The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-08-06
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAi
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

scorched by heat.
Six persons were killed in a noun
tain slide few miles from Berlin Sat-
urday.
A non-union coal miner was shot
and killed at Scottdale, Pa, during a
quarrel with striking miners
The potters of Trenton, N. j., and
the sheet iron workers of Phillipsburg,
N. H., now threaten to go ON strike.
The monitor Puritan broke her rud-
der in New York and will be laid up
for month, and will cost about $50
George Fl. Walker, Washington, D.
c., lawyer and former correspondent,
has been appointed assistant postmas-
ter-general.
City while in swimming, four in Win
nipeg and two more at Boston, one of
whom was so years of age.
Bluejackets from the warship York
town and Boston were stoned and beaten
by Japanese at Kobe, Japan, and some
of them were badly used up.
Andree's north pole balloon is report
el ~ nave UCcu SGtIl III SCNeIdi pldCCS
recently, but each time away off its
course. Many have given him up as
lost.
Professor Arion, professional high
wire performer, fell from his wire,
distance of rs feet, while riding BIZ
cycle at Ridgewood Park, N. j., and
was killed.
The monthly statement issued by the
director of the mint shows that during
July, 1897, the coinage executed at the
United States mints amounted to
$670, $50.
War is going on in several countries
in Africa. in which Great Britain and
Portugal are involved; also in India,
Egypt, and trouble is brewing in Tur-
key, Greece and Crete.
A Missouri Pacific train ran into a
freight standing on the main track at
Yates Center, Kan, and Engineer
Joseph Clown and Fireman Cal Rowan
were killed. Other persons were in
jured.
Captain General Weyler has par
doned forty political offenders under
death and other hard sentences, at the
suggestion of the home government,
and 1000 Cuban exiles have been
granted amnesty.
The state department has paid over
to Count Vinci, the Italian charge in
Washington, $4,000 as indemnity for
the death by mob of three Italian
subjects who were lynched at Hahn
vile, La, year ago.
War talk is beginning to be heard in
Spain again. The premier says that
war in Cuba will cease when the gov
ernment funds give out, and that will
be soon. In that case Spain will de-
clare war against the United States.
The German press still actively dis
cusses Great Britain's denunciation of
the commercial treaty, and the agrarian
section fiercely demands tariff war,
United States. Yelled and open sug-
gestions are made for European trade
league against America, with threats
of serious consequences should England
refuse to join such league.
The flax grown for fiber on the Cor
Wallis college farm has been pulled. A
portion of it attained the length of SO
inches, while the average length is
about 40 inches.
The treasury officials have discovered
a number of Inconsistencies in the new
tariff law, some of them, it is feared,
incapable of reconciliation. 1t is point
ed out that section 262 places the duty
on plums at 25 cents per bushel, and
section 264 fixes the rate at cents per
pound. An error in the paragraph re-
ferring to currants was corrected in
conference.
The desire of Germany to institute
an European control of Greek finances
still hampers the settlement of the in
demnity question. 1t is. understood
that the Volo-Larissa railway will be
transferred to the Greek administration,
with the stipulation that the same IA
cilities shall be granted to Turkey for
the transportation of troops as are grant
ed to Greece.
A dispatch from Ottowa announces
that the Canadian government has de-
cided to impose royalty on all placer
$l5 registration fee and 500 annual
assessment. The royalty will be 10
per cent each on CLAIMS on which there
is an output of $500 or less monthly,
and 20 per cent on every claim produc-
ing above that amount yearly. Besides
this royalty, it has been decided in re-
gard to all future claims staked out on
other streams or rivers, that every al
ternate claim should be the property of
the government, and should be reserved
for public purposes and sold or worked
by the government for the benefit of
the revenue of the Dominion.
The recent appointment of T. V.
Powderly as commissioner-genera of
immigration has been signed by the
president. Mr.. Powderly's nomina-
tion to the Office failed of confirmation
in the senate because of the opposition
of labor organizations.
After having accomplished one of the
most remarkable and perilous trips ever
recorded in the marine history of the
Pacific coast, the little stern-wheel
steamer II. C. Grady, Captain Denny,
steamed through the Golden Gate and
docked at San Francisco.
The big battleship Indiana is to be
sent to, Halifax to be docked and
cleaned No dock in this country is
available for the purpose.
When Collector of Customs Bidwell
of New York made the formal an
nouncement that duties in the Dingley
rates would be collected on goods en-
tered ON the day the tariff bill passed,
many protests were at once filed by inn
porters of goods entering ON that day.
The duties Under the new tariff on the