The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DRY
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
The Brussels exposition has been
formally opened. King Leopold anG
the diplomatic corps were present.
Prince Bismarck was honored al
Friedrichsruhe, Germany by torch
light procession given by his townsmen.
The agricultural department crop re-
port puts the condition of wheat at 80. 2
against S1.4 last month and 72 on May
j last year.
The interests of United States citi-
zens at Puerto Cortez, the seat of the
revolution in Honduras, will be looked
after by the cruiser Marblehead. The
vessel is now on her way there.
A petition is now being circulated in
New York and signed by bankers and
business men, urging President McKin-
>ley to do all in his power to effect a
speedy settlement of the Cuban insur-
rection.
Lewis L. Macarthur, member of the
legal firm of Bronaugh, Macarthur, Fen
ton & Bronaugh, of. Portland, Or, and
one of the prominent lawyers of the
state, died in Walla Walla, WASH, of
heart disease.
The supreme court of the United
States has decided the Berliner patent
case in favor of the Bell Telephone
Company. The decision is against the
government and has been pending since
1891. According to the decision the
Bell Company will control the patent
for ten years.
Frank Barr, his two sons and a
brother, Chris Barr, prosperous Ger
man farmers of Redfeld, S. D., were
asphyxiated in well ON their farm.
Frank Barr was overcome by gas while
at work in the we'll. The others de-
rescue him, and all met the same fate.
The British ship County of Had
dington, which has just arrived out at
Cardiff, Wales, reports terrible acci-
dent which happened last December,
just as the vessel was getting away from
the Columbia river, after letting go
the tugs hawser Four seamen were
sent aloft to unfurl the main topgallant
sail, and one of them named Edward
Butt slipped and fell to the deck, break
ing his neck and both of his legs, death
being instantaneous. The body was
buried at sea the same day, and the
ship proceeded on her way, making a
good run home.
According to dispatch to the Lon
don News from st. Petersburg, ter
rible crime, the result of superstition,
has been committed at Tirespot, in
the government of Kherson, where are
a number of hermitages occupied by
sectarians. Recently, seventeen of the
hermits disappeared, and it was be-
lieved that they had emigrated in fear
of the impending day of judgment.
But hermit named Kowalin has con-
tossed that he walled them up alive in
response to their earnest entreaties,
that they might receive the martyrs
crown. The police have examined the
spot and verify the story.
A collision occurred at the Girdleness
lighthouse, near Aberdeen, Scotland,
between the British steamer Coldyne
and the Grangoe. The Coldyne sank
and eleven of her crew were drowned.
A ponderous rock, weighing ten tons,
while being swung from fiat car.
crashed through the sides of two cars
on the westbound Chicago & Alton
passenger train near Chicago, wrecking
the cars and injuring number of peo-
Pile.
Another citizenship question has
arisen between this government and
Germany. An American citizen named
Mayer has been impressed into military
service by the German government.
The state department has requested his
release.
Eight-year-old Emelia Kilssling, who
drank some lemonade which was kept
in tin bucket over night, died at
Danville, CAL, from the effects of the
poison. Eighteen scholars who drank
of the stuff are sick. The ladies of the
Rebekah lodge used part of the lemon
ade at social. THE remainder was
presented to the school children next
day. -..s
Consul General McIyor, at Kanaga-
wa, Japan, reports to state depart
ment that, according to current reports,
the japanese government is about to
send commission to Washington for
the purpose of influencing a reduction
of the increased import duties, which,
according to the American papers, it
is proposed to levy on silk. The i'm
perial diet has passed bill allowing
bonus to exporters of raw silk.
There will be an encampment of the
Oregon National Guard this year. 1t
will be the latter part of June or first
of July. 1t will continue from six to
ten days. An effort is being made by
the agricultural board at Salem to have
the encampment postponed until Sep
tember 80, and to have it then held on
the state fair grounds, in conjunction
with the fair. The selection of a place
has been left to General Beebe.
The effect of the action of the finance
committee of the senate in throwing
out the house provision in reference to
the Hawaiian reciprocity treaty, has
been the subject of some comment.
One member of the committee says it is
the intention of the committee to deal
with the matter hereafter. The effect
OF the bill as it stands, he says will no
doubt be to impose duty on Hawaiian
sugar. Some amendment to regulate
this will be prepared, but just what
form it will take has not been deter
mined.
Ex-Vice-President Stevenson will sail
from New York for Havre this week in
company with Messrs. Wolcott and
Payne, the other members of the BIZ
metallic commission. The commission
will first visit Paris and later the other
capitals rof Europe, probably London