The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-10-08
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE day Y'
Epitome of the Telegraphie
News Of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the New and the Old World In a
Condensed and Comprehensive Form

An Interesting Collection of Items From
the New and the Old World In a
Condensed and Comprehensive Form
The numbering town of Austin, Pa.
was nearly wiped off the map by fire.
Only five dwellings remain. Fully
500 persons are homeless.Sas
The Hotel Lafayette, at Minnetonka,
MINI. the largest summer resort in the
West, was totally destroyed by fire.
1t was owned by the Great Northern
railway.
For the month of September, the at
tendance at the Nashville exposition
was 253, 724, and the total attendance
since the opening up October l amount
ed to 1,196.6S5.
The emperor of China has forbidden
all sorts of banquets and junketing be-
cause an eclipse will occur on January
%, 1898. An eclipse of the sun is said
by the Chinese to be proof of the
wrath of heaven at the lack of virtue
in ruler.
A 100000 power plant is to be
established near Butte, Mont. While
the plant will furnish electricity for
Butte and power for general purposes,
it is being built chiefly to supply power
to several large copper mines, which
are located near Butte.
Five hundred thousand acres of fine
land along the Big Piney, Lebarge,
Fontanelle creeks and Green river,
which have recently been surveyed,
will be thrown open to settlement
under the United States land laws after
November 1, when plats of the land
will be filed in the local land office.
The lands comprise eight townships, all
in Uintah county, Wyoming.
A vessel carrying supplies of medi-
cine, clothing, arms and ammunition
for the Cuban army has left Montreal
for Cuba. The scheme was not author
lied by the Cuban junta in New York,
but was undertaken on behalf of two
gentlemen, one Canadian, who de-
cided on running an expedition to the
coast of Cuba, and, if successful, iden-
tifying themselves with the cause.
2 Neal Dow, the great temperance aGs
vocate, died at his home in Portland,
Me. 1t was through his efforts that in
1884 an amendment to the constitution
of Maine was adopted by popular vote
of nearly three to one, in which it was
declared that the manufacture, sale and
keeping for sale of intoxicating bever-
ages was forever forbidden, and COM
manding the legislature to enact suit
able laws for the enforcement of the
prohibition.
The topic of the day in Paris has been
the refusal of M. Lozo, French ambasa-
dor at Vienna, to accept the appoint
ment rendered him as governor Algeria,
ON the ground that he does not desire
to leave his aged parents. He declares
that he will remain in Vienna, but the
Marquis d'Reversau has already been
appointed to replace him, and the cab
met has decided that this appointment
must stand. M. Lozo, therefore, will
have to make an ignominious retreat.
The Orange-Judd Farmer, in its
final estimate of the years crop, says
that figures, based on actual threshing
returns, indicate total yield of $780,
900, 600 bushels of wheat. of which
373, 900, 900 bushels in winter, and
215, ,47O, 900 bushels in spring wheat.
The report says the corn crop is exceed
ingly disappointing, and an outside es-
innate is 1,750,000, 900 bushels.
Drought during the past two months
reduced the average condition from
80 8 month ago to 1873 on October l.
An average oats yield of 1877 bushels
per acre suggests crop of S14, 900, 900
bushels, 100000 more than last
year.
Three persons were killed on the Bal
timore & Ohio railroad tracks near
Chester, Pa, by passenger train
crashing into wagon.
The Daily Mail laughs at the report
of the Canadian expedition in Hudson's
bay hosting the British flag over
Baf1in's Land, to get ahead of the
Americans, and declares that the terri
.ory has long been British possession.
The first of the sealing fleet to re.
turn to Victoria was the Casco.
She brought 1,064 skins, taken off the
japanese coast and Copper islands. She
reports that the Calotta, with 400
skins, and the Director, with 1000
skins, are close behind her.
black damp, the after decentralization of
a fire in the Jermyn mine near Rend-
ham, Pa. The bodies were discovered
by a gang of men who went down into
the mine with supplies for combating
the fire. Noobdy knew of their deaths
until the discovery of the lifeless bodies.
During the past month nearly S5,-
Of hoe loft no Do
eific ports for Europe. Besides this, %
lumber vesses have sailed for foreign
ports with cargoes valued at over $780,
600. AS the month of August nearly
equaled September, the export of grain
and flour alone for the two months
would easily run into the ten-million
figures.
Commissioner Evans estimates that
the payments for pensions for the fiscal
year will foot up $147, 100000 The
appropriation was Sal, 1858, $50. The
high-water mark for pensions was in
1898 when the payments amounted to
$159. .357, ,557, since which time they
have been kept down to the figures of
this years appropriation, The pay
ments for pensions this year will be
within $50, 900, 900 of as much as the
entire receipts of the government from
customs last year. and more than equal
to the entire internal revenue tax.
Following up the agreement between
this government and Canada for mail
service between Dyea and Dawson City,
the postoffice department has issued Or
ders for a monthly exchange of regis
tered mail between the two points
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