The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-11-13
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS

uemprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Cullsd From the Telegraph Columns.
In an opinion filed in the supreme
court of Illinois, the Torrens land title
act is held to be unconstitutional.
Rev. e. L. Benedict shot and fatally
wounded Harry McWhorter, promi.
nent druggist, Of Larrabee, la. The
shooting was in self defense.
There is a shortage of dry wines in
California. and the manufacturers wish
to advance the prices, but to this the
dealers object, for fear of foreign COM
petition.
President Zelaya, Of Nicaragua, has
issued decree making lard duty free
from October to April, and -four and
corn, which are also scarce, are made
free of duty.
The country home at Clover Bend,
Lawrence county, Arkansas, of Miss
French, authoress and magazine con-
trlbuter, we'll known as OCTAVE
Thanet." was destroyed by fire. A
large and valuable library was burned.
Serious rioting has occurred at Shot
aput, near Bombay. Five thousand
men looted !, 800 bags of grain. The
police fired upon the mob, killing four
men and wounding six. A further
outbreak is feared as Shotaput is one Of
the worst famine tracts.
"A st. Petersburg dispatch to the
London Times quotes the Novosti as
saying that towards the close of the
war with Japan, China offered to cede
the island of Formosa to England with
out condition, with a view to excluding
the Japanese, but that Lord Rosebery,
then prime minister, promptly declined
the offer.
Mrs. Walter M. Castle, of San Fran.
cisco, recently sentenced in London to
three months imprisonment without
hard larbor, after having pleaded guilty
to charge of shop lifting. has been re-
lea .ed from prison on medical grounds,
by order of the home secretary. Sir
Matthew White Ridley.
The report that was recently sent out
from Constant1nople that sixty Arme-
mans were massacerd there early last
week was not exaggerated. On the
contrary, the affair turns out more seri.
GUS than was at first announced The
massacre occurred at the village Of
Everek, where nearly one hundred per-
sons were killed and all the Armenian
houses pillaged.
A tramp, while going over the Balti-
more & Ohio, near Mitchell, Ind, 4,
found enough dynamite on the track to
blow an engine to pieces as soon as it
struck it. He ran to the nearest
switch, tore off lamp, and returning,
signaled the approaching express train.
He was shot at by the wreckers and
was found unconscious by the train
men.
In Richmond, Mo-, mob collected
around the Jail and attempted to get
hold of Jesse Winner and Lon Lackey,
charged with the murder of Mrs. Eva
Winner and her two children. Their
evident purpose was to lynch them. A
brother of the murdered woman ad.
dressed the mob and pleaded with them
W 1CdNO Q tuO law eoh0 Ab6 OOuISOs lucy
accepted his counsel and retired.
Samuel S. Tucker, a painter, met
DIR. James s. Wintermute on the street
in Tacoma, and suddenly drew a re-
volver, shooting Wintermute through
the body. Tucker then turned the re-.
volver on himself, shooting himself
through the head, blowing his brains
MT TO 1i11a5
may recover. The latter processes not
to know the cause Of the shooting.
Superintendent Keene who shot Mort
Roderick, the supposed robber, at the
Cariboo mines, was acquitted by the
coroner's jury.
John B. Barthelman, a sewing-ma-
chine agent shot and killed his divorced
wife in Los Angeles, Cal They quar-
relied over the possession Of their 8.
year-old daughter.
In Ashland, KY, Tobe Stanley, a
mine superintendent, was shot and
killed by Ike Barker on his way to the
polls to vote. Stanley opened hostili-
ties by cutting Barker across the face
with buggy whip. Family troubles
were the cause.
About twenty fist fights occurred
near the polls in Lexington, KY, on
election day. Pistols were drawn in
half of them. An editor attempted to
assault Colonel Breckenridge, who
drew his pistol. They were separated
before anyone was hurt.
s. R. Clough, hotel proprietor Of
Minneapolis, MINI, was SO deter.
mined to vote that he arose from his
sick bed to 60 to the polls. He had
been handed his ballot for marking,
when suddenly he toppled over dead.
His heart had stopped beating.
In Davenport, CAL, on election day
William Granville entered the polling
place, and, pointing a pistol at Lewis
Chandler, an election clerk, attempted
to fire it, and snapped the trigger three
times before his hand was caught.
There was no provocation for the deed.
Ex-Chief Justice w. E. Miller died
at his home in Des Moines, Ia, at the
age of 73. He was a member of the
supreme court from 1870 to 1876.
The supreme court Of Oregon has
handed down it's third opinion in the
branch asylum case, and this time has
affirmed the judgment of the lower
court in restraining the state treasurer
from honoring the $780, warrant
issued in payment of site purchased
for the location Of the proposed asylum
building in Eastern Oregon.
Napoleon Sarony, the famous photo
grapher, died in New York. Next to