v. LEXIN6T0N WHEATFIELD S. A. THOMAS, Publihr LEXINGTON. OREGON NEWS Onp WEEK Id a Condensed Form for Oar Busy Readers. A Resume of the Less Important bu Not Less Interesting Events of the Past Week. Burton has been indicted her ministers to leaving Odessa, the cham- EVIDENCE OF FRAUD. Senator again. Norway iB naming foreign countries. All foreigners are fearing the disorders. A strike may tie up the Chicago light and water works. The merit system will be adopted for the American diplomatic service. Every tenth man among the Cron Htadt mutineers is to be executed. An Ohio doctor is accused of nine murders, inclding his whole family. A New York grand jury has issued 12 indictments in connection with the election. The French cabinet has been shaken bv the resignation of the minister of war after a stormy scene in ber, A Detroit. Michigan, stonemason has orontorl a BtAtnn of satan and placed it in his front yard, declaring it repre sents his friend. A general movement has heen started in the United StateB to raise funds for the relief of Russian Jews. It is hoped to secure $1,000,000. King Edward of England has passed his 64th birthday ' All of Russia's grand dukes are now out of controlling offices A Chinese mob at Lien Chow has killed five American missionaries Several American warships have gone to Santo Domingo to suppress a revolt there. Herrick, the defeated candidate for Governor of Ohio, says slander by his enemies was the cause. Senator Cullom says he expects con gress to ratify the treaty with Santo Domineo. giving the finances of that country into the control of the United States. Sailors and artillerymen at Cron stadt mutinied, bui were subdued after a dav of terror. Machine guns were turned on them by loyal troops and hunderds shot down. The New York Life Insurance com nanv continues to solicit business in Missouri in defiance of the insurance commissioners who suspended their certificate in that state. ' Chairman Shonts says those who are denouncing the methods of the canal commission are a band of hired knock ers getting in practice for a grand burst of noise when congress convenes. Witte has removed General Trepoff . The suffrage strike ib spreading through Austria. The powers are planning a naval demonstration against Turkey. Grand Duke Nicholas is with Witte in the present reform movement. A blunder in the law will prever.t the sale of the Siletz timber land. Two towns .in Bessarabia have been "burned and many Jews perished in the flames. Judge Paul Jessen, of Nebraska, has declined to accept an appointment to the Bupreme bench of Arizona. A rice famine exists in three pro- vinces of Japan and 1.000.000 of the population is practically starving. It iB said that the French minister is preparing to leave Venezuela. The British minister will take charge of the French legation. Fire destroyed the top floors of the Chronicle building in San Francisco. One of the most valuable newspaper libraries in the country wafl ruined. British policy holders in the Equit able Life Assurance society, at a mass meeting in London, adopted a resolu j tion of confidence in President Morton : and his colleagues. Fire at Birmingham, Alabama, de stroyed property valued at $172,000. King Alfonso, of Spain, is visiting in Berlin. The massacre of Jews continues at Kishineff. American imports into Cuba show a great increase. Roosevelt says it is useless to Inter cede for Russian Jews."" The general board of the navy re commends the building of 18,000-ton ships. New York's Election Will tie I nor- oughly Investigated. New York, Nov. 10. The contest I. -i-i? over tne mayoralty eiecuon lunugui ated by William Randolph Hearst, the Municipal Ownership candidate, devel oped interesting and spectacular feat ures today. Charges that several ballot boxes had been stolen before the returns were re ported and that others were found un sealed were made during the day. The investigation of the election promises to be the most thorough ever made in New York City. The police have not reported any ballot boxes missing since the election, but there have been reports that un locked and unsealed ballot boxes have been found in out-of-the-way places. There was one report that ten men on the tugboat Robert White had picked up four ballot boxes floating in the North River early yesterday, and Mr. Mayer admitted having such information. Evidence of gross carelessness in the care of election returns developed yes terday when the official envelope con taining the official returns and tally sheets for the 73d election district of the 35th assembly district was found in a baby carriage in the cellar of a house in The Bronx. How it got there no one in the house was able to ex plain. The tally sheet showed that 26 votes had been cast for Ivins, 99 for McClellan and 139 for Hearst. Both Mr. Jerome and Attorney General Mayer at once began an investigation. Mr. Hearst announced today an ad ditional reward of $10,000 for evidence for the arrest, conviction and imprison ment of the first Tammany district leader to be convicted of frauds against the hallot in Tuesday's election. This is in addition to the other rewards, ag gregating $17,000, for proof of crimes against the ballot and registration laws in the election. This makes the total of rewards he has offered $27,000. The first information came to Dis trict Attorney Jerome yesterday through a policeman, who walked into his office with a bunch of ballots, and said that he knew where more of the same kind were to be found, but that he bad not dared to bring in all be had found until he had been assured of protection. He was sent back with a county detective, whom he escorted to a barber shop, where the ballot box was found. THREATENING JEWS Black Hundred Causes Panic In Russian Cities, MISS STRONG RAND OF TREPOFF Martial Law Threatens Poland, Where Condition is Serious Witte Completes Cabinet. St. Petersburg', Nov. 11. Except in the kingdom of Poland, where the rapidly growing Nationalist movement and the state of tension among the pro letariat will soon bring about the de claration of a state of war, Russia seems, for the time being, at'least, to be generally tranquil. Telegrams from interior points report the restoration of order in nearly all cities and towns, but in many cities, notably St. Peters burg and Moscow, the better classes of the population are ereatly disturbed owing to the rumors of approaching at tacks by the "Black Hundred," com posed of the most ignorant types of the populace which, according to these ru mors, are scheduled to tanepiace in oi. Petersburg tonight and in Moscow to morrow. , The apprehension in St. Petersburg has become so great that the prefect of police, who succeeded General Trepoff in command of the city police, has in structed his subordinates to take the fullest measures to crush any disorder in its. incipiency, so as to disabuse the minds of the "lovaliBts" of the idea that the police would remain inactive In such an emergency the strong hand of General Trepoff is being missed, even by the factions which most execrated him. Count Witte's new cabinet may now be regarded as completed. Count Lamsdorff, minister of foreign affairs, and M. Manukhin, minister of justice, will retain their positions, leaving only the posts of ministers of the interior and education to be filled. Dmitri Shipoff, of Moscow, who was president of the first Zemstvo congress, has defi nitely declined to accept any position in the cabinet. FLOATING MINES A MENACE. Pleiades Barely Misses Destruction In China Sea. Victoria, B. C, Nov. 10. The steamer Pleiades, which arrived today from Niu Chwang and Tientsin, had a narrow escape from destruction by t floating mine near Niu Chwang on 0& tober 8. Officers of the Pleiades re port that floating mines are now a great menace in the China sea, and several vessels have been lost to date as a re suit of them. The Hsieho was sunk a day before the Pleiades passed the ne. This steamer struck a mine when off the Shantung coast, near Wei Hai Wey. There were two foreign passengers, and both were among the survivors of 110 persons who were on board. Fifteen were drowned. The steamer Chinhua rescued 69 people Messrs. Manchau and Muir, engineers, who were residents of Shanghai, were amone the drowned. News was brought by the rleiades that Admiral Nebogatoff. when inter viewed at Hong Kong, en route to Eu rope, stated he would not go to Russia but proposed instead to go to France and subsequently to the United States Wu Ting Fang, ex-Chinese minister to the United States, is reported to have lost his hearing permanently as a result of the bomb outrage at Pekin.on the occasion of the departure of the Chinese commissioners to foreign countries. ELECTION RETURNS. MASSACRES IN BESSARABIA. Will Not Hurt Policy-Holders. St. Louis, Nov. 10. "The policy holders in Missouri will not be hurt by the action of Insurance Commis Bioner Vandiver in suspending the li censes of the New York Life Insurance company to do busineB-i in this state We will see that their interests are protected to the fullest extent. The attorneys will hold a meeting tomor row, but until then we cannot tell what we will do to met the emergency," said W. C. Crow, ex-attorney general, and an attorney for the New York Life In surance company. ' Driven Crazy by Defeat. Zanesville, O. Nov. 10. J. E. Grot zer, Republican candidate for member of the board of public service, who was defeated at Tuesday's election, was to day adjudged insane and'committed to the Columbfl state hospital. His men tal condition is attributed to worry over the election. Mnh Incited to Kill Jews by Lies of Government Officials. Odessa, Nov. 11. Authentic tc -mints received here irom various points in Bessarabia show that the antl Hebrew outbreaks there followed the same lines as at Odessa, varying only in the number of victims. At Kishineff the disturbances were preceded by inflammatory speeches by gendarmes and city officials near the governor's house, asserting that the Hebrews had attempted to take the life of the local bishop, and intended to loot the treasury. The mob thus in cited started the bloody work. Carry ing ifions and portraits of the emperor, the mob proceeded to Alexandrovskai, rusnkanbkaia and uostinnan buc, devastating and pillaging unhindered A mob at Ismail. Bessarabia, ournea alive 11 Hebrews who had hidden in a hayrick. Vandiver Is Restrained. St. Louis, Nov. 11. The New York Life Insurance company, through its attorneys, late this afternoon applied to United States Circuit Judge Adams for an injunction to restrain State In surance Superintendent Vandiver from enforcing his order t prohibiting the company from carrying on further busi ness in Missouri. The application was favorably passed upon by Judge Adams, who issued a restraining order direct ing Mr. Vandiver to show . cause why he should not be prevented from en forcing his order. British Fleet is Preparing. London. Nov. 11. It is stated in official circles here that an agreement has been arrived at among the powers concerning the naval demonstration against Turkey. A dispatch to a news agency from Gibraltar Bays that the At lantic fleet has been ordered to remain there pending further instructions. The vessels, the dispatches say, have been expected to take on a full supply of coal, ammuniton and provisions, but that the objective of the fleet is unknown. Middy Dismissed for Marrying. Annapolis, Md., Nov. 11. Rollo Carlyle Palmer, of Charlotte, Vt., has been dismissed from the Naval Acad emy for marrying while on leave this summer. He was 22 years old, and a member of the second class. McClellan and Jerome Carry New York Reform In Philadelphia. Washington, Nov. 8. Election re turns received by the Associated Press up to 2 o'clock this morning show that the Democrats have carried the mayor alty campaign in New York City, the state ticket in Pennsylvania, the state ticket in Virginia and the city ticket in Louisville, while the Republicans made a clean sweep in Massachusetts and in Chicago and Cook county, and have carried their tickets in New Jersey, Rhode Island, Nebraska and Maryland. In New York Hearst has a plurality in the Borough of Brooklyn of almost 16,000, with 14 election districts miss ing. The returns indicate McClellan's re-election by several thousand plural ity. Hearst has charged fraud in the voting. Bird S. Coler was elected bor ough president of Brooklyn on the Mu nicipal Ownership ticket. The New York election shows that municipal ownership will be a considerable factor in the city's politics. In Ohio the result is still doubtful, though the returns up to a late hour indicated the election of Pattison, the Democratic candidate for governor The suffrage amendment in Maryland was defeated overwhelmingly. Massa- chusetts elected a Republican governor bv a majority approximating that of Douglas, the present Democratic gov ernor. Following is a summary of the returns : New York Mayor, George B. Mc Clellan, Democrat, re-elected by small plurality; William Travers Jerome, independent, district attorney, re-elect' ed; Bird S. Coler, Municipal Owner shin, elected borough president of Brooklyn. Ohio Both Democratic and Repub lican leaders claim election. Pattison, Democrat, carried Cincinnati, Cleve land, citv and county, and the Demo crats made gains in Toledo and Akron. Maryland' The constitutional amendment, whose purpose was to dis franchise negro voters, was defeated. Republicans elected the state comp troller and city officials. Political com plexion of the legislature uncertain. Massachusetts Ine Kepubiicans elected Curtis Guild, Jr., Republican, governor by 29,435 plurality, and E. S. Draper, Republican, lieutenant gov ernor by 3,942. , Chicago .Republicans made a clean sweep in unicago ana uoou couuiy. Robert R. McUormick, Kepubiican, elected president of the board of sani tary trustees. Rhode Island Clean Kepubiican sweep. Pennsylvania Philadelphia over whelmingly carried by the City party (reform ticket). Berry, Democrat, elected state treasurer by upward oi 75,000 plurality. Virginia The Democratic plurality is about 20.000. and Swanson is elected governor. Negroes generally remained away from the polls. The next legis lature on joint ballot will have 23 Re publicans, instead of 16, as at present. Salt Lake City The American party (anti-Mormon) defeated the Mormon Democratic and Republican candidates for mavor. New Jersey Republican gains in legislature sufficient to preclude any Democratic success to United States Senator Drvden. Reformers elect Ev erett Colby, Independent Republican, to state senate in Essex county. Nebraska Republicans elected state supreme judge. San Francisco Union Labor candi date for mayor probably elected by 15,000 majority. Indianapolis Republican mayor elected. OHIO IS DEMOCRATIC Working Majority of Legislature and Governor of Stale. HEARST CONTESTS IN NEW YORK Louisville Fusionists Will Fight Elec tion of Democratic City Officers and Members of Legislature. , Soft Coal Operators to Organize. Chicago, Nov. ,8. Owners of soft coal mines have decided to hold a na tional convention in Chicago, and it is expected to result in the formation of a national federation of coal mine operat ors. The meeting will be held No vember 22, at the call of the commis sioners and secretaries of the Mine Owners' association, which are scat tered throughout the United States. This follows an announcement by offi cials of the Coal Mineworkers' union that a demand for a wage increase will be made in January. Reform for War Department. Washington Nov. 8 President Roosevelt has approved the recommen dations for certain reforms in the rou tine business of the War department which were prepared under the direc tion of Acting Secretary Oliver, lbese changen have been brought about by the action of the president in creating the Keep commission. His letter criti cised the methods of work in connection with papers of both Army and Navy departments and General Oliver took the matter up at once. Cossacks Killed In Ambush. Kutais, Caucasus, Nov. 8. Cossacks wbo were escorting M. Lazarenko, a nountv official, and M. Fekarski, a justice of the peace, were ambuahed in the Ozorgeti district by revolutionaries, whn were fighting the troops sent to the district to restore order. Two en tire companies, consisting of 107 and 120 men respectively, were wiped out. Washington, Nov. 9. The election of John M. Pattison, Democrat, as gov ernor of Ohio by approximately 40,000 plurality over Myron T. Herrick, the present Republican governor; a Demo cratic working majority in both houses of the Ohio legislature; an immediate- appeal ol William R. Hearst, the Mu nicipal Ownership candidate for (he New York mayoralty, to the Supreme court to contest McClellan's election in that city on the basis of alleged evi dence of wholesale illegal acts at the polls; a plurality of 3,485 votes for McClellan, and immediate contest by the fusionists in Louisville in the courts against the election of Demo cratic municipal officers and members of the legislature were the develop ments in today's election aftermath. McClellan's plurality is the mini mum on record for a successful mayor alty candidate in New York. Mr. Hearst's managers claim evidence of illegal acts against 1,000 inspectors of election and that 30,000 of his adher ents were turned back from the polls because their names already had been voted. District Attorney Jerome has announced that he will make a search ing investigation of the alleged whole sale frauds and has ordered the returns. from the Eighteenth and Sixteenth assembly districts to be carefully guarded. These are the home divisional of the Tammany leader,) Murphy, and Timothy Sullivan. In Louisville, the Fusion party man agers claim a non-eiection in it pre cincts because of disappearance of elec tion paraphernalia; that Democratic worKers confiscated the ballot boxes in 14 other precincts and allowed falsifi cation of returns and allege activity of "thuga" and repeaters. All through Ohio the belated returns showed Republican losses and the Re publicans concede that Pattison's plu rality teaches 25,000. The Democrats! claim that Pattison's plurality approx imates 55,000, which would; elect the entire Democratic ticket. Republicans concede the Democrats between two and five majority in the senate and from 10 to 15 in the house, while the Democrats claim five in the senate and 27 in the house. The City party (reform) plurality in Philadelphia is 43,333 for sheriff, and the Fusionist candidate for state treas urer (Berry) carried the city by over 36,000 plurality. The upheaval was the greatest in Pennsylvania for many years. In Rhode Island the Republican gubernatorial candidate has, a plurality estimated at 5,000, and Providence elects a Republican mayor for the first time in many years. In Massachusetts Democratic threats are made of a recount of the vote for lieutenant governor. The Republicans in Massachusetts have 23,116 plurality for Guild for governor, though Draper, for lieutenant governor, got less than 2,000 plurality. The Democrats gained three senators and one representative in the legislature. Every candidate of the Union Labor partv in San Francisco was elected by a subatantial majority. In Salt Lake the anti-Mormon victory is made complete by the election of the entire American party city ticket. The Kentucky legislature, which will elect a successor to Senator Blackburn, apparently will include 31 Democrats, five Republicans and two doubtful in the senate, and 79 Democrats, 14 Re publicans and seven doubtful in the house. The Democrats elected a mayor in Louisville by about 2.500. Nebraska was carried by the Repub licans. Returns from other states and cities show notable changes. Favors Single Statehood. Washington, Nov. 9. President Roosevelt today informed a delegation ol residents of Oklahoma that he would lecommend, in his forthcoming mes sage to congress, single statehood for Oklahoma and Indian Territory. The committee told the president they hoped congress would pass a single statehood measure in accordance with his recommendation. He discutsed briefly the incorporating in the state hood measure of a stipulation for pro hibitionl of the liquor traffic, urging; that it be left to the people. Copyright Treaty With Japan. Tokio, Nov. 9. It is announced that a copyright convention between Japan and the United States has been satis factorily concluded, and is on the eve of being signed. The matter has been a standing question since 1901 .