The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-02-06

sconider the case within its jurisdiction
to determine upon constitutional
grounds.
G. w. Smith, of San Francisco, has
been named as new receiver for the
Atlantic & Pacific rsdlroad.
The Coliseum in Chicago has been
selected as the place for holding the
national Democratic convention.
The American board has received
word from Erzeroum, Turkey, that
through the relief money which is sent,
bread is given daily to about 1900
persons in that city alone. But appli-
cants for relief are nearly twice that
number.
March 25 the German reichstag will
celebrate in an elaborate manner the
signing of the preliminary peace of
1871.
Three members of the last Ohio
legislature have been indicted for
bribery. The names are not made pub
lie yet.
The Liberty bell, which has been on
exhibition at the Atlanta exposition,
has been returned to Philadelphia.
Its arrival there was announced by a
salute of forty five guns.
| Charles Asimus, who murdered
James Greenwood September 81 last,
died on the gallows at Kalama, Wash.
His last words were: 81 must die; l
am all right; the sheriff he good man;
one bad man, I, must die. I'm all
right"
Whitaker Wright, an Australian
yachtsman, has offered $500 cup, to
be sailed for during the Riviera season,
and with the object of bringing about
meeting between such big yachts as
Britannia, Satanita, Ailsa and possibly
an American yacht.
The Japanese legation in Washing
ton has received an important cable
gram from the foreign Office of Japan
with direction to make it public, by
the terms of which the rich island of
Formosa, which Japan acquired from
China, will be opened up to trade and
commerce.
The Blue Jay, Silver Bow and Gray
Rock mines, of the Butte & Boston
group, in Butte, Mont, have closed
down, and over 800 men are thrown
out of employment H1he pumps have
not been withdrawn from the mines,
which shows that the shutdown is only
temporary.
In view of the report circulating in
the United States that William K.
Vanderbilt is shortly to announce his
engagement to Miss Amy Bend, Vanity
Fair, published in London, this week
asserts that William K. Vanderbilt
will shortly announce his engagement
to an English duchess.
Lord and Lady Sholto Douglas have
abandoned their theatrical tour through
California and returned to San Fran
cisco. The lord attributes the failure
of the trip to the heayss rains and the
fact that his advance agent left him in
an inopportune time. He says he will
try it again shortly.
The London Observer says: "We
have good authority leading us to ex
press the belief that Germany recently
invited Russia and other powers to CO.
operate in a plan hostile to England's s
continued occupation of Egypt Ac
cording to our information and belief
this proposition was declined by
Russia. 3" ~
r Emperor William is firmly deter
mined to carry out the project of doubl-
ing the size of the German navy. A
high German official says he has had re-
peated conversations with the emperor
on this subject during the past three
weeks, and he asserted that during the
coming summer the plan for the reor-
ganization of the navy will be drawn
up.
The forthcoming monthly state.
ment of the government receipts and
expenditures for January will show
that aggregate receipts will be approx
imately $29,237,670; expenditures,
$32, ,696, 430, leaving deicit for the
month of about $3,459, 100, and for
the seven months of the present fiscal
from the customs during the present
month will amount to about $16, $780,
796; from internal revenue, $11,O41,-
4O1; from miscellaneous sources, about
$1,815,472. This is a decrease of
about 81, 900, 900 in receipts from the
customs as compared with January,
1895, and an increase of about So, ,O00,-
900 in receipts from the internal reve-
nue..
A dispatch to the London Standard
from Madrid says: The papers here
protest energetically against the United
States senate committees attitude on
the Cuban question. They declare that
the insurgents have fulfilled none of
the requisites by international law or
usage for the recognition of belliger-
ency. The government organs, with
view of pacifving the public irritation,
point out that President Cleveland, his
ministers and the federal authorities so
far have preserved perfectly correct
and friendly attitude toward Spain,
contrasting strongly with the popular
| sympathy and assistance the insurgents
have obtained from the American peo-
pie.
Bequests in Prize Packages.
Cleveland, O., Feb. 8. = Luther
Moses will, which has just been pro-
bated, is peculiar in that seventeen be.
quests to relatives are represented in
as many prize packages, contained in
the safe at the Savings & Trust Com
pany. As soon as the executors fur
/ niah bonds the heirs will 1enair to the