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WEEKLY, UNION Eatafc. Jmlr. 1W7. GAZBTTE Eatafc. Dec, IMS. (Consolidated Feb. 1899. eOBVALLIS, BENTON COUNTY, OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1301. VOL. XXX VIII. NO. 34. EVENTS OF THE DAY FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS THE WORLD. OF A Comprehensive Review of the Important Happenings of the Past Week Presented in a Condensed Form Which Is Most Likely to Prove of Interest to Our Many Readers. Turkey has given, in to the demands of France. Colombia has severed relations with Venezuela. Flour and cereals will be on the Chinese free list. The plants of the Carnegie group are still working. New York police methods are to be investigated again. A Cotton Belt train was wrecked in Arkansas and two men killed.. Great forest fires are raging along the coast of British Columbia. Fourteen thousand steel workers obeyed Shaffer's general strike order. Eastern wheat market is booming on the strength of unfavorable crop reports. Lipton's yachtmen believe the Co- lumbia is a better boat than the Con stitution. A freight locomotive on the Denver A Rio Grande exploded, killing the engineer and fireman. Germany and France are both after American islands of great stragetic value lying just north of Cuba. Rear Admiral Johnson has been selected by the navy departmr nt to succeed Admiral Sampson, in com mand of the Boston navy yard, when the latter retires. Ex-Premier Crispi is dead at Naples. The United Mineworkers indorsed the steel strike. Forest fires are beginning in West em Washington. Another Negro was burned at the take in the South. Steel workers in Western mills of the trust refused to strike. Engagements with insurgents were fought recently near Panama. Business men of ban Francisco are " working bard to end the strike. Civil government will be established in northern rhilippine provinces. The funeral service over the late Empress Frederick occurred at Cron- breg. The Phiippine commission granted $25,000 to each rinderpest stricken province. Shamrock II has arrived at Sandy Hook, after a 14 days' passage across the ocean. . , John Winters, the man under ar rest, has confessed to the robbery of the Selby smelter. Admiral Evans was censured by the navy . department because of state ments in his book. Governor Taft, of the Philippines, says tariff legislation is necessary to develop the islands. - An attempt was made by Boer sym pathizers to blow up a British trans port at .New Orleans. The steel trust is preparing to start up its idle mills. Another Negro was burned at the stake by an Alabama mob. - Thousands were drowned by the overflowing of the Yangtse river. Police working on the Selby smelter robbery have made one arrest on sus picion. 1 . : The gunboat Machias has been or- . dered to Colon to protect American interests. . The German army has been ordered to go into, mourning for six weeks for the late empress. France has warned Turkey that the porte must settle claims or i ranee a minister will be recalled. Foreign men on warships'of Colom bia quit and have left the country, being afraid of being murdered. Patterson, N. J., anarchists will produce a play depicting the tragedy connected with the assassination of Humbert I, of Italy. A bad wreck was caused on the Great Northern in Washington burnt tree fell across the track, wreck ing the engine and killing the en gineer. Several others were injured Two hundred sand teamsters at San Francisco, have joined the strikers. Admiral Howison will be the third member of the Schley court of in quiry. Governor Gage will be asked to mediate between the contestants in the San Francisco strike. St. Paul '8 cathedral, in London, is settling from the vibrations caused by passing underground trains. . Thirty Turks were killed in a bat tle between Bulgarian bandits and Turkish government troops. , Colorado leads all the states in the production of both gold and silver'. English opponents- of ostentation at funerals will extend their propa ganda to the United States. . The United States will not prevent Cuba assuming payment of bonds is sued by the New York junta. : Lord Pauncefote's talk about a new canal treaty is taken to mean that England will make concessions to ad just differences. PUTTING DOWN REBELLION. Annual Report of General MacArthur on the Philippine Situation. WASHINGTON, Aug. 12. The an nual report of Major-General Mac Arthur, dated July 4, 1901, the day he relinquished command of the division of the Philippines, has been received at the .War Department. The period covered by the report la from Oc tober 1, 1900, when the last report from General MacArthur was dated. He reviews the, policy of the Fili pinos that were hostile to the Ameri cans, saying that their action since the practical collapse of the insur rection has been a perplexing prob lem. With the disbandment of the insurgent field armies, the Filipinos organized desperate resistance 'by banding the people together in sup port of the guerrillas. This was car ried -out by means of secret commit tees, who collected contributions, in flicted punishments and carried on a considerable opposition to the Ameri cans. General MacArthur reviews the manner in which operations were carried on against these guerrillas and says he hopes the policy adopted There is a possibility that in case the trouble between Vene zuela and Colombia breaks out in war one of the war vessels now on Puget Sound' will be sent to Panama. " The- available warships on Puget Sound are the Oregon and the Iowa. The Oregon is at Puget Sound navy yard and the Iowa at Anacortes. The Wisconsin is also at the Puget Sound yard, but is not in shape for active service. If but one battleship is sent to Panama it will be the Iowa, owing to the need for permanent repairs to the Oregon.-; - will in time conciliate the natives and make them friendly to the United States. The education of the people in times past made them susnicious of any governmental beneflclence, and they evidently looked on the lenient attitude of the United States as in dicating-weakness.--- -General -Mac-Arthur says the proclamation issued on December 21, firmly declaring the intention of the United States to hold the island and to have the laws obeyed, had a good effect, and the sec ret resistance was much abated. A - considerable portion of the re port is devoted to the field operations of the army, showing that October 1, 1900, it occupied . 413 stations, which was of necessity increased to 502 sta tions, every command being in con tact with some hostile force. . He speaks of the good service of the army and says, as a result of the co operation between the army and the people who have accepted the Invi tation to combine for mutual protec tion, the armed insurrection is almost suppressed. PLOT AGAINST KING EDWARD. Anarchists Intended to Assassinate Him at Friederichshof. ' NEW YORK, Aug. 12. Says the London correspondent of the Tribune: Rumors are current that, the rea son why the departure from London for Germany of King Edward and other royal mourners has been de layed was that the . German police authorities had received information of a plot which the anarchists had intended to put into execution at Friedrichshof. It is certainly some what significant that even now the exact hour of the King's departure has not been .made known. However, it is known that preparations for his departure are complete. 'Accompanied by Queen Alexandra and Princess Victoria, he will leave London to morrow evening and reach Cronberg. in time to be present at the memorial service which is to be held there Sun day. - ; Boers Captured a British Post LONDON, Aug. 12. Lord Kitch ener, in a dispatch from Pretoria, an nounces that a post of 25 men, be longing to Steynacker's Horse on the Sabi River, has been surprised and captured by the Boers. Lord Kitchener reports also the surrender at Warmbaths of Com mandant Devilleres, who was second in command to Selers. Russia After the Jews . ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 12. The government will hereafter limit the number of Jewish students in Russian universities to 3 per cent of the total number of students, except in the University of Moscow, where they are entirely prohibited. . . Contribution from a Soldier. WASHINGTON, - Aug. 12. Secre- tary Gage has received from a sol dier in the Philippines a contribution of $270. The money was sent Father Conaty, rector of the Catholic University, for transmission to Secretary. .1- tun Death Sentence AnnrAvftd. ..rr wAsniiNiiiuiM, Aug. iz. For the iirot umc mute jL,ue uutureaK or tne SnanlRh war trt,1,w Wm.i l.J approved the death sentence T tZl case of an enlisted man. The case is that of Private Phineas Foutz, Com- pany rs., nmeieenm lmantry. This K, soldier was convicted by a general court-martial at Cebu. P. I., for the murder of Geneviva Torres, a native Filipino girl, by ' tabbing her . to death with a sword cane in her home at Mandaue, Cebu, November 15, 1900. NEWS OF THE STATE ITEM 3 OF INTEREST FROM ALL " PARTS OF OREGON. Commercial and Financial Happenings of im portance A Brief Review of the Growth J and Improvements of the Many Industries Throughout Our Thriving Commonwealth Latest Market Report Cherries are just coming to' market around Enterprise, Wallowa county. A street fair promoter is in Eugene trying to work up a carnival there for September. ..,'"". There are five Ed Millers in Baker City, and each gets the mail of all the others, so it is said. Between hot weather and harvest the valley towns are almost deserted and business is very dull. - It is estimated that 1,000,000 pounds of prunes will be dried in the icimty of Dallas this fall. A big prairie fire raged at Ella, in Morrow county, caused by small boys playing with matches. It burned several sections of bunchgrass. A submarine diver has been engag ed for about two months in placing blasts to blow up a reef outside the entrance to the Umpqua harbor. Rabbit killing is the leading sport now around. Paisley, Lake county. The pests are thick and do damage, when able, in the - grain and alfalfa fields. There is no apparent scarcity of harvest hands in the Weston neigh borhood ; neither is there a surplus, and those in search of work are not disappointed. - -. W. H. Brummond, - of Connell, Grant county recently killed two coy otes with one rifle shot. One . of the varhnnts was standing 10 feet to one side of the one he aimed at. Grasshoppers are present in great numbers on both Birch creeks, abov,e Pilot rock, in Umatilla county, and are doing considerable damage both to gram and gardens, the latter par ticularly. Great activity is reported -in the Galice mining district, 25 miles ' west of Grants Pass. Quartz mines are working steadily and placer? are pre paring for the work of next season More miners and prospectors are now at work than at any time for 15 years. A big natatorium has been finished at Baker City, with two large tanks, 30x90 and 15x30 feet.' Buyers are offering Hood River apple growers $1.25 a box for apples, to be delivered in the fall. A rattlesnake was killed near Ash land rceently. It measured seven feet one inch in length and had 27 rattles. A German farmer residing on the Necanicum is reported to have disco v ered a three foot vein of gold bearing quartz. . - . ; Douglas county growers are already looking tor labor to pick their prunes, w ages to De paid are not . yet an nounced. Threshing machine operators of the Powder valley have formed a thresh ers union, and hxed the Duces to be paid for this .work. . -V A large gray timber wolf, of the genuine tpye, was killed near Elgin recently. It- measured 65. inches from tip to tip and. 38 in height. Portland Markets.'; - Wheat Walla Walla, export value, 000bc per bushel jbluestem, 5758c valley, nominal. v - Flour best grades, $2.903.40 per barrel; granam, iZ.bU. Oats $1.151.20 pef cental. Barley Feed, $16 16.50; brewing, aj.o.au(gr per ton. . Millstuffs Bran, $27 per ton : mid dlings, $21.50; shorts, $20; chop, $16. Hay Timothy, $1113; clover. $79.50; Oregon wild hay, $56 pe: ton. " . Butter Fancy cream ery. 17 4 20c oairy, ia(gioc$ ; store, ii(gizc per pound. - . - , - Eggs 17c per dozen. Cheese Full cream, twins. 11 llc; Young America," 1212)c per pouna. - Poultry Chickens.'mixed, $3.00(5 3.75 ; hens, $3.754.75 ; dressed. 10a 11c per pound; springs, $2.504.0C per dozen ; ducks, . S3 for old ; -42 51 3.50 for young; geese; $44 50 per aozen; turkeys, live,- ogiuc; dressed, iuizc per pound. - juunon janms, 3c, gross dressed, b7c per pound; sheep, 3.2o, gross; uresseu, bo3c per lb. Hogs Gross, heavy, $5.756 ugut, t.ii)(ga; uressea, ofcg c per pouna. - Veal Small. 89c; large, 7ic per pound. ; " Beef Gross top steers, $3.50(34.00 cows and heifers, $3. 25 3. 50; dressed beet, 647ic per pound. Hops 12al4c per pound. - Wool Valley, 11(313 c : Eastern nAn Q101. 1 : OAaOI. i viuii. uvis "72u , uiuutur. ajwjiiic Tier I . . pouna. Potatoes 90c$1.00 per sack. . '' ;.' rti .i.- . senator vtaxK, oi Montana, owns about 40 gold silver, and copper mines - a -; -t i. t j i-t A. P?ie oi that expands like ! f'. discovered -i i-"""-" " . Andrew Carnegie "has offered the , citv Of Portsmouth.- O.: 850.000 for public library. It has been judicially decided that women who pay rent directly to landlord in Toronto are . entitled t rote for aldermen. RUSHED A BLOCKHOUSE. Captured by Boers After Sever Fighting Dewet Intends to Attack Cape Town. London, Aug. 13. A dispatch from Lord Kitchener, dated Pretoria, says: A blockhouse near Bradfort, Orange River colony, was rushed and aptured by the Boers, after severe fighting, the night of August 7. Elliot has captured 70 prisoners and; large quantities of stock and wagons, which he is sending in. No detail? have been received." Mail dispatches ; from Lord Kitch ener issued today in a parliamentary paper, say his constant endeavor is to improve the fortifications along the mes of communications, thus re leasing men from active service. The garrisons off the railways have mostly been withdrawn. ;- - - Lord Kitchener received certain in formation that Dewet intends to at' tack Cape Town, while General Botha, soon as he hears that the concen tration in Cape Colony is effected, is enter Natal with 5,000 picked horsemen and make for Durban. IOWA MAY GO SOUTH. Will Prob&bly Be Substituted for the Wis. consin at Panama. , Washington, Aug. 13. The state department was without additional information today concerning the Venezuela-Colombia situation, or of the revolutionary outbreak on the Isthmus. - These two troubles are dis tinct, one being on the west and the other on the east coast of Colombia. The Ranger, which has been ordered to get in readiness at San Diego, Cal., for a trip to Panama, is a small cruis er of 1,020 tons displacement, and has been engaged for sortie time past in survey work on the Pacific coast and in Ccmtral American; waters. It is possible that her services at the' seat of trouble will suffice and that a bat tle ship will not be - needed to make the long trip from the.; north. The Ranger has a main battery of six four- lncn rapid-nre guns and a secondary battery of four six-pounders and a Colt gun.' v; She has a complement of 21 officers and 127 men, As the battleship Iowa has report-; ed her arrival at Bremerton, while the Winconsin has not yet been heard trom, it is probable th-t the former may be substituted foi the prospect ive trip to the Pacific side of the Isth mus, if it is decided to send a battle ship, although the formal announce ment of the - change has not yet been made. -.-.-. s- ' TRAFFIC BECOMING UNSAFE. Pressure is Bein Sroueht to Bear on the Panama Railroad Company. NEW YORK, Aug. 12. F. A. Drake, secretary of the Panama Railroad Company, says that the cammunica- j tion which J. Edward Simmons, pres. ident of the c6mpany sent -to the State Department suggesting that an American warship go to the Pacifio side at Panama, as well as to the At lantic side at Colon, was sent largely as the result of the. pressure which residents of the isthmus have brought to bear on the company. Since Wednesday night .officers of the com pany, in New York have received mail advices from the isthmus showing in creased activity on the part of the insurgents in the shape of depreda tions by bands of from . 40 to 60 guerrillas, who have raided outlying towns, looting- property and captur ing citizens for ransom. . Traffic, however, even 1n the ab sence of any - reported depredations along the railroad line, is clearly tend ing, in the opinion of the officers, to become unsafe and the significance of the movements of the rebels, they think, it that it appears to be a re vival of the insurrection that was supposed to have been - suppressed last year. ' . Storms on the Southern Border. Tucson, Ariz., Aug. 13. - Rain storms continue to rage in Southeast ern Arizona and Northern Sonora. The road from Benson to Guaymas w is badly washed out last night and this afternoon again,. stopping trains. A hurricane ram storm visited Tucson this afternoon, totally destroying the gas works, - leaving the city without light. Several large smokestacks and buildings were blown down and a large number of trees destroyed." The destruction is considerable. . Anarchist Play Prohibited. NEW YORK, Aug. 12. Mayor Hin cliffe, of Patterson; N. J., has issued orders to the - ' Right of Existence" group of anarchists that he will not permit the performance in the city of the advertised play depicting the murder of King Humbert. The Mayor says he will, in future, take steps to prevent meeting of anarchists such as .the one held recently to glorify Brescl. . .- ;v.; : German Punitive Expedition. : BRISBANE. Queensland, Aug. 12. The German punitive expedition sent to avenge the massacre of Dr. Menc ken and other members of the first German South Sea expedition on the cannibal Island of St. Matheas, land ed from the German crulser.Cormor ant, near the scene of the massacre killed 80 natives and captured 17. Damaged in a Collision. . . Iiondon, Aug. 13.? A dispatch from Nasasaki says the British ' steamer Ching Wo, from Seattle July 21 , for London, is at Nagasaki with a hole in her port bow, her ' bridge damaged. and with the loss of her anchor --and 105 fathoms of chain, c Repairs will be made temporarily in a few days. The injuries were sustained in a col lision with the JHoyoKu filaru, wbicn was also damaged. - WILL AID STRIKERS AMERICAN FEDERATION OF LA. BOR PLEDGES SUPPORT. Steel Trust Makes an Important Move by Or dering Its Five-Mlllion-Doll.r Plant at McKeesport to be Torn Down and Re moved to the Kiskimlnetas Valley Men Are Undaunted. PITTSBURG, Aug. 12. There were gravely' important developments in the strike situation today. The United States Steel Corporation moved de cisively in its strike campaign, with a peremptory order directing that the Dewees-Wood plant, at McKeesport, he dismantled and removed to Kis kimlnetas Valley. President Gom pers, of the American Federation of Labor, after a two days' conference wim president tmaner and his asso ciates, issued a formal statement to night, specifically holding the Feder ation to the moral and financial supt port of the Amalgamated. His 'writ ten review of the tram . of events leading up to the Industrial quarrel sustains the course of the Amalga mated Association, and declares that nothing remains for labor but to bat tle for the- cause of unionism. The official announcement of the order to dismantle the Dewees-Wood plant came this afternoon toward the close of an otherwise uneventful day, and its importance was such that it claimed the, serious consideration of either side of the great . industrial conflict now being waged here. Per sifer F. Smith, district manager of the American Sheet Steel Company, made the formal announcement in the following statement: "I have orders from President Mc Murtric, of the American Sheet Steel Company, to at once tear down the Dewees-Wood plant at McKeesport and remove the same to Kiskimlnetas Valley: Tnls I shall proceed to do immediately." , The publication of the order was a great surprise and McKeesport re ceived it at first with doubt. Actual preparations were made later in tne day for the dismantling of the plant,' and there u little doubt but that it will be torn down. The strikers heard the order in a spirit of defiance. They simply sail that it showed the steel corporation was convinced that it could not reopen the plant in the face of the opposition of the Amalgamated Association. Strike leaders here said that the order was a bluff that had been worked unsuccessfully before. and declined tb take it seriously. President Shaffer refused to discuss the matter. . - - - . The steel officials declined to give any reason for the order, but it is stated here that the pronounced sym pathy of citizens and city officials at McKeesport with the strikers Is re sponsible for it. It is also said that the plant of the National Tube Corn pan at McKeesport will be ab doned and the old Carnegie plan for a tube plant at Coaneaut, - O., re vived. - , Gt iroers Pledges Support President Gompers, of the American Federation of Labor, wav closeted with the advisory board of the Amal gamated Association for more than three hours. This evening he gave out the following statement: Since the arrival of Secretary Mor rison, of the American Federation of Labor, and myself, we have been in almost continual conference with the advisory board of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers. - We made a thorough in vestigation of the present strike, of the causes which led to the strike, the present situation of the country. and we unhesitatingly declare our judgment that the position of the Amalgamated Association is absolute ly justified and essential to its con tinuance and effectiveness as a union of the workers in the trade, as well as the protection of the rights and in terests of its.membars. Organized labor advances or re cedes, never stands still, r It, there fore.' follows -that if the trust, by its great wea'.th, can prevent the exten sion and growth of the Amalgamated Association, it encompasses its dis integration and destruction. The only powers then standing between the trust and the workers as a protector are the tender mercies of its directors. Against such a calamity the sense of justice and humanity revolt,, and against it we solemnly protest -"We shall stand by the Amalga mated Association in the present con flict to the fuT extent of our power, both morally and financially; we shall aid in every lawful way the men on strike or who may come out on strike to maintain the workers in th i' r! ht to organize and the extent ion of their organization. , : " - . - Philippine Imports of Silk. WASHINGTON, Aug. -12. A : com parative statement giving the Imports of silk manufactures in the : Philip pines during the years of 1898, 1899 and 1900 has been prepared in the Division of Insular Affairs of the War Department. -The total imports of manufacturers of silk into the Phil ionines during the rear 1900 amount ed to S385.984. as 8 gainst $183,000 for 1899, an increase in favor of 1900 of 111 ner cent. The imports of this commodity from the United States, while comparatively small, increased from 361 in 1899 to $1,140 in 1900, " KruCer's Mental Condition. LONDON. Aug. 12. A special dis patch from Rotterdam says the men tal condition of Mr. Kxuser is arous ing serious apprehension. -A special ist in nervous diseases has bee i sum moned by telegraph from Berlin. - i v ' Drouth m Russia. .; - - ; ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 12. The continued drouth has extended the area of crop damage, which includes the Baltic provinces. ; In the West Siberia and Volga provinces, an al most total crop failure is expected. OBEYED BY 14,000. Answer to Shaffer's General Strike Order- Sixty Thousand Men Now Out Pittsburg, Aug. 14. The strueele for mastery between manufacturers and men in the steel strike is now fairly launched, and on the first show of strength advantage is with the former. The general strike order issued by President Shaffer, of the Amalgamated Association, has so far been obeyed by only about 14.000 men, according to the best figures ob tainable nere. The brst two calls were answered by about 45,000 men, so that the total "number now out is in the neighborhood of 60,000. The strikers made gain) here today over the showing of last night, and their prospects for further accessions at both McKeesport and Wheeling dur ing the week are very favorable. The action of the Amalgamated men at Chicago, Joilet and Bayview in re fusing to come out, and their failure to secure any recruits in the Carnegie group throughout the Kiskiminetas valley, and in the big plants at Youngstown and Columbus, O., have been marked . by disappoitment to them. They are keeninir ud the fight, however, in a spirited manner, and claim that they have strength in reserve which will surprise their op ponents. They assert that they have gained a foothold in the Carnegie mills in this city, and at the time de sired the men will come out. They are pressing their advantage at Mc Keesport and Wheeling and their or ganizers are still at work in those towns. President Shaffer has decided to visit Wheeling, and will address a mass meeting of his followers. He plans to spend tomorrow here direct ing the fight and conferring with his associates as to plans for the future. An appeal for financial aid has been made to organized labor and to the general public, and it is expected the responses to it will be liberal. CHINESE ON THE ISTHMUS. United States Consul Gudger Them.- Will Protect Colon, Colombia, via Galveston, Aug 13. United States Consul Gen eral Hezekiah A. Gudger has publicly notified the Chinese that they are en titled to the protection of the United States consulate. He draws attention to the - acts of violence committed against them in the recent insurgent raid along the railroad line, and ex presses the hope that their rights as loreigners will in future be recognized and respected. . ' Washington, Aug. 13.--In assnnng tne Chinese on the isthmus that they are entitled to the protection of the United States consulate, Consul Gen eral Gudger is, in all probability, act ing simply as a matter of comity to citizens of China, resident there. There being no traety between Colom bia and China, the latter has no dip lomatic or consular representative in that country. Several years ago the Chinese requested that the United States officers be authorized to look out for the interests of Chinese resi dents on the isthmus, and Consul General Gudger is doubtless, acting in accordance with that precept. THE CUBAN PRESIDENCY. General Gomez Suggests the Names of Palma and Masso. Havana, Aug. 14. General Maxi mo Gome has addressed a letter to the local committee of the National party, in Havana, declining to be a candi date for the presidency of Cuba, and suggesting the name of Senor Estrada Palma and Senor Masso as the best selections that could be made for the presidency and vice presidency. Let all Cubans agree upon this important matter, " says General Go mez ' in his communication, "and Cuba will have a strong and stable government, entirely fitted to deal with the external relations in which Cuba will have to exist as a republic." ; A movement backed by a number of revolutionary generals was started some time go to endeavor to make Senor Palma the unanimous choice of the people for -president. It is asserted that thus far Masso has de clined to fall in with the plan as sug gested by Gomez, as he relies upon the Negro vote to elect him president: Kruger Intends to Come. BRUSSELS, Aug. 12. Mr. Kruger has received at Halversum a repre sentative of the Holland Society of Chicago. HS confirmed the. rumor of his intention to visit - the United States, but said he had not yet fixed the date on account : of possible events in Europe. . Death of Premier Christe. Naples, Aug. 14. Signor ' Crispi died at 7 :45 O'clock last evening. : He was surrounded by the members of bis familv and several intimate friends. -. - The news was immediately tele graphed to King Emmanuel and Queen Helena. TThe evening papers assert that the body will be conveyed to Palermo, where the municipality will arrange for a great public funeral. It is rumored that Signor Crispi's will authorizes a prominent Italian politician to examine his papers and to publish his memoirs. "T , ' Bomb Outrage '.. at Troys. y Pan, Aug. 1. A bomb was ex ploded this afternoon near the alter of the Church of St. Nizier at Troys, doing considerable damage to the 13th century windows, but , not . injuring any of the 100 children who, together with a priest, were in the sacred edi fice at the time. A Spaniard has been arrested on suspicion of being the author of the outrage. WAR MAY RESULT COLOMBIAN LEGATION LEAVE8 VENEZUELAN CAPITAL. United States is Asked to Try and Avert th Conflict by Taking Sides with Colombia Mr. Russell, of Caracas, will Represent the Colombian Government During the Trouble Battleship Iowa will Go. Willemstad, Aug. 14. The Colom bian legation left Caracas today. ' This Would Please Colombians. Panama, Colombia, Aug. 14. The editorial of the New York Herald urg ing the United States to end the con flict by taking sides with Colombia against Venezuela, has caused great enthusiasm here, and will make Americans very popular, as such a step would put an end to the state of ' anarchy existing. Russell's Good Offices. Washington, Aug. 14. The state department has authorized Mr. Bus sell, the American charge d'affairs at Caracas, Venezuela, to use his good offices for Colombia in case the Co lombian minister at the Venezuelan capital leaves that country. Mr. Russell telegraphed last week, seek ing information as to his course of action in case of the withdrawal of the Colombian minister, which ap parently was in contemplation at that time. The state department has no information as to whether Mr. Bussell is fulfilling this temporary duty. There have been no additional developments as to the situation on the Isthmus of Panama, where the trouble is far removed from that along the Venezuelan border. Consul General Gudger's course in looking after the interests of Chinese along the Isthmus is not in pursuance of any specfic instructions from Wash ington, but follows a procedure estab lished 12 years ago in connection with points at which the Chinese were entirely without official repre sentation. The navy department h&a now de finitely determined to make use of the battleship Iowa instead of the Wis consin on tne racihe side of the Isthmus in case affairs become ser ious there. The Iowa is the flagship of. the . Pacific station, and as such flies the flag of Rear Admiral Silas Casey. At last reports received here the admiral was on board the Iowa, - but it is hardly probable that he will proceed further south than San Francisco. The gunboat Machias has reached Norfolk, and will probably sail for Colon tomorrow morning. MUCH GOLD RECOVERED. Selby Pec pie Have Dug Up All But $80,000 of Stolen Treasure. San Francisco, Aug. 14. It was rated at the office of the Splhv j Smelting Company at noon that a force of divers, under the manage ment of the Pinkertons, had today taken $65,000 worth of gold from the spot where it was hidden by Winters, making nearly $200,000 already re covered. . It is expected that the balance of the stolen treasure, amount ing to $80,000, will be recovered in side of 24 hours. Winters is still detained by the officers in this city, but has not been formally charged with the crime. The fact that he has not been charged with any crime lends additional weight to the belief that he will be leniently dealt with for confessing the crime and locating the spot where he secreted the bullion. There promises to be a lively fight between the detectives over the re ward money, and this matter may eventually be taken into couit for settlement. - Detective Morse, who, it is stated, definitely fixed upon Winters the authorship of the crime, states that he got his first informa tion from Donaldson, an employe of the works, who formerly roomed with Winters. Morse, who is a detective for the Selby people, does not claim any of the reward, but states that a large portion of it should be divided tietween Donaldson and Sheriff Veale, of Contra Costa county. Their claims are opposed by the other detectives engaged in the case. Admiral Sampson's Successor. " Washington, Aug. 14. Having in view the possibility of the applica tion of Admiral W. T. Sampson for relief from duty as commandant of the Boston navy yard, pending his re tirement, the navy departmment offi cials have selected an officer for as signment to that duty. The admiral has been in delicate health for some time and it would not surprise the officials here should he seek an early relief from duty. Endorsed the Steel Strike. " New York, Aug. 14. The Build ing Trades.' r Council, 'the House smiths' Upion and the Bridgemen's Union Of this city has adopted reso-. lutionp pledging the moral and finan cial Blip port of the oragnizations to the 8teelwrjrke8.- It was also decided to refuse Whahdle all products of the United' Steel 'Corporation which have been manufactured since the strike was declared.