The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-24
Current EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News Of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
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the New and the Old World In a
Condensed and Comprehensive Form
While skating on the ice near Gard
ner. Miss, three young people sudden
ly broke through, and before assistance
could reach them were drowned.
At Tonawanda, n. Y, while a party
were skating, the ice gave way and
precipitated four young people into the
water. Three of them were drowned.
China approves of the Russian fleet
wintering at Port Arthur, being per
suaded that this action is taken in the
interest of China, and necessltated by
the German occupation of Kiao Chou.
Gsneral Blanco reports to Madrid
that negotiations with several infuen
tial insurgent leaders are progressing
ably; that he hopes to detach from
the rebellion important forces which
are willing to accept autonomy.
A rate war is on between the various
river transportation lines running to
The DaIles. A reduction of fare from
The Dalles to Portland is the result.
This cut in rates has been looked for
by the public since the opposition line
was put on, some two months ago.
The statement of the collections of
the internal revenue show that for the
month of November last the receipts
amounted to $l3, $50, 296, an increase
as compared with November last year,
of $1,257, S27. For the last five
months, however, there is shown to
have been decrease of S5,912.
F. NJ Gideon, the clerk of the gen.
eral land office, who was referred to
by Thomas Reddington in the testi-
mony before the senate Pacific railroad
committee, Saturday, as having
changed the land-ofice records so as to
throw 5000, 900 acres of government
land to the Southern Pacific, has made
clear denial of the charge.
A dispatch from Christiania, Nor
way, to the London Chronicle, says the
political situation, since the failure of
the united committee on foreign affairs,
has become critical, and it is feared
that Sweden will seek an occasion for
armed intervention in Norway The
dispatch adds that the Swedish press
hopes for assistance from Emperor
William.
The committee appointed at the
house civil service conference 10 days
ago to draft notifications of the civil
service law have met and gone over
the various bills pending before the
house The committee expects to have
a measure framed by the time congress
recol. .venes. Its memb bers are opposed
te tsse present law al. inc ctnlIng too
many ofnees within its scope.
A freight train of 21 loaded cars,
travelling down the mountain to AL
toona, Pa, became unmanageable in
consequence of the slippery condition
of the tracks, making the IL miles
from Galltiz into Altoona in as many
minutes and crashing into freight
train directly iu front of the passenger
station. About 80 cars were COM
pletely broken up, and the Holidays
burg passenger train, which was stand
ing on the track near the passenger
shed, was thrown over on its side.
Three of the train crew were fatally in
jured.
An effort is on foot to reduce the
production of cotton.
Gold has been discovered at Skagway
which goes 81 to the pan.
Mormons have secured 5000, 900
acres of land in Mexico for colony.
John Cross, of Cove, Or, was arrest
ed for having counterfeit money in his
possession.
Bates Soper, who murdered his wife
and two children at Aschie, Mo, in
1891, and who was recently arrested in
Oregon, where he married again, was
sentenced in Harrisonville, Mo-, to be
hanged on February 4.
About 100 Wholesale druggists from
the cities of the Central West held a
conference in Chicago for the purpose
of considering the cut rates at which
drugs and patent medicines are being
sold by the department stores, as well
as by many retail druggists, and to take
steps to stop the practice if possible.
The Dingley tariff law will not be
changed in any of its custom features
at the present session of congress. A
general understanding to this effect
has been reached among the Republi-
can members of the ways and means
committee, who feel that it is most de-
sirable to avoid what is generally
known as tariff tinkering.
The subcommittee of the senate COM
mittee on Indian affairs, appointed to
consider the problems, presented in In
dian territory have practically decided
to recommend amendments to the pres
ent law, providing for the apportion-
ment of all the lands held by the five
civilized tribes among the members of
these tribes, and aslo an amendment
providing that all valid leases shall be
recognized by the government of the
United States, and the money paid on
account of them covered into the treas
ury of the United States for the bene-
fit of the various tribes as such.
A Birmingham, Ala, dispatch says:
The Tennessee Coal & Iron Railroad
Company and the Sloss Iron & Steel
Company have shipped 5000 tons of
Alabama pig iron to Pensacola, from
whence it will be forwarded to Kobe
and Yokohama, Japan. A trial ship
ment of Alabama iron made to Japan
several months ago gave such satisfac-
tion that extensive orders are result
ing, this shipment being the first of a
series. Japan heretofore was supplied
by European furnaces, but Alabama
has superseded these
The work of collecting salmon eggs
at the California fish commission
hatchery on the Sacramento river at
Anderson has just closed. The result
of the seasons operations are the most
remarkable on record. Forty-eight and
a half million eggs were collected.