Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-05
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome OF the Te1egraphic
News of the. World.
TERSE TICKS FROM HE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
- the Two Hemispheres Pres ..lh
in Cor1eHsed TCrrn.

Hoodlums at Victor, Colo, attacked
Governor Roosevelt.
Conger will not vet begin negotia.
tions with the Chinese commission.
Buffalo, n. Y, is made the eighth
city of the United States by the new
census, having passed Cincinnati and
San Francisco.
The Parkland Fishing & Packing
Company has been incorporated with
a capital OF $40, 900. Its headquarters
will be Parkland, Pierce county, Wash.
A passenger train ON the Fort Worth
& Rio Grande railroad ran into a wash
out near Rock Greek, Texas. One
person was killed and eight badly in
jured.
George F. Drew. the frst Democratic
governor of Florida after the war, died
at his home at Jacksonville, aged IS
years. Two hours before his death his
wife died from the effects of a stroke
of apoplexy.
News has been received of hurricane
at Offord, Iceland, September 20. The
wind, it is said, blew l2O miles an
hour. Nearly all the fishing s:,.acks
we're driven ashore, houses were RACED
and several persons were killed. There
was great destruction of property.
The Republic Iron & Steel Com
pany's works in East ST. Louis, ILL.,,
known as the Tudor Iron Works, have
resumed operations after suspension
OF two months on account OF the fail
ure to agree upon wage scale. An
agreement has now been reached and
signed for the ensuing year. and up
wards of 500 men are at work.
A Winnipeg, Manitoba. special says:
c. E. Stevens, Methodist missionary
at Oxford House, in the district of
Kowateen, in letter dated September
10, 1900, states that during the late
winter and early spring of this year
between 20 and 80 Indians of the Saul
teau tribe, residing near Andy Lake,
died of starvation. Rabbits and deer
have fed this people, and although they
ate even the bark of trees, they were
not able to sustain life.
A large timber-land deal was COM
pleted at Albany, Or, by the filing in
the office of the county recorder a deed
from w. II. Stimson, of Los Angles,
Cal, to Theodore o. Wither, of La
Crosse, Wis, conveying about 4,50O
acres of timber land in the southern
part of the county for the consideration
of $40. 800. Two other deeds OF 100
acres each were filed in favor of With
er, the consideration being approx
mately $40 an acre, high price for
timber land, indicating an increased
demand for such property.
Germany is about to declare war on
China.
General John NJ. Palmer, of Illinois,
is dead.
Galveston appeals for help to rebuild
the city.
Four persons were killed by tornado
in an Iowa town.
Epidemic of smallpox at Nome has
been stamped out.
foA " aAuCA SOO "1lA uOihduu llC sui
render of leaders of the outrages.
American troops, except legation
guard, are ordered from China to Ma
nila.
Senator Beveridge. of Indiana, opened
the Republican campaign in Illinois,
with speech in Chicago.
Senator Caffery, of Louisiana, has
officially declined the presidential NOM
ination by the National party.
At Tsre Haute. Ind. The Abbott
broke the worlds trotting record of
2:O3Z. held by Alix. making the mile
in 2:O3A.
Another death from bubonic plague
was reported at Glasgow, making the
seventh since the outbreak. Only 40
persons are now under observation.
Prince Henry, of Prussia, is now
commander-in-c chief of the First Ger
man squadron, succeeding Vice-Admiral
Hoffman,, who has been relieved from
the post.
The Austrian press bitterly con-
demns the attitude of the United States
towards China, attributing to the
course of the Washington government
''the arrogant defiance with which
China is treating the allies.
The Isthmian canal commission
stated that it would be able.to submit
a report to congress sufficiently COM
prehensive to serve as basis for the
action of that body at the approaching
session, if it should be desirable to act.
Dispatches announce that among the
missionaries killed by Chinese in the
massacre in Yunnan province were
Bishop Fantonsalli and Father Quirine,
of the Roman Catholic church. 1t
was said that the bishop died after the
most awful torture.
1t is reported that Chicago and Lon
don firms will invest $40, 900, 900 in
Colorado mines.
Spirit distillers and distributors have
formed cooperative association en-
bracing all the distilleries in the Unit
ed States.
A Victoria (B. c. dispatch says that
the money has been subscribed for a
new railroad from the Great Lakes to
the Pacific coast with branch line
to Dawson.