Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-12
EVENTS OF THE DAY.
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
TWO HEMESPHERES.

dnL happenings Vi lhc FdSt "CSA
Presented in Condensed Form, Mos,
Likely to Prove Interesting to Oul
Many Readers.
Governor Stones efforts to settle the
coal strike met with failure.
President Roosevelt has completed
his tour and returned to Washington
Judge E. C. Stinson won the Demo-
cratic nomination for governor of Colo
RADIO.
.. General Miles has left Washington
for San Francisco, from where he will
sail for Manila.
D. G. Hayward has been selected as
the Democratic candidate for governor
of South Carolina.
A report is being circulated that the
Firminist leader, Admiral Killick, was
killed with the sinking of his gunboat. {.
Marine engineers on the Willamette
and Columbia rivers have gone on
strike, almost completely tying up river
transportation.
British diplomats deem the Anglo
Chinese treaty a great triumph: The
question now arises as to how the other
powers will look upon it.
The Colombian troops under General
Morales Rerti have surrendered to the
insurgents. 1t will prove a severe
blow to the government cause.
s>The situation in Morocco is becoming
serious.
rEighseen St.: Louis legislators must
answer to the charge of taking Doodle.
Nebraska officialsare in pursuit of
criminal who is emulating Harry Tracy.
Hayti will not complain to Germany
about the sinking of the Firminist gun
boat.
{. The National Candy company has
been incorporated in New Jersey with a
capital of 100000.
New Jersey gamblers whose houses
were recently raided have been fined
from 81 900 to IS, 900.
" The sum of gold now in the United
States treasury exceeds that of any
previ 'us time in the history of the
country.
President Roosevelt has been made
'an honorary member of the Brother
hood of Locomotive Firemen of Chatta-
nooga, Tenn.
An army surgeon who has just re-
turned from Manila says good lain
: Is the only remedy for the epidemic
of cholera now prevalent on the islands.
The Democratic state campaign has
been opened in Ohio.
A cloudburst at Ell Paso, Tex, caused
considerable damage.
King Edward visited Andrew Carne-
: gle at Skibo castle, Scotland.
The transport Buford has arrived at
San Francisco from Manila with 900
men.
The coalmiuers' trouble in West
Virginia is over and most of the men
have returned to work.
=" One person was killed and two seri-
:. ously injured in an automobile acci-
) dent at Vinelsnd, N. j.
The salmon pack of the Fraser river,
B. c., is, in round numbers, 252 900
cases. The pack of the entire province
is about soc, 900 cases.
John Larsen, who attempted to loop
the loop at the Portland Elks' carnival,
fell from the loop, slightly injuring
four persons, but escaping unhurt him
self.
: = Mr.. Leishman, United States minis
tor at Constantinople, has reached a
: satisfactory understanding with the
r porte as to the questions which have
been the subject of negotiations for
several years.
No settlement of the Pennsylvania
strike is in view.
President Roosevelt has started on
, his southern tour.
= Iowa Democrats will run ex-governor
I'd Boies against Speaker Henderson for
place in congress.
Boer leaders and Colonial Secretary
Cham berlain held an important con-
ference in London.
A !, "A SnlnSlS COInDlno Is DclllS lOTHcu III
Maine that proposes to take over all OF
the largest firms in that state.
The White Star steamship company
has placed an order for the building of
the largest steamer in the world.
:. The Lewis and Clark fair committee
has chosen the tract of land at the foot
of Willamette heights for the 1905 ex-
position site.
Farmers of the Northwest are raising
more hogs each year and before great
while will be- able to supply the de-
mand on this coast.
The national mining congress will
meet in Portland in 1904.
Wisconsin Democrats have nominated
David S. Rose for governor.
. Mineowners refuse to arbitrate the
strike in the anthracite region.
Violent storms sweeping England,
Wales and Ireland caused great damage
to property.