The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1885-09-18
The News Condensed.

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It is said that Russia has decided to
abandon her claim to the Zulfkar pass.
Up to July 80 the number of cases o.
cholera reported in Spain was 4S, $50, with
21 ,S46 deaths.
At a banquet given to the Catholic bishop
OF Down and Connor at Belfast the usual
toast to the queen is ignored.
A clash nearly occurs between Russians
| and Afg hans, owing to the too near ap.
proach of the former to Karatepe.
Adam Forepaugh has his circus attached
| at Peoria for debt to a railroad company
contracted last year. He settled it.
The secretary of state has applied to the
| president of Mexico for the extradition OF
Aufdemorte, the New Orleans postofice en-
bezzler, on the charge of forgery.
The authorities of New Orleans decline to
permit the man-of-war Yantic to enter that
port, her captain having refused to permit
| her to be disinfected and fumigated.
The total amount raised for the Bis.
marck testim onial fund was $685. 900, OF
which $375,000 went to purchase Bis.
! marck's ancestral estate of Schonhausen.
The political crisis in Denmark is reviv-
| ing. There are four deputies already in
prison on the charge of treason. The trial
OF the leader of the opposition is impending.
A man claiming to be cousin of Presi-
| dent Cleveland's former law partner has
been bleeding officeholders and applicants
in Washington by representing that he had
influence"
| The wife of Col. J. o. p Burnside, the de-
faulting disbursing officer OF the postoffice
| department, has been appointed to manage
| the affairs OF her husband, who was COM
mitted to the insane asylum last December
| Gen. Middleton has recommended that a
medal be struck for the volunteers who
| took part in the Northwest campaign. The
recommendation has been approved by the
| Dominion minister of militia and forwarded
| to England.
| Ex-Gov. Osborne OF Kansas, who has just
| returned from Brazil, where he has many
| years represented the United States as
| minister extraordinary, has settled his ac-
| counts with the department of state, and
| left for Kansas.
The Boston Transcript says: All the
money needed to extend the Wisconsin
Central to Chicago has been subscribed, but
who are the subscribers, or whether the Bal
timore d Ohio takes any interest in the
matter or not, cannot now be learned, as
the Wisconsin Central officers are very ret
icent.
The estimate for the French wheat crop
is 100, ZOO, 900 hectolitres, the yield of an
ordinary year, and leaves nothing for ex-
port France will be required to import
Italy estimate the wheat crop at only 80
per cent of the average year.
The contract for grading the new Wiscon-
sin Central extension, the Chicago, Mime
sofa & Wisconsin, from Schleisingerville to
Chicago, was let to Harrison & Green of
Milwaukee. This firm will employ 500 men,
and the grading will be done and the track
laid so that trains will be running from St.
Paul to Chicago over the Wisconsin Central
line by Dec. 1.
Commissioner Thoman says: Edward
Rowe, assistant appraiser, has been ap-
pointed member of the local board of
examiners OF the New York customs dis
trict, vice c. A. Stevens, resigned. Mr..
Rowe has been for twenty years member
OF the board OF education for the city OF
Brooklyn. He is a gentleman of high
character and fine attainments.
Wealthy Catholics of Baltimore are talk
ing of erecting palatial residence for Arch
bishop Gibbons to occupy after he is made
a cardinal. The primate is a very plain
man and prefers to remain at the archiepis-
copal residence, but that will be out of the
question, as another bishop will occupy it.
The leading churchmen say that the new
cardinal must have an elegant home.
Medford, Dak., Special: Great excite.
ment has prevailed infours Township, caused
by the shooting OF a young girl aged thir.
teen years, at a party given at Mr.. Samuel
Dickson's residence. The party passed of
pleasantly until about midnight, when Mr..
Dawson informed Miss Dickson that he
wished to speak to her. They both went
up stairs together, where in a few moments
afterwards the tragedy occurred. The bull
let has been extracted and will not prove
fatal.
Henry Fink, railway postal clerk, acci. |
dentally shot and killed himself recently. |
He was out cunning in company with Pos
Ill Ill ,s IL
from Bismarck, and the two stopped in a
grove on Apple creek to pick grapes.
Beardsley was 100 feet away and did not |
see how the accident occurred. The whole !
charge of shot entered Fink's neck at the
left side and lodged in the base OF the brain.
Death was instantaneous. Fink's parents |
reside in New York City.
The postoffice department is called upon
to decide the question whether g. citizen OF
the United States can post his letters where |
he likes. A business man in Washington,
who sends out an immense quantity OF cir |
culars annually, mails them at small Of |
flee in Maryland, where his brother-in-law |
is postmaster whose salary is governed by |
the amount of matter passing through his !
hands. These circulars have increased his |
pay from nothing up to fair-sized salary, |
and in some way the department has just |
found it out.
George L. Wright, secretary of the execu |
tive committee on the improvement OF the |
Western waterways, is here urging attention
to the Mississippi river convention to be
held at st. Paul. Only two members of the |
cabinet, Lamar and Garland, favor the |
permanent improvement of the Mississippi |
river, the president and other cabinet min !
listers being committed to the economical |
plan OF no appropriations. Mr.. Wright is |
endeavoring to ascertain the position of the |
administration on the river question, but |
fears the cause has a hard battle to fight.
Rebecca Mcdonald of Scranton, Pa, fell /
in the street and went into a trance, re-
mained unconscious eight days. During |
this time her eyes remained in a fixed stare,
her limbs were rigid and she was speechless. |
but she frequently hummed popular airs.
On recovering she wrote down on slate
that che had been in heaven. Shortly after
that she went into another trance lasting
several days, and when she regained con-
sciousnes she wrote that she had seen the
Internal regions and their occupants. A
few days ago she went into another trance,
from which she has not yet recovered. !