The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-12-15
FROM ALL THE WORLD.
Items of Interest About People
and Things Carefully
Corralled.

Chehalis owes $4,000, perhaps
more.
The pope's health is very feeble, and
it is not believed he can live until
March,
A "conclse" report of the worlds
fair in twenty-five volumes is to be
published.
The Boston supreme court has de-
cided that an attachment by telephone
is not legal.
Yellow fir, such as grows in profusion
in Oregon, is being tried in Paris Cor
street paving.
Prospects are bright for early agree
ment between Russia and Germany on
II commercial treaty.
The duke of Oporto, brother of the
king of Portugal, is one of the finest
flute players in the world.
An effort is being made in Tacoma
to raise money to clear the debt of 3d.
$50 from the Chidren's Home.
The Prince of Wales has been NOM
mated grand master of the English
Freemasons by the grand lodge.
The great new bridge across the
Thames, opposite the Tower of Lon
don, is now very nearly finished.
A great railway system in tie course
of construction will girdle the Holy
Land from one end to the other.
The Puyallup Indians have plated
an addition to the city of Tacoma. 1t
will be called the Columbia addition.
The strike of the carpet weavers in
the Kenslngton district, of Philadel-
phla, affects between 5000 and 10000
people.
Drectum, Flying Jib, Alix, Little
Albert, and several less noted trotters
and PAGERS are now en- route from the
east for California.
The Minnesota supreme court has
decided that the sale of butterine
in that state is illegal unless the arti
Gle be colored pink.
There is gigantic scheme to con-
meet New York and Chicago with an
electric railway The time can be
shortened ten hours.
At Princeton, Ky. Miss Lulu White,
society bell who prlded herself on
her athletic powers, died from strain
received IN carrying a barrel of bacon
on a wager.
The inquest on the remains of Pro-
fessor Tyndall resulted i'll ii verdict of
death from an overdose of chloral, ad-
ministered by his wife in mistake for
sulphate Of magnesia.
Ex-Governor Jacob B9eson jack
son dropped dead at his home in
Parksburg, w. Va, Monday afternoon.
He was cousin of Stonewall Jackson.
He was aged 63 years.
Rev. J. J. Moore, senior bishop of
the African Methodist Episcopal Zion
church, died Dec. 9th. He was the
oldest bishop of any denomination in
America. being 80 years of age.
1t is announced that the Chicago Il
Eastern Illinois railroad has been sold
to the Big -Four, giving the latter an
Independent entrance into Chicago.
The transfer is to be made in February.
A horse standing II hands, owned
at CaIusa, Cal, trotted Il quarter re-
Gently over the Colusa track in 3l5
seconds, pulling $50 pounds, and his
owner thinks he owns the 2-mlnute
horse.
Charles Robert Thorne, the veteran
actor, is dying at his residence in San
Francisco. He is S3 years of age, and
the father of Charles Thorne, the Gel
ebrated actor, who died about 10
years ago.
Owing to tie sickness of one of the
Jurors in the Evans case on trial at
Jackson, Amador county, Cal, the
trial has been postponed until January
%. The jurors who were sworn in
are now demanding their pay.
Plans for the state capitol building
have already begun to arrive in Olym-
pia. New York and other eastern arch
itects will submit plans. Inspection
will be made on December IA, and the
awards will be announced very soon
thereafter.
According to IA Tacoma paper, Lieu
tenant Elliott and his three comrades,
who rescued the Carlin party, have re-
ceived $50 each for their services. AS
they expended more than this from
their own pockets, the profit of the
transaction is not apparent. General
Carlin offered $500 reward, but it is
not forthcoming.
The three. .cornered billiard tourna-
ment at fourteen inch bake line,
Schafer, Ives and Slossen, contestants,
opened Dec. 11th, in Concert hall,
Madison Square garden. Ives and
Slosson met in the opening game.
Ives won by "a score of 600 to 500 in