Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-03-13
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.

Many Readers.
The Pennsylvania railroad has added
$3.50, 900 to its capital stock
The ladrones in Rial province have
been scattered and the leaders captured.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
have celebrated their fortieth wedding
anniversary.
Missouri Pacific passenger train No.
8, the Fast Mail, ran into landslide
near Gasconda, Mo-, and the engine
was buried in the mud.
A big find of Eematite iron ore con-
tanning large percentage of metallic
iron and little dross has just been
made in the river hills near Wrights-
vile, Pa.
Henry Roso, the wealthy Cuban
planter, who, it is said, gave the great
er part of his fortune in aid of the
Cuban revolution, is confined in the
Bloomingdale aeylum for the insane.
DR.. Dosang, Chinese doctor and ex-
alted member of various Chinese secret
societies, reputed to be one of the
wealthiest men of his race in this coun-
try, is dead at his home in Chicago.
William De La Berre, director of the
Washburn-Pillsur mills, Minneapolis,
is in Magdeburg, buying machinery for
the Briquette works that w. ID. WASH
burn intends to build at Bismarck, N. D.
Ex-senator Jones, of Arkansas, is
confined to his bed in Washington by
an attack of la grippe.
No more bodies of those drowned in
the ferryboat accident at Spier falls,
N. Y, have been recovered.
The department. of agriculture has
issued an order quarantining the state
of New Hampshire because of the pres
'ence of the foot and mouth disease.
The Missouri senate has passed the
bill prohibiting the sale of cigarettes
and cigarette papers to children under
1s years of age. The same bill has
passed the house.
The North machinery company has
been incorporated at Trenton, N. j.,
with capital stock of s 5 600, 900, and
will manufacture seed and agricultural
machinery of all kinds.
Because of the unprecedented prevail
ence of CHAMBERS among horses in New
York City, quarantine rules may be so
rigidly enforced as to work great incon-
venience to owners, particularly to
those doing heavy trucking business.
Norman Argo, said to have been the
original Uncle Tom, is dead at Paint
Lick, KY, at the reputed age of Ill
years. Argo was born a slave, and te-
longed to General Samuel Kennery, a
wealthy planter of Garrard county and
a former member of the Kentucky leg
ielature.
A snow plow on the Old Colony
street railway, at Fall River. Mass,
became unmanageable at the top of a
steep hill and, dashing down the in
cliLe, crashed into two cars loaded with
passengers. Five persons sustained
bruises and flesh wounds enough to ne
cessitate their being carried to a hos
pital. A dozen others were bruised
and cut.
The Idaho legislature has adjourned.
Senator Mitchell is not improving
very fast.
Minister Bowen is again at work
strengthening up the Venezuelan
trouble.
The new steel cruiser Chattanooga
was launched in the presence OF over
1000 spectators.
Conductors and brakemen on the
Union Pacific have been granted an
increase in wages.
W. R. Merriam, director of the CEN
sus, will resign May Is to 60 into busi-
ness in New York.
The American window glass company
has closed it's plant at Indianapolis.
Four thousand men are affected.
Two trains on the Burlington collided
near Omaha, fatally injuring one pas
senger and three others slightly.
The police of Buffalo are unable to
locate the murderer of Edward L. Bur-
dick. A woman has been arrested, but
there was no evidence against her and
che was released.
Two persons were killed and Is others
injured st Montreal by the collapse of
a building. Several hundred people
had gathered on roof to watch burn
ing steamer and the weight was too
great for the roof.
The new United States monitor Ne
vada has been placed in commission at
the navy yard at Portsmouth, N. 81.
A syndicate composed chiefly of Cleve-
land capitalists is securing options on
almost all the coal mines on the Kama
wha and New Rivers, West Virginia.
Vicar General Mooney is i'll with
grip at his New York residence.
Illinois ranks first among the states
in the manufacture of agricultural I'M
plements, bicycles, cars, glucose and
distilled liquors, and in slaughtering
and meat packing.
By giving to Yale's library an excep-
of Nd