The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-03-19
TELECRAPHIC RESUME
Events of the Day in a Con.
denSed Form.
OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS

OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS
ftems Of Importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources Cream
of the Dispatches.
Fire destroyed block of ten houses
in Pittsburg, Pa, rendering ten fam.
lilies homeless, and causing loss OF
$5, 10000.
The Commercial and Savings bank,
of San Jose, Cal, has closed its doors.
The depositors, it is said, will be paid
in full.
The defenses at Esquimalt, B. c.,
are again being strengthened. Seven
new heavy breech- loading guns have
just arrived from England.
The collapse of the rear of a frame
factory building in Chicago resulted
in seriously injuring five persons and
nearly 100 others had narrow escapes.
Four men were killed and one in
jured by the blowing up of an engine
on the Delaware, Susquehanna &
Schuylkill railroad at Gum Run, Pa.
There have been floods in the Alpine
districts of the Tyrol and in Bohemia,
with avalanches and landslides on the
railways. It is feared that many lives
have been lost.
A project is on foot in Vancouver, B.
c., to hold championship professional
regatta at the time of the meeting of
the Northwest Pacific Association of
Amateur Oarsmen.
In Oakland, Cal. two children. aged
10 and 5. were run down by an electric
car and instantly killed. The children
were daughters of Frank E. Booth, a
commission merchant doing business in
San Franicso.
James Duggan, well-known citizen
of Denver and five others have left
there for the Alaskan gold fields. The
praty will number fifty and they will
go in chartered vessel, and carry sup
plies for two years. stay.
President Cleveland held his first tri.
weekly reception to the public at the
White House, after a suspension of
nearly two years. About 200 persons
took advantage of the opportunity to
shake hands with the president.
In San Francisco 800 painters went
on a strike: They ask for an increase
of so cents day, making their wages
So instaed of 50. so. The strike was
ordered by the Painters union, and
was decided upon some days ago.
The president has pardoned Nathan
Blum, convicted in Oregon of SNUG
Cling and conspiracy, but whose sem
tence was suspended, and F. NJ. Sauls-
bury, convicted in Oregon of misusing
penalty envelopes, and fined $500.
South Australia, which feared the
construction of the British Pacific cable
because it might injure its land line,
will be conciliated by the offer of COM
pensation to maintain revenue from
the transcontinental line at the average
level of the past five years.
John L. Sullivan and Parson Davies
are preparing to head a movement to
place pugilism on paying basis again.
Sullivan believes sporting men should
oragnize and refuse to cast their bal
lots for legislators or congressman who
would not agree to let pirzefghters go
unmolested.
Robert Edgren, the we'll known uni
versity hammer -thrower, has broken
the worlds record for throwing the
16-pound hammer. On the Berkley
campus, in Berkely, CAL, he threw the
missile which has made him famous
lat feet and inches. The worlds
record was 145 feet.
The disreputable women who infest
Morton street and st. Mary's Place, in
San Francisco, are in a state Of terror
on account of the murder of two of
their class within a month. Both
women were strangled to death in
their rooms, and in both cases the MUIR
derers have escaped.
The National Armenian relief COM
mittee of New York will send $40, 900
to Constantinople. It is stated by the
committee that the distribution of
money is being now made among the
Armenians, and at the present time the
greatest obstacle to the work Of relief
is lack Of funds rather than opposition
by the sultan.
A dispatch from Barcelona says that
the merchants of the city have agreed
not to sell American products in the
event of Cleveland approving the Cuban
belligereHcy resolutions. They have
also opened subscription toward a
fund, which is to be devoted to the
purchase Of warships.
Recent advices fully confirm the re-
port of the overthrow of the pro-Jap.
anese government in Corea and the es-
tablishment of a distinctly Russian
ministry, the members of the late cabi.
net having, with one exception, been
put to death with horrible bararity,
inclusive Of cannibalism. The fortun.
ate member of the late government tc
save his head was the minister Of war,
who is believed to have come to Ameri'
ca in exile.
Delegates from the various CONNER
cial organizations of San Francisco hello
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