The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-29
Current EVENTS OF THE DAY /
Epitome Of the Telegraphie
News of the World.
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

OAN~SSAoA~ -
the New and the Old World In q
Condensed and Comprehensive Form
The food of San Francisco laborers is
TO be'analyzed by the professors at the
State University.
The, Fort Randall military reserva-
ton, which contains over 100000 acres
in South Dakota and Nebraska, has
been opened to settlers.
Negotiations of the Chinese govern
ment with the ,Hooly syndicate. for.
. loan of $50, 900, 900 have fallen through.
S-3The government is now negotiating
with the Hong Kong & Shanghai bank.
The Washington state grain commits
sion announces that it will not lower
No. l wheat grade from SO to 58 pounds
to the bushel, Notwithstanding the agi
tation to that end in the eastern part
of the state. T..
The Long Island coast for distance
of six miles, between Far Rockaway
and Rockaway beach, was more or less
damaged by a. very high tide. The
Edmore hotel was damaged to the, ex-
tent of $25, 1000.
Speedy, the professional briigejdmp-
er, jumped from the Louisville & JEFF
fersonville bridge in Louisville, KY,
before an audience of is, 900. Speedy
made the jump.of 130 feet in safety,
and was mingling with the crowd
few minutes later.
Frank Moon, aged 80 years, and Mrs.
Wells, were found: dead at the bottom
of a 30-foot we'll on Moons farm, near
Derby. Kan, having been asphyxfated.
Moon had been overcome while work
ing, and the woman, fearful at his not
returning home, went. to the well late
at night to investigate, and fell in :
Admiral Matthews, chief of. the bu-
rnau of yards and docks, in his annual
report to Secretary Long. recommends
the construction of four drydocks of the
best type. He recommends that con-
crete docks be built at Boston, Norfolk
and Mare Island, and that floating
dock be placed at either Key West, Tor
tugas, or Algiers, La. The estimates
for the maintenance of the yards next
year aggregate So, ,364, 202. !. 81. =.
Following close upon. the recent an
nouncement of great syndicate to con-
troll the trade of Honduras comes the
information received from reliable
sources that gigantic syndicate is in
process of organization for the purpose
of promoting direct trade between the
United States and Russia. The pro ject
originated with Russian merchants and
has the sanction, if not the direct sup
port, OF the imperial government.
A dispatch. from Managua, Nicara-
qua, says John Augustine, an Ameri
can citizen, was arrested at San Carlos,
at the mouth of the San Juan river, by
order of President .Zelaya's. brother,
and, without any pretense of a trial,
was imprisoned in the penitentiary.
Mr.. Augustine was formerly United
States consul at BluefeIds, Mosquito
territory, and is at present in charge of
the navigation company's steamers on
the San Juan.riVer. a: :: !:
John Griffith essayed Orchard III''
at the opera house in Butte, Mont In
the closing scene Griffith's sword struck
John Fay Palmer, who was doing Rich
mond, in the face, cutting a cash ex-
tending from above one eye across the
nose and cheek. The bone Of the nose
was broken and a little more force
would have penetrated the brain.
Palmer turned his back to the audience
and finished the scene without any one
knowing what had happened.
Sheldon Jackson United. States su-
perintendent of Alaskan schools, who
has just returned from Alaska, says:
There is but one solution to. the trans
portation problem in Alaska, and that
is the reindeer.
A special to the Kansas City journal
from Muskogee, l. T., says: The
treaty between the Dawes and Creek
commissions, which was concluded
here last month, was rejected by the
Creek council in session at Okmulgee.
A patrol of dervish horsemen raided
a village seven miles from Berber, kill
ing IL men and capturing many
women, children and cattle A detach-
ment of Anglo Egyptian cavalry sent in
pursuit of the dervishes overlook them
and routed them with heavy loss. The
dervishes abandoned their, booty and
fed. .,,., :. -. =:
The body of William J. Lyons, an
employe of the Pacific Gas improve
ment Company, .of San Francisco, was
found in the hills back of Berkley with
a bullet-hole in his head. He was
short in his accounts and attempted to
burn his books. to hide his crime. Be-
ing discovered in this he1-killed him
self in despair. -
Senator Morgan, who. has just re-
turned from an extended: visit to Ha-
waii, has expressed himsetlf as well
pleased with what he saw and the man.
ner in which he was entertained on
the islands. He is more than ever en-
thusiastic on the subject Of annexation,
and intimates that Hawaii will become
part of THIS, country before the close
of the coming year. 49, =.
John Falongos, resident of Clifton,
Or, for the past six years, was killed
by the caving of an embankment on
the grade of the Astoria & Columbia
River railroad.
A dispatch from Madrid says there is
much discussion at the Spanish capital
on the subject. of an alliance between
Spain and Portugal, reported to be In
process of negotiation. The Portu-
guese minister Of marine, WHO is now
in Madrid, has, expressed the belief
that such an alliance may be ACCOM-
plished at any moment. ''~ -..
1t is said that the loss by fire in
Windsor, N. s., will run into the mil
lions. Two people lost their lives in
the flames.
Recently inform alton was sent out
from Tacoma that a miner named John
son had died at the Klondike with
$50, 900 gold in his possession, and had