Yamhill County Reporter lateraatlnf Col lection of Current Event* In Condensed Form From Both Continent*. The great trial of Arroyo’s murder- era is over, at the City of Mexico, hav­ ing terminated with the sentence of death pronounced on 10 of the police officers and policemen concerned in the butchery of the hapless wretch whose audacious attempt on the president’s life caused so profound a sensation there. The jury was out over seven hours. One of the most important features of the Behring sea negotiations not heretofore disclosed is that in the event that Great Britain anil Canada consent to a suspension of pelagic sealing for one year, the United Slates for the same time will agree to a suspension of all taking of seals for one year on Pribyloff islands. constituting the American seal possessions in Behring sea. Postmaster-General Gary is receiving many letters regarding the postal-sav­ ings bank proposition strongly urged by him in his annual report. Many people throughout the country have written commenting on the projected radical extension of the postal service, and have submitted some suggestions calculated in their opinon to make the scheme more feasible. As a whole, the correspondents indicate a rather general commendation. Ex-Governor Crittenden, of Missouri, who was consul-general to Mexico under the last Cleveland administra­ tion, announces that he will leave Kansas City next week for San An­ tonio, Tex., where he will be joined by W. J. Bryan and Mrs. Bryan, and that the three will depart from San Antonio on a week’s tour of Mexico. Aided by the ex-consul's knowledge of the people and country, Mr. Bryan will make a careful study of Mexico’s financial sys­ tem. Passengers on the steamer Mascotte, which has arrived in Tampa, report that Engel Pasee, who betrayed Gen­ eral Castillo to the Spaniards for $5,000, was captured by insurgents on his way to Cienfuegos, court-mar­ tialed on a drum-head and hanged. A great fire broke out at Melbourne, Australia, and in a very short space of time did enormous damage. It is esti­ mated that the loss will reach £1,000,- 000, while the trade in soft goods has received a serious setback. Hundreds of employes of all sorts have been thrown out of employment. Changing its name and principles the American Railway League has become a full-fledged political Organization. Hereafter it will be known as the Rail­ way Employes and Telegraphers’ Polit­ ical League of America. Its object is to deal entirely in state and national politics, chiefly on legislative lines. GOVERNMENT ARMOR PLANT. 1 4 Special Naval Board l>raw» I |> Elabor­ ate Plana. Washington, Nov. 25.—The special naval laiard appointed to examine into the cost of armor-making will present to congress details of a plant which it has designed. It will cost more than $3,000,000 ami have a capacity of 0,000 tons of armor ]>er annum, which is alxnit the combined capacity of the two armor plants now supplying the navy. The processes of manufacture will in­ clude the very latest developments in the art of metallurgy, and, while the plans contemplate the manufacture of harveyized nickel-steel armor, accord­ ing to the methods used in the reforg­ ing process, they will admit of easy adaptation to the new' secret Krupp processes of hardening armor by the use of gas. The plans are said to be per­ fect in every detail, and, having been drawn under the direction of one of the leading experts of the country, the specifications are said to be so well de­ fined that no difficulty is expected to arise in securing straight bids. The board has prepared the form of adver­ tisement calling for bids for erecting this plant. As congress desired that infomration, Secretary Long will soon issue the advertisement. It is the pur- pose to have all of the plans in the sec­ retary’s hands ny the first of next month, and, if the advertisement is promptly sent out, it is thought that within three months at the latest con­ gress will have before it full informa­ tion as to the cost of an armor plant, as well as offers from existing plants to sell out to the government. FOOTBALL AND THEATER. A Syracuse Clergyman Inclined to Fa­ vor Both. Syracuse, N. Y., Nov. 25. — Rev. Dr. James R. Day, chancellor of Syracuse university, and a Methodist clergyman, says in a public address: “I believe that some such game as football, which contains elements of roughness and danger, is necessary to the development of many young men in the universities and seminaries. The future is tending towards a more open playing of the game. I do not like the hurling of one mass of humanity against another until one or the other becomes exhausted, but I do not like joining the universal outcry against the game. “The American people are easily in­ fluenced into a general epidemic of re­ form, but I think football has come to stay. It is encouraged by the faculty of Syracuse unversity. Football would fail in one of its chief features, I think, if it should not teach the young man self-control. A man who goes through a season of being trodden upon and knocked down deserves fairly a diploma in the art of self-control. It is very good discipline.” The chancellor further said. “I am told that many of the students attended the theater and listened to Mr. Jefferson. Now, 1 am a parson, and my privileges are restricted some­ what. I believe with the church in regard to the theater in general. I am sorry that anybody thinks it wrong to see Jefferson. I believe that such men as he would redeem the stage from any doubtful characteristics.” These remarks were loudly ap­ A big masonry wharf, having a front­ plauded, especial! by the university age of 300 meters on the river Tagus, students. opposite the eiistom-honso in Lisbon, suddenly subsided and completely dis­ DISGRACE TOO GREAT. ap,wared in the riverbed. The wharf, which was recently constructed at a A Youth Kilin lllnmelf Because Hi» cost of £50,000, rested on mini. For­ Father W hm a Tliief. tunately, no one was huit in the col­ Chicago, Nov. 25.—Grief and chag­ lapse. rin over the disgrace of his father, The hostility between the Christian Charles W. Charnly, according to his socialists and the social democrats, friends, drove to suicide James Cham which exists in all parts of Austria ly, who was found in his room in the and frequently leads to sharp collisions Hotel Phister, Milwaukee, last night, between the rival partisans, has result­ with a bullet hole in his head. ed in serious rioting at Grats, the capi­ Charles W. «Charnly, former presi­ tal city of Sitira, and the seat of im­ dent of the Presbyterian board of aid portant cotton and woolen manufac­ for colleges and academies, disappeared tories. last summer short some $60,000 of The official programme for the re­ funds entrusted to him. This weighed ception of 1898 at the White House by heavily on the son’s mind. Up to last night there was apparent­ Preaident and Mrs. McKinley has been issued, All of the events, excepting ly nothing to show who the dead man New Years’ reception ami the public wax. Last night a newspaper reporter reception, will be bv card invitation. from Chicago who was in the city visit­ Only those invited will be given an op­ ed the morgue with the deputy coroner portunity to be present at least oneo and made a thorough examination of during the season. The avoidance of the clothing. The discovery wax made excessive and dangerous crowding will of the name ”J. Douglas, Chicago.” add to the attractiveness of all the re­ In the suicide’s clothes. The reporter on returning to Chicago found that ceptions. Douglas lived at 99 Astor stieet. On The theosophists of San Francisco arriving at the Astor-xtreet house he are taking very active interest in the wax met. by Douglax Charnly, cousin fate of Durrant. It is a tenet of their of the suicide. faith that capital punishment is wrong, It appeals young Charnly, the sui­ and they are getting up a petition cide has been out of work for some praying Governor Budd to stay the exe­ time, but that on Saturday he engaged cution ami to commute his sentence to with a firm somewhere in Kentucky to life imprisonment. The petition was work as book keeper. prepared bv Dr. Jerome A. Anderson, president of the San Francisco Theo­ Two l>uel<* In Germany. sophical Society, and it lias already re­ Berlin, Nov. 25.—A sensation wiis ceived a number of signatures. caused in this city today by the report The commission appointed to revi .e of two duels between armv officers. the criminal code of the United States, The first report came from Col berg, in the partial re,s>rt which it will make Prussia, and stated that Captain Hahn to the president and congress, will and Captain Ostraki had fought a duel present a code for criminal justice in there and that the latter had been dan­ Alaska. The commission is authorised gerously wounded. Both men belong to do this in the act which creates it as to the same regiment, stationed at Col- a territory. At present the laws of berg. It is alleged that Captain Hahn Oregon are made applicable to Alaska, had seduced his victim’s wife. The *nd these will lie revised, codified and second duel was fought at Nuerem. ■ mended by tl e commission to suit the Lieutenant Siegmund, of the Seventy­ present conditions, and will be sub­ fifth regiment, mortally wounded Lieu­ mitted as a naitial report for the basis tenant Schoenfield, of the same regi­ of legislation by congress. ment. The discovery of many children Strengthening Gibraltar. of very little if any Indian blood in the Washington, Nov. 25.—In a report government boarding schools through­ to the state department. Consul out the country, leads to the recom­ Sprague refers to a work in progress at mendation by the superintendent of Gibraltar that is not generally known. Indian schools that, inasmuch as there He says 3.000 workmen daily enter the seems to be no remedy underlying ex­ fortress and latior on the extensive im­ isting laws, it is imperative in the in­ provements now' going on in the build­ terests of justice to both races that con­ ing of docks and other government gress should early indicate by statute works. what degree of blood shall constitute A mechanical device recently patent­ Indian, and to what extent adopted In­ diana shall be entitled to governmental ed pastes paper labels on 100,000 tins in ten hours. support, in matter* of education. Goluchowski Gravely Warns Europe of Danger. PROBLEM FOR NEXT CENTURY Competition of A inerlcan Nation* Fright­ en* the Power* of the Olared to be of little value. When washed in alcohol and hot water, the appraiser of the diamonds found them of flue quality and exceptionally well cut. The duties and penalties upon this invoice will now amount to more than $4,500; whereas, under a correct invoice, less than $1,000 would have been collected. The Boat Fp.et. Good Ground, L. I., Nov. 23. — An­ drew Foley, William Wells and Oliver Wells were drowned last night by the upsetting of a catlsiat in Shinneeock bay. When the boat was found today the bodice of two of the men were en­ tangled in the rigging. Brazil, Ind., Nov. 23.—A train on the Chicago A- Indiana coal road, car­ rying 500 miners returning from work, was wrecked near Coal bluffs thia morning. The train ran over a horse, throw ing one car and the calatoee from the track, and both rolled down the em­ bankment ami into a ditch filled with water. Twenty-six miners were more or lea» hurt. Three of them suffered injuria* that probably will prove fatal. The fatally hurt are Asbury Rummell, Gus Ku tier t and Guy Aikerman. AGAIN ON FREE The Competitor’s Crew Out of the Jaws of Death. New York, Nov. 24.—The steamer Saratoga, from Havana, having bn board the released men of the Comjieti- tor crew, has been reported entering the harbor. The men are: Captain Alfredo Laborde. William Gildea. Ona Melton. William Keavitt. Charles Bernett, an Englishman. The five men were in fairly good health and excellent spirits on reaching quarantine. Captain Laborde suffers somewhat from paralysis, which he contracted during his long confinement in the Cabanas fortress. Joseph A. Springer, the United States vice-con­ sul at Havana, was also a passenger on the Saratoga. Mr. Springer declined to talk for publication. The released men wore the clothes in which they were clad at the time of their capture, on April 25, 1896, at Berraeoa, San Catalino, Cuba. Another happy passenger on the Saratoga was Julio Arago v Quesada, the young Cuban insuigent who was or­ dered to be shot by Weyler, but was pardoned by General Blanco, a friend of the prisoner's father. The six men who had escaped the fate of the Virginias captives were greeted upon their arrival by an enthu­ siastic crowd, who gave them a hearty welcome, but the poor wretches were too weak to respond to the cheers which had been given in their honor. TO RESTRICT SILVER OUTPUT. Alleged Object of the Troponed Smelter Com bi lie. New York, Nov. 24. — Representa­ tives of several silver mining and re­ fining works of the United States and Mexico will meet in New York this week to form, if possible, a combina­ tion agency to control the price of sil­ ver futures. The price of silver for future deliv­ ery is always less than the price of cash silver, and the smelters want to equalize prices. It is .said that the smelters hope by their combination to stiffen the price of silver and eventu­ ally reduce the output, although they deny the report that they intend to form a silver trust. Among the works to be represented at the conference are the International Metal Company, of New York; the Omaha & Grant Smelting Company, of Omaha; the Mexican Smelting (.Com­ pany of Monterey; the Pliildelphia Smelting & Refining Company, of Pue­ blo, and the Guggenheim Smelting Company, of Port Amboy, N. J. A POPULAR GOLD TO BE FREELY USED. SOIL. TICKET. Tlie Sebastian 1 nternegot-iable Mileage Book in Great Demand. Chicago, Nov. 24.—The new’ form of internegotiable mileage ticket is prov­ ing very popular. The Sebastian ticket was placed on sale November 15, and 25,000 tickets were printed, as it was thought this would be sufficient for the demand that would be made. This number is exhausted, however, and an­ other 25,000 has been ordered. The Wes|irn roads declare that they will reduce still further the rates between Qhicago and Northwest points if neces­ sary to maintain their traffic against the competition of steamship lines and Southwestern railroads doing business at Gulf ports. It has become a serious matter for some of the roads, and they have been seen during the last three months a very large amount of tonnage go through the Gulf of Mexico, which otherwise they would have handled. J Blanco Trying to Buy Oyer the ¡■•ur­ gent I.eailer». Senator Chandler Talks of Work Before Congress. SOME OF THE IMPORTANT BILLS Prospects for Hawaiian Treaty Good — . Cuban Question Depends l'pon President’s Attitude. Washington, Nov. 22.—Senator W. E. Chandler, of New Hampshire, in an interivew regarding legislation at the coming session of congress said: “Senator Lodge proposes pushing the measure looking to the restriction of immigration anil demanding its passage without delay. Bills proposing to bar the undesirable foreign element from entering this country are now pending in both the house and senate, and there is no doubt that the two houses will be able to agree upon a bill. The house measure lays restrictions on what are called “birds of passage,” but the senate bill does not. The class refer­ red to is that which lives along the northern and southern border lines of the country, and embraces Mexicans and Canadians who work daily in the United States, but who live in their native countries. This part of the hill, in my judgment, eventually will be omitted, and the senate bill, which applies to immigrants from European and Oriental countries, will be passed. “Some action, I believe, will be taken looking to the relief of the Cuban in­ surgents. Of course, the Republican policy will largely depend upon the president’s message, but, my opinion is that he will leave the entire matter tc the judgment of congress. “The prospects for the ratification of the Hawaiian treaty are excellent. The Republicans will stand by it to a unit, and many Democrats will do like­ wise. I think the necessary two-thirds vote will be secured. “As to financial legislation, especial­ ly as to the revision of the banking laws, I cannot see how any such legis­ lation can be passed.” For tlie Land of Gohl. New York, Nov. 22.—A dispatch to the World from London says: London capitalists seem to be resolved to share in the big profits anticipated by a rush to the Klondike next spring. The Van­ couver & Northern Shipping & Trading Company, which is building the new Canadian Pacific railway, with a cap­ ital of $7,500,000 subscribed by six shareholders, today purchased the old Cunarders, the Bothnia and Scythia, and two Capo mail steamers, as the nucleus of a fleet to run from Van- ! couver to Alaskan ports, commencing March 10. Both ships are chartered for freight by Lipton, the millionaire provision merchant, for tiie voyage out, and he is said to have a scheme 'for building a new town to be called Liptonia, near Skaguay. This enter­ prise is understood to be the result of the visit to Skaguay of the lion. James Burke Roche, who has just returned here. Two New Counterfeits. Havana, Nov. 24.—General Pando started for this city by train last Satur­ day, according to official announce­ ment, to take charge of the campaign against the insurgents. He was ac­ companied by all his staff, and was es­ corted by a company of artillery. It is stated on good authority, how­ ever, that Pando lias been commis­ sioned by Captain-General Blanco to enter into communication witli the in­ surgent leaders, with a view to arrang­ ing for peace. This statement is based upon accurate knowledge of all the facts. Pando first secured the release from confinement of Damien Caballero» who had been imprisoned for acting as a spy for the insurgents. Pando fur­ nished Caballero, whois god-father of Rabi, the man looked upon as being the backbone of the insurgent govern­ ment in the province of Santiago de Cuba, witii a considerable sum of money and caused him to be attended to Manzanillo, where a good force was placed at his disposal. Pando's peace emmissary was also furnished official documents empowering him to act in behalf of the Spanish commander. Pando instructed Caballero to offer army General Rabi high rank in the Spanish army and a large sum of money to be distributed among the other insurgent leaders of that part of Cuba, and in addition, a large amount of money for himself in the event of his succeeding in arranging terms of peace. Although Caballero has not returned, confidential advices reaching Spanish officials here seem to indicate that he has so far been unsuccessful. It is un­ derstood that Rabi replied that he be­ lieved tlie successful ending of the war in favor of the insurgents was ap­ proaching, that the Cubans, with tlie aid of -the United States, will gain their independence, and therefore he desires to continue fighting tlie Span­ iards until the final victory is won. FIRE ON THE OREGON Caused by Spontaneous Combustion—A Narrow Escape. San Francisco, Nov. 24.—The Call says: The coal bunkers in the United States battle-ship Oregon caught fire Sunday evening from spontaneous com­ bustion, and for over eight hours the crew worked with a vengeance to smother what looked like a costly blaze. There were over 250 tons of coal in the vessel, and prompt action alone saved the ship and fuel. The fire is supposed to have started from water leaking into the coal bunkers. This would eventu­ ally cause a terrific heat from accumu­ lating gasses. Luckily, the fire was discovered before it had gained much headway. An alarm was immediately given, and orders were issued to remove the coal from the vessel to the wharf. Steampipes were attached and connec­ tion made with the lower part of the vessel in an attempt to smother what fire might have been in other parts of the ship. The men went to work with a will, but the task was larger than had at first been supposed. The work was- done with difficulty, as the smoke hin­ dered the men in their attempts to quickly put it out. During the whole night after the fire had been discovered, the entire crew labored in removing the smoking and blazing coal, and it was not until day­ light that the men were allowed to leave their work. The warship will be drydocked within a few days and proDerly righted, after which she will »be coaled and her ammunition placed on board, after which she will be ready for action. Washington, Nov. 22.—The secret i service announces the discovery of a new counterfeit $10 silver certificate, and also a counterfeit national bank note. The silver certificate is a photo­ graphic production, printed on two pieces of paper pasted together. No at­ tempt has been made to color the back of the note, which is a shade of brown, instead of green. Tlie seal is colored a bright pink. The note is badly print­ ed, and the lathe work is blurred and POSTAL SAVINGS BANKS indistinct. Tlie national bank note is Senate Will Kill Hie Currency Bill. on the First National bank of Joplin, Denver, Nov. 24. — Congressman Postmaster-General’* Proposition Re­ Mo., series 1882. It is also printed ceiving Many Indorsements. on two pieces of paper, and the silk John C. Bell, of Colorado, stopped off Washington, Nov. 24.—Postmaster- fibre in the geneuine is imitated by pen a few hours in this city on his way to Washington, where he goes to attend a General Gary is receiving many letters and ink marks. meeting of the appropriations commit­ regarding the postal saving hank propo­ Turku Living on Bread and Water. tee. Speaking of the probable action sition strongly urged by him in his an­ London, Nov. 22.—The Vienna cor­ of congress at its coming session on tlie nual report. Many people throughout respondent of tlie Daily Telegraph says: the country have written, commenting Pecuniary embarrassments have leached financial question, he said: “I think a bill will pass the house on the projected radical extension of an acute stage at tlie Yildiz Kiosk. practical.y as recommended by the ex­ the postal service, and have submitted Salaries of ambassadors are left unpaid some suggestions calculated in their for months. Since the departure of ecutive, and it will then go to the sen­ opinion to make the correspondents in­ Galib Bey, Turkish ambassador at Ber­ ate, where it will be abandoned by that dicate a rather general commendation, lin, another Turkish envoy has written body and an appeal will be made to the and some well-known economists and Tewfik Pasha, the Turkish foreign min­ people that they must make the sen­ financiers numbered among the post­ ister, declaring that he has sold every­ ate Republican before any remedial master-general’s friends, who have thing and lives almost entirely on dry legislation can be obtained.” With reference to the admission of heretofoie opposed measures of this bread, adding that he even fears he new Western states, Congressman Bell character, have in letterx just received will be unable much longer to borrow said: given a qualified indorsement. Post­ that. A third ambassador lias written “There will be no more Western master-General Gary expects some leg­ to Tewfik Pasha saying: states admitted into the Union while islation by congress on .this question, “All my means are exhausted, and possibly at the next session, and free I cannot even buy a pair of gloves when the Republican party has control ot either house. The speaker told me discussion of it throughout the country obliged to appear anywhere.” last year that be felt great responsi­ will render material assistance to this Murderer Electrocuted. bility for having taken an active part end. Columbus, O., Nov. 22.—Alfred J. in admitting tlie Western states. He Money Paid Over. Frantz, the murderer of Bessie Lytle, said the power of tlie Western senators Washington, Nov. 24.—The treasuiy of Dayton, was electrocuted in the an­ was unjust, and had been greatly receive I today from the reorganization nex at the Ohio penitentiary at 12:22 abused, and was, in fact, checking the committee of the Union Pacific $13.- this morning. He took his place in development of the country; that he 645,250 in cash and turned over to the the chair at 12:18 without an apparent thought it was a grievous wrong for the committee that amount in Ixmds, tremor. The first shock did not cause Western senators to stand in the way which have been on de|>osit with the death, and the current was applied of the progress of the country. Many government in the sinking fund of the again three times before life was pro- senators will probably oppose the ad­ nouned extinct. On August 27, 1896, mission of those territories because of road. Frantz murdere 1 Bessie Lytle, a young this impression. Trouble in I'rugnay. "Hawaii will be annexed.” girl whom he had betrayed. Her body New York, Nov. 24.—As a result of was thrown into tlie Stillwater river. I.nrtgrrt’s Trial Went Over. the attempted revolutionary movement Frantz made an allged confession, in Chicago, Nov. 24.—The second trial in Montevideo. Uruguay, says the Her­ which he claimed the girl had shot her­ ald’s correspondent there, five promi­ self while they were out riding, and, of Luetgert, which was to have begun nent army officers have been arrested. fearing lie would be charged with mur­ today, went over until tomorrow at the Many arrests of civiliansand politicians der, he had thrown the body into the request of the defense, who will ask for a change of venue from Judge Horton. have also been made. The Herald's river. correspondent in Rio Janeiro telegraphs Peru Want» to Arbitrate. Another Trial Trip. that a commercial ciisis ia imminent. Washington, Nov. 22.—The Peru­ San Francisco, Nov. 24.—The United Exchange is falling. vian minister, Dr. Egulgerin, was States gunboat Wheeling is exjiected to among Secretary Sherman’s callers to­ go to sea today to complete the trial of Moon*hln»r* C aptured. day. He came to talk over the last her machinery and other details of her Hot Springs, Ark., Nov. 24. — Deputy demand of our government for a settle­ construction. She will be away several United States Marshall, with a ¡>osse ment of the McCord claim, and he has days. She behaved well on her trip to of 12 men, has arrived in the city with now, in return, proposed arbitration in Honolulu, but the navy department'* 15 illicit distillers who were captured the case. This proposition is not ac­ requirements call for a further trial. in Scott county. The officers destroyed ceptable to our government, and the ne­ It is expected that when the 1899 four stills and about 4,000 gallons of gotiations continue. season opens there will be cogwheel whisky and beer. The officers got the drop on the men and captured them A pound of the finest spider web railway from Cbamounix up the Mon> without trouble. I would reach around the world.