The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1896-02-06

TELECRAPHlC RESUME
Events of the Day in a Con
densed Form.
OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS
Items OF Importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources Cream
of the Dispatches.
Potter Palmer, of Chicago, is being
considered by the administration as
the possible successor to Theodore Run
yon, as ambassador to Germany.
1t is reported that Germany has or.
dered twelve torpedo-destroyers from q
London shipbuilder. The new vessels
are to have speed of thirty knots an
hour.
A railroad bridge near Sausalito,
CAL, collapsed from the weight of a
locomotive, resulting in the death OF
the engineer and serious injury to the
fireman.
Right Hon. Hugh G. E. Childers,
formerly first lord of the admiralty,
chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster,
and financial secretary of the treasury,
died in London.
General Joseph Fl. Porter died at the
Grand Union hotel, New York. The
immediate cause of his death was COM
plications from gunshot wound in the
lungs, received during the war.
The rolling mills of the Illinois Steel
Company, located at South Chicago,
which were shut down December 81,
have resumed, giving work to 5000
men, who have been idle since the shut
down.
A physician of Rio de Janeiro de-
clares that he has found cure which
is almost certain in it's effects for yell
low fever. The physicians new rem
edy consists of the internal use of
doses of the extract of eucalyptus.
A dispatch to the London Pail Mall
Gazette from Cairo, Egypt, says seri-
GUS revolution has occurred at Khar-
toum, growing out of differences be-
tween the mahdi and the tribes belong
ing to the interior of Soudan. The
mahdi is practically overthrown.
The Berlin Tageblatt says: SIT will
be the duty of continental diplomacy to
convince America that England's mo-
tives in the Armenian question are po-
litical, and not humane, and thus dis
suade the United States from co-operat-
ing with England"
A dispatch to the New York World
from Caracas, says: Anti English
meetings are again being held. The
society for the defense of national ter
ritory, and will boycott all English
household goods.
Belva Lockwood, once a presidential
candidate on the woman's rights
ticket, and now practicing attorney
in Washington, has been debarred as a
practicing attorney or agent before the
pension bureau. She is accused of
having improperly accepted pension
fee of $25.
Pinkerton detectives have arrested
Express Agent George Krout, of Colo
RADIO Springs, Colo, on charge of be-
ing implicated in the theft of $35, 900
from Wells-Fargo Company several
months ago. Krout claims to be in
nocent, saying he had been robbed by
highwaymen.
William Gambold, railroad brake
man, has begun suit against the Penn
sylvania Railroad Company for $25, 900
damages for malicious prosecution.
The suit is the outgrowth of the Ameri-
can Railway Union strike Of 1894, and
is brought as test case.
A special dispatch from st. Peters
burg says: Arrangements point to a
conclusion between Russia, Great
Britain, France and Italy for final
settlement of the Armenian question.
These include Russia's occupation and
administration of Anatolia, and the
purchase of Cyprus by Russia.
The first signs of the Dominion gov
ernment's intention to carry out its
promises towards the protection of the
country, in the event of trouble with
any other naticn, are seen in the esti-
mates of the coming year, which have
been presented to parliament by the
Hon. q. e. Foster, minister of finance.
The total estimate for the ensuing year
is $41 $780, ,681, about the same as last.
In the expenses for the maintenance of
the militia, however. there is an in
crease Of $372,716 over last.
The unexpected order for Commander
Ballington Booths recall to England
from America, has occasioned SO much
disquietude and murmuring among
the rank and file of the Salvation
Army in this country that General
William Booth, father of Ballington
Booth and commander-in-chief of the
Salvation Army forces throughout the
world, who is now in Australia, has
decided to visit the United States next
spring.
The treasury department is exceed.
ingly anxious that large proportion
of the gold offered in payment of the
new bonds shall be obtained in Europe,
and for the purpose of encouraging i'm
ports, it is intimated that the bidder
who offers foreign gold, or who demon
strates that he has gold on the way al
/ L IL L. J. L.