Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-31
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphie
News of the, World,
TERSE TICKS FROM NE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
%he Two Hemispheres Pres rlh
In a Cor1ersed TCrm.

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stakes at Readville, Mass.
The Russian expedition to China
consists of 375, 900 troops.
Wisconsin Democrats and Populists
fused on presidential electors.
Eight thousand Beers, with artillery,
are assembled at Machadodorp.
Gables are received announcing the
safety of missionaries at Pekin.
Carl Smith, the well-known Ameri-
can sculptor. died at Copenhagen.
Two persons were killed and many
wounded by mob at Akron, Ohio.
Americans attacked the imperial pal
ace in Pekin and captured four courts.
The United States reply. rejecting
the Chinese offer, was sent to Ii Hung
Chang.
Louis G. Bohmrich was nominated
for governor of Wisconsin by the DEM
ocrats.
The population of Philadelphia, &C.
cording to the United States census, is
1,293,697.
Three persons we've burned to death
at Denver from efforts to kindle fire
with coal oil.
An anarchist meeting he'd in Berlin
was dispersed by the police, who ar
rested the speakers.
Captain H. ]. Reilly, of the Fifth
United States artillery, was killed in
the assault on Pekin.
United States Consul Fee, at Bonn
bay. India, reports to the state depart
ment that cholera is raging there.
United States Marshal Hasey, of
Ketchikan, Alaska, shot and killed
Dan Robinson. cannery boss, while
the latter was resisting arrest.
The vest makers of New York city
have won their strike fo1 the union
scale of wages and the 10-hour work
ing day. The strike affected 1000
men, women and girls.
Fire in the immense elevator of the
American Cereal Company at Akron,
Ohio, damaged the plant $75, 900. A
hundred and fifty Thousand bushels of
grain were ruined.
King Oscar, of Sweden. has formally
agreed to act as arbitrator of the claims
for compensation for losses sustained
by British and German subjects and
American citizens in Samoa.
The foreign ENJOYS are ON their way
to Tien Tsin.
The flags of the allies float from the
Pekin imperial palace.
Two men went insane in Des Moines.
Ia, on account of heat.
Five men were smothered in a coal
mine at Issaquah, Wash.
Fitzimmons refused to take 500, 900
to lose his fight to Sharkey.
Forest fires caused $40, 900, 900 dam
age in Colorado and Wyoming.
Seven persons were killed in freight
train collision at Kenscio, N. Y.
The new treaty with Spain has been
signed by Minister Storer at Madrid.
The United States government has
rejected Lii Hung Chang's peace terms.
Democratic papers demand the with
drawal of American troops from China.
Six men lost their lives by the cav
ing in of we'll at Guthrie, Oklahoma.
Chinese viceroys ask that no indigni.
ties be shown the emperor and en-
press.
Intense heat killed four persons in
St.Louis, where the Thermometer regis
tered 80 degrees.
The transport Sherman left San Fran
cisco for Nagasaki with 900 officers
and men for China.
Queen Wilhelmina, of Holland, is
engaged to Prince Frederick Adolf, OF
Meckllnburg-Sch
st. Paul's population, according tc
the United States census, is 1858
that of Minneapolis, 202,718.
Several lives were lost and much
property destroyed by terrific electrical
wind and rain storms in Maryland.
Colonel Marchand, of French Fashooa
fame. has been appointed to the general
staff of the China expeditionary force.
One fireman dead, four injured and
$50, worth of property destroyed is
the work of firebug in two fires at
Peoria, Ill. -
Sol Bloom, a music publisher of Chi
cago, has brought suit for $25, 1000
damages against the Union restaurant
and hotel for refusing to serve him
while he was clad in shirt waist and
minus a coat. The manager of the res
taurant, when questioned regarding
the refusal, said that patrons wearing
shirt waists would only be served at
tables adjoining the main dining room.
No person would be permitted to enter
the dining room unless wea ring a coat.
Over 5000 Roumanian Jews are en-
route to Canada. The majority are
penniless.
President Mckinley and the king of
Portugal exchanged congratulatory
messages over the new direct cable.
H. N. Ross who washed out the first
gold in the Black Hills % years ago ia
now the marshal at Custer City S. D.
Statistics compiled by the Railway
Age show that % companies control
347, 600 miles of railroad in the United
States and Canada.