Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-07-17
EVENTS OF THE DAY
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
TWO HEMISPHERES.
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week,
Presented I'm Condensed Form, Nest
Likely to Prsve Interesting to Oar
Many Readers.


FERussian encroachments on Chin
bring the crisis nearer.
Secretary Root says army officer
must not assign their pay. ~-
The Jewish petition is now in tn,
hands of President Roosevelt.
secretaryERoot will resign next fall
and Oliver is slated to succeed him.
: A monument is to be erected at Prov.
incetown, Mass, where the Mayflowel
landed in 1920.
According to the latest advices Cas-.
. tro now has the upper hand in the Ven
-ezuelan trouble.
The battleship Kearsarge is to make
record trip across the Atlantic tc
show what can be done.
Nearly /, ZOO coalminers at Ardena,
Ohio, have gone on strike because ol
difficulties with foreigners in the mines
there.
It is said that Cleveland will declare
himself candidate for the presidential
nomination at banquet in Chicago in
October. '-
Conductors and brakemen on the
Illinois Central have been granted an
increase in wages that will add over
$200,0 900 to the annual payroll.
A collision between passenger and
: freight trains on the Great Western,
near Savannah, Mo-, resulted in the
death of one person and the injury of
20 others.
Cyclones on the Ereneh Island of
Tonquin caused $50 deaths.
Colonel R. s. Oliver, of Albany, N.
Y, has been appointed to succeed San
ger as assistant secretary OF war.
u A score or more of Christian En-.
deavorers we're injured by wind wreck
ing the big convention tent at Denver.
Associate Justice Brewer, of Wiscon-
sin, says every man who participates
in lynching or burning of negroes is q
murderer.
The Dublin council has voted not to,
present the king with an address of,
welcome on the occasion of his visit
there shortly.
British firms in the Philippines say
the new law allowing no freigners un-
der contract admitted will drive them
out of business.
>" Three men were killed, two serious
ly injured and three buildings des-
troyed by an explosion at the Latin
powder works, Latin, Pa.
The naturalization of 80 Russians
and Italians has been set aside by q
New York Judge as fraudulent. Sever
al hundred more will be declared void.
The St. Louis fail commissioner has
returned from the Philippines and
says the exposition has the promise of
many fine attractions from the islands.
Judge Parker's icy manner on his
visit to the South was death blow to
his presidential candidacy and Demo.
Gratis are now looking for other mater
iaI.
The Pacific Nrothwest will produce q
record crop of prunes.
Chinese intrigue in Corea makes
Japan more determined for war.
4 Kentucky Republicans will nominate
Morris B. Belknap for governor.
The next congress will be asked to
make an appropriation Tor national
art gallery.
United States Judge George Gray, of
Delaware, is the latest Democratic can
sdidate for president,
The Western federation of miners has
issued an appeal for help in fighting
for an eight hour day.
Russia regards the stand OF the Unit
ed States on the Manchurian question
with surprise and resentment.
An attempt was made to blow up the
home of Judge R. T. Miller, of Iron
Mountain, Mich, with dynamite.
One of the leaders in the assassina-
tion of the late king of Servia has been
promoted to place in the war depart
-ment.
Pension Commissioner Ware has
ordered Agent Terry to come to Oregon
to collect Indian war rolls, 80 all veter-
:ans can get pensions.
81. D. Watson, of Pittsburg, who has,
for the past two months, been prepar-
ing brief in the Alaskan boundary
acase, has finished his work and sailed
for London.
Italians are betting on who will be