Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-15
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
J. 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.
Richard Henry stoddard, the vel
known poet, is dead.

Armenlans are again on the marc
and more massacres are expected.
The United sttaes may reopen nego
tiations to secure the Nicaragua cana
route.
Forest fires in Pennsylvania are de
stroying thousands of dollars worth o
fine timber.
The recent British victories ado
100, 900 square miles of territory tt
King Edwards possessions.
A committee from the Lick observa.
tory in California has selected site fol
an observatory near Santiago de Chile
Work on the new $40, 900, 900 term.
inal grounds of the New York Central
will be begun June IL, and 100 ad.
jacent New York residences will be va
Gated by that time.
The Cuban senate ia considering a
proposition for government lottery as
substitute for the taxes levied on
sugar, tobacco, etc., under the new
SOLDIERS pay" law.
Union men in Omaha have secured
a sweeping injunction over the business
men. They are prevented from declar-
ing boycotts, meeting to conspire
against strikers or from discriminating
against dealers selling them goods.
The powers have warned Turkey not
to modest Bulgaria.
Employees of the Great Northern rail-
way have voted to strike.
China has broken off discussion with
America of treaty opening Manchurian
ports.
Suit for 81, ,OOO, 900 back taxes has
been fled against the Southern Pacific
by the state of Kentucky.
Scarlet fever has broken out among
the 1900 men on the receiving ship
Columbia at the New York navy yard.
Two persons were killed and one SER
iously injured at Hartford, Conn.,, by an
explosion resulting from the boiling
over of whale oil.
The monitor Arkansas will be unable
to proceed on her trip down the Missis-
sippi until next spring. unless there is
an unexpected rise in the river.
The secretary of agriculture has
raised the stock quarantine, declared
for foot and mouth disease, which has
been in effect since November 27.
st. Peters Catholic church, at
Lowell, Mass, IL years in building,
has been dedicated. 1t is one. of the
most magnificent churches in the state.
The largest contract ever undertaken
to prevent the pollution OF New York; 8
city watershed is now under way, and
consists of removing more than 10000
bodies from three cemeteries.
The situation in the Palkan states
grows more serious.
Admiral Cervera. of Spain, has been
gazetted life senator.
The Wisconsin assembly has passed
bill to prohibit bucket shops in that
state.
diplomatic rupture between the
United States and Turkey has been
narrowly averted.
Owing to the discovery of bubonic
plague at Callao, the princiapl markets
of Lima have been closed.
Twenty.seven letters from William
Penn's voluminous correspondence sold
at auction brought 81, 2,SS2.50.
The yacht America, the first winner
of the Americas cup, is to be broken
up because she is no longer seaWorthy.
She was built in 1851. -
The Western insurance company, :
with headquarters at Louisville, Ken
tucky, will go out of business on ac-
count of oppressive taxation.
George Walls, a missing Pittsburg
boy, ia now alleged to have been kid
mapped, and reward of $40, 900 for in
formation ABOUT him is offered.
The plant of thee Mill Greek valley
distilling company at Cincinnati was
damaged $75, 900 by fire and an en-
ploye probably fatally injured.
The theft of $40, 900 in jeweIry and
silver from August Belmont has been
placed at the door of one of his serv-
ants, George Reynolds. The property
was recovered.
The board of agriculture has pro-
hibited the importation into Great
Britain of animals from Argentina and
Uruguay on and after May IL, owing
to the existence of foot aud mouth dis
ease in those republics.
The new French airship has proven a
great success.
Japan is all ready for war with Rus
sia if necessity demands it.
John Czolgosz, brother of the muir
derer of Mckinley, was placed under
arrest at Les Angeles and kept in Jail
while President Roosevelt remained in
town.
Estimates of the 1908 wheat crop
place the output at 100000, 900 for Ore
gon, Washington and Idaho. There is
large increase in the acreage of barley
and oats.