Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-05-17
EVENTS OF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS
OF THE WORLD.
A Comprehensive Review of the Import,nt
Happenings Of the Past Week Prese led
in a Condensed Form Which Is Most
Likely to Prove of Interest to Our Many
Readers.


Readers.
Mrs. Mckinley is much improved
in health.
Lacuna has promised to surrender
his command
Shamrock II was beaten by Sham
rock / in trial race.
A watchman in Utah refinery
stole $15, 600 in silver bullion.
The Chinese are astonished at the
amount OF indemnity demanded.
Twenty five thousand regulars will
be returned from the Philippines.
A Russo-German tariff alliance
against the United States is proposed.
The military governor of Bataan
has been reprimanded by Mac
Arthur.
Governor Nash and party are visit
ing the various interesting places in
California.
Rear Admiral Schley will cut short
his visit in London ON account Of
sickness in his family. =
Russia is standing steadfast for
peace, according to an official state
ment received at Washington.
One mail clerk was killed and
another injured in wreck ON an Hi
.lois Central train in Louisiana.
A steamboat on the Mississippi
river was wrecked near Chester, Ill.
Two passengers were drowned and %
deckhands are missing.
Unless the sultan of Turkey yields
on the question of interference with
foreign mail, the powers will present
an ultimatum, backed by naval dem
onstration.
A new Russian loan of 424, 600, 600
francs is authorized.
Fire in suburb of Detroit, Mich,
did $SOO,O damage.
General Dewet, the Boer leader,
has resumed operations.
Pennsylvania beat Annapolis in the
intercollegiate boat race.
National organization of machinists
has ordered general strike.
Yale beat Harvard 81 to Al in the
annual track and field contest.
The Porte has ordered all foreign
postoffices removed from Turkey.
The steamer Princess Louise was
wrecked in British Columbia waters.
An attempt was made to sell con-
fidential documents in the Neely case.
Seattle men have bonded LOCO
acres near Willapa bay and will bore
for oil.
Esterhazy has made an affidavit
that he was the author of the Dreyfui
borderau.
Embezzlement charged against ex-
School Land Clerk Davis, Of Oregon,
may be outlawed.
Trouble between the managers oil
the Buffalo exposition and union
workmen for time threatened a COM
plete tie-up of work, but the difficulty
has been settled.
A grip containing dynamite was in
process of fumigation at Port Town.
send, Wash, when owner told con-
tents, causing panic among the
steamer passengers.
Mrs. Mckinley is i'll, and has beer
taken to San Farncisco for rest.
Her illness, while not serious, may
cause curtailment of programme fol
the remainder Of presidents tour.
Two lives were lost in New York
fire.
The presidential party is now il
California.
Eastern wool market shows no i'm.
provement.
Martinelli has received the red be.
retta at Baltimore.
The steel trust will close down the
Everett nail works.
English coal miners have decided
not to strike at present.
Fire in Augusta, Ga, destroyed
$169, 900 worth of cotton.
A fire in Seattle destroyed property
to the amount of 5000, 900.
A naval war college is to be estab.
lished for the naval officers.
The Industrial commission is in.
vestigating rate Determinations.
The steamer Tantillion Castle
wrecked near Cape Town, is a total
loss.
The contract plans for the cruiser
st. Louis have mysterioulsy disap.
peared.
Forest fires in Pennsylvania are
destroying immense quantities Of val.
liable timber.
Much disturbance continues among
the educated classes in Russia, anc
the police are kept busy.
1t is said that 1000 pounds O
poultry will cost less to raise thar
1000 pounds of beef, and will sci
for almost twice as much.
While finding that the seed trad,