The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1881-08-26
TELEGRAMS,

L IN possession OF a knife. Gultteau refused
to surrender it. McGill drew pistol, a
I hard tussle Immediately followed in which
q Guitteau made every effort to get the pistol.
/ He succeeded in getting 1T during the srtug-
gle, but McGill afterwards gained posses
sion of it. In the scufae the weapon was
discharged and the report brought other
guards to the assistance of McGin when
Guitteau was disarmed, but it was not until
| after he had succeeded in cutting McGill's
clothing badly and camelnearly inficting
! dangerous wound about the throat.
The Worlds special from Washington
says there was rumors on the 18th inst. that
| the secretary of state has call for special
session of the senate signed by the president
and ready to be issued. There is good rea-
son for believing this rumor to be well found
| ed.
| On the 18th the president was suffering
| from information of the right parotid gland
| 1t is not known how it may effect the case
| There arrived in this country during July
| 56,607 immigrants, against 1885 in July
| 1880.
Hartman, the Russian uihilist, has. been
at Chicago since Wednesday last and as he
was leaving eor Detroit was interviewed by
| Tribune reporter. He said that he had
| Travelled under an assumed name to avoid
Russian spies who are constantly dogging
him; that he did not come to revolutlonize
this country, but co investigate certain
points; that he intends to remain some
months, but that so far he is not favorably
impressed with the system of government
here which is on COO small pattern and of
too common an order for model.
Advices have been received at the interi-
or department from Indian Agent Hunt at
Anadarko, Indian territory, announcing the
discovery of rich, extensive silver fields near
Fort Sill, within the limits of the Kiowa,
Comanche and Wichita Indian reservation.
Hunt also informs the department. that ille-
gal attempts are being made by white men
to locate mineral claims in that region.
Archbishop Crolze strongly recommends
that the people give the land bill fair trial
and accept it as great boon and blessing.
A dispatch states that yellow fever con-
tinues to rage in the French colony of Sem
egal West Africa Up to the Sth inst.
there had been so deaths.
An anti-Jewish disturbance in the district
of Pulsya. southern Russia, led to fatal
collision between troops and a mob.
Nearly all the business houses of the town
of Yale, Victoria, three hotels, Jail, court
W
Fire broke out in the Caledonia hotel and
swept everything before it.
The great run of sockeye salmon is prsc-
ticaliy over. The total pack will not ex-
ceed 80, 600 cases.
Sir Charles Upper, minister of railways
and canals for the Dominion of Canada,
accompanied by a party of friends, arrived
in San Francisco enrote to British Columbia.
The object of his visit is to inspect the Pa
cifc section of the Canada Pacific railroad
to examine the condition and progress of the
work and the location of that portion of the
road between Burrard Inlet and Yale, and
from there on to Kamloops. Under the
agreement entered into, the syndicate have
to build and complete the road by July l,
1891 On this being done they will enter
into possession, the dominion government
paying them $25, 600, ,OO9 cost and 25,OOO,-
600 acres of land.
Sir Charles Upper states that the object
of the delegate sent by the British Column
bian government to England was to induce
the British government to urge the Domin-
ion government to construct line of rail
road from Esquimalt, on Voncouver island,
to Nanaimo, the center of the island coal
district. The party expect to leave for Vic
toria tomorrow, going by way of Portland.
ID. b. Slavens has just returned from |
Panama to San Francisco, and reports that !
contracts for building stations along the line |
of the canal are under way and that many |
engineering parties are in the field. Ship |
ments of lumber from San Francisco have |
been recently made. One schooner took |
down /, ,000,0 900 feet. The steamer Grana-
da, on her last trip, took down 500, 900 feet,
and the Calima 500 600 feet. At Gatun and |
4ba - l. L
is under way. Slaven & Co. hold a con-
tract for building house at each station for
the accommodation of laborers, and are SEN
ding skilled workmen by every steamer
The firm has $50 men on the isthmus The
force at present employed in canal work
proper, aside from engineering parties, does
not exceed 200 laborers. Preliminary work
is not yet finished.
Capt H. W. Howgate appeared before
U. S. commissioner Bundy on the 18th to
answer charges preferred by Gen1 Haven,
chief signal officer of the United States, of
$40, OBS while acting as disburs-
ing officer of the signal service. The case
was postponed until Saturday and bail fixed
1T SAC. 600.
Morrilton, small village fifty miles
from Little Rock, Arkansas is in great
excitement over anticipated collision be-
tween colord and white citizens. Trouble
originated about negro abusing some
white children. A day or two after the the
mother of the children met the negro and
gave him a terrible beating. A negro
Drecher took the part of the assaulted negro
Feeling ran high, the friends of both parties
.anging themselves on either side Several
street fights occurred more or less serious.
out the determined stand of officers pre-
vented fatal termination. A large number
If special policemen were sworn in TO pro-
,ect life and property, colored people hay
ng threatened to burn the town.
London, Aug l6.-In the commons debate
IN motion to go into supply continued
Forster, chief secretary for Ireland, in his
speech said that nobody was more anxious
han the government to release the land
eague prisoners, but before this is done
hey must be convinced that peace and order
.ould be maintained without resort to ex-
;eptional powers. If influential men in
Ireland would follow Archbishop Croke's
example, there would soon be an end to all
lifcuIty. Let them give the land bill fair
rial, and if they had q fair trial the govern
nent would be willing to concur in an appeal
made to abandon the powers granted under
he coercion act.
German, home ruler, expressed the opin-
on that there could never be union between
England and Ireland until the clique at
)ubI5n Castle was raiapr ha0 and b1oooro -