The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-21

ON COUNTY. OREG(
and stopping all the machinery. Tn
fire was promptly extinguished by on
of the mill hands. No arrests hav
been made.
Hank Bonkolkan, while fishing il
the lake at West Lake Park, near Lo
Angeles, brought to the surface tn,
body of well-dressed young woman
about 30 years of age. The body hat
evidently been in the water only ,
short time The identity Of the girl il
not yet discovered.
The strike of forty-four firemen O
the Armour packing plant, in Kansa
City, has assumed International pro
portions, and there is no telling wher'
or how it will end. The strikers hav,
already petitioned the national counci
of the Federation of Labor to declar,
an international boycott against tht
Armour products.
All roads in the Central Passenger
Association will hereafter carry bi
cycles free.
Alfred G. Field, negro, convicted
of the murder of Mrs. Randolph, wal
hanged in Chicago.
The schooner Mary Aver was sunl
in collision with the steamer Okano
in Lake Michigan, off Crosse point,
and five of her crew were drowned
two being saved.
An explosion at Bida, in the Nupe
country, west coast of Africa, on the
Niger, has razed to the ground the
palace of the Emir Meleki, and has
killed 200 people.
The Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern
railroad was sold at auction in Seattle
and was purchased by Judge Fl. g.
Struve, representing the bondholdesr
committee, for 81, 900, 900.
Ties piled on the Chicago, Milwau-
kee & st. Paul railroad at Waldo, 9
few miles south of Milwaukee, Wis.
derailei a south bound freight train.
Three men were killed and two injured.
At the Eliot Square building in
Buffalo, N. Y, Thomas Purdy and Val
Jenly were working at the bottom OF
the elevator shaft when workingmen
at the top dropped down an iron bolt,
killing both.
In Queretaro, Mexico, a cave-in oc.
CURED at the opal mines and ten men
were buried with earth and stones.
Word was brought from the scene that
four of the miners were killed and
several others injured.
The Gaulois published in Paris, says
that Senior Canovas del Castillo, the
Spanish premier, is about to ask the
Intervention Of the European powers
with regard to the interference of the
United States in Cuban affairs.
At the Electrical Exposition in pro.
gress in New York message was
flashed over the wires Of the Western
Union and Pacific Postal companies,
covering distance Of 16 900 miles.
and reply received in four minutes.
The fruitgrowers of Snake river are
the formation of a union,
so that fruit can be handled at smaller
cost than previously. The plan is to
have a Spokane commission house
handle the fruit direct from the river.
Forty men were let out in the Gem
mines, in Wallace, Idaho, and will not
be re-employed until development work
is finished. This is said by some to be
on account of the recent ex.
plosion at the Bunker Hill and Sui.
livan mines.
Catherine A. Lacy, SO years of age,
of Phoenix, Ariz., was burned to
death. She had risen at o'clock, and
in lighting fire ignited the curtains.
From this her clothing caught. and
before help arrived she was fairly
cooked, dying in few minutes.
A dispatch from Vladivostock says;
Quiet has been restored at Seoul,
Corea, and the king will return to his
palace from the Russian legation,
where he has been since the DISPOSE
ton and massacre of the late ministry.
The Russian marines are returning to
their vessels.
The steamer Mexico just arrived iu
the Sound, brings the following Alas
ka news: The North American Com.
Company'a schooner Seventy
Six, which left Kodiak December ! !
last for Wood island, is lost with all
hands. A heavy gale sprung up just
after she left, and she has not been
heard of since.
Trouble between the Indians on the
Tongue river reservation, in Montana,
and the white settlers in the neighbOr'
hood is probable, and troops have beer
asked for to avert possible outbreak.
This is the result of depredations com.
mitted by the Indians on the cattle
of the whites.
Nearly half the business portion oi
the suburban town Of Blue Island,
near Chicago, Ill was destroyed by
fire. Altogether twenty-six buildings
were consumed, entailing total LOST
of about $15O.000. A shifting wind
was blowing almost hurricane at the
time of the fire, and it spread rapidly.
G. j. Curtis, editor of the Weekly
Herald, of Astoria, Or. and w. b.
Weeks, candidate for recorder on the
Populist ticket. engaged in tistic en-
counter, in which Curtis came out sec
ond best. Weeks was the aggressor
and the provocation was an article il
the Herald in which Weeks was ths
victim of an abusive attack.
ESecretary of State Price has just re
ceievd the diploma medal awarded thu
state of Washington at the worlds fail
for grains and grasses. The medal is {
bronze piece, on the face of which il
the figure of Columbus, inclosed in 1