Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-01-08
EVENTSOF THE DAY
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
TWO HEMSPHERES.
Comprehensive Review Of the Import
ant Happenings Of the Past Week,
Likely to Prove Interesting to Our
Many Readers.

Likely to Prove Interesting to Our
Many Readers.
News just received from Japan states
that hostilities have opened between
that country and Russia and that the
war is on in earnest.
| Two-thirds of the Chicago theaters
now closed will probably never be able
to reopen.
Two "Holy Roller apostles were
given coat of tar and feathers by citi-
zens of Corvallis.
The navy department wants 5000
additional enlisted men to man the ves-
sells now completed.
Minister Bunau-Varilla, of Panama,
will resign as soon as the canal treaty
is ratified by the United States senate.
John Redmond, leader of the Irish
parliamentary party, denounces the
present British government as corrupt.
Prince Cupid, delegate to congress
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Washington Jail on account of intoxi-
cation.
Dowie has been looking over Texas
for favorable site for the establish
ment of new Zion, to be called "Eter-
nal City"
Representative Dixon, of Montana,
has introduced a resolution providing
for a wire fence along the Canadian
boundary between Lake of the Woods
/ and Point Roberts. It is the intention
to endeavor the illegal entering of Chi
nese into the United States. The fence
is to be so constructed as to give a sig
nal when any one climbs over it.
Japan is placing large orders for coal
in Wales.
King Edward is reported to be trying
to get the czar to yield to Japan.
Roosevelt has sent message to the
senate defending his Panama policy.
..The conspiracy count in the indict-
ment against Senator Dietrich has been
quashed.
Fire in the Iowa state house partially
destroyed that building. The loss is
placed at $50O,000. .
The supreme court has decided that
Porto Ricans are not aliens and can
freely enter the United States.
The senate committee, by eight to
three, has decided for confirmation of
appointment of Wood as major gen.
eral.
1.-THE president has sent to the senate
the nominations of William H. Taft to
be secretary of war and Luke E. Wright
to be civil governor of the Philippines.
The British masses are heart and
soul with Japan.
Princess Mathilde, one of the last of
the Napoleons, is dead.
The Washington shingle mill COM
bine expects large profits during the
coming year. :.
Marine Insurance companies have
made great advances on all vessels
bound for the Orient. s
Horace G. Burt, president of the I'm
ion Pacific, has resigned. Hartman is
almost sure to succeed him.
sChina regards wara as inevitable.
She will remain neutral as long as pos
sible and then side with Japan.
"a scene shifter in the Iroquois thea
ter, Chicago, declares that the fire cur
tain raught on a reflector carelessly left
open.
The production of gold in the United
States for 1903 was $74 ,425, $40. OF
this amount Oregon produced 1884,
341, Washington $434, 100 and Idaho
2,O67 ,1s3.
War between Japan and Russia is
more probable than ever.
People from many cities are focking
to Chicago in search of loved ones.
The revenues for Great Britain show
decrease of SIS, ,497 ,O4O for the past
nine months.
Washington officials believe the
probability of war with Columbia is
growing less.
Fargo Squiers, eldest son of United
States Minister Squiers, was accident
ally shot and killed at Havana.
Twelve employees of the Iroquois thea
ter, Chicago, have been arrested on
charge of accessory to manslaughter.
Fearing he intended to flee, secret
service officers have rearrested John A.
Benson, the California timber op-
orator.
Chicago will station fremen at the
several theaters, at their expense, and
any objection will cause the closing of
the place.
Sir Thomas Upton has signifed his
willingness to donate from $500 to ST.
900 to those in need as the result of
the Chicago fire.
To learn the land policy desired by
Oregon was the object of Roosevelt in
sending a commission to Portland to
attend the meeting of the national live
stock association.
On account of the theater holocaust