The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-17
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE Day
epitome Of the Telegraphie
News Of the World.
VERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

the New and the Old World In a
Condensed and Comprehensive Form
Wheat fell over cents per bushel in
Chicago Monday.
Senator White of California has in
troduced bill in congress to strengthen
the eight-hour law as applicable to gov
ernment work.
The controller of the currency has de-
clared dividend of 10 per cent in favor
of depositors of the Moscow National
bank, Moscow, Idaho.
Judge Sanborn in the court of ap-
peals at St. Louis has granted a post
ponement of the proposed sale of the
Kansas Pacific for so days.
One of the interesting items in the
agricultural appropriation bill is pro-
vision for $4,000 for an agricultural
experiment station in Alaska.
Brigadier-General Otis, stationed at
Denver, has received telegram from
Fort Duchesne stating that all the Ute
Indians have returned to their reserva-
tion.
A dispatch from Havana states that
Gomez is being hard pushed by a
Spanish column under command Of
General Pando, in the province of
Puerto Principe.
George G. Green, a carpenter of Mo-
desto. CAL, fatally shot his wife and
wounded his daughter, Mrs. w. E.
Liedman with revolver. He then
turned the revolver upon himself, but
only inflicted scalp wound.
the following: A special wheat in
vestigation instituted by the depart
ment of agriculture indicates crop of
10000. 900 bushels. These figures are
subject to slight modification in the
final report.
The legislative, executive and judi
cial appropriation bill, as reported to
the house by the committee on appro-
priations, carries total of So 562, 425,
being $780,861 less than the former
bill. The number of salaries provided
for is 10000, being 1913 less than the
number provided for in the current
law.
Hans Frohman "curled" pair of
eight-pound dunn b-bells 1900 times
in an hour and 40 minutes in New
York gymnasium. When he had fin
ished his 1900 curl in one hour and
20 minutes, it. was proposed that Froh-
man stop, but he insisted on continue
ing, and executed the 14,000th curl in
the time stated.
It is announced St. Louis will soon
.bave a new Sc ,6ee, eee- 4fotef- Several
Chicageas,s will furnish The necessary
modern structure of the kind west of
the Mississippi. The company hopes
to close all contracts and commenced
construction next season.
The United States supreme court has
rendered a decision in the case of
Thomas Bran, under sentence of death
in Massachusetts for murder committed |
at sea. He was accused of numbering
the captain, mate and captains wife
of a vessel bound for South America.
The opinion reversed the decision of
the court below on the ground that
Bram's testimony should not have been
admitted.
A vessel has sailed from Portsmouth,
N. H., for the Klondike.
The National Guard asks for an ap-
preparation of 100000
There is possibility of a rate war
between Western railroads.
A party has left San Francisco to
survey new route to the Klondike.
At Salinas, CAL, two burglars clever
ly jailed the jailer and a deputy
sheriff. .
A tremendous rich gold strike is re-
ported on Dog creek, tributary of the |
Yukon.
The son of New York millionaire
died in the county hospital in San
Francisco.
The Georgia senate wants to send
state convicts to Cuba to fight for the
insurgents.
Senator Perkins has introduced
joint resolution authorizing the presi-
dent to appoint committee to draft
code Cf laws for the territory of Alaska.
The man who helped hang Frank
Butler, the murderer of the noun
tains," in Australia, was arrested in
San Francisco, accused of larceny of
coat.
One of the most horrible lynchings
ever known in Nevada has occurred at
Genoa, IA miles from Carson. Aram
Uber. who last week shot and killed
Hans Anderson in Millerville saloon,
was taken by a mob of masked men and
hanged to a cottonwood tree half
mile from the Jail. When taken from
his cell, the victim had nothing on but
a shirt This was torn off by the
lynchers, and the nude body was left
dangling in the air for six hours. As
the body was being pulled up the mob
riddled it with bullets. When. satis-
fed that the man was dead the vigil
antes dispersed and returned to their
homes.
The insurgents have literally wiped
out the Spanish town of Guisa of 500
inhabitants.
Senator Mcbride of Oregon, has in
troduced bill in the senate to aid in
the construction of an aerial tram way
and railway line from Dyea to Lake
Bennett.
Three Thousand horses, worth $780,,
600, lie beneath the snow on the White
pass trail. Six hundred campers rep
resent an investment of 100000 for
outfits and provisions.
1t is said that more than one-third
of the senate opposes Hawaiian annex
alton. An attempt will be made to
annex byslegislation.
The president has transmitted to
congress the report of Major Moses P.
Handy. special commissioner to the
Paris international exposition, giving