The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-02-05
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS

OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review of tho Import
amt Happenings of the Past Week
culled From the Telegraph Columns.
The Oregon state senate on Tuesday,
by a vote of 16 to 12, refused to pro
ceed to the election of United Sta.as
senator. The Benson house, with
thirty members present, took ballot.
and cast 90 votes for John HI. Mitchell
and for George H. Williams. The
one vote came from Huntingdon OF
Wasco.
It is understood among Massachusetts,
Republicans that ex-Congressman John
D. Long has been rendered and has ac-
cepted the Office of secretary of the
navy in the incoming administration.
The Chinese New Year in San Fran
cisco was gloomy festival. No fire.
crackers were discharged, the edict of
the chief of police positively forbidding
any noisy demonstrations. A high
binder riot was feared and many sus-
picious characters have been arrested
by the police.
The statement af the public debt just
issued shows the debt, less cash in the
treasury, on January 81, to have been
$1,007, ,0OS,3 317, an increase for the
month of $14, ,078, 1885,. This increase
is partially accounted for by decrease
of nearly $13.000,00 in the cash on
hand. -~s..-=-.
A Berlin dispatch says the court at
Mayence has condemned Percy Bar
tholow, United States consul at that
place, to pay fine of 200 marks for as
saulting and severely injuring an in
mate of his house by striking him on
the head with revolver. The assault
was committed in October last, and in
November it was reported that pro-
ceedings had been abandoned upon his
settling with the man privately, but
this appeared not to have been the case.
Ex-Congressman James Wilson, of
Iowa, has announced his acceptance of
the cabinet portfolio recently rendered
him by President-elect Mckinley. Mr..
Wilson in an interview said: SIT is
true have been invited into President
elect McKinley's cabinet. have ac-
cepted. That is all there is. to say
about the matter" It is generally
known that Mr. Wilson will be secre-
tary of agriculture, he having wired to
Senator Allison that that portfolio
had been offered and accepted.
Attorney-General Harmon has given
instructions to the United States attor-
ney at Jacksonville to proceed against
the alleged filibuster Three Friends,
under section 1927, of the revised stat
utes, for engaging in an act of piracy.
The action is taken by the attorney
general in view of the recent decision
of Judge Locke, of Jacksonville, which
held in effect that the Cuban insur-
gents were not a people, state, district,
or colony within the meaning of sec
tion 5283 of the revised statutes, un-
der which the libel was brought. In
other words, that the expedition in
which she was engaged was not a po-
litical one.
Two men lost their lives in hotel
fire in Fort Smith, Ark.
August Baltz, driver of a brewery
wagon in Seattle, fell from his wagon
through hole in wharf at the water
front and drowned before he could be
rescued.
Two painters at work on building
100 feet above the sidewalk in San
Francisco, fell to the pavement, one
being killed instantly and the other
fatally injured. The suspending rope
broke.
The secretary of war has authorized
the removal of strip of earth fronting
Percival's dock, in Olympia, not includ-
ed in the present contract for harbor
improvement, to facilitate the landing
of vessels on the whole frontage. This
will give an available dockage of l, 900
feet, with depth of water of ten feet
at low tide.
An unparalleled accident occurred at
the Illinois steel plant, at Joliet,
whereby Nelson johnson was decapi-
tated. He was employed in the rod
mill, and in falling from high plat
form his head came in contact with the
edge of platform, and the connecting
rod of the engine cut his head off at
the neck.
Among the bills recommended for
passage in the lower house in Indiana
has been one making it unlawful to
play football in the state. The bill
went to the committee on rights, which
decided that it was only fair that the
house should have fair chance at the
bill. The bill as it stands does not
discriminate in favor of professional
football.
Delegate Murphy, of Arizona, has
introduced bill in congress to assist
the wandering Papago Arizona Indians
to establish homes and induce them to
cease their depredations upon the cat
tie herds of white citizens. Twenty
five thousand dollars is appropriated to
purchase the Quijatoa well and ma
chinery, in Pima county, and the COM
missioner of Indian affairs is author
lied to appoint farmer to assist and
to pump water for their use.
The quick response of the citizens of
Chicago to Mayor Swift's appeal for as
sistance has resulted in the relief Of
suffering in Chicago with rapidity and
to an extent far beyond expectations.
Through the systematic canvas of the |
police and the prompt attention to the
cases reported by the officers, it is safe
to say that but few persons suffer from
cold or hunger. Within forty eight
hours not less than 1900 families were
supplied through the police with food
and fuel. Many cases were found of |
actual starvation.
While fighting fire at the residence