Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-05-31
EVENTS OF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS
OF THE WORLD.

Happenings Of the Past Week Prese led
in a Condensed Form Which Is Most
Likely to Prove of Interest to Our Many
Readers.
The Chinese indemnity will be
settled this week.
Mrs. Mckinley is standing the
homeward trip we'll.
1t is certain that all volunteers will
be started for home before July.
Danger of serious trouble between
France and Morocco has been averted.
A freight train on the Great North
ern ran into car loaded with dyna-
mite.
The battle ship Oregon is to be
thoroughly overhauled on her return
to this country.
A 13 year old San Francisco boy
was murdered in most cold blooded
manner by butcher.
The supreme court holds that the
United States may levy duty on inn
ports from Porto Rico.
In round numbers the estimate for
the civil government of the Philip
pines will be 81, 200,O
Twenty-one men were killed and
nine others seriously injured in a
mine explosion in Tennessee.
Telephones are in greater demand
in Havana than in any American
city, according to population.
Philippines commission has enacted
law fixing the salaries of the off
clals of the central government.
DR.: Monroe, senior dean of Column
bia University, Washington, has been
decorated by the sultan of turkey.
A, dismantled hulk has been sighted
on Lake Michigan. Investigation
disclosed seven bodies aboard her.
Rear Admiral Sampson is to retire
from service in the American navy.
He will ask for retirement on account
of poor health.
It is very likely that as soon as the
ministers move to the hills for the
warm months that the Boxers will
again attack the legations.
The Americas cup race will begin
September 81.
France wants her treaties with Tu-
mis- 7abrogated.
Mrs. Mckinley is standing the re-
TURN trip we'll.
AN unknown man committed sui
eide near Kalama, Wash.
Three prisoners escaped from the
county jail at Salem, Or.
Army frauds have been discovered
in Leyte, Philippine islands.
Suicide OF Russian fnancier may
embarrass many Institutions.
Senators Tillman and McLaurin.
of South Carolina, have resigned.
Cailles and Malver, Filipino lead
ers, have been forced to surrender.
Thirty-two bodies have SO far been
recovered form the Sengheny colliery.
Oregon ores are being collected
for the International Mining Con-
gress.
President Mckinley has pardoned
Alexander Mckenzie, the Nome re-
ceiyer.
The output of the sr,mpter, Or,
mining district was never so great
as now.
The American legation guard at
Pekin is having trouble with the
Germans.
Publication of the St. Petersburg
Novoe Vremyra has been prohibited
for week.
Five persons were killed and 40
injured in trolley car collision near
Albany, N. Y.
The cases against Carman, Car
rama and other insurgent leaders,
have been abandoned.
The, steward of the German Lloyd
steamer Kaiser Wilhelm was arrested
for stealing gold bars.
Washington capital question has
been settled by the purchase of Thurs
ton county courthouse.
The last of the American troops
have left Pekin.
Bresci. the assassin of King HUM
bert, of Italy, committed suicide.
The expelled West Point cadets will
appeal their cases to the secretary of
war.
There is a mysterious steamboat
plying on the Columbia river without
a license.
Two men were held up at Midway,
B.. c., and robbed of $3.50. The rob-
bers escaped.
Flood in Elizabethtown, Tenn,
drowned three people and DESTROYED
$1,000, 900 worth of property.
The cup challenger, with royal
party on board, including King Ed
ward, was struck by a squall and
wrecked. The yacht is badly dam
aged. No lives were lost.
Two missionaries who made for
tunes in the Nome district are to
build a hospital in Chicago.