The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1879-05-30
TeIegraphic News Summary.

| Water has been let into the Lachin
Canal.
The Belgian Central Railway Compan.
has failed.
| DR.. Butt, leader of the Home Rul
party, is dead.
| Salmon are not running yet. Herrin
catches large.
Bishop Nestor, of Alaska, will reside il
San Francisco.
Preparations are making for genera
advance against the Zulus.
Congressman James, of New York, ha
been stricken with paralysis.
Rioting was renewed in Cork Monday
and many persons were injured.
| The California passed the cutter Rusl
near Cape Nudge, bound for Sitka.
Lieutenant-Colonel Chambers has takeI
| command of Vancouver Barracks.
A pacific solution of the difficulties be
tween Afghan and Great Britain is virtu
| ally reached.
The bark William H. Dietz has arrived
at Melbourne from San Francisco.
There is talk in the French Cabinet o
agreeing to resume relations with Mexico
The Baptist Church at South Adams
Mass, was damaged 5000 by fire, on
Sunday.
Robert Barrett, the cotton mill owner
at Bolton and Manchester, has failed for
csc, 700.
The Senatorial elections in Spain re-
suited in the choice of 165 Ministerialists
and Is Liberals.
Egbert Cogswell, while drunk Monday
at New Preston, Connecticut, killed his
wife and himself.
President Keep, of the Northwestern
road, believes that Vanderbilt has secured
an interest in that road.
The temporary order to restrain the
proposed lease of the Great Western Rail-
road has been vacated.
A dispatch from Maritzburg states that
the French Prince Imperial is suffering
from sharp attack of fever.
A convention of American iron and
steel manufacturers and iron producers is
in session at Pittsburg, Pa.
Lewis Coons cut his wife's throat and
his own near Hudson, N. Y. She is dead,
but he will live. Jealousy.
The masters withdrawing their demand
for reduction of wages the English iron
workers are resuming labor.
Saturday to participate in the 75-hour
pedestrian match in Chicago.
The Russian Governor of Widin has
been recalled as satisfaction for the ill
treatment of the Austrian Vice-Consul.
The authorities of the Chicago & Alton
Railroad deny the reports of Vanderbilt's
proprietorship of any part of that road.
Rev. James Hayes, Catholic clergy
man, has been held in $500 bail to answer
charge of cruelty in whipping child
years old.
Captain Lawton, of the 4th cavalry,
yesterday shot and killed soldier of the
22d infantry, for mutiny at San Antonio,
Texas.
The British and French notes have
been presented to the Khedive. who is
informed that he will be held responsible
for results.
While the bark Chelmsford was lying at
Hiogo, Japan, a Chinese hand killed the
cook and a seaman and then jumped over
board.
Russia has agreed to surrender Kuldin
to China, in return for revision of the
treaties relative to the frontier and other
concessions.
Gray, who attempted to shoot the actor
Booth, pleaded guilty yesterday to assault
with intent to kill, and was remanded for
sentence.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany has purchased the right of subter-
ranean telegraphy in Philadelphia,
paying therefor $230,O0O.
The Nevada Bank sold 100000 ounces
of silver to Government at 1108. The
Bank of California rendered small quanti-
ties at 1109 offer declined.
Jacob Staempff, Swiss politician in
1861, president of the Swiss confedera-
ton, and member of the Geneva court
of arbitration of Alabama claims is dead.
Two thousand white men have gone
into the Indian Territory during the last
week. Silver mines have been discovered
just south of the Kansas line.
The late William B. Howes, of Beverly,
Mass, among other bequests, has left
S15O 900 to the Boston Athenaum, to be
expended for library purposes.
The greatest freshet ever known in New
Brunswick has occurred. Large quanti-
ties of logs have been carried out, farms
are submerged and stock is drowned
The New York City papers are clamor-
ing for the removal of Kiddle, superin-
tendent of public schools, on account ofl
his recently published book on spirit
ualism.
The Egyptian troops again defeated the
slave dealers on January 18th and 14th, |
with loss Of 250 to themselves and 5000
in killed, wounded and prisoners to the
Edward Redmond, of San Francisco, |
who pleaded guilty to charges of attempt
ing to obtain money by false pretenses, |
was sentenced to one year in House of
Correction.
Sidney Dillon, Jay Gould, Russell Sage
and the Boston directors of the Union |
Pacific and other roads, will leave New
York soon for the West to make an ex-
tended railway tour.
On Thursday last, near Secret canyon,
Tommy Rabinson was killed by being |
thrown from wagon. Robinson was the |
discoverer of Robinson's district in the |
White Pine country.
As the congregation were leaving the
Methodist Church in Overton, Texas, on |
Sunday, Colonel Jared E. Kirby shot dead |
John Steele, who, fourteen years ago, |
killed Kirby's brother.
City of Mexico advices say: The COM
mittee of Congress has reported fayorably |
On the bill appropriating $500, 900 towards |
The expenses of the Exposition. Its |
passage isregarded as certain.
A serious rupture has occurred between