Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-25
LAT Err NEWS.

IAIEh NEWS
No new plague cases have bsen dis
covered In San Francisco.
Fritz Meyer, a murderer, was put to
death in the electric chair at Sing Sing.
An Ohio statesman shot and killed
his wife accidentally by taking her for
a rat.
Chicago is afraid of the plague.
Coffee from an infected vessel found its
way into the city.
Russell A. Alger says the statement
that he had invested in recent Cuban
enterprises is lie.
The United States supreme court de.
cided the Kentucky governorship case
in favor of Governor Beckham.
A bill to prevent interstate commerce
in convict made goods was passed in
the senate without division.
Chinatown of Portland is to be
cleaned up to prevent the possible
propagation of bubonic plague.
Two workmen were killed and 81
injured at strikers riot in Berlin.
One hundred and three arrests were
made.
Mataofka, one of the Samoan chiefs,
thinks he has been treated shabbily by
Germany, and a revolt may occur at
any time.
'Filipinos lost SO men killed in an
ooy,f OF IN
province. American loss, two killed
and three wounded.
Two cars of kerosene were blown up,
car of bicycles smashed by collision
on the Northern Pacific which occurred
about nine miles east of Spokane.
The postmaster general has suspended
Director. General of Post Rathbone and
appointed Fourth Assistant Postmaster.
General Brystow as acting director.
general of post in Cuba.
The Lodge amendment to the post.
Office appropriation bill continuing the
pneumatic service in cities where con.
tracts have been made and appropriat.
ing 1925, 900 for the same was adopted
by the senate, 38 to 20.
The Russian em bassy has considera.
bly, perturbed governmental and diplo-
matte circles at Constantinople by in
viting the immediate attention of the
porte to the deplorable situation OF
many districts of Arm enia, resulting
from brutal methods of collecting taxes
and from prosecutions.
Rev. DR.. Edwin A. Schell, of Chi
cago, has filed declaration in suit
for $25, 900 damages against Rev. DIR.
Charles Parkhurst, Rev. Henry G. Jen-
nings, and Rev. DIR. Joseph F. Berry.
DR.. Schell was formerly the general
secretary of the Epworth League. He
charges the defendants with entering
into conspiracy to injure his reputa-
tion, thereby forcing him to resign his
official position.
London is enthusiastic over the relief
of Mafeking.
British forces under Lord Dun1onald
have advanced as far as Laing's Mex.
Fire destroyed the main portion OF
st. Mary's school at Belmont, S. G.
Loss is estimated at 100000.
William H. Hunt, of Montana. has
been selected to be secretary of state
Tor the island of Puerto Rico.
Street-car strikers of st. Louis are
restrained from interfering with mail
cars by temporary injunction.
Texas has declared a quarantine
against San Francisco on account of the
prevalence of plague in that city.
Fenian sympathizers with the Beers
made an attempt to blow up the Brit.
ish notifications at Esquimalt, B. G.
Congressman George B. Mcclellan,
son of 'sLittle Mac" the federal gen.
eral, is being urged as running mate
for Bryan.
Washington Democrats in convention
at Spokane, Endorsed Bryan for presi-
dent, James Hamilton Lewis for vice.
president.
The Beers announce they will defend
Johannesburg, and the consuls of the
neutral powers have been advised to
look after their citizens.
Owners of Chicago breweries have
defied the city ordinance requiring
them to pay $500 license fee the first
day of May each year.
American warships are leaving
Manila for Chinese ports to escape the
hot weather which comes to that city
every April, May and June.
In the coast towns of Colima and
Jolisco, Mexico, an earthquake caused
houses to be submerged, boats swamped
and several natives to drown.
The statue of General Grant, pre-
sented by the g. A. r. to the nation,
was unveiled in the great rotunda of
the capitol with impressive ceremonies.
In the senate, the proposition relat-
ing to the transportation of mail by
the pneumatic tube system, was laid
on the table by vote of s2 to 16.
A work train on the Guadalajara
branch of the Mexican Central road
ran into an obstruction, wrecking the