Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-03-15
HFW5 OF TILL W[[k
From All Parts of the New WorId
and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR MANY READERS
Comprehensive Review Of the Important Hap
psninss Of the Past Week hs
Condensed Form.

Minister Conger left Pekin for
home.
England rejects the Hay-Paunce-
fote treaty.
A Filipino band was defeated near
Santa Cruz.
Sixteen lives were lost by the storm
in Arkansas.
President Mckinley will start for
the Pacific coast April 80.
Victims, of the plague are dying n
the streets of Cape Town.
A secret society buried alive ma
tiVes friendly to Americans.
The French ex-consul at Manila is
accused of dealing with insurgents.
Eight persons were killed and many
injured by an explosion in Chicago
laundry.
Carnegie has offered $4,000 for
library to Davenport, Ia, and also to
Springfield, Ill.
Kirby Graves, Bill Johnson and
Henry Brooks, negroes, were hanged
at Richmond, Ark, for murder.
The Pennsylvania house of repre-
sentatives adopted a resolution favor
ing the election of senators by the
people.
Relatives of Oregon school direct
ors cannot be employed as teachers
without unanimous consent of the
board.
A cloudburst in Maricopa county
Arizona, carried away five miles Of
track of the Maricopa & Phoenix
railroad.
Oregon law which abolishes office
of fish commissioner, and creates a
similar one, involves question of
whether latter repeals former by i'm
plication.
Two highwaymen entered the vii
lage of Hpe, near Emporia, Kan, and
held up a. dozen people, the occu-
pants of two stores.
Antonio Leonardodi, Antro Dimet
and Abram Sarturi, miners at the
Nellie mine, in Bear Creek, Colo,
were caught by snowslide.
Two men were killed outright and
three injured by a dynamite explosion
at a quarry near Ell Paso. All were
Mexicans except the foreman, Chas
Shelly.
Navajo Indians, in New Mexico, are
becoming restless because of the ab-
sence of two or Inree of their num-
Der, who are attending a Chicago
exhibition.
County Judge Gregory, at Louis
vile, held that the Pullman Palace
Car Company is not railroad and
that its rolling stock cannot be taxed
as railroad property.
The Colorado Stockgrowers' Asso-
citation adopted resolution request
ing the department of the interior to
send an inspector West to inquire
into local conditions and give settlers,
cattle-owners and others a hearing
relative to forest reserve regulations
Ii Hung Chang is again seriously
Willspoint, Tex, was wrecked by =
cyclone.
Ex-President Harrison is very Sc
riously ill.
DeWet, with 400 Beers, has escaped
to the northward.
Russia assures the powers she will
not annex Chinese territory.
Japan has ordered new battleship
from England to Yokohama.
Megler's cannery, at Brookfeld,
Wash, was damaged $4,000 by fire.
It is reported that Kitchener de-
mands unconditional surrender from
Beers.
England declines to modify the
canal treaty without a satisfactory
quid pro quo.
General Chaffee refuses to allow
the decapitation of several Boxer
chiefs condemned by Chinese Judge.
Radical Cubans still hope for abso-
Lutte Independence, and that the
United States will not enforce Platt
amendment
Lieutenant General Miles, accom-
panied by his staff, will leave for a
trip to Cuba, where he will make an
inspection of the principal military
posts.
The mill plant of the Centralia
Single Company, Centralia, Wash.
was destroyed by fire. The fire is
supposed to have originated from the
furnace. The loss is estimated at
about $4,000; insurance, $1,000.
The officials of the foreign Office
at Copenhagen deny that the negotia-
tions with the United States for the
sale of the Danish West Indies have
been discontinued, and they confirm
the statements from Washington that
no peremptory note has been sent to
Denmark by the United States.
Orders have gone forward from the
navy department for the return of
the battleship Oregon, which has been
so long time on the Asiatic station,
to the United States. She will prob
ably sail for home about May /, to
be replaced by the Wisconsin when
the vessel has finished her official
trial. =
The silk industry of China EN-.
ploys, 1t is estimated, from 1000, ,OOQ
to 100000 people.
A writer on modern waterways
says that in the near future electric
traction will be universally adopted
on canals.
The great Salt Lake is said to be in
imminent danger of drying up, the
drain upon it being due to irrigation
requirements.