The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-04-30
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Events of the Day in a Con
densed Form.


densed Form.
OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS
Items Of Importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources Cream
of the Dispatches.
Captain General Weyler has decided
to release Rev. Alberto Diaz and hi
brother Alfred from custody, on con
dition thai. they will leave Cuba imme
diately.
The trial of Scott jackson for thu
murder of Pearl Bryan has com
menced at Newport. The speed made
in securing a jury astonished the cour
and the counsel on both sides.
A dispatch from Panama says: Some
fears are entertained here that trouble
will occur when the elections fol
deputies take place. The members o.
the liberal party will vote for the frs
time since 1885.
A dispatch from Ottawa to the Lon
don Times says: Sir Mackenzie
Bowel, the premier, has announced
the resignation of the ministers will bt
handed in in few days. It is expect
ed Sir Charles Tupper will be the new
premier.
Estrada Palma, president of the Gu
ban junta, issued an address to the peo
pie Of the United States. in which he
declares that the Introduction now o1
reforms in Cuba by the Spanish gov
ernment will have no effect upon the
revolution.
The Rome Tribuna, commenting upon
the rupture of the peace negotiations
between Abyssinia and Italy, violently
attacks the government, declaring the
ministers to be responsible for the ''dis.
honor suffered by Italy through King
Menelek's attitude.
An official dispatch from Batavis
says the endangered post in Achin ter.
ritory has been relieved. after a figh,
with the rebels under Toekodj johan,
who lost 70 killed and had 200 wound.
ed. The Dutch loss was one officer
wounded and 33 soldiers killed and
wounded.
4 The house committee on military
affairs have decided to report resolu'
tion authorizing the speaker to appoint
a committee of five members to investi
gate the charges of mismanagement
of the soldiers home at Leavenworth,
Kan, made by Representative Blue Of
that state.
The schooner Prosper, Captain
Hulm, returned to San Francisco te
have leak repaired. She statred TO,
Cooks inlet ON April with a numbe,
of goldhunters, and was about 30C
miles up the coast when a leak wal
sprung forward, on the evening o1
April II.
Baron Won Hammerstein, the former
editor Of Beuz Zeitung, Berlin. and
leader of the conservative party, wal
sentenced to three years penal servi
tude, to be deprived Of civil rights fol
five years and pay 1900, 900 marks
The charges against him were forgery
fraud and breach of trust.
While leaving work at lock 9, &
set and three were drowned al
Charleston, w. Va. The dead are
Henry Mahan, colored, of Gallipol;s
O.; Richard Dickinson, oolored, former
home unknown; Jordan, white, II
years old. The other six SWAN ashore
A movement is on foot in Chicago
for the purpose Of crystallizing public
opinion against an exclusive arbitration
treaty with Great Britain. The meas
ure is being vigorously pushed by man,
prominent citizens who desire chat ar
bitration treaties shall be made will
every nation, instead of England
alone.
The committee on text books of tn,
board of education. of Omaha, Neb.
has determined to introduce book O
Bible selections into the public schools
A majority of the school board is il
favor of the movement. The commit
tee will submit its report at the mex
regular meeting. and it's adoption i
regarded as certainty.
Colonel Caleb Dorsey, of Oakdale
Cal, a wealthy and prominent min
owner and rancher, was shot and kille'
at the Dorsey mine, II miles from Co
lumbia, at O'Clock Wednesday morn
ing, by his mining partner, ]. T. New
conner, over a dispute that ensued upol
Dorsey's charging Newcomer witt
cleaning up and misappropriating tn
amalgam without the colonel's knowl
edge.
Chief Washable and the principa
men of the Shoshone tribe and Chic
Sharp Nose and the leading men o
the Arapahoes have just closed thei
council with Indian Inspector Nc
Laughlin regarding the purchase b
the government Of the Big Horn no
springs. The two tribes have agree
to accept $50, 200 for the territory fiv
miles by ten, embracing the springs.
It is again positively denied tina
negotiations are in progress betwee
Madrid and Washington on the subjec
of granting home rule to Cuba. Seno
Canovas de Castillo. the premier, say
the reforms projected for Cuba will b
applied only when circumstances ar
in favor of such a movement. Th
premier also says the reforms woul
not be applied to Cuba until asked fc
by Captains General Weyler, who hs
said nothing on the subject. Senior d
Castillo says he will not be party to
bourse maneuver by keeping silent n
garding this report.