Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-09
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Te1egraphic
News of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM HE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Pres s.lta
in a Cor1ensed Tcrm.

An Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Hernispheres Pres .1t
in a Cor1ensed Tcrm-
British troops in Africa have been
brdered to China.
The screen door combine has beex
forced to dissolve.
A census shows that the City of
Mexico, Mexico, has a population of
over 400, 900.
Eight distinct earthquake shocks
were felt in Jacksonville, Fla, but no
damage was done.
The Venezuelan government has de
creed the resumption of payment OF in.
terest on all debts and loans from Nov.
ember.
Many people were killed and injured
in Venezuela by an earthquake, and
railroad and telephone communication
is interrupted.
There have been serious tax riots in
the Serat district of Roumania. Two
local officials were killed, and the
troops who were sent to enforce pay
ment were resisted by the peasants.
who killed eight of them.
The Susquehanna Coal Company, at
William Penn, Pa granted the de-
mands of the mineworkers in that col
liery and will resume operations
This is one of the largest collieries in
the country. 700 men being employed.
By the explosion of a alcohol vat at
the Homestead steel works, at Pitts
burg, three workmen, Andrew Dliklv,
Michael Donder and John Harnett,
were terribly burned. Dolikiv and
Donder, it is thought, will die. The
explosion was caused by alcohol COM
ing in contact with natural gas.
Official confirmation has been re-
ceived at Vienna from Mostar, in Her
zogovine, of the reports of a collision
growing out of a boundary dispute be-
tween an Austro-Hungary military pa
troll and force of Montenegrin SOL
die1s. One Montenegrin was killed
and several wounded.
A belated dispatch from Pretoria
tells of the failure of British negotia-
rions with General Botha for the sur
render of the Boers Botha received
General Paget's flag of truce courteous
Iy and admitted his defeat, but said
was impossible to treat for surrender as
long as any burghers wished to contin-
ne the war. President Steyn was more
irreconcilable. He refused to even see
the bearer OF flag of truce.
The young man who for several years
annoyed the Pullmans in Chicago by
demanding money of them and calling
himself Gustave Pullman, has been ar
rested in New York. He called at the
hotel where young George and Sanger
Pullman are living and sent his card
up to the former. Pullman had him
elected and he returned and demanded
100000. He was again put out and on
his third visit was arrested.
France may send large force to
Canton.
China proposes an indemnity of $40,-
100000
President Kruger will travel incog-
nito in the capitals of Europe.
The official announcement of the to-
tai population of the United States for
1900 is rs, 295, ,220.
Emperor Nicholas, of Russia, will
propose another conference with view
of settling the Chinese question.
General D. M. Frost, for SO years
one of the best known residents of st.
Louis, is dead at that city, aged II.
To- oIirnr nj
the Daily States and one of the strong
est newspaper writers in the South, is
dead at New Orleans. He was 60
years of age.
Tie transport Hancock has arrived
at Manila with three companies of the
Fourth and four companies of the
Twenty-fifth infantry and three officers
and 100 men of the marine corps.
The United States transport Mead
arrived at San Francisco, % days from
Manila. The Mead brought 254 sick
soldiers, insane and 18 dead. Eight
p1ivates died on the voyage.
Smallpox has broken out on mum.
ber of Indian reservations in the West
and 1t is feared that when the cold
weather sets in the epidemic will be.
come more widespread and more malig.
nant.
The government of Russia for the
second time within two months has
imposed special tax for the benefit o.
the Red Cross Society. The first was
tax of from 5 to 10 rubles upon Ii
censes to travel abroad, according te
the length of the time for which the
license was granted, and now railway
tickets are taxed kopecks when the
fare is rubIes or upwards. 1t is esti
mated that the ticket tax will yiel6
$125, 900 yearly and that on license.
100000. 1t is understood that th'
czarina, whose interest in the Rec
Cross Society is keen, originated the
idea of imposing the taxes.
The well-known Spanish painter
Joaquin Sarolla. has been awarded 8
iirst-class medal in the Paris exposi
oil fboco yuho adm1ro hi