The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-07

ON COU L. OREUN
were issued and the officers were com.
PEELED to land their private and mess
liquor supply. The captains them.
selves, while in the North, must live
like prohibitionists, as they will not
be allowed to have on board the mild
est of intoxicating beverages.
The following unique challenge has
been sent to Colonel Robert g. Inger-
soil, by Thomas Kenyon, resident OF
Providence, r. l.: Il, the undersign-
ed, challenge Robert @. Ingersoll in a
joint debate before three judges and
two timekeepers, ten minutes each, for
points on his (Ingersoll's) Bible leo
lures, in any hall in New York or any
large city, but New York preferred.
The one gaining the most points must
receive IS per cent Of the net receipts
after paying expenses. Thomas Ken
yon." Colonel Ingersoll will probably
accept the challenge.
Spanish authorities in New York
and Washington have recently discov-
cred a conspiracy, which was formed
by Cubans, to blow up Spanish war
ship and at the same time intercept a
peninsula mail steamer and rob her of
large quantity of gold intended for
the government troops on the island.
The plot further included the capture
of the seaport town of Neuvitass and
contemplated certain demonstrations
along the coast of the eastern Cuban
provinces, in order to. precipitate a
rush of troops from the west and effect
a weakening of the military trocha
across Pinar del Rio
J. G. Sommers, a millionaire banker
of Keokuk, Ia, was killed by q train
in the union depot at Burlington.
The six-story building of the Junior
Order Of United American Mechanics,
in Philadelphia, was entirely destroyed
by fire. Loss, about $210, 900.
Columbia university will send a
band of naturalists to explore the Puget
Sound region. The expedition will
set out from New York June 10.
The Paris newspapers confirm the
rumor that M. Hebete, French ambas-
sador to Germany. will at once return
to Berlin, to present his letters of re-
call.
Mary, wife of William Shore, leaped
from bridge into Elkhorn river, near
Washington, W. Va, fifty feet, to es-
cape passing engine. She was res
cued but will die.
Rain fell for "a hours in Ocon-
to. Wis, and all the lowlands are
flooded. kThe city is nearly inundated
and the river reached the highest mark
that it has for years.
Warren Fisher, who came into
prominence in 1876 through his con-
nection with the Investigation of
charges directed against james g.
Blaine, died at his home in Roxbury,
N. Y.
Princess Beatrice, the youngest
daughter Of Queen EieSeria and widow
of Prince Henry of Battenburg, has
been appointed governor of the Isle of
Wight, the. Office previously held by
her husband.
i Word has been received in Washing
ton by telegraph that the Canadian
government has adopted an order in
council exempt1ng American vessels
from entry and clearance charges at
Canadian ports.
A dispatch from Madrid says: The
Spanish government has declined the
pope's mediation in Cuban affairs, on
the ground that acceptance would be
tantamount to recognizing America 8
right to interfere.
The black plague is still prevalent
at Hong Kong and Canton. Two Eu-
ropean children have been attacked by
the disease. Japan is taking elaborate
precautions to prevent the introduce
tion of the plague.
An attempt was made to burn An
derson, CAL, by saturating number
of buildings with coal oil. The plot
was frustrated by the discovery Of the
fire five minutes after it was started,
when it was soon extinguished.
An explosion, by which 100 persons
are believed to have perished. has oc-
CURED at Micklefield. Yorkshire, Eng
land. The explosion took place in a
colliery, and twenty injured persons
have been rescued from the shaft.
An 'X" ray will kill the bacteria Of
diphtheria. The electrical department.
of the university of Missouri, at Co.
lumbia, announces that, after extern
sive experiments, diphtheria germs had
been killed by the Roentgen light.
Seven hundred men were thrown out
of work by strike of the employees in
Sherman & Company's iron mines in
Port Henry, N. Y, whose demand for
an increase of forty cents day was re-
fused. The mines were shut down.
In Woodland, Cal, two armed men
stood up Jailer Labrie in the jailyard
and relieved him of $187 in cash and a
watch chain. The official had occasion
to go into the jailyard for moment,
and left his pistol and hat in the Office.
M. Coubertin, president of the inter-
national committee of the Olympic
games, writes to the London Times
that the games in 1900 will be held in
Paris, and for 1904 the committee will
choose between New York, Berlin and
Stockholm.
The little 2-year-old son of Mr.. Ford,
trainman on the Sumpter Valley
railroad, Baker City, Or, walked on
the track as the engine and two cars
came along. He was unobserved and
the train passed over him. His skull
was badly fractured, and the child will
die.
William A. Holcomb, one of the best
known husiuess men of the Pacific