Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-08-22
EVENTS OF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF
e.. 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

Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
has just celebrated his I'D birthday.
Patrick Sharp, striking miner, was
shot and killed at Nesquehoning, Pa.
r. Remington, prominent society
man, suicided at Newport, taking the
pistol route.
Cholera continues to spread in Man.
churia, China, and isolated cases have
been reported in Siberia.
Large numbers of Chinese are arriv-
ing in Mexico, and the majority will
probably find their way into this coun-
try.
The New York Ship Building COM
pany has placed an order abroad for
$4,000 tons of manufactured iron aud
steel.
Reports from Victoria, B. c., show
that the total salmon catch of the
northern canneries for the season was
only 145 300 cases.
Two hundred carmen, including car
penters, painters, ETC., employees at the
Union Pacific shops at Omaha, have
:. gone out on strike.
w. H. billiard, wanted by United
States authorities at San Francisco for
issuing 43 fraudulent Chinese certif-
Gates, has been caught in Seattle and
will be sent below.
An examina tion is being made into
the affairs of the defunct Griffin Liquid
Air company of New York, in an effort
. to locate several hundred thousand dol
lars worth of stock.
7. S. Sharretts, the treasury expert
commissioned to negotiate a tariff
treaty with China, reports the same
signed.
The run of fall salmon has begun and
is very good. The fish caught in Bakers
Bay are mostly silversides of exception
ally fine quality.
Baron Won Walterhausen, of Berlin,
advocates the erection of common
tariff barrier against the United States
by all of Europe.
T. Arrangements are being made for
establishing banks in the Philippines
to loan money to farmers, the govern
ment to guarantee 8 per cent interest
Prince Chen Tuen, who has been in
this country for several days, arrived
in Vancouver, B. c., Sunday and sailed |
for home Monday on the steamship |
Empress of Japan.
The body OF Mrs. Jessie Tuman was
found near Muscatine, Iowa, the head
split open with an ak. Her husband |
was mortally wounded and unconscious. |
They were killed for their money.
Grand Master Fitzpatrick of the
Brotherhood of Trainmen has COM
pleted his tour of the anthracite coal
regions and has addressed the brother
hood on their duties should the roads |
attempt to haul non-union coal.
Colonel Hemphill, founder of the At
lapta Constitution, is dead.
The New York Republican state. con-
vention will be held at Saratoga Sept. |
%.
The threatened strike of miners
by compromise.
Senator Burrows of Michigan an
nounces that he will fight reciprocity
with Cuba on constitutional grounds.
The president has ordered that the
list Of soldiers dying in the Philip
pines be telegraphed home every two
weeks.
The government of Venezuela has
forcibly detained three American ves-
sells for government use in the present
rebellion.
The International Typographical
union convention at Cincinnati ad-
iourned Sa nrday, after voting 81 900 |
to the striking miners.
In the athletic sports at Cliftonvile,
England, Murray, the Irish champion,
defeated Duffy, of Georgetown, the
worlds champion, in the 100 yard
dash. Murray's time was 10 seconds
fat.
Prices of iron continue to advance,
with marked activity in all lines.
Agents for the Colombian govern
ment are enlisting men in San Fran
cisco.
leonardo, the most noted Italian
brigand after Mussolino, has been killed
by troops.
, An Eastern syndicate has purchased
tire Omaha street railway stock for
$6,oo0,OOo.
French soldiers are meeting with Sc
rious resistance in their work of clos
ing religious schools.
1t is expected that the miners OF
Kansas, Arkansas and Indian Territory
will strike about September l.
Pitt burg glass workers have received
concessions from their employers of Z
per cent and 5 1000 will go back to work.
Conductors and motormen en- South
Chicago street railway lines have re-
ceived an advance in wages from IL to
81 cents an hour.
The official estimate of the Hunga-
rian wheat yield for the present year is
l66, 1872 900 bushels. This is about
22. 600 900 bushels above the July esti-
mate.