Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-06-06
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 10 Prove of Interest to Our Many
Readers

Likely to Prove of Interest to Our Many
Readers
The senate has passed the Philippine
bill.
The house is considering the anarchy
bill.
The entire French cabinet has re-
signed.
The senate is considering the Mica
ragua canal bill.
The rebellion in Southern China has
been practically suppressed.
The Idaho state Republican conven-
ton will be held in Boise August 20.
Two villages were destroyed and rs
people killed by volcano in Bolivia.
The Grand Aerie of the Fraternal
Order OF Eagles is in session at Mime
apolis.
The teamsters' strike in Chicago con-
tinues with no signs OF an early settle
ment. More rioting has occurred.
Joliet, ILL.,, is suffering from the
worst food in its history. All the
lower portion of the city is under water.
The papal secretary of state, Cardi-
nal Rampolla, has received Judge Taft
at the Vatican, Il me.
Kruger declines to express any
opinion whatever regarding the conclu-
sion of the war in South Africa.
Mine engineers, firemen and pump
men in the anthracite coal district have
quit work to the extent of about 80 per
cent.
The cable between Manila and Hong
Kong is broken. Telegraph communi-
cation with the Philippine islands is,
therefore, stopped.
Sixteen persons were killed and four
wounded as result of an explosion of
gas in an ozocerite mine in the province
of Galicia, Austria.
Senator Mitchell has secured from
the interior department favorable re-
port on his bill for the relief of the
Sherman county, Oregon, settlers, and
it is expected that the senate committee
will report the bill to the senate.
The efforts of the Chicago striking
teamsters to prevent the delivery of
meat by non-union drivers has resulted
in many conflicts with the police, in
which both officers and men received
injuries and number of the strike
leaders were arrested.
Another Boxer insurrection is report.
in China.
Three persons we're injured by tor
nado in North Dakota.
Two were killed and Is injured in
automobile accident at New York.
After two years and eight months of
war peace has been declared in South
Africa.
The transport Meade has arrived in
San Francisco from Manila with the
Twenty first infantry.
Senator Carmack, during speech in
the senate slandering the army, was
hissed by the gallery.
The senate will consider the Mica
ragua canal bill this week. This will
be followed by the Cuban bill.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Colonels Samuel NJ. Whiteside and
Sumner II. Lincoln to be brigadier
generals.
The Charleston exposition has closed.
Financially, it was a loss and the
stockholders will receive none OF their
subscriptions back. Otherwise the fair
was q success.
Two men we're killed in a slide in
Mercur, Utah, mine.
Hon Michael Henry Herbert may be
British ambassador at Washington.
Ex-Governor Sylvester Pennoyer died
at his home in Portland on Memorial
day.
The grandstand at Hawthorne track,
Chicago, was burned. Loss, 500 900.
One man was killed and several in
jured.
President Roosevelt delivered Me-
mortal Day address at Arlington cem-
etery, Washington, to an audience OF
thousands.
The teamsters' strike in Chicago is
still on with Nc prospects of an early
settlement and the city is face to face
with a meat famine.
Many beautiful floral offerings were
sent to Canton from all over the United
States to he placed on the tomb OF the
late President Mckinley.
The entire French cabinet has re-
signed.
Fire in Brooklyn destroyed property
valued at $l75 900.
Attorney General Knox is confined
to his home with severe cold.
Bituminous coal workers may strike
out of sympathy for the anthracite
workers.
Germany has appealed to the United
States to assist in preventing monopoly
in wireless telegraphy.
The statue OF liberty torch in New
York harbor is to be dark hereafter
because congress refused $50 900 ap-
preparation for lighting it.
The refusal of the Manitoba govern
ment to allow the Northern Pacific
railroad to extend its lines across the
border is taken as notice to all Ameri-