The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-02-27
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.
Thomas Howes Hinckley, an artist
of wide fame. died in Boston.
Chicago clothing cutters and trim.
mers have ordeded strike, and 20, ,000
are thrown out of work.
Members of the Irish parliamentary
party have elected Dillon as the new
chairman to succeed Justin Mccarthy.
The secretary of the interior has ap-
proved list of eighty acres of land Sc
lected in Oregon City land distict. Or
egon, by the Oregon & California rail-
road, under its grant.
John L. Waller, confined in French
President Faure, due to the representa-
tions made by the United States gov
ernment in the prisoners behalf.
The Elicott Square building strike
in Buffalo, N. Y, is ended, and a
thousand or more workmen have re-
turned to work. The differences be-
tween the superintendent and the men
have been amicably settled.
A factory for the making of reme-
dies similar in nature to the proprie-
tary medicines now on the market is
to be started by Chicago retail drug
gists. A majority Of the city pharma-
cists are interested, and they hope. to
drive the patent medicine makers
from the field.
Alaska travel from the Sound is
growing to such an extent that the Pa
cicfi Coast Steamship Company has de.
cided to put another steamer, the Mex
leo. on the route, in addition to the
Topeka and Al-Ki, which are now
crowded every "Trip with freight and
passengers for the North.
A leading Spanish newspaper is
quoted as saying: "It is not for the
United States government to give
Spain lessons in humanity. Those
who live in glass houses should not
throw stones. Let the United States
government put down lynchings be-
fore it reads us our duty to the Cuban
insurgents. J"
Hope is about abandoned for the
barkentine Discovery, owned by Pope
& Talbot, of San Francisco. The ves-
sci is now out twenty eight days from
Port Gamble, loaded with lumber.
She was commanded by Captain
Christensen. There were twelve men
in her, and there is scarcely any chance
of them turning up alive.
At masked ball in Lisbon fire
broke out and panic followed. Men,
women and children jumped from the
windows, seriously injuring them
selves. Friends of the jewellers rushed
into the burning building to aid in the
work of rescue, and many of them
were caught by the flames. Thus far
forty-four bodies have been taken out.
Baron Blanc, of Rome, Italy, min
lister of foreign affairs, authorizes the
announcement that President Cleve-
land, having decided to accept the po-
sition of arbitrator to settle the ques-
tion in dispute between Italy and Bra
zil, protocol has been signed, refer
ring to his arbitration all claims that
are not amicably settled by the two
countries within two months.
According to. advices received at
Port Townsend from Alaska by the
steamer City of Topeka, the Bank of
Juneau has failed, owing depositors
about SIS, There are no assets
J. N. Harrison, the banks cashier and
manager, just before the steamer sail
ed. was arrested for larceny by embez-
element of $400. The cashier and his
brother operated the bank as a joint
copartnership.
Robert Lauhglin, of Augusta, KY.
who reported his house burned by
murderers, who attacked him with
knives, and whose wife and niece were
burned in the building, has confessed
that he was the murderer. The gen.
eral theory is that he first assaulted
his niece, and then killed her and his
wife to hide his crime. He denies
this, however, and says he could not
tell what put it in his mind to brain
them with a poker while they were
asleep.
An explosion of dynamite occurred
at Viendendorp, South Africa, and
the poor quarter Of the town has been
blown to pieces. Hundreds of houses
are in ruin, and the havoc wrought is
fearful. The windows of every house
in johannesburg were broken by the
explosion. The dynamite that caused
the catastrophe filled eight trucks and
made hole thirty feet deep. Forty
dead, nealry all of them horribly mu.
tilated, were taken from the ruins, and
the search is not yet completed. Two
hundred of the most severely injured
were admitted to the hospital, where
several died.
Chalres Christy, of Waverly, Kan.
a young lawyer, has just arrived from
Cuba, where he was prisoner. He,
with about 400 others, were captured
in one battle near Havana. All but hs
and fifteen other Americans were lined
up and shot. The American consu.