The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-02-20

Events of the Day in a Con
densed Form.
OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS
Items Of Importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources Cream
of the Dispatches.
Three were killed and two injured
| in a train.wreck near Rochester, N. Y.
Mrs. Nancy Welch, an Oregon pio.
neer and the first white woman to set.
tie in Astoria, died suddenly of heart
failure in Astoria.
By the use of Roentgent's new dis
covery, the ''X" rays, buckshot was
located in mans hand, where it had
been for two years.
Grant Atterbury, murderer, was
taken from the Jail at Sullivan, Ill. ,
dragged to the courthouse in his night
shirt by mob, and hanged to tree.
The schooner Aida, twenty-six days
from Shanghai to Port Townsend, has
made the best passage across the Pa
cific ocean on record for sailing ves-
sell.
Bartholomew Shea was electrocuted
i'll Dannemora prison, New York, for
the murder of Robert Ross, at Troy, in
March, 1894. He died protesting his
innocence.
There is believed to be Jack the
Ripper abroad in San Francisco. The
police say the murders recently COM
mitted there are similar to those of the
London terror.
The city of Guayaquil, Ecuador, was
visited by terrible fire. The Peru
Wan consulate and several blocks were
destroyed. The loss will aggregate
over 81, 100000
As result of a prizefight in Phila-
delphia, Frederick Schlecnter, one of
the principals, died and ex-Policeman
Pluckfelder, the other principal, is in
Jail charged with murder.
A statement prepared at the treasury
department., under the direction of As
sistant Secretary Curtis, shows that
the government will realize from the
new loan Sill, 1878, 1856. 81.
Governor Lord received from the
United States land Office certified
transcript of clear list of school in
demnity selections in The Dalles dis.
trict. embracing 5,522 acres.
Minister Buchanan of Argentine
cables in reply to an inquiry about the
wheat condition that it is unfavorable
owing to excessive rains, and estimates
the exportable surplus at 10000, 600
bushels.
Justice Morris, of Washington, D.
c., in announcing a decision of the
court of appeals for the District of CO.
lumbia, ruled that while intoxication
may be a disease, yet if it is voluntary
and leads to commission of crime, it is
a crime in itself.
Mary Ellen Lease, the Kansas orator.
will make her debut into the minis
terial profession, and henceforth her
literary prefix will be reverend in
stead of colonel. Her recent sickness
was the immediate cause of her mind
taking divine turn.
It is announced on authority that fol-
lowing the advice of the United States,
Venezuela has practically decided to
send representative to London with
power to open negotiations with the
government of Great Britain for the
settlement of the boundary dispute.
An aerolite exploded above Madrid.
The loud report was followed by a
general panic. ALI buildings were
shaken, and many windows were shat
tered. According to the officials of the
Madrid observatory, the explosion oc-
cured twenty miles above the earth.
While proceeding from Yokohama to
Kobe, the United States flagship Olym-
pia struck gale, to escape which all
steam was crowded on and speed of
twenty-one knots developed. The
storm broke her forward deck stanch-
ions and carried away her bridge rails.
credit for the conversion of England to
arbitration, and says: "The speeches
in parliament show that we have
reached the point where solution is
certainty. The Schomburgk line is
as defunct as the boundaries of Wes-
set.''
Barney Beck, printer, shot and
seriously wounded Mrs. E. B. Catlin in
Anaconda, Mont. He was pursued by
an angry mob, but killed himself be.
fore they could capture him. Infatua-
tion for the woman, and her refusal to
accept his attentions is given as the
cause.
Rev. j. b. Hunycutt, a Baptist min.
lister, has been arrested at Morrilltown,
Ark, charged with infanticide. His
housekeeper's 1-year-old baby cried
while he was preparing sermon, and
the preacher became enraged at the
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