The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-02-04
CURRENT EVENTS Of THE DAY
Epitome Of the Telegraphie
News Of the World.
rERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES


during the past week at BON bay.
The Italian government has called
out enc class of the army reserves, ow-
ing to the bread riots.
Chief of Police Jansen, of Milwaukee,
has decided to put stop to all boxing
contests in that city in the future.
Mrs. Julia Dorr, the well-known
authoress and poet, is reported to be
critically ill at her home in Rutland,
Vt.
Mig. Hearst, widow of Senator
Hearst, is visiting the City of Mexico,
and has been received with public
honors.
Bishop, the man who assassinated
the Brazilian minister of war last No
vember, has committed suicide in
prison.
There is much excitement in Bolivia
and the press is urging the govern
ment to prepare for an impending war
with Peru.
Over half million pounds Of
naptfa were burned and several per-
sons lost their lives during confiagra-
tion at Baku, Russia.
Rear Admiral McNair, who has been
succeeded in command of the Asiatic
squadron by Commodore Dewey, has
arrived in San Francisco.
Three men were killed and four in
jured in head-end collision between
two freight trains on the Louisville &
Nashville, near Upton. KY.
1oIo of ffn
feet wide and assaying as high as $500
ton was struck in the Roanoke mine
near, Mokelumne hill, Cal, at depth
of 400 feet.
An antitrust bill, explicit in its
terms and naming a penalty of $40, 900
fine or from 10 to Is years. imprison-
ment, has been introduced in the house
by Greene of Nebraska.
The Central Labor Union, of New
York, has passed resolution opposing
the bill pending in the New York leg
islature for the opening of the theaters
in that city on Sunday.
George S. Yantic and A. M. Hyde,
of Sheboygan, have started on a jour-
ney to the-Holy Land, where they go
to carry assistance to a colony of Dun
kards, who went to Palestine in No
vember, 1895.
Gforce G. Howard, superintendent
of schools Of West Bridgewater, Mass. =
moderator at the last town meeting
and ex-state representative, is a self
confessed forger to the exent of 5000,
andtis under arrest.
Ross w. Latshaw, of Kansas City,
ox-justice of the peace, was acquitted
by jury in the criminal court of the
charge of attempting to bribe Juror in
the recent trial of DIR. Goddard for the
murder of Fred J. Jackson.
The New York Pigeon and Poultry
Society will open the ninth annual ex-
hibition at Madison-Square garden.
According to the report of the secre-
tary, nearly 5000 birds have been en-
tered in the several classes. Many
entries have been received from Canada
and the far West.
Mrs. Lucille Blackburn Lane, daugh-
ter OF ex-senator Blackburn, of Ken
lucky, who accidentally shot herself
with a revolver two weeks ago, is again
in serious condition, after period of
physicians are apprehensive lest the
wound, with new complications which
have set in, may result fatally.
A grain elevator was destroyed by
fire in East St. Louis, entailing a loss
of 81, 100000
Judge Lewis E. McComas has been
been elected United States senator to
succeed A P. German, of Maryland.
The reorganized Union Pacific rail-
road had to pay $40, 402. SO fees to in
corporate under the laws of Colorado.
The observations of the eclipse in
British India were successful. condi-
tions being most favorable. Many
valuable photographs were secured.
William Hepburn, an alleged count
erfeiter, has been arrested in lonely
cabin in Placer county, CAL, and all
the paraphernalia for counterfeiting
was found in his possession.
Russia will demand the immediate
payment by Turkey of the e28, 8,000,O
war indemnity yet due, as means of
making the sultan more docile in the
treatment of the Cretan question.
The National Stockgrowers' conven-
tion is in session in Denver, Colo
About 1000 delegates, representing Il
states and territories of the West,
Northwest and Southwest are present.
On Friday gale sprung up On Put
in-Bay, Lake Erie, and the ice COM
menced to break up. Two hundred
fishermen occupying shacks built on
Al I,,S
made shore in safety, assisted by res
cuers, who put off in boats and battled
with the ice foes.
c. E. Maher, of Grand Island, Neb.,
surrendered to the Sacramento police,
confessing that he had embezzled
money belonging to Armour & Co.,
which he had collected while travelling
as salesman for the company.
A St. Louis dispatch says: A gale of
wind that reached the highest velocity
of any experienced here since the tor
nado of May 81, 1896, prevailed
Wednesday. Its highest velocity was
66 miles an hour, and up to noon two
deaths. one fatal injury and several
minor casualties had been reported.
The second monetary conference has
opened in indianapolis with 400 dele
fJas. s3ss'' an attendance larger than be-
A Washington dispatch says: Should
business permit and there be no COM
ieation which demands his presence
re, President Mckinley will proba-
visit the Pacific coast states during
he coming summer. 1t is understood
pat the president will, after visiting
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