Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-04-05
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Comprehensive Review of. the important Flap
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Count Tolstoi was banished from
Russia.
The business situation in Cuba is
improved.
]. P. Morgan wants to build the Pan
ANA canal.
The army frauds at Manila are be-
ing investigated.
The foreign ministers are reforming
the tsung Ii yamun.
%. The public debt decreased $685.
595 in the past year.
Karpovich, the Russian assassin.
will be sent to Siberia.
Titus, the musician, has been ap-
pointed West Point cadet.
Southern China viceroys protest
against the treaty with Russia.
Bids are being asked for supplies
for the naval station at Seattle.
- The Southern islands will have a
departmental system of government
A party of cavalrymen had a sharp
encounter with rebels in Cavite prov
ince.
Three hundred metal polishers in
San Francisco have struck for shorter
hours.
Russia threatens to sever relations
with China unless the Manchuriap
treaty is signed.
A gunboat will carry Minister
Loomis from La Guayra to Porto Rico
on his way home.
Botha and Dewet will join a gath
ering of $4,000 Beers for operations
against the British.
Ex-Representative Peters, of Kan
sas, may succeed H. c. Evans, as
pension commissioner.
Senator Proctor says the Platt
amendment is satisfactory to the
leading residents of Cuba.
- In order to escape the tariff on i'm
ported material, the Sheffield steel
works will locate plant in the United
States.
The United States steel corporation
has absorbed the American bridge
trust, and Rockefeller's iron mine in.
terests.
AS the result of an old quarrel, near
Chehalis, Wash, three men were shot
and seriously injured. One of them
is not expected to recover.
The threatened revolution in Brazil
has been put down. The government
has sent communications to the Euro
pean and United States legations, say
ing the country is safe.
A Manila Spaniard was convicted OF
treason.
Another attempt was made to as
sassinate the czar.
Roland Reed, the actor, is dead at
his home in New York
A large amount of Washington re-
serves is to be opened to settlement.
Gross fraud has been discovered in
the subsistence department at Manila
Much misery prevails at Marseilles,
France, as a result of the dock strike.
General Fitzhugh Lee says future
of Cuba depends on native statesmen.
A packing-house fire in New York
damaged 100000 worth of property.
Three thousand arrests have been
made since Russian revolutionists be.
came active.
A $30,O00,000 syndicate is negotiat.
ing for the control of the Pacific coast
fishing industry.
Secretary Gage says if artificial
prices are asked for bonds, he will al.
low treasury funds to accumulate.
Commander of the Petrol was suf-
focated and % officers and men pros.
trated in a fire on the gunboat Petrol.
The Thirty-third and Thirty fourth
regiments, just returned from the
Philippines, will be mustered out at
San Francisco.
Minister Loomis may be transferred
to another post.
By an explosion of gas at the fur.
mace of the Edgar Thompson steel
works, five men were fatally Injured
The president has appointed Wheat.
on to be major general and Funston
and Jacob Smith to be brigadier gen.
erals of regulars.
Peter Karpovitch, the assassin of Bo-
goliepoff, Russian minister of public
instruction, has been sentenced to 20
years penal servitude, with loss Of
civil rights.
80 The Japanese residents of Tacoma,
Wash, have organized to keep out
any disorderly characters from their
country.
During a recent epidemic of diph-
iberia in a tc cwn on the Hudson, 206
cases were treated with serum, and
among these there were only two
deaths.
Elections in London resulted in
tremendous majorities in favor of mu-
nicipal ownership of all public utili-
ties, thus breaking CALLING monopolies
existing for centuries.