The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-02-19
THE NEWS Of THE WEEK
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
oompreh cnsive Review OF the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

oomprehcn cnsive Review OF the Import
ant Happenings of the Past week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.
Dr. Langley Hall, ss years OF age, .
pioneer OF Oregon, died at Oakland.
The Office of the Pittsburg Post was
almost totally destroyed by fire. The
loss is $50, 900, we'll insured.
Harry Banquist was knocked over
and drowned in the Columbia near As
toria.
J. Danach, travelling man, was held
up and robbed of $40 by three masked
men while driving through a grove near
Roseburg.
Capt. Chas. Swanson, of the pilot
schooner Jessie, was drowned in As
toria harbor while attempting to board
his vessel from small rowboat.
Cuban sympathizers held an open-air
meeting in Tacoma and denounced Pre-
mier Canovas. The Spanish flag was
trailed in the mud and then burned.
A resolution was adopted praying that
Weyler might be subjected to the same
torture by his victims. ..
The arrangement, for the inaugura-
tion of President Mckinley are rapidly
nearing completion, and the indications
are that in point of brilliancy and at
tractiveness the ceremonies, the decora-
tions and the festivities incident to
Inauguration week will be more lavish
than those Of former years.
A prominent church member of PEN
dletOn, Or, has headed subscription
list with S. for the relief of Jim HENS
worth, the Rossland miner who saved
the lives of his two companions by
thrusting his arm into the cogs of a
rapidly turning windlass and in that
way prevented heavy bucket Of ore
from falling on the heads of his COM
panions in the shaft below.
Charles Frohman and his manager,
G. B. Dillingham;, of the Garden thea
ter, gave a special performance Of
"Heartsease" (by courtesy of Henry
Miller and his company, to the clergy
men of New York. The theater was
closed to all except the clergy, and no
seats were sold. The box office men
and ushers were dressed in long black
coats and black ties, and the playhouse
and its strange audience had every ap-
pearance of a church. There were
1,062 ministers and their friends pres
ent, including number of ministers
from New Jersey. The only denomina-
ton that sent regrets was the Metho-
dists.
The Prince Of Wales has bestowed
upon DR.. Nansen, the Arctic explorer,
the special medal of the Royal Geo.
graphical Society.
San Francisco capitalists are said to
be engineering plan to get lottery
bill through the Nevada legislature,
having been encouraged to make the at
tempt by the ease with which the prize
lighting bill was passed.
The house committee on Pacific rail-
roads has decided to report favorably
the bill drafted by Representative Har-
rison, which provides for the creation
of commission to settle the indebted
ness of the Pacific roads to the govern
ment
It is said that Speaker Reed will
forestall legislation, other than tariff,
at the extra session of congress by ap-
pointing only two committees, those on
ways and means and ON mileage, and
reserving the appointment of other COM
mittees until the regular session.
While the action is unprecedented,
members say it would be legal.
George Davies, prominent COM
mission merchant of Cleveland, O., was
oI, n.
residence in that city. The tragedy
was the result of long series Of quar-
rels. Mrs. Davies when taken into
custody wept bitterly, and said her hus-
band had treated her unkindly and
called her bitter names.
During the voyage from Hampton
Roads of Admiral Bunce's blockade
squadron, which reached Charleston,
three men were lost overheard from the
battleship Maine, one man was crushed
to death on the cruiser Marblehead, an
other was fatally injured and six others
were SO badly hurt that several may
lose limbs. The officers say the voyage
was made in the worst gale ever expert
'enced by the fleet.
A press representative who visited
the poor houses of the famine district
of India says the inmates were found to
be in a deplorable condition. The
buildings were overcrowded and med
ical attendance was lacking. A man
outside of one of them was dead and
another was dying. A girl of 5 years
Of age weighed only ten pounds, and
several adults were under fifty pounds
in weight. The skin in all cases was
drawn over the faces, showing the out
lines of the skulls and the limbs and
joints had the appearance of those of
articultated skeletons. It is estimated
that the present famine is the greatest
of the century, and will greatly surpass
that of 1876, both in area and severity.
The famine belt is 1900 miles long by
400 miles wide.
Michael Munckacsy, the celebrated
artist, is hopelessly insane. A Vienna
correspondent says that for months,
while at Codesburg, suffering from
spinal paralysis, Munkacsy was brood
ing and melancholy. Suddenly, in an
excess of madness, he attacked and
nearly strangled the attendants and one
of the doctors. Accordingly he was
sent to the insane asylum. The doctors
report the paralysis is increasing with
alarming rapidity, and that the pros
poets of his recovery are very re-
mote.
John B. Clancy, employed at the
Bloomingdale dairy, Norfolk, Va, had
an alteration with his employer, ]. B.
Ferritt, and said that he would ''get
even" with him. Ferritt supplied 257
families in Norfolk with milk, in 100
of which there are infants. He had