The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-03
CURRENT EVENTS Of THE day
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News Of the World.
VERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
the Now and the Old World In .
Oendensed and ComprehensiveF Form

the Now and the Old World In .
Condensed and Comprehensive Form
The fund raised in Canada for the
India famine sufferers has been closed.
The amount contributed was $179,161
Ten saloons in. Kansas City, Kan,
were raided by the police and $3, 800
worth of liquors seized and poured into
the cutters. Saloon furniture and fix
lures filling ten big drays were seized
and carted to police headquarters. where
it will be burned.
dispatch from Buenos Ayres says
the wheat crop in the province Of
Santa Fe is calculated at about 10, 0e0
tons, scarcely more than enough to
supply the pro- ince for the year.
What is true in Santa Fe province is
said to be true in the other provinces,
that is, none will furnish more than
enough for home use. ~
The jewelry store of w. Fl. Finck,
at Seattle, was burglarized and goods
to the amount of $40, 900 taken. By
saving the iron bars off the window,
the burglars secured an entrance to the
store. With 9 seven-pound sledgeham-
mer and an eight-inch punch they
broke the handle off the outside door
of the safe, and then easily pried the
door open.s
Five orphan children have been
shipped from Honolulu to San Fran
cisco. The government officials. will
: not permit them to land unless $500
bonds are furnished for each of. the
quintet as guarantee that they shall
not become public charges, but so far
the necessary amount has not been
raised by the Salvation Army officer to
whom they were consigned.
Official information received at Ma
Mia confirms tine reports previously
published as to the disastrous character
of the eruption of the Manyon volcano.
Several villages were completely de-
stroyed. At Libog 150 bodies were re-
covered and buried, and more remained
in the lava. At another place 200 per-
sons were missing. Some of the bodies
recovered were SO completely calcined
as to be unrecogniZable.
Advices from Rio de Janeiro state
that the fanatics attacked several con-
voys of provisions and ammunition in
the interior few days ago and bloody
battle followed. The fanatics were
forced to retire after severe losses. The
Brazilian troops had % officers wound
ed. The fanatics are now reorganizlng
their forces and another attack. on con-
voys is expected, as the fanatics are in
need of ammunition.
Involved in the question of inter-
probation OF section % OF the new tar
if. with regard to the 10 per cent dis
eliminating duty on foreign goods COM
ing to the United States from Canada
or Mexico, which is now before the at
torney general for decision, is another
question of equal if not greater magni
tude. II involves the question of
whether this discriminating duty of 10
per cent does not apply to all goods i'm
ported in foreign vessels landing at
United States ports which are not ex-
empt from. discriminating tonnage taxes
by express treaty stipulation The
matter is now before the attorney gen.
eral, awaiting an Interpretation.
Two young ladies from Alameda and
San Francisco have gone to Trinity
county upon prospecting tour They
are equipped with complete miners out
fits and are determined to work hard to
find paying claim. ...
-. Edwin Corbin, of Chicago, has closed
deal amalgamating the United States
and, Canadian Lakes Fisheries Com
panies, whereby the control of 20 COM
panies passed into the hands of the
British company with $1,000, 900 cap
ital.
The British, Russian and French
ministers to Greece have notified their
respective governments that it is i'm
possible for Greece to pay an indemnity
exceeding e3, 100000 Turkish. 1t is
understood that negotiations are on
foot to induce Turkey to accept
smaller sum than the amount originally
demanded.
The county recorder in Great Bend,
Kan, has reported the release of over
$50, 900 in chattel and real estate mort
cages since August l, and half of the
crop has not been threshed. It is pre-
dicted that blythe new year the county
will be in better shape than ever before
and will look back on the largest acre
age of wheat in the history of the
county.
Paul j. Henning, who has just ar
rived in San Francisco, says the Amer
ican flag is flying on Clipperton island.
He has been living on the island with
two other men and they successfully
blocked the attempt of Captain Murt-
ray of the ship Kinkora, to hoist the
British flag there three months ago.
The Kinkora was wrecked and the three
Americans held as wreckage nearly a
million feet of lumber, which was
washed ashore. H. M. S. Comus WIS.,
tied the island later, but did not dis
turb the Stars and Stripes nor enter a
claim for the lumber.
S. j. Hatchett, formerly secretary of
the Los Angles chamber of commerce,
who had charge of the Los Angeles ex-
hibit at the worlds fair and mysteri-
ously disappeared before the exposition
closed, is said to have been seen in
Chicago. His wife has mourned him
as dead. The informant states that
Hatchett told him he had concluded to
drop out of sight, and cautioned him to
say nothing about having met him.
President Mckinley spoke at the
Grand Army encampment at Buffalo,
N. Y.
One of the Grand Army delegates to
the national encampment at Buffalo
has made a proposition for united action
to urge the government to raise the
ironclad Monitor, which defeated the
rebel ram Merrimac, during the war.
The Monitor foundered off Cape Hat
teras December 81, 1862. It is thought
that it will require the expenditure of