The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-10-21
.EPITOME OF THE DISPATCHES
Happenings Bot b at Home
and Abr Dad.
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Interesting Collection of Items From
Many Places Culled From tho Press
Reports of the Curr ent Week.

A reception was rendered the army
heroes at the Omaha exposition.
Colon bia will risk no future trouble
and diplomatic rela tions with Italy
have been reversed.
1t is reported th4 Gen. Maxine
Gomez has been selected for president
of the Cuban republic.
A military plot against the French
government was discovered and flus.
trated by prompt acti on.
The International Typographical
Union in biennial session at Syracuse,
N. Y, voted to abolish the referen-
dunn.
A cabinet crisis has occurred in Cape
Colony, South Africa, and the assembly
has voted want of confidence in the
government.
Murderer John Miller was hanged at
San Quentin, Cal, for the killing OF
James Childs in San Francisco, in No
vember, 1896.
The American peace commissioners
were entertained in Paris with pri-
vate theatrical performance, arranged
in their honor by Figaro.
Frauds amountingtto millions of dol
lars have been discovered in the Chilean
arsenal. Senior Navarro, the chief ac-
countant, has committed suicide.
1t is reported in Manila that Macab-
ulous, chief of the five northern prov
inces of the Philippine islands, has
rebelled against Aguinaldo, and that
fighting has taken place between the
opposing factions.
News to the effect that large num-
bers of political prisoners have been
horribly tortured in Ecuador by order
of the government, has been brought
to San Francisco by the steamer Pan
anna.
Han Ky, the Corean minister Of
justice, has been dismissed for having
permitted the brutalities perpetated
by the populace on the bodies of the
men recently hanged for conspiracy to
poison the emperor.
Chief Sweenie, of the Chicago fire
department. while directing his men at
work on fire, fell into manhole and
was severely injured. The engineer of
the building, John Meldrum, was
killed, and two other men were scalGed
by escaping steam.
Lieuteuan Brands has written let
tor saying that the veyage as the Obdala
from Forto Rico was not fraught with
danger or suffering. The sensational
newspaper stories of fire on the trans
port and to the effect that the wounded
and sick soldiers being brought home
founded and ridiculous.
A pan to dismember the republic OF
Switzerland is under discussion in
Europe.
Mrs. Nancy Geer, wife of the gov
ernor-elect of Oregon. expired suddenly
of heart disease in Omaha.
All Spanish civil courts in Philippine
territory now subject to American con-
troll have resumed business.
The government now has 90 warships
in course of construction. When com.
pleted, the United States navy will
rank third.
Secretary Alger has wired Governor
Tanner, of Illinois, placing the Fifth
Illinois volunteer infantry at Tanners
orders, in case the state militia is in
sufficient to end the coal troubles.
The Spanish mail steamer Reina
Maria Christina has sailed from Ha-
vana for Spain with 1,073 officers and
troops, 65l cases of military archives
and heavy cargo of ammunition.
AS a result of eating canned Holsters,
shrimps, and CLAIMS, two Knights of
Pythias, ]. 1. Jones and Charles Young,
who live near Rainier, Or, are dead,
and Walter Furrow, of the same lodge
and town, is critically ill from the same
poison.
The government has apportioned the
prize money for the men of our war.
ships. Sampson gets the lions share,
Dewey the next largest sum, while
Schley will receive less than some of
the captains. The men will receive
from $50 to 5000 each.
The imperial Chinese government
has granted to the Peking syndicate Of
London the right to open and work
mines and to construct and operate
railroads in the empire free from Chi
nese control. This is the first conces-
sion ever granted by the Chinese gov
ernment to a foreign syndicate.
The annual report of Land Commits
sioner Hermann estimates that ,over
1000, 600. 900 feet of public timber
has been destroyed by fire during the
past 25 years. The report says forest
fires form the main subject for the at
tention of the land office. now threaten
ing. as ttiey do, not only the growing
forests but the forest lands whose pro.
ductiveness they retard indefinitely.
Minor News Items.
DIR. G. @. Cotton, the noted Ameri-
can dentist who died in Rotterdam
some time ago, had pulled over 1,00o.-
600 teeth in the course of his practice,