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A t ww 6. VOL. XXXIII. CORVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY. OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPT. 3, 1896. NO. 25. in 111 hi r TRANSPORTATION. East and South VIA The Shasta Route OF THE Southern Pacific Co. EXPRESS TRA1N3 EON DAILY. 8:00 p h I Leave "Tortlaud Arrive I 8:10 A u 12:10a m I lave Albany Arrive) 4:45am 10:45 a m I Arrive 8. Francisco Ltave 7:00 r u Above trains stop at Ea-t Portland, Oregon City, WoodbHrn, Salem, Turner, Marion, Jeffer son, Albany. Albany Junction, TaiiK-nt.Siiedcls, Haleey, Hxrrisburg. Junction City, Eugene, C res well, Drains, and all station! from Roee burg to Ashland, inclusive. ROSKBFRG MAIL DAILY. :.. a M 1 12:25 p m Leave 5:2 p M Arrive Portland Air.ve I 4:40 pm Albany Arrive 1 12:5 , p u Bosrbnrg Leave I 8:00 a M Pullman B. ffet sleepers and secoud-claES sletpiug cars attached to all through trains. SALEM PASSENGER DAILY. 4:00 PM 1 Leave -6:15 P M I Arrive Portland Salem Arrive I 1):15 a m Leave I 8:00 A M VEST SI OK DIVISION. Between Portland and Corvallis Mall train daily (except Sunday). 730 A M j Leave Ponlaud Arrive I 6:20 p m 12:15 p M Arrive Corvallis Leave 1 1:35 PM At Albany and Corvallis connect with trains of the Oregon Central i Eastern Ry. EXPRESS TRAINS DAILY (Except Sunday). 4:)r, Leave Portland Arrive 1 825 a m 7:25 p m Arrive McMinnville lave 5:50 a m Through tickets to all points iu the Eastern states, Canada aud Europe can be obta ncd at lowest rate from A. K. Miller, agent, Corvallis. R. KOEIILER, Manager. E. P. ROGERS, A. G. F. A P. A., Portland, Or. TO THE IB A S T GIVES THE CHOICE OF TWO TRANSCONTINENTAL EOTJT IB S L VIA VIA GREAT ' UNION NORTHERN RY. PACIFIC RY, SPOKANE DENVER MINNEAPOLIS OMAHA AND AND ST. PAUL KANSAS CITY JOVT RATES TO ALL EASTERN CITIES OCEAN STEAMERS uEAVE PORTLAND EVERY 5 DAYS FOB SAN FRANCISCO For full detail?, call on or address W. H. HURLBURT, . Gtn'l Pssg. Agent, Portland, Oregon. OREGON CENTRAL AND EASTERN R. R. CO. YAQUINA 8AV RQUTE Connecting at Yaqnina Bay with the Sanpraneiseo & Yaquina Bay STEAMSHIP COMPANY. Steamship "FaraNon " Pails from Yaqnina every 8 days for San Fran-c-sco, C.-os Bay, P.Tt Orford, Trimdid a -rl UnmboMt Bay. Passenger ace niTmidxt1 n unsnrpasfed. "Shortest route between the Wil lamette valley and California. Far From Albany or Points West to San Francisco: Cabin .19 Steeratre ........ Round trip, good for 60 da-s, 116. TnC-m Bav ai 1 Port. Onord-iCabin........ fi To Humboldt Bay Cabin........ 8 Yaqnina Bay. The most popnlar inwMe re- ort on the North !. ciot. No undertow surf uutLi g abso lutely safe. i iu wishing to combine hunting and fishin;wiih apquatic sports, this r sort has no equal. Deer, bear, elk, cougar, brook trout and saimon trout, can be found in abundance with in a few hours' drive of the bay. Reduced rates to all pointa. J. C. Mato, EDWIN 8TOXE, T. F. A P. A. Manage-. H. I- Waldsn, Axent, Albany. BENTON COUNTY ABSTRACT : COMPANY Complete Set of Abstracts "- ; of Benton County. Conveyancingand Perfecting Titles a Specialty. Money to Loan on Improved City and Country Property. , V. E. WAITERS, Prop. Office at Courthonse, Corvallis, Or. o Xlio , aK o DR. L. G. ALTMAN H0M0E0PATHIST Diseases of women and children and general practice. . Office over Allen A Woodward's drug store. Office hours 8 to 1? A. M., and 2 to S and 7 to8 P.M. . a - At residence, corner of 3rd and Harrison after hoars and on Sundays. G.MRRA.M.D. Office In Farra A Allen's brick, on the corner of Rccond and Adams. Residence on Third street in front of court house. Office hours 8 to 9 A. M., and 1 to 2 and 7 to p. x. All calls attended promptly. BOWEN LESTER DENTIST Office upstairs over First National Bank.. Strictly First-Class Work Guaranteed Corvallis, Oregon F. M. JOHNSON ATTORNEY-AT - LAW Corvaiaib, Oregon Does a general practice in all the - courts. Also agent for all the nrst-clai Insurance com panies. NOTARY PUBLIC. JUSTICE PEACE. E. E. WILSON ATTORNEY - AT - LAW Office in Zeiroff building, opposite postoffice. Josiph H. Wilsoh. THOMAS E. WlLSOB WILSON & WILSON ATTORNEYS -AT-LAW Office over First National Bank. Corvallis, Or Will practice in all the state and federal courts Abstracting, collections. Notary public. Con veyancing. E. HOLGATE. H. L. HOLGATE. Notary Public ' Jaalice of the Peace. HOLGATE & SON ATTORNEY S-AT-LAW Corvallis - - - -... Oregon W. E. YATES. J. FRED YATES YATES & Y ATES" LAWYERS CORVALLIS OREGON T.N I EST BABY. Midget Frances. Donnelly, the Small- est Mortal tver Born. Just a mite of humanity is Frances Donnelly, of 722 Columbus avenue. New York. She Is a remarkable baby and has puzzled doctors and nurses. When born she weighed a trifle more than a pound, and' now, when she Is three months old, she only weighs five and a half pounds. The doctors, when the tiny child was born, said she could not live, and so did the nurses, but little Miss Donnelly has upset their predictions. I The Donnelly baby is, perhaps, -the smallest one that was ever born. Her clothes would easily fit a big French doll that "speaks" and opens and closes Its eyes. A 25-cent piece covers either of her hands, and a dime conceals an ear. Her mouth is just distinguishable by a light line that looks like a very fine white thread. Doll stockings cover the tiny feet. The eyes are large and expressive. The nose is in proportion to the other features. Although tiny, each feature is perfect, and Frances gives promise of becoming an unusual ly pretty girl. THE GOLDEN GATE. Plans For a Magnificent Structure From San Francisco to Oakland. A bridge across the bay from San Francisco to Oakland is contemplated. It is a magnificent project and was made public by Colonel Lyman Bridges on be half of the Terminal company. - Plans for a great suspension structure are al ready in preparation. It is proposed to have the bridge stretch from some con venient point on the water front of this city to the foot of Peralta street, Oak land. The structure will be divided into two 1,000 foot spans, ten 400 foot spans and a large number of 150 foot spans. It is announced to be the intention of the Terminal company to make the bridge so strong that it could be safely used for the passage of railroad trains, the time occupied in crossing the bay being ten minutes. Orange-Eating Contest. . . A' gastronomic, feat recently accom plished by a Gotham girl consisted in eating quickly, one after another, eight oranges. The other contestant only succeeded in disposing of seven. They both lived to tell the tale and are ready to try it again if occasion offers. ; HER father's haxd chak. EVENTS OF THE DAY Epitome ot the Telegraphic News of the World. TEKSE TICKS FB0M THE WISES An Interesting Collection of Items From the Two Hemispheres Presented In m Condensed Form. A powder house near Xenia, O., blew up and shook the country for miles around. Two men were killed. A farmer named Silvers, living near Santa Rosa, Cal., attempted to poison himself, wife and family by putting arsenic in the coffee. A doctor ar rived in time to save them. The looked out -men of the Brown Hoisting and Conveyanoing Company's works, at Cleveland, O., have voted to return to work, and the famous strike, productive of several battles and riots, is broken. Minister Terrell has notified the Turkish government that the letter's answer to the demands of the United States for indemnity for the burning of the Amerioan missions at Kharput and Marash are not satisfactory. Hilton, Hughes & Company (onoe A. T. Stewart & Company), one of New York's largest department stores, have made an assignment The assignment is without preferences. The failure is due to the gradual decline of business. The civil service commission has is sued an order to federal office-holders, warning all their employes against seeking or making coontributions for campaign purposes. The order em braces all branches of .the government service. Violators will be proseonted. In New London, Conn., as an excur sion train was just landing its passen gers a boy bent on mischief let loose a heavy tramoar on an incline. It dashed into the crowd killing one woman and seriously injuring several persons. A panio ensued in which several more were injured. According to a cablegram received in Philadelphia the steamer Laurada has just landed one of the most for midable filibustering expeditions yet shipped to Cuba. She landed over 200 men and an immense cargo, which con sisted of 63,000 pounds of dynamite, eleven field guns, four cannon, seven gatlings, and a quantity of ammuni tion. Fire has destroyed the village of On tonagon, Mich. The large mills of the Diamond Match Company were com-, pletely destroyed. The flames then descended into the business and resi dence quarter of the city and finally lodged in 165,000,000 feet of sawed lumber on the dock. The destruction of the village was complete. The loss is nealry 15,000,000. About 1,800 men, women and children are homeless and in need of clothing and shelter. P. O. Minor, a pioneer resit ent of San Jose, CaL , ' a prominent lawyer and capitalist, shot and killed him self in that oity. No cause is assigned. ' United States Marshal Thomas and deputies killed Bill Doolin, a noted out law, in a battle near Clayton, Payne county, O. T. One deputy was wounded. G. M. Schilling, the one-armed athlete who has undertaken to walk from Pittsburg to San Francisco and back in ten months, and to return with $1,000 in cash, although restrict ed from begging or purchasing supplies en route, has arrived in the latter city, twenty-six days ahead,' but 200 be hind his schedule. Captain Burnside and twenty-two of the crew of the British tramp steamer Moldaya were picked np at sea in three open boats by the Anohor line steamer Ciroassia, which has just ar rived in New York. The Moldava struck an iceberg in a fog and sank giving the crew barely time to provi sion the lifeboats and lower them. All hands were saved. The wedding of Miss Gertrude Van derbil, the eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, ' to Mr. Harry Payne Whitney, the eldest son of former Seoretary of the Navy W. C. Whitney, ' took place ' at "The Break ers," Newport, R. L The affair was somewhat of a disappointment to so ciety owing to its simplicity. Only fifty persons were present. The sultan of Zanzibar, Hamed Bin Thwain Bin Said, is dead. He. was about 40 years of age, a nephew of the late sultan, All Khalif, and Bur gash, and succeeded to the sultanate on the death of Sultan Ali. March 6, 1893. He was one of a number of claimants, and was selected as the most fitting, by the British government, which ex ercises a protectorate over the sultan ate. Feeling against the Southern Paciflo Company is intensifying among the 15,000 wheelmen of San Franoisco and 40,000 wheelmen in the state, over the recent decision of that . company to charge 25 cents for carrying a bicycle between any two points, and for tax ing bioyolists who cross the bay 10 oents for each wheel. A boyoott has been declared on the Southern Pacific by a large number of wheelmen and the others, it is said, will doubtless take the same course. It is reported that the Northern Pa oifio is about to enter upon the work of rednoing many of its grades, with the view of decreasing the cost of operat ing the road. By lessening the grades it will be possible for the road to haul train loads very much larger than at present. - It is said that the Great Northern hauls trains 50 per cent larg er than those on the Northern Paciflo and the Northern Paciflo proposes to so improve its property that it will be on a level with its competitor in the near future. Massacred by Wholesale. A dispatch to the Vossische Zeitung, from Constantinople, says that there was a general fusilade and massacre. At the conclusion of the riot many hundred dead bodies were lying at the head of the Stamboul bridge. The Turkish 'mob, armed with knives and strioks, invaded the quarters of the Armenians, attacking the Armenians' houses and then passed their butchered victims out of the windows. The po lice and militia stood idly by in the streets where wagon loads of human bodies were lying scattered in all direc tions. ; ' Awful Crime of Three Men. Three men visited the home of E. V. Warner, a farmer, of Liberty ville, la., bound and gagged Warner's daughter, Mellie, aged 20, who was alone in the house. The trio ransacked the house,' but found nothing, and then each man assaulted the girL They left ber bound and gagged. - She managed to release herself, and went to the house of a neighbor, where she fell uncon scious. She is in a critical condition. The men have been captured and there is strong talk of lynching them. Earl Li Our Guest. The American steamship St. Louis from Southampton, having on board Li Hnng Chang, the Chinese special envoy, and suite, has arrived in New York. On her arrival off Quarantine she was boarded by General Ruger, of the government welocming officers, from the cruiser Dolphin, who extend ed to the Chinese statesman, in behalf of President Cleveland, a welcome to the United States. Derailed at a Crossing. A passenger train over the White Mountain division of the Boston & Maine railroad was derailed at a street orossing in Concord, N. H. The engine, baggage car and smoker left the rails and were badly wrecked. Every occu pant of the smoking car was more or less seriously injured, and it is feared that several will die. The injured number about a dozen. His Jewels Were Seised. Michael Barrietti, ragged and dirty, arrived on the last Hamburg-American liner in New York. His trunks excit ed suspicion, and a search was made disclosing false sides in . the trunks, which contained 696 pieces of jewelry, consisting of gold and diamond pins, bracelets, earrings and V brocches, worth 60,000. They were all seized. Dashed Into the Crowd. At Rush ville, Ind., Mamie Wood, a race horse, broke away from her driver and dashed into a crowd of spectators, injuring several of them. Great ex citement was caused by -the runaway,' and the crowd stampeded, men, women and children making a frantic rush for safety. Some of the injured will die. A Mother's- Terrible Crime. Mrs. C. W. Green, the -wife of the traveling passenger agent of the Big Four railway, of Kansas City, while temporarily insane, killed her three children, aged respectively 13, 6 and 9, while they slept and then committed suioide. Will Extend Her Domain. The Argentine government proposes to annex the Sotth Shetland islands, in the South Atlantic, about COO mile south of Cape Horn, and will dispat h an expedition there for that purpose in December. The Brooklyn Is Speedy. ' The government's new warship, Brooklyn in her trial trip off the Massa chusetts' coast developed the wonderful speed of 21:60 knots per hour, thus winning for her builders a large bonuF. Mutiny and Murder. The crew of the Portland (Me ) brig Henry B. Cleaves mutined in the har bor of St John, Porto Rico, attacked the captain, overpowered the mate and about killed him and inflicted injuries on the steward which cuased his death. The steward, Antonio F. Berra, was struck over the head with a belaying pin and thrown headforemost into the hold. In wantonness the murder com pares with the triple murder on tne Herbert Fuller. I,a BoDrfogne Exonerated. The maritime court, at Cherbourg, has decided that the French steamship La Bourgogne is not to blame for the collision which occurred in a fog be tween herself and the Atlas line steam ship Ailsa, both outward bound, near Port Hamilton,. New York bay, on February 29, which resulted in the inking of the Ailsa. Shelled the Palace. A Zanzibar dispatch says the pal.-ce of the sultan has been bombarded by. English warships anchored in that port and is now a mass of ruins. - The usurping chieftain. Said Ehalid, and the commander of bis forces. Said Sales, escaped to the German consul ate, where they remain under the pro tection of the German flag. More Idle Men. Workmen ' employed in the Illinois Steel Company's plant at Hammond, Ind., have been informed that the fur nace fires are to be drawn, when the concern will - close for an indefinite period. This will throw 400 men out of employment Depression in busi ness is one of the causes assigned. . A Boy Crush-d to Death, - Ten-year-old Rhiner Moyer was in stanty killed while playing in a box car, at Telford, v Pa. - The car was shifted while the boy was looking out the door, and struck another car on the same track, the force of the shock causing the door of the oar to close suddenly, crushing Moyer's sknll be tween the frame of the car and the door. " Germany loves botanical gardens and has thirty-five of them. THE PEACE OF EUROPE May Be Disturbed by Prince LobanofFs Death. BOTH DRAMATIC AND IMPORTANT The Rnasian Minister of Foreign A Sails Died Suddenly While Traveling; From Vienna With the Czar. London, Sept. 1. A dispatch to the Telegraph from Eloff says that Prince Lobanoff-Rostovsky, Russian minister of foreign affairs, died suddenly while traveling from Vienna to that place. The prince was in the company of the czar at the time of his death, and his demise was wholly without warning. The news of the death of Prinoe Lobanoff-Rostovsky, according to the dis patch, caused great excitement through out Russia, where the personality of the minister of foreign affairs was con sidered to be second only to the czar himself. Prince Lobanoff-Rostovsky exercised a storng foreign policy a policy which was regarded in some" quarters as threatening the peace of the world. Besides his present work, Prinoe Lo banoff-Rostovsky devoted his leisure boors to the study of and to the writ ing of works on Russian history. The tour he had planned to take with the czar through the countries of Western Europe was expected to be most far reaching in results affecting the settle ment of the Eastern question. Francis Joseph paid Prince Lobanoff Rostovsky' the highest honors during the recent visit of the czar to Vienna, and bis death at the present juncture is regarded as a most dramatic and important event, upsetting as it does all possibilities of conferences between the foreign ministers - of the great powers and compelling the czar to change his plans concerning his tour through Germany, France and Eng land. LEAVENWORTH TRAGEDY. Mystery of the Suicide and Attempted Murder Revealed. Leavenworth, Kan., Sept 1. The mystery of the National hotel tragedy was oleared away today when relatives came here to care for the yonng girl in her dying moments and to take away the dead body of the man with whom she sought to die. The girl is still alive, but has not regained conscious ness, and oannot live. : The story revealed is one of innocent lave, poverty and.thejseeking of, death to overoome troubles that were by no means serious. John Hartig, the dead man, was but 21 years of age, the son of a poor farmer of Conner station. Mary Bush, barely 19 years of age, and quite pretty, is the daughter of a poor section-hand who works on the Missouri Pacific at Pomeroy. The country youth and maiden had met and loved, but when they proposed marriage the girl's father objected, though her mother bade her do as she wished. Hartig was without means, and met with lit tle enoouragement in his matrimonial aspirations from his parents and brothers. Today's developments show that the young lovers discussed their poverty, the parental opposition to their mar riage, and what seemed to them their dark prospects, until death seemed pre ferable to life. Their journey to this cijty Sunday night, and the tragedy which will un doubtedly result in the death of both, was the result. From the train they went direct to the National hotel. When safely looked in their room, preparations for death seemed to have been immediately begun. The men who broke into their room found both bodies lying across the bed, both dressed as the young people had come in from the street. Their hats lay side by side -on the table, together with the notes stating their determination to die, and requesting that their bodies be buried together. A BAD MAN'S CRIME. Without Any Provocation Shot and Wounded His Daughter. Columbia, Mo., Sept. 1. A brutal and perhaps successful attempt at murder occurred here last night at the home of John Hunt, who has borne a bad reputation for years. Hunt went home drunk and in an ugly mood. His daughter came from the house to meet him. Without provocation Hunt drew a revolver and opened fire on the girl, who, after receiving a bullet in her right side, just above the hip, fled to the house. Hunt then began firing at his wife, who escaped. without injury. The frenzied husband then ran to the stable, mounted a horse and esoaped. Officers captured him some disatnee from town this afternoon. Minnie Hunt, the wounded girl, who is but 17 years of age, is in a serious condition. Killed by the Fall. Pomona, Cal., Sept 1. Mrs. Doctor Theoda Wilkis was thrown out of her buggy -last night, instantly breaking her neck. She was secretary of the local-medical society and a praotioing physioian of repute. Fire Caused by Lightning-. Glen wood, la., Sept, f. The state institute for feeble-minded children burned this morning, involving a loss of $150,000. All the inmates, number ing 100, were rescued. The fire was caused by lightning. .'" Venezuela's Brief. -London, Aug. 31. The first part of Venezuela's brief din the boundary dis pute between that country and Great Britain was issued this evening. Fuss Over a Canine Corpse. ' Baltimore, Sept 2. Dr. Amelia V. Fientje lost her sky terrier, Roy, last week, and as she was very much at tached to the dog, she decided that it should have a fnneral. She had the dog embalmed, and the remains lay in state in her parlor for two days. The coffin was made by her pwn hands, and was a gorgeous affair. The dog's head rested upon a pillow of white orepon edged with lace, and surrounded by flowers. . Crowds visited the place un til the lady had to close the door. The remains were interred yesterday and a tombstone will mark the resting place of the dog in Baltimore cemetery. Decoyed, Murdered and Robbed. Grant's Pass, Or., Sept 2. In formation has been received here from Sheriff Fred Ferguson, of Del Norte county, Cal., that the dead -laody of Charles Perry had been . found in a well in the' old -wagon road between Kerby ville, Or., and Crescent City, Cal. Perry was induced by a man named Nelson to go with him to a sup posed rich placer claim, about twenty miles from Waldo, in the direction of the coast: - He was killed and placed in the well by Nelson, presumably for the little money and jewelry which he had. " A Young Suicide. San Franoisco, Sept. 3. Belle Mein ert, a 19-year-old girl attempted sui cide last night by shooting herself be cause her lover, Joseph Cuneo, said that he no longer cared for her. He is a young carpenter, and promised to visit the pirl last night, but did not do so. Subsequently they met and Cuneo told the girl that he could no longer go with her. She became des perate, and, drawing a revolver, shot herself. Her recovery is doubtful. Killed for Their Money. Chamberlain, Sept. "2. Two Mexi cans who have been near this city for ome time engaged in the manufacture of a enrious sort of beverage from the common cactus, the secret of - which was only known to themselves, have suddenly disappeared. Their oabin was found burned to the ground, and as they are reputed to have bad con siderable money, it is believed they were foully dealt with. A Shower of Crickets. San Rafael, Sept. 1. At 9 o'clock this evening, the residents of this place were astonished by a shower of crick ets, which fell in all parts of the ctiy. On the courthonse square, particularly, they could be noticed as on the concrete it appeared as if a coat of blaok paint had been placed there. After they had fallen they climbed np the side of buildings and many of them entered residences through open windows. Professor Cole Drowned. Toledo, O., Sept 1 Professor Ed ward Cole, an aeronaut of this city, was drowned in Manmee bay this af ternoon, after an ascension. His com panion, who was billed as Josie Car mel, was saved by ar life-preserver. The balloon rose from the Casino, on the bay front, and was about three miles out when the tragedy happened. Newcastle Strike Ended. San Francisco, Aug. 31. The great Newcastle coal strike is ended. The decision of the strikers, acoording to Australian mail advices received, was made July 21, when a majority of the lodges decided to accept the master's terms. The miners appeal to have sub mitted to the inevitable, and at last accounts work was being fully re sumed. AT GRANT'S TOMB. How Viceroy 1.1 Huns; Chang; Passed the Day. - New York, Sept 1. Li Hung Chang ppent today quietly at the Waldorf. In the morning he reoeived his old friend, Colonel Foster, and afterwards a dele gation of Mott street -merchants paid their respects to the viceroy. In the afternoon Li Hnng Chang visited Grant's tomb, on whioh he laid a wreath of flowers, winding up the day by a visit to the house of Colonel Fred Grant, where he had tea and remained for an hour. ; Li Hung Chang will leave tomorrow, on the dispatch boat Dolphin, for West Point He will be accompanied by the members of his retinue and the officers of the United States government, who are attending him during his stay in this country. THE LEADVILLE STRIKE. Has Air ad y Lost Two Million Dollars and Settlement Not in Sight. : Leadville, Colo., Sept 1. This is the seventy-fifth day of the strike, and marks the inception of. the most import ant action taken on either side, as for the first time since long before the strike began, the great pumps in two of the leading mines, the Bonair and Penrose, are idle. The order for stop page came yesterday afternoon and was obeyed at once. The movement means that the mine-owners hope to force the nnion to declare the strike off, or that they think to avoid trouble by closing down on everytihng and allowing the mines to fill with water, rather than submit to the -dictation of the union. The strike has already cost 13,000,000, and there is nothing to indicate that it is any nearer settlement than on the day it began. r Denver, Sept 1. Ivy Baldwin, the well-known balloonist, was seriously hurt late this afternoon by falling from his balloon. Baldwin has been making weekly ascensions and parachute jumps, and today the wind carried him into a tree. - His arm was broken, and he could not retain bold on the bar. He fell about eighty feet His right arm was broken in two places, his shoulder dislocated and he was badly braised about the boad. It is believed that he will recover. THE FALL OF TURKEY Sultan's Government on the Eve of an Overturning. THE MOTS AT CONSTANTINOPLE! Intended as a Demonstration Against the Powers for Their Kegleot of the Armenians London, Aug. 31. A dispatch from Rome says that private letters just re oeievd from Constantinople, say that the Turkish government is on the eve of beins overturned, and that a rrovi- uonal government will be appointed. The Constantinople Riots. Constantinople, - Aug. 31. When the Armenians seized the Ottoman bank, on Wednesday last, Edgar Vin oent and some of the other directors es oaped to the roof, and when the the troops arrived, the latter fired haphaz zard at everybody appearing at the windows. Thus several clerks who were trying to escape were killed. While the fighting was proceeding, hundreds of Mussulmans, armed with ondgels and led by the Sottas gathered in groups, overran the quarter and killed or ' assaulted all the Armenians they met The scene resembled the riots of September, 1895. Several shops in the Galatia were plundered and panio spread over the whole city, and especially in the Pera quarter, where two bombs were thrown into the midst of a group of soldiers, several of whom were wounded. The people gen erally were afraid to venture into the streets. The officials of the British postoffipe were virtually prisoners until night, and the mail was not dispatched. It also appears that while the Otto man bask was being attacked, circu lars were delivered at the different em bassies, signed by the Armenian revo lutionary committee, deolaring that they intended to seize the bank and hold it for two days, during which they wanted the powers to aotively in tervene in the settlement of the Arme nian question and adding that if the authorities tried to recapture the bank, they would blow it np with dynamite. They later made a statement saying that they held as hostages a number of the employes of the bank, and that they had seized the bank in order to demonstrate, not against the Turks, nor the bank, but against the powers, who had abandoned the Armenians. They had selected the bank as the most favorable place, and' expressed their willingness to surrender, provided they were allowed to retain their revolvers, while yielding up the bombs in their possession, and receiving safe oonduot out of the country. Theso terms were agreed upon and the Armenians sur rendered last night and were conveyed on board the yacht Gulnare. ITS GLORY HAD DEPARTED. The Jackson Park Statue Republic" Destroyed by Fire. Chicago, Aug. 31. At an early hour this morning the statue "Repub lic," which stood at the head of the grand basin in Jackson Park during the Columbian exposition, was burned by order of the South Park commis sioners. The figure cost about $25,000, end was 60 feet high, Blinding on a pedestal forty feet in height The oost of gilding the figure, whioh was made of staff, was about $3,000. When the fair grounds were scourg ed by fire, which destroyed some of the huge buildings, and swept away in a night those features familiar to sight Beers, during the exposition, "Repub lic" stood as if defying that element of ruin. The stacute, that of a woman, stood with uplifted arms. In her right hand she held a sphere surmount ed by an eagle. The left hand sup ported a staff surmounted by a liberty cap. The commissioners were loth to give the order for her destruction, and with held it until the improvements in the park made it necessary either to re move the statue or to put it in a condi tion in keeping' with the beauty of the park. Several plans were offered by which the statue might be preserved, but none met with the approval of the majority, and so her death warrant was sealed. Daniel French, the sculptor of this colossal world's fair ornament, was born in Cambridge, Mass., but of late years has made his regular home in New York. Victory for Wheelmen. San Francisco, Aug. 81. A victory has been won by the local knights of the silent steed. Wheelmen's present privileges on trains ; on the Southern Pacific are not to be restricted on and after the 1st of September, and wheels will oontinue to be carried without oharge to all points within a radius of fifty miles from San Francisco as here tofore. This at least will be the case for some time to oome.for Traffic Man ager Stubbs, of the Southern Pacific, stated that the order instructing agents to collect charges on wheels transport ed from one station to another on the linoa nf thn nnmnanv wanld hfl re- I soinded before Tuesday next, the day on which it was ordained it should go into effect . Mew Cuban Bank Bills. Havana, Aug. 81. The official ga rotte will publish shortly a decree making the circulation of the new bank bills compulsory throughout Cuba, and the king's attorney will 1 severely indict any person contravening its decree. - A circular will also be is 1 sued announcing that no objections : will be made to the circulation of the new bills in mercantile transactions. I Secret military orders will also be I issued to the same end.. A