Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-03-29
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Comprehensive Review Of the Important Hap
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in st. Petersburg.
China appeals to England to pro-
tect her from Russia.
Fighting has been renewed between
the British and the Beers.
The ministers cannot agree on the
question Of legation guards.
High officials in Brazil are impli-
Gated in the monarchist plot.
The British answer to the Hay
Pauncefote treaty is made public.
twenty-five persons were killed and
many injured by a tornado at Bir-
mingham, Ala.
Newcastle, Pa, has rejected Carne-
gie's offer of $4,000 with which to es-
tablish library.
The report of the removal of Nc
Cleevey Brown, minister of Corean
customs, is confirmed.
Portraits of Hawaiian political Of
tenders have been removed from the
rogues' gallery in Honolulu.
Coroner's jury in Hood River, Or,
assassination returns verdict that evil
dence points to James Green as the
guilty party.
Ex-Representative Rodenburg, of Illi-
nois, was appointed a member of the
civil service commission to succeed
the late Mark S. Brewer.
The president has issued a procla-
nation announcing the acquisition by
purchase of the islands of Sibutu and
Cagyan, forming part of the Jolo ar.
chipelago.
Clatsop county, Or, will send to
the Buffalo exposition a spruce log 16
feet long and ,S11a feet in diameter, and
a number of carefully prepared hem.
lock planks.
The transport Hancock has sailed
from San Francisco for Manila, with
seven officers and 327 men of the Sixth
cavalry, sever officers and $50 men
of the Seventh infantry, IL men of the
hospital corps, four surgeons, two
army officers unattached, and 80 civil
ian passengers.
Pittsburg street-car men may go on
strike.
General Funston has gone in pursuit
of Aguinaldo.
Kruger expects to visit the United
States next month.
The Philippine commission is taking
testimony in Negros.
Japan energetically protests against
the Russo Chinese treaty.
The Portuguese government seized
Jesuit property in Lisbon.
Spain received 100000 for the is
lands of Cagayan and Sibutu.
"A tornado did great damage to ship.
ping in Pensacola bay. Florida.
Corea removes British collector of
customs, which causes a protest.
Governor Rogers, of Washington, We
toed the bill for the selection OIL school
textbooks.
Russia agrees with Great Britain
to let Won Waldersee arbitrate the Tien
Tsin dispute.
Mrs. Nation was escorted from
grounds of Kansas soldiers home to
train by police.
Gravy of the Russian student trou-
bles impelled the Czar to call special
meeting of the ministers.
Insurgents will be given 80 days ex-
tension of time to take advantage of
the law regulating voting and Office.
holding.
Two hundred girls working in the
overall department of Sofford Bros,
drygoods factory at Kansas City,
walked out. The firm recently re-
duced the price for making overalls
from $1.25 to SO cents dozen.
THE United States government"
says the London correspondent of the
Daily Express, has refused New Zea-
lands request to reopen the question of
permitting British steamers to trade
between Honolulu and San Francisco"
New Jersey village was destroyed
by burning oil, as the result of the
wreck of coal and oil train.
General Weyler, Spanish minister of
war, is preparing extensive army re-
forms. The food of the soldiers will
be improved, and economies will be
realized in the war budget.
In the bankruptcy court at Burton
op-Trent, England, Lord Waterpark
declared his bankruptcy was due to
the compulsory sale of his property
in compliance with the Gladstone act
of 1881. He said he had thereby lost
235,000. The liabilities of the debt
or amount to G26,00v, and his assets
are $4,000.
The Baltimore & Ohio railroad has
ordered los new engines.
Florida is now thronged with visit.
ors from the northern and western
states.
In the United States regular army
Spanish is spoken fuently by 304
commissioned officers, French by 224
and German by 1876.
Besides King Edward there are 73
heirs to the British throne without
going outside of the group Of Vic.
toria's direct descendants.