Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-02-21
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.

The senate has passed the Indian ws
veteran pension bill.
One life was lost in the burning of
sanitarium at Battle Creek, Mich.
A bolt factroy at Louisville Ky.. wa
destroyed by fire. Loss, 500, 900.
Fire in a Cleveland, Ohio. roomin
house destroyed $1O0, 900 worth of proT
erty.
A trunk factory at Wyandotte, Mich.
was totally destroyed byifre. Loss
1925 900.
President Roosevelt has been asked t
intervene in behalf of the Boer Com
mandant Kritzinger.
Twenty-six Chicago families ar
homeless as the result of an apartmen
house fire. Loss, 100000.
Lyman J. Gage has been rendered tn
presidency of the United States Trus
Company. He will likely accept.
A dispatch from Paris announces tha
Miss Stone has been liberated. Oficia
notice has not, as yet, been received
Spain is now interested in the con
troversy between European powers al
to which nation prevented intervention
She wants to know who her friends are
A mob lynched a negro in small
town near st. Louis.
An Iowa gambling house was held up
and robbed of $4,000.
A crusade is on in New York against
automobile scorchers.
New York has just experienced the
worst blizzard in IA years.
Death list from Shamaka, Russia,
earthquake numbers 1000.
The senate has ratified the treaty for
the purchase of the Danish West In
dies.
BY the confession of another prison.
er, man in the Colorado penitentiary
for murder has been set free.
Admiral Dewey was asked to dine
with Prince Henry, but had to decline,
owing to the illness of Mrs. Dewey.
The bill to repeal the war taxes was
unanimously passed by the house, every
member voting in favor of it. 1t may,
however, be amended in the senate.
A bill has been introduced in the
senate for the retirement of Naval Con-
structor Hobson. His eyesight has
been very poor for the past two years.
Portland chamber of commerce trus-
tees were severely criticised for their
recent action favoring admission of Chi
nese by mass meeting of 1900 citi-
zens.
Prince Henry is on his way to the
United States.
Fire at Wisdom, Mont, destroyed
$50, 900 worth of property.
Martial law has been declared at
Trieste, Austria, on account of riots.
General Bell has stamped out the re-
belllion in Batangas province, Luzon.
The treaty for the Danish West In
dies will come up in the senate this
week.
Because they could not get whiskey,
three Usage Indians in Oklahoma drank
a copcoction of wood alcohol, vanilla,
cologne and Florida water.
A British force was caught in Boer
trap on the Kip river and two officers
and 10 men killed and large number
wounded before they gained shelter.
FLewis and Clark exposition stock has
been increased to 100000.
The president will announce his de-
cision in the Schley case in a few days.
Representative Tongue has intro
duced a new irrigation bill in the
house.
A company has been incorporated in
California to develop the island of
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Troops have had to be called out in
France to preserve order among striking
leather workers. {
Santos-Dumont's airship burst while
he was making trial, and the inventor ,
had narrow escape from drowning.
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., has passed
the danger point in his sickness. The
president has returned to Washington.
Russia expresses herself we'll pleased v
at the Anglo-Japanese alliance, but a
hopes the United States is not party t
to it. C
Commander Booth Tucker, of the Sal
ration Army, has taken the oath of al
egiance as citizen of the United
States. p
Lord Kitchener made a concentrated a
of all available troops against
Dewet's forces, but the Boer leader =.
to slip through the lines.
Organized laborers to the number of
900 are employed by the diamond
lealers and jewellers of Amsterdam. il
The Tyrol, following the example of .
Norway, is trying to encourage the VIM =
er tourist business by offering better T
for winter sports.
jValletta, Malta, being midway in the b
between Gibraltar and r,
Port Said, imports more than half ic
million tons of coal for the use of pass b
ng vessels. l.