The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-03-19
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
From All Parts of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS

Comprehensive Review Of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.
The report that the o. R. & N. Co.
was contemplating an extension of its
lines to the Kootenai country has been
officially denied at the offices in Port
land. No such enterprise is at present
under consideration.
The Mississippi river is On the rise.
At Memphis it has reached 1868. the
highest record since the establishment
of the weather bureau. Along the low
lands of Arkansas there is great suffer-
ing among people who have been driven
from their homes by the oncoming wa
ters.
A Missouri Pacific passenger train
ran into bunch of horses near Wolf
Greek, Kan. The engineer and fire.
man were killed and score Of others
injured. mostly train employees. All
I. the cars but the sleepers we're over
turned. The passengers escaped with
comparative ease.
A St. Petersburg dispatch states that
all the admirals, except the French and
Italian commanders have been ordered
to Immediately blockade the principal
Greek ports, especially the port of
Athens, Syra and volo. An ulti-
matum will forthwith be addressed to
Greece by the admirals of the foreign
fleets.
In revenge for being elected from
trains, tramps caused wreck on the
Louisville & Nashville railway this
morning. They spiked switch, de-
railing and demolishing freight train
and causing heavy damage. The
tramps had intended wrecking the Chi
cage limited. They have been cap
tured.
Postmaster-General Gary has made
the definite announcement that the ad
ministration had decied to adhere to
the four-years-tenure-of- office policy for
. all postmasters, except in few cases
where removal for cause was required
on account of delinquency, incompe
tency Or unsatisfactory conduct of ad-
ministration of Office.
Professor J. B. McMasters, of the
university of Pennsylvania, will arrive
in Chicago this week with bundle of
manuscripts of the new school history
of the United States, in which patriot
ism is the keynote. The making of
this history has been undertaken at the
urgent request of committee of the
Grand Army of the Republic.
An expedition is to be sent to North
eastern Asia and Northwestern America
to discover if possible the ancestry of
the American Indian. Morris Jessup,
president of the American Museum of
Natural History of New York, is the
originator of the expedition, and will
pay all the bills connected with it,
which during the six years of its con-
tinuance, will reach considerably over
$4,000.
A bill has been introduced in the
New York legislature providing for the
placing of all the newspapers in the
state under the censorship or supervi-
sion of state authorities.
Captain General Weyler's latest edict
is said to be an order that all women
arrested in Cuba as suspicious" shall
be tried by court-martial. Weyler says
that women are harder to subdue than
men, and that if he had his way he
would kill them first and try them af-
terward.
Agent Randlett, of the Uintah and
Ouray Indian agency, telegraphed
Washington authorities there were fif-
teen men who had made locations on
the lands of the Uncompaghre reserve;
that they had refused to leave and that
there would be trouble unless troops
were sent to eject them.
The expense of the Oregon Soldiers
Home for February was $1,O3s, as
shown by bills audited by the executive
committee. The board estimates the
government fund will keep the house
six months. The terms of Galloway,
Robertson and Rust, as trustees, have
expired, and their successors will be ap-
pointed soon.
Mrs. Thomas Driscoll attempted sui
eide at Heppner. She first tried to take
carbolic acid, but was preveunted by
her husband, and directly afterward
took a quantity of rough on rats A
physician was Immediately summoned,
and, by vigorous use of the stomach
pump, her life was saved. Domestic
troubles are said to be the cause.