Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1902-03-28
EVENTS OF THE DAY
FROM THE FOUR QUARTERS OF
THE WORLD.
Comprehensive Review Of the important
Happenings Of the Past Week. Presented
in q Condensed Form, Which Is Most
Likely to Prove Of interest to Our Many
Readers


Readers
A force of Laguna rebels has sur
rendered.
Cuba will be turned over to the Cub
ans May 20.
There have been 40 cholera cases and
80 deaths at Manila.
e A st. Joseph, Mo-, man is under ar
rest for having 13 wives.
Emperor Williams new yacht, the
Meteor, will be ready to cross the ocean
in few days.
Two men, Charged with grand lar
ceny, sawed their way out of a Mon
tana Jail and escaped.
President-elect Palma, of Cuba, is
confident that the career of the new re-
public will De successful.
Judge w. Van Devanter, of Chicago,
has been prominently mentioned as a
successor to Secretary of the Interior
Hitchcock.
The senate is working on the oleo-
margarine bill.
An Alabama negro was lynched for
the assault of a little white girl.
An agent of the Southern China reb-
els has arrived in this country to buy
arms.
Governor General Wood, of Cuba, is
being talked of as successor to Cen
eral Miles.
An ex-premier of Japan says his
country is not going to have any trouble
with Russia.
A Kansas postoffice robber has been
captured on the Pacific coast after
chase ofSover 5000 miles.
The mineworkers association of Penn
sylvania has issued an ultimatum, and
if it is not accepted by the mine owners
a repetition of the 1900 strike will oc.
cur in the anthracite region.
A man has been arrested in Wiscon-
sin for burglary who confesses that he
is an anarchist and that he tied the
handk erchief over the hand of Czolgosz
Just prior to the shooting OF Mckinley.
Cholera has broken out at Manila.
A coal miners strike in Virginia and
West Virginia is probable.
A hardware trust has been formed
with capital of $50, O,OO0,0 900.
A combine is being formed in New
York which, if completed, will control
the entire nickel output of the world.
The new Chinese exclusion bill con-
tains clause which will prevent China
from participating in the St. Louis
fair.
The Canadian Pacific freight sheds at
Winnipeg were burned, together with
all freight records for the past % years.
Loss, $15O,OoO.
The senate passed the war revenue
repeal bill.
The house has passed the rivers and
harbors bill.
President Roosevelt will retire Gen.
Miles in the near future.
The bill for the protection of the
president has passed the senate.
The anthracite coal miners of Penn
sylvania have demanded an eight houl
day.
Another delay in the ratification oi
the Danish treaty by the Danish gov
ernment has been brought about by the
opposition.
Large holdings in the Rock Island
have been purchased by the Hartman
interests and now that road will not bt
extended to the coast.
An inventory of Coils P. Hunting
toms estate shows it to be worth abou
s29, 10000
William ]. Bryan celebrated his 42e
birthday by moving onto his farm nea
Lincoln, Neb.
Anthracite coal miners Of Pennsyl
vania are on the eve OF another strike
The trouble is over the wage scale.
Governor Brady, of Alaska, has aske
congress to appropriate $100,0 900 wit
which to represent Alaska at the 81
Louis exposition.
A resolution has been introduced i
the. senate thanking Rear Admirs
Kempff for refusing to join the allie
forces in the bombardment of the fort
at Taku, China.
1t is understood that the president
considering the appointment Of ex-ser
ator Wolcott, of Colorado, to succee
Secretary of the Interior Hitchcocl
who will retire from the cabinet.
Fire on the Hoboken, N. j., waite
front caused loss of 81 900, 900.
Ex-President Cleveland celebrate
his 65th birthday on the 18th inst.
First Assistant Postmaster Gener
johnson has resigned on account OF po
health.
The Porte Warned.
London, March 22.-1n dispat'