Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-10-24
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.

A Texas mob overpowered officers in
a court and lynched two Negroes.
General Miles was robbed in Homo
lulu of his valise containing iewelry
and other valuables.
Boilermakers in the Wabash shops at
Springfield, ILL.,. have gone on strike
for an increase in wages.
George Smith, colored, on trial in
Portland for numbering his wife, has
been found guilty of murder in the first
degree.
At the official trial of the monitor
Wyoming, she showed speed of 124
knots, one knot more than was called
for in the contract.
The statement of the collections of
internal revenue for September show a
decrease of $1,71S,77O, as compared
with the same month of 1901.
Venezuela is again at outs with Great
Britain. 1t is alleged the latter agreed
to put down the rebellion if she were
given 80 per cent reduction of GUS
toms on goods going into Venezuela.
The secretary of the interior holds
that in all homestead entries made of
lands embraced in the former Siletz
Indian reservation, three years actual
residence must be proven before patent
issues.
The Irish Nationalists created an
other disorder in the British house of
commons.
The Molineux jury has been COM
pleted and the state is offering its side
of the evidence.
Representative G. A. Russell, .of
Connecticut, is critically ill and his
recovery is not expected.
An electric light wire st arted a fire
in Helena, Montana, which destroyed
$45, 900 worth of property.
A Big Four passenger train ran into
an open switch IA miles north of Co.
lumbus, Ohio, fatally injuring several
persons.
The National W. G. T. u, in session
at Portland, Maine, passed resolution
condemning the character of advertise
ments placed on bill boards.
Two persons were killed and 15 in
jured in railroad wreck at Herne,
Texas. The accident occurred at
crossing, two trains meeting.
Matthew Fl. Money, pioneer news
paper man of the Pacific coast, died in
Oakland, aged 20 years. At different
times he conducted several papers in
different parts of Washington.
Railway-switchmen of St. Paul and
Minneapolis have given notice of de-
mand for higher wages and shorter
hours. They will strike if the raise is
not granted.
British army officers say the Ameri-
can horses are far better for cavalry use
than any other they can obtain.
Two convicts in the Leavenworth,
Kan, federal prison filed off their
shackles and were about to escape when
discovered.
The treasury department has asked
for offers of property for sale in New
York for use to erect the new postoffice
building on.
Ocean vessels sailing from Atlantic
ports are being delayed somewhat on
account of their inability to secure
coal promptly.
Sanitary conditions in the Philip
pines are rapidly improving. Cholera
has been gotten under control and is
rapidly dying out.
France is facing serious labor situ-
alton. Every union man in the nation
may be called out TO gain q univei sal
eight hour day and an old age pension.
DR.. William H. Bates. we'll known
Nes York physician, who disappeared
last August, has been found in London.
He SAYS his mind has been practically
q blank since that time and he did not
know his own identity.
The execution of Murderer Belding
will take place at Portland October 81
The Haytian rebellion is at an end
by the submission of the revolutionists.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw has
announced that he will buy $50 ,000, ,00C
CT 1925 bonds.
The goth annual convention of the
National W. G. T. U. is in session al
Portland. Maine.
A new panel of $50 ta!esmen ha:
been called to secure the jury for the
trial of Roland B. Molineux.
A collision between two trains il
Ohio resulted in both engines being de
molished and 20 persons injured.
Sir Thomas Lipton's challenge t.
race for the America's cup has been re-
eeived by the New York yacht club.
The principal issue before the min
ers' convention will be provision TO
men thrown out of work by the reten
tion of nonunionists.
The grand jury found an indictmen
for murder in the first degree agains
William Hooper Young, who is unde
arrest at New York for the killing Q
Mrs. Anna Pulitzer.