The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1884-03-28
DOMESTIC TELEGRApHIC NEWS.


A number of Arabs have lately landed
in this country as emigrants.
John G. Fremont is reported to be Sc
riously ill at his Staten Island home.
An Ohio physician is preparing medi
cal lexicon in forty-two languagues.
Eleven counties in Oregon have yet tc
The Amhurst College ball nine are
making arrangements to play with pro
fessionals.
There are, it has been calculated, an
average of about 100000 tobacco seed tc
the pound.
Bishop Gibbons arrived at Baltimore
from Rome last week, and received a
public reception.
1t is stated that for every four law.
breakers put in the Mississippi peniten-
tiary one escapes.
The President has nominated Julius
Stahl as Consul General of the United
States at Shanghai.
Experts pronounce the outbreak among
cattle in the State of Illinois not the foot
foot and mouth disease.
An explosion occurred in a coal mine at
Lynchburg, Va, last week. About 15O
men are reported killed.
The Secretary of War has still on hand
relief of the flood sufferers.
The funeral of Henry A. Tilden, of New
Labanon, N. Y, was largely attended.
Samuel j. Tilden was present.
The Grand Opera House in San Fran
cisco was packed with 81 900 audience
on the first night of PATHS appearance.
J. D. Frockafeller, one of the Oldest
miners and known all over the coast,
suicided at Salt Lake by taking morphine.
1t is reported that only one member of
the senior class of Hamilton College is
now in attendance, and the boilers are as
firm as ever.
Dewitt C. Grove, ex-Mayor of Utica, for
many years past proprietor of the Utica
Observer, died in New York last week,
aged 5S wears.
1t is learned at the Department of State
that no telegram has been sent to Sargent
has been reported.
Governor Murray has left for Washing,
ton. He will demand an investigation OF
the charges made against him ON the
floor of the House.
A flood at Los Angeles, Cal, destroyed
a large number of buildings and caused a
loss of $15O, 1000. One hundred families
were driven to the hills.
A deserter from the German armv,
George N. Crooms, living at Boonville,
Mo-, shot himself, because he thought
Bismarck was after him.
McFadden, charged with being impli-
Gated in the Pacific Express robbery last
week, has been taken from Sherman, Tex,
to ST. Louis on requlsltlOn.
In the libel suit of the Mutual Reserve
Fund Association against the Spectator
Company of New York, Judgment was
given, with costs, of $222.OOO.
Some New York parties, while expert
with combination of coal and
water as fuel on the tug Matte Sargent,
caused fire; damage $15,OOOO.
The Chinese Consul's failure to partici-
pate in the honors done by New York to
his countryman, All Sam, one of the
Jeanette heroes. excites Indignation.
Governor Cleveland has approved the
Roosevelt bill, giving the Mayor of New
by the Board of Aldermen.
The United States steamship Hartford,
flag ship of Rear Admiral Aaron K.
Hughes, commanding Pacific Station, has
arrived in San Francisco from Honolulu.
A railroad officer states that nearly
80, 600 northern tourists are now in Florida
hotels. Among the prominent ones are
Jag Gould, and Alex Mitchell, of Mil
The death of Mrs. Annie Key Turner,
daughter of Francis Scott Key, author of
the ''Star Spangled Banner, is announced
as having occurred at Mare island. Aged
IA years.
A young daughter of Justice J. C.
Barker, of Chicago, residing on Fullerton
avenue, has developed hydrophobia from
the bite of a Newfoundland dog last
October.
Newport, KY, reported 1887 houses
inundated, the estimated damage being
81 100000. Thirty-three buildings were
washed away, and 127 turned bottom
upward.
The Governor of California has granted
Lloyd L. Majors, under sentence of death
for completely in the Lexington, Santa
Clara county, murders, respite until
April IL.
Every child in the Bloomington, Ind,
public schools took a potato to school.
The whole aggregated thirty-six bushels,
and was contributed to the relief of the
flood sufferers.
A dispatch has been received in San
Francisco from the General Manager of
the Central Pacific railroad which states
that Governor Stanfords son died at
Florence, Italy.
General Manager Towne, of the Central
Pacific railroad, stated recently that the
ting on of train to connect with the fast
Eastern mail service.
Prentiss Teller, the Pacific Express
agent at ST. Louis, who de-
camped with nearly S100,0O0 a few weeks
ago, was arrested by Milwaukee detec-
tives last week and $4,000 of the money
President Lisky telegraphs from Poca-
hontas to the Office of the Southwest Vir-
yinia Improvement Company that the loss
Of life by the mine explosion was 112 men.
are making to flood the mine.
Work in the west mine has been resumed.
George H. Williams, millionaire law
yer in Baltimore, is defendant in suit
brought by his son to recover $3OO,OOO
while under the influence of
liquor, in exchange for an annuity of
81, 500.
The police of Washington suspect that
Degdiff, leader of the party of Nihilists
who murdered Colonel Sudeiken, is in the
,ity. Fifty arrests were made without
capturing him. Hotels have been directed
% report to the police the arrival of all
strangers.
A meeting of the hop trade at the Pro-
luce Exchange in New York recently
avored the established allowance of seven