The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-01-30

view of their ghastly contents and thu
buckets were hung on the Foo Chow
bridge, where they remained on exhi
bition for two days. Then they wer'
taken to Ku Cheng, the scene of tn,
massacre of the ten Christian girls, ant
were then hung on trees, where they
are probably still hanging. To remove
one of the heads means immediate
death to the offender. The execution
has had great moral effect on The
/ Chinese, and think it will be lonf
time before there will be murderoul
interference with the missionaries.
John Tyler, eldest son of President
Tyler, died in Washington, aged 76.
Twenty mine hundred miners at Co
lumbus, O., returned to work, having
settled their trouble.
to be present at the anniversary cele.
bration at Princeton college.
A San Francisco paper says the presi
dent has accepted an invitation from
Attorney w. W. Foote to spend part
of his vacation next summer on the
Pacific coast.
The ice gorge in the Maumee river,
about eight miles above Toledo, broke
and in running out carried away two
spans of the new bridge in course OF
construction. The loss is estimated at
$50, 900.
In heavy fog, with the wind in the
northeast and the surf running far up
the beach, the American liner st. Paul,
bound in, went ashore on Long Island.
All of the 700 passengers were safely
transferred to land.
A special to Novoe Vreraya from
Vladivostock says news has been re-
ceived from Peking that the Chinese
government has assigned large sum
for the creation of a feet. The plan
of construction is very large.
Herr Knebel- l-Doeberitz. high off,
cial of the ministry of the interior,
who drafted the regulations excluding
the American insurance companies
received high decoration from EN-
peror William.
The Hon. Theodore Runyon, United
States ambassador to Germany, expired
suddenly and Unexpectedly at Berlin
of heart failure. Mr.. Runyon had
been in somewhat feeble health for
some time past, but no immediate
fatal results were anticipated.
A special to the New York World
from Kingston. Jamaica, says serious
uprising is reported in Port-au-P Prince,
the capital of Hayti. After three days
rioting in the streets. the insurrection
was suppressed. There is general un-
easiness throughout the islands
Colonel Crofton has been reqested to
retire by Secretary Lamont. The col
onel refuses to comply, and relies on
the influence of his nephew, Dupont of
Delaware, who claims an election as
United States senator, to retain for
him his position in the army.
A special to the Boston Traveller,
from New York. says that the ban
placed by the Catholic church upon
the orders of Knights of Pythias, Sons
of Temperance and Odd Fellows is alb
solute, and offers no further discussion.
This is the mandate of the pope,
through his representative, Cardinal
Satolli.
The imperial court Of Leipsic, Ger
many, has ruled on case which affects
the rights of German-Americans. +.
w. Beohine, of Brooklyn, N. Y, was
fined in September last the sum of 200
marks for evading military service by
emigrating. The court quashed this
sentence, as not being in accord with
treaty rights.
A bill has been introduced in the
Kentucky legislature by Goebel to re-
peal the charter of the Southern Pacific
Railway Company, obtained in 1884
by G. p. Huntington. The road has
never been operated in Kentucky, but in
California, and the action of the sena-
tor is prompted by resolutions of mass
meetings of citizens of California.
Postmaster General Wilson has is
sued general order providing that in
all cities and towns having free deliv-
cry postal service, the postal system be
extended to include house-to-house
collections. For the convenience of
the department., however, the introduce
ton of boxes in houses, until further
orders, will be confined to twenty five
places.
A meeting of the American mer-
chants in Pretoria, was held, and it
was decided to telegraph to Secretary
of State Olney that in view of the in
terests of American citizens and the
foot that their nronertv was iaonar-
dized, it was requested that diplo-
matte agent be sent to arrange matters
with view to any exigencies which
might arise.
The secretary of the Oakland, Cal !,
branch of the American Railway Union
has received letter from the private
secretary of E. v. Debs, in which the
statement telegraphed from the East
that Debs is to resign the presidency of
the union is denied. He says Debs
will win the fight he is now engaged
in on behalf of organized labor or die
in the attempt.
The Chinese government has agreed
to open the West river, provided China
is allowed to retain the territory ceded
under the Burmah- China convention of
1894. The opening of two ports on
the West, or Si Kiang river, namely,
Shao King and WI Chow, was stipu-
lated for by the Japanese as part of the
terms of peace. The cities of Canton
and Hong Kong are situated on the bay
into which the West river empties.
At a meeting of the grand officers