The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-12
CURRENT EVENTS Of THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphie
News Of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

An Interesting Collection of Items From
the New and the Old World In a
Condensed and Comprehensive Form
Three men were burned to death in
fire at Hot Springs, Ark.
Marshal Blanco has extended full
pardon to all rebels in Cuba.
Steps were taken at mass meeting
of miners held at Marquette, Ill.,, to
continue the coal strike throughout the
winter.
A rumor has reached Simla that a
native officer and 35 Sikhs belonging
to the Kurram column have been inter-
cepted by the tribesmen in a ravine
and slaughtered.
Two men met death in Southern Or
egon. One was struck and hurled
from trestle by train on the South
ern Pacific, the other was run over by
the same train while switching in the
yard at Grants Pass.
A Naples dispa tch says Mount Vesu-
vius is in great activity. A mass of
lava is pouring out from the Artio de
Cavello crater, which opened in 1895.
Two wide streams are flowing down in
the direction of Vitrova and Hiano del
. Inestro.
A terrible famine is raging in the
province of Archangel, Russia. Many
have already died of starvation. The
people wander about reduced almost to
skeletons, the heads swollen to the size
of baskets. The only means of subsist-
ence is tea.
The chamber of commerce of San
Francisco, has sent the following mes
sage to President Mckinley: ''In the
name of humanity and patriotism, the
cham ber of commerce of San Francisco
respectfully urges upon you the prompt
dispatch of the revenue cutter Bear to
the Arctic, under command of Captain
Healy, with discl etionary orders, fully
equipped and provisioned, to rescue
over 400 men imprisoned by ice near
Point Barrow, and with authority to
use, if necessary, reindeer, at the gov
ernment station, to facilitate the land
ing"
The United States supreme court has
affirmed the decision of the lower court
in the case Of the interstate commerce
commission against the Alabama Mid
land and the Georgia Central railways,
and others. The case arose out of
charges by citizens of Alabama that the
companies were disregarding the long
and-short-haul clause of the interstate
commerce law. The point at issue was
whether, when there was competition
between railroads and water transpor-
tation, the roads must file lower rates
with Interstate commerce commits
sion, and it was decided in the mega
tive by the court.
The anarchists of New York cele-
brated the 18th anniversary of the con-
viction of their comrades in Chicago,
at a public meeting. There were
about 500 anarchists in the audience.
Johann Most presided and spoke of the
''canaille of capitalism, which he said
congratulated itself that the social
question had been squelched, and that
peace and order prevailed. He wanted
to tell the political bandits that 1.-The
anarchists were not gathered to mourn
or to shed tears, but to sing song Of
triumph, for the future was not far off. "
He called the governm ent a cowboy
government, with apologies to cowboys,
and tickled his hearers by saying only
one bomb was fired in the Haymarket,
but it did excellent execution.
The monthly statement of the public
debt shows at the close of business Oc-
tober 80, debt, less cash in tres sury,
amounting to $1,000, 563, ,901, an in
crease for the month of $S, AL ,188.
A section of scaffolding around the
Wabash building in st. Louis, recently
partially destroyed by fire, gave way,
carrying eight workmen into mass Of
debris. Two were fatally injured and
four seriously hurt.
During fire at Hornot's dyeing and
securing establishment in Philadelphia,
Pa, large can of benzine exploded.
Thirteen firemen were seriously burned.
1t is feared some of them may lose
their eyesight. The loss by fire was
slight.
The Sparta stage was held up by two
masked men three miles from Baker
City, Or. The highwaymen had a
lantern, which frightened the horses,
and the coach was capsized. The driver
grabbed the mail sack and reached Ba-
ker City safely.
Attorney General Fitzgerald, of CAL
ifornia, submitted motion to the su-
preme court at Washington, to dismiss
or affirm in the case of W. II. T. Dur
rant. The case involves the proceed
ings against Durrant for murder. The
case was taken under advisement.
The people of Canton turned out in
large numbers to welcome President
Mckinley upon his arrival home. He
was escorted to his residence by the
Canton troop. where he was waited
upon by the Commercial Travellers As
sociation and a large delegation of
workmen from Dueber Heights, most
of them from the Dueber watch works.
1t is expected that treaty or con-
vention between the United States,
Russia and Japan will be formally
signed and executed at the state de-
partment during the present week,
carrying out the proposition before the
Behring sea conference for suspension
of pelagic sealing. The present under
standing is that the signing of this
document will occur within the next
few days. 1t will represent the COM
pleted efforts of the conference, and,
with the signing concluded, the confer
ence will adjourn.
Four Iaborers were killed and several
others injured by an explosion of dyn-
amite near Victor, Colo. The men
were blasting rock for an electric road.
The report of the commissioner Of
internal revenue for the fiscal year
ending June 80. 1897, shows the total