The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-14
EVENTS OF The DAY

Epitome of the Telegraphie
News OF the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in q Condensed Form.
George Haag, 25 years old, killed
himself in San Francisco by taking
strychnine. He was a member of q
suicide club.
The First Congregational church,
San Francisco, of which Rev. @. G.
Brown was pastor, will be sold to the
highest bidder.
The controller of the currency hasde-
elared a dividend of Is per cent in favor
of the creditors of the insolvent Stock
Growers National bank, of Miles
City, Mont.
At Alonzo province. in Huelva,
Spain, miscreant set fire to build.
ing in which dance was in progress.
Six persons were burned to death, and
many were injured
A telegram received from Santo Do
mingo says that the president. Ulysses
Heureaux, has had the minister of war,
Castillo, and Governor Estay, Of Ma
coris. shot for conspiracy.
Senator Kyle, from the committee on
forest reservations, has reported favor
ably the bill authorizing the purchase
of toll roads in Yosemite National
Park, and making them free.
Twenty special agents of the general
land Office in Washington, d. c., have
been ordered suspended from May 10
to June 80, inclusive, on account of an
inadequate appropriation for the cur
rent fiscal year.
The Denver chamber of commerce
authorizes the statement that no con-
tributions for the Cripple Creek fire
sufferers from other states are needed.
The contributions in sight in Colorado
amount to nearly $50, 900.
The senate committee on public
lands has agreed to press upon the sem
ate steering committee consideration OF
the bill granting per cent of the pro-
ceeds of the sale of public lands to the
states where the sales have been or may
be made.
The schooner Viking, which arrived
in San Francisco, brought news of the
probable loss of the schooner Norma.
The N orma sailed on February 9 with
ten persons aboard, for the South seas,
and should have arrived at its destina-
tion six weeks ago.
A dispatch from Valparaiso says:
The statistics of the general army
staff, which have just been issued,
show that the national guard now num-
bers throughout Chile 100000 men.
The figures were made up Immediately
after the late enrolment.
A disptcah form Havana says: An
American newspaper man named Ham
ilton, captured on board the Key West
filibustering schooner Competitor, will
be released, but the other persons cap
tured at the same time will be shot, in
spite of protests from Washington.
The New York Herald's correspond
emit in Salvador writes that congress
has approved the treaty of Amalpa
which un1tes the republics of San Sal
vador, Nicaragua and Honduras, which
will henceforth be called by the name
Republica Major de Centro America.
At Port Townsend an unofficial test
of the new revenue launch Scout show
ed her to be able to easily make four
teen to sixten knots an hour. Revenue
officers are delighted to think that the
first government boat constructed on
Puget sound is such an eminent success.
It is said, on what is considered good
authority in Washington, that the ex-
pert accountant employed by the seore-
tary of state has found shortage of
$127, 900 in the trust fund account of
F. J. Kieckhoefer, until recently the
disbursing officer of the state depart
ment.
The secretary of the treasury has ac-
cepted offers for the sale Of sites for
government buildings as follows: Boise
City, Idaho. Sera M. jackson, ST., 500,
bounded by Seventh and Eighth and
Bannock streets; Helena, Mont, G. +.
Ellis g Co., $40, 900, corner Park ave-
nue. and Clark street.
The American Medical Association
met in it's 47th annual session in the
Grand opera house in Atlanta, Ga.
The association has over 1000 men,
bers, being the largest body of physi.
clans and surgeons in America, and
probably in the world. DR.. Beverly
Cole, of California, presided.
The Herald's correspondent in Quay
aquill, Ecuador, telegraphs that the
province of Manabi suffered terribly
from earthquakes. In Puerto Viejo
houses were thrown down, many per-
sons were buried alive in the ruins and
many injured. The province of Man
abb is in the northeastern part of Ecua-
dor.
Almost 80, 900 government employees
were brought at one sweep under the
protection of the civil service by the
isusance of an order by the president,
making general revision of the civil
service rules. The order is the most
important since the Inauguration Of the
system more than decade ago. II
takes effect Immediately.
All of the transatlantic steamship
lines have advanced the rate on gold
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