The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-05-07
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News OF the World.

News OF the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in q Condensed Form.
A case of leprosy has been discover
ed in California. The afflicted person
is girl Of 15.
Henry Gottharde Won Treitschke,
the German historian, died in Berlin
He was born in 1914.
Lord Dunraven denies the report
that Mr.. q. McCalmont ia now the sole
owner of Valkyrie III.
Rev. G. o. Brown has given up the
fight and resigned his pastorate of the
First Congregational church of Sa1
Francisco.
A German force defeated a large
body of Hottentot rebels in Damarand,
ApGA ., OLA Va oAOAAs
The German loss was small.
During a fete at the town of Les
Sanier, France. an anarchist stabbed
and killed the mayor. The motive for
the crime was political hatred.
A general strike on the lines of the
Union Traction Company has been or.
dered to take effect at once. The ma.
tional board has given its consent.
John Heinetz, aged about %, and
James Davis, aged about II, prospect
ors, mining near Delta, CAL, were
drowned while crossing the river in q
boat.
A dispatch from Athens says another
conflict has occurred in the Hagion
Vasileon district of Crete. It is alleged
twenty Turks were killed and thirty
wounded.
Altot Rieuff blew out the brains OF
his wife, Julia, while she slept at his
side, in their room at the Pease lodg
ing-house, Seattle, and then killed him
self. Jealousy was the cause.
Sir William Robinson, governor OF
Hong Kong, telegraphs that there has
been seventy-five new cases of buboine
plague and seventy.five deaths from
the disease in Hong Kong the past
week.
Commander Booth Tucker, of the
Salvation Army, while out stunning in
New York, was arrested and taken to
the Elizabeth street police station.
Bail was fixed at $1,000, which was
furnished by Steve Brodle.
A Pretoria, South Africa, dispatch
says: The sentences of death imposed
upon John Hays Hammond, the
American engineer, Colonel Francis
Rhodes, brother of the former premier
of Cape Colony; Lionel Philips, presi-
dent of the chamber of mines, Johan-
nesburg, and George Farrar, proprietor
of Country Life, Of johannesburg, have
been commuted.
The announcement is made that M.
Meline had succeeded in forming his
cabinet as follows: M. Meline, pre-
mier and minister of agriculture; M.
Barthou, minister Of foreign affairs.
M. Cochery, finance; M. Lebon, colo
nies; M. Vale, commerce.; General
Billet, war; M. Darlan, justice; Ad-
miral Bernard, marine; M. Lacombe;
public works; M. Rambau, public in
struction.
The Old Dominion seamer Wyanoke,
when making for New Port News pier
near Norfolk, Va, struck the Prov OF
the United States steamer Columbia,
lying at anchor, and had a hole cut in
the forward part of the starboard side.
She sank in sixty feet of water. All
the Wyanoke's passengers and crew
were saved, but their baggage, and
probably the cargo, was lost. Two fire.
men were badly scalded.
Cripple Greek, Colo, was again
visited by fire, and now from 5000 to
4, 900 people are homeless in city Of
desolation, with no homes to offer and
no food to supply the daily wants.
One life was lost. The business por.
tion of the city left standing is less
than would cover block. The resi-.
dence section is confined to what were
formerly the suburbs. Relief parties
are being organized in Denver and
Colorado Springs.
The battleship Oregon, which was
recently completed at the Union iron
works in San Francisco, has been
placed in the drydock to be scraped, in
preparation for the final test of speed
required by the navy department.. The
Oregon will be the most formidable
battle-ship in the American navy when
turned over to the government.
A special to the Denver Times from
Ell Paso, Tex, says the governor Of
Chihuahua has sent a regiment o.
troops to MinaViejo to compel the peon'
to open the mine and rescue the min
ers. He had the police gather all tn.
unemployed men in the city streets an6
march them to the mine to work. O.
the sixty.one entombed miners fifty
were taken out dead. The disaster wa
caused by the encroaching for ore OF
the pillars supporting the roof.
The Spanish gunboat Mensagera ha
captured and brought into Havana tn
American schooner Competitor, of Re.
West, loaded with arms and ammuni
tion. In command of her were Alfred
Larode, DR.. Bedia and three newspape
correspondents, who are held as prison
ers. Some of the filibusters are said t
have succeeded in jumping overboar'
and swimming ashore. Others VIII
jumped into the sea were drowned
The insurgent general Monson, was
member of the expedition.
Instructions came from the treasur
doDo rf,,, ont ordering the com a pdera r