The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-08
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.


Culled From the Telegraph Columns
Owing to the prevalence of yellow
I fever in Guayaquil, all steamers from
: that port will be placed in quarantine
,ssfor observation.
Five miners were instantly killed in
Anderson, l. T. The explosion is sup
posed to have been caused by the fire
boss unscrewing his safety lamp, which
ignited the gas. =
A big strike of coal miners has oc-
CURED ON the Wheeling division of the
Baltimore & Ohio road, as the result
of the refusal of operators to pay the
sixty-cent rate, as promised at the late
joint convention of miners and opera
tors. About 1900 men are out, and
nearly every mine is closed.
The report that miners are to be i'm
ported from Missouri to operate the
Virginius mine and Revenue tunnel
near Ouray, Col, is stoutly; denied at
the Office of A. Reynolds, the principal
owner. Preparations to resume work
are going forward at the Revenue tun-
mel, and the old miners will be en-
ployed. -
A band of masked regulators went
to the house of G. w. Reddick, few
miles west of Newport, Idaho, and
called him to the door. They seized
him, dragged him outside, took him a
short distance from the house and gave
him terrible beating with horsewhips
and switches. His condition is critical
The alleged offense of Reddick was i'm;
proper attentions to married woman
of the neighborhood. :.
1t is stated that G. P. Huntington
has corps of engineers in the field
making preliminary survey for rail
road from Port Alvarado, south of Vera
Cruz, to the port of Salina Cruz on
the Pacific, and that, if he can secure
advantageous routes, he will ask the
government for a concession for the
purpose of operating the line in con-
nection with Pacific Mail steamers, do
ing away with the Panama route
The steamer Caranza, from Rotter-
dam, is reported lost off Cape Abjoa.
Six members of the crew We're saved
and fifteen are missing.
Police Officer Bratton was badlysshot
while trying to capture two burglars in
a store in Tacoma. He fierd at one bur-
glar, when another, who was watch.
ing, opened fire and shot Bratton twice |
in the back of the head. He will prob
ably die.
Eddie Chandler, about II years old,
was drowned in Portneuf river, in Po-
catello, Idaho. He threw his hat on
the ice and tried to get the dog. to get
1t, and, failing in this, he went on the
ice and broke through into deep water.
The river was dragged and the body
found in about an hour.
One of the last official acts Of Mayor
RAIDER of Los Angeles, Cal, will be. to
attach his signature to an ordinance
making expectortations upon the side
walks of public streets, entrances to
public buildings or the floors of street
cars .misdemeanor, punishable by
either fine or imprisonment, or both.
Chief Hazen of the secret service at
Washington, has issued circular warn
ing against a new counterfeit SO
national banknote on the Union Ma
tional bank of Detroit. The note is the
product of the same hand which pro-
duced the recent counterfeit on the
National Bank of Commerce of New
York. One distinguishable feature is
that the back of the note is upside
down.
Miss Celia Strahm was killed by he1,I
brother-in-law, Eden Buroker, atsF-
Dixie, eighteen miles west of Walla
Walla. Miss Strahm was visiting the
family, and after the family had re-
tired she went out of the door, and
upon returning the noise awakened
Buroker, who drew pistol from under
his pillow and shot Miss Strahm. He
mlstook her for an enemy, whom he
had heard was intent ON doing him
harm. +,
Japan has larger carrying trade on
the Pacific than the United States, and
Americans who are near enough to
watch the shifting scenes in this new
and rapidly developing contest for COM
supremacy find little matter
for pride in present tendencies. This
is the statement of United States Con-
sui Bell, of Sydney, contained in his
report to the state department upon the
opening of the new japanese steamship
line between Yokohama and Australia
The president has extended the civil
service rules so as to include all officers
and employees in the federal peniten-'
tiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan,
though it is to apply to all such gov
ernment institutions and to all peni-
tentiaries hereafter created Immediately
upon their establishment. Attorney
General Harmon is subjecting the re-
cent civil service schedule as affecting
the department of justice to rigid
scrutiny. The present amendment is
to overcome defect in the rules pro-
mulgated and futher amendments on
similar lines may be expected. r
The New York Herald's correspond
ent in Managua, Nicaragua, sends
word that the government is about to
effect forced loan of $500, 900 to pay
debts contracted by the present admin
istration.
The authorities in Jamaica have pro-
hibited the importation of cattle from
Colombia. By way of retaliation it is
suggested that the government should
issue decree against the importation
of laborers from Jamaica, many of
whom are now at work on the Panama .
canal.
A novel strike is now on in Van
,ouver, B. c., the chain gang having
refused to work. The city council re- ]
,ently decided to make the prisoners l
work whether wet or fine weather, !
holidays and week days alike, this be- 6
ng thought to be the only way to rid i
he CITY of tramps and other tough {