The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-07
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE Day
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News Of the World.
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the New and the Old World In Q
Condensed and Comprehensive Form.

An Interesting Collection of Items From
the New and the Old World I'm Q
Condensed and Comprehensive Form.
Forest fires are said to be starting up
again around Ashland, Wis.
The Santa Fe purchased the Allan
tic & Pacific railroad at foreclosure
sale for $12, 900, 600.
The Transvaal will observe the
queens jubilee day as a holiday as
token of appreciation.
A big fire in Pittsburg, Pa, de-
stroyed 5000, 900 worth of property,
and resulted in one death and the in
jury of four persons.
The banking-house of J. B. Wheeler
& Co., in. Manitou and Aspen, Colo,
have gone into the hands of assignees.
No reason is given by the directors.
w. D. Case, of Pittsburg, Columbia
county, and J. w. Duncan, of UNA
tilla, Umatilla county, Oregon, have
been appointed fourth-class postmasters.
A Washington special says that it
has been definitely decided that Nation
al Committeeman J. E. Boyd, of North
Carolina, will be appointed solicitor OF
internal revenue.
Colonel John Hay, the newly APP
pointed United States ambassador to
England, was received with unusual
distinction while presenting his Gre
dentials to the queen at Windsor castle.
1t has been found that Victor Koski
was the man drowned off the coast a
few days ago with John Rock. while
fishing near Astoria. Koski was a resi-
and unmarried.
Johanna Spath, widow of Jacob Spath,
is suing Katz & Sons, sausage manufac-
turers, of San Francisco, for 800, 600
damages. Her husband was killed in
the defendants factory and the widow
charges the firm with being responsible
on account of negligence.
President Mckinley has sent to con-
gress message concerning the lynch
ing of three Italians at Hahnville, Va,
August 9, 1895. He recommends an
appropriation of $4,000 TOR the heirs
of the persons without admitting the
liability of the United States in the
premises.
In the German reichstag Count Won
Kanitz, the agrarian leader, interpellat-
ed the government on the subject of
the proposed United States tariff. He
asked if the government wished to con-
tinue the agreement of 1891, and said
the Dingley bill implied less the in
crease of American customs revenue
than the successful expulsion of Euro
pean imports from American markets.
A duel was fought at the entrance to
Washington Park, Chicago, which
might have resulted fatally for one of
the principals, had not the seconds load
ed the revolyers used with blank car
tridges. The principals were w. L.
King, son of noted lawyer who died
some time ago, and Colonel jeremiah
Busk, a veteran of the Confederate
army, who had fought on board the
Merrimac. After shots had been ex-
> changed the duelists' honor had been
satisfied, and they shook hands.
Four lives were lost in tenement
house fire in Brooklyn, N. Y.
Fire consumed the elevator and other
property of the Iowa Elevator Company
at Peoria, ILL.,; loss, 100000.
Trainwreckers threw a switch and
wrecked train on the Houston & Tex
as Central and killed one man and in
jured several.
The schooner Annie was crushed in
an ice foe off st. Johns, N. B. The
crew of twenty-five men barely escaped
with their lives.
N. Burris, Son & Co. of Norfolk,
Va, one of the most prominent and
widely known banking firms in the
South, has failed.
The insurgents against Spanish rule
in the Philippine islands are still 25,-
900 strong and offering stout resistance
in the mountains.
The Hansard union of printers and
publishers in London, which collapsed
in 1891, has paid quarter of million
sterling of its Indebtedness.
The mineowners of Leadville, Col, +,
met and subscribed $50, 200 toward
draining the mines, and it is estimated
that opening the mines will put 750
men to work.
The French fishing vessel Valiant,
Captain Pierre, from st. Malo for Mi
banks, near st. Johns, N. F., on the
18th inst, and almost Immediately
foundered. She had seventy-three
fishermen on board, and all took to the
boats. Only one of these boats has so
far been heard from. When it left the
vessel, its complement was ten men.
Three perished from exposure and hun
ger. The bodies of the first two were
thrown overheard, but the survivors, in
their desperation, were driven to can
nibalism, and ate the third. The boat
was picked up by schooner. The sur
vivors are in a shocking condition, and
are so badly frostbitten that their arms
must be amputated.
The fourth annual meeting of the
Pacific Coast Women's Congress has
opened in San Francisco.
John Forepaugh and two prominent
Spaniards were killed in railroad ac-
cident near Tampa, Fla. A careless
motorman left his post, and the trolley
car was run down by fast mail train.
Supervisor Rakestraw is preparing
for the national educational institute
to be held in Portland, Or, in August,
at which it is expected all the Indian
schools and agencies in the west will be
represented.
At Newport News, Va, fire broke
out in the Chesapeake & Ohio railroad
pier. Before the flames were checked,
damage to the extent of So, 900, 900 had
been done. Two of the company's
piers were destroyed, aud eight persons
injured, some seriously. The flames
were discovered in pier No. 5, and