The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-03-05
The NEWS OF THE WEEK.
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
oomprehensfve Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the telegraph Columns.

Comprehensive Review of the Impor.
ant Happenings of the Past Wee
Cul1ed From the TELEGRAPH Column,
The anniversary of the coronation O
the pope was celebrated in Rome.
A cable dispatch from Manila t
Madrid says over 2,OOO insurgents wer
killed in recent battles fought with gov
ernment troops at Slang and Las Ma
rimas.
Another report is current that th
Spanish captain-general in Cuba, Wey
Ter, will step down. This time it is sale
the report is based ON the very highes
authority. The reason given for hi
desire to retire is the release of San
gully.
The national senate held a Sunday
session, at which the principal busines.
transacted was the passage of certain
items of the sundry civil bill, among
which was the river and harbor appro-
priation. The attendance at the session
was large, only thirteen being absent.
The national capital is elaborately
decorated in honor of the Inauguration
of President Mckinley. Flags float
from every housetop, buildings every.
where are draped with bunting, and at
night the city is all ablaze under the
glare of countless brilliantly colored
electric lights. Visitors throng the
thoroughfares.
President Cleveland's last Sunday in
the executive mansion was a rather
busy one. There are number of bills
on his table awaiting action, and he
spent most of his time in examining
their provisions. There are number
OF bills, all said to be of minor import
ance, which have become laws without
his signature, more than ten DAYS hay
ing expired since they had been pre-
sented.
Mrs. Eva Rodriguez, wife of Briga-
dler-General Alexander Rodriguez, of
the Cuban insurgents, has arrived in
Key West. Of her recent arrest and
treatment by Spanish officers she re-
lates pitiful story of persecution.
She tells of being subjected to the in
dlgnities of the Spanish soldiers and
together with sixty other women she
was driven handcuffed through the
streets of Santa Clara to a felon's pri-
son. Her release was finally obtained
through Consul-General Lee.
The United States supreme court has
rendered an opinion in the case of the
steamer Three Friends, seized Novem-
Der II last by the collector of customs
Tor the district of st. Johns, Fla, as
forfeited TO the United States, under
section 5,223 of the revised statutes.
known as the neutrality act. The
opinion fully sustained the position of |
the government, reversing the decision |
OF the district court for the southern
district of Florida. Chief Justice Full
Ter delivered the opinion of the court. |
He defined neutrality to mean: Alb
stinence from participation in public.
private, or civil war, and impartiality |
OF conduct toward both parties, but
maintenance of unbroken peaceful rela-
tlons between the two, when the do
mestic affairs of one of them is dis
turbed, is not neutrality in the sense in
which the word is used when the dis
turbance has acquired such head as to
have demanded the recognition of belli-
gerency.
A premature explosion of dynamite
at gravel pit in Murray, KY, killed
five negro laborers and wounded as
many more.
A house of i'll repute was burned near
Wheeling, w. Va, and two girls and
two men were burned to death. A
number of others are reported seriously
injured.
Eighty-two passengers, more than
half OF them outfitted with dogs, sleds
and other paraphernalia necessary for
the invasion of the Yukon country,
crowded the steamer Al-Ki on her last
trip to Alaska. This is said to be only
a beginning of the vast numbers who
will leave for that country the coming
spring.
Louis Mansfield, who was confined in
the county Jail in Baker City, Or,
awaiting the action of the grand jury
on a charge of robbery, committed sui
eide. He told his fellow prisoners
some days before that he preferred to
be dead rather than go to the peniten-
tiary. Mansfield leaves wife and two
daughters.
The East has again been visited by .
hoods, resulting in great loss of life
and property. Many plants at Pitts ,
burg are under water, and cloudburst $
1t the headwaters of the Monongahela '
1as caused great damage. More than ,
10, 900 men have been forced to quit :
work in Pennsylvania on account of the :
'apidly rising waters. .
At the annual meeting of the Lum-
Der manufacturers Association of the
Northwest, held in Tacoma, the secre-
ary was instructed to formulate an in
y1tation to Eastern umbermen to visit 4
he Pacific Northwest next July. An v
Executive committee was appointed to C
make suitable arrangement for enter '
aiming the excursionists, who are to t
'e shown the great forests and mills of b
he Northwest. v
. The cornerstone of the new school
or the revival of the lost mysteries of
ntiquity was laid in San Diego, Cal. il
The theosophical crusaders. who have Y
ust returned from trip around the d
Torld, were the central figures in the t
eremony.
The postoffce at Mount Angel, Or, J
Tas entered by burglars. The safe was G
lown open and about 500 in stamps t.
nd $75 In money taken. The same "
arties tried to gain entrance to two 1
ther places the same night, but were a
'ightened off. II
A meeting was held at Senator Tel. p
RS house in Washington for the pur- Ia
Ose of organizing the silver Republican C
arty. 1t was attended by the senators ii
nd representatives favoring the white d,
etal. An address was prepared and 6'
sued to the silver Republicans of the IL
in