Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-07-11
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 to Prove of Interest to Our Many
Readers
Chicago teamsters refuse to help
striking freight handlers.

Ambassador Choate has been sug-
gested as candidate for president in
1904.
A man answering the description of
Merrill has been arrested at South
Bend, Wash.
Twenty thousand teachers are in at
tendance at the national educational
convention in Minneapolis
The expenses of the Oregon militia
while hunting Tracy and Merrill
amounted to $500, which will be paid
out of the military fund.
All organized labor and the public in
general will be called upon to contrib
ute to a national defense fund to aid
the striking coal miners in the East.
family of four travelling overland
through Oklahoma were murdered by
unknown persons the bodies stripped
of all clothing and terribly mutilated.
Tracy, after an absence of two days,
again show ed up in South Seattle. He
was surrounded by officers, but succeed
ed in throwing posse off the track. He
sprinkled pepper along his trail so the
dogs could not follow it.
train wreck in Spain resulted in
the death of six persons and the fatal
injury of %.
Tracy, the escaped Oregon convict,
has completely disappeared, leaving no
trail whatever.
A new strike has been made in the
Thunder mountain mining district,
Idaho, which has proven to be the
richest yet made.
No trace has been found of Merrill,
one of the escaped Oregon convicts, and
officers are at a loss as to whether or
not Tracy killed him.
Aguinaldo will come to the United
States and start on tour, delivering a
series of lectures and making plea for
the independence of his countrymen.
A large body of Moros of Mindanao
island planned an ambuscade for
American soldiers, but the latter were
warned in time and dispersed the
rebels.
Venezuelan government troops, under
President Castro's brother, were de-
feated by the rebels with heavy loss.
Many of the soldiers deserted to the
ranks of the insurgents.
President Castro has gone. to the
front with the Venezuelan troops.
President Mitchell is confident that
the coal miners will win their strike.
Half a million were fed on the occa-
sion OF King Edwards dinner to the
poor of London.
1t has been apparently confirmed
that Andree did not perish, but was
murdered by Eskimos.
Eleven men were hunt, three of them
fatally, by the overturning OF a wagon
at Florence, Colorado.
Wind and rain destroyed thousands
of dollars worth of property in the
western part of New York.
China has appealed to the United
States to use its good offices to cause
the allied powers who still retain their
soldiers in Tien Tsin to evacuate that
place.
Tracy, after several running fights
with the officers in the vicinity OF Seat
tie, in which three men were killed and
one seriously wounded, has eluded his
pursuers and is now heading toward
Whatcom.
Minnesota Republicans have renom-
mated Van SAINT for governor.
Seventy bills and resolutions were
passed the last dayrin the house.
Shopmen of the Northwestern and
Burlington 4 Ohio are on strike.
The cabinet has begun the considera-
ton of the isthmian canal measure.
The Columbia river salmon pack
this year will be the largest in years.
Many nominations sent to the senate
for confirmation were not acted upon.
China refuses to pay the July indem-
nity installment at the present rate of
exchange.
The cash value of real estate of Chi
cago and Cooke county is placed at $l,-
263, ,924 ,250.
The session of congress just closed
appropriated $50, ,S55,262 more than
the session of last year.
An Italian striker at Wilkesbarre,
Pa, was shot by policeman. This is
the first loss of life since the great
anthracite strike began.
Frequent riots have occurred in South
Russia.
The Union Patcific strike has set
tied down to a stubborn contest.
The United Presbyterian general as
sembly has received an overture pro-
posing union with the reformed church.
The Illinois Audubon society has
warned Chicago milliners that prosecu-
tions will follow if birds are used on
fall hats.