The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-14

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illuminated General Weyler, the gov
errnment and army. and attributed the
insurgents crimes to the Spanish army.
They have been ordered to leave Cuba
by the first steamer sailing.
Renters and owners of land in the
Umatilla reservation met in Pendleton,
Or and organized vigilance commit
tee, to shoot down cattle straying upon
grain lands. The movement is caused
by the Indians tearing down fences
and turning stock loose. It is expected
this action will provoke test law case
to more clearly define to what extent
the Umatilla Indian is a Citizen.
J. Simons, the cook on the pilot
boat schooner San Jose, was washed
overheard and lost while the schooner
was crossing the Columbia river bar
bound in. The weather was rough
outside, and hearyy swell on the bar
tossed the little schooner about con-
siderably, one huge wave striking her
midships and turning her over almost
on her beam ends. Simons was stand
ing at the time in the cockpit, and the
receding wave carried him over the
side. The crew was unable to render
any assisa tance, the unfortunate man
disappearing as soon as he went over
the schooner's side.
1t is said that the war costs Spain
500, 600, ,0000 annually and 10000 SOL
diers every year.
"A fight between negroes and Hun
garians at Keystone, w. Va, resulted
in two negroes and one Hun being
killed. Wilson Worthington and Geo.
Manard were also injured.
Rear Admiral Kirkland has been Or
dered to command the Mare Island
navy-yard in place of Captain 81. L.
Howison, who is ordered to special duty
in connection with the Oregon.
Carl Albrecht, who killed his wife
in Marshfeld, Or, February 18 last,
was convicted at Empire City
of murder in the first degree. The
jury brought in verdict after fifteen
minutes deliberation.
The railroad station in Florin, CAL,
was entered by burglars. The burglars
robbed the railroad station, the post
Office and Wells-Fargo express Office,
which are all in the same building. A
small sum of money was taken.
The Northern Pacific & Manitoba
Terminal hondholders have been ad-
mitted to the Northern Pacific reorgan.
ization and have accepted 30 per cent
in new thIees and like amount in pre-
ferred stock as a basis of settlement.
Crazed with drink and brooding over
trouble which he considered a disgrace
to himself and relatives, Frank Wal.
ton, aged 80. threw himself In front of
an engine on the Rock island track
near Lincoln, Nebh ami was ground to
a pulp.
In the Canadian prohibition case, the
piivy council has decided that paTlia.
ment cannot pass general prohibitory
law, nor can the provinces abolish the
traffic in liquor, but they can pass laws
to regulate it by licenses. under reason
able conditions.
Notice has been given by the 500 line
of its intention to put into effect
rate of $50 from ST. Paul
and Minneapolis to Kootenai points.
The tickets will have limits in both di-
rections of forty days and final return
limits of ninety days.
The city of L'Anse, at the head of
Kewana bay, Michigan. has been wiped
out by fire. The L'Anse company's
lumber mill and nearly all the business
houses were burned. Two hundred
persons are homeless The total loss is
$3.50, 600; insurance small.
A dispatch from Panama says:
Puerto WHO. the capital of Manabi,
with population Of 10000, has been
entirely destroyed by two earthquakes
The shocks were succeeded by foods,
inundaitng the city. Many lives are
supposed to have been lost.
In boxing match between John
Houlihan and Pat Nolan, which came
off in Pennington, Conn, Houlihan
was knocked out in the eleventh round
and rendered unconscious. He was not
resuscitated, and it is belived his in
juries will prove fatal.
1t is stated in Kansas City that the
firm of Swift q Co. will shut down
their big packing plant at that point
for an indefinite period. Their plant
gives employment to /, 800 men, and in
capacity. ranks second among the pack
ing ablishments of Kansas City.
In Rome, N. Y, ]. Watson Hill
dreth, the boy trainwrecker, receievd a
life sentence. His companions, Plato
and Hibbard, who pleaded guilty of
manslaughter in the first degree, were
setenced to twenty years. imprison
ment on two indictments, or for forty
years in all.
William Laverone and Jack Roberts,
highwaymen, captured few days
since, overpowered the jailer in Ma
dera, CAL, beating him severely over
the head with a brick. They took his
keys and arms and escaped. They are
desperate characters and it is feared
will kill some of the posse before they
are captured.
News is received of brutal murder
committed in Oconto, Wis, in dis
pute between two farmers about a team
of horses, in which man named Olsen
shot one named Lissot. He then car
ried the body to a brush pile and set
it on fire. A deputy sheriff arrested
Olsen and had him handcuffed by one
hand, but by desperate effort the man
escaped and hid in the woods.
AS an indication of the unprecedent-
ed mining activity in the state Of