Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-28
EVENTS OF THE DAY
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The state of Oregon has contr ibuted
more than So, 900 to the Galveston re-.
lief fund.
Belle Archer, the actress, died at the
Emergency hospital at Warren, Pa. of
apoplexy.
Three men robbed the First National
bank at Winnemucca, Nevada, and Sc
cured about $1,000.
General John A. McClernand died as
result of old age at his home in
Springfield, ILL.,, aged SO years.
In an engagement with Filipinos
near Solonan, near the end of Laguna
de Bay, the Americans lost 10 killed
and 26 wounded.
At Iona, /. T., Postmaster Dismuke
was shot and instantly killed by Sam
Ashton, well-to-do stockman. Dis
muke's son rushed to his fathers as
sistance, and was also shot.
Thirty thousand dollars was for.
warded to tha governor of Texas by the
citizens permanent relief committee
of Philadelphia, Pa, making the grand
total of cash forwarded to date by this
committee $4,000.
At meeting at Lebanon, Pa, of
about three-quarters of the 1900 men
employed by the American Iron &
Steel Company, who struck August l
against reduction of wages from 81
to So ton for puddlers, it was agreed
to go back to work at the rate offered,
So ton.
General Yilioen, who succeeded
Louis Botha IN the supreme command
of the Transvaal forces, is reported to
be moving northward in the direction
of Hectorspruit, with 5000 men and
80 guns. He is known as tsthe fire.
brand" and will endeavor to protract
the war.
In the North China Daily News, Ii
Hung Chang is reported as having said
that as China could not possibly pay
indemnity which will be demanded
from her, there will be no alternative
but TO give territory instead of money,
in which case Japan would get Shin
King, Russia would be given Shin
kiang, and Thibet would go to Eng
land.
Llyod Griscom. United States
charge d'affaires, at Constantinople,
Turkey, has made verbal representa-
tions to the porte, demanding the re-.
lease of an Armenian, who, it is claim
ed. is a naturalized American citizen,
and who was arrested upon the charge
of belonging to the Armenian revolu-
tionary committee. An investigation
has been ordered and if the prisoner is
found to be an American citizen he
will be released.
Count Won Waldersee has reached
Hong Kong.
The yellow fever situation in Ha.
vana is decidedly unfayorable.
British and Beers are fighting for
the possession of Komatipoort.
The work of clearing away the
wreckage in Galveston progresses.
Herman Petersdorf, farmer living
near Junction City, Or. murdered his
wife.
President Mitchell, of the United
Mineworkers, says lis, ZOO men are on
strike.
Germany demands that the Chinese
responsible for the outrages be deliy-
cred up.
Seventy two new coal mines have
been opened in Prussia this year, in
creasing the output for 1900 by $780,
900 tons.
The transport Thomas sailed from
. San Francisco for Manila with 1,64s
enlisted men, 107 cabin passengers
and 81 200, 900 in treasure.
Emperor William has pardoned a
German-AmericaD named Schulz. in
Kiel. After 20 years absence, Schuh
had visited his relatives and been sem
fenced to six months imprisonment foI
contraven1ng the army regulations.
Major Edward E. bravo, commits.
.sary of subsistence, who has just ar.
rived at San Francisco from the Phil
ippines, has been ordered to New York
for assignment 10 duty as chief COM
missary of the department of the East,
to relieve Major David l.. Brainerd,
commissary OF subsistence.
taking steps to prevent the further suf-
fering among the Pima Indians on the
Sacton reservation, Arizona, caused by
scarcity of irrigation water. Col
onel E. H. Graves, of that department.,
who is at Phoenix making an examin.
alton of the conditions on the reserva.
tion and reporting any method of relief
that is practicable, has investigated
thoroughly and has planned system
by which the underflow in the G1la
river may be raised to the surface in
summer and supply of water devel'
oped sufficient to irrigate many hun.
dreds of acres now uncultivated.
Rev. George B. Cutting, a young
clergyman in New Haven, Conn.,. has
discovered in hypnotism cure for the
cigarette habit.
Bethel Baptist church at Fairview,
KY, built as memorial on the site oi
Jefferson Davis birthplace, was de.
stroyed by lightning.
Rev. DR.. Francis S. McCabe, a Pres.
byterian clergyman well known
throughout the west, died at his home
in Topeka. Kansas. aged " years.