The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-12-11
The NEWS OF THE MEEK
From ALI Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
or INTEREST TO OUR READERS

or INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph CoIumns
"A Coustantinople dispatch says p
massacre has :; occurred at Evock, i,
which 100 Armenians are reported to
have been killed.
AT. Murray, Idaho, cave-in of the
Small Hopes mine. killed Gus Holmes.
Holmes was working in slope and
fired blast which probably caused the
cave. 't..:t "a
f.. Several members of the Miners
Union of Leadville. Colo, have been
arrested under indictments by the spec
rail grand jury, Tor their alleged con-
nection with the attack on the Core
pado and Emmett mines few months
. ago.
The New York Herald has dispatch
from Havana which states that Antonio
Maceo has crossed the trocha with
large force. 1t is reported according to
this dispatch, that Captain. General
Weyler has been wounded at the front.
ALL news from the scene of the engage
ment is suppressed by the officials at
the palace.
Robert Fitzsimmons and Tom Shar-
key fought for purse of $4,000 in
San Francisco BEFORE the National
Club. The contest was to be ten
rounds, but Sharkey was knocked out
in the eighth round. The referee,
however, gave the fight to Sharkey,
claiming that Fitzsimmons deliberately
fouled Sharkey by striking him below
the belt
United States Minister DENLY, at
Peking, has informed the departments
of state that the Japanese government,
has officially and formally renounced
that part of the treaty between China
and Japan, made at the close of the re-
cent war, which provides that all ar
ticles manufactured by japanese sub
jects in China shall stand upon the
same footing as those imported by Jap
snese subjects into China.
The fighting cruiser Brooklyn, the
newest addition to the United States
navy, has been tested and accepted by
the government.
John Abel, workman at the Nelson
Morris dressed beef works, st. Louis,
Mo-, was horribly burned while at
work The flesh on the right leg was
parboiled. Abel tripped on the greasy
floor in the rendering and fell
into vat of boiling grease.
Jane Shelly, the 14-year-old daugh-
ter Of Joseph Shelly, farmer living
nine miles south of Olympia, wash,
was reaching for some object on the
mantlepiece, when her Clothes caught
fire from the fire in the fire. place. She
was terribly burned and died after a
few days of suffering.
Delbert Crawford, young man 10
years old, was found twelve miles
from Pendleton, dead beneath an over
turned loaded wagon. He was hauling
grain to the city, and the wagon ran
off the grade into canyon. His four
horse team stood all night hitched to
the wagon, and were found the next
morning covered with snow.
T. J. Henry. living on the Apple,
gate, near Jacksonville, Or, on Novem. !.
ber 23 last went over to one of the min
ing camps to look for job cooking for
the miners. He started home over the
Watkins trail A storm started up
and he wandered about in the noun
tains and froze to death. The whole
community turned out to search for
him, and succeeded in finding his body.
He had crawled into brush pile and
was frozen to death. He leaves
widow and six children practically des-
titute.
Jennie Ward, well-dressed young
woman, created a sensation by walk
ing along Wabash avenue, Chicago,
smoking. People turned and stared at
the woman, but she paid no attention
to them, and continued to send blue
clouds of smoke heavenward. She
was placed under arrest by Detectives
Woodbridge and Schubert and locked up
at the Harrison street station, charged
with disorderly conduct, and when her
case was called for trial in Justice
Richardson's 8 court she failed to apear.
''This is something terrible" said the
court, "and as warning / will fine
this woman 81 for smoking. 1t is Ter.
rible."
A freight train of thirty cars loaded
with lumber and shingles from the
West got beyond control on q heavy
grade east of Mullen tunnel, on the
Northern Pacific road, and ran away.
Twenty six cars we're scattered along a
distance of eight miles, when the en-.
CINE left the track. Ed Jsrbeau, head
brakeman, was killed. Fireman Young
had his collar bone broken, and En-
gineer John Flunn's leg was broken,
besides internal injuries. Conductor
John McBean's thigh was broken, and
his back wrenched. 1t is the worst
wreck the Northern Pacific has ever
had from the point of damage TO track
and rolling stock.
A dispatch from Lima, Peru. says
that observers there see probability of
another clash of arms between Peru and
Bolivia, over the new trouble which is
brewing owing to Bolivia having pro-
ceeded to fix the limits of her frontiers
in the Amazonian districts without
having an arrangement with Peru for
the delimitation.
In Dieppe. France, an enormous mass
of cliffs collapsed and damaged property
to the extent of 100, 900 francs. There
is much excitement, as the cliffs
threaten further slips
Dan Stuart, the TEXAS sporting man
is quoted as saying in regard to the