The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-03-19

issued. 1t calls for q foreclosure and q
new company to be known as the Ore
gon Short Line Railway Company. 1t
preserves the entire system, and also
the control of block of Oregon Rail
way & Navigation stock, which is
secured by $13, 100000 collateral trust
bonds, the new Short Line Company
paying the assessment upon the Navi-
cation stock.
An attempt was made to wreck the
Union Pacific, Butte & Salt Lake ex-
press one mile from Pocatello, Idaho.
When within short distance of the
last switch, Engineer Andrews saw a
man throw the switch and run away.
The engineer Immediately reversed his
engine. The train left the track, but
fortunately the cars remained upright,
and no one was injured. There is a
deep fill, at this point, and had the
train not been promptly stopped, it
would have dashed down the steep
grade. No motive is known for the
deed.
The strike of 12,5OO Berlin jointers
was ended this week. The workmen
have obtained higher pay and shorter
hours.
While sitting in his cabin at Eliza
bethtown, N. j., JEFF Bailey was blown
to atoms by the explosion of S5 pounds
of giant powder.
The British colonial office has
been asked to sanction chartered COM
pany to exploit Ashantee, but it is un-
likely it will conesent.
To escape arrest for embezzlement of
government funds, Frank Mapes, post
master of Kansas City, Kan, COM
mitted suicide at his residence in that
city.
The Anglo German loan of 100, OOO,-
600 taels has been issued at "a, with
interest at per cent. The contract
stipulates that the customs administra-
tion is to remain unchanged.
According to report on the organ
lied militia of the United States, just
prepared by the war department, the
United States in case Of need, can put
Q, 467, ,694 men in the field.
The senate of Cambridge university,
London, by vote Of 1876 to III, has
rejected the proposition to appoint
committee to consider the question of
comforting degrees upon women.
During February, the exports of gold
coin and bullion amounted to 80, 1885,
700, and the imports to $11, ,559, ,089.
For the eight months, the exports were
$53, 642. 992 in excess of the imports.
Two hundred fishermen. belonging
to Reval, near st. Fetersburg. Russia,
with their horses ana carts, have been
blown out to sea on floating ice. They
have only one days provisions with
them.
A disastrous collision between
freight train and a snowplow occurred
on the Berkshire division of the New
York, New Haven & Hartford rail-
road, near Kent furnace, Milford,
Conn. Two men were killed and
seven or eight others injured.
A Moscow correspondent of the Lon
don News believes it true that the porte
has decided upon the expulsion Of the
British and American missionaries in
Asia Minor "Such a measure would
be consonant with the wishes of
Russia" the correspondent adds.
At the request of the state depart
ment at Washington, the United States
embassy at Berlin has formally invited
all the German universities to send
delegates to the Princeton celebration
in October next. Some of them. in
oluding the university of Goettingen,
have accepted.
One hundred students of Muhlenberg
college, Allentown, Pa, participated
in an anti-Spanish demonstration.
They paraded the college corridors and
campus, singing patriotic songs and
cheering. and ended by burning the
Spanish flag and hanging General
Weyler in efigy.
The Pope Manufacturing Company's
building, Boston, was completely gut
ted by fire, necessitating a general
alarm. The loss is between $3.50, 900
and $40O, 900. The block was a FIVE
story structure of brick, profusely orna
mented with terra Gotta trimmings
Seventeen thousand bicycles and parts
W0I0 u0S01Oy0u Au buo udmOSs
Lord Dunraven presided at a meet
ing of the Yacht Racing Association
held in London. Before the meeting
was called to order, the question of
the advisability of making a reply to
the New York Yacht Club in regard to
the expulsion Of Duraven was inform
ally dicussed, and it was decided that
it would not be good taste to do SO.
The matter was dropped.
A terrible tragedy occurred in Seneca
Falls, N. Y. 1t was the murder of a
highly respectable young girl, Miss
Mary Mansel, by Thomas Pelkinton, a
farm hand. Pelkinton, Immediately
after the murder, and with the same
weapon with which he committed the
murder, took his own life. The girl
received two bullets in the head, one
entering the brain.
The Goulds will not be compelled
to pay taxes on $40, 500, 900 assessed in
New York for the year 1885. Five
euita had heen f51ed aOaiust the estate