Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-22
EVENTS OF THE DAY.
Epitome of the Te1egraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

ALSoE llChS fhUM IhE W1REA
An Interesting Collection of Items From.
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in q Condensed Form.
British marines killed and wounded
10 Boxers.
Roberts line of communication is
again open.
General Grant reports the capture of
San Miguel, rebel stronghold.
The summer residence of the British
minister at Peking has been burned.
Seven persons were drowned by the
upsetting of boat on Lake Bennett.
Alaska.
Four people were killed by the de-
struction of large cooperage plant In
Brooklyn.
Roberts forces had hard battle
with General Botha, but did not defeat
the Boer leader.
Pennsylvanians will push the candi-
dacy of former governor Pattison for
the vice. presidency.
The money appropriated by congress
for use at the mouth of the Columbia
will be used at once.
Two persons were drowned at South
Bend, Ind, by the capsizing of boat
on the river, at that place.
Methuen and Kitchener, in an en-.
gagement with Dewet's troops, scat
tered the Beers in all directions.
Terry McGovern, champion light
weight of the world, knocked out Tom
White in three rounds at New York
City.
New York capitalists have secured
concessions from the government of
Honduras to build a railroad in that
country.
Wood workers of Chicago threaten to
60 out on July 1, unless their wages
are increased. The strike will involve
5000 werkmen.
Two city detectives of Kansas City
undertook to stop street fight between
. crowd of negro men and women and
as result man and q woman were
killed.
News has been received in New York
of the murder of DIR. Edna G. Terry,
in charge of the station of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Woman's Foreign Mis-
sionary Society at Tsung Hua, China.
Thomas Lewis, a miner of Tucson,
Ariz., has been arrested on charge OF
setting fire to the Catelina forests,
where 5000, 900 feet of timber were
destroyed. A miner who was with
Lewis claims that Lewis became in
censed because the pine needles hurt
his feet and set fire to them, causing
the most disastrous forest fire ever
known in che Southwest.
Fifteen hundred Boels surrendered to
General Brabant.
Half the town of Frances. WASH.
was destroyed by fire.
San Francisco's Chinatown will be
released from quarantine June %.
Beers have evacuated Laing's Mex,
and Butler is encamped on Joubert's
farm.
San Francisco Chinese have won an.
other case against the board of health
of that city.
The steamer China arrived at San
Francisco from the Orient with 556
Chinese merchants.
Mrs. George III. Baker, widow of the
poet and ex-minister to Russia, is dead
at her home in Philadelphia.
Postmaster Graham, of Salt Lake
Iko1 so%a Of f,~I
cohabitation and fined $3.50.
Americans at Chin Kiang are in
need of protection, as a large number
of Boxers have halted at that place.
Russian authority says the present
trouble in China will be put down, but
terrible upheaval will come later.
Mime. Augusta Lehman, once a
singer of international reputation, is
dead at Santa Cruz, CAL, aged 80
years.
The president has issued proclama-
tion formally announcing the establish
ment of reciprocity agreement with
Portugal.
A score of passengers were injured,
some severely, by the derailing of q
train ON the Great Northern, near Sum-
NIT, Mont.
General Otis says the Filipinos are
quick and anxious to learn and suggests
that an educational system be adopted
in the islands.
General Macarthur reports, the cap
ture of Rhizon, near Mexico, and Ca
restany at Aicala, both important, tho
latter q very important leader of the
guerrillas in Pingasinan province, Lu.
zOn.
The Yaqui Indians are causing trouble
for the Mexicans. They occupy, the
impossible Bacatete mountains. a range
90 miles in length, and it requires the
utmost vigilance on the part of Gem
eral Torres 5000 troops to hold them
in check.
The bubonic plague has entirely dis