The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-11-04
EPITQNE Of THE DISPATCHES
Happenings Both at Home
and Abroad.
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSER
Interesting Collection of Items From
Many Places CuIled From the Prezs
Reports of the Current Week.

ASpOAGS IA SAo Cu1EChJ w eek
President Mckinley was the guest of
honor at the peace Jubilee banquet of
the Philadelphia Clover Club.
President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, has
granted two Americans a new conces-
sion for an interoceanic canal.
The president has issued his annual
proclamation, setting apart Thursday,
November "a, as Thanksgiving day.
The wooden steamer L. r. Doty was
lost in a gale on Lake Michigan and Of
II people on board, none we're saved.
The French, anticipating the pro-
posed demands of England, have with
drawn Major Marchand from Fashoda.
The French court of cessation has de-
cided in favor of revision OF the famous
Dreyfus case, and the immediate pro-
visional liberation of Dreyfus.
At Lake Linden, Mich, boiler in
the Calumet & Hecla boiler-house ex-
ploded, killing three men instantly and
burning one seriously. -
The San Francisco grand jury has
voted to indict Mrs. Botkin on the
charge of murder. The trial will be
held in the superior court.
The steamer L. R. Doty, with her
crew of Is men. is believed by marine
men to have been lost in the great
storm in midlake off kenosha, Wis.
Colonel George E. Waring, jr.. for
merly. street commissioner of New
York, is sick at his home in that city
with yellow fever. contracted at Hav-
ana.
At Richmond, Tex, Manuel Morris
and Peter Autre, negroes, were hanged
from a double gallows. Morris MUIR
dered and then outraged a. 6-year-old
blind girl. Autre assassinated his mis-
tress
Vice-President Hobart narrowly es-
capped being killed in a runaway acei-
dent in Philadelphia. A team behind
which he5was riding bolsed. and when
a terrible disaster seemed. certain a
police officer dashed out, seized the bits
of the horses and stopped them.
Ex-State Representative George
Ogle, of Clackamas county, Oregon.
has refused to accept the money voted
him by the recent session of the legis-
lature for full pay for the disorganized
house of 1897.
Three more warships are to be sent
to Manila. Two will proceed by way
of the Suez canal and one across the
Pacific. The Brooklyn will be the first
to sail and will leave new York early
this week with supplies and ammuni-
ton for Dewey's feet. The7Helena is
soon to follow. The Yorktown is to
leave San Francisco soon after: being
placed in commission. -. -
Cubans have resented the American
assumption of authority at Manzanillo,
and the situation is strained:
General Butler has warped Secretary
Alger that some show of strength must
be made soon or America will lose all
prestige with the Cubans.
An electrician has made the startling
discovery that escaped electricity in
New York follows underground pipes
and resulting electrolysis cuts away the
bottoms of street-cer. rails and iron
foundations of all kinds of structures.
Governor Tanner, Of Illinois, says
that labor must not be imported to his
state, and if an attempt is made the
train carrying the imported laborers
will be met at the state line and shot !
to pieces with gatling gums. :s55 4
President Mckinley is said to have a
plan to get back at Germany by exclud-
ing impure German products, and thus
retaliate against the kaiser's govern
ment for the unjust discrimination con-
tinually being made against American
pork and other meat products.
The Cuban debt question has been
finally disposed of at Paris. The Span
ish peace commissioners acquiesced in
the refusal of the Americans to have
the heavy burden saddled upon the
United States. The cession of Guam to
America was agreed upon and all differ
ences regarding Porto Rico settled by
mutual understanding. ,,.,..---
The monthly statement of the collec-
tions of internal revenue shows that
during September last the total receipts
from all sources were $21, ,713, ,3S9, a
gain as. compared with September
1897, of $S, $50. For the three
months ending September 80, 1898, the
receipts We're 1889, 460, gain as
compared with the same period in 1897
of $29, 1876. S23.
1t is expected that the decision of the
secretary of the navy to retain an the
vessels purchased during the war will
have the effect of causing boom in
American shipbuilding. 1t comes just
at time when there is an unusual de.
mand for ships flying the American
flag on account of the expanding COM
merce of the United States in general,
cision of the administration to confine |
trade between American ports and
Porto Rico to American vessels.