The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-08-13
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome OF the Te1egraphic
News of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

n Interesting Collection of Items from
the Two Hemispheres Presented
In q Condensed Form.
In severe thunderstorm near Oma-
ha, Neb., three people were killed by
lightning.
A dispatch from Meath, announces
that forty miners were entombed in
the Brincoch pit by an explosion.
Miss Ida Fuller, New York actress,
while in bathing at Manhattan beach.
was grasped by an octopus and nearly
drowned.
Governor Altgeld has issued mani
festo declaring that eight hours shall
constitute days work on park i'm.
provements in Chicago.
Miss Anna Pritchard, widow from
San Francisco, left $3.50 in green
backs done up in newspaper on the
Oakland ferryboat, and has not been
able to find the package since.
John Hazel jumped from an Illinois
Central passenger train that was run
ming forty miles an hour and was in.
stantly killed. He was in custody of
an officer and was wanted for horse
stealing in Missouri.
A detachment of company 1, who
were guarding the Brown hoisting
works, near Cleveland, O., fired upon
a mob of strikers and wounded one of
them. Excitement runs high, and
more trouble is feared.
A sale on the courthouse steps of
Elizabethtown, KY, was a reminder of
ante-bellum days. Instead of negro
slave being transferred to another
owner, it was a white man sold at auo-
tion for vagrancy under an old law sell
dom enforced.
The administration of President Pie
rola, of Peru, is to be credited with
another triumph in effecting loan Of
80, 900, 900 francs. The loan, which
will be guaranteed by salt tax and
other revenues, will be subscribed part
ly in Paris and partly in Lima.
Bill Doolin, the outlaw who escaped
from the Jail in Guthrie, o. T., four
weeks ago, was surrounded by deputy
marshals at Wewoka. A desperate
fight took place, and during fusilade
of shots Doolin escaped. Deputies
Gregor and Reynolds were killed.
In Chicago, twelve persons suo-
cumbed to the heat in one day. Two
or three of these are not expected to
recover. 1t was the hottest day of the
year, the signal service thermometer
registering ninety -four in the after
noon. Thermometers on the streets
registered four and five degrees more
than that in the tower.
A bloody affray occurred among a
crowd of school boys at Buchville,
Ark. Robert Chew and Beuregard
Poole became involved in a fight.
Friends of the belligerents joined in
the fray. Pocket knives were used.
Several boys were dangerously wounded.
Poole was stabbed in the breast several
times and died of his wounds.
The Chicago stock exchange will re-
failure has been settled. The action Of
the governing committee In closing the
doors is said by some financiers to have
averted panic. "There is no telling
where it would have ended" said a
member of the stock exchange. 1T
might have resulted in the ruination
of dozen business houses and banks. "
A special from Madrid says q great
| fire RACES at Rueda de Medina, town
of about 1900 Inhabitants, twenty five
miles southwest of Valadolid. Hun
dreds of buildings are said to have been
destroyed. The inhabitants are report
ed as being in state of panic.
The syndicate of foreign bankers
which came into existence to check the
drain on the United States treasury
reserve exerted by Europe has been sig-
nally successful in it's efforts in that
direction, but the Withdrawals Of gold
for shipment to Canada continues.
James Fulton Shepard, one-legged
boy of Alameda, Cal, saved l2.year-
old lad named Durant from drowning
7 in the tidal canal. Shepard rescued
Drrant as he was sinking for the last
time. The boy had swallowed a guam
tity Of water, and it required an hour g
hard work to bring him to.
| Another rebellion Is reported from
China. Two powerful bandit societies
are in revolt. Several villages have
been captured. Helpless inhabitants
have been fou1ly murdered and their
homes destroyed. Foreign missions
have been attacked, and two French
priests narrowly escaped with their
lives.
Governor Mcintyre. of Colorado, has
received letter purporting to be from
William Smeiduth, for the murder of
whom Columbus B. Sykes is serving a
life sentence. What were supposed to
be Smeiduth's remains were found on
his ranch, near Dallas, Colo, March
| 13, 1894. The chief of police Of San
Francisco has been requested to find the
man claiming to be Smeiduth, who
writes that he is staying at the What
Cheer house on Sacramento street, San
Francisco.
While an attorney was looking over
the papers of the late Eugene Wilhelm
at his home near Nebraska City, Neb. /,
an express order was found for 81 500,
which had been issued in 1853 at
Placerville, Cal, sent by Wilhelm to
his wife, Martha Wilhelm, and payable
to her order. Why the order was