The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-03-26
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ty pioneer of 1843, died at his home il
McMinnville, at the age of 70 years.
The Illinois legislature is considering
bill giving free school books to al
pupils of the public schools of the state
An east-bound Union Pacific passen
ger train crashed into a freight train
near Green River, Wyo., and severely
injured three men.
The Neuvrei Presse of Vienna say
that Great Britain has proposed that {
collision between the Greek and Turk
ish troops ON the frontier of Thessaly b,
prevented by the formation of neutra
zone mile wide between the Greel
and Turkish soldiers, as was done il
1886.
Mrs. Marcy Smith was dragged from
the bedside of her dying son in Oak
land, Cal, in a crazed condition. Fol
week she had stood guard in little
cottage where her only boy, Harry, has
been at deaths door from pneumonia
The mother, worn out by much watch
I ing and suffering for want of food
| gradually lost her reason and was taken
away by force to prevent her doing
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| her boy.
Police Telegraph Operator Harry
Greenhoff, of the East Chicago avenue
station, narrowly escaped death while
making a heroic rescue of a child from
beneath the wheels of an engine ON st.
Paul bridge. So near did he become te
being crushed that his coat was torn off.
The child he rescued was but 4 years
old, and had wandered on the bridge in
front of the fast freight train, when
Greenhoff saw its danger and rescued it,
. at the peril of his own life.
The question of opening the Cascade
timber reserve for the herding of stock
| is creating a stir among prominent
stOckmen of Eastern Oregon. The vari-
Gus stock associations in Wasco, Gill
liam, Crook and Sherman counties pro-
pose to raise fund of $500 to pay the
expenses of delegate to Washington tc
properly present the matter to con-
gress. The question is a vital one to
sheepmen, as the closing of the reserve
to them means such scarcity of range
that successful sheepraising in Eastern
Oregon will be impracticable on large
scale.
Theodore Durrant has by no means
given up the fight for his life. George
A. Knight has been added to his coun-
sci, and is now preparing petition ask
ing the supreme court for a rehearing
of the application previously made and
denied, for a new trial. If this petit
tion, which will be sumbitted without
argument, be denied, as the district
attorney anticipates, there will only re-
main the possibility of securing the in
reference of the federal courts in Dur
rants behalf. Failing in that, only
the action of the president can step be-
tween the condemned man and the gall
lows.
Five men were injured, two fatally,
in a railroad accident at La Grange,
Ill. A meat train bound for Hammond
jumped the track on the Belt Line of
the Chicago, Hammond & Western
road. The engine was ditched, two of
the cars were telescoped, and the re-
mainder of the train thrown from the
track.
A small band of unemployed work
men have begun the construction of a
boulevard in Golden Gate Park, San
Francisco, to pay for which public SUBJ
scriptions have been taken. Ex-Mayor
Sutro warned the workmen to keep off
his land, and as the boulevard extends
across Sutro's property, work had to be
suspended. Sutro has promised to sign
deed for the strip, however.
Miss Blanche Berard, the oldest
postmistress in the country, who has
held Office for half century, has re-
signed. Administrations and presi-
dents changed, postmaster-generals
came and went, postoffices were reor-
ganized and reclassified, great political
upheavals annihilated every branch of
the government, but she remained un-
disturbed at West Point. N. Y.
A Havana special to the New York
World says: Through Cubans here it
is learned that train carrying Spanish
troops was blown up by dynamite while
passing over deep gorge south of Can
delaria, Pinar del Rio province, and
neary $50 soldiers were killed or IN
jured. The locomotive and six cars
were demolished. The tragedy occurred
about the 10th inst.
Governor Rogers, of Washington, has
issued his Arbor day proclamation,
recommending that Friday, April 80,
1897, be devoted by the people of
Washington to planting trees, shrubs
and vines and in other ways beautify-
ing their homes. In connection with
the governors proclamation, State Su-
perintendent Brown has prepared a
programme to be rendered in the diff.
erent grades of the public schools from
the first to the grammar grade, inclu-
sive.
Charles Rodatinsky, farmer, with
his wife and baby, started from Omaha
in covered wagon with gasoline
stove. The stove exploded, the team
ran away, and the occupants of the
wagon were fatally burned.
w. G. Wills, of Hay creek, Crook
county, acting upon the request of citi-
zens of his section, has asked Cover
nor Lord to intercede in behalf of the
Eastern Oregon people in the matter of
the exclusion of stock from the Cascade
reserve, by making special request of
the president.
AC Alial ocSIcSdIlOH VI Guo OTeSOu
Short Line from the Union Pacific sys-
tenn has taken place, and all trains are
moving under the new Oregon Short
Line management.
The monthly statement of exports
hnd imports of merchandise, gold and
Bilver, from and into the United States
in February last, issued by the bureau
bf statistics, shows as follows: Mer-
thandise exported, $79, 773, 39s; mer-
ehandisa imrnrted $62 IQ2 log of