The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-28

ant Happenings of the Past Wee
AT Home and Abroad,
Word has been received of the mu,
der in Cuba of Walton e. Stale, al
American, for his money.
Archduke Charles Louis of Austria
eldest brother of Emperor Franci
Joseph, died in Vienna, aged 81.
Tom Linton, Welshman, beat tb
bicycle record from the fifth mile up
ward, in Paris, covering thirty mile
within one hour.
Harry Jones and Frank Jefferess, tw,
convicts at San Quentin, got into s
quarrel during which Jefferess stabbed
Jones with a knife, infiicting a wound
from which Jones died shortly after
ward.
John D. Jones, who stamped to death
in fit of anger Mrs. Mendenhall, a,
the Anna, ILL.,, fair last fall, wal
hanged at Murphysboro. He professed
repentance.
The Western Federation of Miners
has decided to amalgamate with the
American Federation of Labor, and
will elect delegates to the convention
of the latter body.
DR.. Thomas Rem was shot by his
wife in Chicago. The woman fred
five times. Two bullets entered the
DOCTORS head and he will probably die
jealousy was the cause,
James Dazzle (colored), was taken
from the Jail in St. Bernard's parish,
Louisiana, and lynched. He was ar
rested for attempting to outrage a
white woman near the Patterson plan
tation.
General Vicuna, the Spanish COM
mander, is dead of yellow fever, at
Corral Falso, in Matanzas, where he
has been sick for several days past.
His body will be buried in the city of
Matanzas.
Lillian Russell, while riding her
golden wheel near Central Park, New
York, collided with sn unknown
cyclist, and was thrown to the pave
ment. Her costly wheel was smashed
and her ankle was hurt.
Mrs. Louise A. Speetzen, an attrac-
tive and entertaining woman, laughed
herself to death in Oakland, Cal. The
case was peculiar one, and attracted
the attention of number of Oakland
who attended the lady.
The striking fremen of the Armour
packing plant, of Kansas City, who
went out May for increased wages
and fewer hours, have compromised
their affairs and lifted their boycott
against the company's meats and re-
turned to work.
A London dispatch says the British
foreign Office has decided upon the is
sue of supplementary blue book rela-
tive to Venezuela, very shortly. The
forthcoming volume will contain i'm
portant additional historical evidence in
support of the British case.
What is claimed to be the largest
strike ever made in the Ainsworth, B. |
G., camp was uncovered on the Ter
minus, owned by Spokane parties. At !
The end of 200.foot tunnel 40-foot
edge was struck of high-grade ore,
$147 per ton gold and silver.
A double murder was committed at |
Pyramid Lake Indian reservation, May |
I8. Indian Sam Small deliberately |
hot his wife and her paramour with !
pistol which he stole from policeman.
The woman died instantly, but the
nan, George Meserve, an Indian, is
till alive, though dangerously shot.
A Cairo dispatch says death from
cholera is reported among the Egyptian
roops at Tourah. A regular cholera
niasma is brooding over Cairo with
he heavy air and the hot winds. The
virulence of the disease is almost un-
oaralleled at such an early stage of
visitation. The percentage of deaths
8 80.
The house committee on pubic lands
las ordered a favorable report on the
,ill for the maintenance of schools .
mines in public land states and terri
ories, by granting each state from the
proceeds from the sale of mineral lands
s15, 900 for the current year and an an
lual increase of 81 200 per year for ten
years.
In Naahnt. Mass, an incipient blaze
rom painters lamp at the summer
cottage once occupied by the poet Long.
elbow, on Willow road, was the be-
ginning of fierce fire, which, famed
" strong southwest gale, devoured
i've handsome summer residences and
entailing loss of about
100, 900.
A special from Caracas says: The
Venezuelan government has offered to
elease the schooner New Day, but the
'wners refuse to accept under condi-
ions attached. The English govern
nent will push the claims of the own
RS. This makes new complications in
he relations between England and
Venezuela.
White Buffalo, captain of Indian po-
ice on the Cheyenne reservation, has
Ipplied for a pension, on account Of in.
uries sustained while member of the
Third United States cavalry, and Ex-
mining Physician Hurley says the in +
uries are such as would give white
nan pension. White Buffalo is son
# Sitting Bull, and has always been
oyal to the whites as policeman and
older.
Upon representation of Indian Agent
'touch, at Tongue River agency, Mont
transmitted through and indorsed by
he interior department., the war de-
,artment sent orders to General
Brooke, commanding the department
# Dakota, to send troops from Fort
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