The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-20
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS

Comprehensive Review of the Import
! ant Happenings of the Past Weel
Culled From the Telegraph Columns
1t has been definitely decided by Su-
perintendent Irwin that the holiday
Iession of the Oregon State Teachers
Association will be held at Salem this
rear, beginning on Monday, December
IS, and continuing for one week.
John s. Frye, a returned Alaska
miner, met an old schoolmate from
Germany in Tacoma. They roomed
iogether one night, and in the morning
Frye missed $3.50 in gold, his sole pos
lessions. His old schoolmate had
Itolen it and made his escape.
An angry mob attempted to lynch
IN old German named Breckman in
Jherryville, Kan, for his brutal treat
nent of his daughter. She was beaten
nto insensibility and died from her in
iuries. The sheriff prevented the mob
rom securing Breckman and he was
,urried to Jail.
A three-story structure at the corner
If Front and Davis streets, Portland,
owned by the Ainsworth estate, was
partly destroyed by fire. The building
was occupied by the Oregon Cracker
Company, whose plant was ruined,
sntailing loss of about $40, 600. The
damage to the building will amount to
$4,000.
The Cariboo Gold Mining Company,
If Spokane, has declared a dividend
If Q cents share. This makes total
IF $125, 900 paid in dividends since
February, 1895. This is the mine
whose manager was held up by high
wayman and robbed of $11 900 in gold
bullion not long ago. The robber was
afterwards killed by the foreman of
the mine.
The board of fire commissioners in
Spokane has decided to request the
resignation of Chief Winebrener, of
the fire department.. Mayor Belt, af-
ter a long contest, has secured control
Of the commissioners, and extensive
removals are probable in the various
departments. 1t is thought that Clair
Hunt, of the water department., will be
the next one to 60.
A new vegetable powder has been
discovered which will revolutionize
transportation methods. The powder
when mixed with water forms an cleo.
trio battery, one cell of which is strong
enough to run half a dozen incandes-
cent lights. With two cells a power
Of ITO volts Is claimed. The discover
ers are colored man and policeman
of Chicago. The powder is claimed
to be made of roots of trees.
Burglars broke into the house Of John
Mirka, an old miser, of Cleveland @.
He was known to have his money hid
den somewhere about the premises and
the robbers tried to force him to tell
them his secret hiding place. He re-
.'fnsed and they tortured him. He was
bound hand and foot and lighted
lamp placed at his feet until the flesh
was literally cooked. The old man
writhed in his agony, but protested
that he had no money. The fiends then
applied the fame to his hands, then to
his body, until he finally sank into un-
consciousness, in which condition he
was found in the morning. The bur-
glars got nothing.
The British steamer Strathclyde.
from Calcutta for Galveston, went
ashore in the Calcutta river.
General Weyler has taken personal.
charge Of the Spanish army in Cuba.
He reviewed the troops at Mariol, and
then took up the march to the interior.
The Chicago Tribune prints a. List of
275 mills and factories which have re-
sumed business within the past ten
days, giving employment to loo, ,495
men.
A Constantinople dispatch says
while counseling American mission
aries to remain at their posts in Ana
tolia. Minister Terrell has advised the
removal of the children of missionaries
to places of safety.
Three men were injured by the burst
ing of a naptha retort in straw fac
tory in Milford, Mass. Their injuries
proved fatal. The men were blown out
Of the building, and when picked up
the skin peeled from their faces and
breasts.
Fourteen buildings in the business
portion of Traverse City, Mich, were
destroyed by fire, entailing loss of
$4,000. Ed Newberry, hotel porter,
was burned to death. 1t is rumored
other lives were lost, but no other
bodies have been recovered. Thirty
guests escaped through the windows Of
the Front.street hotel in their night
clothing.
From Greer county, Oklahoma, comes
the news of a battle between officers
of Greer and Washita counties and
large body of Mexican horsethieves, in
which one rabber was killed outright,
several wounded and two officers
wounded. The Mexicans had been
stealing horses and committing numer-
ous depredations in western counties in
Oklahoma.
It is understood the next step in the
Venezuela affair will be that Venezuela
will empower her plenipotentiary to
settle and sign with the British pleni-
potentiary a treaty referring the bound
ary dispute to arbitration. 1t is sug-
gested that the treaty be signed in
Washington.
Jack Walkers saloon, in Baker City,
Or, was visited by four masked men,
who robbed the till Of it's contents,
$40. The robbers cornered the men in
the saloon with shotguns and pistols,
and made good their escape.
A Madrid dispatch says the govern
rnepk loan of 25O 600 600 pesetaa has