The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-02-25
CURRENT EVENTS Of THE DAY
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News Of the World.
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the New and the Old World In a


the New and the Old World In a
Condensed and Comprehensive Form
The Bethlehem Company's steel
mill, giving employment to 1,C0O
hands, has resumed work, after an idle
ness of some months.
The Carpenter Steel Company, OF
Reading, Pa, is working a double turn
on orders from the navy department for
steel projectiles.
w J. Scanlan, the once famous
Irish actor, died of paresis in a New
York insane asylum, where he had
been confined for five years.
Owing to the demand for the Klon.
dixie trade, Northwest ship builders re-
port an unusual activity in their line,
many of them refusing further con-
tracts.
Luther G. Billings, pay director in
the United States navy, has been found
guilty of falsehood and scandalous con-
duct by court MAI tial at Washington,
and sentenced to dismissal from the
service.
The Great Commonwealth Develop
ment and Mining Company has applied
to the Dominion parliament for rail
road charter from Edmonton to the
Alaska line by way of Peace, Laird and
Pelly rivers.
The board of directors of the Eastern
Oregon & Washington Firemen's Asso-
citation have met in Walla Walla and
selected La Grande as the place for
holding the next annual meeting and
tournament of the associations, June IA,
5 and 16.
Western roads have assumed the ag-
gressive in the war with the Canadian
Pacific road. They have thrown that
road out of the Western immigration
clearinghouse. The effect of this ac-
tion will be that the Canadian Pacific
will be shut out from participation in
immigrant travel arriving at New York
or Boston.
A sweeping reduction of over $9, 900, :
900 from the amount carried by the
current law is made in the sundry
civil appropriation bill, reported to
the house Tuesday, the aggregate ap-
preparation carried being $44, 749, S93.
+ The total is Sl3, 234, 541 less than the
regular and supplem entail official esti-
mates made for the fiscal year 1899,
and So, 861 $3.50 less than the appropria-
tions made for the current fiscal year.
A Port Townsend, WASH, dispatch
says: As a consequence of the unfa-
yorable criticism that has followed the
sinking of the steamer Clara Nevada
and the trouble that attended the de-
|e9rt,.re cf E. The Noztt paeiGe -.t-,sie
fnorth, carrying goflseekers, Colonel
Huestis, collector of customs, has de-
termined to compel vessels bound for
Alaska to carry only the number of
passengers allowed by the federal per-
NIT.
The new wharf at Tampico, con-
structed by the Central railroad, under
government supervision, was totally
DESTROYED by fire Sunday. The cause
of the fire is unknown. The construc-
tion of the wharf was commenced in
July, 1892, and it was to be one of the
finest on the Spanish-American coast.
Its length was 2,575 feet, and all is
burned. The custom-house under con-
struction and nearly completed, was
damaged to the extent of about $780,
900. The total loss on wharf, custom
house and merchandise is nearly $2.-
900, 900; fully insured.
The secretary of the interior has dis
missed the appeal of the state of Ore
gon from the decision of the land office
holding for cancellation the indemnity
school selection of lands in The Dalles
land district of Oregon.
Authentic reports have reached
Shanghai of recent date from all sec
tions of the Chinese empire, indicating
that riot and attack upon foreigners is
the order of the day. The attacks
seem to be those of isolated ruffians
rather than a concerted action on the
part of the popTlace.
y Another rich strike is reported as
having been made in the Blue Jay
mine, OH YOr:ison gHlch, a tributary
of Coffee creek, Trinity county, Cali
fornia, by the Graves brothers. The
new pocket is said to be worth $50, 900.
1t will be remembered that $40, 600
strike by the Graves brothers caused
rush to Coffee creek last summer.
The senate committee on education
and labor has decided by unanimous
vote to report favorably the bill pre-
pared by the trainmen of the country,
and recently introduced in the senate
by Kyle. providing for the arbitration
of railroad strikes by board of arbi-
tratiOn to be chosen by the strikers and
the interstate commerce committee.
A special from Washington says: A
cablegram received by the secretary of
state from Minister Woodford, at Mad
rid, announces that the government of
Spain has disavowed the letter of De
LONE to Senor Canalejas. This dis
claimer, as the administration officials
are pleased to call it, is regarded as
satisfactory, and the president has au-
thOrized the announcement that the
incident is closed.
Lord William Neville, fourth son of
the Marquis of Abergavenny, who was
placed on trial in London, charged
with fraud in connection with the suit
of "Sam" Leads, the money! lender,
against Spencer Clay, pleaded guilty of
fraud, but claimed he was not guilty
of forgery. He was sentenced to five
years. penal servitude.
The stockholders in the Pacific Rail-
way Company must pay the creditors
and bondholders of the corporation the
amount of the initiation of the stock.
The supreme court of Illinois has rem
dered the decision in affirming the de-
cision of the appellate court, which
held that the stockholders were liable.
The case is remanded to the circuit
court to prove up what is due the COM
mittee, to compel the stockholders to