The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-11-11
EPITQME Of THE DISPATCHES
Happenings Both at Home
and Abroad,
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
interesting Collection of Items From
Many Places CuI1ed From the Pr ess
Reports of the Current Week.

General Fitzhugh Lees mother dlet
at Richmond, Va.
A proclamation has been issuet
bringing Santa Cluz and other islands
under the British Solomon islands pro
tectorate.
AT Fridays session of the Paris peac,
commission the Spaniards rejected tht
Americans proposals, and refused tx
give up the Philippines.
Later reports from the conlagratior
at Hankow, China, say that 10000
houses were destroyed and 1 ZOO peo-
pie killed and burned to death.
Ellis Fl. Roberts, treasurer of the
United States, in his annual report,
shows that the treasury was stronger al
the close than at the opening of the
fiscal year.
Senator Redfeld Proctor in an ad-
dress at Montpelier, VT, declared that
there should be divided sovereignty and
that the United States should retain
the entire Philippine archipelago.
The work of removing the bodies of
all government soldiers buried in Cuba,
Porto Rico and Manila will begin in a
few weeks. The expense of the under
taking will be borne entirely by the
government.
Major Helburn's recital before the
war investigating commission, while in
session at Cincinnati, disclosed a ter
rible state of affairs at Camp Thomas.
Chickamauga, due to ignorance and me-
no Il
like dogs.
The board of control of the Joint
Traffic Association has decided to dis
solve the organization. This action
wasetaken because of the recent decision
by the supreme court that the efforts of
the association to control railroad rates
was illegal.
BY the explosion of boiler at the
Oil City (Pa.) boiler works, two men
were killed, two fatally injured and
dozen more slightly hurt. The killed
are Richard McCloskey and John Fraw-
ley. The fatally injured are B. ]. Gid
ders and Denis McMahon.
recent discovery of bituminous coal
in the Klondike region was made in
American territory about 100 miles
below Forty-Mile. A tunnel has been
dug into the hillside distance of As
feet, and there the vein is six feet in
thickness. The coal is said to be of su-
perior quality.
The transport Panama, which was
reported lost with 800 lives, has arrived
safely in Havana
Germany's exports for the first nine
months of the fiscal year showed an in
crease of $685. 200 marks over 1897.
The newly-organized French cabinet |
announces that it will support the |
court of cessation in the revision of the |
Dreyfus case.
Several companies of native troops in
the Visayas islands rebelled. They
were pursued and several were killed. |
The rebellion is ended.
In speech delivered at Worcester,
Mass. Senator Hoar, of Massachusetts,.
expressed himself strongly opposed to
the policy of expansion.
Russia has declined to support France
in the Fashoda affair, fearing that re.
opening of the Egyptian question would
interfere with her tremendous task in
China.
Action has been taken by the admin.
1stratlon looking to the maintenance of
the status quo with respect to the con-
cession of the Maritnne Canal Com pany
for the construction of the Nicaracuan
canal.
M. Fontaine, of Minneapolis, who
has just returned from the Stickeen
route, says be has discovered rich dig
gings on an unexplored creek on the
Hootalinqua river. He shows guam
tity of coarse gold as evidence.
The war between England and France
has been aver ted. A general and satis-
factory arrangement is said to have
been effected in relation to the disputed
question. An official note has
been issued on the subject in which the
British government announces that the
situation is ameliorating.
The navy department has practically
decided to abandon wrecking opera !
lions under existing contracts on the
cruisers Cristobol Colon, VIzcaya and
Almirante Oquendo, near Santiago. I
which have become enormously ex- ,
oensive to the government. A Swedish {
company has applied for permission to
,aise the sunken vessels.
The war department has issued a 1
general order for the movement of f
roops to Cuba. The first troops will a
cave on or about November 20, and a
will comprise a brigade under Briga- !
|ier-General Carpenter. The brigade 8
will be taken from the Seventh army Ii
orps. The brigade will be sent to n
leuvitas, Puerto Principe. s
Minor News Items.
Students of Dartmouth college have &
unanimously voted to abolish hazing. d
James A. Davis, who died in Dor
hester county, Md, steered the first "
teamer that crossed Lake Erie.
John Hays, the discoverer of Lake u
uperior's copper wealth. has just cele- IL
rated his Oath birthday in Cleveland.
At an auction sale at Morris Park, "
. j., the great race horse and sire, m
.eddler, was sold to William G. Whit A
BY for $4,000. 81
Brigadier General Joseph Roberts
ed at his home in Philadelphia, aged al
years. He entered the West Point cl
ilitary academy in 1885. di
q. b. Pratt died at Attleboro, Mass.
3 established over so daily and week O.
papers in Massachusetts, Rhode pr
and and Connecticut. sti
Captain Henry O'Neill, aged 90,
axican and civil war veteran, and for tn
my years famous mem her of the ye