The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-04-16
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphie
- i~- News Of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the New and the Old World In
Condensed and Comprehensive Form.

trains at Harrisburg, N. c., three men
were killed outright and several others
seriously injured.
c. B.-Bellinger, United States dis
trict judge for Oregon, has been ap-
pointed by Governor Lord a member OF
the board of regents of the state Uni
versity at Eugene.
The Heldageblatt, the Dutch news
paper of Cape Town, declares that lead
ing officials of the Transvaal speak
openly of war with England as newt
able, and aver that it will be carried
right up to Table bay.
A dispatch from Montevideo states
that serious engagement has occurred
between the federal troops under Colonel
= Casalia and the insurgents near Minas.
The federals are said to have been de-
q. -feated. The insurgents have captured
the town of Sarandi del vi.
The government of Japan has decided
to send two warships to Hawaii, stop
!. ping gameanwhile all emigration. A
number of rejected emigrants have al
. rived at Kobe. The press is urging
the government to take firm attitude
toward the Hawaiian and American
governments.
- Hot Winds have taken the snow from
the mountains above Pendleton, Or.
and the Umatilla river is up to as high
a stage as at any time this spring.
Part of the railroad bridge above town
I has gone out, compelling the abandon
ment of the branch line between there
and Walla Walla. The water is still
rising, and promises to do more damage.
% The Turkish porte, in a protest to
the powers against Greek invasion, says
that the regular Greek army occupied
Turkish territory near Grevno and COM
mitted acts of hostility by destroying
three posts. The protest further de-
clares that these acts virtually consti-
zstute an act of aggression and a casus
belli, and denounces Greece as an ag-
gressor in the war.
: Fire greatly damaged the dwelling
Thouse occupied by James Jackson, a rel
ative of President Andrew Jackson, and
inheritor Of the relics of the deceased
presidents at Clifton, o. Among the
relics was General jackson IS carriage,
the wheels of which We're made of tim
Der from the .old,.w war frigate Constitu-
tion. The carriage was destroyed along
with many yother relics, valued at $1O,-
!. 600.
A-Salt Lake paper prints what is
claimed to be confession by J. w.
Fetzer, who is under arrest at Dillon,
Mont, in which he says he killed DR..
G.. H. Nichols, superintendent of the
insane asylum at Washington in 1878.
He says-he has ten or fifteen other vic
Tins, but will not plead guilty unless
he can get a death sentence. Fetzer
was arrested last week in Salt Lake and
turned over to. Montana authorities,
charged with swindling the state.
Carter Harrison has been elected
mayor of Chicago.
The president has named Theodore
Roosevelt, of; NewYork to be assistant
secretary Of the navy.
The board of control of the state of
Washington unanimously appointed J.
B. Catron warden of the penitentiary
at Walla Walla.
The Oregon City land Office, in an
swer to numerous letters of inquiry,
announces that no date has yet been
announced by the president for the
opening to the public of the Klamath
reservation.
A London dispatch says the arch
bishop of Canterbury will personally
deliver into the hands of Mr.. Bayald,
on the latter's return to London, the
log of the Mayfower, which the con-
sistorial court recently decided to pre-
sent to the, United States.
There is scarcity of onions in the
California markets. Dealers say that |
all the California onion crop was ship
ped as soon as gathered to the Eastern
and Southeastern states, and that
corner has been effected in the Wash I
ington and Oregon crop.
The prisoners in the Clatsop county +
Jail at Astoria, dug hole under an old |
sink in the Jail and some of them made
an effort to escape. Sheriff Hare ar
rived just in time to catch Peter Fus-
tin, who had crawled through the hole
and hidden under the sidewalk.
William Rothlage, an inmate of the |
county Jail at Union, committed sui
eide in his cell, by hanging. He was
insane and was in Jail waiting to be
transported to Salem. The body was
taken to La Grande for burial, in ac-
cordance with the last request of the
deceased.
The supreme courtroom in Washing
ton, d. c., and the corridors without
were crowded with spectators, attracted
by the appearance of William J. Bryan
as counsel, in a case. The case on
hearing involved the constitutionality
OF the law of the state of Nebraska to
regulate railroads, to classify freights
and to fix rates.
Great enthusiasm was manifested in
Athens Greece, during the fetes Or
ganized to celebrate the anniversary of
the declaration of 1921 of the inde-
pendence of Greece from Turkish rule.
The scenes throughout the day, al
though very brilliant, were lacking in
the usual imposing military display,
on. account of the large number of
troops sent to the frontier The alb
sence of pleasant exchange between the
people here was also in striking con-
trast with other years. Otherwise the
usual customs were followed.
tLuella Hoyt, 20 years old, daughter
of A. J. Hoyt, a citizen of Vallejo,
CAL, has confessed that on July last
she burned the residence of William
Varney, neighbor. Miss Hoyt had
assisted Mrs. Varney in her household
duties and the Varney family had been
very kind to her. When asked why
she burned the house, she said she
could not help it. An irresistible i'm
pulse came upon her, and she held a.
lighted candle to the wallpaper until it