The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-12-25
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
From All Parts of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

ant Happenings of the Past Week
CulIed From the Telegraph Columns.
The convention of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor has adopted a resclr-
tion declaring that DO official of the
federation should affiliate with any
political party.
Antonio Jorco, religious fanatic,
who murdered his father near Vine
land, n. J., last week, has been killed
by the sheriff. He was trying to mur-
der his keeper, and the sheriff felled
him with a club.
In anticipation of severe fighting
there, two German warships have been
ordered from Hong Kong to Manila.
The government is acting in this mat
ter in agreement with other powers for
the protection of their subjects.
A Paris paper publishes interviews
with prominent men of France and a
foreign diplomat, all Of whom reproach
Great Britain and Spain for aban Ion
ing France in the Mexican expedition
of 1862, the object of which, they say,
was to create an American governme MT
to countarbalance the power of the
United States.
the Russian ambassador, NJ. de Nell
doff, has had an audience with the
sultan of Turkey, at which he .rged
the introduction of reforms and the
granting of amnesty to imprisoned
Armenians. The sultan asserted that
the reforms agreed upon by the powers
already had been executed and prom
ised to issue an amnesty decree in a
few days.
M. PHILIPPE Eugene Cuissart. radical
deputy for the first division of Laen,
France, is dead.
A Rouen dispatch says the French
steamer Marie Fanny is total loss,
off the island of Alderney. The cap
tain was saved. Fourteen members OF
the crew were drowned.
Ernest Chase, of Detroit, Mich, cut
the throat of his wife, and with the
same weapon cut his own throat from
ear to ear and fell dead beside her.
The tragedy was the climax of life
of unhsppiness.
Alexander Salvini, son of Tomaso
Salyini, the great Italian actor, died
in Florence, Italy. He died of intes-
tinal tuberculosis. The Italian news
papers publish eulogistic obituaries of
the deceased actor.
The London News has a dispatch
from Berlin with reference to rumors
of reprisals against American psro-
leum. 1t says that German consumers
are likely to suffer more by this move
than American exporters, Russia being
a'arceay ab7s 70 supply Germany.
Governor McGraw, of Washington,
has offered reward of $3.50 for the ar.
rest and conviction of the person or
persons who placed dynamite or other
explosives under the building occupied
by L. A. Plant and brother, at Prairie,
in Skagit county. This is in addition
to the reward of $3.50 offered by the
commissioners of that county.
Representative Ellis. Of Oregon, has
introduced bill extending until Janu-
airy l., 1899, the time in which settlers
upon forfeited railroad lands can make
payments. The hard times have made
it difficult for settlers to make their
payments, and Mr.. Ellis has been
asked to secure an extension. There
ought to be no objection to the bill,
and it will no doubt pass, if time can
be obtained for its consideration.
Senator Squire, of Washington, has
prepared an amendment which he in.
tends offering to the sundry civil ap-
preparation Lill, directing the secretary
of the interior to apply $25, 446 upon
the penitentiary at Walla Walla. This
is the amount that still remains unex-
pended of the appropriation of $50, 900
made by congress for the purpose of
building penitentiary in Washington.
IL is the intention to have the balance
used to construct wing on the peni-
tentiary.
Hon. A. G. Blair, Canadian minister
of railways and canals, and Colonel
James Domville, member of parliament,
were in Seattle recently and while
there Mr.. Blair recited the results of
his investigations of Crows Nest Pass
railway i'll British Columbia. He says
the country is undoubtedly such that it
will demand better railway facilities
Colonel Domville, one of the leading
iberalists in the Dominion, says gov
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Crows Nest Pass railway. His idea
is to run it as public highway.
The net results of the experiments of
the board which is investigating the
battleship steel has resulted in the con-
demnation of nearly the whole amount
now stacked up in the Newport News
Ship Building Company's yard. Six
out of twelve test pieces, which should
have been folded back on the vessels
without breaking, either broke short off
as readily as cast-iron, or tore apart
with less brittleness, but none the less
certainty of failing to meet contract re-
quirements. These disclosures will
lead the board to extend their investi-
cations much further than anticipated.
Another race riot occurred near May
field, KY, and a hundred shots were
fred at the residence of Tom Chambers,
colored, and the house afterwards
burned. A number of negroes have
been warned to leave town, and more
trouble is expected.
The Southern Pacific train was held
up by masked men about 200 miles
from San Antonio, Tex Three men
ordered the engineer to stop the train,
and, while one stood guard at the en-
gine, the two others went through the
express car and secured about $40.
H. G. Allen was found frozen to
death forty two miles east of Buckley,
Wash, ON Silver river, in the Gold
Hill mining district. The body was
found forty rods from Aliens ca bin.
He had gone out on a trapping exepe-
dition. Not returning, rescue party
went out from Buckley, and, after
weeks search, found the body, which