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Newspaper Page TextTHE CONDON GLOBE Back Wnk , CONDON OREGON NEWS OFJE WEEK In a Condcossd Form for Cur Ess; Readers. A Resum of th Lea Important but Not Let Int retting Event of th Part WnL . A tiutiny in all Finnish torta hat been called by th Bada.. E. A. Gag, a eon ot Lyman Gage, committed aaiclde in Seattle. 1vMr A.tmit-sl Trmiti ri mmnitar in chief of the Asiatic squadron la dead. A fvi of two aad a halt million dot lara ii to be raised to build cotUgea for the homeless of 8an Francisco. The forta at Sveaborg, Baaaia, are al most intotal mina aa the reenlt ot fightiog.betweeu mutineer! and loyal troops. - , f .... :; .: ; - , Pan Francisco ia threatened with an epidemic of typhoid, wbich the health board tare ia being carried by the com mon house fly. ' The slate law ot New .York restrict ing the labor by woman and children to 10 hour a day haa been declated un constitutional. The state auditor ot Kansas aaya he will cancel the polices ot all insurance companies who do not pay their San Franciaco loose in fall. Provision con tt actors on the Isthmus have) tormed a trust and raised the prices lOOper cent. The canal com mieaion haa ordered supplies ot fSOO and over bought under the open bid system. .-.-- , .) . Brigadier General William Bolton Is dead. Mayor W. H. Moore, of Seattle, is seriously ill at Loe Angeles. The business ot the Lewis and Clark exposition has been wound np. T. W. Davenport, ot Hilrerton, Ore gon, father of Cartoonist Davenport, is dead. . Fifteen hundred copper miners at Calumet, Michigan, have had their wages voluntarily raised $2 per month. Four men were killed and two wounded in a battle between a sheriff's and bandits in . Knott county, Kentucky. It has been charged that General Wood is drawing two salaries, one as governor and one as hii regular pay in the army. The president says this is not so. A San Francisco woman baa just se cured a divorce on the ground that her husband had not spoken a word to her for eight years, although living in the same nonet. A Porto P.ican merchant has sued Federal Judge Hunt, of Montana, for $100,000 damages. It is claimed that at the time the judge was governor of the island he was instrumental in rain ing the merchant's business. Fire in a Buffalo, N. Y., planing mill destroyed $170,000 worth of property.- The National Sculpture society is to establish an old age home for its mem bers. The St. Paul is laying steel for its new Pacific coast extension. The work ia being done in South Dakota. Judge James F. Tracey, of the Phil ippine Supreme court, will likely be the next vice governor of the islands. John D. Rockefeller says there is more good than bad in the world, and that everytbing is for good in the end. The Pennsylvania railroad haa cnt passenger rates to 2 cents per mile. Mileage books will be irsued at the rate of 2 cents per mile. The failure of the sultan to receive an ambassrdor instead of a minister is likely to be the cause of diplomatic differences between the United States and Turkey. Two transcontinental railway com panies say tbey will shortly install theater cars on their trains in which plays will be given while the trains are in progress. - Vast frauds have been unearthed in San Francisco's municipal affairs. Examination of public records show that there has been an extensive graft in letting contracts and that city pay rolls have been padded. Track workers in San trancieco have struck for more pay and shorter hours. Nihilists wrecked a train in Belgium, thinking Grand Dnke Vladimir, of Rossis, on it. Dowie says he will appeal from the recent decision of the court ousting him from control of Zion City. The Pacific Coast Steamship company is said to be considering the manning of its vessels with Indiana. DARK HOUR IN RUSSIA. New .Mutinies Break Out aa Fast aa Others Are Suppressed. St. Petersburg, Aog. 3. Nearly 3, 000 sappers, sailors, pioneers and min ers at Cronetadt mutinied about 11 o'clock last night. They ' planned to seise the forta and the bridge leading to Fort Cronatadt, but their plans were foiled by the precautions taken by the commander. After a severe fight the loyal troops opened fire on them with machine gone, and as they bad no ai tillery available and the arsenal had been stripped before they could selaa it, they bad no alternative bat surrender. A court martial began sitting this morning, and ia sentencing the mutin eera to death by hundreds. Bt. Petersburg, Ang. 3. Tba crew ot the armored crniser Pamyat Asova mu tinied off the Esthoniaa coast and It now in full possession of the ship,' ahich has sailed northward in the di rection ot the Finnish gait. ' Reval, Ang. S. The crniser Pamyat Asova haa arrived in the roadstead here in the possession ot the loyal portion ot her cerw. One hundred and fifty of the mutineers have been sent ashore and imprisoned. The mutineers were overpowered by the loyal sailors while the ship waa at sea. - St. Petersburg, Aug. 3. The crew of the Russian cruiser Atia, which was sent to Abo, has hoisted the red flag. The vessel has left In the direction of Sveaborg. The ministry ot marine has confirmed the report that Admiral Birileff had gone to Helaingfore on board the school ship Asia, whose crew baa mntinied. St. Petersburg, Aug. 3. Military disorders have broken out at Reval. Details cannot be obtained. , . St. Petersburg, Aug. 3. Although the mutinies at Sveaborg have been ended and the one at Cronatadt has been practically put down, the outlook ia still black. The revolutionists, whose bands were suddenly , forced by the premature rising at Sveaborg, ap parently are nndannted at these initial reverses and intend to persist in their program of calling a general strike on Saturday or Monday. St. Petersburg, Ang. 8. On the heels ot the other bad news comes the startl ing statement that the emperor has flatly refused to accept the conditions to which Premier Siolypiu aggreed in his negotiations with Count Hsydon, Alexsnder Gucbkoff. Prince Nicholas Lvoff, Paul Vinogradbff and Senator Koni tor the reorganisation of tba cab inet. There is an Increasing apprehension that the emperor purposes to take the final step of turning the country over to the military dictatorship of Grand Duke Nicholas. The Streets of St. Petersburg are again filled with patrols. ISLANDS' RICE IMPORTS SMALL. Ide Says They Produce More, Mer chants They Eat Less. Manila, Aug. 3. Governor Ide has received reports stating that during the fiscal year ending June 30 the importa tions of rics to the Philippines decreas ed 61,072,411 pounds, valued at $3, 084,783 in gold. Commenting on tbe reports Governor Ide says: "From these reports it appears that the number of pounds ot rice imported into tbe Philippines during the fircal year of 1906 was something lets than three-sevenths of tbe importations of 1901, and tbe cash sent out from tbe islands for rice was less than four-elevenths of the sum sent in 1894. If tbe same ratio of decrease for a year or even a semester, no more rice will be import ed and in two years the islands, besides supplying tbe home demand, ought to be exporting rice." Tbe publication of these reports has caused a controversy. Tbe local ship pers contend that tbe decrease of im portations is a result of tbe poverty of the people, who, it is alleged, are not buying rice, but are living on yams and other food. The shippers declare that the Philippines will never export rice. Catholics for Limited Divorce. Buffalo, Aug. 3. At today's meeting of the American Federation of Catholics a resolution was adopted defining the position of the federation on the ques tion of divercs. It recommends tbe enactment of laws granting a separation or limited divorce in those states whicb have no such laws, and in states wbich grant absolute divorces tbe federation asks that the applicant be allowed to ask for a limited divorce on the same grounds under which an absolute di vorce is granted. Limited divorce in extreme cases is recommended. Wilson Will Surprise Packers. Washington, Ang. 3. Secretary Wil son left today to pay a surprise visit of inspection to several' slaughtering and packing bouses in the East. Upon leaving his office tbe secretary gave in structions that to all inquiries regard ing him the answer should be that be is gone away and it is not known when ha would return. GENERALJTRIKE ON Workmen In Russian Capital Re y ; . spondlng to Call. SIGNS POINT TO A DICTATORSHIP Grand Duke Nicholas to Lead Fight on Reds Disturbances and t Mutinlen Continue. . St. Petersburg, Aug. 4. St. Peters bnrg la in darkness tonight. Tba em ployee ot the electric lighting plants, always tba earliest barometric record ot political conditiona, eeated work daring the afternoon in obedience to tba call for a general strike. This call already haa been obeyed by 20,000 factory hands in the capital, H will be im possible, however, to predict the suc cess of this universal political strike until Monday, a the workmen in St. Petersburg and the provinces bava two holidays Saturday, which ia the fe'e day ot the dowager empress and a great religions feast, and their regular holi day of Sunday. The pickets of cavalry and infantry were tbe most conspicuous features on the streets ot St. Petersburg last night. Business booses generally have boarded up tbeir windows as tbey did in tbe days ot the great October strike. Prac tically all ol tbe street cars in the city have stopped running, aad tbe cab driv ers are threatening to cease work. In the meantime the fata ot the Stolypio cabinet sways In tba balance and Russia i upon the verge ol disor ders which may lead to the reign of either the military or the proletariat. It can be stated definitely that the steps toward a dictatorship may be t-tkea Sunday or Monday by the nomination of Grand Duks Nicholas to the chief command of all the troops in Russia. This would virtually place him In con trol of all tbe disturbed districts of the empire where martial law haa been proclaimed. Artillery bt Open Revolt. Warsaw, Poland, Aug. 4. A portion of the troops In tbe Bummer Rembert off, near here, mutinied yesterday and are in open revolt today. The artil lerymen nave driven their officers oat ol their quarters. A tqaadron of Cos sacks sent to overpower the mutineers was received with grapeshot. Details are tacking, as extraordinary precau tions are being taken to prevent tbe facts becoming public. - Rebels Fir Big Woodyards. Harkov, Aug. 4 Fire broke out in several large woodyards in the vicinity of tbe prison today. This evidently was a device on the part of revolution lets, who hoped to free political leaders daring the confusion. The authorities are apprehensive of a renewed effort to the same end. PUT OUT OF BUSINESS. Insurance Commiaaloner Give a Body Blow to Two Companies. Ssn Francisco, Aug. 4. -Insurance Commissioner Wolf sent notice tiday to tbe president and directors of the Fireman's .Fond Insurance company and tbe Home Fire A Marine Insurance company, both of San Francisco, that unless tbey made good tbeir deficiency in capital stock in four weeks be will request Attorney General Webb tc pro ceed to asuerUin why their licenses to do business in California revoked. Both companies havs been known to be In financial trouble since the fire. Tbe Home Fire A Marine has announc ed that it will do no more business. The Fireman's Fund baa reinsured ita risks to tbe amount of $372,684,760, carrying premiums amounting to $4, 471,117 with the new Fireman's Fund corporation, whicb has been organised since the fire. Both companies have thus confessed failure. Wolf's order, it is expected, will permanently close tbeir doors. Subpenat for Standard Men. New York, Aug. 4. -Forty or more subpenas for officers and employes of tbe Standard Oil company have been forwarded to New York from Chicago. 8everal of the officials of tbe Standard Oil would not say whether they had re ceived tbe subpenas from Illinois. In quiries were referred to M. F. Elliott, general counsel for the company, who said so far as be knew no attempt had been made to serve any of the officials. Mr. Elliott would not say what atti tude the officials would take in case tbe subpena servers put in an appearance. Stampede to Windy Arm. Seattle, Aug. 4. Rich strikes report ed in Southeastern Alaska have at tracted the longshoremen of Skagway; Juneau and other towns. The men who work along the front have stam peded to Windy Arm in such numbers that the sailors on the coastwise fleet have to onload their own boats. MUTINEERS SEIZE SVEABORG Only Four Companies of Infantry Rs main Layal to Ctar. v Iletslngfoii, Aug. I. Sveaborg la entirely In the hands of tba mutineers, who now have In their possession every kind ot armament. Horrible scenes occurred during last night1 when the fierce fighting was con tinued. Tba haavleet artillery was need during the conflict. Several officers were killed or wound ed. The wounded ware transported to Uelslngfort, Colonel Nararcft waa bayoneted. lie begged for transportation to tba hospit al, promising forglvenees In exchange. Instead ha waa stoned and thrown Into tba water with a stone tied around bis nsck. Ilslslngtors, Aug. 1. A gigantic mil itary conspiracy, aiming at the simul taneous capture of Russia's thiee great sea fortreseea, Cronstadt, Sevastopol snd Sveaborg, arranged by tbe Revolu tionary Military league, was prema turely sprang here yesterday by aa at tempt to arrest Members of a company of sappers who had mntinied on ac count ol tba death ot one ol their com rades, alleged to bava been dua to HI treatment. The entire garrison ol the fortrvss at Sveaborg flamed out Instantly In revolt. All the artillery and sappers garrison Ing tbe place were Invoked. Onlt four companies ot Infantry remained loyal. Tba mutineers Skiard 40 machine guns and practically all the quick-firers and light artillery In the fortress, bat even with this aid they were unable to hold the main tort against the loyal Infant ry. Tbe fighting continued all nlghl long. The heaviest firing wss heard from 10 o'clock in tbe evening until 1 in the morning. WILL OPEN DOOR. Baron Komura 8aya Japan Will Keep Treaty Pledges. Victoria, B. C, Ang. 1. Baron K mora, recently appointed Japanese am bassador to Great Britain, arrived to day by the Canadian Paclfio railroad steamer Empress ot Japan on his way to London, via Quebec, from where be sails by the Empress of Ireland on August 9. Baron Komura said with regard to Japanese action in Manchuria that tba Japanese government wonld undoubted ly carry out all tbe pledges made before and since tbe war to maintain "the open door" in Msnchnria. Regarding ths criticism of foreign merchants, he said there were due to - Impatience. The terms of occupation demanded that Japan adopt tbe measures now in vogue, but as soon as the military occupation was ended and this would be soon, ar rangements would be male to carry out the pledges regarding an "open door" policy. Tiue, the bulk of the army bad been repatriated, but there was still a large force ii Manchutla. There was also Russian troops In occupation. While It wss not known definitely what Russia was doing regarding tbe with drawal, it was known that troops were steadily being withdrawn and it waa necessary that tbe Japanese military admlnistrstion continue to occupy the country nntil tbe withdrawal waa com plete. "Haa Dalny been made a free port and are other nations than Tapanese re stricted from trsding via that port wltb Manchuria?" "That I cannot tell yon," replied Baron Komura. "This much I can say, though, ths pledges made by Japan re garding Manchuria will be carried out in every particular as soon aa the term of occupation by the military forcea has expired." Battleships In Collision. Newport, R. I., Aug. 1. Rear Ad miral R. D. Evans, commanding Ibe Atlantic fleet, received reports in detail today ot a collision wbich occurred dur ing a fog last night between ths battle ships Alabama and Illinois about eight miles southeast of Prenton's reef light ship. Tbe side of the Illinois was scraped by the bow of tbe Alabama and several plates of the forward part of tbe Alabama were injured. It is also thought that ons or more ot the six inch guns on the two battleships were damaged. Admiral Evans states that neither ship was damaged below tbe water line. Not Bound Up In Red Tape. Washington, Aug. l.The facility with which the Civil Service commis sion furnished Inspectors to tbs depart ment of Agriculture in the execution of tbe meat inspection law is shown in a statement issued today by the commis sion. Although tbe law wss not enact ed till June 30, tbe commission in ex actly three weeks from that date con ducted examinations throughout the country. Arrangements were made to examirny 3,886 applicants. Daring the week ending Jufy 28 2,640 sets of pa pers were received by tbe commission. Rain Makes Canal Zone Unhealthy. Colon, Aug. 1. The month of July has witnessed a series of beavy rains on ths isthmus, which have hampered the work of sanitation in Colon. Ths con ditions today are worse than ever be fore. Preparations are being msde to pave the principal streets of Colon with brick. MAY EXPEL EUROPE Paris Paper Fears Scut!i Ameri can Trade May Be list. CALLS ON FRANCE TO WATCH ROOT The Unltsd States Already Domlnatsa North America and May 8a curt South America, I Paris, Aug. t. Tba Llberte ol Wed. needay night, under the caption of "Victims ol the Monro Doetrlis)," prlnled a long and vigorous article on Secretary ol Stat Bool and tba Pan. American congress. It taunts the French press lor grudgingly printing a paragraph about Mr. Root's toasting Sooth America between a list ol con testants In a. recent swimming match and th names ot meritorious agritnl turisis It Ironically quous an tdtkr, who said that foreign politics are not sufficiently Parisian to interest the elite public and then twits the leader ot tba republic with making th question ol conferring ths decoration ol the Legion of Honor on Harsh Bernhardt the prin cipal affair of stats and tacitly asking why tbey should worry over routh Americans, who Interest Parisians only In vaudeville. ' All this time, ssys the Llberte, Mr. Root wss preparing, II he had not al ready made effective, tbe most redoubt able operation in political economics, ot which the French will be dope and with them all other Latin people, who, Imitating them, try to be Parisians. The results of tsn years ol intrigue In Pan-America are likely to be effective soon. Europe has already been expell ed from North America, and she will be expelled from South America In Ire than six years unless there la eneigetio resistance immediately. Continuing th paper says that a lew tacts today are elartlingly clear. Among them I the fast that Europe baa no right to defend her financial and commercial intertatt In Mouth Ame-lca, the United Statee saying in effect that each nation is master ol its on bom with th United Htstee at home v try where. Against 73,000,000 Lai n peo ple stood Secretary Root and to that Yankee Intruder went favor and bene fits becsnse lie alooa spoke, flattered and menaced, lie alone acted, while Latin Europe abstained. Already dis tant lands hare slipped Into Yanks bands, while at Constantinople, St. Petersburg, Toklo and Algeciraa th same Root Intervened at his conven ience and Europe stupidly respected th Monroe doctrine. Before the conclu sion of the third Pan-American congress It will bava coat the Latin people a continent they peopled and financed. MUTINY SPREADS TO FLEET. Ships Go to Aid of Forta, Which May Have Given Up. Viborg, Ang. 2. It Is reported her that the Russisn fleet, stationed at Hango, Finland, has mutinied, impris oned the officers and sailed to the as sistance of tbe mutlneera at Sveaborg. Helslngfors, Aug. 2 At 7 o'clock last evening tbe battleship Cta rev itch and the crolser Itogatyr opened fire on the mutineers at a distance of 60 cable lengths. The mutineers replied, hut their shots sevmsd to fall short. Tbe firing ceased at 9 o'clock and the boat were then seen leaving the Islands with wonnded. Helslngfors, Aug. 2. he latest new from the fortress tends to confirm a previous report that the mutineers have surrendered. The mutineers had the upper hand until ths battleships arrived and began to bombard them with telling effect. The men were nndoubtedly led to surrender because of their lack of big guns, their need of provisions, which they bad failed to secure, and the ar rival of the warships. Reinforcements havs arrived here and have been hurried to effective positions. Jeers for Dr. Devlne. San Francisco, Aug. 2. A banquet was given to Dr. Devlne, the national Red Cross representative who bad charge ot the relief work here after th fire and who Is about to return to his home in the East. A number of tbe discontented persons who are living In the refuge camps took advantage of the occasion to work up a demonstration against the methods of the relief com mission, and as a result a throng of people gathered at Union square in front of the St. Francis hotel, where the banquet was he'd. Rebels Steal Machine Gun. St. Petersburg, Aug. 2 A machine gun was stolen last night from an arm factory in the Va-sll Ostrov dii ri t of this city. It is suspected that tue rob bery waa committed with, cognisance of the sentinels on duty at the factory. At a secret meeting last night of th Putllof works employes, a spy was dis covered and killed.