The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-21
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphio
e. News of the World.
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
the New and the Old Wsrla In .
Condensed and Comprsh snsivs Esrn.

more LIan 1UU, UUO cases VI salIuou
., nave been left over from last years
pack at Astoria.
The famous Tombs prison in New
York is to be torn down to give way to
new and handsome structure.
Clouse C1odius, aged II, was struck
by lightning and seriously injured at
his home on Mill creek, Walla Walla
county, Wash.
Portland, Or, will celebrate. the
Fourth of July this year. Committees
have been appointed and plans dis
cussed to have the finest celebration
ever seen in that city.
Adolph l.. Luetgert, a well-known
sausage manufacturer of Chicago, has
been arrested accused of numbering his
wife and burning her body in acid to
: hide the traces of his crime.
The New York Herald's special from
!, Madrid says no doubt remains that the
work of pacification in the Philippine
5 islands is at a standstill. The gravity
of the situation there has been fully
revealed by a correspondent in Manila.
who gives many incidents with dates to
z .show4that the insurgent bands are still
: active. : 5.-,.
Special reports from the principal
fruit and grain centers of California an
= nouce%a general rainfall, which in few
cases has injured the hay crop and in
other sections has come too late in the
s5 season to be beneficial. The California
wheat crop will be generally light, but
growing cereals look much better along
the foothills than on the plains.
Firms and individuals in this coun-
try interested in trade with Cuba, and
: who desire peace in the island as soon
as possible, have sent to the secretary
of state a memorial, setting forth how
their business interests are suffering,
and giving facts about the struggle in
Cuba, in the. hope that measures may
: be devised to terminate the war.
The general traffic manager of the
= o. r. & N: says that all the railroads
interested have agreed to put into effect
the new grain rate on June next.
This action will be In accord with the
law passed by the last Washington leg
islature, making reduction of 10 per
cent on previous rates. 1t is estimated
&; that the new rate will effect saving
for TIE farmers of Eastern Washington
and of Northern Idaho of from $780,
900 to $500, 900 year.
George Francis Train has reopened
his claim to the city of Omaha, and he
intends to press it to the last. If he
wins he will be worth $40, 900, 900; if
he loses, he will be no poorer than he
is now. Certain of his friends have in
vestigated the matter, and they are
convinced that his cause is just and
that the claim growing out of the old
Union Pacific litigation and subsequent
proceedings in which he was legally
declared lunatic is valid.
Four men, were drowned at the Cliff
house in San Francisco.
Two blacksmiths of Brownsville, Or,
have invented a new machine for pull
verizing clods. 1t has been tried, and
it is said, works. to perfection. They
have applied for patent.
OF the la Chinese who came on the
steamer Victoria to Tacoma, only fifty
will be admitted. The other sixty-four
will be returned, orders from the secre
tary of the treasury to that effect hav-
ing beerf received.
Judge Day, of Ohio, qualified as as
sistant. secretary of state. Rockhill,
whom he succeeded, will remain until
Assistant Secretary Day becomes en-
tirely familiar with pending negotia-
tions, when it is expected he will be
appointed TO some foreign mission
Harry Flynn was drowned in Lake
Michigan, near Chicago, and 1,50t
people saw him die and were unable to
aid him. During the excitement
which prevailed Albert Mattari, a spec
tator, dropped dead. 1t is supposed
that heart disease was the cause of the
second accident
The, o. r. & N. will send experts to
the Seven Devils mining district to
make estimates of the probable traffic
of that region. The company is fgur-
ing on dividing the freight business
with the Union Pacific The construc-
tion of a sawmill near Riparia is a part
of the company's plan.
The cabinet has decided to send one
of the new gunboats now building on
the Pacific coast to Sitka, Alaska,
about July l. Great activity in Alas
,ka, growing out of the gold discover
les, has made the president and cabi-
net deem this step advisable for safe
guarding American in Serests
The recall of the frees tro1l Crete
has been received with ssignation by
the Athens public. The Delyannis Or
gans attack the government bitterly
for appealing to Europe, but most of
the papers accept this as inevitable and
violently attack the Ethnike Hetairia,
asking it to render an account of its
action
- Eli Mackay was run over and killed
in the Southern Pacific yards at Salem,
Or.
The steamer Nicaragua, which has
just arrived in New York, brings the
news of a disastrous earthquake in the
islands of Guadalupe and Montserrat,
5. Of the Leeward group, in the West In
dies. One hundred people lost their
lives, and the property damage is enor-
nous. Twelve brick houses in Guada.
Ioupe, and six in Montserrat were de.
molished, and scores of others cracked
and scanned by the shock.
A dead body is lashed to the iron
ssdayits in the stern of the schooner Gen
eral Siglin, which is being driven aim
lessly about in the North Pacific ocean,
ITO miles west of the Queen Charlotte
islands, and directly in the storm track.
as shown in the pilot chart of the hy-
geographic Office for May. The limp
form that hangs on the davits is the
only thing aboard indicating the past
occupancy of human beings. This was
the news brought by the sealing schoon-
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