The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-01-23

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same time, and neither have been
heard from.
The members of the government
bond syndicate received letter from
J. P. Morgan & Co., releasing them
from the commitment to furnish their
pro rata of 500, 900, 900 in gold, taking
payment in 4 per cent government
bends. There is no longer any doubt
of the success of the loan by popular
subscription.
Sir Hercules Robinson, the governor
of Cape Colony, South Africa, and
British high commissioner, has sent
message to Pretroria that matters have
been satisfactorily arranged in the
Transvaal and that bloodshed is ended.
Final agreemet between President
Kruger and Sir Hercules Robinson,
governor of Cape Colony, regarding
the disposition of the prisoners cap
tured as the result of DR.. Jamieson's
raid into the Transvaal, has been COM
pleted. Jameson and the officers will
be tried in England. The rank and
file of the freebootres are now on their
way to Natalia, where they will be
turned over to the British authorities,
who will decide the treatment they are
to receive.
A special decree has been issued
announcing the coronation of the czar
will take place in Moscow in May
next.
Ex-President Harrison has announced
that he and Mrs. Dimmick are engaged
to be married. The marriage will not
take place until after Lent.
The Panama Canal Company is max
ing gigantic preparations for railroad
construction. It is purchasing i'm
mense quantities of cross ties and coal.
The Deutsche bank has obtained a
contract to issue the Chinese loan OF
100, 900, 90 teals, with interest at 5 per
cent, to cost 500, and to be issued
at 95.
A dispatch from Yokohama says the
queen of Corea is certainly dead.
There is no truth in the story that she
escaped at Seoul. Two Coreans have
been executed for participation in the
murder.
A Berlin dispatch to the Standard
says all the German sovereigns will
grant a limited pardon to criminals
upon the occasion of the celebration of
the anniversary of the proclamation of
the empire.
A dispatch from Peking says the
British minister has presented an ulti-
matum to the Chinese government, de-
manding the opening of West river.
The truth of the report has been denied
in London, however
A series of postoffice robberies has
just been discovered in San Francisco
by the government and three Chinese
firms will lose $4,000. The robberies
were committed by Chinese who had
keys made to open the mail boxes
The Ashantee war in South Africa
is ended. Sir Francis Scott, in COM
mand of the British expeditionary
forces, has occupied Coomassie, the
capital, without opposition. King
Prempeh accepts all the British de-
mands.
It is officially stated that DR.. jamie
son and others who are in prison with
him will be released unconditionally
by the Transvaal government, and that
the Uitlanders, in due course of time,
will be enabled to make their demands
clearly understood.
A frightful accident occurred on the
Midland Terminal railroad. The train
was en- route to Denver and Colorado
Springs, and was just above the city
limits of Victor, Colo. Fifteen passen-
gers were injured, six seriously, two of
whom will probably die.
There is rumor current in Wash
ington to the effect that the United
States is preparing to enforce its de.
mands against the Turkish govern
ment for the protection of Americans
residing in Turkey, and the payment
of indemnify for property losses.
Throughout the German empire the
twenty-fifth crowning at Versailles of
King William of Prussia, the grand
father of the present emperor, as en-
peror of Germany, and the consequent
re. establishment of the German en-
pire was celebrated in some form or
other.
Captain General Martinez de Campos
formally resigned his command of the
Spanish forces in Cuba to General
Marin. The ceremony took place in
the great salon of the captain-general's g
palace. There were present all author
tiles of the city of Havana and the
chief officers of the army.
The London Chronicle believes both
England and Venezuela will institute
inquiries into the settlement and
cessions of land in the disputed terri
tory. 1t says this will present basis
for the renewal of negotiations. It is
now most probable that arbitration
will be resorted to.
After a two-days' meeting held in
st. Louis, by the Populist national
committee, it was decided to leave the
mo tter of seIeotinp the time and nlace