Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-26
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

= An Interesting Collection of Items Fronu
tho Two Hemispheres Pros ,ah d
In Cor1ensed Ecy1n. T.
Chinese reformers captured Hui
Chow.
France wants peace negotiations to
begin at once.
Alvarez, Tagal leader, was captured
in Mindanao.
The mineowners agreed to the strik.
ers' demands.
Roosevelt was given a great recep-
tion in Cleveland.
English horsemen are fighting
American jockeys.
French expedition was massacred
at Lake Assai; Africa.
Captain o. NJ. Carter is seeking his
liberty on habeas corpus.
Lipton's challenge was accepted by
the New York YaIcht Club.
Hohenhole has resigned. Won Bulow
may be the new German chancellor.
The United States gunboat Marietta
has gone to Canton, which is threat
ened.
Rebels were defeated in an engage
ment with Americans at Tubuguan,
Panay.
A dispatch received from Lord Rob-
erts, under data of Pretoria, October
l6, reports number of minor affairs,
but says that the only incident of inn
portance was tine surrendering of Tunis
Botha, brother of Commandant Gen.
sral Botha, at Volksrust, October Is.
Two hundred Uintah Indians from
Utah have invaded Northwestern Col
orado on their annual hunting expedi-
tion, and as usual on such occasions
the settlers are greatly alarmed. Gov
ernor Thomas has appealed to the fed
eral authorities to drive the Indians
back to their reservation.
The family of the late John Clark. of
New York. has engaged counsel to try
; to obtain the estate of his brother, Inn
lay Clark, who died a few years ago
in Australia, leaving fortune esti-
mated at $40. .000, 900. The dead man
was an owner of gold mines. Recent
ly, Gossrnor Voorhees,. of New Jersey,
was informed that the mnltimillion-
aires heirs were IN that state. He left
none in Australia and his whole for
tune is said to be lying untouched
waiting to be divided among four
nephews and neices in New Jersey
Among these are James N. Clark and
James W. Clark, whose present where
abouts are unknown.
Signal corps men we're surprised by
Tagals in Neuya Ecija province.
Treasury Department may station q
Chinese interpreter on Puget sound.
Bryan spoke to packed house in
Madison Square garden, New York.
Queen Wilhelmina announces her
bethrothal to Duke Henry of Mecklen-
burg -Schwern.
Andrew Carnegie has presented e1O,-
900 to the town of Hawick, Roxbury,
county. Scotland, for public library.
Captain E. f. Ewing. of San Fran
cisco, manager OF the Welchbach
Lamp Company, committed suicide by
inhaling gas.
In the province of Smolensk, Russia,
there is held every three months lot
terry in husbands and wives, who are
chosen by the chance drawing of lot
terry ticket.
Two men were killed and one fatally
injured by the derailment of freight
train on the Chicago & Alton. at Lawn
dale, Ill. The wreck was caused by
the removal of a rail by section gang
making repairs.
Fire in the lumber district of Osh-
kosh, Wis, destroyed 100000 feet
of lumber and part of the Hollister-
Ames Company's mills and the plant
of Challoner's Sons Company. The to-
tai loss amounts to $500, 900.
The United States transport Grant
has sailed from San Francisco for Ma
= Mia. On the vessel ar, 507 casuals and
recruits representing every regiment
of the regular service in China and the
Philip pines. A large number of hos
pital corps men accompanied the SOL
= .diers..
An explosion of rubber cement in the
basement of a four-story building in
Detroit, Mich, resulted in fire which
cost the lives of two men and injured
eight persons, four of whom were
girls. The fire spread with such ra-
pidity that the employees were cempell-
ed to jump from the upper stories.
The Oregon Short Lines fast mail
was wrecked at Topaz, 80 miles east of
Pocatello, Idaho, by running into the
rear end of freight train standing on
the main line. The engine of the pas
senger train rolled down the en- bank
ment, and Engineer Beckman and Fire.
man George were badly injured. An
unknown tramp was killed and another
had his leg crushed.
In Jeresy City. N. j., daughter
was born to the wife of Bresci, the as.
sassin of King Humbert.
Five Minneapolis churches have paid
the debts hanging over them during
the year, the total incumberances
raised amounting to $3S, ,675.