Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-06-21
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS
OF THE WORLD.
A Comprehensive Review of the Import AM
Happenings Of the Past Week Press :ed
in a Condensed Form Which Is Most
Likely to Prove of Interest to Our Many
Readers.


The surrender of the Filipino leader
Cailles has been confirmed.
Minister Loomis has been trans
ferred from Venezuela to Persia.
Porto Ricans will hereafter work in
harmony with the United States.
Claim of Chilean vessel Itata against
the United Skates has been dismissed.
Thrty-fve hundred trackmen of
Canandian Pacific have gone on
strike.
Empress dowager of China is plot
ting to put new emperor on the
throne.
Mormons want to settle on govern
ment lands in Mexico vacated by
Indians.
Five more Chicago firms have ac-
ceded to the demands of the striking
machinists.
Moran Bros, of Seattle, have Sc
cured force of nonunion machinists
and carpenters.
Industrial commission proposes to
find out whether manufacturers sell
cheaper abroad than at home.
Twelve hundred men were laid off
at the works of the Newport, R. l.,
shipbuilding company, on account OF
the m achinists strike.
A number of Filipino prisoners
have been sentenced to death by the
military commission for murder,
assault and violation of the rules of
war.
Philippine customs revenues are
increasing.
:, Six frame buildings were burned at
Monmouth.
Cailles will surrender his entire
force at Santa Cruz.
.zIncoming ships report passing
quantities of wreckage on the ocean.
Beers surprised force of Victoria
mounted rifles near Middlesburg and
captured two pompons.
1It is exepcted that negotiations at
Pekin will be settled this mouth.
Ten persons were injured by a tor
nado in South Dakota.
, Two Indians tried to murder the
Umatilla chief of police.
Won Waldersee will be created a
prince on his return to Germany.
Only one body has been recovered
from the wreck of the ferry boat North
field.
The Hartman interests have Sc
cured control of the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul road.
Lulu Prince Kennedy was convict
ed Of murder in the second degree ane
punishment was fixed at ten yeras
imprisonment.
An extensive syndicate istbuyins
UP eastern street car lines with tn,
intention OF forming complete mon
opoly.
The Chief of the forestry bureau 0
the Philippines has issued a circula
in which it is stated that the timbe
supply in the Philippines is almos
unlimited
Negroes about Leavenworth, Kan
sas, are arming themselves with re
volvers purchased from the troops a
Fort Leavenworth, and it is though
they intended to avenge the recen
burning Of a Negro.
Eleven hundred butchers are on
strike in San Francisco.
The Cuban convention has accepted
the original Platt amendment.
The new battle ship Illinois is tn,
fastest vessel of her class afoat
Americans were again successful
in the international trap shoot.
Extensive commissary frauds hay
been dicovered at San Francico.
Another name has been added to th
Port Royal, Pa., coal mine horror.
Thirty-four students graduated
from the Oregon Agricultural college
Insurgent general Cailles refuses t
surrender, except on his own terms
Extensive German influence in tn
Yangtse district alarms the Britisl
press.
Donald McPhial, prominen
Eastern Oregon sheepman, was foun
dead by the roadside.
The Washington legislature has ad
journed after amending the capita
punishment law and passing thre
vetoed bills.
The government is preparing t
fire three and one half tons of dyns
mite under the Narorws between Fort
Hamilton and Wadsworth.
There are Ia, 600 oysters to ton.
River Jordan water is now exporte
regularly for baptismal purposes.
In Georgia it is estimated that, 80
600 Negroes have been graduated at.
cost of 800. 900. 600. which college