Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-05-23
-h9ENI'S OF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF
THE WORLD.
A Comprehensive Review Of the important
Happenings o: the Past Week, Presented
In Condensed Form, Which Is Most
Likely to Prove oil. interest to Our Many
Readers.

Six lives were lost by storm al
Cincinnati.
A temporary injunction against the
beef trust il in force.
Fire at Philadelphia destroyed prop
erty valued at 100000.
An eruption from Mount Pelee
caused panic at Fort de France.
Eighty-two bodies have been recov-
cred from the Fraterville mine, at Coal
Creek, Tenn.
Mr.. Hartman has announced a. re-
duction to three cents per mile of pas
senger rates on all his lines-in Oregon.
The United States has formally
turned over the government of Cuba to
the people of that island. Wild en-
thusiasm prevailed.
The members of the Building Trades
Council of Portland, about $500 men,
are on strike in support of the demands
of the Millworkers' union.
The president is about to issue a
proclamation creating additions of sew
eral militia acres to the Yellowstone
and Teton forest reserves in Wyoming.
The house has passed the naval ap-
preparation bill.
Liorel E. G. Garden will be the Brit
ish minister to Havana, Cuba.
In the Goliad, Tex, tornado 90 per-
sons were killed and 1O3 injured.
A million dollars worth of sheep and
lambs were lost in Wyoming blizzard.
Two hundred men and boys were
killed in a mine disaster in Tennessee.
A hurricane in British India result
ed in the loss OF many lives and heavy
damage to property.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to assassinate the governor of Wilma,
Russia, formerly chief of police of st.
Petersburg.
Lord Pauncefote's condition remains
about the same. He suffers somewhat
from the heat, but his condition is
reported to be fairly satisfactory.
Alphonso XIII is now king Of Spain.
"A race riot at Atlanta Ga, resulted
in eight deaths.
Mount Pelee is again active. A new
volcano has broken out to the north.
An anarchist plot to take the life of
the king of Spain has been discovered.
A tornado swept through Texas, kill
ing SO people and injuring hundred
more.
A high wind along the California
coast did much damage off San Fran
cisco.
United States trade in the far East
shows great gains during the past year,
being 400 per cent in British India
alone.
The kaiser may come to Washington
to the unveiling of the statue of Fred
erick the Great, which ~he presented
to the United States.
Mount Pelee shows signs of con-
tinued activity.
The fetes in honor of King Alfonso's
coronation began Saturday at Madrid.
PACKERS say the increase in the price
Of beef is due to the rise in value of
corn.
Emperor William will present to the
United States statue of Frederick the
Great.
There is good prospect that the In
dian war pension bill will be passed
this session of congress.
All the Boer leaders are assembled at
Vereiging, Transvaal colony, to vote on
3 the British terms of peace.
Richard Croker says that he favors
Robert Van Wyck, ex-mayor OF New
York, as the head OF Tammany Hall.
The sea has encroached from 10 feet
to two miles along the st. Vincent
coast since the explosion on Mount
Pelee.
A father and his two sons murdered
two constables in Queensland and Gre
mated the bodies. The details OF the
crime are shocking.
William J. Bryan is at Havana Wis
iting.
The senate has passed the forti6ca-
tions appropriation bill.
Scientists fear another eruption on
the island of St. Vincent.
Sc Two American swindlers were clev'
erly kidnapped from Canada by detec'
tives and brought back to the United
States.
The Parisians are more interested il
the auto races than in the calamity
that befell the French colony at st
Pierre.
There are not fewer than 0,oOt
Syrians in the United States, and be
tween 1000 and 5000 in Chicago.
The Erie canal, in New York, wa
the first artificial waterway begun il
this country. Ground was broken TO
this enterprise July +, 1877.
1t has been found that at the presen
price of alcohol in Germany, about l3 \
cents a gallon, alcohol completes with
all forms of motive energy in engines
less than 20 horse power.