The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-12-31
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE day
Epitome Of the Telegraphie
News Of the World.
rERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

Ine New Ghe olu WIZ IL q
Condensed and Comprehensive Form
Sheepmen in Southern Colorado are
losing thousands of sheep by snow and
extremely cold weather
The Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany has reduced wages of car repairers
at Superior % cents day.
The schooner Ballora Loherman,
Captain Plummer, from South River,
N. j., for Boston, foundered without
warning Sunday morning off Highland
Lights No lives were lost.
Charles w. Winkler, brakeman on
the Columbia & Puget Sound railway,
was run over by coal car and killed
in the Seattle yards. Winkler form
erly lived in Butte City, CAL, where
he has relatives.
A bomb, made of gas pipe and filled
with powder, was eSploded in the Ger
man theater, in Olatuez, Monrovia.
Little damage was done, but the Incl
dent caused great excitement among
the German residents.
The Turkish government, replying to
the representations of Greece, has ex-
pldlASu Ll1db lnO ut'Oi oiiS CiNSh
gunboat Actium by the Turks at Per-
vassa, on Saturday last, as the vessel
was leaving the gulf of AmNacia, was
due to misunderstanding.
Aunt Judith Moore, the first coloFed
woman admitted to membership in
Henry Ward Beeeher's church, is dead
at her home in Brooklyn, aged "a. 1t
is said that Mr.. Beecher in his will re-
quested that she be care for. She is
one of the original members of the
Christian Endeavor Society.
Jacob Sarigs, of Ooramiah, Persia,
now in Cincinnati, giving talks ON
Persia and Armenia, has just received
a letter from friends in his Persian
home, informing him that band of
raiders from Koordestan had mass;icred
all the inhabitants of Persian Chris
tian town, 800 souls; near Salinas,
Persia.
Peter French, prominent cattle
man and landowner of Harney county,
Oregon, was killed by,ta man. named
Oliver. It is reported that the deed
was a cold -bfooded { murder: The vic
tim was shot in the back of the head,
the bullet coming out between the eyes.
A land dispute is;said to have BEEN the
cause of the trouble.
The Overman Wheel Company, of
Chicopee Falls, Mass, has made an as
signment for the benefit of its creditors.
Henry B. Bowman, president of the
Springfield National bank, has -heen
appointed trustee, Albert 81. Over
fc nf fi.-
the principal owner and has given out
statement showing that, on Novem-
ber 10, last, the assets were $1.3lS,0
and the liabilities $539,Oo
Frank g. Farley was accidentally
shot and instantly killed by Ed. Alvord,
in Tekoa, Wash Botls men were o.:
r. & N. conductors. At the coroner
inquest, the evidence showed that AL
word was turning the cylinder C. a re-
volver SO the hanrnnerMeull not restson
cartridge. The weapon was dis
charged, and Farley fell and expired
without uttefing.a word. The jury ex-
onerated Alvbrd.' / f..';ees ~
( The long continued cold and heavy
snow of the. past NORTH are beginning
10 have serious effect upon sheep in
Wyoming, and it is feared. that, unless
there is break in+f the, weather SOON,
the losses will be heavy. Sheepmen
report that number have alrea ly
persisted.
Mr.. Coffin, the acting controller of
the currency has called attention to the
fact that the retirementef national bank
notes during the first 20 days of Decem
ber reached the sum of $3, 600, 900.
This is said to be the first time during
the last 10 years that the voluntary re-
tirement has reached this amount in
any one month.
After week of conference in Bos-
ton, Justices Pntnam and King, the
commissioners for the United States
and Canada. respectively. in the arbi-
tration of the Behring sea claims, have
completed their work for the present,
and it is understood will soon begin
the preparation of their reports to, their
respective governments.
The first meeting of the National
Building Trades Council was held at
st. Louis, and was marked by scath-
ing denunciation of the American Fed
Grafton of Labor for having passed a
resolution at Nashville opposing the
formation of the national council. The
Federation of Labor opposed the new
organization as tendipg to create fur
nther division in the rank of labor.
Fireman Martin j. Oakley was killed
fire in five story tenement on
Ast Forty fourth street, New York
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escaping gas. Assistant Fireman
mas Head, James Davis and Peter
nelly, of the same company, were
dered unconscious by. inhaling
aoke and gas, and were with diff
lty revived They are in hospitals,
and their condition is serious.
Secretary Alger has cabled to Will
liam Akellman, chief government rein
deer herder, who is now in Norway, to
inform the war department Immediate
ly how soon 600 reindeer can be shipped
to this country. These are wanted for
use as draft animals in getting supplies
to the miners in the Klondike region.
They must be transferred at New York
to railroads, and in that manner car
ried across the continent, and again by
sea from the Pacific coast up to Dyea,
or some other point that may be select
ed as base of operations.
An eight-pound dynamite cartridge
exploded in the rear of the Arbuckle
coffee building in New York. Nearly
5000 panes of glass in the neighbor.
hood were shattered, and that the ex-
plosion was not attended by loss of life
is remarkable. The explosion was
heard 30 blocks away. The dynamite