The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-15
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE day
Epitome Of the Telegraphie
News Of the World.
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

An Interesting Collection of Items From
the New and the Old World In a
Condensed and Comprehensive Form
General Weyler announces that he
will embark from Cuba on October 90.
Benjamin Nelson was found dead on
the floor of his cabin near Hendricks,
Or.
The general grand chapter of Royal
Arch Masons is in session at Baltimore.
Delegates are present from all parts
of the world.
Leila Jones, years old, was killed
at a logging camp, near Ferndale,
Wash, by being crushed under two
rolling logs. She was playing about
the dumps where the logs are rolled
into the Nooksack river.
The whalers that wintered in the
Arctic last year are having hard luck
this season. Only one of them succeed
ed in killing a whale this summer, and
the fleet that will return this fall will
bring only a small revenue to their
owners.
Sunday was the sixth anniversary of
the death of Charles Stewart Parnell.
Five thousand nationalists paraded the
streets of Dublin to the bleak Glasnev-
in cemetery, where they heaped high
the grave of their famous and talented
leader with flowers brought from all
the counties of Ireland.
3 Senorita Evangelina Cisneros, the
Cuban girl who escaped from Casa de
Recogias, in Havana, is said to have
arrived in New York city. American
friends accompanied her by train from
New Orleans. On reaching Jersey City,
Miss Cisneros was taken in closed car
riage to the headquarters of the Cuban
sympathizers.
Cubans of New York celebrated the
the 10 years. war by a mass meeting,
presided over by Tomas Estrada Palma,
president of the junta. All the speak
ers emphasized, amid great applause
from the audience, the firm resolution
of the Cuban people to carry on the
struggle until absolute independence of
Cuba is accomplished.
"a ulspdICIl lIOlu hOIiS fdil0ys 4udlloD
says there has been battle between
settlers and sheepherders, and that
three of the farmers were killed. The
trouble is the outgrowth of the strained
relations that have existed in that sec
tion between the settlers and sheepmen
for some time. 1t has been no uncom-
mon thing for stock to be MANNED and
haystacks to be burned, and even for
settlers and sheepmen to exchange
shots, but no one has heretofore been
The United States board of geogra-
phical names, which meetsat Washing
ton, D. c., at state intervals, has just
rendered decisions determining the
spelling of 149 geographical names.
These include number in Alaska, sig
nificant at this time in view of the
KIondike excitement. Many varia-
tions of nomenclature for the same
place are encountered, and the board s
action settles the uniform usage. As
to Klondike, the decision is to spell it
as here given, and not Clondyke. The
inlet, river and village at the head OF
Linn canal, which now appears in the
newspapers almost daily under the
form of Dyea, the starting point for
the overland route, is an Indian word
which has sppeared in many forms.
Admiral Meade, in 1869, wrote it
Ty-Ya; Krause, in 1882, wrote it
Dejah; Schwatka, in 1888, Dayi; Dali,
in 1888, Taiya. The board adopts the
form Taiia.
Edward Langtry, the former -hus-
band of Lily Langtry, has been placed
in an insane asylum.
At Dixon, Ia, the dead Dody of Rob-
ert Parks was found in his burning
house. 1t is believed he was murdered
for his money.
During a quarrel at their home in
St. Louis, George P. PETER, stenog.
rapher, shot his father-in-law, Robert
Delaney, through the brain, and then
killed himself.
Eddie Bosley, the 20-months-old
child OF Mrs. George Bosley, was killed
at Bothell, Wash, by Seattle & Inter
national train. The child's head wat
severed from its body.
The Union Pacific committee has
acceded to the governments contention
that it's lien on the Union Pacific road
includes the Omah., bridge, and that ii
has increased its cash bid so as to make
tn entire concession approximately $5,-
600, 900. This would make its guaran'
ty offer for the property, including the
sinking fund, now in the treasury, about
$50, 900, 900
The United States circuit court has
decided that tapioca -four must be taxed
duty of 2 cents per pound. This
will increase the government revenue
many hundreds of thousands of dollars
per annum. This flour Is used almost
exclusively in all the Chinese laundries
in the United States because of itl
cheapness, as starch, and it has beer
the most formidable obstacle to the
starch manufacturing industry in the
United States.
Burglars broke into the Office of tn,
steamer Flyer on the water front a
Seattle, and, after overhauling the con
tents of several trunks, carried away
the safe, weighing 400 pounds. NJ
trace of it has been found.
A California company proposes t:
build three enormous RATS at Stella. OIL
the Columbia river, and take them tt
San Francisco during the coming sum
mer. Each raft will contain over 80,
{ 600 piles, to be used by the Southern
Pacific Company in the construction
and repair of wharves.
The steamship Pelican will carry l.,
700, 900 feet of ties from Puget SounC
for Chinese railroad.
Theodore Durrant, through his attor
neys, has been served with motion
by Appelle Hale, the warden of SaI