The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-12-30
TIE news OF The WEEK
From All Parts OF the New
World and the Cid.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS

Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant happenings of the Past Week
Cuiied From the Telegraph Columns.
Senator Mcbride of Oregon. has in
troduced bill making Astoria the ter
minus of the trans-Pacifie cable.
Congress has adjourned until Janu-
ary 4. After the holiday recess the
rights of General Wheeler and others to
hold their seats will be inquired into
Among a network of wires 20 feet
above the ground, Roderick Chisholm,
a Chicago electrician, was slowly
burned to death in sight of several
hundred spectators.
Colonel e. S. Barrett, national pres
ident of the Sons of the American Rev
olution, was killed by falling from a
window of his home at Concord, Mass.
He was so years of age.
In Louisville, KY, 1t is estimated by
the health department that there are
10000 cases of grip. The ravages of
the disease have been SO widespread
that in some cases business has been
seriously impeded.
Hereafter brooms will cost 9 cents
more apiece. Members of the Broom
Manufacttrers' Association of the
United States met in Chicago aud de-
cided to advance the price of brooms 25
cents a dozen.
A rear-end collision occurred on the
Pennsylvania railroad three miles
from Railway, N. j., which resulted in
the loss of two lives and injury to many
persons. The killed are William G.
Dewolf. railway clerk; and F. Knight.
a cofored porter of the sleeping car.
While examining state documents of
the 10th century III the Vatican library
recently, Able Cozzaluzzi, assistant
librarian, found the original manu-
script of treatise by Galileo on the
tides. The manuscript is all in Cali
leo's handwriting, and ends with the
words written at Rome in the Medici
Gardens on January s, 1916.
The president has nominated Ethan
A. Hitchcock, of Missouri, to be seere-
tary of the interior. MI. Hitchcock Is
at present ambassador to Russia. He
was appointed minister more than a
year ago. and when the rank was raised
to an embassy, he was re-appointed.
He is wealthy lawyer and business
man of st. Louis, and was foI some
time an extensive plateglass manufac-
turer. He is great grandson of Ethan
Allen, of Revolutionary fame.
The table of proposed stations of
United States troops, submitted by
General Wade, shows totaI of 5000
Groopl, distributed as Ioiiows: Provnoe
of Pinar del Rio, 5000; province Of
Havana, 24, 200; province Of Matanzas,
10000; province of Santa Clara, 10, 900;
province of Puerto Principe, 2,O00;
province of Santiago. 1000. The
recommendations of the commission, if
carried out, would require 45 regiments
of infantry and five Of cavalry, with six
batteries of light artillery, four for
Havana and two for Matsnzas.
Secretary Long will soon issue ad-
vertisements calling for proposals for
raising the Maine and the Cristobal
Colon, in accordance with the decision
of the board of construction to which
the matter had been referred.
A financial statement just issued by
the Southern Pacific Company shows
that for the month of October the gross
earnings of the company reached
$5,556.725 This is an increase If
$1,125, 791 over the same month of last
year.
Corliss, of Michigan, has introduced
a bill in the house to facilitate the con-
struction and maintenance of tee-
graph cables in the Pacific ocean be-
the Philippine islands, Japan and other
countries.
The agricultural appropriation bill
passed by congress contains retaila-
tory clause authorizing the secretary of
agriculture to inspect imported articles
dangerous to health, and also author
izing the secretary of the treasury to ex-
clude such articles. The restriction is
designed to apply to large number of
articles imported from foreign coun-
tries.
London advices just received bring
promise that the West Indian colonies
will enter upon the new year with
brighter industrial prospects, owing to
the successful launching of the West
Indian Cooperative Union, organized
on the lines of the California Fruit
Union, and the Irish Agricultural Or
ganization, which achieved wonderfully
rapid success.
Great Britain has given another
striking example of friendship for the
United States, and at the same time
has taken action which is looked upon
in the light of recognition of the
sovereignty of the United States over
the Philippines. A filibustering ex-
pedition organized to go to the support
of Aguinaldo has been suppressed at
Hong Kong by order of the British au.
thorities.
Minor News Items.
1t is reported in court circles that
Prince George of Greece is engaged to