The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-12-02
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review of tho Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

ant happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns
A powder mill at La Motto. Mo-
blew up and six workmen were killed
and several injured.
Officers of the American Maize Prop.
uganda are planning fo7 an extensive
exhibit of Indian corn at the Paris ex-
position.
The official gazette OF Madrid has
published decree accepting the resig-
nation of General Blanco as governor
general of Cuba.
An anti-anarchist conference in which
all the European nations are represent
ed, has opened in Rome. The sessions
will be prolonged until Christmas.
A territorial form of government will
be recommended for Hawaii. The
commission has completed the bill and
its report will be ready when congress
assemblies.
Revolutionary bands in Brazil have
crossed the frontier and are threaten
ing to unite and march toward the cap
ital of Uruguay. Troops have been
sent to pursue them.
While rounding curve near Burling-
ton. Ia. passenger train was derailed.
One woman was killed, 2-year-old
child fatally injured, and 19 others
seriously injured.
The Italian government has sent an
ultimatum to the sultan of Morocco
on the subject Of the detention and i'll
treatment of Italians. A week has
been given the sultan in which to make
a reply.
An experiment in surgery is to be
tried in New York. man who blew
away the side of his face and his nose
with shotgun will have both replaced
with new ones of rubber, covered with
grated skin.
There has been street fighting among
the political parties at Seoul, Corea.
On one side % persons were killed, and
further bloodshed is feared. The Jap
anese government has been asked to
send troops to preserve order at Seoul.
A prominent Cuban says the first OBJ
ject of the Cuban commissioners now
in the United States is to raise funds
with which to pay the Cuban troops
He also says that Cuba would desire to
remain free for awhile, but ultimately
annexation to the United States is both
expected and desired.
The official count on the late election
for the head of the ticket (governor) in
Nebraska has been completed and shows
fusion majority of 2. 2.721. -
The commissary department has dis
patched the steamer BIatten from Sa-
vanah with 700 tons of provisions for
the starving people of Cuba.
The Baldwin hotel on Market street,
San Francisco, was destroyed by FIRE
and five lives are known to have been
lost, with possibility of more.
Prospects are good for an early settle
ment of the Behring sea sealing ques-
tion by the Anglo-American commits
sion now in session at Washington.
The price of whisky has been ad-
vanced one cent. The causes of the
advance were strong demand for corn,
the stiffness of the market and a crop
shortage.
A three-story building in San Fran
cisco, occupied by Chinese, was de-
stroyed by fire and two of the inmates,
Wong Quay and Wong Cow. were
burned to death.
Stockholders Of the Kelley Motor
Company have not abandoned the hope
that the secret Of the life work of John
w. Keeley will not be buried with the
inventor. His papers will be secured
and the work carried on.
Late advices from Salvador via Mica
ragua indicate that the revolt is more
serious than at first thought. 1t may
involve all the five states In general
conf1agration. According to advices,
the real object of the movement is the
overthrow of the federal republic,
which was organized November l at
Amapala.
The treasury department has recon-
mended to the secretary of war that
quinine be admitted into the countries
of Cuba and Porto Rico free of duty.
Under the Spanish laws the duty on
quinine was about $l3 pound. The
war department undoubtedly will con-
cur in the treasury depar tment's recon-
mendation.
Complete returns have been received
of the casualties of the Santiago cam
paign. The adjutant-general's Office
has divided the campaign into different
dates and periods. The statement
shows: La Quasina, June 24-Killed,
one officer and 15 men; wounded. six
officers, A men. San Juan, July l.
Killed, four officers and 1S4 men;
wounded, SO officers and 9Ss men. Ell
Caney, July KILLED, four officers, 81
men; wounded, "a officers, 334 men.
Aguadores, July l and 2-Wounded,
two officers, 10 men. Around Santiago,
July 10 to 12-Killed, one officer, one
man; wounded, one officer, 2S men.
Minor News Items.
The Oxford University Press has ap-
pliances for printing $50 different
languages.
The st. Louis, Peoria & Northern
Railway Company has been reorganized
as the st. Louis & Northern Short Line.
The widow the late Cuban general,
Jose Maceo, was one of the applicants
for rations at the American free dis
tribution depots at Santiago. She had
been on the verge of starvation for
many weeks.
Ethel Marlowe, a sister of Julia
Marlowe, died at the Knickerbocker
Al