Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-13
lA7ER NEWS.


| ing the foreigners in Pekin.
Chinese do not want religion and no
amount of war can make them accept
it.
Battleship Oregon will not be sent
to Taku again unless absolutely neces-
sary.
= 1t is said America is to have II 600
snen in the force of 1O0.O 900 to be used
in China.
The steamer Rosalie arrived at Seat.
tie from Lynn canal. with $500, 900 in
Klonlike gold.
American trade will be injured il
the powers decide to make war on the
Chinese empire.
The Oregon must remain in dry dock
80 days. She has arrived at Che Foo
and will 60 to Japan at once.
Lii Hung Chang is again urging the
powers to intervene and establish a
strong government in the Chinese en-
pire.
George Horrick, is held at North va
kima on charge OF killing squaw on
the reservation. He claims self-de-
Tense.
Rumol is current that the Chicago &
ion Pacific railw.-as will be amalga-
mated.
DR.. Henry d. Cogswell, we'll
known philanthropist and prohibition
ist, is dead at San Francisco, aged 80
yea1s.
Commissioner of Patents Duell is
said to be out for the nomination for
governor of New York on the Repub-
lican ticket.
japanese laborers in Hawaii are dis
contented Plantation managers have
conceded everything asked for and still
they are not satisfied.
The converter and billet mill of the
Illinois Steel Company at Joliet, ILL.,.
resumed operations and nearly 1000
men were put to work.
Russian. French and German admi-
rails at Tien Tsin are said to have ex-
pressed themselves as unfavorable to
Japan's being given free hand.
Roy G. Gage, of Company c, Third
regiment, o. N. G., in their annual
encampment at Salem, was drowned
in the Willamette river while bathing.
Many prostrations from heat in New
York city.
Two more British warships have been
ordered to China.
A Franco-American alliance is pro-
posed by an enthusiastic Frenchman.
Fire in the business section of Pitts
burg caused the death of four persons
and injury to six others.
Fi1e in the Cramps shipbuilding
yard near Philadelphia, destroyed prop
erty to the value of 100000. =
Nine deaths in one day in Chicago
from extreme heat. The record for a
week is 81 deaths and 96 prostrations.
The total number of bodies recovered
from the recent Hoboken fire now
number 143, and 140 persons are re-
ported missing.
A cyclone, accompanied by a cloud
burst and hail storm. swept over Kala
mazoo, Mich. resulting in damage to
property of 100000.
On June II, the Chicago & North
western railway opened for traffic their
new line from Belle Plaine, Ia, to Ma
son City; also their new Fox lake
| branch. The length of this new line
| is 1876 miles, which added to their mile
age gives them total of 8,462. 85
miles, the largest mileage of any rail-
road in the world.
The dock laborers' strike at Rotter-
dam, Germany, is assuming threaten
ing proportions. The carmen have
| now Joined in the strike, and the police
and marines are guarding the streets
in order to check disturbances. The
strikers have picketed all the ap-
proaches to the town, so as to prevent
non-unionists from entering. The Ia
borers of Rotterdam will hold a mass
netting to discuss the best means of
aiding the strikers.
The orders recently issued for the re-
moval of large number of troops from
Cuba have been gladly welcomed by
the Cubans, and General Wood is in
receipt of many letters from various
municipalities offering thanks for what
they call his disposition to trust the
Cubans, and declaring that the entire
island is in state OF absolute tran
quillity. The Tenth infantry, it is be-
lieved, will leave the island shortly af-
ter the departure of the regiments now
under orders to proceed home.
James W. Porter, of Chicago, has re-
ceived a cablegram from Che Foo, an
nouncing that his brother, the Rev.
Henry j. Porter, and his sister, Miss
Mary H. Porter, missionaries of the
American board of commissioners for
foreign missions, stationed at Pang
Chuang, 200 miles south of Tien Tsin,
had arrived safely at Che Foo. July 5,
coming overland from Gilman Flu, cap
ital of the province. They we're accom-
panied by the Rev. H. P. Perkins, an
other missionary stationed at Pang
Chuang.
An ordinary sight in Manila ia a