Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-07-12
EVENTS OF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF
THE WORLD.
A Comprehensive Review Of the Important
Happenings of the Past Week Presented
in Condensed Form Which Is Most
Likely to Prove of Interest to Our Many
Readers.

The plague is spreading with great
rapidity at Annoy.
Sixteen German soldiers were
drowned in the Rhine.
Friars were mobbed in Pangasinan
province, Philippine islands.
Cattlemen have protested against
the opening of Oklahoma lands.
Municipalities will be organized in
Laguna province, Philippine islands.
The Abyssinians pursuing Mad
Mullah are on the verge of starvation.
A landslide at Lung Keng, China,
caused the loss OF 800 lives and much
valuable property.
A cloudburst in San Andreas can
yon, near Albuquerque, N. NJ, did
considerable damage.
The secretary of the treasury has
been authorized to refund duties paid
ON goods from Porto Rico.
A switch engine at Columbus, O.,
crashed into passenger train and
about 20 passengers were hurt.
Militia may be called out to quell
trouble between union and japanese
fishermen on Fraser river, B. G.
Governor Whitmarsh, of Benguet
province, Philippine islands, is ac-
cused of Violating his instructions.
The war department has finished
Ehn 10
schedules will be mailed to Governor
Taft at once.
The United States training ship
Alert, with 124 apprentice boys on
board has sailed from San Francisco
for Yokohama, Japan.
The freight handlers strike, at
Reading, Pa, is still on with no
prospect for an early settlement.
More than 100 cars block all traffic.
Pierre Lorillard, the tobacco king,
is dead.
The hot wave in the east has been
broken.
The pope condemns the French law
of associations.
Prince Won Hohenlohe died at Rag
atz Switzerland.
Kruger has abandoned his contem-
plated trip to America.
President opens large tract of land
in Oklahoma for settlement.
The navy department has re-estab-
lished the European station.
Crazy man shot and killed the Judge
who once declared him insane.
The miners strike at Telluride,
Colo, has been satisfactorily settled.
The Standard Oil company is send.
ing vessels to the Pacific coast fol
wheat.
G.. N. Gordon, inder five years sen.
tenee, escaped from the Jail at Van
eouver.
Actual business on London stock
exchange last week was worse than
ever before.
DR.. J. w. Watts, whose vote made
Rutherford B. Hayes president in
1876, is dead.
Montana train robbers have out
:, witted the officers, and their capture
is not probable,
Robert Knapp drowned himself in
the Willamette at Portland to end hil
sufferings from asthma
1t is authoritatively stated that tht
'long-talked-of. salmon Gamers com
bine has at last been formed.
In the last race at Newport the
yacht Constitution beat the Columbis
nine minutes and the independents,
seven minutes.
Head-end collision of trains OF
the Southern Pacific near Dunsmuir
Cal, resulted in the death of a hobt
and serious injuries to two other men
Fire in Williams, Ariz., destroyed
,nealry $500, 900 worth of property.
Albert L. Johnson, a prominen
trolley line promoter, is dead at hi
home in Brooklyn.
An American has been awarded tn
South African war medal for service
rendered the English.
England gives instructions tina
raising of flag at Skagway, Alaska
is not to be insisted upon.
The president has issued pro
clamation adding 142, 900 acres to tn
Cascade reserve in Oregon.
The hot wave in the East continue
and the deaths and prostrations ar
more numerous than ever before.
An immense lead combine has bee
formed to control the lead fields i
Missouri. Capitalization, $40, 600,
600.
A Chicago man was shot and fatal
ly wounded while attempting to re
cover lady's purse from the ma
who did the shooting.
Six former governors of Tennesse
are among the citizens of that state
one being United States senator Wi
liam B. Bate.