Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-01-30
EVENTS OF THE DAY
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
TWO HEMISPHERES..
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week,
Presented in Condensed Form, Most
Likely to Prove Interesting to Our
Many Readers.
Wilhelm Jordan, the poet, died sud-
denly at Baden Baden

Denly at Baoen-Baden.
A bulletin from Boston states thai
ex-secretary of the Navy Long shows
a slight Indication of pneumonia.
The conference of printing trades
unions at indianapolis reached an
agreement to federate under central
body.
The widow of Theodore H. Fajardo
has been awarded $4,000 for the
death-of her husband in the New York
Central tunnel accident.
The Mexican tobacco and cigarette
corporation, o. Trenton, N. j., incor-
porated two weeks ago, with an author.
zed ciapital of 100000, has filed pa
pers increasing its capital stock to $l2.-
900, 900.
Four men robbed the Citizens bank
of Waterloo, Ia, and escaped with
$500 in cash, exchanging fusillade
with dozen citizens as they drove
away in stolen buggy.
Major Lewis B. Lawton, of the judge
advocate. generals department, has
been retired on account Of disabilities
received during the Chinese campaign.
He was promoted prior to retirement,
in recognition of his gallantry.
A witness in the murder trial of Will
liam Hooper Young, in New York, says
he has received an anonymous letter
threatening him with death if he testi-
fies. 1t contains excerpts from the
blood atonement doctrine of the Nor
mon church.
An American steamer has been
s ecked on the Welsh coast.
The plague at Mazatlan, Mexico, con-
tinues to claim four to eight victims
daily.
Oregon 'ssdelay in recommending ir.
rigation schemes may lose her share OF
the funds.
A mob at New Orleans burned a
Nergo at the stake who had shot and
killed a sheriff.
A new freight rate has been estab-
lished between the Pacific coast and
Shanghai, China.
President Roosevelt has appointed
Judge William R. Day, of Canton, o.,
to a seat on the supreme bench OF the
United States.
The governor of Minnesota has ex
pressed himself in favor of the Lewis
and Clark fair and says he will do all
in his power for it.
The new high school building at
Bloomington, ILL.,, has been destroyed
by fire. Loss, $530,000. 1t was one
of the finest school buildings in the
state.
A question has been raised in con-
gress as to the power of the Colombian
minister, Thomas Herran, to sign the
canal treaty for his country. The
Colombian constitution says congress
must act.
The food at the headwaters OF the
Willamette are subsiding, but along
the lower river they are still raising.
Much damage has already resulted and
more may follow.
The coal strike commission has near
ly completed it's work.
The trialgof Major Glenn is nearly
over and it is likely the court will
acquit him.
Marconi will charge one cent word
for the transmission of wireless>mes-
sages across the ocean.
Teller has been elected to congress
by Colorado Democrats, but the Repub-
licans will not oppose it.
The house has passed the agricul-
tural bill. It carries an appropriation
of $500, 900 for free seeds.
The coal miners convention, in ses-
sion at Indianapolis, voted down
proposition to endorse socialism.
Bowen is confident that he will soon
be able to reach satisfactory terms
with Great Britain and Germany.
Senator Mitchell was i'll for several
days the latter part of lastaweek and
unable to attend to his routine duties.
Great Britain has entered protest
against the Cuban reciprocity treaty,
claiming it will hurt the sugar indus
thy.
Ting Fuh Slang has been proclaimed
emperor of China in opposition to the
present ruler and will begin war to
kill off all foreigners.
After three years. delay, the treaty
providing for the fixing of the Alaskan
boundary, has been signed by the
United States and Great Britain.
Severe earthquakes shook South
Carolina and Georgia.
Governor Chamberlain has signed
the Portland charter bill.
Germans say Venezuelans began the
recent fight at Fort San Carlos.
A driving snow storm in Central
Kansas has demoralized business.
An explosion of dynamite in tunnel
at Pittsburg resulted in four deaths.
A wealthy Jersey City produce merch-
ant was doped and robbed of $11 600.
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