Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-07-19
EVENTS OF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF
THE WORLD.
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 fo
the Southwest. has been broken.
A sternwheel river boat will be
taken from Portland to st. Michaels.
Contract has been let for grading
Is miles of Vancouver, WASH, rail
road.
The Cuban republic will begin bus
iness with national debt of only
1922, 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
40, 600 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 pacifed,
and British officers are becomming
discouraged at the wars lack of
progress.
Famine threatens large part of the
Russian empire, not a 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 cele-
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 Bindor
Blood.
Attempt to shoot judge is the eli
max of fishermen's s strike on Fraser
river, B. c..
Washington bicycle tax law de
clared illegal by Superior Judge Mil
Ter, at Vancouver.
Steyn, ex-president of the Ere,
State, narrowly escaped capture b,
Broadwood's brigade.
Thirteen Polish students are Oh
trial at Posen, charged with belong
ing to revolutinary societies.
The Congregational church at For
est Grove, Or. which was built il
1858. was burned Incendiarism i
suspected.
A proclamation withdrawing abou
500,00 acres from Olympic reserve
Washington, has been sent to Presi
dent Mckinley.
Turkey pays the American claim
of $95, 900.
Registering for Oklahoma land
has begun.
Ohio Democrats have nominate
James Kilbourne for governor.
The salmon combine will be incol
porated in New Jersey with $32. 600,
600 capital.
Fraser river, B. c., fishermen sa
they will fight before they will Civ
in to the japanese.
The government has chartered th
steamship Palatinia to load at Por
and for the Philippines.
Sixteen persons are dead and 8
injured as a result of collision O
the Chicago & Alton near Kanss
City.
Treasurer Hollander, of Porto Ric,
has resigned.
Cubans are ready for the adoptio
of constitution.
Chinese court still shows gre,
honor for dead Boxers
Prince Christian, of Denmark,
coming to the United States.
A crazy man in Denver killed
woman and fatally stabbed a little gir
A Chinaman was lynched in Cal
fornia lumber camp for assaulting
woman.
The Minnesota state building at Il
Pan-American grounds has been ded
Gated
Annie Dobbie. a young singer
great promise in New York, is beir