Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-15
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

odger have com DlneQ.
The International Typographical
Union is in session at Cincinnati this
week.
The Lead and Zinc News of St. Louis
saws a merger of white lead companies
capitalized at $5O,0o0,OOO is being
formed.
After three days of fighting at BARGE
Iona. Venezuela, President Castro's men
were beaten, losing so men and Gen.
eral Bravo, their commander.
Mrs. Elizabeth Young, the Oldest
actress on the American stage, died
Sunday at the Actress Fund Home, on
Staten Island, aged 90 years.
King Edwards coronation was cele-
brated by Al American gunboats at
Caveito ON Saturday. They dressed
ship and fired salute of 2l guns.
The seventeenth annual session OF
the Oregon Press Association convenes
at Newport, Or, Thursday evening,
Aug. IA, and continues until Aug. II.
In the sedition case Of the Mania
Freedom, Judge Amber has denied its
editors jury trial, saying that in their
case the Constitution of the United
States does not apply.
The Philippine Catholic church has
been organized in detection from the
Church of Rome. Governor Taft, Ag-
uinaldo and Departo de Taryo, men,
ber of the Philippine commission, are
honorary presidents.
Irish Lad won the great sporting
sweepstakes at Saratoga.
Senator McMillin of Michigan is
dead. He had been in congress since
1889.
A tornado in Stearns county, Mimi,
Saturday evening did much damage to
farm buildings and crops.
General Corbin is authority for the
statement that Pacific coast army
headquarters will not be moved from
Vancouver, Wash.
The San Francisco police commission
has decided to enforce it's order OF July
%, requiring saloonkeepers to remove
their slot machines paying cash prizes.
A syndicate of Americans, led by L.
B, Hoard, of Nebraska, wealthy cattle
man, will establish the first bonanza
wheat farm in Canada, between Craik
and Davidson Forty thousand acres
have been purchased.
The house of commons has adjourned
to Oct. 16.
The report of the comptroller OF the
treasury shows national banks to be In
good condition.
An advance in Erie stocks has been
caused by rumors of j. j. Hlli's con-
nection with the road.
N. c. Hopper the Chicago amateur
rider, lowered the worlds halt mile
amateur bicycle record, unpaced, on
the Salt Palace saucer track, covering
the distance in O:53 rs. The previous
record was 0:5S.
The British premier, A. J. Balfour
has announced the appointment OF the
following committee of inquiry into TIT
conduct of the Boer war: The Ear
of Elgin, chairman; Sir Henry Nor
man, Sir John Hopkins, Lord Esher
and Sir John Edge.
FLOODS nave u6NdStdtSO tiiO ~" SoN-
try on the coast of the Black sea.
Thirteen men were killed by an ex
plosion in mine at Bowen, Colo.
A Viking ship, 40 feet long, has beel
unearthed on the Island of karmoe
Norway.
The expedition which started iron
Vancouver. B c., to search for Coco
Island buried treasure, have returne
without success.
Lucy Hoving, chief organizer OF I'll
Socialist party in Utah, was run owe
by horse and buggy at Ogden an
instantly killed.
The Colorado Republican conventlo
will be held at Denver Sept. 4. In
Democratic convention will be held
the same city Sept. 8.
Professor John Jay Watson, we
known musical director and author
many popular werks, died at bosto
Thursday. He was born in 1851.
The various oyster canning and pac
ing companies in Mississippi, Alabam
and Louisiana, 10 in numberS Will,
is said, combine under one hea
with capital of 81 ,00O, 900.
WI Ting Fang, the retiring Chine
minister at Washington, has accept'
An invitation te. address the local lab
union at Binghampton, N. Y,
Labor day. This is the first invitati'
which has ever been extended to
Chinsman by labor union in tt
country.
William C. Whitney. of New Yol
has given a handsome house and lot
the physician who attended Mrs. "h
ney in her long illnses.
Turner's in convention at Davenpo
Ia, defeated proposition to adr
women to membership and urged ta1
ZION Of church nroDartv.