The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-01-01
The NEWS OF THE WEEK
From All Parts of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
ant Happenings of the Past Week
CuIled From the Telegraph Columns.


CuIled From the Telegraph Columns.
An occult temple will be built in San
Francisco by. theosophists, and funds
have already been subscribed.
A strike instituted at Georgetown,
Mass, has thrown out of work 200
men, and promises to embrace the en-
tire six shoe factories of the town. A
threatened cut in wages was the. cause
of the strike.
A family of ten persons and num-
Der of cattle have been engulfed by
the snbsiding of a bog of 10osacres
near Castle island, county Kerry, Ire.
land. 1t is stated that other persons
were drowned.
The foreign office informs the Asso-
ciated Press~that no communication to
any power regarding Cuba and the
United States has been made by Great
Britain, and it is added that no repre-
senations directly or indirectly have
been made on the subject to the United
States by Great Britain. If any other
powers have done so, the foreign office
is not aware of the fact
The constructors of the Siberian rail-
road have undertaken to build line
through Mantchuria, starting from a
point ON the river where the Siberian
load ins the trans Baikelia line and
terminating at Mikolskaya, Russia.
The ministe, ial press of st. Peters
burg points out that this line will
make Russia the intermediary of peace
full civilization between Europe and
Asia.
A special from Paris says it is sug-
gested that Great Britain, France and
Italy, the powers most interested, offer
their services in the Cuban question in
order to prevent a conflict between
Spain and the United States, and ter
inmate the revolt.
DR. E. Forbes, representing a Lon
don firm, arrived on the last steamer
from the Orient in San Francisco, with
cases of medical instruments valued
at $50, 1000 He claims they are works
of art, and should be admitted free of
duty. the customs authorities are
withholding the instruments, however,
until the duty is paid. :
The postmaster of Des Moines, Ia,
had his carriers look up worthy cases
of poor families and delivered presents
to them ON Christmas morning. Sew
eral hundred dollars was subscribed by
business men for the purpose. Scores
OF letters were received from poor chill
dren telling what they desired Santa
Claus to bring them.
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, has
proposed an amendment to the sundry
civil appropriation bill, providing for
auxiliary fshcultural stations at points
to be selected by the commissioner of
fish and fisheries in Oregon. Washing
ton ard California, for the propagation
of salmon, trout and other fishes. The
amendment. appropriates SIT, 900 for
the purpose.
Jerry Burke, the colored boy, who
hacked Mrs. John Foss and her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Cavanaugh, with an ak, at
their home at Clio, Livingston parish,
Louisiana, last Sunday, was captured
by posse of citizens about a mile
from the scene of the crime. In view
of the fact that the ladies are not dead, |
the plan to burn him at the stake was
abandoned, and he waS simply riddled |
with bullets.
The secretary of the treasury has
sent to congress a computation of the
Pacific railroad debts as made by the
government actuary. The statement
shows that the advances to the Union
Pacific, including the Kansas Pacific,
by the government, will, at maturity,
the first of next July, amount to $92,-
846, ,285, of which sufficient has been re-
paid to reduce the amount to $53, $780,
593. The balance due on account of
the Central Pacific on July 1 next will
be O,31S,377.
DR.. Thomas Powell, of Missouri, re-
Gently made some remarkable expert
ments before party of doctors in Los
Angeles in order to prove the efficacy
of his remedy for certain diseases. He
alarmed the physicians present by in
jecting bacillus tuberculosis and bac-
cilli diptherial into himself, appearing
to take them without evil effect. He
also injected some bactina into two
guinea pigs, which promptly died.
His next experiment will be to inject
sputum from a woman dying of con-
sumption into himself.
The annual statement of construc-
tion published by the Railway Age, of
Chicago shows that during 1896 only
1902 miles of railway lines were built
in the United States. This Is one mile
less than the total reported for 1895,
and the smallest mileage built in any
year since 1875. The number of lines
on which this track was laid is 1853,
which is eleven less than the number
of new lines added in the previous
year. Track was laid in thirty eight
of the forty-four states and territories.
The longest mileage was built in Cali
fornia-l87 miles on eight lines.
Notice has been posted at all the
Philadelphia & Reading coal and iron
collieries, numbering forty, and also
at number of individual collieries,
that work would be suspended for a +
week. Twenty thousand men and boys
will be idle.
The executive committee of the
monetary conference with headquarters
in indianapolis, Ind, are sending out
call to all commercial organizations
who intend to send delegates to the con-
ference. 1t is now believed that about
500 delegates will be in attendance.
A serious riot occurred at Aqueduct,
four miles from Schenectady, N. Y,
Oh the Erie canal, where 800 Italians
a e employed on the canal improve
ments. A body of about $50 men from
Schenectady, who are unemployed,
marched down with guns, knives,
clubs, pickaxes. etc., carrying a red !