Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-13
EVENTS OF The DAY
Epitome of tk.> Telegraphic
News of the. World,
TERSE TICKS FROM .rHE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Pres ,nt /
in n Condensed Form.


in n Condensed Form.
President Kruger is reported to have
moved to Nelspruit.
Eight deaths from extreme heat are'
reported from Chicago.
In wild plunge of street-car into
a gulch at Tacoma, 36 people were
killed and 80 injured.
Elizabeth Chapman. Salem pioneer
of l84S, died at that city in her 81st
year, of complication of diseases.
An explosion of fireworks in Pbila-
delphia caused the death of four chill
dren and the fatal injury of three 9TH
ers.
By the explosion of an oil tank in
Parkersburg, w. Va, six men were
blown to atoms and three others fatally
injured.
Three men were killed; one wound
ed in a wreck on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna & Western road at Durkin's g
Cut, near Henryville. Pa.
Southern provinces of China are
drifting away from the empire. Lii
Hung Chang and the friendly viceroys
are engineering the movement.
The foreigners in Pekin will be left
to their fate. The allies cannot rescue
them on account of the overwhelming
force of Chinese that oppose them.
The United States battle-ship Ore
gon, which ran ashore off the island of
How Ke, in the Miatau group, 35 miles
northeast of Che Foo, on June %, has
been floated.
The steamer Dirigo arrived at Seat
tie from Skagway, bringing 10 boxes of
gold dust, valued at nearly $500, 900.
The Dirigo carried ~ passengers,
mostly from Dawson.
Rear-Admiral Bare, now command
ant of the Norfolk navy yard, has been
selected to succeed Rear-Admiral
Philip, deceased, as commandant Of the
New York navy yard.
Charles w. Dickinson, inventor of
the geometry G lathe, which made a
successful counterfeitlng of bank notes
impossible. is dead at his home in
Belleville, N. j., aged n years.
June 80 the grand staff of the Rus
sian army estimated the Chinese army
to number 1.72O,OO men. He also
said that about 900, 200 Mausers have
been imported within the last three
years.
A dispatch from Bombay says that
in all except three districts cholera is
raging in Bombay presidency, the cases
reported for the week ending June 26
numbering 2O,6s9, and the deaths, 49,
1888.
Twenty thousand Chinese soldiers are
within Pekin walls, 10000 outside.
Admiral Kempff reports that the Ore
gon is not in dangerous position.
The German minister at Pekin has
been killed and other legations are un-
der seige and starving.
The cruiser Philadelphia arrived at
Astoria to take part in the Fourth of
July celebration there.
The steamer Danube arrived at Ma.
naimo, b. c., five days from Skagway,
with 40 passengers and $4,000 in
gold dust.
AS a last hope of saving foreigners in
Pekin, the powers may now threaten
to destroy the graves of the imperial
ancestors.
Fire destroyed the large soap and
fertilizing plant of the Walker STRAIT
man Company at Pittsburg, causing q
loss of $4,000.
A scandal in Klondike. Gold Com
missioner Senkler is charged with il
legal grants to persons with whom he
was partner.
Lou Cramer, of Independence, Or.
pioneer of 1852, committed suicide
by hanging himself. No cause is
known for the deed.
The four.oared race between Penn
sylvania, Columbia and Cornell crews
was won by the former. The race took
place at Poughkeepsie, N. Y.
At Chester park, Cincinnati, w. A.
Rutz and F. Hausman, of New Haven,
Conn.,, on a motor tandem, made q
mile in 1:29 4-5. This gives them the
worlds record for cement track.
By the bursting of reservoir of the
city water works of Grand Rapids,
Mich, 100000 gallons of water
was precipitated upon a thickly popu.
lated district of the city, doing dam.
age estimated at hundreds of thousands
of dollars.
The strength of the foreign forces at
present in China are as follows: Ger
many, A officers and 400 men; Grea,
Britain, 1s4 off GERS and 1,700 men,
Austria, IL officers and 1877 mem
America, 20 officers and 329 men,
France, IL officers and 3S7 men; Italy,
seven officers and 131 men; Japan, lis
officers and 3,709 men, and Russia, l Ii
officers and 5,817 men, with total ol
53 field guns and SO machine guns.
Germans naturalized in America ars
in disfavor in the fatherland.
The wall paper trust, one OF the