Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of tk:= Telegraphic
News of the. World. d.
TERsE TICKS FROM .nE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Pres 'nt
in Condensed Form.

An Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Pres mt. /
in a Condensed Form.
William Ahles, an old resident of
Tacoma, committed suicide.
Rich gold strikes have been made on
the Koyukuk, some claims staked out
yielding 81 to the pan. ,-
Robbers held up an Illinois Central
train Lear Paducah, KY, blew up the
express car and secured $4,000.
The empress dowager has ordered
the suppression of the Boxers and the
protection of the legations at Pekin.
A Pullman car was turned upside
down near Redding. CAL, the nine oc-
cupants were all more or less injured,
but none fatally.
Thirty-six bodies, horribly disfg
nred, have been recovered from the
hull of the steamship Saale, recently
burned at Hoboken, n. j. i
County Commissioners Campbell, of
Spokane county, Wash., was killed by
sns-O. r. & N. passenger train near
Latah. Idaho. He WAS crossing the
track in a buggy. 1f
A flood of gold is pouring in from
Alaska. The receipts of the govern
ment assay office at Seattle in the ,fs-
cal year were $l3.630,326. This
months receipts may exceed $6.0OO,-
900.
The Chinese government is sorry for
the recent outbreaks, but holds the
ager says the attacks ON Tien Tsin were
the result of the bombardment of Tien
Tsin.
Sayages of the Caroline islands at
tackled a shipwrecked British crew,
seriously wounding two of the British.
and were only driven off when an
American cattle dealer came to the
rescue of the British,
Or the Baltimore & Ohio railroad.
% deliberate attempt to wreck the
Washington express, bearing $3,000,-
600 in gold to the subtresaury in New
York, came very near being successful
ar Folsom, short distance outside Of
Philadelphia. ...
The general freight agents of leading
Western roads have formed an arrange
ment for the pooling of business. Joint
agencies are to be established at Kan
sas City, Omaha and st. Paul. A
joint agent will be placed in charge of
tbe traffic at each of these cities.
: Colombian revolutionists, under Gen.
eral Juan B. Gonzales and Simon
Chaux, have captured the city Of Popa-
yam, capital of the department of
Cauca. On the march to Popayan the
revolutionists took all the cities near
the Ecuadorian frontier, including the
Paport Tunico.
Beers have retired from Senekal.
British stormed and took the town of
Bethlehem, Dewet retreating. 'a
The empress dowager again holds the
reigns of government in China.
Three men were killed by the explo-
sion of boiler at an oil works in
Astoria, Oregon.
The total casualties of the British, as
q result of the Boer war, up to date are
AZ, 1873 officers and men.
st. Louis street car strikers again
have their buses running in opposition
to the Transit Company.
The French ship L'Aquitaine has
sailed from Toulon with $50 infantry
and artillery for China.
New York tailors are again planning
big strike. Contractors are violating
agreements made.several years ago.
DR.. Charles F. Mcdonald, the organ
izer of our postal money order system.
died at Hamilton. Ontario, aged II
years. ... ,--
Southern negroes may 90 to Hawaii.
Plantation owners of the island will
make them good offers with view to
dispensing with the troublesome Jap
laborers.
A plot TO assassinate President Nc
Kinley has been frustrated. 1t was
concocted by group of Spanish and
Cuban conspirators who had head
quarters in New York.
George A. Morse. an aged and abso-
lutely helpless patient in the Agnew's 8
1uhAuo aSyluiu, ab Dali JOsSs Odt.s WAS
slowly boiled to death in bath in the
mems ward of that institution. He
was placed in bath tub, and after the
hot water was turned on the attendant
left the room for towel, forgot his
patient, and did not return until the
imbecile waSfearfully burned.
A serious fire is raging on Bull noun
tain, Railroad creek and Pompey's
Pillar, on the north side Of the Yellow
stone river, Montana. 1t is extending
east to the Mussel Shell river, and is
sweeping the range like tinder, as
everything is dry. A late report says
that 20 head of horses. belonging to
Ramsey, of Billings, were burned.
Vast fiocks of sheep are in great danger.
During the last Is years the popula-
ton of Germany has increased IA per
cent, but the number of doctors in the
German empire has increased no less
than 5f, ner cent If this ratio is