The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-06-25
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome Of the Telegraphie
News Of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
the New and the Old World In
Condensed and Comprehensive Form

bar iron has been announced. IhlS Is
the first tendency toward recuperation
that bar iron has shown in six months.
A terrible explosion of a torpedo on
the Mexican International, near Eagle
Pass, Tex. completely wrecked loco
motive and killed the engineer and fire.
man.
A sidewalk collapsed in Chicago and
100 people, mostly children were
thrown to the ground, ten feet below.
A number were seriously injured and
one fatally.
Mrs. Know, wife of J. w. Know,
living near Latah, WASH, gave birth
to three girls and one boy. Each child
is well formed and weighs AZ pounds
Mother and children are doing well.
The walls of saloon gave way with
out warming in Watertown, S. D., bury
ing a number of persons in the ruins
The place was crowded at the time.
The work of clearing away the debris
resulted in the finding of one body.
Five others were seriously injured
It has been discovered that the act of
the last session of the Colorado legisla-
ture in regard to negotiable instru-
ments, repealed the statute establish
ing the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving,
Christmas, New Years, Washington's
birthday and Memorial day as legal
holidays.
A mob of 800 infuriated peasants at
Odessa, Russia, seized and savagely
lynched one Dunkirk, murderer, who
was being conveyed by the police to
Jail. Dunkirk was charged with tho
commission of 13 murders. The po-
lice have arrested 35 ringleaders of the
lynching party.
Alma Fallmer, 10 years old, has been
convicted of theft, and ordered sent to
the reform school at Whittier, Cal.
From the bottom of a mortar box she
took an old plank, with which to buil6
a playhouse. She was convicted of
petty larceny by an Alameda judge,
and now she is behind the bars await
ing her removal to the reform school.
A telegram received in Seattle from
United States Senator Wilson says that
plans for the Notifications at Magnolia
bluff, the army post near Seattle, have
been approved, and an assignment of
termaster-general United States army,
has been ordered to Seattle, and direct
ed to proceed with the work immedi-
ately.
The basement and entire lower por-
tion of the postofice building in Port
land, Or, was wrecked by a terrific ex-
plosion of gas Monday. The head jani-
tor, whose thoughtlessness caused the
explosion by taking a lighted candle
into the basement, was severely burned
about the head and arms. A clerk in
the stamp department was also hurt,
but not seriously.
The president has appointed J. B.
Brady, of Alaska, to the governorship
of that territory.
George J. Hackett, a miner, was
crushed to death, as the result of an
Deadwood, Cal.
James P. Harlan, brother of Asso-
ciate Justice Harlan, was accidentally
killed by being run down by train in
Louisville, Ky.
Reports from all portions of Wash
ington and Oregon, east of the Cas-
cades, tell of the rainfall the past
week, which has been general in this
section. The correspondents all agree
that the last vestige of danger to the
'97 wheat crop is removed. The crop
yield will be enhanced 25 per cent. !
The rain has caused additional benefit
by wiping out the grasshopper pest.
Senator Mcbride, of Oregon, has been
making an effort to secure the restora-
tion of the house rate of s. per 1000
on lumber, planed, grooved and |
tongued, instead of So. 60, as reported |
by the senate committee on finance.
He says that the lumber dressed in this !
manner is worth at least twice as much |
in the Portland market as the sawed !
lumber, which pays duty of 50 under
the bill, as agreed to. Senator Nc
Bride says that the importatio..s Of
dressed lumber will quite seriously in
terfere with industries in Oregon and
Washington.
The universal postal congress, the
fifth convention of the kind in the
world, has finished its labors in WASH
ington, D. G. The sixth congress will
be held in Rome in 1903 All the
countries CT the world were represented
at the congress just closed, with the
exception of Corea and the Orange Free
State, and these two sent word that |
they hoped soon to enter the postal
union. The congress, among other
things, succeeded in establishing uni
form colors for postage stamps, ar
ranged for facilitating Intermediary ,
transit rates and diminishing the tariff
quite materially on a graduated scale :
for the ensuing six years.
The Salt Lake Tribune has published |
a story that party of desperadoes from
the notorious Robbers Roost," in |
Southern Utah, have gone to Wyo-
ming and are located at Wamsutta, |
small station east of Rock Springs.
Their purpose, it is claimed, was to
hold up the Union Pacific express train
or else to rob the paymaster of the
Sweetwater mines.
the oldest Odd Fellow in the world, is
deal.
The London Times publishes table
showing that in the ordinary course of
nature the future rulers of Germany,
Russia, Greece and Roumania will be
immediate descendants of Queen Vic
toria.
G. P. Huntington is quoted as saying
that the Pacific Mail Company will put
on two new steamers of 10000 tons
each, to ply between San Francisco and
China. The customs committee of the