The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-26
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE day
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News Of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

'TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting CoIIectipn-pf Items From
the, New. and the Old World In a
Condensed and Comprehensive Form
A dispatch-from Hawarden says that
Mr.. Gladstone, concerning whose
health an alarming; rumor was widely
circulated, is in his usual health, and
Sunday morning walked to the village
church.. where he attended services.
Passengers on the steamer Mascotte,
which has arrived in Tampa, report
that Engel Pasee, who betrayed Cen
eral Castillo to- the Spaniards for
$4,000, was captured by insurgents on
his. way to- Cienfuegos, .court-mar-
tailed 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. 1t is esti-
mated.,that the loss will reach 81 ,000,-
006, while the trade in soft goods has
received serious setback. Hundreds
of employees, of all sorts have been
bAIOWA Oub VI uClIt.
:, Changing its name and principles the
American Railway League has become
a fuli-6edged political organization.
Hereafter it will be known as the Rail-
way Employees and :TeTegraphers' Polit-
ieal League OF America: Its object is
to>deal entirely in state and national
politics, chiefly on legislative lines.
y; A big masonry wharf, having a 'front.'
age of 800 meters on the river Tagus,
opposite the custom-house in Lisbon,
suddenly subsided and completely dis
appeared in the riverbed. The wharf,
(which was recently constructed at
cost of $50, 900, rested en- mud. For
tunately, no one was hunt in the col
lapse. So
The hostility between the Christian
socialists and the social democrats,
which exists in all parts of Austria
and frequently leads to sharp collisions
between the rival partisans, has result
ed in serious rioting at Gratz, the capi-
tai city of Sitira, and the seat of inn
portant cotton and .woolen manufac-
tories.
The official programme for the re.
ception of, 1898 at the White House by
President and Mrs. Mckinley has been
issued. All of the events, excepting
New Years reception and the public
reception, will be by card invitation.
Only those invited will be given an OPP
.portunity, to be present at least once
during the season. The avoidance of
excessive and dangerous crowding will
"a Ill IL,
ceptions.
The theosophists of San Francisco
are taking very active interest in the
fate of Durrant. Itis a tenet of their
faith that capital punishment is wrong,
and they are getting up petition
praying Governor Budd to stay the exc
cution and to commute his sentence to
life imprisonment. The petition was
prepared by DIR. Jerome A. Anderson,
president of the San Francisco Theo-
lsophieal Society, and it has already re-
ceiyed a. number Of signatures.
The. commission apnointed to revise
the criminal code of the United States,
in the partial report which it will make
to the president and congress, will
-present>a code. for criminal Justice in
Alaska. The commission is authorized
to do this in the act which creates it as
territory. At present the laws of
Oregon are. made applicable to Alaska, !
and these will be revised, codified and !
amended by flse commission to suit the /
present conditions, and will be snb-
,mitted. asa partial report. .ferthe-= basis
of Legislation. by congress.
! The final act unon-the part of the !,
government in the ratification of the
treaty adopted by the recent universal
congress was taken Tuesday, when ,
President Mckinley signed the formal :
convention" or treaty and Secretary Of
State Sherman had the government :
seal affixed. Postmaster General Gary !
had already signed it. The treaty
takes -effectsJanuary 1, 1898"
At a'session Of the Knights of Labor
council, at Louisville, it was voted
unanimously to set apart the last Sun
day in June as labor memorial day. |
This day will be observed by all the !
district assemblies in the United States. |
1t was expressly stated that the day |
should not be regarded in the light Of +
: holiday. 1t was fixed upon Sunday |
its attendant festivities. = :.
An immense claim, embracing
1000, 900 acres of land in the North ,
west, including the cities Of Minneapo-
lis and st. Paul, has been brought be-
fore Commissioner. Hermann, of the .
general land office, and the assistance ;
of the government in securing official
data is called for. The claimants are
c. B. Holloway, of Holland, o., and
A. Gum. of Momee, o. They are ;.
making an examination the general
land office records with a view to secur-
ing copies of certified paper, which,
they assert, will establish their title
to the lands claimed by them. Their
ancestor, through whom they claim
title, was Jonathan Carver, an English
man, a we'll known explorer in the last
century.
Bishop Doan, in his annual address
to the clergy of the diocese of. Albany,
n. Y, in speaking of the relations of
America to England in the Lambeth
conference, was very intense in his con-
demnation of what is called "jingo- :
ISM" Speaking on the subject of in
ternational arbitration, he said the
spirit of hostility, so openly expressed
on this side of the water, was present,
though latent, in England and we
should be careful how we arouse this
feeling to active hostility,
Thomas Shamley, about so years old,
in |