The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-01-30
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Events of the Day in a Con.
densed Form.
OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS

OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS
Items of Importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources Cream
of the Dispatches.
Earthquakes have been noted in vari
GUS parts of the state of Oaxaca
Mexico.
General Thomas Ewing, ex-membe
of congress from Ohio, is dead, at tn,
age of 81.
Three men were killed and four re
ceived serious injuries by the explosion
of gas ir New Haven, Conn.
England's application for thu
American loan will involve the expor1
of 50. 900, 900 of gold within week.
Advices from Crown Point, Ind.
state that bloodhounds are to be usei
to trail criminals hiding in the Kan
kakee swamps.
As the result of a fire in st. Louis
five firemen were buried in the ruins
and another died from injuries received
while fighting the flames.
Despite the prohibitory decree of the
sultan, the Red Cross Society is pre-
pairing an expedition to Turkey to dis
tribute relief to the Armenian suffer.
ers.
The hoisting machine in the convert.
ing department of the Ohio Steel Com.
pany, at Youngstown, O., went wrong
and one man was killed and two seri.
ously injured.
The death of Prince Henry, of Bat.
tenberg, is announced He accom-.
panied the British expedltionary forces
to South Africa, and while there con.
tracted fever of which he died.
The supreme court rendered an i'm
portant decision in San Francisco, de-
claring that the stockholders of the de-
funct Pacific bank are individually
liable for the debts of the corporation.
The Mohammedan rebellion, in the
Chinese province of Kansu, has been
entirely suppressed, and the country
pacified. There have been many ex-
ecutions, including the leaders of the
insurrection.
The site for the United States peni-
tentiary, which was located by the
commission about eighteen months ago
near the state penitentiary in Walla
Walla, has been approved by the gov
ernment. and the title accepted.
A detailed account of the surrender
of King Prempeh, of Ashantee, to the
British expeditionary force in South
Africa, state that his majesty actually
groveled in the dust as mark Of his
complete submission to England.
A row between Theodore Luebcke, a
carpenter, and William Solomon, a
German compatriot, at the home of the
former in Portland, Or, ended in
Luebcke stabbing to the heart and al
most instantly killing Solomon. Fam
lily troubles were the cause.
It is stated that rupture between
Brazil and Italy is imminent, owing
to Brazil's tardiness in satisfying Ital-
ian claims arising out of the civil war
in Brazil. 1t is reported the warship
Benjamin Constant has started to oc-
cupy the island of Trinidade.
A dispatch from San Salvador says
the minister of war is mobilizing the
militia, of which in this city alone
there are 1000 available. The gov
ernment asserts this is done for the
purpose of accustoming the militia to
the use Of arms and to perfect their
drill.
A dispatch from Ekaterinoslav, the
capitol Of the government of that
name, in Southern Russia, gives de-
tails of a fire that occurred in a
theater, causing great loss of life.
The fire was discovered while a per-
formance was going on. The specta-
tors became panic-stricken, and made
a wild rush for the exits. Forty mine
bodies have already been taken out.
Truly Shattuck, the young actress,
has fed from San Francisco to avoid
testifying against her mother, who is
being tried for the murder of Harry
Poole. Truly was the chief witness
against her mother during the first
trial, as Mrs. Shattuck shot the young
man on account of the attentions to
her daughter, and it was proved that
Truly, at the command of her mother,
wrote Poole note which summoned
him to her house the day he was shot.
There is to be a sensational contest
in Andersonville, Ind, Between Dr..
Covert, who has recently sued and
been sued by the Indiana Spiritualists,
and DR.. Harry Adams, of Crawfords-
vile who claims to represent the
Spiritualists, but many disclaim him.
For six nights DIR. Adams is to appear
and DR.. Covert has wagered that he
will do everything DR.. Adams per-
forms, Covert not claiming, any med
ium assistance. The men have put up
$500 with the judges.
Negotiations between the Rio Grande
Western and the Wesern Passenger As
ISOLATION have been broken off again.
The Rio Grande Western has agreed,
however, to cease paying commits
sion on tickets from Salt Lake to Dem
yer, reserving to itself the right to cut
rates whenever necessary to meet the
competition of the Union Pacific. The
Western roads have agreed to make
half fare rates for commi ssioned officers