The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-02-27

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the formers Sunset route will be de.
liverd by the latter at New Orleans.
This deal is considered to be direct
| blow at the Southern Pacifio's direct
connections at Ogden. Its object is
said to be to divert as much traffic as
possible from the Central Pacific road,
the Southern Pacific having entered
upon a deliberate and systematic policy
of impove1ishing that part of its sys-
tenn, with the view of frightening the
United States to settle its claims
against that road on the easiest terms.
Irving Fleming committed suicide,
by cutting his throat with a razor, at
Woodburn, Or.
Bill Nye, the famous humorist, died
at his home in Asheviille, N. c., from a
paralytic stroke.
Daniel Galencia, residing near Spo-
kane, killed himself by shooting him.
self through the heart.
The entire family of Jacob jacob
was asphyxiated in his farmhouse,
near Niles Center, ILL.,, by gas from a
coal stove.
The president has signed the bill ex.
tending the operation of mineral land
laws to the north half of the Colville
Indian reservation.
A large amount of spurious coin in
the shape of 50-cent and 81 pieces has
been found to be in circulation at
Wenatchee, Wash.
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held in New York, resolutions were
adopted demanding the release of all
political prisoners confined in English
jails.
E. R. Campbell, ex-clerk of the
United States district court, was shot
and killed by his son, Robert Camp
bell, in Nashville, Tenn. Young
Campbell has been regarded as men
tally unsound.
Seven people were asphyxiated, one
fatally hurt by jumping from win
dow, and five others more or less injured
by fire in the residence Of James R.
Arminger, prominent jeweler of Bal
timore, Md.
At Seney, Mich, four men were
killed and seven seriously injured by
steam log-hauler at lumber camp.
The engine became uncomfortable and
ran down the road at full speed, catch
ing the men before escape was possible.
Another big gun has reached the
Preside in San Francisco. It was
hauled to the top of the ridge back of
Fort Point. This is the second 3O-ton
rifle to be added to the Fort Point bat
terry and completes the trio ordered for
this coast several years ago.
A London special says the Natal
Times claims to have the best author
ity for the statement that the South
African republic will, on the fifteenth
anniversary of the Boer victory over
the British under General Colley at
Majuba hill, proclaim its Independence,
The great tailors' strike, which has
been in force several weeks in many
cities in Germany, has been ended by
the employers granting 121a per cent
increase of wages The seamstresses'
strike, movement allied to the tail
ors' strike, is also on the eve of set
tlement.
Arthur G. Newsan, the former Brit
ish magistrate at Cedros, Trinidad,
who was arrested in Brooklyn, July z,
last, charged with having embezzled
about e100, 600 belonging to the Brit
ish government, has been acquitted
after two trials, and has been set at
liberty.
The monitor Monadnock has been
formally placed in commission at
Mare-island navy yard, San Francisco.
The Monadnock was commenced twelve
years ago, and has dragged along at
intervals. Navy officers say she is
now a most powerful battleship and
able to hold her own against anything
that floats.
State Senator Guy, of New York,
has prepared bill which will be pre-
sented to the legislature very soon
which authorizes the city to purchase
and remove the Edgar Allen Poe cot
tage. The bill provides for an appro-
priation of $50, 600, which sum, it is
estimated, will cover all expenses.
James Fitzgerald was hanged at st.
Louis for the murder of his sweetheart,
Annie Nessens, on the night of Novem-
ber "a, 1898. The rope broke and the
victim lay struggling on the ground
beneath the gallows. The doctors
found Fitzgerald still conscious. Slim
ulants were given and he revived. A
new rope was sent for and an hour
later the sick and trembling, but very
nervy victim, was again taken to the
scaffold. This time there was no
hitch.
Under the new postal appropriation
bill the secret inspection of letter car
riers by special agents will be stopped.
The bill provides instead, that there
shall be thirty additional postofice in
spectors, who shall be assigned to the
free delivery service exclusively.
While these men will be nominally
under the authority of the fourth as
sistant postmaster general, they will
be subject to the orders of the first as
sistant and the superintendent Of the
free delivery service. They will de-