The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-06-18
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE dry
Epitome Of the Telegraphio
News of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the New and the Old World In a
Condensed and Comprehensive Form

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the New and the Old World In a
Condensed and Comprehensive Form
Howard A. Scott, who murdered his
wife in October last was electrocuted
in Sing Sing prison, N. Y:
A fast freight train on the Santa Fe
railroad was ditched near Elma, Mo-,
+. and three tramps and brakeman were
killed. :.
The United States government i'm
migrant station, on Ellis island, New
York harbor, was destroyed by fire,
but with no loss of life.
Assistant Quarantine Officer Blue
declared that the disease on the City
of Para, now at Angel island quarantine
station, San Francisco bay,. is yellow
fever.
A serious landslide occurred near:
Briega, canton of Valais, Switzerland.
Part of the forest there and a number
of buildings have been buried. There
: was no loss Of life.
.i.li!The state department has been in
formed by Consul-General Lee of the
release of Remedies, an American, ar
man was released Friday.
Sir Henry Irving unveiled memorial
statue to Mrs. Sarah Scott-Siddons, the
famous English actress; on RaddingtoH
green, London where her remains
were inferred Sc years ago.
While Professors Marksburn and
Richards were practicing on a flying
trapeze at Fiesta Park, Los Angeles.
: they fell to- the ground and Richards
sustained internal injuries wfIich will
probably result fatally.
.,Firemen extinguished 4 fire at the
home of Grant Prestel, "a laborer, at
Dayton, O. They found the tcharred
bodies of Rose Prestel, aged 16, and
J ,Albent Prestel, aged12 years. The
,hildren played with matches and set
fire to the house.
The southbound express on the Grand
Rapids & Indiana, was derailed near
Riggeville, Ind. The rails are said to
have spread, ditching the engine, ten
der, mail and baggage cars. The en-
CINE was totally demolished, instantly
killing the engineer.
The Pacific Mail steamship City of
Para, now in quarantine in San Fran
cisco, brings details of the loss in mid
Pacific of the British ship Buckhurst,
On April last, she having picked up
part of the crew of the ill-fated vessel
On May 2, when 200 miles off the
Nicaragua coast, and landed them at
Punta Arenas. The Buckhurst caught
FIRE. and the, crew after working ten
10 la 40
PEELED to abandon her; -
A special dispatch from Buchal,
+: Island of Madeira, off the west coast
of Morocco, to a London paper, says
that on the arrival there of the British
steamship Scot, which left Table bay
tCape TOWN. June 2, for Southampton,
it was announced that Barney Barnato,
the South African diamond king, who
was among the passengers, had COM
mitted, suicide by leaping overheard.
His body was recovered. Barnato was
known all over the world and was
worth at one time e100, 100000.
An epidemic of cholera has broken
out in Bangkok.
Proof is positive that DR.. Ruiz, the
American, was murdered in Spanish
prison in Cuba.
A boiler exploded in the print works
of Norcega Bros, Puebla, Mexico, kill
ing so or more persons.
Fire destroyed $50, 900 worth of prop
erty in Cairo, Ill. twenty-five head
of horses and a number of dwellings
were burned. =; IA 4
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Norge in France to rise suddenly,
wrecked over 500 factories; and work.,
shops and desolated many small towns.
1t is. said in Astoria, upon what is
apparently good authority, that NAL
colin w. Sale, of Young's River, whose
disappearance in March last created
somewhat of "a sensation, is alive and
WELL.
Earthquakes were experienced in the
state of Oaxaca, Mexico, and some dam
age was done on the isthmus of Te-
huantepec, where slightly constructed
houses were cracked. One shock lasted
40 seconds.
Jerome Smeathers. his wife and seven
children were poisoned at Yelvington,
KY, with Paris green, which acci-
-dentally fell in a bucket of water. One
child is reported dead, two dying and
possibly none will recover.
Owing to engineer and conductor for
getting orders a freight train crashed
into work train, both going at high
rate of speed, near Hudson, Wisconsin,
and four workmen were instantly
killed, three bodies being burned.
The department of state has been
officially informed that an information
al conference will be held in Berlin
from October IL to 16, 1897, to discuss
the leprosy question. There will be
lectures and exhibits connected there
with.
A committee of German protection
lists have addressed communication
to the foreign office complaining of
American competition, and asking for
q heavy import duty on American
cycles, on the ground that if such duty
{ is not imposed, 1000 men employed in
German cycle factories will be thrown
out of work, owing to the extradordin-
airy cheapness of American wheels.
The petition, it is said, is not likely to
be granted. for the cheapness COM
planned of generally lasts only until
the cycle in question becomes famous.
The filibustering steamer Three
Friends, has been acquitted of the
charge of filibustering as there was no
proof that she had been outfitted in this
country.
A well-dressed man, about AZ years of