Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-23
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the, World.
TERsE TICKS FROM HE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Pres >1h
in q CoE1ensed Tcxm.

A serious snow storm is raging in
South Dakota.
The Chinese emperor and empress
will return to Pekin.
Fire destroyed a considerable por-
tion of the Corean palace at Seoul re-
Gently.
General Botha has sent Lord Roberts
q statement of the terms on which ne
will surrender.
The Japanese empress was attacked
by lunatic vino threw his purse and
his shoes at her.
The firm of William l.. Strong &
Co., of New York, has failed, with
liabilities of $6,0OO.O00.
Henry Elling, pioneer of Montana
and president of six banks in that
state, died at his home in Virginia
City.
During the progress of bull fight
given by women toreadors at Alicante,
Spain, the benches collapsed and eight
persons were killed and 200 injured.
According to Commissioner of Immi-
grafton Fitchie, of New York. immi-
grants have arrived in this country at
the rate of 1000 per day from all
countries since July last.
Thirteen insane soldiers from the
Philippines, who had been confined in
the Presi,io hospital at San Francisco,
have been sent to the government asy.
lum at Washington, D. G.
Yale college will educate free Of
charge five Filipinos provided young
men of exceptional fitness and high
character be selected by Judge Taft, of
the Philippine commission.
At Denver, in an action begun by
Dean Hart to prevent Sunday theatri-
cal performances, Police Justice Thomas
decided in favor of the theaters, hold
ing that the city ordinance on the SUBJ
ject is void.
The Peruvian bark Francisco Tozo
cleared from Astoria with cargo of
529, ,054 feet of lumber, valued at
SIS. 5.734.78. She was loaded at the
Knappton, WASH. mills, and goes to
& Callao, Peru. =
The state supreme court of Minneso-
ia has decided that the so-called Jag
cure law is unconstitutional because
il applies only to counties of over 50,-
600 people and 1t is limited in its bene-
fits to certain number in each county,
one per year to each 10000 of people.
Adrew Carnegie has another surprise
for Pittsburg, involving the expendi-
ture of several million dollars. His
purpose is said to be the tablishment
of polytechnic school for the instruc.
tion Ill practical mechanics and the in
dustrial sciences. The amount of
money which will be spent by Mr..
Carnegie in founding and endowing the
school is $4,000. 900.
Ambassador Choate lectured ON
Lincoln at Edinburgh.
Terry McGovern defeated Kid Broad
at Tattersalls, Chicago.
The treaty of Paris was denounced
at the Spanish-American congress.
Industrial commission hears testi.
mony on labor strikes and sweatshops.
Indemnity claims by Philippine cor
porations will be submitted to congress.
A bill to disfranchise negroes was
introduced in the Georgia legislature.
President Mckinley asks the mem.
bers of the cabinet to remain with
him.
Brazil and Argentina may force Chile
to grant Boliva's demands in regard to
coast lines.
Union labor makes a demand for
state positions in Washington under
new regime.
An Idaho dance hall tragedy result
ed in the death of two men at the
town OF Gem.
In an explosion in gelatine mixing
house of powder company at Lo-
brante, CAL. Is miles from San Fran
cisco, one white man and two Chinese
were killed.
A special dispatch from Tien Tsin,
says a force of Russians has captured
the arsenal northeast of Yeng Tsun,
with tritiing loss, killing 200 Chiness
and capturing quantity OF arms and
treasure.
Max J. Lasar, the diamond smuggler,
pleaded guilty in the United States
court at Buffalo, N. Y. He was fined
$500 and sent to the Erie county Jail
for six months. He smuggled dia.
monds which were sold for $31, 900.
The bodies of 90 persons who were
killed by the collapse of houses inshore
by the typhoon which struck Hong
Kong recently, have been recovered
More than so bodies have been taken
from the harbor, and the remains ol
many victims are still to be found
The damage to property and crops ii
enormous.
Japan has passed law to pro
hibit lads under 20 years of age from
smoking.
The home of the late Bayard Taylor
at Westchester, Pa, kown as Cedar
croft, was sold at sheriff's sale to sat.
isfy claim.
J. M. Mcknight, formerly president
of the German National bank of Louis
Vile, has been sentenced to five years.
imprisonment at hard labor for embez.
slement.