Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-06-13
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

Readers
Tie senate has passed the naval APP
preparation bill.
Republicans of Iowa have renominat-
ed w. P. Hepburn for congress.
Two negroes were taken from the
Charlotte, \. c., Jail and lynched.
The third trial of Jessie Morrison fer
murder has been commenced at Edo
raGo. Kan.
Tracy and Merrill, the escaped con-
victs from the Oregon penitentiary, are
still at large.
tornado in the northeastern part Of
Iowa did great damage to property.
No lives were lost.
The labor trouble in Manila is grow
ing much worse. 1t is estimated that
200 men are now out on strike.
The members of the Cuban house
and senate will receive $4,000 a year.
President Palma having signed the bill.
A tornado in Clay and Becker coun-
ties, Minnesota, killed at least five per-
sons and destroyed 100000 worth of
property.
The house has passed the anti
anarchy bill.
Ten persons were killed and many
injured in Chicago hospital fire.
Mexican troops and Yaqui Indians
met in a battle which resulted dis
asteriously to the Indians.
The floods in Kansas have not en-
tirely subsidized. The Mosho and Cot
tonwood rivers have again left their
banks.
The May postal receipts at so of
the largest offices in the United States
show an increase of so per cent over
May, 1901.
Three business blocks at Saratoga,
N. Y, were destroyed. Five persons
lost their lives. The property loss is
estimated at 100000.
Two convicts at the Oregon Peni-
tentiary Stayed three guards and
wounded life prisoner and escaped.
They are well armed with rifles and
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tion.
The forming of the new French cab
met has been completed.
Mitchell denounced the Panama canal
route in a speech before the senate.
A plot has been discovered at Pre-
toria to blow up the government build
ings.
Twelve trainloads of Mystic Shriners
arrived at San Francisco to attend the
imperial council.
Coal miners in West Virginia have
gone out. A larger number quit work
than was anticipated.
The officers of the cruiser Chicago
who caused the disturbance in Venice
will not be court martialed.
An excursion train ON Michigan
road was wrecked, killing one person
and injuring 33, three fatally.
The relief supplies sent by the United
States to the Martinique sufferers were
not properly distributed and did not go
where they would do the most good.
Kruger will not be required to ac-
knowledge British sovereignty in South
Africa.
The president is being urged to send
a message to congress on the Cuban
question.
Fire in Denver destroyed grocery
store, rooming house and several other
business concerns.
June and 8 have been declared
Thanksgiving days and holidays
throughout Cape Colony.
A boat containing eight Spanish ar
tillery officers was run down BY
steamer at Gijon, Spain, and five
drowned.
Retabulen, town in Qua temala,
Central America, has been destroyed by
a volcano. One thousand people lost
their lives.
Governor Geer may call an extra
session OF the Oregon legislature for
the purpose of fixing fiat salaries for
the state officials.
The pavilion in the horticultural
gardens, Toronto, the second largest
auditorium in that city, has been en-
tirely destroyed by fire.
The America Federation wants to
take farmers int ats organization.
Three men were shot in riot be-
tween union and non union iron mould
ers at Granite City, Ill.
Some OF the mines in the anthracite
coal region are filling with water be-
cause of the firemen and pumpmen
joining the strikers.
Lord Kitchener was created Wis
count and promoted to be general and
given $4,000 pounds for his services in
the South African war.
There are 2,740 murders yearly in
Italy; 2,400 in Russia; 900 in Spain.
Less than one per cent OF the land of
Norway is in use for grain fields.