The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-02-18
Current EVENTS Of THE DAY
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News Of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the New and the Old World In a
Condensed and Comprehensive Form

the New and the Old w ORD In q
Condensed and Comprehensive Form
An immense land grant has been OBJ
tanned from Mexico by Japanese, who
will shortly launch a big colonization
project. The main industry will be
coffee raising.
Rev. G. o. Brown, the California
minister who figured in the Overman
case, has been formally dropped from
embership in the Chicago Congrega-
tional Association.
The outlook in France is gloomy,
and many prominent men fear down
fall of the government may result from
the recent agitation. One writer de-
clares that anarchy prevails in the
army, the law and the streets.
Dispatches from Guatemala state
that anarchy reigns supreme through
out the country, as direct result of
the assassination of President Barrios
and the plotting of the leaders of vari-
republic.
The house library committee has
made favorable report on the bill to
appropriate $40, 900 to erect statue in
Monterey, CAL, to Commodore John
d. Sioat, who, on July 7, 1916, landed
at Monterey and declared the land
United States territory.
A dispatch to the New York World
from Havana says: General BlancO's s
fasco in Eastern Cuba, the postponing
of the elections, De Lome's retire.
ment, and the recent activity of the in
surgents make the outlook black for
autonomy and for Spain. The failure
of the scheme of election will be proof
to all nations that autonomy is dead,
and the government is naturally de-
laying the evil hour.
There is rumor in Havana that the
palace authorities have letter written
by Consul-General Lee, the contents of
which are as interesting, even exciting,
for Spain, as the De LONE letter to
Canalejas was for the the United
States. Another report was set afoat
that Genearl Lee had resigned. This,
however, is known to be untrue. A
strong effort is being made to get Gen
eral Lee in the same boat with De
LONE. The members of the autonomist
cabinet do not like him.
There is general impression among
the American diplomats in Wash
ington, says correspondent, that
Costa Rica and Nicaragua are very
near war. Both governments have as
sumed belligerent attitudes, according
to information which has reached
Washington, and it is the expectation
OF Central Americans in Washington
that President Zelaya will demand a
disavowal of Costa Rica's response
bility in connection with the revolu-
tion in San Juan del Sur. Two British
warships are now in Nicaraguan wa
ters, and more are expected. One of
these now in Nicaragua is at Corinto
and the other at San Juan del Sur.
The annual report of the civil service
commission for the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1897, has been presented to
the president. 1t begins with state
ment to show that after an experience
of nearly Is years the hopes of the adj
vocates Of the civil service law have
been largely realized. In practice the
law has proved effective in the direc-
tion of economy. Considering the few
changes in the service under the merit
system, following the wholesale re-
movals system the economy and efici.
ency of the one stands in striking con-
trast to the extravaganza and ineffici-
ency of the other. The report speaks
highly of the promotion system, based
on the efficiency record.
The Rhode Island locomotive works
of Providence, has filed petition in
insolvency.
G. S. Kellogg, aged 76, was found
frozen to death near Reno, New, in
the Silver Hill mountains
Potter Palmer, of Chicago, is to
build mansion at Newport which will
cost between 50, 900, 600 and s3,oOO,-
900.
Dordane, a nephew of ex-President
Duensk, of Salvador, is insane in a San
Francisco hospital.
A New York Herald dispatch from
San Juan del Sur says: Conservative
refugees who have been threatening an
attack on the government since their
failure last September rushed through
the village without the slightest warn.
ing and surprised the barracks. There
was one fatality on each side Further
fighting is anticipated. A force of ma
rines from the U. S. battleship Alert
interests.
Judge Hanford, of the federal court,
sitting in Tacoma, has rendered deci-
sion in the case of the Tacoma Grain
Company VS.. the Oregon Railroad
& Navigation Company and the Great
Northern railway, which is vital inn
portance to wheat growers of the state
and shippers. The decision sustains
the cOnstitutionality of the recently
enacted railway transportation law.
fixing maximum charge for hauls
within the state.
The fourth session of the 14th parlia-
ment of Queen Victoria and the 26th
of the United Kingdom, was opened by
the commission at 2 O'Clock Tuesday
after with the customary ceremonies.
Previous to the reassembling of the
parliament, the usual party of beef
eaters, accompanied by a number of
officials and headed by the chief of po-
lice, made the customary search for
imitators OF Guy Fawkes, formally as
certaining that the vaults of the house
of parliament did not contain anything
inimical to the safety of it's members.
The latest and richest strike of all
has been made near the famous old
mining camp of Canyon City, and is
causing no little excitement in mining
circles in Eastern Oregon. The strike
was made in the Great Northern mine,
about two miles southeast of Canyon
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