Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-04-03

gress for the relief of the Philippin
government has been disbursed.
The miners new scale has gone int
effect in almost every state. Advanc
will mean about $35, 100000 NOR
wages this year.
It is probable that the British Colum
bia legislature, which has just con
vened, will take steps to prevent Japan
ese from entering that country.
The San Joaquin river and tributarie,
in California are rising rapidly, bridgeI
have been swept away and great dam
age is reported from several sections.
An agreement has been reached al
Seattle between the street car company
and Its striking employees. and cars are
again running. The differences will be
settled by arbitration.
6. F. Swift. president of the great
beef packing firm, is dead.
German newspapers reply to Dewey
by criticising the American navy.
Eighteen Waterbury, Conn, strikers
have been arrested for deadly assault.
Noah Raby, an inmate of the poor
house of Middlesex county, New ersey,
is 131 years old. He was born at Ea-
tontown, N. j., on April 1, 1772.
William Reilly, a patient in the
Bellevue hospital, New York, has an
incessant laughing spell, which has
lasted FIVE days, and the doctors cannot
explain it..
When Mrs. S. L. McQuown left a
bank at Marion, Ind, with 5000 she
aiIda just drawn the money was stolen
from her pocketbook, which hung from
her belt, by two men who had been
waiting for her.
The title to some ancient Irish gold
ornaments is being contested in the
British courts between the crown and
the trustees of the British museum.
They were plowed up in the Northwest
of Ireland in 1896, and were sold to the
museum for 600 pounds.
Germans are angry at Dewey's criti-
cism of their navy.
Senator Foster declares Pacific coast
man should be selected for vice presi-
dent.
Many people have lost their lives on
account of the last break in the Missis-
sippi levee.
The Cuban senate has ratified the re-
ciprocity treaty on the promise of an
extra session of congress.
Robbers dynamited the safe in the
postoffice at Lake Mills, Winnebago
county, Iowa, securing several hundred
dollars.
At the invitation of the German gov
ernment, a conference with the object
of founding an international seismic as
sociation will be held at Strassburg
from July "a to July %.
It is said that John w. Gates intends
to retire permanently from active par
ticipation in the stock market, and that
in the future he will devote much of
his time as he will spare to business to
those concerns in which he is heavily
interested.
Privileges to construct salt lake of
400 acres near Cape May for seaside
resort have been granted to a company,
which proposes to fill 900 acres extend
ing from Madison avenue, Cape May,
to Sewel's point, and to construct an
inlet to the ocean 30 that sea-going
yachts may have entrance.
A new system OF searching for min
eral ores by the use of the telephone is
being tried at the Teleacaa lead mine,
lin North Wales.
James McNeill Whistler, the Ameii-
can artist, will receive the degree of
doctor of laws at the forthcoming Glas-
Cow university graduation ceremonies.
The Mills & Wright company, of
Boston, one of the oldest printing and
book houses in New England, has made
an assignment. Liabilities SOL ,279,
with assets nominally the same.
Alfred G.. Vanderbilt has visited
Commissioner Strasbourger, of New
York, to whom he explained that most
of his securities were invested in nom
taxable properties not liable for per-
sonal assessment. He showed that he
was liable for assessmsnt on only $780,
600 but he agreed to an assessment on
$3.50, 900.
Judge P. B. Willie, of the Seventh
Iowa judicial district, has just rendered
an important decision regarding the |
power of assessors to assesses taxes on
property in the hands of trust COM
pany as trustee. The court holds such |
property is liable to assessment both |
for county and city taxes.
Siquro, Mexico, is now the only
plague spot in the Mazatlan district.
Russia is trying to negotiate a loan
of 500, 900, 900 with Franco Belgian