Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-30
LATER NEWS.
Floods and storms are causing great
damage in the East.

| iOODCA6 AOdI 4h0 AdltOS, SIs
officers at Tien Tsin are in favor O.
destroying thaC Chinese Notifications.
Fire destroyed cement plant neal
Easton, Pa, causing loss of 5000, 000
United States geological surveyors
are mapping Eastern Oregon mining
districts.
The official vote of Indiana Is as fol.
lows: Bryan, 3O9,59 Mckinley,
336, ,O63.
The official vote of the state of Vir.
gina is as follows: Bryan, 146, 179;
Mckinley. III, 151.
Sarah Bernhardt and M. Coquelin
played their first night to a representa-
tive audience in New York City. They
appeared in Rostand's "L'Aiglon."
ATTORNEY. General Blackburn gives his
official opinion that reading the Bible
and repeating the Lords Prayer are
permissible in Oregon public schools.
The president has decided to appoint
| F. I. Bowles, naval constructor in
charge of the New York navy-yard,
| chief of the bureau of construction and
| repair of the navy department., upon
| the retirement from active service next
March of Rear-Admiral Hichborn, the
present incumbent.
A dispatch received at Berlin from
Field Marshal Count Won Waldersee,
dated November "a, says the German
expedition has hoisted the German flag
over the great wall, which was reached
November % by way of Hey Ling
Cheng, after a difficult mountain
march. The dispatch adds that tho
French had severe fight with Boxers
80 kilometers south of Pao Ting Flu.
Horses to the number of $4,000 are
to be purchased in this country IN the
next six months by agents of the Brit
ish government for the use of Lord
Kitchener's forces in policing the
Transvaal and Orange Free State. This
news has been announced by John S.
BrattoD, of St. Louis, who has sup
piled directly and indirectly to the
British army in the last two years
many horses suitable for cavalry use.
Details are received of the killing of
the supposed Apache Kid, near Pa
CAOCOS 1u0A1CO, 1CC0AbAy 1hoIo- dIc
three dead Indians one of them sup
posed to be the notorious Apache Kid,
for whom the United States govern
ment has offered a reward of SIS, 900.
The other dead are an Indian squaw
and pappoose, who fell in the fight.
The shooting uas done by two men
whom the Indians had robbed, and
who had followed the band. -.
There are now 80 cases Of yellow
fever in Havana.
Bryan says he will remain in poll
tics as long as he lives.
Russian S.diers in China will be
withdrawn to the north.
The United States battleship Ken
tucky has sailed from Naples for
Smyrna.
The official vote of the state of Flori-
da is as follows: Bryan. 28.007; Nc.
Kinley, 7.499.
Americans took Tagal stronghold
at Pinauran which the rebels boasted
was impregnable.
John Lawson Johnson, of Kent, Eng
land. the noted dietic expert, died in
France, aged 81.
The new United States monitor Ne
vada was launched at Bath, Me-, with
appropriate ceremonies.
The Venezuelan government has re-
ceived from Germany 10000 Mauser
rifles and 100000 cartridges.
The population of Kansas is .470,-
495, as against APT, ,096 in 1890. an
increase of 43, 399, or 8 per cent.
The population of Virginia is 1884,
1S4, as against l ,655, $50 in 1890. an
increase of 1913, ,2O4, or 11.9 per cent.
The population of Maryland is
1.550,0 against 1,402, 800 in 1890,
an increase of 147,660. or 14.1 per
cent.
Ex-President Kruger was received
by President Loubet, of France, at the
Ellysee. at Paris. There were no dis
turbances.
Five coal mines near Parkersburg,
W. Va, were destroyed by landslide,
entailing loss of $500, 900. No one
was injured.
At Chicago, the foreman of sash
and door factory was shot and instant.
-ly killed by one of two men. believed
to be strikers.
The Yale football team defeated
Harvard's eleven by the score OF % to
0, at New Haven, Conn.,, before an inn
mense crowd.
A st. Lawrence river steamer was
wrecked off Seven Islands, Quebec,
and all on board perished, 19 of the
crew and seven passengers.
The population of Nevada as official
ly announced by the census bureau, is
42.335, as against 45, 761 in 1890, de-
crease of 3.426, or IA per cent.
Five hundred Indians in Western
Colorado are slaughtering deer by the
hundreds, and Governor Thomas has
given orders to have them arrested.
Retaliatory measures are being de-
vised by the United States govern
ment against Turkey for refusal to
grant an exequator tc DIR. Thomas H.
Norton to act as consul at Harpoot.
The Missouri is now claimed to be
the longer by 200 miles than the Mis-
sissippi.
Captain Hassell, who commanded
company of American scouts in the
Boer army thinks the Beers will re-