The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-12-23
THE NEWS OF THE Week
From All Parts of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns

Culled From the Telegraph Columns
The drought in California has ended
and rainfall is reported from nearly
every section of the state.
Puget sound oystermen have formed
. an association and will make an effort
to secure needed legislation.
80 The war department has decided to
have the remains of all soldiers who
died in Manila returned to this country.
Clyde Bennington. aged %, has been
sentenced to life Imprisonment in San
Quentin for his part in the Orc Glande
train robberles.
The death sentence of Private Lind
say, Tenth cavalry, has been commuted
by the president to life imprisonment.
on recommendation of General Wheeler.
Since the cessation Of hostilities this
government has spent about 81, 900, 900
in feeding the starving Cubans, and the
work is still going on with untiring
vigor.
The United States troops in Cuba and
Porto Rico: have not beer forgotten.
They will be sent for Christmas 0,000
pounds of prime turkey and 1900
pounds of cranberries.
The body of an unknown man was
found on one of the bars of the William
cite, three miles east of Monroe. The
head and feet were missing. There was
no means of Identification.
The halibut schooner Two Brothers,
plying in Alaska waters, has been miss
ing nearly six weeks, and it is feared
that she has been lost with all on board.
One of her boats was recently found in
a badly battered condition.
Eight additional survivors of the crew
of the lost ship Londonian were brought
into Baltimore by the North German
Lloyd steamship Maria Rickmers. They
are: Captain T. b. Lee, Third Officer
Joseph Cottier, Boatswain T. Behem,
Quartermasteri F. Garlsen, Able Sea-
men j. Webb and w. Cadness, Second
Steward D. Darnell and Second Cook
w. Martin. =. 49,.
In the German reichstag, Count Won
Kardorff, leader of the free conserva-
tives, condemned the sentimental Ger
man sympathy with Spain, and well
coined the appearance of the great
and vigorous American nation" among
the oolonizing powers. He said he
hoped that, in accordance with Bis
marck's principle, commercial ques-
tions would be kept separate from
5 EgsiticaE Ieiationss ior, ri-is Werg7
done, Germany could be on very good
terms with the United States.
!. Colonel William J.. Bryan has de-
clared himself as opposed to expansion.
spaniards opened fire on a Cuban
funeral procession 4 in Havana, and
wounded several. One will probably
die.
BY the explosion of she'll at Fort
Constantine, at Cronstadt, Russia, nine
soldiers were killed and three officers
and seven soldiers wounded.
By an explosion in the grist mill at
Pettysville, Nate Thomas and Clarence
Emmons were killed outright and Will
Markley was fatally injured.
Chicago packers will spend a large
amount of money in erecting immense
cold-storage plants in Santiago and Ha-
vana for the. reception and storing Of
fresh meat.
Five deaths occurred in Butte,
Mont, which are claimed to have been
caused by the dreadful sulphur and
arsenic fumes from the smelters. Many
people who can do so are leaving the
city to get out of the smoke.
1t is probable that Secretary Bliss
will, within short time, tender his
resignation to the president. He has
had the step under consideration for
some time, deeming it necessary that
he should be free to devote more time
to his large business interests.
The Brooklyn, Texas, Castine and
- Resolute have been ordered to Havana.
While there is not the faintest desire
: to convey a threat in the dispatch of
these warships to Havana, it may be
noted that when they lie within the
harbor they will hold the town in per-
feet subjection.
The Clearwater Short Line Railway
Company, which is the Official title of
the branch Northern Pacific cutoff,
has filed certificates in the Office of the
secretary of state at Olympia, designat-
ing Thomas Cooper as its agent in
Washington, and showing the route of
the proposed road, now under construc-
tion.
Word has been received from United
States Consul Allen that John G. Flan-
agan, the confidential clerk of George
w. Lake, rich merchant of Chemul-
po. who was murdered August 30. has
been sentenced by consular court to
Imprisonment for life. Flanagan had
been robbing his employer systematic
ally and committed the crime to cover
up his misdeeds.