Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-18
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From All Parts of the New World
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Comprehensive Review Of the Important Hap
peninss of the Past Week ina
Condensed Form.


- Condensed Form.
Dewet is no longer a lion with the
British.
Another ocean. to-ocean railroad is
projected.
Russia turned over the Tien Tsin
railroad to Germany.
Admiral Dewey is confined to his
home by an attack of the grip. -.
T. M. Patterson was nominated for
senator by Colorado fusionists.
The supreme court decided that
Nicely must be extradicted to Caba.
Oregon will send three r.essengers
to carry the presidential vote to
Washington.
Much damage has been done by
snow and landslides and high water
in Oregon aud Washington.
There is famine in the province
OF Shan 81, China, and it is said 5, 900,
600 people are facing starvation.
A county superintendent at Seattle
and a county treasurer at Spokane re-
fuse to give up their respective Offices
to successors.
Ten persons were killed and many
were injured as the result of an ex-
plosion in hat factory at Denton,
neal Manchester England
The steamer Tillamook, carryi ing
United States mail between Juneau
and Dutch Harbor, Alaska, was
wrecked on Wood island reel and is
q total loss.
A special from Ashcroft, B.. c., says
that three cases of smallpox are re
ported to have broken out among the
Indians on the reservation near Cues
nellie. The place has been quaran.
tined.
Word jlst received from Dawson re-
ports fire on January z. Three large
buildings were entirely destroyed. But
little of the contents were saved. The
origin OF the fire is unknown. Loss
$50,OOO.
The most serious accident that has
resulted from the com mbination of heavy
snowfall and high winds occurred to.
day, says special from Vancouver,
B. c., when almost the entire north
ern end of the new brick drill hall ot
the Duke of Connaught's rifles col.
lapsed. The wall was built to 45 feet
in height, and was six feet wide. The
scattered bricks represent loss said
to approximate $4,000.
The kingdom of Saxony solicits a
loan of 500, 900.
Burglars bley open safe in store
at Irving, Or, but secured no booty.
Beers captured three agents of Brit.
ish peace commissioners and put one
to death.
The Umatilla reef lightship has
again broken loose and dirfted from
her station.
The rebels in Colombia made des,
perate attempt to enter Colon but were
driven back.
Prince Chang protests against con-
templated appointment of successor to
Ii Hung Chang.
Governor Hunt, of Idaho, has abol.
ished the famous permit system in the
Occur d'Alenes.
London papers loudly demand that
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war in South Africa.
A Leavenworth, Kan, fiend only
escaped lynch1ng by being placed in
the state penitentiary.
Northern Pacific train was wrecked
in Washington while passing over
sinking bridge and five people injured
Samuel Lewis, the notorious money
lender and usurer, who has been called
the greatest and meanest of modern
Shylocks, is dead.
During theater performance in Chi.
cago, man raised the cry of fire and
as result seven persons were killed
and many injured.
While engaged in thawing dynamite
in one of the tunnels of the Ample
mine, near Lillooet, B. c., John Ole.
son, miner, was instantly killed and
two others seriously injured.
Oregon's state levy tax has been
fixed at 5.7 mills.
An artesian oil we'll has been struck
near Beaumont, Texas. Thousands of
people are focking to the place to see
the novel sight. So far, it is esti-
mated 0,000 barrels have been wasted
on the prairie.
The Chehalis- South Bend, WASH,
train ran into a landslide about eight
miles west of Chehalis and the engine
and three freight cars ran off the track
into the Chehalis river. The passenger
coach left the track and the front end
hung over the river bank. The engineer
was the only one injured.
Five hundred motor carriages Der
year is the average output of a Paris
firm for the past five years.
The Esikmos of Alaska make water