The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-06
EVENTS OF The DAY
Epitome OF the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection OF Items From
the.Two Hemispheres Presented
I'm q Condensed Form.
Mayor McClelland of Roanoke, Va,
was run down by an electric car and
fatally injured. He stepped in front of
the car when it was less than five feet
from him.
The demonstrations against the
Italian residents continue in Sac Paulo,
Brazil. The government of the state
refuses the aid of federal troops. but
promises to punish the Jacobins, who
are the chief offenders.
The North German Gazette, of Ber-
lin, says the statement is incorrect
that recent order renders the import
of American canned meat virtually i'm
possible by providing for examination
of each tin Of the importation.
The controller of the currency has
declared dividends in favor of the
creditors of insolvent national banks as
follows: Twenty per cent, Columbia
National bank of Tacoma, Wash; 10
per cent, First National bank of San
Bernardino, Cal.
with shocking death on the road
near Forestville, Cal. With friend
he was going down steep hill in a
Light wagon, when the team ran away,
throwing Simoni out. His leg caught
in the vehicle and he was dragged
nearly mile. his head being literally
pounded to pieces.
On trolley car of the Consolidated
Traction Company, in Newark, N. j.,
filed with Italian laborers, the fuse of
an electric motor blew out, sending a
puff Of smoke into the car. In fear the
men rushed for the doors. Lambuster
Angelo jumped, or was pushed off the
car, and his neck broken. Lincoln
Guiseppe's head was badly cut. and he
may not survive.
A south bound passenger and express
train on the Missouri, Kansas s. Texas
road was held up and looted by train
AOODC4b db o PO4Ab OAO LILO SOubA VI al
varado, Tex. 1t is said that the rob-
bers secured little treasure from the
express car. The bandits are supposed
to be heading for Indian territory, and
all the United States marshals have
been notified to be on the alert.
Annie vanderwall, aged z years.
was instantly killed and Ella Berh
man. aged 9. fatally injured at the
Joseph street crossing of the Chicago &
Alton railroad in Chicago. The gates
had been lowered for switch engine
which was approaching. Thinking
they had plenty OF time 30 oross, the
two children stepped under the gates
on the first track and were struck by
freight Car which had been switched
by the engine.
A courier from Usal, CAL, lumber
mill town 30 miles south of Cahto.
brings meager details of the murder of
John Mudgett, wealthy rancher and
landowner of that place. Mudgett was
unmarried and lived alone on a 1O0-
acre ranch. He was reputed to have
coin about the house. His dead body
was found half cremated in the ruins of
the partially burned house. The body
showed evideno of violence, and
parties are suspected. The sheriff has
been notified to hurry to the scene.
Mudgett was a native of Belfast, Me-,
46 years old, and has relatives both
there and in Fortuna, Cal.
A disastrous fire in Brooklyn sky.
scraper caused loss of $500, ZOO.
An official dispatch from Manila
says a conspiracy has been discovered
In the Sooloo archipelago, a portion of
the Spanish colony Of the Philippine |
islands.
Perry Bathalow, United States con.
sui at Mayence, is being prosecuted for
injuring an inmate ~of his
house by striking him on the head
with revolver.
The price of bread has gone up half |
a penny loaf, and the increase is be-
ing actually felt in the poorer. districts
of London, whose many families have,
in consequence, been obliged to reduce
their supplies.
An explosion of natural gas at Ava
lon, Pa, killed Bessie Osborne, aged |
10, seriously injured her brother Dale,
aged 9, and her sister Edith, aged 6.
The house was badly wrecked. The
explosion was caused by a leak in the |
kitchen pipes.
Thomas P. Gillespie, superintendent |
of the Sterling Mining & Milling Com
pany, at Montgomery. New, was shot
and killed on the road between the
Johnny and Chispa mines, by unknown
parties. The shooting was done from
behind some bushes.
Paul Isenbsrg, the wealthy Ha-
waiian sugar planter, who with his
family has been spending several
months in Europe, has arrived in San
Francisco. Mr.. Isenberg's European |
trip was for the purpose of interesting +
foreign capitalists in the gigantic Oahu
plantation scheme, Of which so much
has been written lately. His mission
was in a measure successful, for he is
now returning to Honolulu with a
guaranty of about 81 800, 900 from sew
eral Dutch millionaires.
J. B. Walling, who died in Boise,
Idaho, was an old Oregon pioneer He
was 81 years old, the eldest of six sons,
and came from Iowa to Oregon in 1s47,
settling in Yamhill county. He laid
out the town of Amity, and lived in
Oregon until 1866, when he moved to
Boise, Idaho. Mr.. Walling built the
first irrigation ditch in Idaho, and set