Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-17
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 Hemispheres Pres .lh
In q Cor 1ensed TC.am.

IN 3 Cor 1eEsed Gem
The Russians lost 500 killed at Peit
Sang.
Democrats opened their national
campaign.
Fire in Butte, Mont, mine caused
500. ZOO damage.
There will be no yellow peril, so far
as Japan is concerned.
Wisconsin Republicans nominated
Robert NJ. La Toilette for governor.
The postoffice at Colfax WASH, was
burglarized and $40 in stamps secured.
A telegraph line from Valdes to Cape
Nome, Alaska, is under construction.
Lieutenant Colonel Hoare's garrison
at Glands river has surrendered to the
Beers.
Bryan and Stevenson were formally
notified of.their nomination at Indian
apolis.
General Miles says the situation in
China is serious. He says the move
ment of troops is difficult.
Heavy rains in the Yellowstone Ma
tional Park completely exiting uished
the forest fires which had burned for
some time.
River improvement will precede and
a naval station accompany the location
of government drydock on the Column
bia river, Or.
One man was killed and four SER
iously injured in collision on the
Spokane Falls and Northern, near
Spokane, Wash.
General MacArthur's official report
of the sickness in his army on July 81
is as follows: Sick in hospitals, 1886;
sick in quarters, 1,081.
The third battalion of the Fifth in
tantry, stationed at Fort Sheridan, Illi-
nois, has been ordered to China to join
General Chaffee's command.
The Columbia Southern railway is
extending its telegraph line through
Harney county, Oregon. which is
thought to be a good Indication that
the railroad will shortly follow.
The wife of DIR. A. Mcdonald West
water, of Liaoyang, Manchuira, COM
mitted suicide at Arma in consequence
of mental depression caused by her ex-
citing experiences at New Chwang
Just before her departure from China.
When bids were opened at army
headquarters at Chicago for the trans
portation of troops from Fort Shel idan
to San Franciasco, the Chicago q
Northwestern was found to be the low
est bidder at 81 per capita from Fort
Sheridan to Ogden. From Ogden to
the coast the troops are carried by the
Southern Pacific. This is the lowest
bid ever made for the transportation of
troops.
St. Louis strikers blow up a car with
dynamite.
Harrismith surrendered to the Brit
ish August 4.
Russian troops looted, tortured and
murdered at Tien Tsin.
Towne declines the Populist nomina-
tion for vice-president.
Lii Hung Chang says the Chinese
must fight if the allies advance.
Americans want General Macarthur
to lead the international forces.
Chinese reported to have 1000
troops between Tien Tsin and Pekin.
Insurgents are troublesome in the
vicinity of Cagayan, Island of Min
danao.
Fire in the heart of the city of Blue.
fields, Nicaragua, did damage to the
amount of $l75, 900.
Three people were killed and IL in
jured in collision on the Monon
route, near Lafayette, Ind.
Conger cables that the situation of
the ministers is pIecafious. Imperial
troop are firing on the legations.
Battery o, with its finch siege
guns, the largest in the army, and 175
men, have left Fort Riley. Kan, for
China.
Memorial services for Humbert in
Catholic church at Washington augur
better relations between the papacy
and the Italian government.
1t is stated positively that President
Kruger is willing and anxious to sur
render, providing q satisfactory promise
is given as to his ultimate destination.
A. H. Zeigler, of Santa Cruz, CAL,
formerly Justice of the peace in
Idaho, killed his wife by cutting her
throat, and attempted suicide by hack
ing his own throat.
Fire at Spencer, Tioga county, N.
Y, destroyed the saw mill, grist mill
and the lumber yards of A. Zeeley, the
Grove hotel, the town electric light
plant. the Lehigh Valley railroad sta
tion, and other property, entailing a
loss of $15O,000.
If you never begin task you will
never finish it.
According to Mr.. Wilson, secretary
of agriculture, the skins of superhuous
dogs in Nebraska are tanned and made
into gloves. This might give valua-
BILE hint to many large cities where
great numbers of stray dogs are killed
annually. Hundreds of thousands of
dollars worth of canine pelts are inn
ported annually for this purpose, dog.
skin being one of the best materials for
gloves.