Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-09-19
EVENTS OF THE DAY
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.

Danger from forest fires in Oregon
and Washington is now over.
Speaker Henderson declines to accept
the nomination for congress in Iowa.
Nicholas Fish, we'll known New
York banker, met death in a mysteri-
GUS manner.
Pennsylvania coal operators held a
ending the strike.
Mrs. Waggoner, the woman who dis
covered Merrill's body, has eloped
with the convict's brother.
St. Louis authorities are having much
trouble with packers on account of bad
meat being placed on the market.
The government will supply men to
fight forest fires in Colorado and Wy
oming, where it has got beyond all
control.
The French marine minister made
sensational speech in which he dis-
cussed the results of possible wars with
Germany, Italy and England.
Rockport, small town in Kentucky,
is in the hands of drunken mob.
Citizens are afraid to ask for outside
aid for fear the mob may burn the
town.
The mouth of the Columbia river is
in very bad condition. A sand bar has
formed clear across the entrance and at
no place on it is depth of more than
20 feet to be found at low tide. Four
years ago there were 20 feet of water.
Russia is preparing to evacuate Man
churia.
Explorer Peary has been heard from
in Labrador.
Senator Thomas R. Bard, of Cali.
fornia, is seriously ill.
A heavy frost in Ohio did consid-
erable damage to late crops.
Seventeen men lost their lives by an
explosion in Norfolk, Va, mine.
Fire in coalbunkers at Stockton,
Cal, resulted in 5000, 900 damage.
Yaqui Indians are again causing
serious disturbances in Mexico near
the border.
A locomotive boiler exploded on the
Pennsylvania railway, killing one man
and seriously injuring two.
Reports from Pekin say that Boxers
are again becoming troublesome in
various parts Of the empire.
Twenty-Five villages have been swept
away and 5000 people drowned by
overfowing rivers in India.
Colorado scientists have advanced
the idea that many of the forest fires
are set by meteors falling in the heavy
pine forests.
Crusade against Sisters schools is
again on in France.
New York Republicans have decided
to endorse Roosevelt for 1904.
President Roosevelt his invited seve-
raj senators to confer with him on the
tariff question.
Colombian insurgents are waiting for
arms, when they will attack the 18TH
mus of Panama railroad.
The Venezuelan government has
offered amnesty to revolutionists who
lay down their arms in 40 days.
A conference arranged by Governor
Stone to settle the coal miners strike
in Pennsylvania. ended in a failure.
The Colombian government has pur-
,l>ocal at Son ErQnalacO
which will be fitted out as a war vessel.
Forest fires throughout the North
west continue to cause widespread de-
vastation. The property loss will run
into the hundreds of thousands of dol
lars.
Vanderbilt and Pennsylvania railway
systems have been amalgamated. The
new combination will have a capitalize
alton of g., 900, 900, 900 and mileage
of 80, 900 miles.
Every electric line in Ottumwa,
Iowa, has been tied up by a strike.
A. R. Shepherd, ex-governor of the
District of Columbia, died in Mexico.
The cold wave which struck Colorado
has damaged the potato crop to grea,
extent.
China is disturbed over the determ'
ination of Russia to remain in Man
churia.
The Lake woolen mills at Bridgeton
New Jersey, were destroyed by fire
Loss 100000.
Great Britain has secured an exten'
sion of reciprocity treaties pending with
the United States.
Mrs. William NJ. Stewart, wife O.
Senator Stewart, of Nevada, wal
killed in an automobile accident in Sar
Francisco.
American generals who have beer
witnessing the German war maneuver
have started for home. go
The Beaumont, Texas, oil fire il
under control. The loss will Ieact
$3.50, 900. 1t was caused by the care
lessness of watchman.
The batIleship Oregon. which ha
been undergoing repairs at the Puge
Sound navy ward for the last year, ha