Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-24
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Te1egraphic
News of the World,
TERsE TICKS FROM IrHE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
*he Two Hemispheres Pres ,1t
In Coriense6 ECt.m.

Fort Sherman, Idaho, is unsuitable
for an Indian school.
Ex-Secretary Boutwell, announces
that he will vote for Bryan.
Seven persons we're killed in train
wreck near Grand Rapids, Mich.
The Frink slate went through the
Washington Republican convention.
The war department publishes Fill
pino correspondence captured by Fun
ston.
Pritchard Morgan says the powers
ment for China.
General Chaffee reported the allies
at Ma Tou, 20 miles from Pekin, three
or four days ago.
Preparations to extend the railroad
down the Yukon from White Horse to
Selkirk are in progress.
China will send a high official to
Tung Chow to arrange for delivering
the foreigners to the allies.
Foreign and domestic wheat markets
have a downward tendency, and the
local situation continues dull.
Oregon supreme court decides that
district attorneys fee must be deposit.
ed with clerk when divorce suits are
filed.
The transport Thomas, which left
Nagasaki August 10, will bring 216
sick and four insane soldiers from the
Philippines.
Severe foods have occurred in Japan
and it is reported that 2,200 persons
have been drowned. Railway traffic is
interrupted.
Three lives were sacrificed by fire as
the result of an explosion of natural
gas in Thirty. fourth street, Chicago.
Three other persons are supposed to be
in the ruins.
Secretary Gage, of the treasury de-
partment, Jays that as long as the
United States maintains the gold stand
ard and keeps the public credit good it
can retain for it's own use all the gold
it needs.
A severe hailstorm destroyed 10000
acres of the finest grain IN North Da-
kota, even that cut and in the shock
being destroyed. Many of the hail
stons were from three to four inches in
diameter.
Maurice Brennan, who is under ar
rest at st. Louis, charged with being
a dynamiter, was Unidentified as one of
the men connected with the blowing
up of the street Gals in the southern
part of the city several weeks ago.
Theodore Roosevelt will not visit the
Pacific coast.
Shanghai has word that the Pekin le-
ACTIONS were desperately attacked Aug
ust s.
In a collision near Colorado Springs,
Colo. two passengers were killed and
five injured.
President Kruger has applied for a
temporary asylum in the American
consulate at Lourenco Marques.
G. P. Huntington, president of the
Southern Pacific railroad, died in the
Adirondacks, N. Y, of heart disease.
The army of the Philippines elected
General F. V. Greene president, Cen
eral o. Summers as second vice.
president.
The clothing factory of K. B. Olson
& Co of Chicago, was destroyed by
fire, with loss on buildings and goods
of 500, 1000.
Contractors are making close exam
ination of the route for the Klamath
Falls railway. preparatory to signing
the contract.
Steamer Deutschland made the run
from New York to Plymouth, England,
in days. IL hours and As minutes,
breaking the record.
Bob Fitzsimmons and Tom Sharkey
have been matched to fight August %
before the Coney Island Club for
purse of $25, 200. Charley White is to
be referee.
The question of making the perma-
. nent repairs on the Oregon at home in
stead of in Japan has been discussed by
some of the authorities of the navy de-
partment and may result in her being
brought back to the Pacific coast.
The official report of the Colomb bian
government commander in the recent
battle at Panama says the rebel casual
ties were 600 and those of the govern
ment 100. The commander intimates
that the consuls favored the rebels. and
that their intervention was dangerous
and pernicious.
The detective bureau of New York
City. is looking for Antonio Pesce,
banker, with offices in that city. He
has mysteriously disappeared. Scores
of excited Italian depositors have
thronged Pesce's Offices, and it is re.
ported to the police that the banker
has gone to Italy, taking with him
$4,000.
Petroleum fields of some importance
are being opened in Japan.
Belgium is one of the few countries
in which the death penalty, though
still part of the criminal code, is never
enforced, in Difference to public opin-
ion.
Three women, the wives of famous
husbands, have been accorded the honor
of burial in Westminster Abbey. They
are Lady Palmerston, Lady Augusta
STANLEY, wife of Dean Stanley, and
Mrs. Gladstone.