Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-01-04
NEWS Of TIL W[Ef
From All Parts of the New World
and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR MANY READERS
Comprehensive Review Of the Important Hap
peninss Of the Past Week ina
Condensed Form.

PeLilhSS OF TIC fdSL Week Ut
Condensed Form.
Three children at Olympia were cre-
mated alive.
There are said TO be 80, 900 lepers in
the archipelago.
Massacress of native Christians in
China continue.
Clements cannot force the Beers
from Magalies Berg.
The lumber industry in Eastern Ore
gon is rapidly growing.
A squadron of Yeomanry is said to
have been captured by Beers.
Whitmarsh, the new governor of
Benguet, is British subject.
Stocks of wool in the United States
exceed $50. 100000 pounds.
A receiver was appointed for the
Old Town bank, at Baltimore.
The trial of Alvo1d. the defaulting
note teller, has been postponed.
The grandson of ex-Attorney General
Miller was abducted by his mother.
Kitchener is making little progress
in driving the Beers from Cape Colony.
Robert Taylor, a we'll known resi-.
dent of Ashland, committed suicide.
The holiday rush at the New York
postofice was the greatest ever known.
Three hundred students have been
arrested in st. Petersburg for propagat-
ing Socialist doctrines
Fontela, Filipino refugee, says the
United States will neve, succeed in
subduing the Philippine islands.
Congress will be asked to recognize
Hobson's gallantry in sinking the Mer.
rlmac in the harbor of Santiago.
Fire partially destroyed the Method
lst Episcopal church (colored) J. of Prov
idence, Mo. The pastor was fatally
burned.
In the event of England rejecting the
Hay-Pauncefote treaty new one may
be negotiated at the next session of
congress.
Inquiries into quarters most likely
to be correctly informed show that
nothing is known in Paris to Justify
the report circulated in the United
States that Paderewski, the pianist,
was killed in duel in France.
A band Of probably SO men forced
an entrance to the Green county, ILL.,,
Jail, with the intention of lynching a
prisoner, but were foiled. The prison.
er had been secre tly removed 10 an.
other Jail.
Prince Tuan and Prince Chung have
been arrested.
New Zealand will send more troops
to South Africa.
Yu Hsien was ordered to return to
Sinan Flu to be executed.
Two men were killed as the result of
an explosion in an Idaho mine.
The adavnce guard of Eastern sheep
buyers have arrived at Heppner.
The foreign ministers believe China
will accept the terms of the note.
Fire in Eau Claire. Wis, destroyed
half the business section. The loss is
$150,OOO.
The Weston, Or, school will ask the
legislature to grant normal aduates
diplomas under former conditions.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to blow up hotel in Oklahoma terri
tory. A SUSPECT has been arrested.
Two noted Chicago scientists declare
after long experiments. that the beat
ing of the heart is caused by common
salt in the blood.
James Patterson, for the past four
years city treasurer of Aberdeen,
Wash, is dead at his home in that
city, aged 81 years.
A shooting affray occurred at Burke,
Idaho, and as result Pearley Gordon
and Charles Beck are in the hospital
suffering from shot wounds.
Alfred Harmsworth, editor and pro-
prietor OF the London Daily Mail, pre-.
diets complete revolution in journal
ism during the coming century.
John Tiger, full blooded Indian,
living in Indian territory, while intox-
icated, shot and killed three men and
wounded boy. He was captured.
A creamery will be founded at Eu.
gene, Or.
Fifty-two Poles have been arrested
in Vienna for alleged political conspi-
racy.
A serious race war is expected at
Cementville, small Indiana town.
The tronble was caused by two negroes
getting intoxicated and trying to in
timidate all the whites they met.
A French detachment of 100 men on
their way from Tien Tsin to Hung Tsu,
we're fired upon by Boxers as they ap-
preached small village. One officer
was killed and another wounded. The
French burned the village.
The salmon output in the Northwest
exceeds that of all former years.
In Prussia an income tax is levied
on all whose income exceeds 1925 a
year.
An agreement has been reached set
ting aside 500, 1873 month for Count
ess Castellane, Jay Gould's daugter.
II. M. Hanna. brother of the sena-
tor, gave Cleveland hospital Northern