The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-09-22
FROM ALL THE WORLD.
Items of Interest About People
and Things Carefully
Corralled.

Mrs. CIeveland's baby weighed 81 pounds.
The yellow fever situation at Brunswick, !,
Ca, is alarming.
The centennial celebration of the laying
of the corner. stone of the capitol occurred
ON the 18th.
Extensive changes among the pension
agencies will soon be made by Secretary
Hoke Smith.
The Everett bill, extending Chinese reg.
istration for one year, will probably pass
the house with very little opposition.
City Treasurer K rug, of Seattle, is de.
faulter to the extent of over $780, 600. He
is believed to be i'll British Columbia.
The treasury department has informed
the Tacoma local authorities that the pro-
| cess of advertising by sticking little posters
on coins is illegal
The first report that the new baby III the
White House was to.be named Naomi Was
false. 1t is now announced that the young
lady will be called Esther.
The sovereign grand lodge of ODD Eel
lows met in Milwaukee last Friday, and all
| exceptionally interesting programme was
arranged for its entertainment.
At Springfield, Mass, Sept. ii, A. A.
Zimmerman broke abe worlds bicycle rec
ord for one mile in an unofficial trial at
Hamden Park, his time being 2:Ol 3 5.
The house committee ON the election of
president and vice-president and members
of congress has ordered favorable report
on the bill repeating the fedeGal election
law.
The people of Walla Walla valley are
talking of the profits there would be in
raising tobacco. Already tobacco is sue
cessfuly cultivated on several tracts in the
valley.
At Walla Walla, Sept II the heaviest rain.
fall for years fell here during the eighteen
hours ending at noon today, when 1.37
inches fell. Heavy damages to grain sacked
in fields
President Grover Cleveland and family,
the new baby included, of course, If possi.
BILE will visit Chicago October 9, to take
part in the celebration of Chicago day at the
worlds fair.
The statement of the receivers of ex-
Secretary Fosters Affairs put the liabilities
at 81 ,OS6,6 GIL, and assets 1868, ,342. A
proposition is under consideration to allow
him to take charge again.
The Cherokee strip is now inhabited by a
population exceeding 100000 people
Many har1ships are in store for the boomers
in portions of the strip on account OF the
scarcity of water, hay and other necessaries
The treasury department has notified I'M
migration Inspector Smythe at Tacoma
that British Columbia Indians have right
to enter the United States for the purpose
of picking hops, provided they do not come
in under contract.
The directors of the Southern Pacific
railroad company have decided to issue
bonds slightly in the excess of $S9, 900, 900.
They are to be exchanged for old bonds and
and the excess is to be used in the con
struction of new lines.
A fire in the town of Pullman, near Chi
cago damaged the lumber yards of the Pull
man Palace Car company to the extent of
S25O,OOO. Between 5000, 600 and 10000
600 feet of lumber were burned. The
burned area covers nearly twenty acres
Michael J, Fitzmaurice commenced an
action in the superior court at Seattle
day to recover $29, 865 damages for the loss
of leg by an accident which occurred two
miles west of Sultan station March 4th.
Notwithstanding the alarmist reports in
regard to Prince Bismarck's condition that
have been circulated, it can be said that the
ex- chancellor is recovering from his recent
attack of sickness. His condition is i'm
proving daily, slowly of course, but still
improving
The national congress of business men
met in Washington last week to discuss the
financial interests of the country and to ask
the national congress to repeal the purchas-
ing clause of the Sherman act. The ap.
pointmeut OF a non partisan national com.
mission by the president was asked for.
Secretary Carlisle reports that there yet
remains about $25, 500 in the treasury avail
able for Chinese deportation, or total of
1863, 500, of which $3S, 600 will be necessary
to pay salaries and expenses of officials in
enforcing same. About $4,000 Chinese
are estimated as liable to deportation, the
. Chicago Inter. Ocean: The democratic
New York World wants western farmers
to contribute each ''a bag of wheat to the
starving multitude of the unemployed in
great cltles." Would the World mind tell.
ing its readers whether these are "the good
democratic times" which it foretold year
or more ago? The World very fstteringly
says: ''Our western farmers are generous
class. The idea that men, women and chill
dren anywhere are suffering for bread stirs
their pity"
The bill introduced in the house by Rep
resentative Everett, of Massachusetts, to
give the Chinese year from the present
time to register is undoubtedly to he the
administration measure. Senator Dolph
says that if the Chinese government would
ask for an extension of time for Chinese
laborers to register and give some assurance
that if an opportunity were given they
would register, congress might take such
request in consideration. But as no such
request has been made, or assurance given
by China on behalf of the Chinese. the prol.
osition to give further time is merely a back.
down by the government in accordance with
the views and desires of the administration.
Henry B. Foulke, president OF the Mahat-
mas of Theosophists and Spiritualists in
Onset Bay, Mass, announced last Sunday
that he is the Messiah. He says he has been
reincarnated no less than seven times; that
Mime. Blavatsky came to prepare the way
for his entry as the christ and to straighten
out the sefious condition OF things now ex.
isting in the religious and business world.
He says he is in constant communication
with ''Shades," and that his announcement
and actions are placed far beyond his per-
sonal control by the Shades of the Thibetan
brotherhood. He prophesies that war and
tloodshed are soon to follow and that social