Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-23

bi-centenaryof John Wesley in New Y ork
on February 25.
The agricultural appropriation bill
carries $5, ,238 $3.50, an increase of $29,-
600, but $400, 900 less than the esti
mates.
dianapolis to buy residence to be pre-
sented to John Mitchell, president OF
the Mineworkers' union.
The number of striking garment
workers in Vienna has increased to 19, =
600. It is expected that the employers
will be obliged to capiatulate.
Mayor Wells, of St. Louis, has sus-
pended Patrick r. Fitzgion, the city
registrar, who is charged with corruptly
= contracting for city printing and bind
ing.
A boiler explosion in Tupper's iron
works at Biltson, Stafford, England, re-
suited in the killing of five persons and
the injury OF 20 or 80 by steam and
pieces of flying metal.
The postofice appropriation bill car
ries $153, ,430. .049, against 38.416, ,598
last year. The principal increases are ::
About 81, 900, 900 for railway mail SER
vice, 1880, 100 for rural free delivery
and $4,000 for pneumatic tube SER
vice. -
The American Federation of Labor
will begin a campaign in favor of child
labor laws and the bill making eight
hours days work on government con-
tracts. 1t will investigate the charges
of inhumanity to Porto Rican laborers
in Hawaii.
The Spanish minister of marine be-
gan action in Edinburg, Scotland, to
recover $375, 200 from the Clydebank
engineering and shipbuilding company
because of the company's failure to de.
liver in contract time four torpedo boat
destroyers which had been intended for
use during the Spanish-Ameriean war.
The senate if considering the Cuban
reciprocity treaty.
Sir Thomas Upton has offered cup
TO Pacific coast yacht clubs.
Minister Bowen has arrived from
Venezuela. He will find discord among
the allies.
Editor Gonzales died from blood poi
soning as result of the wound re-
ceived from Tillman.
Abram G. Hewitt, ex-mayor of New
York and for many years representative
in congress is dead. He was 81 years
old.
The present legislature of New Mex
leo is the first in the history of the
territory where every member speaks
English huently.
The Oregon joint house and senate
committee on the Lewis and CLARK
iair has reported favorably on the bill
appropriating $500, 1000.
The Colorado legislature is the scene
of much party conflict. Two senates
have been formed. 1t is probable that
no senator will be elected.
Senator Mitchell haszzintroduced bills
intended to carry into effect some of
the recommendations of, the senate COM
mittee which recently visited the
Hawaiian 1SlanO6.
The United States supreme court has
affirmed the opinion OF the Illinois
state supreme court as to the constitu-
tionality of the inheritance tax law,
which was upheld.
Editor Gonzales may recover from
the wound inflicted by Tillman.
John Mitchell has delivered his final
address to the coal strike commission.
f. The Chicago grand jury found indict-
ments against 40 men engaged in the
coal conspiracy.
The big 16.inch coast defense gun has
passed successful trial. 1t is the
largest gun ever made in America.
Admiral Dewey has returned to
Washington and praises the conduct of
the feet in maneuvers in the Caribbean
sea.
A wealthy Oklahoma citizen commit
ted suicide. Before dying he declared
he was John Wilkes Booth and killed
Lincoln.
N2Val constructor 1ODSOn mas D0oH
assigned to duty at Bremerton, to
which post he must 60 or resign from
the navy.
Colorado and Wyoming have both
given assurance that the Lewis and
Clark fair will receive their moral and
financial support.
The long overdue stea mer st. Louis
has arrived in New York. Her boilers
were leaking badly and passengers
adopted resolutions condemning the
company for sending the vessel out in
an unsafe condition.
A charge Of powder for an 8-inch gun
exploded on the battle ship Massa-
chusetts, killing six men and wounding
three, two of whom may die.
Citizens of Newman, small village
In Indiana, held up train and robbed
it Of coal.
The 1904 session of the national
livestock convention will be held in
Portland.