The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-09-15
FROM ALL THE WORLD.
Items of Interest About People
and Things Carefully
Corralled.

The Chinese have asked more time for re.
gistration.
The First National bank, of Cheyenne,
has resumed.
The president of Frsnco il said to DO
dangerously i'll.
Paid admissions to the worlds fair now
| average over 200, 900 daily.
The raIsln crop of southern California
will be the largest ever produced.
Five Cinnamon were deported from San
Francisco to China the first of the week.
The new liberty bell was formally dedi-
Gated at the worlds fair grounds on tho 9th
inst.
On the Stf inst, number OF American
priests had an audience with the pope at
Rome.
Fo: the past month about fifty carloads a
day of fruit has been sent east from Cali
fornia.
In Baldwin, Wis, two business blocks,
valued at 100000, were destroyed by fire
Oh the 7th.
An uncle of jim Corbett, the pugilist,
was drowned in the Missouri river at Usage
| City, Mo-, on Sunday.
There is famine in the Northern part
of China and people are dying of starvation
and cholera by hundreds.
Some Washington hop raisers have con.
tracted at 20 cents and others have refused
an offer of that amount.
Barney Reilley killed his little brother
with a didn't know loaded gun at
Bloomington, ILL.,, Sunday.
r. M. Hooley, the veteran theatrical
manager of Chicago, died on the 9th, aged
81. Cause, disordered liver.
The Commercial National bank, of
Brooklyn, N. Y, lost $l63,O00 through a
Colorado mining investment.
Mrs Maria E. L. Kip. widow of the late
Bishop Kip, of San Francisco, died last
Friday morning, aged 81 years.
Last Sunday was the hottest day of the
summer in Minnesota. the Thermometer re.
gistering 9S in the shade at Mankato.
The u. S. marine hospital at Port Town.
send, Wash, was destroyed by fire last
Saturday. Loss, $500; no insurance.
Rev John Berry, in prison awaiting trial
| for robbing a cooperative store at Augusta,
Ga. made his escape with other prisoners.
The Brazilian government has stopped all
| general communication with Europe. This
| order was made on account of the revolution
| in Brazil
About /, 500 Spanish cigar makers in the
clear Havana trade went on q strike Satur.
| day in N. Y, after refusing to accept re-
duction of So per thousand.
An insult to the French flag was COM
| mitted by British man-o' wars men now in
Quebec, ON Sept. 7th. The case will be re-
ported to the French consul.
At Mount Vernon, Wash, September 9th
Frank Willet was shot and probably fatally
| wounded by James Sampson. Sampson
caught Wiilet stealing plums.
The department of agriculture has re-
| ceived cable advices to the effect that the
| French government has determined to ad.
init American forage into France free Of
duty.
The net earnings of the Southern Pacific
| railroad company, (Atlantic and Pacific sys-
tems) for the first SIX mouths of 1893, show
| an increase of Sl3S, 902 over the same period
| in 1892.
| The Northern Pacific has brought in a
| los ton locomotive to move grain trains
| through the Palouse country. Over 500
loaded cars Of last years grain are awaiting
shipment.
| DR.. Amick, United States physician,
has already gained an international reputa.
| LlOu anu much IatofaOI0 COHlHcub over HIS
recent medical discovery-a sure cure for
consumption.
! Two Thousand men will receive employ.
| ment at Carnegie's mills, near Pittsburg, at
| 10 per cent. reduction of former wages,
notice having been posted Of the resump-
| tion of business.
Ormonde, the $3.50. coo stallion rscently
imported by w. .. b. Macdoncugh is now
at Menlo Park stock farm. His purchase
and the expense Of transportation to Cali
| fornia exceeds 5000, 600.
! A dispatch from Guatemala states that
| German and British merchants, who out
| number the American merchants there, have
| entered into a combination to forestal1 any
attempt to increase American commercial
influence.
1t is announced that in eastern Washing.
ton not over one tenth Of the grain is vet
harvested, and the supply of burlap eacks
is about exhausted. Merchants are unable
to procure more. Wheat will have to be
stored in bins.
The officers of tine National Woman's Re.
lief Corps are: President, Mrs. Amantha
J. Waters, of Minnesota; senior vice pres
| ident, Mrs. N. B. Anderson, Of California;
treasurer, Mrs. Gordon, of Kansas; coun.
cillor, Mrs. C. v. Sheriff, of Pennsylvania.
| During the duel scene between Mercutio
and Tybait in '.Ro.ieo and Juliet" at the
Dequesne theatre, Baltimore, Saturday,