The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1894-07-20
HERE AND EVERYWHERE.
Ali Kinds of News From All
Kinds of Places.

The Protestant Episcopal bishops OF
New York, Maryland and other Eastern
dioceses arc trying to' check rltuahstlc
practices in the church.
A San Jose mechanic has invented an
engine that can be put in a box 20 inches
square, and yet it is capable of exertlng
a force of siX-horse-power..
Mrs. Eta Roberts, an alleged materi-
al1zing medium, was exposed at Water
town, N. Y, by members Of the local
spiritualistic society. She acknowledged
that she had been practicing fraud for
nine Years.
Fanny Elliott, prominent young lady
of Martin, Tenn, shot at Sam Bynum
three times the other day, hitting him
in the forearm and shattering the bone
The young woman charges him with
slander.
Birsdel Holly, the famous engineer
and inventor, is in q dying condition at
Lockport, n. Y. Mr.. Holly is u years
of age. He is the inventor of the Holly
water works system and district steam
heating system.
Colorado people with socialistic ten
denotes propose u gigantic cooperative
association by which they can control
legislation. How this is to be done is
not stated, but the object seems to be to
overthrow the present system of govern
ment.
James H. Turpie, the millionaire cat
tie king of Indiana, is under arrest for
violently beating John Fawcett. a young
editor of Monan, Ind, who had as
persed the character Of Turpies daugh-
ter. 1t is believed Fawcett is fatally
injured.
John L. Sullivan attempted to make
speech at benefit given Harry Hill at
New York, but the ex-champiOn was so
drunk he could not articulate. The
crowd guyed Sullivan. This was the
first time Sullivan was treated with de-
rision by an audience.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher, whose
eighty-second birthday will occur Aug.
10, has been obliged by financial strin-
gency to move from her comfortable lit
tie home at the corner Of Hicks and
Orange streets, Brooklyn, to a small fiat
in the Plymouth apartment house on
Orange street.
Conjugal conditions are discussed in
the latest census bulletin. OF the entire
population of the United States in 1890
very nearly three-fifths, or So 90 per cent
were single, a little more than one
third, or 1896 per cent were married,
and not quite one-twentieth, or 4.95 per
cent were widowed.
Charles Robinson, one Of the Herbert
brothers, lately champion acrobats of
America, died at his home in Muncie,
Ind, from the effect Of smoking cigar
cites. The interior of his mouth and
throat had turned black. He Aas been
@ constant cigarette smoker for yer 1j
years.
At the annual meeting of the League
of Press clubs at Atlanta ladies attended
the big banqnet and drank wine. The
Georgia w. G. I. U. now comes out
with resolutions strongly censurlng the
ladies who INDUCED in wine at the
affair.
The park board of New York is con-
sider1ng a proposition to kill Tip, the
n,anlkilling elephant, who was pre-
sented to the Central Park menagerie.
Zip has a record of killing eight men,
and he has made several attempts to
add to his victims since he has been in
captivity at the par.
The treasury of Texas is today with
out dollar, a condition of affairs that
has not existed for 90 years, during
which time its revenue balance has
ranged annually from $1,000, 900 to S3,-
DE- 6
there will be deficiency of several
hundred dollars, and it is doubtful if
is doubtful if the state will be able to
meet the interest ON its bonds, amount
ing to $4,000,0G0.
The United States grand jury at New
York has before it a dozen cases of Chi
nese arrested for violating the ex-
clusion act. Inspect Scharff says an or
ganized attempt is being made to defeat
the law. The operations of the gang
extend from New York to Havana,
Cuba. Over 5000 Chinese have been
registered at New York within the last
few months. Competent authorities
estimate that at the outside there are
not over 200 entitled to register, and
the conclusion is that there has been
more or less fraud pract1ced IN the reg
istration of all in excess of that number.
A strange green worm, measuring
from one-quarter to half an inch in
length, has lately made its appearance
among the fields of growing clover in
Huntington county, Pa. They appear
in countless numbers, and when once
they attack clover field they continue
in their destructive work until every
vestige of the blossom and leaves are
eaten up. No one has yet been able to
determine its origin.
: It as announced by Mrs. Ballington
Booth at the Midland congress of the
Salvation Army at st. Louis that Bishop
D. S. Tuttle of the Missouri diocese nf
the Protestant Episcopal church had
joined the army. 1t was further an
nounced that he is the first bishop in the
world to join the army. 1t seems, how
ever, that the bishop has not joined the
army proper, but only that branch
known as the Salvation Army Auxiliary
League"
A company composed of New York