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CURRENT EVENTS OF THE WEEK Doings of the World at Large Told in Brief. General Resume of Important Eventa Presented In Condensed Form for Our Busy Readers. An aviation school will be opened in Portland. Or. Three were killed and many hurt in a hotel fire in Los Angeles. Turks lost two of their strongholds on the line of defenses of Constanti nople. Federal officer* made raids in six cities on a chain of "get-rich-quick'' swindling schemes. Indications are that there will be legislation resulting ^from the house investigation of the money trusL Another advance has been an nounced in the price of crude oil in Pennsylvania, the second within a week. Miss Esther Cleveland, once the “baby of the White House.” and now 19 years old, made her debut in New York society. Brought to bay in a New York hotel, a professional burglar mortally wound ed five officers, then killed his woman companion and himself. MANIAC TERRIFIES OFFICIALS PRESIDENT-ELECT Wll.SON AND FAMILY. CHOLERA MENACES CITY, Nervy Detective Disable* Man Load ed With Dynamite Soldiers Dead and Dying on All Sides of Constantinople Los Angeles — Armed with an in fernal machine containing enough cy- namite to deetioy an entire city block, a bottle of nitro-glycerine and a 45« caliber revolver, a masked maniac took possess of the central police sta tion and held it for more than an hour, while hundreds of occupants of the building and those for blocks around, panic-stricken, sought the safety of distance. When Detective James Hosick knocked the man unconscious with a leather billy after slipping up behind him, the fuse of the infernal machine was automatically ignited, and with out thinking of the consequences. De tective Samuel L. Browne carried the box outside, the fuse spluttering and spitting sparks, and hurled it into the street. Sticks of high-power dynamite scat tered over the pavement, while hun dreds of spectators stood apparently paralysed by fright, awaiting a deton ation that would send them into etern ity. Through a freak of chance there was no exposion and Browne continued kicking the sticks of dy namite and jumping on the fuse until he had broken the connections and extinguished the fire. Lying manacled to a cot in the re ceiving hospital the would-be dyna miter, who was identified as Carl Warr, a German laborer, ia suffering from several severe scalp wounds, but the police surgeons say that his in- juries are not serious. Constantinople — There are more than 1000 cases of cholera daily in and around Constantinople, and the death rate has reached 50 per cent The au thorities are powerless to cope with the situation. On Thursday last 3000 cholera pa tients arrived by train at San Stefano. Fur 24 hours the patients remained in the train on a siding, without water, food or medical attendance. Then they were shipped to the quarantine station. - If they had been lower ani mals, they could not have been more neglected. A foreign doctor assisting in the military hospital discovered by acci dent that five soldiers dying of cholera had been placed among the wounded. He ordered their removal. Bearers took up the dying men on their shoul ders, but their condition was such that the doctor ordered the bearers to drop them. This they did, and the unfortunates were left lying in the mud for an hour, groaning and in convulsions, before they were removed on stretch ers. An extraordinary feature of condi tions behind the Turkish lines at Tcha talja is the indifference. The foreign er wearing either fez or an Euro [wan hat may hire a vehicle and drive to the Turkish entrenchments and in spect the troops. There appears to be no cordon to prevent fugitives from returning to Constantinople. Innumerable sick lie groaning In the fields to the rear, some of them in their last agonies. Countless cholera infected fugitives are struggling on the fan-shaped roads converging on Hadmekeui from the outer forts. Thousands of patients and hundreds of dead lie on the ground near Hadme- kuei. At Derkoa I ike, the chief source of Constantinople's water supply, there was a guard of soldiers, but 12 of them died and 16 others were stricken with cholera. There is great fear that the whole watershed will be con taminated, involving Constantinople in the gravest danger. Three physi cians at Derkos have been unable to de more than bury the dead. Turkish officers regard further resistance at Tchatalja as impossible, but think it is equally impossible 'for the Bulgar ians to occupy the Turkish positions without endangering the whole Bul garian army through cholera. TURKS STOP BULGARS At the Spokane Apple show Ska mania county, Wash., took first prize Fresh Troops and Supplies Enable for the best general display of apples Firm Stand at Tchatalja. grown on non-irrigated land. London — Dispatches from Nazim An earthquake off Seward, Alaska, shook the steamer Bertha, en route to Pasha, the Turkish commander-in- Seattle. Her captain says the sea chief, show that the artillery duel seemed to be boiling all around the along the Tchatalja lines has contin ued for two days, but the Porte an ship. nounced that Bulgaria had consented The constitutionality of the new to negotiate, with a view to an armis- postal law governing periodicals has tice and to a discussion of peace been assailed by the Journal of Com terms. merce and Commercial Bulletin, of The Turks claim successes »gainst New York. the Bulgarians, but there is nothing Six big English and American ship to indicate that the Bulgarians have ping companies have planned a com made any serious attempt to pene bine which will include the principal trate the lines. The battle may be trans-Atlantic lines and will have a ended at any moment by Turkey ac capital of over $110,000,000 cepting the allies' terms for an armis In the suit against the ‘‘bath tub tice, which are said to include the trust,” the U. S. Supreme court has surrender of the Tchatalja lines, Ad- handed down a decision that no mon rianople, Durazzo and Scutari. There is a possibility, however. that opoly can be maintained on the un- patented product of a patented ma- Turkey may decline to surrender Tcha talja. While her western army has chine. been completely defeated, she still Severity of Bulgaria's demands de- possesses, according to the correspon lay the conclusion of an armistice dents at the front, a homogeneous with Turkey. army behind the Tchatalja fortifica The English commons have adjourn tions largely composed of some of her ed after one of the stormiest sessions best fighting material from the Asia in history, caused mostly by the home tic provinces, which has not yet been rule bill. in action. Moreover, the demoralization and There are now licensed in the state disorganization that followed the Kirk of California 87,728 automobiles, one Kilisseh and Lule Burgas retreats ap for every 27 inhabitants. pear to have been remedied and the A new trade treaty with Russia army is now well supplied with food seems in good propect. and ammunition. At latest reports Roosevelt has a lead in California of 66 votes. INDIAN AGED 131 TRAVELS. Alienists have decided that Schrank, who attempted to kill Roosevelt, is in Chief Firemaker, Blackfoot, to See sane on certain subjects and danger Eastern Land Show. ous to be at large. Chicago —Wahhah Gun Ta. Chief Portland police have arrested John E. Hudson, or Ringling, believed to Firemaker, the 131-year old Blackoot be one of the smoothest and most dan Indian from Glacier reservation, is on his way East to attend the United gerous crooks on record. States Land show. Chief Firemaker is believed to be ! the oldest human being in the world, PORTLAND MARKETS having been born in the region now Wheat—Track prices: Club, 77(57 known as Glacier National Park in 78c; bluestem, 81(5/82c; forty-fold, 1781, according to well-authenticated traditions. He was the first red man 78c; red Russian. 76c; valley, 79c. Corn—Whole, $38; cracked. $39. in that territory to visit the Great Millstuffs — Bran, $22 per ton; White Father, and his journey to the shorts, $24: middlings, $30. national capital when President Jef Barley—Feed. $25 per ton; brew ferson was in the White House was a ing, $275/28; rolled, $27.50(5/28.50. memorable event in his life. He is regarded in his tribe as an Oats—No. 1 White, $26.50(5/27 ton. Hay — Timothy, choice, $17(^18; oracle. At the time of his birth, so No. 1, $16; oat and vetch, $12; al the Indian legend goes, the Father of falfa, $12; clover, $10; straw, $6(5/7. All Spirits, standing on a mountain, Fresh fruits — Apples, 50c/?/$1.50 shot an arrow near his father’» tepee. per box; pears, 75c/5/$1.25; grapes, The prophecy aa interpreted by the $1.10(^1.40; cranberries, $11.50 per medicine men is that he would live barrel; casabas, 75c(5/$ 1.50 per dozen. forever, and assist the gods in their Onions—Oregon, 90c(g,$l per sack. councils. Potatoes — Jobbing prices: Bur banks, 65(o 75c per hundred; sweets, California Bets in Mix. ljc per pound. San Francisco—The decision of lead Vegetables— Beans, 12c; cabbage, ing betting commissioners to pay off lc pound; cabbage, lc; cauliflower, 40c?5/$125 per dozen; celery, $3.50 wagers on the California election ac per crate; cucumbers, 50/5/60c per cording to electoral results and not dozen; eggplant, 10c per pound; head by the high vote has thrown confusion lettuce, $2 per crate; peppers, 6(?/8c and dissent into a small army of bet per pound; radishes, 15///20c per doz tors who have at stake, it is estimat en; sprouts, 8c; tomatoes, $1.25 per ed, not less than 1500,000. Some in box; garlic, 6(5/ 6c per pound; pump dividual stakeholders have informed bettors that they will pay on a basis kins, ljc per pound. Eggs—Fresh locals, candled, 400 of high man wins. Other will foflow the commissioners. Whatever the re 42Jc; Eastern, 27}@32}c. Butter— Oregon, creamery, cubes, sult, there is Bure to be a large and loud contingent of dissatisfied bettors. 35|c per pound; prints, 360 37c. Pork—Fancy, 9(3>10c per pound. Mountain of Paint Found. Veal—Fancy, 120 13c per pound. Vancouver, Wash.—Believing that Poultry—Hens, 120,J2Jc per pound; broilers, 12(^12}c; turkeys, live, 18(5/ they have a mountain of material 20c; dressed, choice. 24c; ducks, 12/5/ which in its present raw state is noth ing less than valuable raw paint, 15c; geese, 12///12ie. Hops—1912 crop, prime and choice, three men of Battleground have or ganized a company and filed articles 170 19ic per pound. The Wool—Eastern Oregon, 14(^18c per of incorporation for $500,000. pound; valley, 210,22c; mohair, large deposit of the mineral there owned by the incorporators, when pul choice, 32c. Cattle— Choice steers, $7@7.25; verized is said to have the quality of good, $6.50(5/6.85; medium, $6'5/6.25; being made the body of any kind of choice cows, $60'6.35; good, $5.50(5/ paint desired. 5.75; medium, $4.500 5.25; choice cal Reprieve Given Aljene. ves, $7.500; 8.50; good heavy, calves, Richmond, Va.—Governor Mann has $607; bulls. $305; stags. $506. Hogs — Light, $7.85(5/8; heavy, granted a reprieve for Floyd and Claude Allen until December 13. They $6.750,7.25. Sheep—Yearlings, $4.25(3,5; weth were sentenced to death in the electric ers, $3.60/^4.76; ewes, $30 4.35; chair November 22 for their part in the Hillsville, Va., courthouse murders. Jambs, $4/5^5.85. TARIFF FIGHT IN PROSPECT. Bulgarians Repulsed and Guns and Prisoners Captured. Turk Warships Send Heaviest Broad sides—Troops Defend Capital I With Desperate Valor. Constantinople — The great battle between the Bulgarians and Turks is on all along the line of the Tchatalja fortifications. Unofficial reports say the Turke have gained a great success. The battle opened at 5 o’clock in the morn ing. The Turks succeeded after some hours of fighting in defeating the right Bulgarian wing and in repulsing the left wing. They caputred 12 guns and 8000 prisoners. The Turkish warships contributed largely to this success. The foreign minister confirms the news of the victory without specify ing the exact number of prisoners. The Bulgarians unmasked their ar tillery positions at daybreak and open ed a heavy fire along the front from the Hamidieh forts at Fapas Burgas. This was the first real endeavor they had made agaist the Turkish lines. The opening of the battle was a wonderful spectacle. The black face of the Bulgarian position sparkled with flashes of the guns. Some of the Turkish heavy guns fired black pow der. The bursting of heavy shells Boon raised a curtain of heavy smoke which, mingling with the morning miBt, rolled majestically down the val ley between the combatants. A Turkish warship in the bay joined the concert, firing its heaviest guns in broadside, capping the Bulgarian right with a great pillar of smoke and fire. It was certainly the heaviest artil lery combat seen since the Japanese massed corps of artillery pounded Grekoff’s devoted rear guard outside of Liaoyang. During the night the Bulgarian in fantry had passed down under cover of the banks of the Karasti. and were trying to take possession of the upper loop of the railway. Small groups of Bulgarians rose out of the shelving banks and advanced cautiously and slowly. The Turkish gunners found them nicely and the attempt failed. The whirr of machine guns and the crash of infantry magazine fire in the direction of the Hamidieh forts told that another infantry effort was being made there, but the fire died down and as there was no movement on the part of the Turkish reserves it was pre sumed that this attempt had failed. This was 10 o’clock in the morning. The firmament was still ringing with the crack of shrapnel and the dull re verberations of heavy ordnance. Nazim Pasha, the Turkish com mander-in-chief, sent the following dispatch at night: “The battle which commenced this morning with an attack of Bulgarian infantry lasted until one hour after sunset. The enemy, who advanced chiefly facing our right wing and our center, was repulsed by our infantry and artillery fire. Three Bulgarian batteries were destroyed.” Test Canal Next Summer. Washington, D. C.—Sometime next summer or fall, no exact date being specified, a vessel will pass from the Atlantic to the Pacific across what is now the Isthmus of Panama, which consequenty must disappear from the world's geography, and by the same human agency the Western hemi sphere will be divided info two conti nents. The vessel will not be the Oregon, or any other famous ship, but will be one of the many small water craft in daily use by the canal build ers, and probably the only passengers will be Col. George Goethals and the staff of American engineers who for the past eight years have been carry ing on the greatest engineering work the world has ever seen. Edison Extends Plans. West Orange, N. J.—As his sixty sixth birthday approaches, Thomas A. Edison is credited with planning to become president of the Thomas A. Ellison company, incorporated, and other companies to be embraced under that title. The resignation of Frank L. Dyer, now at the head of the allied corporations based on Edison's inven tions, has been received. He intends to become president of the Motion Patent Picture company, of New York. Mr Edison himself declined to discuss the situation. Alaska Holds Wet Record, Seattle—The weather office at Cor dova, Alaska, reports that the precipi tation between January 1 and Novem ber 1 of this year was 171 inches. Six inches of rainfall in a day is not in frequent. The change of climate, that is supposed to have been caused by a shifting of the course of ocean cur- i rents, has raised the temperature and Suffragette* End Tramp. increased the rainfall. Cordova is London — The suffragette army said to be the rainiest city under the which started from Edinburgh com American flag. pleted its 400-mile tramp to Izindon. I Flax Crop Under Snow. in exactly five weeks. Under the leadership of Mrs. De Pont Blanque, Minto, N. D.—Considerable flax and who traveled on horseback, thev went other grains in Northwestern Canada immediately to the Prime minister’s are now under snow which has fallen residence in Downing street and pre in the last two days and this grain sented their petition demanding the will be lost, it was said here. This suffrage for women. Premier Asquith, condition will be particularly severe profiting from his experience of pre on a large number of the new settlers vious meetings, had retired to the in the Canadian country. Many of country for the week-end. His secre them are reported in destitute circum tary, however, accepted the document. stances. Democratic Leader and Committee to Begin Work Early. Washington, D. C.—Assurance that there will be an extra session of con gress to revise the tariff having stirred Democratic Leader Underwood to ar range for session» of the ways and means committee beginning early in January, it ia assured that the com mittee will have a good lead on con gress, and by the time the special ses sion convenes he will be able to report five or six schedules, and report others as fast as the senate can dispose of them. There may be some slight changes in the wool, steel, sugar and chemical bills, as compared to the bills passed by the house last session, but the opinion is general that those four measures, as passed by the next house, will be substantially the bills which received the Democrstic stamp of approval in the present house of representatives. WILSON TO CALL EXTRA SESSION Put An End to Business Uncer tainty Soon as Possible. Date Will Ba Nol Latsr Than April IS— Revision of Tariff to Ba Principal Question, New York — Governor Wilson an nounced that immediately after his inauguration as president of the Unit ed States he would call an extraordi nary session of congress to convene not later than April 15 for the purpusp of revising the tariff. The president elect sailed’for Ber muda at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon for a vacation and will return Decem ber 16. To set at rest speculation as to what he would do with regard to tariff revision, he issued the following statement : ”1 shall call congress together in extraordinary session not later than April 15. I shall do thia not only be cause I think that the pledges of the party ought to bo redeemed as promptly as possible, hut also because I know it to be in the Interest of busi- neee that all uncertainty as to what the particular items of tariff revision are to be should be removed as soon aa possible. ” HALF BILLION INVOLVED. Full Bogins to Quiet Title to Califor nia Oil Lande Washington, D. C.—Title to West ern oil lands valued at tho stupendous figure of $6(»u.mm...... is .»id b> de pend upon the outcome of the legal controversy which opened In earnest Saturday before the Supreme court of the United State». Llmund Burke filed before the court hie printed argu ment In favor of a claim to a portion of the land in controversy, scathingly arraigning the Southern Pacific Rail way company, also fighting for the property. The case will bo argued orally January 6. The land in contro versy in this particular case is in the oil fields of Southern California. The Southern Pacific claims it under the land grant act and Interior department [latents which contained the provision “excluding and excepting all mineral lands, should any such be found in the tract.” The validity and effect of this ex ception ia receiving unusual attention because of its having been included in the land grants b> other railroads for decade after decade. Mr. Burke con tends that all oil land is mineral lend. According to tho brief flle«l the inter pretation of the exception would de termine the Southern Pacific's claim to oil land worth more than the entire road itself. Fruit Union is Assured. Spokane, Wash.- The first definite step toward effecting a permanent or ganization of fruitgrower* in Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Washington with a view to marketing fruit through a common channel was taken here with the adoption of a resolution by repre sentative fruitgrowers, bankers, rail road traffic men and others at a ban quet tendered by the management of the apple show here. The resolution calls for a convention of delegates, one from each fruit dis trict in the states named to be held in Spokane December 16. The resolution, which was adopted unanimously, wax introduced by N. C. Richards, representing the Yakima Fruitgrowers’ axsociation and wax the result of a private conference of fruit growers. Tropical Fruit Hard Hit. Kingston, Jamaica — There have been almost unprecedented rsins here continuously for the past nine days, and they are still continuing. There was five days of north and high south east winds, both of which destroyed 25 per cent of the fruit crop. Roads have been blocked and shipping on the railway has been tied up. The city of Kingston is completely cut off from the rest of the island, which, accord Taft Favors Free Tolls. ing to report, was struck by a hurri Washington, D. C.—President Taft cane. Next season's fruit crop will told official visitors he did not expect be an exceedingly small one. United Fruit company interests have been to recommend to congress the repeal of the free bill provision made in the heavy losers. Panama canal bill last summer for American coastwise vessels. A second Tobacco Trust Really Dissolved. New York — Whatever others m ajr portion of the report of Professor Johnson, the expert upon whose inves think of the decree of the United tigation the president based his recent States court dissolving the tobacco proclamation of tolls, contains strong trust, the former members of the trust recommendation agalnxst free tolls for themselves are convinced that the de American ship». Professor Johnson’s cree actually dissolved the trust and report did not discuss the diplomatic restored competition. It is now a aspect of the canal toll measure. year since the decree was issued by Judge Noyes, and Percival S. Hill, Powers Approach Allies president of the American Tobacco Paris—An official note issued by the company, takes occasion to issue a diplomatic corps »ays the ministers of statement telling the effect of the de the powers have appronched tho vari cree ax seen in that year. He calls ous Balkan states with the view to the decree drastic and radical. mediation and that the foreign minis ters of the allies replied that they 300 Turks in Prison Killed, would refer the suggestion to their Athens—The explosion of a Turkish governments. The Montenegrin min powder magazine at Raloniki did im ister added that his government con mense execution several days ago. sidered itself unable to consent to an The magazine was close to the cavalry armistice except on condition that the barracks where many Turkish prison Turks surrender Scufnri. ers were confined. Three hundred St. Lawrence la Tied Up Turks were killed and 430 wounded. The Greek authorities have made a Montreal — The storm which has careful investigation, and the explo raged throughout Quebec Province the sion is believed to have been the work past 24 hours has effectually tied up of a Bulgarian band an revenge upon navigation on the St. Lawrence. The the Turks. suspension of activity in the local har bor comes at a time when the lake Government to Exterminate Rebels. steamers are pouring in huge cargoes Mexico City — That the Mexican of grain, which if not quickly export government is determined to carry out ed will cause a congestion. the threat to resume the tactics so successfully employed by General Strikers Attack Train. Robles in the state of Morelos some Charleston, W. Va.—Striking min months ago is indicated |by the report ers attacked a passenger train on the of the War department announcing ( ahin Creek branch of the Chesapeake the total destruction of several small & Ohio railroad. The miners stopped towns and villages in the northern the train and refused to allow it to part of Oaxaca, where the revolution proceed because two carloads of al has been rampant. leged strikebreakers were attached. 4 ■»<