The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-03-11
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News Of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

the New and the Old World In ,
Condensed and Comprehensive Form
In case of war between Spain and tn
United States, England, it is said, will
at least lend us her moral support.
The Washington Post says MarJ
Ellen Lease, of Kansas, will speak in
Oregon during the coming state cleo
tion.
A London dispatch to a New Yorl
paper says that in an emergency Pari!
would supply Spain with money tc
carry on war with the United States
The navy department will send the
dispatch boat Fern to Cuba with pro
visions for the starving people, II
was at first intended to send the cruiser
Montgomery.
A dispatch to the London Mail from
Hong Kong say that d fresh rebellion
has broken in the Philippines, and that
SO Spanish soldiers have been killed.
No further details are known at Hong
Kong.
The Royal Canadian dragons of
Winnipeg have been ordered to prepare
to move to the Yukon They will
form part of the military expedition
which the federal government contem-
plate sending to that part of the do
minion.
Recent heavy contracts for Los An
geles petroleum made by producers at
Los Angeles with San Francisco have
encouraged the development of the oil
fields there. Several wells have been
put down since the first of the month
and others are being sunk.
A Teheran dispatch says: The gov
ernor of the province of Herman routed
the insurgents at several points In
Persian Reluchistan. There were seri-
GUS riots at Hammadan, February %,
due to quarrel between partisans of
rival priests, during which 27 priests
were killed.
News was brought in to Salt Lake
from Browns Park, on the Colorado
Wyoming boundary line, that three
members of the 'Robbers' Roost" band
of outlaws, who last week murdered
Stockman Herr, had been captured and
lynched by a posse of Herr's friends,
and some of Sheriff Edgar's deputies.
The British sealers Anoka and San
tiago, from Victoria, bound south, put
into Monterey, Cal, to avoid a storm
at sea. While five miles off Point Sur
light on Saturday the Anoka lost two
boats, containing four men, in dense
fog, and turned north to find them.
Both boats landed safely near Point
Sur.
An unknown man was shot in the
leg by a mob near Princeton, Idaho,
He fell, and, when called upon to sur
render, fired a bullet into his left
breast, missing the heart, and then,
placing the revolver to the right side
of his head, just above the ear, blew
his brains ont. He was suspected Cf
being implicated in the murder of Dan
Calland, Tekoa rancher, and was be-
ing followed by mob of men claiming
to be deputy sheriffs from Whitman
county.
1t is said in London that the Bank
of France has advanced the price of
gold, with view of preventing further |
export of silver. The market is weak, |
on rumors that the Indian import duty |
on silver will be raised.
special from Port Angeles, Wash.,
says: Charles Hendricks was shot and |
killed from ambush by Fred Edwards,
who then committed suicide The
men were neighbors and quarreled over
trivial affair a few days ago.
The monthly treasury statement of
the public debt shows that the debt,
less cash in the treasury, at the close of
business February 2S, amounted to ST.
Ol0, lO4, 3l6, decrease for the month
of 81, ,597, 122. This decrease is ac-
counted tor by a corresponding in
crease in cash.
At a mass meeting held in Spring.
field, o., to raise funds for monu-
ment to the victims of the Maine, Gov
ernor Bushnell, in a letter pledging
$40, said that if it were proved that
Spanish treachery destroyed the Maine,
he was in favor of building the monu-
ment on the ruins of Moro castle.
According to late issue of the Skag.
way News, the ill-fated Clara Nevada
carried down to death So human beings
sengers were several members of the
O'Brien party on their way back from
the upper Yukon gold fields, and carry.
ing with them their joint fortune,
estimated at from 800, 900 to
100000.
Representative Bell, of Colorado, has
introduced a bill in the house providing
that no person interested in an associa-
tion which issues government money
shall be eligible to the office of secre-
5ary of the treasury. The ineligibility
is not to be remedied by disposing of
he interest in the association or bank
;or the purpose of taking the office Of
secretary.
Annie L. Edwards, of Jameson, Pa,
vas found murdered in her bedroom
Monday night. Her head was beaten
almost to jelly and the room bore evil
Hence of terrible struggle. There is
10 clew to the murderers.
Emperor William has arrived at Will .
lemshaven to attend the ceremony of d,
wearing in the naval recruits. Refer
ing to the bars of the German flag, he .
aid that black represented work, white
est and peace, and red blood, each OF
Which was necessary to cement the
thers together. G
The boiler in Clark & Ackers'
hingle mill in Wetmore, Mich, ex-
loded, killing Peter Morris, ex-sheriH S
Alger county, and Hugh Long. g
Ieorge Moore was probably fatally in. t
lred. t
A special dispatch from Shanghai b
iys the United States squadron ia &