The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-03-05
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Events of the Day in a Con.
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densed Form.
OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS
and Foreign Sources = Cream
of the Dispatches.
A man and boy 90 years old, were
lynched by mob in Wichita, Kan.
for bank robbery and murder.
Gold has been discovered in City
Creek canyon, within the city limits Of
Salt Lake City. Assays are reported
running as high as $500 in gold and
$40 in silver per. ton.
The American ship William g..
Davis, from Philadelphia for San
Francisco, to inaugurate the new line
of clippers around the Horn from the
latter port to the Atlantic seaboard,
has been lost at sea.
Senator Dubois says the silver Re-
publicans of the Northwest will per-
NIT no tariff legislation in this con-
gress or any other that does not recog-
nize free silver, and the same issue
will be raised in the St. Louis conven-
tion.
Five hundred photographers struck
in New York to enforce the recogni-
tion of their organization and the abo-
lition of the piecework system. The
action of the New York branch is ex-
pected to precipitate strikes forthwith
in all large cities.
Rolla o. Heikes, of Dayton, o.
champion target shot Of the world,
made another Sensational record in an
exhibition in Indianapolis. He broke
100 targets, continuous shooting, in
minutes and 90 seconds, which makes
new worlds record.
A movement of ice in the Mississippi
carried away 180 feet of the draw span
OF the government bridge in Daven-
port, Ia, which was supported by
trestle work, while undergoing repairs.
The bridge was heavy double-decker
used by the Rock Island railway.
The withdrawal of Commander and
Mrs. Booth from the Salvation Army
has created commotion in the Phila-
delphia branch of the army. The sol
diers are aroused and talk of enlisting
in big secession from European head
quarters is heard in every Salvation
hall in that city.
In a fit of rage Jacob Dietzel, of Chi
el, H.
Henry Obner, and then himself, infiict-
ing fatal wounds. He was once in
prosperous circumstances, but Of late
has been dependent upon his children
for support. and their frequent COM
plants, it is said, were the cause of
the crime.
1t is reported in Constantinople that
February IA, the first day of the Ram
adam festival, the Turks surrounded the
Armenian quarter in Marsovan and or
dered the Armenians to accept Islam.
Five hundred of them agreed to do 30,
but $50 recalcitrants were killed. A
fresh series of massacres is reported in
the Siyas and Kharpoot districts.
The Paris Politique Coloniale pub
fishes an alleged telegram from the
French consular agent in Brazil, re-
porting that conflicts have taken place
in the disputed territory of Amapa, be-
tween French Guiana and Brazil. It
is added the French troops half de-
stroyed Amapa after losing 100 killed
and wounded, including four officers.
George Grant, pioneer resident of
Grass Valley, Cal, 20 years Of age.
was blown mp by giant powder. He
was using the powder to blow mp some
willows and leaned over to see why it
did not go off, when he got the full
charge in the face. One eye was
blown out and the other badly injured,
his lip was terribly lacerated and his
left arm badly injured. He will prob
ably survive.
Havana advices aver that the Cubans
will retaliate on the Spaniards for
| their slaughter Of suspects by using
dynamite. A manifesto signed by the
Cuban revolutionary party has been
found scattered through Havana set
/ ting forth that from five to ten Of the
suspects confined in the Caballas were
being shot nightly, and that the Gu.
bans would retaliate by destroying
Spanish residences and places of bust.
ness by dynamite.
Henry Cottrell. of Edinburgh. Ind.
died after several weeks illness, o1
softening of the brain, due to excessive
cigarette smoking. A post-mortem ex'
animation was held, and a peculiar
condition was discovered. The peri
cardial sack was enlarged until 1t held
about gallon of water, and the heart
was abnormally contracted. A fatty
growth had also formed. and both the
lungs and spleen were enlarged and
weakened by the disease.
By the provisions of Representative
Hermann's bill for the examination
and classification of mineral lands il
Oregon, publication of the classified
tion of lands is to be made, and sixty
days given for any person or company
to protest the classification. Provision
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