Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-26
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 ina
Condensed Form.
Vesuvius is again alive.


transport Buford.
A Nebraska colony wishes to buy
1000 acres in Oregon.
A man was frozen to death in the
streets of Huntsville, Tenn.
The failure OF the Vancouver bank
is still shrouded in mystery.
Fred Rummel met death under a
snow slide in Eastern rOegon. --
The loss at Pittsburg, during the
recent storm, is placed at $4,000, 900.
The Berlin police are watching
anarchists who conspired against the
emperor.
An express train on the Choctaw
road was held up and robbed in
Arkansas.
The Ohio river continues to rise,
but it is thought no serious damage
will result.
Aguinaldo considers American SOW
ereignty preferable to native inde-
pendenee.
Billy Smith, an American, was
probably fatally injured in London
prizefght.
The American rowing crews were
very grudgingly welcomed on their
arrival in England.
Cold weather continues in Tennes-
see. Many orchards are ruined by the
weight of snow on the trees.
The leader of the Colombian rebels
has agreed to erd the revolution, and
peace will soon be proclaimed.
The English people are getting
tired of the war with the Beers, and
the taxpayers are beginning to grum-
BILE at the little progress being made.
Rear Admiral Schley has arrived at
Rio .Japiero.
Chinese rebels again attacked the
Manchurian railway.
All danger from the recent great
storm in the Ohio valley has passed.
United States officers have begun a
war on the Chinese slave trade in San
Francisco.
The Philippine tariff is not likely
s6 be promulgated until insular cases
are decided.
Joseph Hume, the pioneer salmon
packer of the Pacific coast, is dead at
Berkeley, Cal.
The people of Santo Domingo will
have nothing to do with annexation
to the United States.
Province of Leyte has been created
in the Philippines and American
officers placed in control.
Leading stove manufacturers will
form, combine for mutual benefit in
theiwaysof freight rates, etc.
Manufacturers of mining machinery
will combine to protect themselves
against the Westinghouse Company.
Re The Corean government has decid-
ed to borrow from France 5000, 600
yen for the purpose of constructing q
railway.
Charles Brown, president, and E.
L. Candy, cashier, of the suspended
First National Bank of Vancouver,
committed suicide.
A rock was thrown through the
window of car on the Portland
Astoria train. Several passengers
j narrowly escaped injury.
The Twenty-sixth regiment, which
arrived in San Francisco on the trans
port Garonne, has landed and gone
into camp at the Presidio.
The German riechstag has passed
bill which prolongs authors rights
on dramatic and musical produc-
tions from 80 to so years.
An attempt was made to poison a
prisoner in the county jail at Denver,
Col. An apple pie and some cheese
were left at the Jail by an unknown
person for the prisoner Examina-
tion revealed the fact that both con-
tanned great quantity of arsenic and
other poisons.
Another rebel force in Marinduque
has surrendered.
Cebu, Philippine islands, has not
yet been pacifed.
An English company is building a
railway across Mexico.
Prospectors at Nome were starting
for the hills in January.
The steamer Ramona blew up near
Victoria, B. c., and four people were
killed.
General Miner makes discourag-
ing report ON conditions in South
Africa.
There are 12O different languages
or dialects in the Philippines.
The postofice department is max
ing plans to obviate the necessity of
rehandling European mails at New
York.
Autograph letters of famous men
will be far rarer in the future than
now. Great men of today content
themselves with signing their names,
often with rubber stamps, to type
written documents, and it will be
hard to get much sentiment from type.
written manuscripts