Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-06-26

y Frost and rain have ruined thousands
of acres of potatoes in Ireland.
Ashes from the volcano Sangay, in
Ecuador, have been falling for several
days.
Three days of rain have helped to
dispel the fears of a crop failure in
China.
q Ex-President Arias, of Spanish Hon
dursa, has been placed in dungeon by
the successful rebel party.
The shipping traffic at Cisnfuegos,
Cuba, is tied up by strike of lighter
men for higher wages.
The large wholesale boot and shoe
firm of Lamkin & Foster. cf Boston,
has been attacked by creditors.
Wall street will make an unceaseless
campaign against the get-rich-quick
concerns centering in that district.
A Chinese mandarin at Linchow has
been executed for high treason, in sup
plying arms and ammunition to rebels.
Ludwig Levoi. formerly mem Der of
the Hungarian diet. has been appoint
ed emigration commissioner for Hun
gary.
The scaffolding of bridge in course
of construction near Rome gave way
with the result that five men were
killed and 20 injured.
A buoy thrown out by the Baldwin
Ziegler polar expedition at Franz josef
land, June IL, 1902, has been picked up
on the northeast coast of Iceland.
The people of Servia take offense at
the new king for promoting assassins.
Whitelaw Reid says the Monroe
doctrine has been carried too far by
patriotic fervor.
Eight cars broke waay at Rawlins,
Wye, and collided with a freight train.
Four men were killed.
Ex-Representative Loud, of Cali
fornia, is placed in an unenviable posi-
tion in new postal scandal.
A Wilmington, DEL, mob burned a
negro at the stake to avenge an assault
upon and murder of q l7-year-laa girl.
Four men were killed and another
fatally injured in wreck on the Mis-.
souri, Paicfc near jefferson City, Mo.
Convicts in the Colorado state peni-
tentiary captured the warden's wife,
and using her as a shield, made des-
perate break for liberty. The two
leaders were killed and the rest cap
tured.
President Diaz, of Mexico, is sure to
be renominiated.
The sultan of Morocco lost 5000 men
in battle with rebels.
Five men were killed in mine ex-
plosion at Blodspurg, N. M.
servia is indignant over the with
drawal of the British minister.
The 1904 supreme lodge A. o. q. W.
will meet at Chattanooga. Tenn.
The amount of relief money received
at Heppner now totals ovet $4,000.
More troops have been sent to Du-
buque, Iowa, to prevent rioting by
strikers.
A tunnel being constructed at Boston
caved in, killing two men and fatally
injuring a third.
One man was killed and another in
jured in Arizona in dispute over cat
tie grazing grounds.
When Prince Henry of Prussia visits
the United States next year he will also
tour the Pacific coast states.
Bolivia has agreed to allow Brazil
until October to settle the Acre dispute.
Wales had tive severe earthquake
shocks, but no great damage was done.
The head camp of Modern Woodmen
has refused to admit Texas and New
Mexico.
Robbers secured $500 in cash and
5000 in stamps by cracking the Colfax,
ILL.,, postof6ce safe.
Careless smoking by miners in Twi-
light, Pa, powder house caused an ex-
plosion which resulted fatally to three
SIavs.
A Connecticut court has made an
order which will make it possible for
the final link in the New York-Boston
trolley line to be completed.
Mrs. Sam Bailey, of st. Louis, and
daughter and son were mysteriously
murdered. They we're poor, and
motive for the crime is hard to find.
The 18th Eastern conference of the
Young Women's Christian Association
will be held under the auspices of the
American committee at Silver Bay on
Lake George, June 26-July 20.
New complications are feared in the
territory of Acre.
Kansas City, Mo-, freight handlers
have struck for 25 per cent increase
of wages.
The Chicago University proposes to
expend 100000 for buildings and
land for secondary schools.
The Spanish budget for 1904 esti-
mates the expenditures at $193, ,600,-
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