CURRENT FAINTS OF THE WEEK Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. General Relume of Important Event* Preaented in Condenaed Form for Our Busy Reader*. The Standard Oil company already has it* plans outlined for reorgraniza- tion. Mrs. E. H. Harriman and son will spend a month hunting and fishing in Idaho. Striking Mexican miners at El Oro were fired upon by troops and nine of them killed and over 30 wounded. The Southern Pacific has authorized the immediate construction of a rail road from Eugene to Coos Bay. Ore. Two boys, aged 11 and 7 years, have started to ride on horseback from New York to the Pacific Coast in 60 days riding. A village marshal of Harlem. Mont., killed one robber and put two to flight when they attempted to rob the bank at that place. Six’ German 'soldiers were found on the French frontier, where they had cut the telegraph wires and broken down several poles. Abilene. Tex., was swept by a wind and hail storm, which killed two per sons and injured many, and damaged •very building in the town. Cotton mills in South Carolina have closed down on account of low water in the streams supplying power, and 70,000 operatives are out of work. Fire in an asylum at Hamilton, On tario. destroyed a large part of the institution, and only great bravery on the part of the attendants prevented loss of life. Plans are being made for the re organization of the American Tobac co Company. All passengers were removed by two Japanese cruisers. The «hip may be saved. About 1.720 acres of land near Roslyn, Wash., have been withdrawn from entry by the Secretary of the Interior. Drouth in Germany ba* caused a ■harp advance in the 6ugar market. The Canadian Pacific liner Empress of China struck a submerged rock while entering the port Yokohama. A swarm of yellowjackets took possession of a Chicago laundry and had to be destroyed by the fire de partment. A San Francisco woman was shot and robbed by a highwayman while kneeling at the grave of her son in the cemetery. PORTLAND MARKETS. Wheat—New crop: Blueetem, 78c; club, 754» 76c; old crop, bluestem, 90c; club. 80c. Millstuffs—Bran. $24.50@25 per ton; middlings. 132; short»-, 125.50'S 26; rolled barley. $28©29. Corn—Whole, $33; cracked, $34 per ton. Barley—Choice feed, $25.50© 26 per ton. Oats—No. 1 white. $27 per ton. Hay—Timothy, valley, I164>17; al falfa, $11; clover, $8.50© 9; grain hay. $10. Poultry—Hens. 15@15Hc; Springs. 19c; ducks, young. 14c; geese, nom inal; turkevs, 20c; dressed, choice, 25c. Eggs—Fresh Oregon ranch, can died. 26© 27c per dozen. Butter—City creamery extra, 1 and 2-pound print«, in boxes, 28c per pound; less than box lota, cartons and delivery extra. Pork—Fancy, luvxlOtfcc per pound. Veal—Fancy, 12©12>4c p«-r pound. Fresh Fruit*—Cherries. 3© 15c per pound; apricots, $1.25© 1.50 per crate; cantaloupes. $3.25@3.50 per crate; peaches, 75c©$1.50 per crate; watermelons, 1%©2 c per pound; plum«. $1.75 per crate; prunes. $1.75 per box; new apples. $1.75©2 per box; raspberries, $1.75©2; loganber ries. $1.50©1.75; blackcaps, $2 ©2.25; blackberries. $2© 2.25. Vegetables—Beans, 5© 10c; cab bages. $i.5O©2 per hundredweight: corn. 3*1© 40c per dozen; cucumbers, $1'7/1.25 per box: eggplant. 15c per pound; garlic. 10© 12c per pound; lettuce. $1.25© 1.75 per box; pea«, 4 ©5c per pound; peppers, 8©I'-c per pound: radishes, 12 ’4 c per dozen; rhubarb. 2’4© 3c per pound; toma toes. $1©1.75 per box. Sack Vegetable*—New carrots. $1.75 per sack; turnips, $1.75; beets. $1.75. Potatoes—New Oregon, lt4©2c per pound. Onions—Red, $1.75; white, $2 per hundred. Cattle—Choice steers, $5.75© 5.90; good to choice iteeps. $5.35© 5.50; medium steers, $50© 5; common steers, $4© 4.25; choice cows, $4.75 ©5; good to choice cows. $1.50© 5; good, average 1050 lbs., $4.25© 4.50; common cows, $2.75© 3: choice heif ers $4.75© 5; good to choice heifers, $4.50© 4 75; choice bulls. $3 25©3.5O; good to choice hulls. $3©3.25; com mon bulls, $2© 2.25; choice calve«. 200 lbs. and under, $7© 7.25; good to choice calves. $5.50© 6; common calves, $4©5; choice stags, $4 50© 4.75; good to choice stags, $4.25© I Hogs—Extra choice light hoes. $7.25© 7.50; heavy hogs. $6 50©6; heavy rough hogs.$5.50© 6. Sheep—Choice yearling wetfieTS. coarse wool, $3 25© 3.50; choice year ling wethers, east of mountains, $3.25 ©3.50; choice twos and threes. $3© 3.25; choice Spring lambs. $5.25© 5 50; good, choice Spring lambs, $5 ft 5.25; choice killing ewes, $2.7503. MEXICAN STRIKE Miners ANTI-FOREIGN WIDOW AND DAUGHTER Or FINANCIER. WHO WILL 8PEND AUGUST IN IDAHO. Placard Town, Ordering Americans to Leave. El Oro, Mexico The strike anti lockout here, involving 7,500 work men. ha» been discovered to conceal an important movement to drive all for eigners. particularly Americans, from this section. The camp is quiet, after the conflict in which troops fir «si into a mob of striking miners, killing nine and wounding 32 persons. Four hundred Federal soldiers have arrived here to reinforce the 200 troops from Toluca, and it is believed they will be able to preserve order and protect property. The striking miners are congregated about the streets in sullen groups, but apparently are awed by the presence of the troops, and are contenting themselves with harrangueing and jeering the soldiers. In all 7,500 men are idle. The discovery that bribes had been offered for the killing of the mine su- perinetndent and his two assistants caused the management of El Oro mine to declare a practical lockout and ask the Federal government to make a full investigation of the mo tive of the strikers. The demand of the strikers for higher wages is incidental and that their real motive is antagonistic to foreigners, the movement being di rected in particular against Ameri cans. Posters distributed throughout the town order foreigners to leave the camp and declare that the Mexican miners propose to run the mine them selves. Several dynamite bombs have been found in the mines. The first group of miners to declare a strike were at Las Esperanzas mine and they were quickly followed by El Oro and Des Estrellas workmen. The smelters are continuing operations, the surface men refusing to join in the strike. ENTOMBED MINER LIVES. Receive* Food Through Drill and I* Not Worrying. Hole Joplin, Mo. — Entombed 78 feet be low the surface of the earth, facing posible death from the rapidly rising water in the mine drift, Joseph Clary, the young miner caught by a cave-in at the White Oak mine here was feasted on fried chicken and joked with friends who are waiting at the surface for his rescue. The fourth drill hole put down in an attempt to reach his prison penetrated the roof of limestone late Tuesday af ternoon. “Hello,” Maurice Grafton called down the hole when the drill bits had been removed. “Hello; I’m hungry,” came the clear but faint reply. Then Thomas Clary, father of the entombed miner, hurried to his home, where the young man’s mother was prostrated from grief, and told her that the young man was still alive. The news, the doctors say, saved her life. From his home the father, one of the oldest prospectors in the district, hurried back to the mine, carrying milk and stimulants, which were low ered by a piece of rope. After drinking these young Clary- seemed much stronger and remained near the drill hole talking with those at the top. BABY FAMINE LOOMING. Pasadana. Home of Rich Below Quota. People, I* Pasadena. Cal.—This city of mil lionaires and multi-millionaires is fac ing a famine in babies. With a pop ulation of 40,000, only 48 births are the record for July. According to a leading 'physician, the average of a city of this ¡size should be not less than 300 babies, and 500 would be about ¡the right figures. Physicians have been studying the situation, and have gathered data which shows that the birth rate is lower here by far than in any city of similar size in America, though the proportion of marriages is fully up to normal. One hundred and fifty births in a month, last December, are the largest number ever known here. Children are most numerous on the outskirts, where the middle classes live. Panama Chief Threatens. Railroad Bar* Women. Ferry Capsizes, Seven Drown. Massena — Seven passengers were drowned in the St. Lawrence river when the ferry steamer Syrus struck a shoal eight miles below this city, capsizing and hurling its 75 passen gers into the water. Four bodies have been recovered. Say» I* Operation By I LAURIER CALIÏS ’ FOR RECIPROCITY Washington, D. C. Mura land marks of th* Old West will bagin to disappear January I, unless congress should pass legislation to maintain the Western assay offices on their present basis. The government has decided to double the rharg«« for assaying at Deadwood, Carson, Salt Lake, Helens. Boise, and Seattle. Members of con gress from those places protest that increased charges will close the offices because the mining companies will prefer to send their gold to th<> mints, where the assaying charge will not be increased. Treasury officials say the offices ■ have been a dead loss for yesrs. Sc ' attle, they say, does quite a business in assaying gold that comes from 1 Alaska, but ut all others the govern ment loses money. The government established moat i of these offices in the stirring days , when u messenger setting out with a I fortune in his saddle bug often fail«’«) to return, and th«« professional "as sayer” was classed with the can! shar|H-r anil the "gun man." No miner was assured of an honest assay of his treasure. But with the advent of mining ma chinery th«- offices became leas useful because many of the big cotnpaniea I sent their gold direct to the mints. MORGAN WILL BE CALLED. Financier of Steel Trust to on Defensive. Mr«. F. II. Harriman, mt l.efti and MI m < nrnl Harriman, Her l)«ughtrr, at RI* 1$ t. AUX CAYES FALLS. Haytian Rebels Take President Simon’s Home Town. Port Au Prince, Hayti.—The report ed capture of the home town of Pnv* Idcnt Simon, Aux Cave*. 1» a sever* blow to the government, a* It Indi cates that the spirit of discontent Is life in the south a* well aa iu the north. There Is trouble among the revo lutionarv leaden«, however, ami It In ini|a>*s:ble to say now which party will be in control If the capital falls General lx- Conte, who Is In control of Cape Haytien. and Is reported to have sent a force against Gonalves to occupy that town for him s«-ems to be the strongest rebel chief outsole this district. Advices from Port de Pafx. on the northern coast. Indicate uneasiness at that point, ami the American cruiser Chester has gone there from Cape Hayti t-nt. The revolutionist« encompass the capital. General Ix-Conte is at the head of the invading forces. He oc cupied Gonaives Monday and his ad vanced guard reached Archachie ye« FRANCE PREPARES DEFENSES. terdav, and before sunset had come within three miles of the city. I.e Determined to Be Ready If Involved Conte’s candidacy for the Presidency With Germany and England. progressed with his march on the capital, and there was a consequent Pails. — Franco, though outwardly loss of ground by General Firmin. placid, is omitting no precautions. Tlu> army 1« being r«*>rganized and WIRE MAKER FINED $1000. assembled, while statesmen prof«-»» More Sentences Imposed on Charges themselves as sanguine of a peaceful solution. War preparations today In of Restraining Trade. eluded orders to the cavalry to be New York.—Henry A. Hammond, a ready for the field at the tlret signal, director as well as sab* agent for the heavy provisioning of the forts the Wire & Telephone Company of <>n the eastern frontier by special America, pleaded nolo contendere to supply trains run out of Paris at the indictment charging him. like night, and the mustering of all r«-gl other wire manufacturers, with unlaw merits to their full quota. The Cabinet met at Rambouillet ful restraint of trad«. He paid a fine of $1000. today and at the conclusion of Its Judge Archbold also accepted nolo meeting announced the <iecl*!on to contendere pleas and Imposed fines reorganize the army, accompanying of $1000 each in the following case*: the announcement with th«» careful Henry G Stoddard, president and explanation that this action »an oc treasurer of the Trenton Iron Com caaioned by the resignation of Gen pany; J. D. Keith, vice president of eral V. Michel n* Commander In Chief the Phoenix Horseshoe Company of because of differences with his col Illinois, and Samuel H. Robert*, sec leagues over th«- programme of Na retary, and Thomas H. Taylor, assist tional defens«-*. Th« Superior Conn ant sale* agent, of the American ell of War, composed of general« of Steel & Wire Company of New Jer the army, continue*, but th«- Vic«- Presidency. which wa* held by sey. Judge Archbald refused a plea of Michel, will be abolished. A chief nolo contendere under a power of ship of the general staff, carrying attorney offered for John W. Kiser, practically the supreme command In president of the Phoenix Horseshoe time of war. Is creat«*! Instead, and Company of Illinol*. whose attorney General J. J. C. Joffre will be ap said he was on the ocean and not pointed to the latter post. able to appear. Tot Dead, Carmen Mobbed. New York- Three-year-old Morris Chicago.—The American Osteopa Goldberg, weakened by a seven days’ thic Aiisrx-lation now In *ew-lon here, fast, was run over by a trolley car in has issued a challenge to its three front of his home. Two thousand chief opponent* in the medical world. The ass«>ciatfons challenged are the persons thereupon storm«© the car, American Medical Association, th«1 captured the motorman and conductor, American Institute of Homt-opathy lai«i them on the tracks ami were ami the American Aaa'xlatlon of about to run the car over them when a Eclectic Medicine. Ib-lb-vu«- Hospital, lone policeman seize«! the ringleader N«-w York, or th«- Cook County Hos at the controller. Reserves then dia pital is suggested as the seen«- of] per*«© th«? mob. It was ascertain«*! the contest. The plan is to appor- later that the entire Goldberg family tfon 800 patknts equally among four i of nine were starving amid the direst school*—patient« suff'-rlng from ty poverty. phoid or pneumonia preferred. 105 Day*' Sleep Broken. Solon* Work 207 Day*. San Francisco—The Southern Pacific Railroad company has made effective in its office here orders that hereafter no women are to be employed as clerks or stenographers in the passen ger department. Officials of the com pany assign as the reason fo* this action the tendency of the girls to marry just about the time when they begin to become of great service, and the physical incapacity which unfits them for advancement. Government Coneiderable Loss, Osteopath'* Court Test. Panama — The political situation here grow« more complicated. The friends of President Arosemna’s ad ministration openly assert that all government employes who do not fav or his re-election will be replace© by those who do. This unprecedented campaign on behalf of the national executive was begun with the is suance of a decree replacing Ramon F. Acevado, secretary of government and chief of the cabinet, with Feliodoro Patinio, who has been the secretary of public instruction. ASSAY OFFICES DOOMED. Vandalia, III.—After sleeping al Boston.—The 132d session of th«-. most continuously for 105 days. Miss Mas*ar-hii«etts Ix-glslature was pro Haz«-I Schmidt, the 18-year-old girl rogue«! after all records for h-glsla-: whose strange case has puzzeld phy tlv«- activity In this stat«- had been sicians for weeks, was awake five broken. The session continue«! 207 hours an«l ate three meals Sunday. consecutive days, or one more than She sai«i she felt no ill effects from the Rendon of 1883. Latxir was «-sj«- her slumber. Attending physicians daily favored this year with a dupll say the girl’s trance is broken cation of the workingmen’s c«imp«-n 1 satfon act am! the passage of a 54 ] and that she a«x<n will be herself hour bill for w«»m«-n ami minor«; also again and will probably be normal an eight-hour bill for public empl«»yes hereafter. Maderos Selling Cattle. Hail Ravage* Fruit Belt. Pan Antonio.—Regarded as signify cant I«- the activity of the Madero family In moving their cattle out of Mexico. Thirty rars were moved Sat urday. The railroads report that «>th«-r large cattle-owners of Mexico are also sending their cattle to the United States. Their d«slre w*tn» to be to sell out before the election in October. j Toronto, Ont.—Ninety per cent of the crop in one of the richest sections of the Niagara peninsula fruit belt was destroye«! by a terrific hail storm. Between St. Catherines an«i Winona small fruit trees were stripped of their branches and many farmers face financial ruin. Hundreds of chickens were killed by the hail. Be Put Conservatives Rapped for Op posing Canadian Pact. Need qf |Mark»t Shown Agreement Would Develop Dominion In dustrie*, Say* Premier. Ottawa, Ont. The opening gun in the campaign which will determine th«- fut«> of the reciprocity agreement between the Unit«© States anti Can ada. wa» tlre«l Sunday by the Liberal lender, Sir Wilfrid Laurier. It was in the form of an op«-ii atlilress to the Canadian p«v>ple. anil in It is set forth th«- issues involved in the pres ent campaign. Th«- question at issue is not a new one. Sir Wilfrid asserts, reciprocal relations with the Unit«*! States hav ing been sought by both parties for over half a century. The present Conservative party. h<- declared, is seeking to reverse thia lifelong policy of its leader* of th«’ pust. The enact inent of the 'agreement, the Premier predicts, would further improve th«< friendly relations between Great Bri tain, Canada and the Unit«*! Statea, and would be an important, factor in bringing alsiut a general treaty of ar bitration. "At all times during the past 40 years,” said Sir Wilfrid, "it has been the constant effort of all political parties in Canada to make with the United Statea an arrangement for the fr«*’ exchange of natural product* be tween the two countries. ’ Ever since the termination of the treaty of 1854 all public men of any prominence in Canadu, whatever their differences on other questions, have been unanimous in the attempt again to secure free «-Mi-change of natural product*. "Nor is this to be wonderixi at. see ing that in the industries of agricul ture, fisheries, lumbering and mining, Canada |s>sxessea advantages not en joyed by any other country on earth, and that upon the markets n-rurel for the pnslucts of these industries de pends the growth of our manufactur ing ami commercial interests and the prosperity of all classes in the domin ion.” New York The congressional com mittee of inquiry into the Unit«*! Statea Corporation is now desirous of hearing personally from J. Pier|»nt Morgan with regard to the absorption of th«- Tennease«- Coal X Iron rompany by th«- Steel cor|a>ration in 1097. Thia was made known here at the commit tee headquarters That a subpoena will be iaau«*l within a few days for Charlea M Schwab, ex president of the corpora tion, also was revealed. “Th«’ beat man to defend J. I*. Mor gan for his part in the Tennessre Coal A Iron transactions," said Chairman Staley, "is Mr. Morgan himself. I sincerely hope that Mr. Morgan’s en gagement* in Euroja- will not deter him from appearing. Mr. Morgan's own story of that transaction and the momentous events at the time of that financial panic, ami th«- effect of th«- steel stock transfer in the midst of it AMMONIA DEATH TO FISHES. are certain to be of great value.” That the New York financier will be subpenaed to apja-ar before the com- Man Nearly Asphyaiatad Whan Tank mitte«- when h«- does return now s«-«-rns Burtt* in Bottling Work*. certain. Spokane, Wash. A |>rculiar acci dent which nearly result«*! fatally to a JAILS PLACES OF EASE. man and killed thousands of fish, oc curred nt Pullman. Wash. A valve in Fedora! Judge Seek* Real Punish one of the animonia tanks in the Star Bottling Works ice factory burst, al ment tor Guilty Forger*. lowing the animonia to escape. The St. Ixiuis, Mo. Fialeral Judge Dyer fumes drov«’ th«- workmen from th«’ is hatking for a Missouri jail where building, an 1 one of them was so over F«*!ernl prisoners are kept in confine come that he lost consciousness and ment, an<i not allowed to g<> fishing. The judge made his wishes known in wa* reecu«l by heroic effort* of his passing sentence on a forger of money companions. The ice plant was shut down and orders. H«- fixed the punishment at the town is threaten«*! with an ice six months in jail. “But," said Judg«* Dyer, “1 want a famine. The ammonia, which tbsxl«*! few days to determine what jail I will one of the tbsirs, found U* way to th«* sen«! the prisoner to. Recently 1 hear«! waste water sewer and into the creek. that government prisoners arc allowed Ptviple crossing th«’ creek noticed a commotion in the water an<l hundrtxls absolute freedom in th«- rural jails. “I have be«-n tol«l that prisoners of fish were seen jumping and ca|>er- sent to Montgomery City were permit ing als>ut. The riverjwiw s»s>n cov ted to go out and fish all day and re er«*! with dead fish, while hundreds turn to jail at night. I also heard of lay on the bottom. one person who went to sc«’ a prisoner and was surprised when the prisoner met him at the railroati station.” Old Glory Shelter* Babe. Seattle, Wash. Mre. George Snow den, a niece of Preadcnt Taft, who has been making her home tern|s>rarily in Vancouver, B. C., hasten«*! to Seattle some days ago to give birth to a grand nephew to the president, which was born a few days ago at th«- Minor Hospital. Mrs. Snowden says she c«>ubl not bear the idea of being th«- mother of a chibl that was not born under the flag of the country in which her uncle is president, so she came to Seattle that the babe might lx- a na- tive-lx»m American. Airman Dives 500 Feet. Salinas, Cal. With his propeller ami his control cables broken Fred J. Wiseman, an aviator, mad«.- a sensa tonal «live of 500 f«-et at a l««cal race course park and landed safely. The accident has necessitated jststpon«-- ment of exhibitions that were to have been given here in the course of the week to celebrate a fiesta in connec tion with the twenty-third annual meeting of the Pacific Coast Trotting Horse Breeders association. PRISONER WEDS VISITOR. Bride Will Work for Freedom of Mtn Who Hat Won Sympathy. Knnsas City -’In order that she might better work for thu freedom of the man with whom she had fallen in love while he was a pris oner in the county jail in Kansas City, Kan., Miss Nora Carpenter, of Nor ton, Va., was mnrri«*i to Edward Bak er, who is serving a six months' sen tence for a |s>st«d!ice robbery. The wedding Ux»k place in th«’ jail, the ceremony being jierformed by the Pro- bat«’ Judge. Miss Carpenter met linker when she went to the jail with a woman friend to visit the latter's hunband, who is awaiting trial for highway robbery. Wetton'» Record Pile». Wakeen, Kan. P. Mtsmey, who is walking from New York to San Fran cisco for a wager of $10,000, spent Sunday night h«-re, having walked from Walker, Kan., a distance of 44 miles. Misincy is a member of th«’ New York fire department ami is try ing to beat Weston’s r»-«-or«l. He is now 42 days out of New York anil sev en «lay* ahead of Wi’ston’* time, hav ing made 1,900 miles, with 1,400 to cover in 47 «lay».* lie is averaging 45 Bore for Buried Miner. to 50 rni'es a day. He is to make Joplin, Mo. More than 100 men the 3,300 miles in lea* than 90 days. and Ixiys are working <b-sf>erat«dy in an effort to sink a shaft to th«- drift of Juvenile Court Attailed. a min«! cast of her«! in which Joseph Chicago The constitutionality of Cl*ry, 21 years old, is held a prisoner th«’ Juvenile Court act has been at under 70 feet of earth and rock. As it will be days before Clary can tacked in a auit for injunction fil«*l by be reach«*! they are boring a six-inch W. H. Dunn, a wealthy manufacturer, hole through which Clary can be fur who recently fil«*l charges against offi In his nished with air, food and water if he cial* of the Juvenile Home. bill Mr. Dunn alleges that the Inw, is still alive. which was enacted by the Illinois leg islature April 21, 1898, i* invalid, be Stone to Mark Site of Debate. cause it authorizes th«’ seizure an<! de Bbxtmington, III. — A r«d granite priving a child of liberty without due boulder weighing six tz»ns, discovered process of law. by th«- Wtxxlford County Historical so- ziety on the farm of Thomas Bratt, 26 Killed Climbing Alp*. near U»w point, will be used to mark Paris Although the climbing »e*- the spot where Lincoln and Douglas aon in the Alps ha* only begun, 26 met in their famous debate at Mata- touriata hav«> been killesi an«l an un mora in 1858. The atone will be dedi known number injured. If this rate cated at the annual meeting of the continues to the end of the season, Old Settler* of W«xxlford county next September 15, the death r*te will be month. I the highest on record.