The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-02-26
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
From All Parts of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

Comprehensive Review Of the Import.
ant Happenings of the Past Weel
CuIIed From the Telegraph Columns
a mail train on the Pennsy1vani;
railroad crashed into box car nea
Ebensburg, Pa, and was badly wrecked
Five persons were seriously hurt.
Charles F. Miller, sailor, brutally
murdered his wife at Port Blakely
Wash. Much excitement was occasion
ed, and a lynching was prevented with
great difficulty.
Stephen Ringhoffer, aged IA, the sor
of Joseph Ringhoffer, of Walla Walla
was shot and killed by Charles Woody
who is 16 years old. The boys were ou
hunting when the accident occurred.
Peter L. Garvey, SO years old, died
at the county hospital in Chicago, afte
having undergone an operationfo for wha
the attending physician pronunced a!
lumpy jaw. Only one other case of {
human being afflicted with this malady
is ON record.
White settlers at Yerrington, in Ma
son valley, Nevada, have appealed fol-
help, fearing an outbreak of the Piute
Indians in that neighborhood. One Of
the Indians was killed in quarrel and
the Indians have begun gathering in
numbers. Governor Sadler has sent
Adjutant- General Galusha ON speciaI
train to investigate.
The Chesapeake & Ohio west bound
passenger train encountered washout
opposite Portsmouth, O. The engine,
baggage and express car, mail car and
one coach were derailed. A. G. Stout
supervisor of the G. G. o., was killed.
The engineer, fireman, mail clerk and
express messenger were all injured, but
not seriously.
While making desperate effort tc
avoid arrest for some trivial offense,
Nicholas Mentgen lost his life under
the wheels of train in Chicago. Fol.
lowed by an excited crowd and a patrol
wagon containing officers, Mentgen ran
to the tracks and did not see the train
approaching. The locomotive knocked
him thirty feet and the train passed
over him.
Charles Kreiner was drowned in the
Willamette river at the Altonas' wharf
in Salem. He was cook on the steamer
Ramona that plies between Portland
and Independence. An effort was made
to save the man with a small boat,
without avail. The river was dragged
and dynamite used, but the body has
not been recovered. The unfortunate
:man leaves q widow and one child in
Governor Bradley. of Kentucky, has
fixed March 30 as the date for the exc
cution of Jackson and Walling, the
murderers of Pearl Bryan.
The Havana authorities, in view of
the scarcity of beef, have decided to re-
queststhe government to allow the free
States and Mexico.
Frank CASTLE, stockman, stabbed
and killed John Beck at Cleveland,
Wash, in an alteration at mas
querade ball. CASTLE surrendered him.
self to the sheriff and claims the act
was one of self-defense.
DIR. Arthur Duestrow, the st. Louis
millionaire, who on February IS, 1894,
shot and killed his wife and child in a
fit of drunken rage, in that city, was
hanged. in the courtyard of the county
Jail in Union. He broke down at the
last moment and confessed to the crime.
Secession has entered the proceedings
of the convention of the League of
American Wheelmen, now being held
in Albany, N. Y. Colorado will take
the initiative and will probably be fol-
lowed by California and several other
states. Sunday racing is the bone of
contention.
Before the legislative investigating
committee on trusts in New York, John
f. Searles admitted that the average
margin of profit between raw and re-
fined sugar during the five years before
the trust was formed was 1854 of a
cent a pound and during the subsequent
five years 1896.
A letter received by an official in
Panama from La Paz, Bolivia, states
that the Bolivian congress will declare
war upon Peru. The letter also states
that there is great activity in military
circles, the army is being placed ON a
war footing, and recruiting has begun
throughout the republic.
A special train form Chicago to Den
yer, a distance of 1925 miles, made the
run in 18 hours so minutes. The jour-
ney, goes into history as the greatest
railroad feat ever accomplished. The
train was a special conveying Henry j.
Mayham, mining broker of Chicago
to the death bed of his son. He arrived
few hours too late.
The battleship Oregon has returned
to San Francisco after her first long
cruise. She went as far as Acapulco,
Mexico, and has been absent five weeks.
During her voyage she practiced with
her guns and has been tested as fight
ing machine and seagoing craft. The
vessel proved satisfactory in every re-
spect. She will soon proceed to Seattle
and enter the drydock.
The sale of the Northern Pacific Rail-
road Company's property and transfer
to the Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany, the purchaser, has been fully
completed, Judge Jenkins, of Mil
waukee, having entered an order in the
United Sattes court confirming the ac-
tion of Master Carey in executing deeds
transferring the property and sane ton
ing the disposition of porceeds as made
by the master. This is the last act in
the disposition of the property, but
years will elapse before the court is
done with litigation.
Four indictments have been found
against Sylvester Scovel, correspond
ent of the New York World, recently
arrested by the Spanish authorities.
The first accuses Scovel of an act of re-
bellion in having travelled in the field
without military passport; the second
of the possession of false papers; the