The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-09-10
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News Of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

5000. 900 worth of property.
A Portland company has offered to
build a sugar beet factory in La
Grande.
q. J. Layzell was killed and Claude
Hawthorne severely injured by fire
on launch in Astoria, Or.
Falls Company, manufacturers of
cotton goods, in Norwich, Conn.,, have
started up on full time, giving employ
ment to 500 hands.
The New Orleans health authorities
have sent out notice of death by yell
low fever in that city. Quarantine has
been declared by several Southern
cities.
A rich strike is reported in the
Schroeder mine, in Yreka, Cal, on the
1,200-foot level, the vein averaging
four feet in width, and running $130 to
Edward Lyons, patient at the Ore
gon state insane asylum hung himself
to tree in the asylum grounds. He
was committed from Multnomah county
last March.
In the Milford labor union, at it's
games in Milford, Mass, H. S. Dono-
van, of Natick, ran 100 yards in 81
seconds, breaking the world d's record by
one-tenth of second, according to the
timekeepers.
George w. Clark broke the worlds
high-dive record by jumping off the
railing of the Halstead-street life bridge
in Chicago, when the structure was
raised to an elevation of 165 feet above
the Chicago river. The diver was
taken out of the river uninjured, and
was placed under arrest by the police.
The, Washington Star says: 1t is
stated that S. D. North, of Boston, has
been selected as. superintendent of the
next census, and that his appointment
will be made as soon as necessary legis-
lation can be enacted. The president
is said to favor the establishment of
permanent bureau on census, and is
likely to express some views On that
subject in his next message to congress.
Wild horses have become a nuisance
in Northern Arizona, and Attorny
General Frasier has been asked if they
may not be legally slaughtered. That
vicinity has been overrun by several
large bands, hundreds in number, un-
branded and unclaimed by any one.
They have rapidly increased in number
and have become wilder than deer and
vicious as we'll. The matter has been
referred to the livestock board.
A Phoenix, Ariz., dispatch says it is
expected that work will be resumed
within 60 days on the great Rio Verde
irrigation enterprise which is to redeem
200, 900 acres of the finest land in the
Salt river valley. Of the $50 miles of
canals that will constitute the Rio
Verde irrigation system, % have been
dug, and large amount of work, cost
ing altogether $4,000 has been done
at and near the headworks.
ing era," remarked Clarence King,
former chief of the United States geo.
logical survey, in Denver. "The time
is not far distant when man can start
out of Denver and travel to Klondike,
stopping every night at mining camp.
Already two American stamp mills are
pounding away on the border of the
Straits of Magellan, and the day is ap
preaching when chain of mining
camps will extend from Cape Horn to
st. Michaels."
The supreme court of Oregon has de-
cided that jury cannot be discharged
on Sunday.
Mrs. John Drew, the famous actress,
died at Larchmont, N. Y, after an i'll
ness of three years.
Table cutters employed in the four
largest glove factories in Gloversville,
n. Y, have struck for an advance in
wages. About 500 skilled men are out.
By vote of 53 to 35 the Pennsyl-
vania state Democratic committee de-
ciared vacant the seat of William Har-
rity in the national Democratic COM
mittee-
At Spanish cabinet council it was
decided to summon the next class of
80, 900 reserves, $4,000 of whom will
be sent to Cuba and $4,000 to the Phil
ippine islands.
A landslide occurred at tunnel No. 4,
on the Northern Pacific, several miles
west of the summit of the Cascades.
Eastbound and westbound trains were
delayed.
A genuine flying machine, it is said,
was seen at Sterling, Colo, few days
ago by @. A. Nenstein. Mr.. Nenstein
noticed a large black object in the
southeastern part of the heavens, trav-
cling rapidly toward the northeast. He
watched it pass clear across the heavens,
moving quite rapidly in straight line.
He watched it until it passed out of
sight, and is convinced that it was a
bona fide flying machine.
Another attempt has been made to
destroy the life of President Faure of
France. Three minutes after the pres
ident had passed the Madeline church
in Paris. on his return from Russia,
bomb was exploded inside the railing
around the church. An arrest followed
Immediately, and the rallied field was
closed by the police. who began an ac-
tive investigation into the outrage.
Nobody was injured by the explosion,
but the affair, following 80 closely
upon others of similar nature, caused
the greatest excitement.
The weekly crop report issued by the
department of agriculture in Washing
ton, D. c., says: Early corn is ma
turing in Iowa, Missouri, Kansas,
Nebraska and South Dakota, but it has
made slow progress in Illinois, Indiana,
Wisconsin and Michigan. In Ken
tucky, Tennessee and Arkansas the crop
promises to be short, owing to drought.
The spring wheat harvest is nearly COM
pieted in Minnesota and North Dakota,
and threshing is general. In Washing
ton and Oregon the weather has been