The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-01-16
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Events of the Day in a Con.
denSed Form.
OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS

OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS
| Items of Importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources Cream
of the Dispatches.
Disastrous prairie fires in Western
Kansas have caused great loss Of life
and property.
The gross earnings of the Northern
Pacific for the six months ended De-
cember 81, were $11, ,14S, an in
crease of 81, ,625, 533.
Associate Justice Peckham, the latest
acquisition to the supreme bench, has
taken his seat. Chef Justice Fuller
administered the oath.
City Treasurer Henry Bolin, ot
Omaha, Neb., is short more than $115,.
900 in his accounts. He offers no ex'
PLANTATION for the defalcation.
A board of naval officers has been ap.
pointed by the navy department. for in
vestigating the condition of the nine
monitors lying at the League island
yard, Philadelphia.
Disorders have occurred in the East
End of London growing out of the fact
that the German and Dutch sailors
about the docks were hissed. The win
dows of the shops kept by German
Jews were broken, and several German
clubs were closed.
The London Times, in an editorial,
reminds the United States that
whether we have troubles in Europe
and Africa or not, we will not yield
on the Venezuela question. We have
insulted nobody, but if we are COM
PEELED to fight we shall be ready to de.
fend what is worth fighting for.''
New Mexico offers to supply the
necessary land free of cost for the
colonization of Armenians in this coun.
try.
The rebel chieftan, Gungunhana,
who has been making war on the Por..
tuguese in Mozambique, South Africa,
has been captured, and the rebellion
will be terminated.
Judge Morrow, of San Francisco,
gave judgment in the sum Of $500 to q
passenger who was refused accommoda.
tion ON the steamer Willamette Valley
for the reason that he had a sca1per's 8
ticket.
Judge Shiras, of Iowa, in the federal
oour.eat Omaha, rendered decision
k1o% ~,
have become citizens with all the ac-
oompanying privileges, the government
is still bound by the treaty stipulations
existing while the tribal relations were
sustained. He holds that it applies on
all reservations, and is wide in scope.
A dispatch from Berlin says that
serious rumors are in circulation re-
garding the situation of Italians in
Erythrea. Their position is said to be
almost desperate. 1t is learned that
the tension between England and. Italy
regarding the refusal of the former
power to allow the latter to disembark
troops at Zeilay has become very
serious.
The notorious outlaw, Bill Dooley,
is again creating trouble for the Of
GERS, this time in Texas.
Both Cincinnati and st. Louis are
working hard to secure the national
Democratic convention.
A special from Rome says 10000
Abyssinians were killed or wounded in
an attack upon Makile.
The heirs of the late Jay Gould are
being made to pay their inheritance
tax by the New York courts.
The available cash balance of the
treasury is something over $3.50, ,000,-
900 and the gold reserve below $780,
100000.
Charles 81. Hill, former ball-player
of note, shot and killed his wife on the
streets Of Oakland, Cal. Domestic
troubles were the cause.
The government is taking active
steps to put stop to poaching in yell
lowstone Park, in order to protect the
few remaining buffaloes.
Mrs. Alya E. Vanderbilt, the di.
vorced wife of William K. Vanderbilt,
has been married to Oliver a. P. Bel
mont, Mayor Strong, of New York
city, performing the ceremony.
The term of F. B. Rockefeller, the
ex-banker of Wilkesbarre, Pa, who
closed the doors of his priavte bank in