The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-11-19
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE day
Epitome Of the Telegraphie
News Of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the New and the Old World In a
Condensed and Comprehensive Form
Political excitement is intense in
Brazil and martial law is in force.
Koon Sang, Chinese priest, was
killed by highbinders in San Francisco.
j. R. Sovereign, the recently retired
master workman of the Knights of La
+ fbor, has declared his intention to run
:. for president of the United States in
19O6
The blue and gray have met again on
common ground. Military triumphs
were henored at Orchard Knob, Tenn,
MONDAY, and monuments to the
achievements at Chickamauga and Mis-
sionary Ridge accepted.
Secretary Alger has requested the
secretary of the interior to instruct Al
= askan officials to gather about 500 head
of reindeer fron4 the government herds
for use of an expedition for the relief of
:: the icebound whalers in the Arctic. Ii
: iss expected that the Bear, which is
] now at Seattle, will be ready to sail in
y about ten days.
A J. Sage, well-known rancher,
=. living few miles below Sand Point,
Idaho, was shot and instantly killed
:. while out hunting. An old acquaint-
ance, named John Snyder, who went
~ out,with him hunting, and who became
separated from him for short time,
seeing what he supposed to be deer
/, moving among the trees, fired at it, and
upon reaching the spot was horrifed to
ind that ne had shot his friend dead.
-, Rev Myron w. Reed, pastor of one
of Denver's leading churches, during
his discourse Sunday created somewhat
of "a sensation while discussing the kill
ing of the Ute Indians by deputy game
: wardens in Colorado recently, by de-
: claring that he intended to see that
Warden Wilcox and his deputies are
:. tried for murder. He also denounced
the preachers who have remained silent
- in the matter.
.Fifty-two families have arrived in
3; North Yakima, Wash, from Polk
county, Minnesota, to make new
homes. Many have already selected
lands along the Yakima valley canal,
west of the city, and others will locate
in the vicinity of the Mckee artesian
wells. The colony is* made up almost
wholly Of French people, and; they will
!. be the means of bringing. many more
= settlers to Yakima county if their ex-
perience proves satisfactory.
The state supreme court of, Montana
has sustained the constitutionality of
the Inheritance law passed by the last
8, legislature. The law imposes a tax of
3 per cent on bequests to any benefci-
ary, not relative, where the estate
amounts to over 500. The tax on es-
tates directly inherited, where the value
of the estate is over $1,000, is per
cent. 1t is estimated that the decision
will yield the state $40. 600 from es-
tates already in process of settlement.
The Wyoming supreme court has de-
cided that foreign-born citizens must
be required to read the constitution in
the English language in order to vote.
One hundred and fifteen Firms, who
I; voted the Republican ticket at the re-
J, cent election in that state, could not
read the constitution in English, but
their votes weresaecepted, as they could
read 1T >iGt their own language. The
decision will. put the Democratic can
didate in Office, and settles an import
ant constitutional question.
: The labor troubles which have been
brewing in Randsburg, Cal, for some
time eliminated Wednesday. when
about 100 members of the miners
union went in a body to the Roxie
mine and peremptorily drove superin-
tendent Clarke and five men out of the
camp for working below the schedule
of the union.
A new industry has started in
Owensboro,. KY, with 100 employees.
1t is to utilize cornstaIk celluose for
lining battleships. Materials for MAX
ing an imitation of silk and for making
cellhloid are among the products. Pa
per is another product. w. w. Gibbs,
of Philadelphia, is president, and the
stockholders are Fasteners.
The owners of the German ship Po-
trimpos, stranded at Long Beach,
Wash, have bought two 10000 pound
anchors of the United States waiship
Vandalia, which was wrecked at Samoa
several years ago. and will ship them
from San Francisco at once for use in
floating the Potrimpos next month. 1t
is expected that the ship will be put
into deep water in less than month.
A remonstrance against allowing
Chinese coal miners to be imported
into the state for the purpose of min
ing coal at Wilmington and other towns
in place of the striking miners will be
placed before Governor Tanner in the
name of the United Mineworkers of
Illinois. The governor. will also be
asked to CO operate with the secretary
of the miners federation in keeping
out the coolie labor. Secretary Ryan
says if the Chinese come bloodshed
will surely result. If Governor, Tanner
refuses to interfere President Mckinley
will be appealed to.
Consul Duester, at Crelfellt. Ger
many, reports to the state department
at Washington discovery made there
which it is said revolutionizes the
methods of illumination. 1t is an in
candescent gas lamp Single jets of or
dinary size can emit light OF much
more than 1000 candle power, and fine
print can be read at distance of 100
feet. The inventor says the cost for a
light of 500 candlepower is only ~
cents per hour, while that for an or
dinary electric light of 40 candlepower
is IA cents per hour.
John H. Mooney, Kate Mooney, his
wife, and Michael Dromey, Mrs.
Moonye's brother, were found dead in