The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-06-11
Thiede, who was convisted of the
murder of his wife in Salt Lake, mus
hang. This is the decision of the
Utah supreme court

0ang. his is 6n0 decision OF the
Utah supreme court.
Fire destroyed the Boylston brewery
and mammoth icehouse, in Boston, and
damaged many buildings. The total
loss is $4,000.
An emergency club has been organ
ized in Des Moines, Ia, it's object be-
ing the care Of sufferers from tornadoes
and similar public calamities.
The French Niger expedition from
Salaga, West Africa, has been routed
and many of its members killed by
pois ned arrows, in the Borgeo coun-
try.
The body of Jacob Baer, one of the
pioneers OF the city. was found float
ing in the waters of West Lake Park,
Los Angeles. He undoubtedly COM
mitted suicide.
Two midgets, each less than four
feet high, were married in Niagara
Falls. They are M. L. Comfort, Of
Oswego, N. Y, aged SO, and Miss Eva
B. White, of Monroe, Mich. aged A..
They have known each other for TWEEN
ty years. They met by appointment
and are spending their honeymoon
there.
A bare-knuckle fight to finish be-
tive. Il two youths was successfully
brought off in vacant store near the
Olympic Clubs ground, San Francisco.
Bad blood had existed owing to an ex-
change of compliments over dog fight,
and the youths met to settle their diff
ferenc s in accordance with an agree
ment then made.
Manacled, but struggling fiercely
with guards, Joseph Windrath was
executed in Chicago. Even to the last
second Windrath feigned insanity,
crying, "hang up Mannow, etc. Not
until the drop fell and the rope tight
ened the last time around Windrath's
neck were the awful cries stilled. 1t
was fourteen minutes later before the
heart ceased beating.
Nearly all the settlers on lieu Ian DIS
in the neighborhood Of Garfield, Wash,
have received notice to prepare to
either buy or vacate their homes. The
notices state that under date of April
2, 1896, the government issued patents
to the Northern Pacific Railroad Com
pany for these lands. The railroad
company offers the lands to settlers for
81 an acre to be paid in either five or
ten annual payments with interest at
6 per cent.
A Cape Town dispatch says that in
the assembly Mr.. Spring in announc-
eing the budget said that the available
surplus was el, 1850, 600, estimated sur
plus net for the year, e822, 900. He
also produced statistics showing an un.
precedented prosperity in all directions
and expressed the opinion that the high
price of Cape stock was partly due to-
the fact that the colony was part of
the British empire and he added that,
the power which commands the sea
must dominate South Africa.
The American line steamer st. Paul
has again broken her record across the
Atlantic. The ST. Paul left Southamp-i
ton at noon May 80 and passed The
Needles about 1:25 P. M. June 5. Herr
time for the trip was days, 5 hours
and 35 minutes, beating all records by
over 1 u hours. The best previous
western record of the st. Paul, made
on her last voyage, was 6 days, hours
and minutes. She has, in the pres
ent trip, reduced that time 8 1a hours,
and also made new western record,
from Southampton.
Alarming news regarding the plague
which is raging in China and other
countries of Southern Asia was brought
by the steamer Peru, which arrived
from Hong Kong and Yokohama in.
San Francisco, seven days late, on ac-
count of being detained at quarantine
at Nagasaki. Deaths are occurring by
hundreds in the Orient. At Canton
there were SIS deaths in one week re-
GENTLY. At Hong Kong, when the
Peru sailed. May s, 617 persons were
down with the cholera, and new cases
were being reported at the rate of 25
day.
Manager W. r. Rust, of the Tacoma
Smelling & Refining Company, has re-
turned from New York, where he made
arrangements to raise $3.50, 600 to be ex-
pended in making the Tacoma smelter
one of the largest in the United States. !,
Two new stacks, six roasters, and a re- !;
finery. costing over $780, 600, are to be
built, increasing the plant to four
stacks and eight rosters, with ca
pacity of over 200 tons Of ore per day. !,
The other $150,o00 will be used as
working capital. The need of an in
creased capacity is brought about by .
the great mining development in AL
sska and British Columbia. !,
James Mckinney, of>the commission
firm of Mckinney Bros, of Kansas
City. has practically cornered the ro-
tato market. Mckinney is said TO
have more of the product to sell than,
all the other potato brokers in the
West. Within the past four days, Nc.
Kinney has raised the price Of potatoes
% cents, and further rise is antici-i
pated. Twenty days ago Mckinney
contracted for the only available po,
tateos now in the West, 100 calroads,
from Greeley, Colo. Mckinney is said
to have cornered the market five years
ago, when he raised the pirce from 25,
cents to 81 bushel.
8. Asano, one of the chiefs in the
naval department. of the government Of
Japan, will arrive on the next steamer
from the Orient in San Francisco. An
important matter connected with the
coming visit Of 8. Asano to the Pacific
coast is the opening of new steamship
line between Toxic and the Pacific
coast In heralding the advance Of
this new line Asano will say that 1t
will handle freight cheaper than either
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