The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-10-16
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The Republican headquarters at
Chehalis, Wash, were broken into bv
some miscreants and quantity of lit
erature, private letters, accounts and
postage stamps taken.
BERTHE Trip. whose right name is
supposed to be Helen Forest, men,
Der of the Salvation Army, committed
suicide by taking poison in Butte,
Mont. No cause for the act is known.
Lewis Edwards and his wife drank
beer at the house of their friend, Mabel
Andrews, 403 Minna street, San Fran
cisco. retired to room in a drunken
condition, agreed to die together as an
end to their misery, turned on the gas
and went to bed. The door was
forced the following day and Edwards
found dead and his wife unsconscious.
The Italian government has address,
ed a peremptory note to the porte in
reference to young Italian subject
who was murdered in the recent mas
sacres. The note says that the young
man was beaten on the head and felled
to the ground by man in Turkish uni
form until he was killed. The note
demands the punishment of the guilty
persons and the payment of indemnity
for the murder of an Italian subject.
An unsuccessful attempt at wholesale
poisoning by paris green has been dis
covered in Almond, Wis. While pre-
pairing can Of milk for shipment,
John Bibby, wealthy milk-shipper,
noticed peculiar color, and, on in.
vestigation found large quantity of
paris green at the bottom of the can.
John Burns, another farmer, found
score of piles of paris green and salt
scattered in his pasture land, and
Thomas Brown lost five of the most
valuable COWS of his herd from the
same poison, deposited by unknown
parties on his grazing range. No clew
as yet to the perpetrators of the out
rage has been found.
Boston has refused to accept the
bronze Bacchante by Macmonnies, for
the new public library. The statue is
too suggestive of immortality and thirst
for the Puritan town. At meeting
of the art committee it was decided to
reject it. The curator Of the museum
sent the following note to the trustees
of the library: "Voted, That the
secretary be instructed to inform the
trustees of the public libary that. while
recognizing the remarkable technical
merits of Mr.. Macmonnies' statue of
Bacchante as work of art, this COM
mittee does not regard it as suited to
the public library building"
Returns from the Florida election
give Bloxham, Democratic candidate
for governor, plurality of $4,000. A
constitutional amendment abolishipg
October elections was ratified.
The photographers strike on the Cam
adian Pacific has been declared off. A
board of conciliation. The company
agrees that all men will be taken back
except those guilty of destroying prop
erty. It also agrees to recognize the
Order of Railway Telegraphers and its
members.
In a fog at Argentine, Kan, five
east bound Santa Fe trains were mixed
up in rear-end collision just outside
the railway yards, the trains following
each other closely. Several cars and
two of the engines were wrecked, but
miraculously enough no one was killed.
Four persons were slightly injured.
A dispatch from Lowell observatory,
Flagstaff, Ariz., announces that the
astronomers Of the observatory have
discovered that the planets Mercury
and Venus each turns once on its axis
during one revolution of the sun, max
ing the day just equal to the year on
these planets. They find further that
Venus is not cloud covered, as has been
reported, but has about it thick at
mosphere, while Mercury has none.
1t has been semi Officially announced
in Constantinople that the Turkish gov
ernment, after weighing the matter
and consulting certain advisors, came
to decision not to admit the United
States warship Bancroft through the
Dardanelles, and therefore she will not
be able to act as the guardship of the
United States legation in these waters.
The porte, it is said, also decided not
to admit the guardships of Greece and
Holland.
The British ship Kilburn, which has
just arrived in San Francisco, reports
the loss of two of her crew on the voy.
age from Newcastle. She was only
nine days ont when she ran into a
storm. The two men were sent aloft
to stow away the topsail, and while
they were SO engaged violent lurch
caused John Anderson, Swede, to
loose his hold, and falling he struck
against John Harvey, an American,
knocking him off the yardarm and to-
gether they fell. Anderson was thrown
into the sea and drowned and Harvey
struck ON the deck, but died in few
hours.
1t is generally believed among the
leading Catholic clergy that Bishop
Hortman, of Cleveland, O., diocese,
will be rendered the position of rector
of the Catholic university at Washing
ton, made vacant by the resignation of
Bishop Keane. The bishop, who is at
present in the East, has given out moth
ing concerning the appointment, but it
is said he has been privately notified
that he is the choice of the pope, and
that his visit in the East is for the
purpose of making arrangements for
taking on his new duties.
There is considerable dissatisfaction
among the employees of the Grand
Trunk railway in Toronto, which may
terminate in a strike. The men COM
plain they areEuDjustly treated by the
foremen and superintendents and that
their complaints are not listened to.
The most serious point is at stratford.
where orders were given that the 700
employees there should work but forty
five hours q week, instead Of fifty