Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-24
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.

TO meet each Otn6r ana a DaJtlo Is ike
1y to occur soon.
The government will not improve
the Siuslaw river in Oregon, because
the cost would be too great.
Boxer troubles in Southwest China
are growing. French troops may in
tervene to stop the trouble.
The Trigg shipbuilding company, of
Richmond, Va, has failed. The total
indebtedness is about s. ,250, 900.
Insurgent and Turkish forces con-
tinue. to fight. In the last battle 80
insurgents and nine Turks were killed.
The general manager of the Great
Northern and committee of trainmen
will meet and discuss wages. A peace
ful settlement is likely.
Benson, the murderer, has been con-
victed of manslaughter.
An armed band of ladrones has reap
peared in Rial province.
The Twenty-thId regiment has left
dhe Philippines for San Francisco.
White Springs, summer resort near
st. Louis, was wrecked by tornado.
Astronomers are talking of forming q
combination in order to facilitate their
work.
It. is said on good authority that
William <. Vanderbilt will marry
again.
A storm in Germany unroofed build
.-ings, tore down telegraph wires and did
much other damage.
Two prisoners in the Utah peniten-
tiary engaged in a fight which will
prove fatal to both.
Fire in, Butte destroyed much valua-
BILE property and for time endangered
she lives of 200 persons.
Commander Underwood, of the gum
asoat Wheeling, says the report of the
Somoan hurricane was overdrawn.
A mad dog.in Morristown, N. J., bit
$50 town dogs. Under orders from
the mayor 1000 dogs have been de-
sstroyed-
Captain Edward Gatfeld, who mys-
terousiy disappeared in Cleveland last
summer, has been found in Littleton,
Colo. He wrote home that he was ill.
DIR. Lowry, secretary of the Kansas
state board of health, has reported
that the disease in Rice county, Kan
sas, thought to be bunonic plague, is
smallpox.
As the result of collision between
an interurban car and an automobile at
indianapolis, Ind, DR.. Charles How
ard, of. ST., Paul, Ind, was killed and
Richard Rice, Of Indianapolis badly in
iured.
In the purchase TO 33 acres OF land at
Indiana harbor, Lake county, Ind, the
Illinois steel company has secured q
site for the proposed 5000, 900 Port
land cement manufacturing plant.
The capacity will be 1000 barrels a
day.
Cracksmon wrecked the vault and
safe of the Allen state bank, at Allen,
Kan, and escaped with $500. At
Admire, another small town a few
miles east of Allen, the postofice was
broken into and small amount of
money taken.
Woodburn, N. J., National Bank Of
ficials say a man deposited $500,
Learly all in $40 gold pieces, that had
aain buried in his back yard for years.
Burton Parker, sorter in the Chi
cago Postoffice, has been arrested on
the charge of robbing the. mails. He
confessed. He is supposed to have Sc
cured $500.
General j.. c.. Bates, the new COM
mander of the Department of the
Lakes, has arrived at Chicago. Gen.
sral Sumner succeeds him as COM
mander of the Department of the Mis-
souri,.
Passenger train No. 4, on the North
ern Pacific, ran into freight on sid
ing at station 12 miles west of Dick
inson, N: d, Fireman Gleason was
killed and the engineer injured. A
switch had been left open.
The recent high tides at Coney Is
land, NJ Y, burst through the Bright
on Beach bulkheads, and the inrush-
ing waters flooded the cellars and de-
stroyed the work of the gardeners at
Brighton Beach Hotel. The waves
rose as high as 20 feet.
An immense flow of oil was struck
at 1900 feet in well at Hartford, o.,
in new territory.
The big bronze statue of Atlas,
which has stood on the fourth floor of
the old Times building, Chicago, for
more than a third of century, and
which was placed in the structure by
Wilbur F. Storey, has been stolen.
The statue weighed more than ton.
"A Chicago man proposes to capture
Eavana's stray dogs, use them as bait
for sharks in the harbor, and when
sufficient are gathered, blow them up
with dynamite The Havana Munich
pal Council pays So for each female
shark destroyed, and So for each male.
There's millions in it."