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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
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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 .