The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1893-11-17
FROM ALL THE WORLD.
Items of Interest About People
and Things Carefully
Corralled.

NOIIdllGQ.
Cardinal Carlo Laurent died at
Rome, Italy, Nov. I'd.
A writer in the London News says
that American tools are far better than
those of European make.
Russia is reported to be purchasing
l96, 100000 bushels of rye and storing
it in preparation for war;"
Joseph Jefferson has been elected
president of the Players club, i'll New
York to succeed Edwin Booth.
The annual meeting of the board OF
bishops of the Methodists Episcopal
churcn has just adjourned at Milwau
kee.
Agents of swindling portrait COM
pany cleared up over $500 as a re-
suit of their operations in and about
Seattle.
The supreme court of Illinois has
decided that the weekly pay law
passed by the last Legislature is uncon-
Stitutional
Rev. 7. G. Price, D. D., an eminent
southern negro orator and president of
Livingstone college at Salisbury N.
c., is dead.
After great struggle for supremacy
between Yale and Pennsylvania, at
New York on l ith inst, Yale won by
score of IA to 6.
The eleventh national convention Of
the Women's Home Missionary society
of the Methodist Episcopal church
was opened at Toledo, O.
Kentucky has granted to married
women the the right to will their prop
erty as they may see fit. The new
law took effect October 7.
The sugar trust case in which the
United States seeks to declare the
trust illegal will be taken up in court
at Pennsylvania in November
The holders of Reading railroad Sc
curities have preferred charges of mis-
management against the receivers in
control of the company's affairs.
Michael S. lyman, the well known
politician, of Staten Island, died sud,
denly Monday morning. The indica-
tions are he committed suicide.
The populist leaders have made a
demand on Gov. Lewelllng, of Kansas,
for the removal of Mrs, Lease from the
presidency of the state board of
charity.
Daisy Garland. daughter of ex-
Attorney General Garland, committed
suicide at Washington. She was
thirty-fouf years old. 1t Is supposed
she was insane.
The sheriff took possession Of the
Washington state building at the
worlds fair grounds Monday under an
attachment by the Union National
bank to enforce claim of 81, ,325.
November 18th dated the forty sec
ond anniversary of the founding of
Seattle, Wash, on which date twenty
four persons landed at Alki point, now
the center of the city of Seattle.
In Great Britain last season there
were twenty-six deaths on the field,
resulting from foot ball accidents;
thirty nine broken legs, twelve broken
arms, twenty five broken collar-bones
and seventy-five other injuries.
DR.. George G. Sanders, prominent
physician of Des Moines, was SEN
fenced to six months in Jail in the
United States district cout for at
tempting to induce postmaster to
sell postage stamps at less than the
regular price.
The general missionary conferences
met at Christ church, Minneapolis on
the lIth inst, and made appropriations
for the work among the Chinese as
follows: California, $3.50; Oregon
and Puget Sound, $1,000; Southern
California, ST 900.
Clarence King, who was once di-
rotor of the United States geological
survey, and was a member of the
Metropolitan, Knickerboceer, Union
League, Century and Tuxedo clubs,
has been committed to an insane
asylum at New York.
The United States cruiser Columbia
arrived in Boston harbor at 4 a. m.
last Monday from the Delaware break
water, her run at sea being the quickest
ever made by war vessel in this
country, beating the New York's time
over two hours. Thursday she will be
given trial "trip.
Paris special: Levi P. Morton has
returned to Paris from Tours, where he
placed his two daughters in a convent
to obtain French education. Mr..
Morton is about to undergo an opera
ton for an abscess in the foot, which
the celebrated French doctor, M.
Labbo will perform.