland, Oregon City, Wondbarn, onlem, Turner, Marlon, Jeffer pou, ilbmy. AlDany Junction, Tang-n, Saedris, Haleev. II .rrisburg. Junction City, Irving, K gene, Creswell, Drains, and all station from H febur ; to Ashland, inclusive. ROSEBURQ MAIL DAILY. S 3 n leavu 12.45 P m I i,eave 6:2.1 p H Arrive fortuuiu Air. vol .uri Albany Arrlvel 1:1a P tt Rosburir Leave I fi:n a m Pullman B Set sleepers and second-class : plug ar- attached to all tnrougn traius. HALEM PASSENGER DAILY. 4:00 p m ! Lve 6:1a P u I Arr:ve Portland Salem Arrive I 10:15 a m Leave I 8:00 A H WEST SIDE DIVISION. Between I'ortlnnd and Corvallls Mall train daily (except Snudaj ). 7-30 a x Leave 12:1 1 p M , Arrive Portland Corvallis Arrive 6:20 p M Leave) 1:85 PM At Albany and Oorvallls connect with trains oi i.tie ureg .n ueiurai at eastern y. FXI'RESS TRAILS DAILY (Except 8u! day). 4:45 p i Leave Portland Arrive ' 8:25 a u 7:2-i r h Arrive MeMinnville leae 6:i0 h Through tickets to all points in tbe Eastern state, ('anda and Rnrope can be obta ned at lowest rate from A. K. Miller, agent. Cor rail is. R. KOEHI.ER, Manager. E. P. ROGERS, A. G. F. & P. A., Portland, Or. ttt llMo E. McNElL, Keceiver. TO THE EAST GIVES THE CHOICE OF .TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL ROUT B S VIA VIA GREAT NORTHERN RY. SPOKANE MINNEAPOLIS UNION PACIFIC RY. DENVER OMAHA " ' AKD" AND ST. PAUL KANSAS CITY LOW RATES TO ALL EASTERN CITIES OCEAN STEAMERS LEAVE PORTLAND EVERY 5 DAYS FOR ..... SAN FRANCISCO For fall details call on or address W. H. HURLBURT, Gen'l Pass. Agent, Portland, Or. OREGON CENTRAL AND EASTERN R.R.C0. 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DR, WILSON Office over First National bank. Residence, two blocks west of conrthonse. Office hours. 8 to 10 a. m., 1 to 8 r. u. Sundays and evenings by appointment. DR. L. G. ALTMAN H0M0E0PATHIST Diseases of women and children and general practice. OffiC9 over Allen & Woodward's drug store. Office hours 8 to 12 A. M., and 2 to 5 and 7 to P.M. At rcsidenre, corner of 3rd and Harrison after hours and on Sundays. . 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 PCBUC. JUSTICE PEACE. E. E. WILSON ATTORNEY - AT LAW Office in Zeiroff building, opposite postofflce. M. 0. WILKINS Stenographer and Notary Public Conrt reporting and referee sittings made specialties, as well as tye-writing and other reporting. -'' Office opposite postofflce, Corrallis, Or. E. HOLGATE. Notary Public. H. L. HOLGATE. Justice of the Peace. HOLGATE & SON ATTOBNEYS-AT-LAW Corvallis - - Oregon J. R. Bbtson W. E. Yates J. Feed Yates Bryson, Yates & Yates LAWYERS CORVALLIS OREGON WAY EAST N. GO.'S LINES-The Short Routs EVERYONE DISGUSTED Now Looks As If There Would Be No Prizefight. THEY CAN REACH NO AGREEMENT The Florida Club Has Asked a Post ponement; Corbett Has Consented but Fitzsimmons Has Not. Hot Springs, Oct 23. Unless Fitz simmons recants and through his man ager, Martin Julian, accepts the extra ordinary conditions which confront tbe situation, there will be no contest be tween Corbett and Fitzsimmons, unless it be an impromptu one, short of purse offerings or ring rules or referee and seconds, for Corbett says that unless Fitzsimmons acts the man and accom modates himself to circumstances, he will "send him to the hospital" the first time he meets him, and he will go quite a way out of his scheduled theatrical route to meet the attenuated Australian. Today there was a conference be tween Dan Stuart, Joe Vendig and the fighters, tbe latter by proxies, Brady representing Corbett, and Julian Fitz simmons. Tomorrow the ruling of Chancellor Leatherman is t" be taken before the supreme court by the attorney-general, and the tribunal of last appeal may consume several days in handing down a final hearing. In view of this fact and anticipating a favorable decision Dan Stuart called the parties interested together, and stated the conditions. Stuart wanted a postponement until November 1 5. He argued that, even if the court of final resort sustained the decision of the chancellor, it would take that long to restore confidence and get the crowd to Hot Springs. Brady, for Corbett, was willing. Julian was not. - Despite the fact that Corbett went into training a week before his prospective opponent, Julian contended that his man was too "fine," and that to train for several days after the orig inal time would militate against the condition of Fitzsimmons. The proposition was then made to have the men fight in private for the main stake, 110,000 a side. Here Stuart interjected an offer of an added $5,000. Brady was again willing, but Julian demurred. He opined that the club, if it pulled the fight off October Hi, would have to make good its full promise of $41,000. In the face of en tanglements which have beset the path of Stuart and Vendig, this cannot be done. Where a month ago hundreds of excursion parties were being organ ized for the trip to the fight, there are none today. Stuart asked for time, Corbett has granted it, while Fitzsim mons has exacted his full pound of flesh. Bank Failure In Minnesota. Duluth, Minn., Oct 22. The State bank, of which Charles Stuckey, the cashier, fled last week with $15,000, has failed. This action was decided upon when the other banks refused to f Ornish any money, and tomorrow au assignment will be made to C. David son, of Little Falls, who owns a ma jority of the stock. There is consider able county and state money in the bank, and a lavge amount of individual deposits, but the directors say that every dollar will be paid. Pay of Union Pacific Engineers. Omaha, Oct 21. The general com mission of adjustment of the engineers of the Union Pacific has finished its biennial session. A great deal of busi ness, of importance to the engineers was transacted. . The engineers want their pay counted on the scale of actual miles run. This last is in the hands of Receiver Clark, and if he does not ren der a decision, the matter will probably be taken up in the courts. Pern to Have Another Road. Lima, Peru, Oct 22. Vice-Presi dent Billinghurst advocates the imme diate building of a railroad from Oro aya to Perne, a distance of 100 miles, the road to be a narrow-gauge. Eight bridges will have to be built, but the route is without any particular obsta cle, and the production of the region is increasing rapidly. G. R. FARRA, M. D. Office in Farra A Allen's brick, on the corner of Second and Adams. Residence on Third street in front of conrt honse. Office hours 8 to 9 A. M ., and 1 to 2 and 7 to 8 p. x. All ca.is attenaea promptly. Joseph H. Wilson. Thomis E. Wilson WILSON & WILSON . ATTORNEYS -AT": LAW Office over First National Bank, Corvallis, Or Will nractiee in all the state and federal courts Abstracting, collections. Notary public Con veyancing. BENTON COUNTY ABSTRACT : COMPANY Complete Set of Abstracts of Benton County. Conveyancingand Perfecting Titles a Specialty. Money to Loan on Improved City and country .rroperty. V. E. WAITERS, Prop. Office at Coupthonse, Corvallis, Or. DEFENSE'S LAST WITNESS. Impression Prevails That the People's Case Has Been Strengthened. San Francisco, Oct 23.; The defense in the Durrant trial practically closed today. - Possibly; another witness will be examined tomorrow, but his testi mony will be brief, if taken at all, and then the prosecution will begin the production of testimony in rebuttal Although some of the ' most important evidence on the part of the prosecution is yet to be submitted, from the present outlook the case will go to the jury at the close of next week. Now that the attorneys for Durrant have practically closed their case, the impression prevails that the defense has materially strengthened the case-of the prosecution. : It is the opinion of those who have watched the trial that the defense has failed' ''to establish a single fact which Attorney Deuprey in his opening statement said he would do. Although it was. announced that an alibi would be proven or the pris oner, not a witness lias been called to swear that Durrant was. elsewhere than at Emanuel church? on the afternoon that Blanche Lament ' was murdered. Failing to show that Durrant was not at the church the defense has attacked the credibility of the witnesses who testified that they saw him in that vi cinity in company with Miss Lamont The latest attempt of .this kind as made this afternoon, when Dr. G. C. McDonald was called to the stand to give expert testimony on the hallucina tions of elderly women. Attorney Dickinson asked the doctor if it was not a fact recognized by the medical profession that in time of great excite ment over an extraordinary crime elderly women often became impressed with the delusion, that they had per sonal knowledge of the existence of al leged facts. An objection to the ques tion was sustained in its first form, as the court said it had not been shown that tbe witness was competent to give expert testimony on the subject. After a proper, foundation for the question had been laid, the objection was over ruled. The witness said that under such circumstances people often became possessed of variOusrSelusions, but de nied that elderly women .were more likely to have such hallucinations than anybody else. The question was ;- plainly to throw discredit on the testimony of Mrs. Leak and Mrs. Vogel, two. of the strongest witnesses lor the prosecution. Mrs. Leak, who live 'opposite Emanuel church, testified thai on the afternoon of the murder she f saw Durrant and Miss Lamont enter the church.' Mrs. Vogel said she saw. Durrant standing in front of the normal school -f er an hour, waiting for Blanche Lamont', and that when she came fat he boarded a car with her and rodeaway in the di rection of the church. : ' A long depostion from' ' Charles G. Clark, a traveling salesman who re sides in this city, but who is now jn Boston, was read. The defense expects ed to prove by Clark that he had seen Miss Lamont the afternoon of April 3 accompanied by a man other than Dur rant Clark said that he could not positively fix the date, and only thought the girl he saw was - Miss La mont from the fact that she resembled a picture of her which he saw in a newspaper. An attempt waa made - to discredit the testimony of W. J. Phillips, who said he saw Durrant enter the pawn broker's shop on April 12. , Phillips was recalled and asked about the char acter of a hotel that he formerly .con ducted in Victoria, B. C, but the ques tion failed to show that he was ever engaged in any business that was not respectable. Attorney Deuprey was not well enough to appear in court this morn ing. It is expected that he will be able to resume work in . two or three days. The Boy Somen Ashore. Port Townsend, Oct" 23. The schooner Roy Somers, bound from San Francisco to Seattle to load lumber, is ashore at Suke harbor, near 'Race rocks, Vancouver island. At 2 o'clock this morning, in a dense fog and calm weather, with a heavy ocean swell roll ing in from the west, the vessel drifted ashore at high water. With kedge anchors, the Somers hauled away the most dangerous appearing rocks, and Captain Olsen sent the mate across to Port Angeles to telegraph to this city for a tugboat The tug "Wanderer went down tonight, and will attempt to move the vessel off at high water tomorrow morning. Captain Olsen said the vessel was not damaged ma terially, except for the timbers being badly strained, and was not in immedi ate danger at present Just as the Somers went ashore an unknown vessel narrowly escaped the same fate, but managed to get clear and sail out into the open water. A Cariboo Mine Clean-Up. Vancouver, B. C, Oct 23. There- suits of a clean-up at the Cariboo hy draulic mine gave $41,857 gold for twenty-nine and one-half day s work, and $26,125 for a clean-up at the Horsefly hydraulic mine. As a large quantity of boulders were removed in opening the pits, the actual results per day will be even better when the mines are fairly opened. The company is well satisfied with the season's opera tions. Miners Quit Work in Kansas. Leavenworth, Kan., Oct 23. Four hundred miners, employed in the North Leavenworth coal shaft, quit this morning and visited the Home River side mines for the purpose of inducing the men employed there to quit : The North Leavenworth company is paying 80 cents per ton and the Home company pays 70 cents. A strike seems almost certain. The walk out is to force the I Home company to pay 80 cents. THE OLYMPIC VOLCANO Confirmation of the Report of Professor Alexander. MANY SAW THE PHENOMENA Two Young Elkhnnterg Felt Earthquake Shocks and Saw Flames and Smoke , Burst From a Peak. . Port Townsend, Wash., Oct 22. Further evidences of an active volcano in the Olympic mountains have been received, and serve to confirm the re port of Professor - Alexander, of the Smithsonian institution. Two young men of this city, Ben Pettygrove and Charles Sally, are just from the Olym pic mountains, where they were hunt ing elk, and report that after experi encing a series of slight earthquake shocks, covering a period of two weeks, flames and huge volumes of black smoke were observed ascending from one of the smaller peaks. Flames would shoot spasmodically up for a few hundred feet and then dense vol umes of black smoke would belch forth winding up into the clear sky. These operations were repeated every ten minutes. Pettygrove and Sally hur ried back to town for a fresh supply of provisions, and will make an effort to locate the supposed volcano. South of Port Townsend last night the sky was clear, and volcanic phenomena was witnessed by dozens' Of people, who de scribe the eruptions of smoke in the same manner as the two elkhunters. Many navigators on the lower sound and straits report seeing the strange sight, and all believe it to be a small volcano. - STREET RAILWAY BONDS. Important Decti-lon Handed Down by California's Supreme Court. . Los Angeles, Oct 22. The opinion of the supreme court in the case of the Market-Street Railway Company, : of San Francisco, vs. Hellman, on appeal from the lower court, was handed down yesterday, confirming the valid ity of $1,000,000 worth of bonds issued by the street railway company. The decision is of great importance, not only in San Francisco railroad circles and to bond-buyers, but to other cities having bonded railroads. ' The decision appears to have sadly confused the re porters of the local press, for despite the efforts to obtain some information as to its contents, the best they could do yesterday was to furnish a wholly incorrect statement--.-- - , - -:. In Octoberj 1893, eleven street rail road corporations were consolidated tender the name of the Market-Street Railway Company. The consolidated companies own nearly every street-car line in the city, and have - franchises for some 160 miles of track. There was an outstanding bonded debt owed by the consolidation amounting td $6, 035,000, and to refund this indebted ness and get more money for construct ion purposes, tne directors maae a blanket mortgage on all the property of tbe combine for $17,500,000. New bonds for the amount of the outstand ing bonds were to be issued at once under this mortgage, and substituted for the old issue. Subsequently the manner in which the bonds were is sued was attacked, but the decision sustains the action of the company. Trouble in Pennsylvania mines. Dubois, Pa., Oct 22. Great anxiety prevails tonight in the bituminous coal region, on account of the strike situa tion. The labor leaders are not certain that the strike will be ordered, and if not it will be useless for a portion of the mines to remain idle. Dubois and Reynoldsville -miners have been idle for months. Beech Creek and Coal Green men decided yesterday to sus pend, but the whole affair hangs upon a the decision of the Rochester & Pitts burg Coal & Iron Company's miners at Punxsutawney and the Berwin White miners in the Honesdale region. If the Berwind White miners quit work tbe strike will be general throughout the Beech Creek, Honesdale, Punxsu tawney and Dubois fields. If they con tinue work it is the opinion that the strike will be a failure at the begin ning. i A Motocycle Contest. Chicago, Oct 22. The motocycle horseless carriage race from Chicago to Waukegan and return, a distance of about 100 miles, will be contested Sat urday, November 2. From present in dications, there will not be less than forty starters in the great race. It is expected several motocycles will make the distance in less than six hours. Contestants must pass preliminary tests, which will be held October 29, 30 and 31, at which time all impracti cable vehicles will be debarred from the oontest of November 2. Several motocycles from France and Germany are entered in the race. . Omaha's Police Muddle. Omaha, Oct 22. Some litigation has been provoked by the recent A. P. A. excitement in Omaha, growing out of the police muddle. The mayor em ployed seventy-five special officers to maintain order in anticipation ' of threatened trouble. They were on duty several days. The AI P. 'A. in fluence in the council prevented the men being paid. The men now sue, and the same influence has deolared that eaoh case shall be tried separately. Pullman Dividend Declared. New York, Oct 19. The direotors of the Pullman Palace Car Company have deolared the regular quarterly dividend of $3 per share, payable No ember 1. EXTENT OF . DROUTH. One of the Severest and Most Prolonged Ever Known in the United States. Washington, Oct 22. -Reports re ceived at the weather bureau indicate that the present drouth is one of the severest, most prolonged and most gen erally known in the United States since the bureau's organization. There are a few places which show an exoep tion to the general rule, but in most of the country, unless perhaps in the West and Southwest, there does not appear to have been a heavy rain for the past two months or more. Where there has been exceptional' precipitation, it has been confined to small areas. In some parts of the country the drouth began in the latter part of July, but m most sections it did not become markedly pronounced until in August The entire Atlantic, coast, with a few exceptions, such as Charleston, S. C, and Augusta, Ga., shows a defici ency below the normal rainfall since the first of August, amounting in some instances to almost half the average precipitation. . .The .Ohio and Missis sippi valleys reported similar condi tions, as has a part of the Pacific coast The lake region has fared better than other sections east of Mississippi. In parts of the Rocky mountains, as in Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and Nevada, there have been excessive rains during this period, and along tbe Pacific coast, from San Francisco to Olympia, there were good rains in September, as there have been in places since in that sec tion. The greatest complaints come from West Virginia, Kentucky, and Western Pennsylvania. Fortunately, in some parts of the country the drouth did not set in until after the principal crops were matured, consequently the effect has not been so disastrous as if it begun earlier. In some places it has had a slight effect on the planting of winter wheat, and complaints come from many quarters of the inconvenience of securing water for domestic and stock purposes, many small streams, stock ponds, springs and wells having become dry. Pastures have been injured in many states. It is also noticeable that there has been an increase of typhoid fever over the normal in many sections where drouth is severe. THE ANACONDA MINES. Details of the Sale of One-Fourth of the Company's Stock. New York, Oct 22. The details of a sale of a quarter interest in the great Anaconda copper mine to Knhn, Loeb &' Co., representing a syndicate com posed of themselves, the Rothschilds, Gassett, Wernher, Leit & Co., and: the Exploration- Company, of London, have become known in Wall street The ne gotiations were begun early in Septem ber by Lounsbery & Co., representing the officers of the Anaconda mine. That firm gave the prospective pur chasers an option on 300,000 shares of the stock of the Anaconda Mining Company at $25 a share, for thirty days, "within which time the syndicate was to have the mine examined by its experts. The time was subsequently extendedd to October 22, but as the ex amination of the property, which has been made under the personal direction of Hamilton Smith, has proved satis factory, the syndicate has concluded to take the stock. . As soon as the syndi cate obtained the option it placed the stock conditionally in London at a price understood to be about $30 per share. The par value of the stock is $25 per share. The Anaconda mine has been owned by the estate of its discoverer, the late Senator Hearst, of California, . J. B. Haggin and his partner, Mr. Tevis, and Marcus Daly, who is in charge of the mine. It is understood no option has been placed on any part of the other 900,000- shares of the Anaconda Mining Company. It is understood the purchasing syndicate will be repre sented in the directory of the Anaconda company by two direotors. G. J. A insworth Dead. -Portland, Oct 22. Mr. George Ainsworth, eldest son of the late Cap tain John C. Ainsworth, died at an early hour yesterday morning at his late residence, 74 Fourth street, after an illness of several months. The an nouncement of his death, made yester day, was a severe shock to the many friends of the family, to whom partic ulars Captain George was known. No man in Portland had a greater number of friends. It has been known for weeks that Captain Ainsworth's health was very poor, and his condition even precari ous. Ketuming from (Jaiuornia, im poverished in health, he had sought to gain strength under the genial influ ence of Oregon's clime. It seemed at first that the battle against fate would be fairly won, but the promises held forth were futile. His will was strong, and he held out valiantly against dis ease, but he finally succumbed to anae mia. The Kaiser's Movements. Berlin, Oct 22. Emperor William and Empress Augusta have returned to Potsdam from Woerth and Strasburg, in - the imperial province. Emperor William has presented a life-sized bust of himself to Prince Hermann Ernest von Hohenlohe-Langenburg, the statt haller of the imperial province, in mem ory of his visit to Strasburg. He was also telegraphed complimentary con irratulations to Prince Leopold, of Ba varia, in reply to the latter's telegram congratulating him upon his visit to Strasburg. As has already been cabled, the fact that not a single member of the Bavarian royal house was invited to the fetes at Woerth has caused com ment in Germany, and especially in view of the fact that the late emperor Frederick has commanded the Bavari an troops during the war. ENGLAND AGGRESSIVE Venezuela Is Arming Herself to Resist the British. IT HAS REACHED AN ACUTE STAGE The American Syndicate Does Not Pro pose to Be Cheated Out of Its Gold Lands. New York, Oct 21. That the Aene zuelan question is approaching an acute stage, with possibilities of resitance by tbe South American government to British aggression, was signified by dis closures made in New York today, on the best of authority. - The government of Venezuela has provided itself with modern armament and arms, and among other supplies has ordered ten improved Maxim guns from the British firm that manufac tures them. The order was not placed through ' any 'firm, and the English manufacturers, it is supposed, do not want the destination of the guns made known. At the same time, the syndi cate of United States capitalists, which ' has secured a concession in the Vene zuelan gold lands claimed by Great Britain, is preparing a trained force of prospectors, miners and workmen for the field. William N. Safford. counsel for the Orinoco Company, the Ameri can syndicate, made plain today the position assumed by the Orinoco Com pany. He said: "The company propose to work its concession without delay. It will send prospectors along the line of the Imat- - aca mountains, whose foothills are sup posed to be rich with gold. . That ter ritory is, of course, in the company's concession, and has always been marked " on the company's map. But now that ' there is a prospect of gold there, Great Britain claims it The arrangements are being made to send out men there to develop the company s concession without any intent to start a contro versy but to assert the company's - rights. Besides tbe mines, there are other properties iu the concession await ing development Great Britain refers to the Schom- bergh line, but the fact is she has gone beyond that This line is purely im aginary. ' Sir Robert Schombergh . visited Venezuela in 1840, and, start ing at Point Barima, merely drew a line southward on the map. The Venezuela government has conclusive evidence that he made no survey. "In 1850 Great Britain asserted it had no intention to occupy or usurp the disputed territory. So'.; matters , went until r 1855. In . that year: rich gold fields, yielding $4,000,000 a year. . were discovered west of the Schom bergh line, between the Guiana and Pa- -rana rivers. They are known as the . Barima gold fields, and are fifty or six ty miles west of the Schombergh line. 'Nevertheless, Grea t Britain prompt- . ly stepped in and claimed that terri tory, and so she has gone on since, claiming land wherever gold has been discovered. The Orinoco Company claims these gold fields as being in its concession, and' proposes to stand up s for its perfectly clear title to them. DUN RAVEN IN ENGLAND. He Says It Would Do No Good to Dis cuss Unpleasant Matters. Ryde, Isle of Wight, Oct. 21. The steam yacht Valhalla, owned by Joseph Frederick Laycock, and having Lord Dunraven on board, arrived here from Newport, R. I., this morning, having left the latter place September 28. The craft was boarded by interviewers desir ous of obtaining direct from Lord Dun raven his version' of the disappointing races for the America's cup. He said in substance: "I have no statement to make on the subject What I would say has been well threshed out of me during the fortnight I stayed in America after the races." He declined to answer a question as to whether he had any feeling toward the New York Yacht Club, and he re fused to comment on the statements by Sailmaker Ratsey's men when they ar rived at Cowes, that the race was not ; sailed because the buoys had been ' changed during the second race, say-- ing: "It would not do any good to discuss . unpleasant matters." Regarding his plans for future rac ing Dunraven said-. "I have no plans. I returned home after a long voyage, and am going to London, and from there to Wales. I do not know what I shall do later on." Touching the acceptance by the New York Yacht Club of the challenge of Charles Rose, through the Royal Vic-. toria Yacht Club, for another series of races for the America's cup, Lord Dun raveu remarked: "The matter was practically settled when I left the United States. Per sonally, I am glad that it has been so easily settled. We had a pleasant and uneventful voyage across and I am glad to be back." The Federated Metal Workers. Chicago, Oct 21. At a meeting of representatives of the federated metal trades held here yesterday a committee previously appointed to consider the question of a shorter working day re ported in favor of it The report was adopted and will be submitted to the delegates to the various organizations for a vote. Date of the Harvard-Prineeton Game. Cambridge, Mass., Oct 21. It has been announced that the Harvard Princeton football game will take place at Princeton November 2,