Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-29
EVENTS OF THEDAY
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
TWO HEMISPHERES.
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week,
Presented i'm Condensed Form, Most
Likely to Prove Interesting to Our
Many Readers.

The strike OF Havana dock laborers
has ended.
Another street car strike is threaten
ed at Chicago.
Ex Governor George HoadIey, of
Ohio, is dead.
Official reports show the continuance
OF good crop weather.
Nome and the outside world will be
connected by telegraph by April next.
Edward G. Boyce of Denver has been
nominated by Colorado Socialists for
Governor.
Brigham Young, president of the
apostles of the Mormon church is re-
ported seriously ill.
Secretary Shaw has rescinded the
order of ex-Secretary Gage for the pur-
chase of bonds at stated prices.
Miss Julia Lamont, daughter of
Daniel S. Lamont. ex-secretary of war,
died at her fathers cottage at Sorrento,
Maine, Tuesday.
Christiania, Norway, is suffering
from hard times, which may result in
a crisis unless industrial conditions
improve before long.
Peter S. Hoe, the last surviving
original member of the original firm of
r. Hoe & Co., manufacturers of print
ing presses, is dead at Upper Mont
clair, N. j. Mr.. Hoe was born in
New York 81 years ago.
M. Combe, the French premier, is to
resign.
Rossland, B. c., has been visited by
$75, 900 fire,
Third district California Republicans
have renominated Coombs for congress.
King Edward has gone on cruise to
Scotland. The time of his return is in
definite.
Parcels post arrangements have been
concluded between this country and
England.
John G. Bullitt, prominent Phila-
delphia attorney, closely identified
with public affairs, is dead.
Great veins Of rich iron ore are re-
ported to have been discovered at
Vadso, in the province of Tromsoe,
Norway.
Experiments in wireless telephoning
have been successfully carried on be-
tween Sassnitz and Kolberg, Germany,
a distance of los miles.
The funeral of General Franz Sigel
was held in New York Sunday. For
three hours the body lay in state, and
fully 10000 people filed past and
viewed the remains.
The Ohio Legislature has convened in
special session to enact laws to pro-
vide for the government of municipal
tiles and to restore lost jurisdiction to
the supreme court, these matters hav-
ing been rendered chaotic by the action
of that court during the early summer.
An edict has been issued in China
ordering that the murder of an English
missionary named Lewis and an Aus
tralian missionary named Bruce, be
punished. The government expresses
great regret at the occurrences and
promises to make reparation.
Practically all the coronation visitors
have left London.
Insurgents are reported to be still
making progress. in Colombia.
The American Can company will
erect great plant in Portland.
Professor jerks, the special commits
sioner, says our trade standing in the
Orient is excellent.
The rumor that Archbishop Ireland
will be made cardinal in the near fu-
ture has been revived.
Five gubernatorial candidates are
striving for favor of the Republican
state convention of California.
The sultan has issued an imperial
order commanding that the demands
made by the United States be conceded.
In the naval maneuvers off the Mas
sachusetts coast the attacking squadron
was destroyed" by the defending
fleet.
Charles L. Fay has been arrested at
Portland and taken to Wisconsin,
charged with obtaining money under
false pTetenses.
Chicago messenger boys are on
strike.
A thousand more Boer prisoners have
lust sailed from st. Helena to South Al
rica.
The anthracite coal mine operators
declare they will not give in or make
any concessions.
E. H. Hartman, president of the
Southern Pacific road, is to be elected
president of the Wells Fargo Express
company.
Reports from Simla, British India,
state that the plague mortality in thal
country is increasing at the rate of
1000 weekly.
The Staakburger Zeitung says Cen
eral Won Gossler, Prussian minister of
war, has resigned his post. He was ap-
pointed in 1896.
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw, in
a speech at Morrisville, VT, alleged
that he wss not opposed to tariff revis-
ion in moderation.