The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-09-25
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS

Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past week
Culled Froa the Telegraph Columns.
Richard Williams, the excursions
inspector, of San Francisco, convicted
of extortion, has been sentenced to six
years. imprisonment and $4,000 fine.
A bakery at Woodburn, Or, was
destroyed by fire, and baker named
Ruhl was burned while trying to save
some of his effects from the building.
The loss is $4,000.
Hops aggregating in quantity over
IS, pounds have been contracted by
Marion county growers to Charles
Green & Son, the purchase price being
cents pound.
Edison Keith, for forty years promi-
nent citizen of Chicago, threw himself
into the lake at the foot of Thirteenth
street in that city, while temporarily
insane, as a result of chronic dyspepsia
and insomnia.
The American ship Luzon, Captain
Park, which left New York May 81
for Shanghai, passing Anjeron August
IS, grounded on a bar at Woo Sung.
1t is probable the ship will be foated
after she has been lighteued, but she
must be drydocked before putting to
sea again.
this misery" This was the agonizing
cry of Anton Dusback, who has been
employed in the Guggenheim smelling
works near Woodbridge, N. j. Dus-
back was working near tank of sui
phuric acid, when he lost his balance
and plunged headforemost to fate
more horrible than death. His eyes
were badly burned and his hair eaten
off. He cannot recover.
From Pittsburg, Pa, comes word
that Russian spies sent out by the gov
ernment of the czar have stolen Ameri-
can armor-plate secrets and propose to
turn their acquisition to profit by fur
nishing information by means of which
Russia may make her own sheaths for
battle ships. This in brief is the dis
covery which has been kept quiet for
somemonths by the officials of the Car
negie Company, and which has worried
the naval authorities and officials of
this country and of the steel company.
The engineer and ordinance depart
the execution of the legislation Of the
last congress, looking to the improve
ment and strengthening the fortifica-
tions and coast defenses of this country.
Plans for these important works have
been formulated, and in most instances
the approved projects are under head
way. The appropriation of $12, 600, 900
made by the last congress has been al
loted so as to accomplish the greatest
good with the means and facilities at
hand.
One workman, John Nonan, was
killed and three perhaps fatally in
jured by falling pile of bricks in Chi
cago. The accident was caused by the
caving-in of the old brick foundations.
The bark Gainsborough, from New
castle for San Francisco, coal laden,
went ashore near Diamond Head, four
miles from Honolulu, and is total
loss. The crew with the captain, his
wife and children, left in boats and
were picked up by tug.
Frank Hepburn, son of Congress
man Hepburn, Of Iowa, fought duel
in Chester, Ark, and was killed by
the second shot from his antagonists
weapon. The duel was the outcsme of
joke which Hepburn perpetrated
upon W. e. Sims, saloon proprietor.
An examination of the papers left by
Henry Dixon, an Englishman who died
in the almshouse in Wichita, Kan.
reveals the fact that Dixon was of noble
birth, and that his wife was the grand
daughter of the Earl of Albermarle
and daughter of Lady Georgiana Hill,
who eloped with Thomas McGann, the
Fenian agitator. The story was told
in an old diary found among Dixon's
papers.
An infuriated mob of laborers bat
tied with the police of South Chicago
for the possession of a wagon-driver
whom they threatened with lynching,
because his runaway horse knocked
fierce struggle in which stones and
clubs were freely used, the driver,
Peter Zisliski, was rescued from his as
sailants. In addition to the half dozen
men trampled beneath the hoofs of the
frantic horse, number of the crowd
were severely beaten by the police.
Reports made by three vessels that
have arrived recently in New York
arouse the gravest fears that the three
masted ship State of Maine, which left
New York September with cargo of
coal for Shanghai, has been burned at
sea, and that all on board, some twen-
ty-six men, have perished. The State
Of Maine is well known along the Pa
cific coast She has been to San Fran
cisco number of times. She held the
record between San Francisco and New
York. The captain was part owner
in the vessel.
The dwelling of James Madison, a
farmer living near New Era, Or. /,
burned to the ground while Mr.. Madi-
son was away from home. The build.
ing was worth about $500 and Madi-
son had $1,000 in paper money, notes
and accounts and $40 in gold in the
house, all of which was lost. There
was no insurance.
A man named Baker, in charge of
the pumps at the White Swan mine,
near Baker City, fell down 400-foot
shaft and was instantly killed. He
had relatives in Portland.
The citizens of Bedford, twelve miles
south of Cleveland, O, are horror