The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-01-14
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphie
News Of the World.
vERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the New and the Old World In
Condensed and Compreh ensive Form

An interesting collection OF Items From
the New and the Old World In a
Condensed and Comprehensive Form
United States Consul Powell, at
Seoul, Corea, has cabed the state de-
partment that the emperor died Mon
day.
The Spanish minister of finance has
abandoned the idea of floating loan
on the guarantee of the Almaden quick
silver mines.
The mem bers of the family and the
immediate friends of Secretary Alger
are seriously disturbed about his ill
ness. His physicians now fear that
he has typhoid fever General Alger
has been confined to his bed for more
than three weeks.
The mule spinners of Lowell and
New Bedford, Mass, were given per
mission to strike by the mule spinners'
union, and an assessment of 25 cents
per week was levied on the members
OF the union. Delegates representing
every mill center in New England were
present.
A dispatch to the London Mail from
that England, japan and Russia have
arrived at an Agreement l,>pecting
Corea. The details of the yreement
are not known to the col spondent,
but the disp btch says the British fleet
is returning to Hong Kong.
The Creek council. in spite of the
message of Secretary Bliss, through In
dian Agent Wisdom, warning them not
to do so, has passed an act appropria-
ting 5000 to be used in employing
attorneys to fight the constitutionalty
of the act of congress giving the United
States couTts full jurisdiction after
January l.
Francis d. Newton, a prosperous
farmer of Brooktield, Mass, his wife
Sarah, and their 1O-year-od adopted
daughter, Ethel, were found murdered
in their beds. The crime was discov-
cred by neighbors. whose curiosity was
aroused by the believing of unfed eat
tie. The three Had been killed with
an ak. A hired man named Paul is
missing.
John Lincoln, of Bolshow, Mo has
applied to the Marysville board of ex-
lOI d peUS1Oi j'lHCOlll anu
his sister, Mrs. Washington Hoshor, of
Marysville, were second cousins of
Abraham Lincolr. John Lincoln en-
listed early in the ZOOS in the Fourth
Missouri and served in that regiment
for three years. He then enlisted in
the 18th Missouri cavalry, and served
to the eEd of the war. Before he was.
finally mustered out he fought Indians
on the plains for some time.
Fred Lewis, prisoner in the Seattle
city Jail, committed suicide in his cell
by hanging himself with a pocket hand
kerchief, which was fastened to hook
used in suspendiIng hammock. Lewis,
who was a waiter in a hotel, had fight
on New Years day with Joseph Kurtz,
the head cook in which he struck
kurtz on the head with an icepick.
inflicting wound from the effects of
which Kurtz dieCi. Lewis was arrested,
but no formal charge had yet been made
against him, bending the result of
Kurtz' wounds. When the news of
Kurtz' death was conveyed to Lewis,
he showed great agitation, and a short
time afterward took his own life.
A line of steamers is to be estab-
lished between Valparaiso and San
Francisco.
Five shots fired by an unknown per-
son into a saloon at PictOn, Col, killed
Robert Mandolin, the proprietor, and
Dave Evans, and carried away portion
of the chin of Dick Owens.
Vladimer Bourtzeff, editor of the
Narodnaya Voltz, and Werzbecki,
printer of that paper, have been COM
mitted for trial in London for publish
ing articles inciting persons to assas-
sinate the cZar.
The trustees appointed by Mrs.
Phoebe Hearst to obtain architectural
plans of the buildings and grounds for
the University of California have COM
pleted the plan of an international COM
petition which is to be issued immedi-
ately.
Colorado W ill not join the comhina-
tion proposed among certain Western
states to biennally inspect the books
of large Eastern life insurance COM
panies as condition precedent to per-
mitting them to do business in those
states.
Morris Mueller and Victor Goldstein
attempted TO drag William Smith, a
passer-by, into a secondhand store in
St. Louis. Smith drew a pistol and
fired several shots. Mueller is in the
hospital dying, Col lstein has some
bullet holes IN his arm, and Smith is in
Jail.
The building trades council of San
Francisco has indorsed the action of
Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald in urg-
ing the annexation of Hawaii, advOcat-
ing the eight-hour labor law and the
anti-immigrGtion law, and striving to
have clause inserted in the specifica-
ton for the new postotfice requiring all
stone to be dressed in San Francisco.
E. G. Tripiett, president of the
Algorn agricultural and medical college
for colored people, near Rodney, Miss,
was shot and fatally wounded by some
unknown assassin.
James w! Miller, of Pittsburg, has
closed contract to deliver 1900, 900
tons of 64 per cent Messaba iron ore
on the douks at Cardiff, for the Cardiff
Iron Founders Company. This is the
largest ore deal ever consummated, the
amount involved being $40, 900, 600, on
which Miller gets commission of
5000, 600.
The boats of the Thompson line
steamer Corona, which was lost off Seal
Island, N. S., succeeded in reaching
the island in safety, after eight hours
struggle with heavy gale and in bit
terly cold weather. One man only is
missing.
Thn ,,.-An hl1r statonant of tho cnu