Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-11
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Henispheres Presented
~ a Condensed Form.

Four miners perished in fire in q
mine near Roanoke, Va.
Munkacsy, the celebrated painter,
died at Bonn, Germany.
Michigan Democrats want Charles
A. Towne for Bryan's running mate.
An eight-hour day has been secured
by New England building trades jour
neymen.
Salt Lake capitalists have bought the
Iowa group of mines in the Baker city
district for $4,000.
A dozen vessels have already left
Seattle for Cape Nome. Opinions vary
as to when they will get there.
State Secretary Reitz, of the Trans
vaal, says the Beers will move to
America if defeated.
Twenty-Five shops in Chicago ars
completely tied up, owing to the boiler
makers strike.
Roberts will advance on Pretoria
from Kimberley, Bloemfontein and Ma
tai, simultaneously.
Twenty Americans were killed in an
engagement with insurgents at Catu.
big, on the island of Samar.
Senator Hanna believes the Republi-
cans will have fully as hard battle
this year as they had in 1896.
Bankers estimate that Americans
will spend $40, 900, 900 more than u.s.
ual abroad this year, owing to the
Paris exposition.
D. j. Sinclair, postoffice inspector
connected with the St. Louis force, has
been appointed chief postofice inspeo-
tor of Porto Rico.
General Merritt's request for retire.
ment has been granted, General Brooke
succeeding him as commander of the
department of the East.
Many small yachts and tugboats
bought for use during the Spanish war.
are rotting in the navy yard and the
government will sell them.
The Northwest Episcopal general
conference, by a unanimous vote, de-
cided to admit equal lay representation
to all Methodist conferences.
Two hundred Klondike miners are
stampeding up White river, Alaska, to
the scene of the latest gold discovery.
The find was made on q nameless tribu-
tary of the above river last winter.
Andrew Carnegie, who refused to
contribute to the Dewey arch fund,
has given $1,000 to the fund for the
widow of Sergeant Douglas, who was
killed at Croton dam during the recent
strike. In sending the check, Mr.. Car
negie wrote: Sergeant Douglas fought
not for foreign conquest, but for peace
and order at home"
President Mckinley has selected
Dole to be the first governor of Hawaii.
Ex-Minister DENLY gives American
missionaries credit for the open door in
China.
Fire at the town of Gladwin, Mich,
destroyed 16 buildings, causing loss
of $4,000
The north half of the Colville, Wash,
Indian reservation, has been opened for
settlement.
Chicago landlords have formed
com bination and rents advanced 10 per
cent Immediately.
Charles Fl. Allen was inaugurated as
governor of Puerto Rico with impress
sive ceremonies.
Fire destroyed the Hasting shingls
mill at Goshen, WASH, together with
1000, 900 shingles.
The transport Sherman arrived at
San Francisco from Manila with % in
sane soldiers on board.
Carpenters of Omaha are out ON .
strike. They demand an eight-hour
day and increase of wages.
Five men were killed and three in
jured by boiler explosion in the mill
of J. V. Bray & Co., Triton, Ohio.
o. At the Hercules Athletic Club, New
York, Bob Fitzsimmons knocked out Ed.
Dunkhorest. the Syracuse giant, in two
rounds.
Joseph Gurtar Rampon, a former
famous bandmaster, leader of the Old
Guard band, is dead at New York,
aged 81 years.
The United States navy will not bs
sent to Turkey. AS the sultan mas
made some concessions, he will be
given more time to study the matter.
An engine and 70 empty cars of the
Santa Fe were thrown into the bay
from the new Santa Fe wharf at San
Francisco, by the breaking of an apron.
No one was killed SO far as known.
Frank H. Peavey, of Minneapolis.
Mimi, has obtained insurance in the
Mutual Life Insurance Company, of
New York, to the amount of 81, 1,O0O,-
600, the annual premium on the policy
being $4s, 800.
A Spanish silver mine lost a century
ago was rediscovered in Texas.
Lewis Watkins. a native of st. Paul,
is said to be the tallest man in the
world. His height is said to be eight
feet II inches, and his weight S64
pounds.
Rev. David GREGG. a Brooklyn IN.