Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-27
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome Of til Telegraphic
News of tn. World.
TERsE TICKS FROM HE WIRES

TERSE TICKS FROM HE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From,
-he Two HeInispheres Pres mt
III u Cor r+lensed lClm-
Smallpox is prevalent at Nome City.
Boxers are reported ON the Corean
frontier.
The shingle mill at Toledo, Or, was
totally destroyed by fire.
There is said to be lack OF harmony
between the allies in China.
Fire in Pomroy, Wash, destroyed
property to the value of $4,000.
Prince Tuan has an army of $1,000
men ready to fight the foreigners.
Republicans of Idaho nominated D.
W. Standrod, of Bannock county, for
governor.
Prince Tuan has issued an edict to
ing in China. -- .-a
The steamer Clutch has arrived at
Vancouver, B. c., from Skagway, with
$500. 900 in gold dust.
Milk dealers of Chicago are bein;
prosecuted for using formaldchyde to
preserve their product.
San Francisco Chinese may fight the
Boxers. American born Mongolians
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pany.
The steamship Garonne, just return
ed from Alaska, has been chartered by
the United States and will be used to
carry supplies and troops to China.
England is alarmed over report that
Chinese are invading Siberia, thus CIV
ing Russia an excuse for descending on
Pekin and holding territory conquered.
Germany, Russia and France have
come to an agreement regarding future
action in China. Russia will carry on
a seperate campaign against Pekin On
the north.
The Chinese empress is alleged to
have proposed to Japan a wholesale
massacre of foreigners in both countries.
Lii Hung Chang is said to have been
implicated in the affair;
New locomotives just put on by the
Denver & Rio Grande Railway have an
unique attachment as safeguard
against robbers, in the way of a nozzle
on the roof of the cab. These connect
with the hot water of the boiler, and
point at the rear end of the tender.
The nozzle can send mixed stream of
steam and boiling water at 200 pounds
pressure that would kill anyone in its
range.
Llama, Tex, was demolished by a
cyclone.
st. Louis Transit Company refuses
to arbitrate with the strikers.
Chicago Chinese, having just learned
of the trouble in China, are greatly ex
cited.
Twenty persons were prostrated by
heat at New York. Temperature 100
Foreign warships have their guns
trained on Che Foo, in anticipation of
an outbreak.
Fleet of the revolutionists has been
captured by government forces in Co
lombian rebellion.
The big steel plant of the Federal
Steel Company, at Lorain. Pa, has
been closed down, throwing 4. 600 men
out of work.
Two transports, with 1000 officers
and men. sailed from Manila for Taku.
The hospital ship Relief has also been
sent to Taku.
Mrs. Elizabeth G. Tolman, wife of
General J. c.. Tolman, and pioneer
of 1852. died at Iler home in Ashland,
Or, aged II years.
At New York city, Terry McGovern.
feather weight champion of the world,
defeated in three rourds, Frank Erpe,
light weight champion of the world.
Sealing claims are to be arbitrated.
Russia, United States and England
have finally agreed ON method of dis
posing OF long pending Behring sea
trouble.
In Bombay, India, for the week end
ing July z, there were 1928 cases OF
cholera in the famine district, of which
GAIA were fatal, and in the native
states 9, 526 cases, of which $500 were
fatal.
Joe Bartoni, wealthy sheepman of
Westfall, Malheur county, Or, was
accidentally killed while stacking hay
On his ranch, being struck by derrick
fork, one prong of which pierced mis-
neck.
Peoria, 60 miles southwest of Dali
las. Texas, was swept by cyclone,
killing three persons. Two churches.
several dwelling houses and an i'm
mepHs amount of farm property was
destroyed.
The first suit for damages growing
out of the Fourth of July street car ac-
cident at Tacoma, in which 43 lives
were lost. has been filed by Harry Gaul,
for the death of his son Harry, for $5,-
900. Many other suits are expected.
Chinch bugs are doing great damage
to Kansas crops.
American trade with China is
chiefly in the region where the dis
turbance is greatest.
A steam automobile was built in
England in 1884. 1t was regarded as
q curiOSity ...