Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1903-08-14
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, Most
Likely to Prove Interesting to Our
Many Readers.

lauO oI VuaIIlnlQuo.
Oil will be used in the Oregon City
paper mills for fuel instead of wood.
The entire North Atlantic squadron
will go to Oyster Bay to be reviewed by
the president.
A large amount of counterfeit token
money has been made in Portland and
is being passed in California.
The National building trades council
has endorsed William r. Hearst as its
choice for United States president.
The British immigration commits
sioner favors the passage of laws similar
to those in force in the Uni ed States
Eighty-four bodies of victims in the
Paris train wreck have been recovered
and the death list is expected TO reach
100. | @E
Macedoninas deny the stories of
atrocities and hold that Turkey is
spreading them to poison the mind of
Europe.
A Portland firm has been awarded
the contract of reconstructing the Port.
land postoffice. The work is to be fin
ished in Il months.
The interstate commerce commission
has received replies from number of
railroads to charges recently filed al
leging discrimination in rates. They
one and all admit the excessive charges
ing to do about it.
General Miles declares for small
armies tor all nations.
Supporters of the Irish land bill be-
lieve its passage is now assured.
The finishing touches are being put
on Shamrock III prior to the big races.
Thirty-three more bodies have been
taken from the Hanna, Wyoming
mine.
The Casino gambling house. one of
the most notorious in France, has been
destroyed by fire.
The international typographical un-
ion has commenced it's 49th annual ses-
sion at Washington.
Penny postage rates between Great
Britain and the United States are
deemed impracticable.
A Kansas woman lost a hustle en-
train containing $500. Railroad de-
tectives found it for her.
The Canadian Pacific railroad has
declared dividend of ~ per cent for
the six months just ended.
1e laI~ 10
have given up their strike. Over lO,-
900 have returned to work.
Grain field fires near Bakersfield,
CAL, have destroyed thousands OF
acres of wheat and pasture.
Three thousand men have gone on a
strike at Cripple Creek, Colo, in order
to stop shipments to smelters refusing
to grant 8-hour days.
The insurrectionary movement in
Macedonia is spreading.
Cruelty of mobiles to their American
wives will force many to ask tor di-
vorces.
Chinese of New York have Pc
titioned Secretary Hay to sase the re-
formers.
Senator Morgan says, Foraker and
not Roosevelt, will be the republican
nominee for president.
Safe crackers blew open safe with
in two blocks of the police station at
Portland and secured $3.50.
The pope gave his blessing to the
world from inside and not from the
balcony as was hoped by many.
Captain Charles J. Barclay, of the
Puget sound navy yard, is now ranking
officer on the list of navy captains.
A Hattiesburg, Miss, mob chiseled
into the Jail, secured the negro who
shot jailer, and then hanged him.
President Roosevelt and Secretary
Root did not eulogize Miles because
they felt that he was not deserving OF
praise.
A tornado swept the mining Edistrict
of Pittsburg, Kan, killing four,
wounding so and doing great damage
to property.
Lieutenant General Miles has re-
tired.
Roosevelt is in favor CT more elias
tic currency.
Bulgaria will be neutral in the Mace
donia trouble.
Fire at Barcelona, Spain. rendered
5000 families homeless and destitute.
Mere Russians have been killed by
troops in labor troubles.
Mayor Tom L. Johnson. of 1Cleve-
land, Ohio, will be candidate for gov.
ernor.
Foreign consuls will not allow the
delivery of reformers to China for ex-
ecution.
Cape Colony will not be represented
at the 1904 fair as was originally the
intention.
An insane man has been killed by