Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-05-29
EVENTS OF THE DAY
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
TWO HEMESPHERES.
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week,
Presented in Condensed Form, Most
Likely to Prove Interesting to Our
Many Readers.

the national irrigation fund.
The general Presbyterian assembl
strongly denounces Mormonism.
Liberals will try to force Britain tt
show her hand on preferential tariff
Russia has taken steps to punisl
those taking part in the Jewish mas
sacree.
The Brotherhood of Railway Train
men has voted to increase it's strike
fund to 100000.
In fight with insurgents on the Is
land of Cebu, the American soldiers
killed 68 rebels and captured 29.
The man who forged j. Pierpont
Morgan's name for large sums OF
money in Londan has been arrested
Five Chinese were captured at Buff
falo, N. Y, while trying to make their
way into the United States from Can
ada.
A gas explosion in a coal mine near
Pittsburg resulted in the death of four
men and the serious injury of two
others.
Two Italians were killed and 18 in
jured in a collision between freight
train and several box cars at Colum-
bus, Ohio.
Frost has done great damage to gar
den truck about Manchester, N. H.
Chambers has caused the death of a
colored stableman at Newark, N. J.
The contract has been let for rock
with which to extend the Columbia
river jetty.
After burning two months, the fire
at the Glace Bay IN. s. colliery has
been put out.
Navy Department will order-no more
ships to Bremerton naval yard until
brothels are closed.
Five electric shocks were necessary
to cause the death of A. Triola, an Ita-
liam murderer, at Sing Sing, N. Y.
Fire destroyed the $4,000 building of
the American Ice Company at Phila-
delphia. and ruined $150,000 worth of
machinery.
Henry Tiernan of st. Joseph, Mo-,
will receive the prize offered by the
King of Denmark for the best poem
on the recent meeting of the Dewager
Empress of Russia and the Queen OF
England
Mark Twain is seriously ill.
The Union Pacific has announced
peace with the boiler makers.
The town of Altman, near Cripple
Creek, was almost entirely destroyed
by fire.
Emperor Francis Joseph will not in
tervene to prevent further bloodshed
in Crotia.
Rear-Admiral Barclay has been or
dered form Boston to the Puget Sound
navy yard.
Fire in a grand stand at Cambride,
Mass, hemmed in the crowd and they
had close call for their lives.
The cup defender Reliance has
proven herself a much better boat
than either the Columbia or the Con-
stitution.
Hannah opposes the endorsement
of Roosevelt by Ohio because he fears
it would injure his chances for re-
election.
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number of others injured.
The anti-dynastic outbreak in Yu-
nan province, China, is serious.
Four were killed and six others in.
jured by Pittsburg elevator break
Ing.
An eastern company has secured
control of all the coast powder fac
tories.
A. w. Machen, deposed postal of
fetal, is now charged with disobey-
ing orders.
Portland was Disseminated against
in letting contracts for carrying Phil
ippine freight.
The Union Pacific Boiler makers
strike has been declared off. Both
sides made concessions.
Russia has assured the United
States that it will help maintain an
open door in the far East.
Count Cassini, Russian ambassador
ct Washington. and Secretary Hay
are receiving large numbers of letters
from cranks.
Mexico will make silver it's coin,
but at fixed ratio. The announce
ment has already caused much for
eign capital to be invested.
The forest fires near Glen Falls, N.
Y, are now under control.
Because CT increased trade with
America, Peru has opened consular
Office in Chicago.
The United Lead company has in
creased it's capital stock from SIS .000,-
900 to $25, 5,000, 900.
The directors of the Bank of Eng
land have reduced the banks rate of
discount from to 81 per cent.
A cyclone in Central Kansas did
much damage to crops and property.
A Chicago bootblack received only
$40 for restoring lost $4,000 bill to
it's owner, whose joy caused him to
faint.
Receivers have been appointed for
the Eastern tupe company, with cap
ital stock of s1.o00,0 900 and general