The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-03-26
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Items Of Importance From Domestic
| and Foreign Sources Cream
| of the Dispatches.
Two young men, named Montgomery
and Fox, rivals in love affair, fought
q duel with revolvers on Birch creek
Alaska. Fox received two wounds
neither Of them fatal.
Complete arrangements have beer
made by the Princeton Athletic Asso
citation to send a team to represent
America in the Olympian games, te
be held in Athens, Greece, April
to H..
A Cairo dispatch says the Egyptian
troops have started for Wady Halfa.
where the entire Soudan expeditionary
force is expected to assemble April /,
when the advance on Dongola will be
commenced.
Kid Thompson, convicted of partici-
panoy in the Roscoe train robbery.
was sentenced by Judge Smith, in the
Los Angeles superior court, to be
hanged at Folsom on May %, between
the hours of 10 and o'clock.
The case of the United States VS.. the
state of Texas, involving the owner
ship Of Greer county, has been decided
in favor Of the United States Justice
Harlan handed down the opinion. The
case involves 1 500, 900 acres.
The New York Herald correspondent
in Rio Janerio says that the Brazilian
government will present to congress an
agreement with France upon the ques-
| Amapa, on the border of French
Guiana.
A powder mill which gives employ
ment to seventy five men at Riflon,
Ulster county, N. Y, blew up. The
mangled bodies of five men have been
found in the ruins The same mill
blew up eighteen months ago. killing
our men.
Mayor Broatch, Of Omaha. Neb. has
sent out letters to 900 mayors of cities
in the trans Mississippi valley, asking
them to present the matter to the ooun-
ellis of their respective municipalities,
and urging the adoption of resolutions
favoring the exposition that is to be
held In Omaha during the SUMMER and
fall of 1898.
In Chicago, ] ]. Colvin, a promi-
nent manufacturer of galvanized iron
cornice. was experimenting the work
of the new station on the Lake-street
elevated road, when the temporary
scaffold on which he stood was struck
by train, aud he was hurled into
the street, being almost instantly
killed.
DIR. Brown, of San Francisco, has
been acquitted on the charges of i'm
morality and censured for unminister-
ial conduct. He considers himself
vindicated of all the charges preferred
against him. The Congregational
council has been in session for the past
three weeks trying the charges against
DR.. Brown.
Fire in Clinton, Wis. inflicted a
loss of from $75, 900 to 10000 The
large stock Of general merchandise of
Crosier Brothers is a total loss; also
the Y. M. G. A. fixtures, and the
buildings and stocks of several other
firms. The fire is the second one which
has occurred recently, and is believed
to have been incendiary in its origin.
The Kentucky legislature has ad.
journed, after a sixty y-day session. The
legislature failed to accomplish the two
important acts it had before 1.-THE
election of United States senator and
the enactment of legislation to save
the states financial reputation. Cover
nor Bradley has refused to order spe-
cial session, and the state is in a bad
way.
The United States supreme court
has reversed the decision of Judge
Maxey, Of the Texas federal court, in
the case of Consul Ornales. Of Mexico,
asking for the extradition Of certain
men claimed to have been engaged in
the Garza insurrection Of 1891 and
1892. The decision has the effect of
holding them subject to extradition.
Chief Justice Fuller read the opinion.
Senator Mitchell of Oregon is pre-
pairing his report in favor Of an amend
ment to the constitution providing for
the election of United States senators
by direct vote of the people. At it's
last meeting the committee on privi-
leges and elections, by vote of five to
four, ordered joint resolution looking
to a change in this particular to be re.
ported to the senate. It is Mr.. Mitch
ellis intention to press the resolution
for consideration.
A sensation has been caused by tn
announcement made by M. Berthelot,
minister Of foreign affairs, in French
cabinet meeting, that he had asked the
British ambassador, the Marquis OF
Dufferin, for information regarding
the proposed advance of British Egyp-
tian troops up the Nile, and had point
ed out to him the serious consequences
of such an advance. This warning
note may be preliminary to a more
decided step.
In Kalamazoo, Mich, non-union
molders who had taken the places Of