Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-11-14
EVENTS THEDAY
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
TWO HEMISPHERES.
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week,
Presented in Condensed Form, Most
Likely to Prove Interesting to Our
Many Readers.

MANY kcd0cTSs
Elmer d. BRYAN, formerly of Illinois,
has been appointed superintendent of
education for the Philippines.
The monitor Wyoming, nearing COM
pletion at San Francisco, will be turned
over to the government November 20.
The secretary of the navy has direct
ed that the army transport Hancock
proceed to New York, where she will
be used as receiving ship.
All Christmas presents entering the
Philippines will be subject to the same
duty as other goods, according to ad-
vices issued by the war department.
Forty prisoners in the Arizona peni-
tentiary overpowered the guards and
escaped. This is the second delivery
in month. A new prison is being
built in the solid rock of a mountain
side.
The 28th annual convention of the
American Bankers association is in
session in New Orleans. There are
about 100 delegates and 500 visitors
present. Seattle wants the next meet
ing.
General Owen Summers has been
made commander-in-chief of the Span
ish-American war veterans. The
National headquarters will be moved
to Portland. Colonel R. FL. Savage,
elected commander-in-chief, was COM
PEELED to resign on account of i'll health
and the honor fell to the vice COM
'mander. General Summers.
=, General Chaffee has reached San
Francisco from the Philippines.
The chief of ordance of the navy rec
ommends the establishment of wireless
telegraphy along the entire Pacific
coast.
The annual report of Assistant Post
master General Wynne favors a greater
appropriation for the rural mail deliv-
y.routes.
No trace can be found of B. F. Egan,
the Great Northern railroad man who
was lost in the mountains near Bolton,
Mont, week ago.
All the money necessary for irriga-
tion week at Portland has been raised
and the committee has the plans of en-
- tertainment almost completed.
The main issue between the negotiat-
ors of the Cuban United States reel
procity treaty is the rate of rebate to
be allowed on sugar and tobacco enter
ing the United States.
Wisconsin capitalists have purchased
224 1868, ZOO feet of yellow pine timber
in Idaho for 81 cents per thousand.
The timber sold is on lands selected by
the state along the North Fork and its
tributaries between Smiths Ferry and
the upper end of the lakes. The1e
lands cover 80, $50 acres.
French miners have decided not to
accept terms made by arbiters.
Fire at Camden, N. j., destroyed
three blocks, valued at $3.50, 900.
Trust legislation is almost sure at the
short or long session of congress.
-. DR.. Nansen, the Arctic explorer, will
start on another expedition in 1908.
- Major General Macarthur has been
ordered to the command of the Depart
ment of the Lakes.
Much anxiety is felt concerning the
condition of the emperor OF Russia.
He is greatly depressed in mind and is
melancholy.
Minister WI, Chinese representative
at Washington, will not await the ar
rival of his successor, but will return
home at once. , -. T -. .'
-. Fire in the New York Times Office
was the cause of two deaths and the
serious injury of number OF others
Property loss, $4,000.
=: There will be no ship this year te
carry gifts to the soldiers in the fal
East, but the department will see tina
all packages are delivered.
The president is considering the ap
'plications for chief of the bureau o
steam engineering and paymaster gen
eral, and will announce appointment
soon.
Fire partially destroyed the Crane
opera house, Nashville, Tenn. Loss
$4,000.
General Uribe-U -Uribe, the Colombian
revolutionary leader, has been sen
fenced to death.
Henderson will enter the race in low
for governor against Cummins. Vindl
cation is his plea.
The postmaster general has ordere
that the postoffice physician be abolish
ed in all postofices in cities unde
500, 1000.
President Palma says the treaty be
tween Cuba and the United States ms
been sent to the Cuban minister 8
Washington.
Burglars entered New York hous
while the faily were at dinner and stol
$4,000 worth of iewelry and clothing.
Burglars blew open the safe in
albuquerque, N. NJ, jewelry store an