The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-12-04
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 e the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph 0olnu1ns.

bon factory; The damage ls floo'ooo.
William 4Steinways the well-known
piano manufacturer, died in New Yori +.
of typhoid fever. He had been sick
for year. -, i
Thirteen prisoners escaped from 8
Jail in sWyandotte. Kan. Three have
been capture and the officers are II
pursuit of the OF 'ers.
Rev. Z. NJ. HILL, formerly mission !
ary to China. was stricken with paraly' +
sis while delivering q sermon at his
church in Bentonvuls,sArk. He oanno'
recover.
George W. Hill,<a weil-known :
printer and stationer,-ef Portland, Or.
shot and killed himseH. He was OF o.
despondent nature, and about five years
ago attempted suicideSby taking NOR
phine. .---.5<- x; 4
Farmers in the vicinity Of Tacoms
have lost many thousands OF Nbushelf
of potatotes because of the cold One
farmer had 6. 600 bushels stored In his
barn, and nearly the wohle lot was de-
stloyed.
The prisoners in Bedford, Ind, made
a despe, ate effort to escape by setting
fire to the Jail But for the timely
discovery of the fire by the sheriff, some
of them would have escaped, and others
would have been cremated.
Fifteen year. old Emma Taylor, an
orphan, has been held as an important
witness against four men who: ON
Thanksgiving nights attempted to rob
a car full of passengers in Kansas City.
The young girl says that she made
the masks for theErobbers and knew
their plans. 1t is believed by the po-
lice that the girl was seized by the gang
and made to do their bidding.
Advices received at Tampa, Fla,
from Havana are that Weyler will soon
issue another tobacco order prohibiting
the expectation of remedies tobacco
from the islands of Cuba. This was
not included in his other order, and
great deal has been exported: Havana
manufacturers have petitioned Weyler
to close the Cuban ports to this to-.
baoco. a. Northern and Eastern manu-
facturers were buying all OF 1t Tor ex-
portation to this country.
A dynamite explosion. occurred at
Kouskie by which several persons were
killed.
The latest reports from Russia are to
the effect that the winter crop through
out the south, excepting in the Cau-
casus, is in fairly favorable condition.
A Singapore dispatch to the London
Times says the Spaniards have been de-
feated by the insurgents in the Philip
pine islands, with the loss OF 300 OF
their men.
The strike in the gas works. In Bor'
deaux, which necessitated the calling
in of the soldiers to assist in the works
to save the city from being left In dark
ness, has ended in compromise:
AT Webster's sawmill, on BeeI
Creek, in Washington, Engineer b. Il.
Elmore was caught by shaft and in
stantly killed. The body was fright
fully mangled.
The first serious frontier incident IL
a long time occurred near Munster
when a German forest guard shot aI
alleged French poacher,, .lnhIctlng
flesh wound. The French government
will inquire into the case.
While the employees of the Thiel
enamel factory, of Hamburg. Germany
were going to work a body of striker
attacked them and free fight followed
Shots were fired, several persons serl
ously wounded and many arrests made
A Paris dispatch says the trial
Bazin's patent roller boat, which 1t
alleged would shorten the Atlantic pai
sage to ninety six hours, Is expected Il
occur in the middle of December acros
the English channel from Havre, in th
presence of distinguished naval author
ities and possibly of President Faur'
who is interested in the experiment..
A disastrous prairie FIRE swept Eoye
the Seminole country, Oklahoma. Si1
teen persons, it is reported, wei
burned to death by the raging fame
A Catholic mission was saved by tt
heroic work of Sisters Freda and klri
The two sisters fought the flames Il
two hours with blankets, and saved tt
lives of twenty Indian pupils. tt
fire was started by outlaws Whoswe1
fleeing from posse of deputy marshal
Nest of the people burned were hal
breed Indians
The sugar planters of the Island I
Mauritus have decided 50 join IWi'
those of the British East Indies m fel
resentations to the government of Gre
Britain regarding the sugar bouhtl
paid by foreign countries, with &
view of bringingg about some ceunte
acting influence to enable planters the
to compete more fairly-wfth their fo
eign rivals Delegates have been
pointed to present the grievances,
the proper quarter.
One of the boldest robberies ev
perpetrated occurred in. Alameda,
Two unknown men caHed @Charl
Berry from his house and relieved h1
of 845 in gold Berry went home ls
and was followed by the robbers, b
did not know it at the time. he
called to the door by repeated knoe
ines. and upon opening it he W
grabbed by the men. His mouth W
closed by one and the entire pocket
nv the other form his pants, in whi
he Carried the money. The men tn
made their escape in the darkness.
viceroy Ii Hung Chang is again,
disgrace. He entered the imper
park and hunting grounds witho
sanction. The punishment for
offense is to be deprived Of all
ranks and decorations, but the empe1
merely deprived him Of a years salal
amounting to 26. 900 taels. The coul
it is believed, will ask to be allowed
retire to his native province on
nlea of ill-health. as he has been d
appointed in obtaining position OF
fuence in the Peking governmel
ghonld the efforts of the empress do