Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-02-15
From All Parts of the New World
and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR MANY READERS
Comprehensive Review Of the important Hap
Penlnss Of the Past Week ina
Condensed Form.
Ex-King Milan is dead.

The Philippine tariff act has reached
Washington.
There is no longer any doubt OF the
plague at Cape Town.
Bids for Manila harbor improvements
will soon be advertised.
The disorders in Madrid and other
Spanish cities continue.
The house voted to ask for a confer
ence on the war tax bill.
Mrs. Nation says she is going on
world tour of "joint" smashing.
An order is teing prepared for the
organization of 10 new regiments.
The Mammoth has been added to the
list of Eastern Oregon producing mines.
A ballot box was stolen and three
we're hurt in an election riot in st.
Louis.
The Chinese plenipotentaries will be
excluded from meetings OF the foreign
envoys.
The new regiment of the Twenty
eighth infantry is to be organized at
Vancouver.
There is a lack of cordiality between
army men and the Philippine COM
missioners.
Lloyd Griscom. United States secre-
tary of legation and charge, at Con-
srantinople, is coming Eome on leave
of absence. He has not resigned. as
had been reported.
The Ohio supreme court holds that
the state supervisor of elections (the
secretary Of state) is the final Judge of
rau controversies arising under the
election laws OF the state.
Senator Foraker has reported bill
providing that Hawaiian coins may be
received at par for all government
dnes, and that when once so received,
they shall not be again put in circula-
tion.
The followers of General Maxine
Gomez triumphed in the Cuban con-
stitutional convention. The clause
making him eligible to the presidency
of the republic was adopted by a:;vote
of 15 to IA.
Portugal, it is said, will send troops
to aid the British.
A good vein of coal has been located
near Pendleton, Oregon.
French troops in China disobeyed
Count Won WaIdersee's orders.
- Three lives were lost and four paople
badly injured in a Boston fire.
H. Dewet and Steyn have issued proc.
Flamation saying they will enter Cape
Colony.
- La Grande, Oregon. farmers protest
against alleged discrimination of army
horse buyer.
An unknown man at Salem. Oregon,
drove over an EN- bankment and sus-
tanned serious injuries.
One British general was killed
and another severely injured in an en-.
gagement at Orange camp.
Colonel Albert D. Shaw, former com.
mander- chief of G. A. R., died sud.
denly at his home in Watertown,
N. Y.
- Professor Won Max Pettinkofer, the
distinguished German chemist, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself in
tit of melancholy.
Three men have been arrested at
Manila, Iowa, for the robbery OF q
United States Express Company's safe.
They secured $40, 900 in money and
other valuable
The condition of ex-King Milan, oil
Servla. has taken turn for the worse.
Both his lungs are congested, the heart
is very weak, and his malady has en-.
tered an extremely critical condition,
Kitchener reports that eastern move.
ment of British troops has upset plans
of Beers.
Coming marriage of. Princess of As.
turias greatly displeases the Spanish
students.
Typographical Union No. l3, of Bos.
ton, will call strike in every book
and job Office in that city in case the
master printers refuse to sign the
union scale at once. They demand
that women typsetters shall be treated
as "jou1Deymen compositors," and re.
ceive the same wages as men for doing
the same work.
Alfred Vanderbilt has given 49,.
700, 1000 to his fiance, Elsie French, 81
her marriage portion.
A Montreal paper warns Egnland
to cease insulting French Canadians,
declaring the British government holds
Canada through the people of quebec
province.
Abraham Oppenheimer, Philadel-
phia citizen of 80 years, astonished all
observers by doing some wonderfully
fancy skating on the pond in Fremont
park.