Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-08-02
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.
Empress Frederick is quite i'll.

Empress Frederick is quite i'll.
Oklahoma land lottery has opened
and 1000 claims have been drawn.
The governor of Panay has asked
for aid in consequence of ravages OF
locusts.
A new truss will have to be placed
in the Brooklyn bridge to replace the
broken one.
Four miners in Alaska were at
tackled by native Indians and three
shot to death.
China will be allowed three years
to make the first payment on the
war indemnity.
The yachts Columbia and Consti-
tuition raced for the Astoria cup, the
former winning.
The anniversary of the death of
King Humbert was celebrated
throughput Italy.
Anarchists of Paterson, N. j., cele-
brated the anniversary of the murder
of King Humbert.
The Quinalt reservation, in Wash
ington, is to be surveyed and thrown
open for settlement.
Salmon are unstable at Puget
sound fisheries, having been offered
as low as cent each.
King Edward has conferred the de,
gree of the royal red cross upon an
American missionary in China.
The Draymen's Association, of
San Francisco, claims to be making
headway against their striking team
sters.
A large number of horses in Chi
cago are suffering from the grip, and
the disease threatens to become cpl
demic.
German flag was insulted by Co.
lombian authorities, who held ship
while they searched her for German
subject.
Drawing of Oklahoma land has be,
gun.
The Kansas drought is effectually
broken.
Negotiations in Pekin will be closed
In two weeks.
General Wood has left Havana fol
the United States.
Shamrock II has sailed from Eng
land for New York
The battleship Maine was launched
at Cramps shipyards.
It is reported in London that Kru
ger has asked Choate to end the Boe
war.
Teamsters from interior are taking
the places of strikers in San Fran
cisco.
Transport Meade arrived at Sar
Francisco with soldiers from tn
Philippines.
The run of fish on the lower Colum
bis is larger than has been known TO
several years.
Formal negotiations for settle
ment of the great steel strike hav'
been opened.
The Cuban government offers a re
ward of $1,000 for the capture o
Bandid Lima, dead or alive
The. feeling is growing stronger il
England that that government shoul,
not oppose the Nicaraguan cana
treaty.
The steel trust will carry the strik
into the courts.
The sugar trust will add $15, 600,
600 to its capital stock.
The Constitution beat Columbi
four minutes in % mile race.
There are rumors in London {
peace negotiations to end the Boe
war.
DR.. Koch says bovine tuberculosi
is not transmissible to the huma
system.
A lone highwayman held up I'll
Cazadero stage near Mendocino, Cal
but got nothing.
The teamsters' strike in San Fral
cisco is becoming serious. Both sid'
are standing firm.
A fire in reduction plant nes
Florence, COL, destroyed $3.50, 0C
worth of property.
Petroleum on board an America
ship at Stockholm, Sweden, explode,
burning Is persons and the ship.
Rear Admiral Schley will demar
an investigation OF Maclay's charge
and will sue the author for libel.
An excursion boat on the Sagina
river sank near Saginaw, Mich, wit
80 passengers on board. All we
saved.
The Beers have given up all ho]
of Intervention and realize that tn,
must fight the war out on their ov
account.
President Palmer, OF the R
Grande & Western, has sold his i
terests in the road to the Gould inte
ests for $6, 600, 600.
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