The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-09-08
FROM ALL THE WORLD.
Items of Interest About People
and Things Carefully
Corralled.

Elk Governor Proctor Knott, of Ken.
lucky, has been offered the Hawaiian mis-
! sion and declined it.
A choir composed of $50 mormons, have
arrived at Chicago to contest for vocal hon.
ors of the worlds fair.
The Ohio democrats have decided TO open
the campaign in Licking county, and it will
1 end in good old licking.
| Gladstone, the "Grand Old Man," scored
victory in the house of commons by the
passage of the home rule bill.
John Wlndate. aged 55, resident of Fail
| Haven, Ohio, fell from wagon and was in
SANITY killed, his neck being broken by the
fall.
| The estimated total damage to the oyste.
bells "n the New Haven harbor and Long
Island sound cansed by the recent storm
amounts to 81, 0JO, 900.
Noah Boyer, of Walla Walla, WASH,
! re ;ently harvested from twelve acres SOC
| Bugs of red chaff wheat. averaging l3s
pounds each, over 9S bushels per acre.
Earl & Donohue are having a sawmill
| built, OF the most modern pattern, at Clal.
| lam bay. Wash. 1t will have a capacity OF
80. 600 to $4,000 feet of lumber per day.
The Peru. Ind, Athletic Club has com.
pleted arrangements for a bicycle tourna-
| ment =, to be held in that city Oh September
20 and 81, in which 81 200 in prizes will be
given away.
The special grand jury at Chicago, which
had been in session only three hours. COM
pleted its work and returned eighty-t three
indictments against notorious gambling
house keepers.
At Grassy, KY, John George shot his
brother sam with a double-barrelled shot.
gun, both loads entering the boys breast.
John is l9 and the dead boy lc. They fell
out over favorite horse.
The cholera outbreak in Jersey City has
caused a scare among the congressman. 1t
may do much toward shortening the session.
Officials of the marine hospital service do
not fear general outbreak.
South Chicago had a disastrous fire
Thursday of last week which swept away
81, ,080, 900 worth of property and left l30
families homeless. The area of the burned
district covered twenty. five acres.
Strikers fred several freight cars on the
L. & N. railroad near Memphis, Tenn, last
Saturday Prompt action by the fire de.
partnent prevented the destruction of large
quantities of cotton and other freight.
Spokane's water works dam will be so
constructed as to develop %, 600 horse pow
er gross. and will be what is known as a
timber crib dam, the abutments to be COM
posed of heavy cut granite or concrete.
The editor of the Rocky Mountain News,
Denver, formerly republican paper, an
nounces his allegiance to the peoples party
in future, as a means to the end that the
silver interests of the west may be pre-
served.
The international bicycle races occurred
at indianapolis. The feature was the win
ming of the international mile by thinner
man in l:l2 4 5, breaking the worlds record
for a mile iR competition, reducing it 2-5
seconds,
Democratic papers are telling their read.
ers that there is no more healthfuf meat
than mutton, to prepare them for the time
when free wool makes it SO that sheep men
can get nothing out of their focks unless
they eat them. s .+sa a-t
R. T. Day, who was hanged at .sKalama
in the summer of 1892. was drawn on the
recent federal grand jury. Dead men have
been drawn on juries before, but this is sup.
posed to be the first time hanged murderer
has been drawn.
The patent office has celebrated the issu.
ance of a round halt million of patents.
Patent No. 500, O00 has been issued and the
office has started with a good steady gait
toward the ZOO 600 milestone marking the
progress of invention.
Hon. Harry G. Ide, of st. Johnsbury,
VT, has been rendered the position of
chief justice of Samoa. It came by recon-.
mendation of Germany during Harrison's
and was recently taken up again by the
present administration.
The third trial of M. B. Curtis, the actor
charged with the murder of Police Officer
Grant, ended at San Francisco in the acqult.
al of the defendant. The judge instructed
that the jury might find the defendant
guilty of murder in either degree or of man.
slaughter.
Mrs. Grose, of Railway, N. j., sister of
John s. Hough, says there is no doubt about
his having inherited fortune from East
man, the Californian. whom he uursed
through an attack of typhoid fever in 1876.
Mrs. Grose says the sum will probably reach
$4,000, 900. Hough is 43 years old and un.
r,arried. He has a marked resemblance to
Whitelaw Reid.
The Krupp l2l.ton steel gun now at and
belonging to Chicago is about Al feet long,
with thickest diameter of 81 feet, and
caliber of l61 inches. It's steel armored
projectile weighs 2,205 pounds, and, pro.
PEELED by 903 pounds of powder, can per-
forate wrought.iron plate 81 feet thick
two-thirds of mile away. The gun wa,
made in 1886, and has been fired l6 rounds
with full charge.
An Indiana farmer has discovered that
his straw is worth more than his wheat.
He produced $50 bushels of wheat on thirty.
three acres, or about nineteen bushels to the
acre, which, at the Price ruling when the
calculation was made, indicated for the crop
a value of $l2 per acre. His straw weighed
two tons per acre and was worth $S per ton,
or SIG per acre. The aggregate value of the
grain uas Sd02. of the stra W C52S