Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-17
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.

rH0 WulCu SIdILSu III IAC SoPAe6A
Hotel at West End summer resort
near New Orleans, La, destroyed that
building and a number of business
houses. The loss is $4,000.
Rocks from a blast at a cutting in
a Bronx, New York City, street, broke
many windows, wrecked a house, in
jured baby and scared woman near
1y to death.
Two Hungarians were killed and two
injured at Pittsburg in belated ex-
plosion of dynamite at the New Mount
Washington tunnel of the West Lib
serty Traction Company.
The Washington theater at Rome, N.
Y, was destroyed by fire. The loss is
between $125,O0 and $150,000, about
half covered by insurance. A score
of people were injured when the walls
of the theater fell.
An anonymous letter, threatening to
burn the town"by fire and dynamite"
unless $2500 is left at designated
place, has caused great excitement at
MONTGOMERY, Ind. There have been
several incendiary fires there lately.
-Four structures in the business part
of Wilmington, Mass, were burned,
entailing loss of $4,000.
The body of Rear-Admiral George
F. Balknap was buried with military
honors at Arlington cemetery.
Brigadier-General Frank D. Baldwin
has taken charge of the Department
of the Colorado, succeeding General
Frederick Funston.
Governor Peabody, of Colorado. has
ordered the members of the Denver
Fire and Police Board to answer
charges of malfeasance and misfeas-
.ance in Office in permitting gambling.
The trial of DIR. Joseph Alexander,
of Indianapolis, on the, charge of
graye-robbing has been indefinitely
postponed, because the Negroes un-
der indictment have refused to testl-
fly against him.
A tornado in the vicinity of Bloc.
ton, Ala, wrecked several houses and
did considerable damage to- farming
property. The towns of Coleanor and
Carney also suffered. No fatalities
were reported.
John Sherman, a guard on the Chi
-cago Elevated railway, was probably
fatally hurt and many passengers
were shaken up and badly frightened
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train jumped the track.
The Mexican Ambassador has in
formed the State Department that
tickets are being sold in this country
for lottery said to be located in
San Luis, Mex, where the Ambassa-
dor says there is no lottery.
John H. Wisker, the engineer on
the New York Central Railroad,
whose train caused the fatal accl
dent in the Park-Avenue tunnel, New
York, in February, 1902, will be tried
for manslaughter. His lawyers Will
try to show that the directors should
have been indicted.
A grain elevator in Chicago, owned
by the Lake Shore e Michigan South
ern Railway, and. used by Churchill
& Co.. grain merchants, burned. To-
tai loss, 100000. Fifteen men were
employed in the structure, but all es-
capped The elevator contained near
1y 10000 bushels of grain.
The democrats of the First Oregon
district have nominated A. E. Reams
for congress.
A colored porter on an Erie Pull
man was found to have the smallpox.
The car was quarantined.
Eight new veins of coal have been
discovered just south of Wilkesbarre,
Pa. With IL veins underneath now
being worked, this makes $50 feet OF
coal. It is estimated there are 300,
100000 tons in this tract, which is
owned by the Delaware, Lackawanna
& Western and Lehigh & Wilkesbar-
re Coal Company.
MonJbloL;o ho cop IF Natal
South Africa, Zulu chief, has been
called from his studies in this country
to assume the chieftaincy. His faith.
er's health ia failing.
immigration. authorities at Winni-
peg, Manitoba, have appealed to the
military for tents to house new set
tiers.
Ten skeletons in receptacles of fiat
stones, uncovered on a farm east OF
Hopkinsville, KY, are pronounced by
Professor Morehead, of Phillips Acad-
emy, those of a race of prehistoric
mound builders.
A pony engine collided with the
rear end of passenger train on the
Lake Shore branch line at Ashtabula,
o. Fireman Bogue, of the pony en-
CINE, was killed, three trainmen were
injured and several passengers more
or less hurt.
The falsework of the Panhandle
bridge, near Pittsburg, which is be
ing rebuilt, caught fire and was part
ly destroyed.
Whitaker Wright claims to be a
citizen of the United States, and says
that the Commissioner who heard his
case il without jurisdiction.
Bruce Marcum, a Jackson, KY.
young man of good family, has, under
the vagrancy law, been sold into SER
vitude for six months. Marcum is SO
ayerse to work that the highest bid
was $3.50.