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NEWS OF THE WEEK. An attempt is to be made to provide Walla Walla with a city park. Russia reports a marked and alarming spread of the cholera epidemic. The whaleback steamer now being constructed at Everett will be launched August 26. A sturgeon eight feet long and weighing over 300 pounds was caught near Payette, Idaho, recently. The building and stock of Buyer, Reich & Co., wholesale fancy goods, San Francisco, was damaged $100,000 by fire. Salem bankers are advancing money to the hop growers of the Willamette valley with which to harvest their abundant crop. The president has appointed Charles B. Morton, of Maine, fourth auditor of the treasury, vice John K. Lynch, of Massachusetts, resigned. Handy, the third negro engaged in the outrage on Mrs. Sightler at Swansea, S. C., was hanged on the same tree as the other two Monday morning. The Cleveland Rolling Mill Company, Cleveland, Ohio, has closed its mills on account of the lack of orders, throwing 3000 men out of employment. The I. W. Case, the oldest bank of Astoria, failed to open Monday morning, but the owner declares his suspension will be only a matter of a few days. Louis Sorenson, carpenter, fell from the fourth story of a building in San Francisco, Tuesday, and received injuries from which he died in a short time. Dick Hall, the noted moonshiner chief, has been killed by John Belcher on the banks of the Elkhorn river, Hill county, Ky. Hall had run off with Belcher's wife. The City & Suburban Street Railway Company, the largest street railway system of Portland, has issued an order cutting down the wages of its employes 10 per cent. Officer James A. Harvey, of the detective force of Syracuse, N. Y, wasshot by George A. Barns ,Monday morning. The officer was about to arrest Barnes, when the latter pulled a revolver, killing Harvey. At Utica, Ohio, Monday night John Cattle, two men named Bell, and others named Bowers and Skillen were killed, and Joseph Ship fatally injured by the explosion of the boiler of a threshing machine. Miss Emma Lindsay, of Jeffersonville, Ind., was rebuked by her brother-in-law. She became very angry and fell back in her chair speechless. Later she lost the use of both eyes, and has since been totally blind. George W. Smith, a well-known contractor of Rhinelander, Wis., shot and killed his wife and then himself. Jealousy was the cause. They had been separated some time, and she refused to return to him. A Sacramento, Cal., dispatch says: District Attorney Ryan says he will probably take an appeal to the supreme court from the judgment of Judges Prewett and Cattlin in dismissing Jeffries' bigamy case. United States Marshal Peck Bruner and posse had a battle with four outlaws a few miles west of Vinita, I. Γ., last Saturday evening, in which one of the outlaws was killed and another severely wounded and captured. For the first time since the passage of the Sherman silver law the treasury in July failed to buy its full quota of 4,500, 000 ounces of silver. The total purchases for the month were 2,384,000 ounces Jeaving a shortage of 2,118,000 ounces.
