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A VOL. XXXII. CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1896. NO. 43. he TRANSPORTATION. East and South VIA ; The Shasta Route OF THE Southern Pacific R'y Co. EXPRESS TRAINS RUN DAILY. 18:50 P H Leave Portland Arrive 8:10 A K 2:10pm Uave Albany Arrive) 4:50am 10:45 a M Arrive S. Francisco Leave 6:00 p M Above trains slop at East Portland, Oregon City, Woodburn, Salem, Turner, Marion, Jeffer son, Albany. Albany Junction, Taug-nt, Snedds, Haisev, Harrisburg. Janction City, Irving, Ea gene.Creswetl, Drains, and all stations from Rosebnrg to Ashland, inclusive. ROSEBURG MAIL DAILY. 8:30 A H I Leave 12 n5 p m I ieave 5:20 p m ( Arrive Portland Albany Roseburg Air.ve! 4:40 PM Arrive 1:1ipm Leave I 6:00 A M Pullman B iffet sleepers and second-ilass sleeping cars attached to all through trains. SALEM PASSENGER DAILY. 4:00 pm Leave Portland Arrive ) 11:15 A M 6:15 p at Arrive Salem Leave I 8:00 A M WEST SIDE DIVISION. Between Portland and Corvallis Mall train daily (except Sunday). 7-30 a M Leave Ponland Arrive 16:20 p H 12:15 p M Arrive Corvallis Leave 1:36 P M At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains of the Oregon Central & Eastern Ry. EXPRESS TRAINS DAILY (Except Bui day). 4:45 p M Leave Portland Arrive ' 8 25 a m 7:25 p M Arrive McMinnville Leave 5:60 A m Through tickets to all points lu the Eastern state, Canada aud Europe can te obtained at lowest rate from A. K. Miller, agent, Corvallis. R. KOEHI.ER, Manager. E. P. ROGERS, A. G. F. & P. A., Portland, Or. E. McNEIL, Receiver. TO THE IE AST GIVES THE CHOICE OF TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL BOTJTBS VIA GREAT NORTHERN RY. SPOKANE MINNEAPOLIS VIA UNION PACIFIC RY. DENVER OMAHA AND 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 - - Orcgpi OREGON CENTRAL AND EASTERN R.R.CO. 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Corp., Bole Props., Boston, U. 8. A. DR. WILSON Office over First National bank. Residence, two bloaks west of courthouse. Office hours, 8 to 10 a. m., 1 to 3 p. if. Suudays aud evenings by appointment. DR. L. G. ALTMAN H0M0E0PATHIST Diseases of women and children and general practice. Office over Allen & Woodward's drug store. Office hours 8 to 12 A. M., and 2 to 6 and 7 to 8 r. at. At residence, corner of 3rd and Harrison after hoHrs and on Sundays. BOWEN LBTERi 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 poatoffice. Joseph H. Wilson. Thomas E. Wixsoh WILSON & WILSON ATTORNEYS -AT -LAW Office over First National Bank. Rorrallls. Or Will practice in all the state and federal courts Abstracting, collections. Notary public Con veyancing. E. HOLGATE. H. L. HOLGATE. Justice of the Peace. Notary Public. HOLGATE & SON ATTOBNEYS-AT-LAW Corvallis - - - Oregon J. R. Bbtson W. E. Yates j. Fbid Yates Jryson, Yates & Yates LAWYERS CORVALLIS OREGON TELEGRAPHIC RESUME Events of the Day in a Con densed Form. OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS Items of Importance From Domestic and Foreign Sources Cream of the Dispatches. Recent census figures show that in ten years Massachusetts has lost in population. The sale has been announced of nine Leadville, Cola, mines to an Enlgish syndicate for $1,000,000. A severe shock of earthquake was re cently felt in New Westminster and most portions of the Fraser valley. The American bark A returns parted her cable and went to pieces on the locks at Santa Rosalia, Cal. One man was drowned. Fire in the Chicago Forge & Bolt Company plant did f 75,000 damage. The plant is owned by the American Bridge Company. It transpires that the Bosphorns is rikely to be the destination of the North Atlantic squadron of American battleships, instead of the Carribean sea. ' The members of the Venezuela com mission met in Washington and re ceived their commissions from Secre tary Olney, and were administered the oath of office, and elected their officers. The Cheyenne north-bound passenger train was wrecked at Chugwater, Wyo., by running into a bunch of oat' tie in a cut. Fireman Parker was killed and Engineer ONeill hurt. Four ooaches were derailed. Warships flying the star and stripes, and manned by American bluejackets, may force the passage of the Daman elles and Bosphorons, anchor at Con stantinople and show the sultan that Uncle Sam is not to be trifled with. The National Associatiiation of Man ufacturers of the United States will shortly hold their annual meeting in Chicago. Particular attention will be given to the Nicaraagua canal, the con vention favoring the government own ership of the great waterway. Mrs. Nichols, station agent at Farm ington, Utah, and who lives alone in the upper room of the station house, discovered burglars in the act of rob bing the money drawer. She plucikly pursued them and compelled t them to return every cent they had taken. The invasion of the Transvaal by Dr. Jamieson and the forces of the British South Africa Company has brought up all the latent feeling of hostility to England. The Britons are wrathy be cause of the character of the kaisers' message to Kruger and denounce the telegram as a decidedly unfriendly act. The United States bureau of eth nology .expedition to Tiburon island has returned to New York. The Zeri Indians abandoned their ranches on the approach of the party and hid in the mountains. The expedition, embraced the first white people who have visited the island in fifteen years and returned alive. The recent massacre at Ormah is stated to have been terrible. Official dispatches admit 900 Christians were killed, but according to private ac counts about 2,000 Christians were killed. A massacre is said to have occurred at Birejik, an important town on the Euphrates. . This outrage is be lieved to have been committed by Kurds and Hamedics in the colony. The am bassadors have received word that the bloodshed there was exceptionally seri ous. A large meeting of the Allegheny County Bar" Association was recently held in Philadelphia to decide the ques tion whether women should be ad mitted to practice. The women were victorious by a vote of more than 10 to 1, consequently they will be accorded the same privileges as their male col leagues. The question was decided after a lively discussion of a resolution, which called on the judges to prohibit women from becoming members of the bar in Allegheny county. Another uprising has occurred in Formosa. At a hotel fire in Altoona, Pa., three people were killed by a falling walL Monsignore Satolli, apostolus dele gate to the United States, has been raised to the rank of cardinal of the church. The ceremony, which took G. R. FARRA, M. D. Office in Farra & 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. sr.. and 1 to 2 and 7 to 8 p. u. All ca.la attended promptly. BENTON COUNTY ABSTRACT : COMPANY Complete Set of Abstracts of Benton County. Conveyancingand Perfecting Titles a Specialty. . . ' i Money to Loan on Improved City and - Country Property. V. E. WAITERS, Prop. Office at Courthouse, Corvallis, Or. place at the venerable cathedral in Bal timore, consisted of conferring the red berretta, significant of the high station. At Albany, N. Y., the climax of one of the most sensational" and dramatio criminal incidents of the state's history was made public when, just forty eight hours prior to the execution of the death sentence of Bartholomew Shea, another man' confessed to the murder, and Shea stepped from beneath the shadow of death thrown by tne electric chair. Preparations for the execution had been made, the state electrician was already upon the ground. ' A special from Washington says: A more important issue than that over the Venezuela boundary may be raised be tween the United States t. and Great Britain if recent reports from Nicara gua shall be confirmed by later develop ments. The substance of these re ports, sustained by important evidence, is that British interests are reaohing out for the control of the Nicaragua canal, and that the government is be' ing urged to annul the charter to the existing corporation. The whole Cuban island outside of the city of Havana is now in the hands of the insurgents. They have not an nihilated the Spanish forces, nor have they routed the whole army in any single pitched battle; yet the situation is practically in their hands, and so completely have they outgeneraled the Spanish that, to all appearances, Mar tinez Campos army migrht as well be in Spain for any check it has upon the movements of Gomez s army. Secretary Carlisle has made public a circular on the subject of the new bond issue. The loan will be a 'popular" one, and the circular, which is dated January 6, gives notice ' that the gov ernment will sell $100,000,000 30-year 4 per cent ooupon or reigstered bonds, dated February 1, 1895, for whioh pur chasers will be required to pay in gold coin or gold certificates.. This will be the first issue by the present adminis tration of such a large amonut of bonds at one time. The circular also contains an intimation Of a possible further issue of bonds should the issue or sale of an additional or different form of bond for the maintenance of the gold reserve be authorized by law before January 5. -y UTAH NOW A STATE. The Mormon Territory is Admitted to Statehood.. Washington, Jan. 6. The president, at 10 oclock this morning, signed a proclamation admitting Utah to state' hood. The proclamation is as follows: "Whereas, The congress of the United States passed an act which was approwed on the J6nh day of July, eighteen hundred and -ineiy-fonr:"eai titled 'An act to enable" the people of Utah to form a constitution and .state government, and to be admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the original states', which act provides for the election of delegates- to a constitn tional convention, to meet at the seat of government of the territory of Utah, on the first Monday of March, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the pur pose of declaring the adotpion of the constitution of the United States by the people of the proposed state, and of forming a constitution and state gov ernment for such state; and "Whereas, Delegates were accord' ingly elected, who met, organized and declared on behalf of the people of said proposed state the adoption of the con' stitution of the United States, all as provided in said act; and, "Whereas, Said convention, so organ' ized, did by ordinance irrevocably, with the consent of the United States, and the people of said state, as required by said aot, provide that perfeot tolera tion of religious sentiment shall be se cured, and that no inhabitants shall ever be molested in person or property, on account of his or her mode of re ligious worship, but that polygamous or plural marriages are forever pro hibited, and did also by said ordinance make various other stipulations recited in section three of said act; and, " Whereas, said convention thereupon formed a contitution and state govern ment for said" proposed state, whioh constitution, including said ordinance, was duly submitted to the people there of, at an election, held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday of Novem ber, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, as directed by said act; and. Whereas, The return of said election has been made and canvassed, and the result thereof certified to by me, to gether with- a statement of the votes oast and a copy of the said constitution and ordinance, all as provided in said act, showing that a majority of' the votes lawfully cast at such election was for the ratification and adoption of said constitution and ordinance; and, "Whereas, The constitution and gov ernment of said proposed state are Re publican in form, said constitution is not repugnant to the constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence, and all provisions of said act have been complied with in the formation of said constitution and government; "Now, Threfore, 1, Urover Clevland, president of the United States of America, in accordance with the act of congress aforesaid, and by authority thereof, do announce the result of said election to be as so certified, and do hereby declare and piojlaim that the terms and conditions prescribed by the congress of the United States to entitle the state of Utah to admission into the Union have been duly complied with, and that the creation of said state, and its admission into the Union on an equal footing with the original states is now accomplished. - in testiomny whereof, I have hereto set my hand and caused the seal of the United States to be affixed," etc., f ;, - The president has also signed the act transferring to the state of Utah the offices and properties of the territorial offices and of the Utah commission. A YEAR'S HISTOE Chronological Record of Twelve Months. I: : FULL RECORD OF 1895. An Epitome of All Events of importance' rho TJauel Admixture ot Disasjtor, Crime, Political Chansrea, Commer cial Achievement, and Interna' tional Complications Atrocities of Turk In Armenia the Most Shock lntc Pace In Modern History Pow ers of Europe Unite In Demanding; Reform Cuban Revolution Next in Public Interest. With but two exceptions, the nature of the events which go to make up the his tory of the vast year is not startling. The butchery of thousands of Armenians by Turks has aroused the European powers, and at the close of the year active preparations were In progress which sng gested the probable dismemberment of the Ottoman empire. ' The revolt of Cubans against Spanish rule was the next most Important affair, and that, too, was in full sway at the close of the year. Spain seems to fruitlessly bend every energy toward its suppression. - Popular sympathy ia largely with the Cubans, and their success seems not improbable. In American politics the year has been ex citing, and one of the grtat parties has suffered such reverses as to leave the chief executive unsupported In political faith by a majority In either house of Congress. . A chronological record of events follows: January. 1. Michigan's first public Installation of Diaie omcers. .. .uov. Morton, or New lorn, sworn In. .. .Belgium bars American beef... Tom Blair lynched at Mount Sterling, Ky... Five perish in an Incendiary fire at Lancas ter, Ky. 2. Death of Col. Edwaid M. Heyl, inspec tor general Department of the Missouri, at Chicago. .. .Carnegie's Homestead men strike against reduction of wases. 8. Fires: $75,000 at Springfield, Ohio; $105,- wi m voaeyvme. aan.; $iqu,uuu at Cleve land; $300,000 at the Southern Illinois In sane Asylum, at Anna. .. .Cleveland enter tains Bill at a Cabinet dinner. 4. Scores of villages and cities unite In sending aid to destitute people In Nebraska $100,000 lire In Milwaukee. 5. Captain Dreyfus, of the French army, publicly degraded for selling war secrets. 6. $1,000,000 fire at Toronto; two lives lost 7. Explosion on steamer In Rio harbor kills 120 High water In Ohio River towns. 8. Starving men pillage stores at St. John's, N. F. 9. W. W. Taylor, ex-Treasurer of South Dakota, embezzles $350,000; his bank at Red field closes. 10. Two lives lost In a Toronto fire: nron- -rtyl6si-$e00,00- . - 11. coiaesc aay or tne season in unicago; 12 below. ...Storms In the East. 12. Train held up near Ottumwa, Iowa. 13. One hundred firemen frost-bitten at Bradford, Pa.; $130,000 damages Several vessels lost .on England's coast; fifteen sail ors drown. 14. Hundred miners trapped by rising wa ter In North Staffordshire, Eng.: 20 drowned. 15. Giant powder horror at Butte, Mont.; 60 people killed. 100 hurt. .. .French Presi dent resigns: Royalists awake. 17. M. Felix Faure elected President of France. 18. News of rebellion In Hawaii. .. .Death f Mary, Vice President Stevenson's daugh ter Militia ordered out to protect Brook lyn trolleys. 19. Body of Barrett Scott, the O'Neill, Neb., defaulter, found In tbe river, with rope around his ueck. .. .Sinking of steamer State of Missouri In the Ohio; forty lives lost. 21. Chicago has a thunder and rain storm, with temperature of 64 degrees and a spring breeze, followed by a hurricane blowing 64 miles an hour, temperature falling to 10 de- frees above zero; many people hurt by fall ng timbers, blown from new buildings. 23. Steamer Chlcora and 25 nennln lnt nr South Haven, Mich.; financial loss, $185,000 . ...ueam or iora uanaoipn unurchlll at London. explosion. .. .Guatemala concedes Mexico's Dounaary claim f earrui wind and snow storm In tbe West. 28. Thirteen sailors drowned off Point Jn- dith. Conn. 27. Mercury below zero all day In Chicago .. .Snow blockades many Western roads. 28. One killed. 43 hurt. In Vandalla wreok at Ooatsvllie, Ind. .. .President Cleveland's currency message sent to Congress. xv. Receivers named tor tne whisky trust. 80. Steamer Elbe sunk In collision with the Crathle, in North Sea; 314 lives lost. 31. Death of Ward McAllister, leader of New Xork's society. Febrnary. 8. News of kidnaping of officers from Uni ted States gunboat Coucord, by Chinese, for accidental shooting of a native. .. .Chicago temperature 13 below. - 4. Three drowned by Milwaukee street car running Into an open draw. .. .Thirty French miners killed by explosion. .. .Chicago tern- gerature 17 below. .. .Queen Lll abdicates awail's throne. 6. Blizzard sweeDS over the Northwest Alarm for the overdue French liner La Gas cogne. 7. Whole country suffers extreme cold: 20 below at Chicago. .. .Nine men lost In open boats at Milwaukee. .. .Report of annihila tion of Chinese fleet at Wel-Hal-Wel Ad- ilnlstiatlon's currency measure and Reed and Cox substitutes defeated In the House. 8. President announces the sale of 262.- r 1,000 lu bonds. .. .Coldest day of the year Chicago. 10. Schooner Clara and 15 men lost off Liv erpool. N. S. H. La Gascogne. eight days overdue. makes New l'ork harbor with disabled ma chinery; great rejoicing. iz. zuu,wu sirect-cnr Darn nre at unicago. 13. Five firemeu killed. 16 hurt, at Lynn. Mass. 19. Death of Isaac P. Gray. Minister to Mexico. .. .New Orleans has ten inches of snow. 20. Death of Fred Douglass, tbe colored orator, at Washington Quick sale of late bond Issue. 26. Riot at Savannah. Ua.. because of ex- Priest Slattery's lecture; troops called. 27. $400,000 fire at Chicago; $1,000,000 at Halifax Scores of miners killed in New Mexico. ...Postmaster General Bissell re signs. .. March. 1. Mexican train wreck costs 104 lives.... Five killed, 19 hurt, by falling walls at New York. .. .Rebellion gains ground In Cuba. 2. $1,000,000 fire in Toronto; $350,000 at Balina. Kan. 8. Chlcaso Times Issues Its last number before consolidation with the Herald. .. .Ter rific snowstorm In Northwest. 4. Fifty-third Congress adjourns. ' 5. Mrs. W. K. Vanderbilt divorced at New York. 6. One robber killed, one caotnred. and four citizens wojnded during raid on the Odell, Iowa, bank. 8. Harry Hayward cos vie ted of murdeiina Catherine Glng at Minneapolis. .. .Steamer Longfellow sinks at Cincinnati; twelve drowned. 10. Spanish war vessel Relna Rezente founders; 400 lost. 11. six men Kiiiea in new urieans riots. 12. Seven Italians lynched by miners for murder In Colorado. 13. Western Newsnaner Union Dlant bnrns at Kansas City... .Two more Italians lynch ed In Colorado. 16. Five killed in round-bouse fire at To ledo; Kellogg ready-print plant at Cleveland burns; $200,000 fire at St. Louis. . . .Report of sinning oi American scnooner ana crew or 16 by Spanish gunboat, 20. Mine explosion in Wyoming- kills 60 miners... .$100,000 fire In PeorlaTlU. 21. $400,000 fire at Sioux City; $300,000 at New Orleans. 24. LI Hung Chang shot by fanatic Japan ese; not fatally $1,000,000 fire at Kansas City, Kan., packing-house. 25. Furious dust storm over Central and Western States. 26. $1,000,000 fire in Milwaukee. 27. Three train robbers killed on Queen and Crescent route. 29. Japan declares armistice. .. .Hottest March day ever known In Chicago; tempera ture 78 degrees. 80. Death of A, O. Healng, editor of Illi nois Staats-Zeltung. April. " 1. Boiler explosion kills six at Woburn, Mass. . . .Five die In Kentucky forest fires. 2. Republicans successful In Ohio, Michi gan, Wisconsin and Chicago, 8. Death of Mrs. Paran Stevens, society queen of New York. .. .Grand Pftclne Hotel of Chicago closed . . .Fifteen killed by explo sion In New Orleans. 0. Supreme Court makes ehanaes In In. come tax law.,.. Train wrecks In Ohio and Illinois k 11 elsht. 8, Discovery of counterfeiting of postage stamps... .21 miners killed at New What com, Wash, ,, .Collapse of six-story brick at rvneeiing, w. va; f allied; loss sauo.oou. ... Blizzard of sand and snow In the West. 13. Crude ell sells at $2 In Pittsburg. ...Cu ban rebels whin Snanlsh trooos. 14. Death by apoplexy of James W. Scott, oi uuicago i imes-ueram, in new xora, . $1,000,000 hotel fire at Pasadena, Cal, IK CnnnlxBlnn ' In 4-nA O.n Cuban rebellion crushed. .Cattle admitted free from Mexico. 10. Three killed, six hurt, at Chicago ship yards, 20. H. H, Kohlsaat buys Chicago Times Herald. .. .May wheat sells at 60 cents,,,. All grain advances strongly, ,, .Oil goes uiKUBr, 21. Five negroes lynched at Butler Springs, Ala. . . .18 Inches of snow In Colorado. 23. Supreme Court decides In favor of Debs in tne xamous contempt of court case. May, 1. Ten persons killed by a Kansas cyclone ....Bandits kill an Alton engineer. .. .Big Ohio coal strike on. 8. Awful death roll la Iowa and Wiscon sin storms. ,. .Five killed by powder mill ex plosion at South Acton, Mass. ,. .Hottest 3d of May on record In Chicago; temperature 88 degrees: one man sunstruck, 8. South Chicago and Jollet steel workers strike. , . .Oriental peace assured. 10. Steamers Cayuga and Hurd sunk off Mackinaw, Mich., by colliding; one man lost; pecuniary loss, $400,000. .. .Temperature at Chicago drops from 86 to 43. ., .Twelve peo ple hurt by gas explosion at Chicago; four ate. 13. KUllns- frosts from Nebraska to the At lantic. . . .Snow stops the Chicago-New York Dan game at uuicago. , , . uignteen lives ana twelve vessels lost In storms on Lake Mich igan. 18. Great flurrv In corn and wheat. 19. $1,000,000 fire at St Albans, Vt. .. .Ter rible earthquakes In Italy. .Killing frost In fifteen States. 20. Income tax declared invalid. .. .Wheat sells at IVk cents. 21. Jose Marte. President Cuban Insur gents, killed.... 14 killed In San Francisco powder bouse explosion. 25. Two men lynched for assault at Dan vllle. 111.... Wheat reaches 82 cents. 27. Supreme Court against Debs. 28. Death of Gresham, Secretary of State. 29. Remarkable military reunion at Chi cago. 80. Funeral of Gresham at Chicago. , . .Ded ication at Chicairo of Confederate monument. 81. Cloudbursts In Texas, parching droughts in miaaie vt esiern (States, uu degrees in tne snaae in uaxota, six inches ot snow in Col orado, balmy weather en the Pacific coast, and 96 degrees in New York City. June. 1. 2. 8. UnDrecedented heat in Ghlcaffo. New York, Detroit, Philadelphia and Indian apolis; many ocams irom neat prostration. 4. Drop at Chicago of 40 degrees tempera ture.'" 5. Silver convention at Springfield, 111. 7. Olney appointed Secretary of State, Harmon Attorney General. . 8. $200000 fire at Kalamazoo. . , - -. 9. $7). ooo Tire at Mlaukee. v - 13. Whisky trust deeutred Illegal. "". 16. Greenville, Ohio, has a $225,000 fire. 17. H. J. Aldrlch faTlls for $1,000,000 at Denver. .. .Deadly storms sweep tbe Mis souri Valley.... Opening of Harlem ship canal. 20. Opening of Kiel ship canal. 21. Rosebery's ministry defeated. .. .Two fatally, ten badly hurt, by explosion on whaleback excursion steamer Christopher Columbus at Chicago. 26. Six firemen killed at Minneapolis; $100,- 000 loss $2,000,000 fire at San Francisco. 29. Death of Prof. Tbos. Huxley at London. July. 8. Daughter born to the Clevelands. 7. Terrific stoim at Chicago. . . .Six drown ed at Lake Geneva, Wis. .. .Michigan swept by forest fires. 10. Christian Endeavor assembles at Bos ton. 14. Destructive storm In North Dakota.. Three drown at South Haven, Mich. .. .Seven accidental fatalities at Chicago. .. .Nine killed by storm in New York and New Jersey. ' 16. Beginning of Horr-Harvey debate at Chicago. 17. First appearance of bloomers at a ball, In Chicago. .. .Three Cincinnati firemen killed. 18. Nine miners Imnrisoned bv cave-In at Iron Mountain, Mich. .. .British ship Prince uscar ana unxnown vessel sma in collision; 40 perish. 19. Rescne of Iron Mountain miners Cleveland baby named Marlon. 21. Drowning of 148 Italians, by sinking In collision of steamer Maria P. ...Four killed at grade crossing at WUllamston, Mass $400,000 fire in National Linseed Oil Company s Chicago warehouse. 22. Report of killing of seventeen Indians near Jackson's Hole. Wyoming-: grave trou ble Imminent. 23. Furious storm In Pennsylvania coke region... .L. S. & M. S. train held up lu Ohio; $7,000 stolen. 25. Thirty-two miners killed by explosion In Westphalia. 81. Sixteen perish In a cloudburst In Col orado and Wyoming. .. .Menominee, Mich., nas a zoou.ouo nre. August. 4. False report of race war at Soring Val ley, III., between Italian and negro miners. .. Murder of British missionaries fn China.... $1,000,000 fire at Sprague, Wash. I. ucaiu ok urcorge c. xurai, ine xamous composer. 8. Thirteen allied ana many injured oy rant Inn building in New York. .Death of Supreme Judge Howell E. Jackson, of Tennessee. 10. nre ai iocaporc, in. . 1 l.Vl Wl Am a. V.n. .V XT T T7, 11. irvAJfUuv uiv , - l I. ii i n, i. . uur killed In a wreck at Bainbrldge, Ohio. 13. $300,000 me at rhiiaaeipnia. 18. Holocaust In Denver hotel: 25 killed Seven drown at Ocean City, Md. 20. Trains nia up on tne u. ec w. M., near HVnnvllle. Mich., and on the Union Pacific near North Platte, Neb. .. .Eight killed and eight injured by explosion at Braddock, Pa. Vie. Milwaukee loses v,imu py nre.... Gentry loses stallion pacing championship to Patcben. 26-7-8. Heavy rains in corn belt; severe storms accompanied by fatalities In Illinois and Ohio. 29. Fifteen miners drown at uentral Ulty. Col. September. 2. Ore hundred people hurt on the Sea Beach road. Long Island. 3. Furious storm In central Northern States. 4. $300,000 nre at Boston. 6. Triple murder in Sullivan County, Ind. 7. Forty-two miner? perish In a burning mine at Calumet, Mich. . . .'Defender de feats Valkyrie In first cup contest by nine minutes. . 8. Five killed by dynamite near Dubuaue. Iowa. 9. Opening of G. A. R. encampment at Louisville. 10. Valkyrie fouls Defender at the start. and wins second heat of yacht race by 47 seconds; race given to uerenacr on protest ...Temperature i aegrees at unicago. 11. Seven killed by exploding caisson at Louisville. .. .Six killed In collision on Great Northern. 12. America cup goes to Defender, Valky rie refusing to sail. .. .Seventy-five hurt by fall of a grand stand at Louisville, Ky.... News or deato oi suu oy esrinquaxe in Hon duras. .. .Ex-Queen Lilluokalanl pardoned by Hawaiian Government 16. Six killed In a wreck at Lynchburg, Va. 17. Atlanta Exposition opened. .. .Phenom enal heat In Kansas: 107 degrees. 18. Dedication of Chlckamauga-Chatta-nooga National Military Park. 19. Spanish cruiser and 46 men lost In col lision off Cuba. . .Steamship Edam sunk In collision; all saved.. ..Six die of heat In Chi cago. 23. Great losses on upper lakes by storm. 28. Death of Pasteur at Paris. 29. Twenty-four lake vessels meet disaster In a storm. .. .Retirement of Gen. Schofleld. 80. Continued gales on the lakes; schooner Elma and eight people lost on Pictured Rocks. ...Mammoth mass meeting at Chi cago declares sympathy for Cuba. .. .Nation al League season closed, Baltimore winning. October. " ' 1. Destructive gales on British coast. . . . Cuba declares her independence. 2. Texas special Legislature prohibits pu gilism. 8. Million dollar fire at Warren, R. I. ' 7. Seven killed by explosion In a Wilkes-. barre. Pa., mine. .. .Masked bandits success-1 fully hold up a Chicago electric car. 9. Anniversary of big Chicago fire. ...Five die by firs In Cincinnati. .. .Steamer Africa and crew of eleven lost In Owen Sound. . . . Geoigia father kills his nine children. .. .81 children burned to death at Snider, Ont. 12. $100,000 fire loss at Duluth. 13. Four killed, twelve hurt, on a Pittsburg trolley car. .. .Five burn to death In a Mani toba prairie fire; immense property loss. 19. $150,000 saw-mill fire at Minneapolis. ' 20. Half-mllllon dollar fire at New Orleans: 1,000 people homeless. .. .First snowstorm oft season at Chicago; Erie, Pa., has a fall of ten; inches. , 22. President Cleveland welcomed to At lanta. .. .$170,000 linseed oU mill fire at Chicago. : 21. Lake Shore train runs from Chicago t Buffalo, 510 miles, In 7 hours 50 minutes 20 seconds, running time, beating world's rec ord, 26. Three killed by explosion of tug boiler at Chicago. .. .Sheriff and posse at Tiffin, Ohio, kill two of a lynching mob. .Burning of Virginia's State University. 29. Negro criminal burned at the stake IS Texas. ...$200,000 fire In Springfield, Ohio ....Two killed, three fatally hurt, in a col-, Usion In St, Louis, 81. Earthquake throughout tbe central belt of the United States; no fatalities, little dam-, age. ,1 November. 1. Earthquake at Rome. ,, .Durrani found o-uiltv of murder at San Francisco. ' 2. H. H. Holmes found guilty of murder of; Denjumin nisei at i-nnaaeipuia. 3. Four killed In B. & O. wreck near Wheel lng, W. Va. .. .Four burned to death in New i urn tenement nouse nre. 5. Death of Eugene Field at Chicago.. fituu.uuu nre at uecatur, in. 5. Republican landslide. .. .$1,500,000 fire In New York, 6. Forty killed by boiler explosion In Dev trolt, Mich., Journal building. .. .Ryan ram-; lly of six die in their burning house at: Brooklyn. 11. Chicago dallies reduce to 1 cent. 16. Twenty killed In a street car accident, at Cleveland, Ohio, ., .Death of Dr. S. F. Smith, author of ''America," at Boston....; News of another massacre by Turks In Ar menia; 800 slain. .. .Consolidation of Chicago Journal and Press. 19. Furious snow and wind storm In North-' west. .. .Lowell, Mass.; Dallas, Texas; and Purcel!, I. T have big fires. 21. $000,000 fire In Springer Building. Chi cago, ., .Eugene V. Debs released from Woodstock, 111., jail.. ..Sultan of Turkey forced to a peace policy by the powers, after he bad countenanced many Armenian massa- . ores. 22. Five firemen lose life In a $500,000 Chi cago blaze. ,. .Release from jail and euthusl-! astio reception of E. V. Debs, labor leader, at Chicago. .. .Foreign fleets rendezvous In the Dardanelles. 25. Tremendous damage at Chicago by storm of snow, sleet ana rain; all car lines blocked, wires down, .. .Fire at Chicago does $200,000 damage. .. .Seventy killed by explo sion In cartridge factory at Paima, Island of Majorca. 28. Three vessels go ashore at Glencoe, 111.;: crews of 28 men saved .... Blot lu Jackson,! Mich., prison, J 27. Death of Alexandre Dumas, Jr., at Paris. 28. Day of doom for the turkey. .. .Foot- ball games: Michigan beats Chicago; Boston and Chicago, tie: Pennsylvania defeats Cor nell; Purdue defeats Illinois; Louisville wins from De Pauw; Columbia Athletic downs Co lumbia University; Brown defeats Dart mouth. December. 2. Assembling of Fifty-fourth Congress ;i Reed elected Speaker of the House. .. .Zero weather In Northwest. .. .Further massacres In Armenia. 7. $350,000 fire In San Francisco. .. .Europe storm-swept i British boat nd twenty-seven, sailors lost off Scotland. 8. $600,000 fires In Chicago... .Death of Ge.o A- Bala. London Journalist. .. .Tug Campbell and seven men lost In Lake Superior. - j 9. Chilton, Wis., razed by fire. 10. St. Louis gets next National Republican Convention. .. .Sultan permits guard ships to pass Dardanelles..;. Harry Hayward hanged at Minneapolis. 11. Burning of Catholic Orphan Asylum at Milwaukee; 200 children rescued. .. .Steamer Germanic sinks the Cambrae, at London; no lives lost Mob threatens Kansas Medical College at Topeka, because of grave-robbing. 12. Death of Allen G. Thurman at Colum bus, Ohio. 157 German ship Athena with a cargo of naphtha explodes off Cape May; 14 lives lost. 17. Cleveland's Venezuelan message arouses great enthusiasm at home and astounds Great Britain. .. .Philadelphia In the bands of a mob during a strike. 18. Explosion on liner St. Paul killed six men and Injured five. .. .House passes $100, 000 appropriation for Venezuela commission ....Rioting In Philadelphia; entire street railway service suspended. .. .Death of Oapt. Isaac Bassett, doorkeeper of the Senate. 19. Thjrty-sfx lives lost In Newfoundland) fishing fleet by storm. .. .Forty-three killed In a North Carolina mine. .. .Tremendous rainfall at Chicago. 20. Panic on Wall street Senate unani mously passes House bill for Venezuelan, commission. .. .Cleveland sends financial message to Congress. . , .Twenty-four miners at Dayton, Tenn., killed Unprecedented flood at Chicago. ' PUFFING THE PLAY. A New Tork Bnccess "Abuse off Press Courtesy. The United States Is a broad and bnsyj country, and it Is well supplied with ex- cellent Journals, says tne Forum. As Is natural and unavoidable, these genera ally take their tone In treating dra matic affairs from those of the metropo-t Us. What la said and done in Newi Tork about plays and actors is publish ed all over the union as quickly as tba wires and press can spread the newej Consequently the theatrical business of) the entire country Is managed from New York. That is why actors, man agers and the minor personages of stage life flock to New York. That is why for many years past It has beea possible for the wily speculator In rot-i ten dramatic lumber to set up a flimsy) stage structure, held together only by the adhesive qualities of paint and! printers' ink, and by keeping a Newi York theater open and empty for Its exhibition for a-stated term of weeka at the expense of $3,000 or $4,000 ai week, and by a continual pestering oC the good-natured Journalist to obtain a sufficient amount of notice of his "great New York success I" to enable him to travel throughout the country. with his "show," and gather a rich har vest from those who- are eager to sea what sort of plays please the people ot the great city. Of course the "show soon falls toi pieces from the weight of Its own worthlessness, and the seeds of general contempt for New York's good tastei In theatrical matters are sown broad cast But no matter. The enterprising? speculator, now well In funds, returns! to New York and is soon upon the ruii tide of another like venture. Year af-j -ter year this sort of thing goes on. But) the people of the Eaat, South and Westi are becoming wise and wary. The) business" is not so good now as Iti once was In those often-deluded sec-t tlons. One of the roots of our theatrl-( cal troubles upon which the ax should fall quickly and sharply Is this abuse) of the press courtesy first extended : good nature toward the struggling ar tlst, but how demanded as a right bj the brass-band "show boomer." Our hardest battles are those we flahtj with oursejves. ""'