The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-07-02
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE Day.
Epitone of the Telegraphie
News Of the World.
-ERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
the New and the Old World In a
Condensed and Comprehensive Form

the New and the Old World In q
Condensed and Comprehensive Form
Nine children have been killed and
paay others injured by the collapse of
church wall at SoEino, in the province
Guido Real.
George D. Ladd, an attorney, and
ne of. the most prominent wealthy
usness men of Peru, ILL.,, committed
uicile by shooting.
The estimate of Chicago's population
y the publishers of the directory just
rinted is / 1928, 900, an increase of 76,-
90 over last year.
Minnie Rose. aged 20, whose mind
vas unbalanced by the great tornado
f last year, committed suicide at st.
.ouis by taking dose of Paris green.
Signor Valtganero, cashier of the San
Joovanni mine at Iglesias, Sardinia,
yhile~on his way from the mine with
large sum, was robbed and murdered.
A fresh attempt on. the part of the
ultan to secure Germany's support for
he retention of Thessaly was met with
efusal and. advice to conform to Eu-
ope's wishes.
One of the most sensational tragedies
yer enacted in North Texas took place
b the Methodist church in Pleasant
Valley, Dallas county, in the course of
khe services. AS a result Augustus
harrison and Frank Jones are dead and
thomas Jones fatally wounded.
The volcano Mayn has been in a
tate of violent eruption, and the flow
# lava has done great damage in the
province of Albay, particularly to the
fvillage of Libon, where the tobacco
kcrop has been completely destroyed.
There has been considerable loss of life.
During thunder storm, lightning
truck a'corvict' camp near Dakota,
Sa., and as result four convicts are
lead, 10 are dying and 20 escaped dur
ng the panic .Whieh-ensued. The camp
at the lumber misis of Grees Bros,
6nd about 150 prisoners from the state
penitentiary were at work there.
On June IA men from the United
states cruisers Marion and Philadel-
bhia wereflanded at Honolulu. While
bn march to the drill grounds an order
y brought an order, and the battalion
returned ON, board This action was
aiken, it is understood, on account of
rumor to the effect. that the Japanese
truiser Naniwa would land force of
men to take charge of the : Hawaiian
custom house: The Japanese failed to
bet, and it is believed that Admiral
Beardslee's prompt action caused the
eaptain of the Naniwa. to change his
mind. S
A Louisville q Nashville express
train was held up by lone robber,
who secured about 81, 900.
Mrs. Henry Scott, of Chicago, and
Mrs. Maria Hay, formerly of Oh cago.
we're killed by. a.. runaway at Du-
buque, la.
John H. Moss and Levan Berg have
been arrested in Seattles charged with
the murder of Michael ]. Lyons, the
Port Blakely saloon keeper. .4.svs
Charles Peterson, a Swedish lat6rer
about 25 years old, committed suicide
pn farm near Ellehsburg, by cutting
his throat with a pocket knife.
President w. II. CROMWELL. of the
Blackburn university instructor in
Latin, has resigned, TO take the Latin
chair in Puget Sound university, Taco
ma. :, -+>s:. ,i.[-.:s =,
A terrible explosion Of torpedo on
the Mexican international, near Eagle
Pass, Tex, completely wrecked loco
motive and kiHed:t1i engineer and fife-
man. Z ,... -.s
John Quincy Adams. Northern Pa
cifc switch1hah, twhiles running over
the tops of cars at Missoula, Mont, slid
and fell between thei cars and was
killed
Louis sickfnilfer was Instantly killed
and Albert Sickmiller, Charles Faiile
and George Steinhelder fatally injured
by the Erie fast express near Mans
field, o. ......,,-. ~.-.
The River .Kur has overflowed its
banks near the railroad depot of Naw-
thig, Russia. Nineteen men belong.
ing to the Mini ,Novgorod dragons
were drowned.
Every boat brings to Port Townsend
men to look over the proposed fo! tifica.
tions sites with view,to bid for the
contracts for construction. All the
Western, as well as several Eastern and
Southern states are represented.
A meeting of representatives of g..
A. R., Loyal Legion and Woman's Re-
lief Corps, has been held at Indianap-
oils, Ind, to perfect plans for the erec-
ton of monument and care of the
grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother
of Abraham Lincoln, in Spencer coun-
ty, this state.
Christian Ross died of heart disease,
at his home in Philadelphia. He was
the father of Charley Ross, and up to
his last illness Mr.. Ross never gave up
the search for his missing boy, whose
abduction startled Philadelphia on July
1874, and became an unso,ved mys-
terry the world over.
A dispatch from Berne says the fed
eraI council has refused to ratify the
commercial treaty with Japan, owing
to the prohibitive duty placed by Japan
Ii pom clocks and watches.
Senior Canovas del Castillo says that
in case Spanish forces in Cuba should
suffer severely from sickness during the
rainy season the government will send
20, 900 additional troops to the island
in October, in order to maintain the
army at it's full strength and to inf1ict
final blow upon the insurgents.
The Spanish government has signed
contract for six per cent loan of e.
OOo, 900 to meet the expenses of the
Philippine war. 1t will be guaranteed
by the Philippine customs.
Several mysterious robberies have oc.
CURED on steamers touching at Hong