Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-19
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM HE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
Tho Two Hemispheres Pres elh l
I'm a Cor lensed Tcam-

fT0uC0 uOG0.
Roosevelt denounced the Democratic
issue of militarism.
British ministerialists hold 357 seats
and the opposition 200.
Horse buyers for German govern
ment are in Eastern Oregon.
general uprising is expected in
the southern provinces of China.
Mgr. Chapelle argues for retention OF
church property i'll the Philippines.
An eight-year old boy CT Roseburg,
Or, was killed accidentally while play
ing with rifle.
One man was killed and l2 injured
in riot in the anthracite region at
Hazeton, Pa.
Mrs. Ann Jane Darrah. OF Liberty.
Dr., an aged and blind woman, was
burned to death.
Thomas Sheridan, 80 years old, la.
borer employed in shingle mill at
Fairhaven. Wash, was run over by
train and killed.
The American marines from Pekin
have arrived at Takn, where they will
be joined by the Tien Tsin battalion,
and sail on the Indi liz for Cavite.
The wife of minister at Atchison,
Kan, jumped into cistern with her
3-year- child and both were
drowned. The woman was insane.
A cablegram received from Commits.
sioner-General Peck. at Paris, contains
an announcement Of final results OBJ
tanned at the exposition by the coun-
tries in the way OF awards. The Unit.
ed States received 2,475 awards; Ger
many, 1926; Great Britain, LII;
Russia, 1.4l3. The Unitei States
leads not only in the grand total, but
also in all grades of awards. from
grand prizes to merely honorable men,
ton.
Referring to the mooted purchase of
the Danish West Indies by the United
States, the Copenhagen correspondent
OF the Daily Telegraph says: ''The re-
newed negotiations will result, | be-
Heve, in the purchase. The opposition
party in the Danish parliament favors
the transaction. but urges the govern
ment to obtain a larger price than the
United States has previously offered.
1t is understood that America wishes
to use st. Croix as a naval coaling
station.
Bryan concluded his tour of Illinois.
Cecil Rhodes will re-enter politics.
The empress dowagor is said to be
ill.
Roberts will name his own success
sor.
Colville Indian reservation is opened
for settlement.
Roosevelt spoke to an immense audi
ence in st. Louis.
Canada will sell crown mining
CLAIMS in klondike.
General Brooke urges reorganization
OF the army OIL modern lines.
Conger has prepared list of Chinese
officials that should be punished.
Idaho SoLiiers' Homo was destroyed
by fire. One inmate was suffocatetl.
The American Bible Society fur.
nishes list OF missionaries killed by
Boxers.
General Macarthur reported to the
war department that the transport
RosecTans and tho transport Argyle
arrived at Manila with Light Batteries
and Nj. Seventh artillery, Major 6.
6. Greenough.
P. III. Gilhooley, counsel for the
Elizabethport, N. j., Banking Com
lany, announced that William Sch1ie-
l.er. missing clerk OF the bank, was
Iof m fho Of
and that the bank directors had made
good the aomunt of the shortage.
Lord George Hamilton, secretary of
state for India, has received the toll
lowing from Lord Curzon: tThe gen.
eral condition OF crops is excellent,
and except in a part of Bombay famine
conditions are disappearing The to-
tai numbe on the relief list has fallen
to 2, TAG, ,00O.
The American Bridge Company
closed a contract to furnish all of the
structural steel to be used III the erec-
tion of big arsenal at Kure, Japan.
The money value of the contract is be.
tween $250,000 and 100000. It
will require six months to furnish the
material, and it must be delivered at
kure within year.
Officials of the North German Lloyd
Steamship Company at New York City
have awarded contract for monu-
ment to be erected in plot owned by
the company i'll a cemetery in North
Hudson, in memory OF the persons who
lost their lives in the great fire that
destroyed the piers and steamers of the
company at Hoboken. ON June 80 last.
White blackberries and green roses
have been propagated in louisiana this
year.
Seventy-two new coal mines have
been opened in Prussia this year, in.
creasing the output for 1900 by 2,500,-
900 tons.