Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1901-07-26
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.


The southwest was again scorched
by hot wave.
The steel trust has made no effort
to start up idle plants.
The rivers and harbors committee
has returned from Alaska.
The international mining congress
has opened at Boise, Idaho.
Whitmarsh has been exonerated of
the charges brought against him.
The ministers at Pekin have agreed
upon the question of indemnity pay
ments.
San Francisco teamsters have quit
work and the wholesale trade is about
tied up.
Colonel Albert jerks, we'll known
artist, dropped dead in Los Angeles of
heart disease, aged rs years.
A Pittsburg woman started the fire
with kerosene and, with her three
children, was burned to death.
The mayor of Santa Paula, CAL,
was shot and probably fatally wound
ed by tough character of that place.
Corbin and Chaffee have decided on
radical changes in the army in the
Philippines. The military force will
be reduced to 20, or 80, ,000
A movement has been started by
the labor unions of San Francisco to
shut out japanese, placing them on
the same footing with the Chinese.
At Chicago race track four horses
became frightened, threw their riders
and bolted from the track into the
spectators and several persons were
severely injured.
1t is estimated that $2,OOO,0O in
bank notes is in circulation which
have been printed from the plates of
defunct bank. The pates were sup
posed to have been destroyed so years
ago.
The Havana drydock may be towed
to Subig bay, Luzon.
Aguinaldo is irritated by his con-
tinued imprisonment.
The steel trust will attempt to open
several plants this week.
Friendly relations between Russia
and Thibet have been opened.
Hot weather continues in the Brit
ish Isles, but relief is predicted.
Another heat wave has visited the
corn belt of Kansas and Nebraska.
Peasants of the Volga, Russia, pro-
vinces are on the verge of starvation.
General Davis has relieved General
Kobbe in the southern Philippine
islands.
Mrs. Kruger, wife of ex-Presideni
Kruger. of the Transvaal republic
is dead.
International Epworth League con.
ventlon at San Francisco has ad
journed.
1t is almost certain that the sta
7tionary firemen's strike will soon b,
at an end
Major O'Neill, the third mayor o
the city of Portland, is dead at hi
home in Spokane.
1t is feared that disorder and dis
tress will follow opening of govern
ment lands in Oklahoma.
The next official map of the United
States will show the Lewis and Clarl
route and Incidentally advertise tn,
1905 fair.
No move has been made to settl,
the steel strike.
General Daniel Butterfeld died a
his home at Craigside, N. Y.
Ear Russell will enter the plea O
guilty to the charge of bigamy.
One man was killed and so wound
ed in religious riots at Saragossa.
L. S. J. Hunt has abandoned pre-
ject to establish a newspaper at Sc
attic.
International convention of Er
worth League has opened in Sar
Francisco.
The American Sugar Refining Com
pany has reduced the price on a
grades of sugar.
Italy is investigating represents
tions made regarding alleged lynchin
of two Italians in Mississippi.
The British and French navies wi
unite in series of maneuvers
order to see which can out gener,
the other.
The tinworkers' union has refuse
to handle non union plates, thus con
ing to the support of the striking til
plate makers.
The relief from drought in Kans,
was only temporary The wealth
has again turned warm and all crol
are withering.
William G. Whitney, of New Yorl
paid $50, 900 for the two-year-old co
Nasturtium.
It is reported that company at
Cloud, Fla, has succeeded in makir
excellent paper from the leaves
the palmetto.