Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-06-12
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.
Cuba is arranging for a consulate a
Monterey, Mexico.
Franchises in South Africa are to b
restricted tc white British subjects.
A St. Louis street car accident result
ed in 8 people being shaken up ant
bruised.
Piece by piece the $500, 900 mansio,
of John M. Longyear is being movet
from Marquette, Mich, to Brookline
Mass.
Desperate resistance against arrest
by two alleged murderers on a Chicago
street car threw the passengers into 6
panic.
The May statement of the London
board of trade shows decrease of ST..
$1,000 in imports and an increase oi
$7,475 500 in exports.
Tugging between the shafts of the
taken because he was beating it. Alton
80 de Lucia, an Italian peddler, fell
dead in a street in Brooklyn.
George D. Widener, wealthy Phila-
del elphia man, left a large number of
valuable diamonds in a London hotel
in the haste of packing, and did not
discover his loss until New York GUS
tom officials examined his baggage.
All Mormons have been ordered to
leave Germany.
Socialists threaten to make trouble il
the czar visits Rome.
The food at St. Louis has placed 200
people in grave peril.
President Roosevelt has ordered a
thorough investigation of the postal
scandals.
Torrential rain at Spartanburg, S. c.,
rcauesd 80 deaths and property losses of
millions.
Secretary Root is being doomed for
the Republican nomination for governor
of New York.
The forest fires in the Adirondack
mountains have been subdued. The
losses are estimated at 81, 100000
Two men were killed and two fatally
injured on hand car that was run
down by train near Genoa, Neb.
A report from the census director of
the Philippines places the Christian
population of the islands at 1000, ,000.
The Union Pacific boiler men at
Cheyenne, Wyo., have had their re-
quests granted and will return to work.
King Edward and Queen Alexandra
will pay visit to Ireland June 81.
Fire destroyed the business portion
of New Lisbon, Wis.,; loss, 100000
Fire in the plant of Philadelphia
dress suit case company caused los. of
$50,
The wheat importers of Lisbon have
formed trust which takes in all the
mills of Portugal. ..
Glasgow, Scotland, capitalists have
formed company to make shipments
of bananas from Jamaica to New
Orleans.
Strife between the Baptists and the
Methodists at Rochester, Minn., has
resulted in the blowing up of the form
er church.
On the charges of insolvency and
mismanaegment, receiver is asked for
the Campeche lumber and development
company, 100000 corporation
dealing in Mexican timber lands.
Robbers rifed the safe of bank at
Vista, Mimi, of SAT, 90.
Roumaniaa is considering steps to
Keep Americans out of its ell fields.
The Lander Rawlins, Wyo., stage
was held up and the mail sacks ri6ed.
The Acre rebellion is at an end and
the chiefs have promised obedience to
Brazil.
Fire has destroyed the $50, 1000 plant
of the Midland manufacturing company
at Tarkio. Mo.
The Mississippi capitol building.
.erected at a cost of 81 ,OOO, 900, has
been formally dedicated.
A treaty will be signed by the United
States and Brazil for the admission of
American -four into Brazil.
The great state pawpbroking estab-
lishment at Rome has been gutted by
fire, and damage of 81, 400. 900 done.
Two large whales which pursued
schools of mackerel find themselves i'm
prisoned in the Bras dor lake, Cape
Brenton.
- Ottumwa, Ia, suffered a loss OF
-$4OO, 900 by fire. A large planning mill,
a printing establishment and ten resi-
,dences were burned.
The laundry workers strike at Chi
.cago is still far from settled.
The unofficial announcement is made
that the Goulds have secured control of
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad.
g.. The worst of the flood is over at st.
Louis, but thousands of people are still