The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-11-25
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 weeh
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past weel
Culed From the Telegraph Columns
DR.. Stephen B. Tying, president Of
the American Chambe of Commerce
died in Paris.
The First Illinois volunteer infantry
which saw service in the trenches al
Santiago, has been mustered out Of
service.
Advices received from Seoul say the
Corean government has issued orders
that foreigners are to be stopped from
trading in the interior.
The four-masted schooner Talofa,
Captain Fletcher, from Guantanamo
for Port Tampa. in ballast, has been
totally wrecked on Cozumel island, off
the eastern coast of Yucatan, and the
captain and seven of the men have ar
rived at Progreso, two of the men hav-
ing been drowned.
The ship Atlanta, which sailed from
Tacoma, loaded with wheat for Cape
Town, ian ashore near Alsea bay. She
had crew of 81 men, only two of
whom got ashore. The vessel was
broken in two, and is probably a total
loss. She was commanded by Captain
Charles Mcbride.
Two freight trains on the Chicago,
Rock Island & Pacific collided at Mos
COW, Ia. One man was killed and one
injured. A wrecking train which was
about to start to the scene from Wilton
was run into by fast mail train.
The fireman of the mail train was bad.
ly hurt an 16 men of the work train
injured, some seriously.
The American and Spanish commits
sioners in agreeing upon january l as
the date of Spanish evacuation of
Cuba took precedent from the treaty
of peace entered into SO years ago be-
tween Mexico and the United Statea
when an agreement was made as to the
date of the American occupation to
cease. Then, as now, it was known
that all the troops could not be en-
barked by the date agreed upon. The
oretically the Spanish occupation will
cease January l. though it is believed
that $4,000 Spanish troops will still
remain in Cuba.
VIM. Fink, farmer living near Ty.
Ter, Wash, was killed by runaway
team.
A corporal and three merchants OF
Guantanamo were arrested for steal.
ing government supplies.
The spruce lumber exhibit of the
Giatsop Mill Company, of Astoria, has
been awarded the first prize, a gold
medal by the Omaha exposition direct
ory.
While gang of 20 track hands was
at work on the Pennsylvania railroad
line, near Jersey City. they were run
down by a train. Eleven workmen
were killed outright and six seriously
injured.
Conductor William Hatfield and
Brakeman Harry Crogin were killed in
the wreck of caboose attached to
northbound train near Ardmore, 1. T.
The caboose left the track and was
overturned.
There is leper scare In Manila.
Through neglect of Spanish officials
nearly 200 lepers escaped confinement. /
Orders have been issued that all lepers
be arrested and sent to a small unin-
habited island southeast of Luzon.
Advices by the steamship Empress
of China tell of terrible disaster on
October 25, when the steamer Kinshui
Maru came into collision with the
steamer Myagawa Maru, off Takami,
sinking the latter. Seventy persons
were drowned.
The secretary of the navy has ord
cred court of inquiry to meet at the
navy-yard at Norfolk for the purpose
of'investlgating the circumstances at.
tending the abandonment of the Span
ish cruiser Maria Teresa, with a view
to determining the necessity and re-
sponsibility therefor.
George w. Lake, an American. re.
siding at Chemulpa, has been MUIR
dered. Lake kept big store near the
Chinese consulate. The murderer en-.
tered for the purpose of robbery. With
an iron weight attached to a Chinese
steelyard he killed Lake with one blow
as he slept.
Charles s. Cross, president of the
First National bank of Emporia, Kan,
shot and killed himself near that CITY,
An hour previous the bank had been
closed by order of the controller of the
currency. The failure is a bad one,
and all the county and city funds are
involved.
An electric street-car of the Tacoma
railway line was derailed five miles
from the heart of the city on the Stella
COON line. by the controller refusing to
shut off the current on heavy down
grade. The car was smashed to splin-
ters by striking the side of cut 10
feet deep, through which it was travel
ing. Seven persons were aboard, and
all received injuries. /.
Minor News Items.
Husbands and wives travelling to- ,
gether in Norway, Austria and Hun
gary pay only ono fare and half on the. j
railways.
Mrs. Fred Douglass. widow of the I
,olored orator, is to 60 on the lecture
platform to deal with the history of the
race in this country.
Lieutenant Jules @. Ord, son of Gen l
,ral E. o. G. Ord, who was killed in
he battle of Santiago, was great j
grandson of King George w.
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