The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-01-09
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Items of Importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources = Cream
of the Dispatches.
Recent census figures show that in
ten years Massachusetts, has lost in
population.
The sale has been announced of nine
Leadville, Colo, mines to an Enlgish
syndicate for 81, 100000.
A severe shock of earthquake was re-
Gently felt in New Westminster and
most portions of the Fraser valley.
The American bark Arcturus parted
her cable and went to pieces on the
locks at Santa Rosalia, Cal. One man
was drowned.
Fire in the Chicago Forge & Bolt
Company plant did $4,000 damage.
The plant is owned by the American
Bridge Company.
1t transpires that the Bosphorus is
rikely to be the destination of the
North Atlantic squadron of American
battleships, instead of the Caribbean
sea.
The members of the Venezuela com.
mission met in Washington and re-
ceived their commissions from Secre-
tary Olney, and were administered the
oath of Office, and elected their officers.
The Cheyenne north-bound passenger
train was wrecked at Chugwater,
Wyo., by running into bunch of cat
tie in a cut. Fireman Parker was
killed and Engineer ONeill hurt.
-Four coaches were derailed.
Warships flying the star and stripes,
and manned by American bluejackets,
may force the passage of the Dardan-
elles and Bosphorous, anchor at Con-
stantinople and show the sultan that
Uncle Sam is not to be trifled with.
The National Associatiiation of Man
ufacturers of the United States will
shortly hold their annual meeting in
Chicago. Particular attention will be
given to the Nicaragua canal, the con-
vention favoring the government own
ership of the great waterway.
Mrs. Nichols, station agent at Farm
ington, Utah, and who lives alone in
the upper room of the station house,
discovered burglars in the act of rob-
bing the money drawer. She plucikly
pursued them and compelled them to
return every cent they had taken.
The invasion of the Transvaal by DR..
Jameson and the forces of the British
South Africa Company has brought up
all the latent feeling of hostility to
England. The Britons are wrathy be-
cause of the character of the kaisers'
message to Kruger and denounce the
telegram as decidedly unfriendly act.
The United States bureau of eth
nology expedition to Tiburon island
has returned to New York. The Teri
Indians abandoned their ranches on the
approach of the party and hid in the
mountains. The expedition, embraced
the first white people who have visited
the island in fifteen years and returned
alive
The recent massacre at Ormah is
stated to have been terrible. Official
dispatches admit 900 Christians were
killed, but according to private ac-
counts about 1900 Christians were
killed. A massacre is said to have
occurred at Birejik, an important town
on the Euphrates. This outrage is be-
lieved to have been committed by Kurds
and Hamedics in the colony. The am
bassadors have received word that the
bloodshed there was exceptionally seri-
GUS.
A large meeting of the 4 allegheny
County Bar Association was recently
held in Philadelphia to decide the ques-
tion whether women should be ad
mitted to practice. The women were
victorious by vote of more than 10 to
1, consequently they will be accorded
the same privileges as their male col
leagues. The question was decided
after lively discussion of resolution,
which called on the judges to prohibit
women from becoming members of the
bar in Allegheny county.
Another uprising has occurred in
Formosa.
At hotel fire in Altoona, Pa, three
people were killed by falling wall.
Monsignore Satolli, apostolic dele
gate to the United States, has been
Iaised to the rank of cardinal of the
church. The ceremony, which took