Junction City bulletin. [volume] (Junction City, Or.) 189?-1901, 1901-07-18
EVENTS OF THE DAY
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 steelworkers strike is on in
earnest.
Hamburg San Francisco liner Tanis
wrecked
In the final trial Shamrock III beat
Shamrock !.
The drought in most sections 10
the Southwest has been broken.
A sternwheel river boat will be
taken from Portland to st. Michaels,
Contract has been let for grading
10 miles of Vancouver, Wash, rail-
road.
The Cuban republic will begin bus
mess with national debt of >nly
$l22, 400.
A number of failures have occurred
in Germany as the result OF the Leip-
ziger bank failing.
1t is expected that there will be
10000 Epworth Leaguers in attend
ance at the convention in San Fran
cisco.
Seven hundred lives were lost and
terrible destruction wrought to prop
erty by the eruption OF volcano in
northern Java.
Except in small zones around the
cities, Transvaal is far from pacitied,
and British officers are becomming
discouraged at the wars lack of
progress.
Famine threatens large part OF the
Russian empire, not drop of rain
having fallen in the eastern provinces
for month. Crops are already be-
yond hope.
The steel workers strike is now on.
Two attempts were made to burn
Aberdeen, Wash.
Santos Dument's airship tlial at
Paris was not successful.
The Perry monument was unveiled
at kurihama, Japan.
The fall OF the Bastile was cello
brated throughout France.
Lamont is slated to succeed Mellen
as president of the Northern Pacific.
The excess OF exports over imports
last year was the greatest in our his
tory.
A general strike has been ordered
in sheet steel, steel hoop and tin plate
mills.
There is no prospect OF immediate
relief from the drought in the middle
west.
Kitchener may be succeeded in
South Africa by General Sir Bindon
Blood.
Attempt to shoot judge is the cli-
max OF fishermen's strike on Fraser
river, B. G..
Washington bicycle tax law de-
clared illegal by Superior Judge Mil.
Ter, at Vancouver.
Steyn, ex-president OF the Free
State, narrowly escaped capture by
Broadwood's brigade.
Thirteen Polish students are on
trial at Posen, charged with belong
ing to revolutinary societies.
The Congregational church at For
est Grove, Or. which was built in
1858, was burned. Incendiarism is
suspected.
A proclamation Withdrawing about
800, 600 acres from Olympic reserve,
Washington, has been sent to Presi-
dent Mckinley.
Turkey pays the American claims
of S95, 900.
Registering for Oklahoma lands
has begun.
Ohio Democrats have nominated
James Kilbourne for governor.
The salmon combine will be incor-
porated in New Jersey with $32, 2,000,-
600 capital.
Fraser river, B. c., fishermen say
they will fight before they will give
in to the japanese.
The government has chartered the
steamship Palatinia to load at Port
and for the Philippines.
Sixteen persons are dead and 80
injured as a result of collision on
the Chicago & Alton near Kansas
City.
Treasurer Hollander, of Porto Rico,
has resigned.
Cubant are ready for the adoption
OF a constitution.
Chinese court still shows great
honor for dead Boxers.
Prince Christian, OF Denmark, is
coming to the United States.
A crazy man in Denver killed a
woman and fatally stabbed little girl.