Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-25
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF
THE WORLD.
A Comprehensive Review OF the important
Happenings Of the Past Week. Presented
In q Condensed Form. Which Is Most
likely to Prove Of Interest to Our Many
Readers

is expected.
Colonel Thomas Ward, chief of staff
to General Miles, has been appointed
brigadier general.
Cardinal Ledochowski, prefect of the
congregation of the propaganda of the
Roman church. is dead.
The treasury department will, in a
few days, call for bids for the improve
ment of the Portland postofice building.
Orders have been received at the New
York navy yard to proceed at once with
the building of the battleship Connec-
ticut.
The general managers of the railroads
entering Chicago are considering vari-
GUS means of preventing strikes in the
future.
An Ohio doctor is under sentence of
death in Nicaragua. The state depart
ment has taken active steps to secure
his release.
Secretary Root has gone to Europe
for short vacation.
Fifty-six persons were drowned in a
ferry boat accident in Russia.
The complete unofficial abstract gives
Chamberlain 276 plurality for governor
of Oregon.
General Macarthur has assumed
temporary command of the department
of the East.
The height of the food has been
reached in the Mississippi valley and
the river is falling slowly.
Japanese fishermen on the Fraser
river are having trouble with the
Indian and white fishermen.
The war department is preparing to
build many new quarters and barracks
throughout the United states.
A Philadelphia telephone company
has made arrangements to install an
alarm system. A subscriber in the
evening tells central what time he
wishes to get up, and at that hour the
telephone bell will ring. 1t is neces-
sary for the subscriber to take down
the receiver in order to stop the bell
ringing.
Cholera is raging in Upper Egypt.
At least half of the cases are fatal.
The widow of Lord Pauncefote will
be granted much larger pension than
is ordinarily given.
A steamship sunk on the Elbe river,
Germany, and only 80 of the 1856 pas
Sanuprs wara SaVe1
Chas Stahl, a former Portland car
penter, was carried out to sea and
drowned while bathing at Seaside.
The war department has allotted
$450,O00 for the establishment of a
great military post at Chickamauga.
The transport Sheridan has arrived
at San Francisco flom Manila with
parts of the Thirteenth infantry and
Third cavalry.
The coalminers' convention at In
dianapolis voted against general
strike, but adopted the assessment plan
for helping those already out.
Levees along the Mississippi river
near Keokuk, Ia, gave way, flooding
many acres in Missouri, Iowa and
Illinois. The damage will reach at
least $6 100000
Three people were killed by light
ming IN St. Clair county, Illinois.
The coronation of King Edward has
been definitely fixed for August 9.
The Chicago freighthandlers are dis
satisfied and may go on strike again at
any time.
immigration for the fiscal year of
1902 shows an increase of 160,S25
over 1901.
Fire at Block Island, R. l., destroyed
three hotels and several other small
buildings.
In head end collision on a Wiseon-
sin road between two freight trains,
both engineers and one fireman were
kille3.
A drouth in Arizona is causing a
great loss to cattlemen. Grass has
almost entirely dried up. many
horses are being shot to save the water
for cattle.
Two Denver women have been caught
at San Francisco trying to bring duti.
able goods in without paying. 1t will
cost them So 7S4 to get their goods
which is three times the actual value
Cholera is spreading in the Philip
pines.
Capt. NJ. l. Smith, the. first man wht
stretched wires across the state of Wis
consin, is still living in Topeka. kar
Chicago chemists have invented !
process for making wall paper stronge
that promises TO revolutionize the in
sustry