Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-03-22
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From All Parts of the New World
and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR MANY READERS
Comprehensive Review Of the Important Hap.
peninss Of the Past Week In
Condensed Form.

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government.
Orders were issued for dispatching
regulars to Manila.
Morocco will be compelled to pay
the American claims.
Natives of Tutuila ask that Tilley
remain their governor.
Trias, an influential Filipino general,
surrendered to the Americans.
Several girls lost their lives in a
factory fire at st. Joseph, Mo.
Fighting occurred between students
and Cossacks at St. Petersburg.
Fourie's commando escaped from
the British net near Bloemfontein
Loomis protests to Venezuela
against further interference with Baiz.
Oregon hopgrowers are contracting
this years crop at IL cents per pound
Many were rendered homeless by
fires at Memphis, Ind, and Bismarck,
Mo.
A department of public instruction
has been established in the Philip
pines.
The Manchurian agreement is like
ly to disrupt the concert of the
powers.
Oil deposits near Ashland, Or, will
be developed. California capitalists
have invested $4,000.
John o. Rider, inventor of the
Remington fife, died at his home in
Newark, o., of heart disease, aged
"A years.
The St. Louis Steam Forge & Iron
Works, better known as McDonald's
Forge Works, were destroyed by fire.
Loss, 100000.
The plants of the Paragould Roller
Mill Company and West Rogers Plan
ing Mill, at Paragould, Ark, were de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $250,OO0
The lumber yards and saw and plan
Ing, mill plant of John B. Ransom &
Co., in West Nashville, Tenn, were
destroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000.
Lieutenant General Miles, who in
tends to inspect the principal military
posts in Cuba, has arrived at Havana
with his party from the United States.
Nelson o. Whitney, professor of
railway engineering in the university
of Wisconsin, died suddenly at Mad
ison, Wis, of heart disease, aged 4S
years.
One fireman was killed and three
others injured in a Pittsburg fire.
Bids will soon be asked for con-
struction of Skagway-Juneau- cable.
There is no change in the Anglo
Russian railway dispute at Tien Tsin.
Seventh infantry, stationed at Van
couver barracks, has been ordered to
Manila
Two men died and Is were prostrat.
ed as the result of an explosion on
steamer.
The South and Central American
republics will enter the conference of
American republics.
AS a result of student demonstra.
tions at several points, Russia has de-
clared state of siege.
Highwaymen held up Wichita car
and robbed and shot the motorman.
There were no passengers.
The American consular agent at
: Barcelona, Venezuela, has again been
arrested by that government.
Jessie Morrison, who killed Mrs
Castle at Eldorado, Kan, furnished
$4,000 bond and will be released.
The employees of the Washington
mine, at Oxford, N. j., have been
fighting fire and black damp in the
mine for several days.
The Cleveland dry goods firm Of
Gavin, Parmalee & White was placed
in the hands of a receiver. The firms
debts aggregate 100000.
Jim Harris was found guilty of muir
der in the first degree for killing J.
H. Allen, wealthy Ottumwa, Kan
merchant. This will mean a life
sentence.
Lieutenant August Newkirk Maher,
United States navy, died at Vallejo,
Cal, from apoplexy. He entered the
naval academy from Kansas, and
graduated in the class of 1880.
Robert Walsh, said to be the miss
ing son of a prominent lumberman of
Saginaw, Mich, was murdered in
garret in st. Louis in the course of a.
quarrel over the spoils of robbery.
John Enoch Pond, member of the
Berkeley high school, has been ap-
pointed the first naval cadet from the
Hawaiian islands. The appointment
was recommended by Delegate Will
cox. Young Pond is the son of Lieu
tenant Commander Charles F. Pond,
at Honolulu.
Arthur Bronson Townsend, the man
thought to have attempted suicide in
Montreal, is a member of a we'll
known New York family, wealthy, and
bachelor. He belongs to exclusive
clubs, and for several, months lived
in the Brevoort House. His mother
is in Paris.
Holland gave Wilhelmina a new
crown costing 100000.
A Chicago cattle company bought
443,000 acres of grazing and mineral
land in New Mexico.
An animal heretofore unknown, re-
sembling both the horse and the ze-
bra, has been discovered in the Congo
forests.
New York commission merchants are
sending representatives to Cuba to
purchase products for shipment to
this country.