Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-01-31
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.

hanging in Pennsylvania.
The house committee voted in favor
of government owned Pacific cable.
A substitute for the Nicaragua canal
bill has been introduced in the senate.
The general outlook in Batangas prov
ince, Philippine islands, is favorable.
A train wreck on New York rail-
road resulted in the death of the
engineer. -.
Four vessels are now on the Pacific
sear"hing for the missing English war
ship Condor.
A discharged soldier in San Francisco
planned to 60 to New York in box,
but was discovered and turned over to
the police.
Two prospectors in Montana have
found a mine of almost pure silver.
The average assay is 1000 ounce,
which gives it value of nearly $8, 900
to the ton.
Emperor William has celebrated his
43d birthday.
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above the Cascade Locks.
Two Negroes in Louisiana, who had
murdered white man, were lynched.
A train in South Carolina was held
up and the express car rified of it's con-
tents.
Governor Shaw, of Iowa, will assume
the duties of secretary of the treasury
February /.
Liberals defeated the Conservative
forces of Colombia in three successive
engagements.
United Mineworkers will levy an
assessment to help strikers fight battle
with operators to the end.
The delay of the committee in report
ing the canal bill to the senate means
saving of much time later.
The treaty for the sale of the Danish
West Indies to the United States cal us
for the payment Of. SIS 900, 900.
Intense cold continues to prevail
throughout the middle west. Many
trains are delayed on account of snow.
An extra session has been called of
the Colorado legislature to make corpo-
rations pay taxes on full valuation, the
same as private citizens.
There is movement to hold an ex-
position at Manila in December next.
The Manila chamber of commerce
asks that Chinese be admitted to the
islands.
An unknown hypnotist put Spokane
man to sleep and doctors can do moth
ing to rouse him. .'
Prince Henry will be given military
farewell when he leaves Germany for
the United States.
The Prince of Wales received very
chilling reception on the occasion OF
his visit in Germany.
Investigation of the Iowa mine dis
aster disclosed the fact that the explo-
sion was caused by too heavy charge OF
dynamite being placed by one of the
men who were killed.
Fire at Goldfield, Colo, caused dam
age estimated at $40, 900.
Manila banks refuse to accept de-
posits of Mexican silver.
Colorado union miners have demand
cd the discharge of nonunion men.
A man and his wife have been arrest
ed in San Francisco for counterfeiting
Eight of the colleries in the Hazel
ton district, Pa, were closed because OF
high water. .5
1t is estimated that the loss by the
recent fires in Columbus, Ohio, will
reach 100000.
The wheat crop of the Pacific North
west for 1901 was, approximately, Al,
900, 900 bushels. --'
Governor Taft says 1000 soldiers
will be enough in the Philippines be-
fore the close of the year.
Five hundred miners at the West End
colliery, at Mocanaqua, Pa. went on
strike because nonunion workmen were
employed.
All formalities for the purchase oi
the Danish West Indies have been COM
pleted and the treaty will be signed in
a few days.
A Cincinnati bookkeeper Is almost q
quarter of q million short in his ac-
counts. He contends that it is the re-
suit of errors and has made most of il
good.
The cotton crop of the United
States now almost equals in value its
wheat crop.
The gold mines of Mysore, India, are
worked by American electrical devices
the power being from the melting Hi
malayan snow.
Swiss papers record decline in the
export of wood carvings, and attribute
it to the lack of variety in the carvings
the subjects being monotonously re
peated.