Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-21
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM IHE WIRES
An Interesting Collection Of Items From
+he Two Hemispheres Pres .1h
I'm 3 Con1ensed TcIm.

China.
Colorado Democrats nominated J. B.
Oran for governor.
General Botha is said to be making
oyertures to surrender.
Forest fires destroyed no timber in
Cascade reserve this season.
A man fell from a fruit tree at Eu-
gene. Or, with fatal results.
Negro vandals were tried by court
martial and shot at Galveston.
-. New York Democrats nominated
John B. Stanchfield for governor.
A number of vessels were lost or
stranded in the gale on the lakes.
American troops await the presi.
dents word to march from Pekin.
Fire at Narragansett pier, R. l..
destroyed property worth $35U,000.
President Kruger is at Lourenco,
Marques preparing to sail for Europe.
From Is, 900 to 20, 900 Chinese con-
verts were massacred in July by Box
ers.
Nine persons were killed in South.
ern Illinois by the wrecking of a the
atrical car.
Three thousand bodies of storm vic-
Tins have been buried at Galveston.
The property loss is estimated at $15,-
100000.
The city of Dallas, Texas, has SUBJ
scribed nearly $15, 900 in cash and six
carloads of clothing for the South
Texas flood sufferers.
DR.. Dennis Bowling Mulcahy, once
an active FeEian agitator, who was
imprisoned in England in the latter
part of the ZOOS with O'Donovan Rosa
and others, died in Newark, N. j.,
aged 53 years.
The trouble that was threatened be-
tween the whites and Indians, arrayed
ON one side, against the Japs. on the
other side, in the hop fields above Puy-
allup, WASH, seems to have been avert
ed, at least for the time being. No ac-
tual clash has yet taken place, but
there is bad feeling between the fac
tions that may at any time break out
into open hostilities.
The three silver parties in Colorado
will fuse.
France will accept Prince Ching as
a peace envoy.
Americans and French nearly
clashed in Pekin.
Lord Roberts is pushing operations
in Eastern Transvaal.
American soldiers took no part in
the looting of Tien Tsin.
Many gulf coast towns in Texas suf-
cred severely from the storm.
The state department is not ready to
begin negotiations with Lii Hung Chang.
New Hampshire Republicans nomi-
mated Chester B. Gordon for governor.
Colonel W. B. Shaw, of Illinois,
will make Republican speeches in Ore
gOn.
The steamship San Pedro arrived at
Seattle from the north with 800 pas
sengers and $50, 900 in Nome gold.
Americans on their way to hunt gold
in Siberia got the best of trick at
tempted by Russians, and seven Yankees
took 80 Russians.
The controller of the currency has
issued call for the condition of ma
tional banks at the close of business
September l, 1900.
The population of Duluth, Minn as
officially announced by the census
bureau, is So, 800, an increase in popu-
lation OF 1854, or 59.9 per cent from
1890 to 1900.
At Reno, Nevada, wreck on the
Nevada, California q Oregon extension
derailed IA cars of beef cattle, reduc-
ing the cars to kindling wood and kill
ing 20 head of fat steers.
The destruction of shipping at Gal
weston may reduce the volume of early
cotton deliveries at Lancashire, Eng.
land. Reports from there show that
10000 looms had stopped and that a.
900 operators were idle.
The postmaster-g general has received
q communication from F. w. Vaille,
director of posts in the Philippines,
showing that there will be surplus of
receipts over expenditures up to June
80 of $I9, ,447. This does not include
fees for money orders of $4,000, and
there is one department, that OF Baco-
lor, yet to hear from.
The government transport Lawton
sailed from San Francisco ON her
errand of mercy to the far north.
With all available space below decks
devoted to berths, provided with bed
ding for nearly thousand persons, be-
sides the regular complement of off,
GERS and crew, the big transport will
proceed to Cape Nome, stopping at
Seattle for supplies.
Chicago police have recovered ST..
900 poodle that was abducted the other
day, but there are number Of $4.36
children quite hopelessly missing, to
say nothing of $25 parrot.