Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-12
LATER NEWS.

The Chinese court refuses to return
to Pekin.
France is anxious to annex Yunnan
province.
Russian troops may withdraw from
Manchuria.
Chamberlain is mentioned as pos
sible successor of Salisbury.
The ministerial majority in the Brit.
ish parliament will be from $50 to l6O.
Trades Council orders strike on Seat
ties buildings. Over 1000 men are
idle.
The Beers now occupy Wepner, as
well as Rouxville and Ficksburg, Ill
Orange River colony, and the British
are attempting to surround them.
Five persons were killed and rs in.
jured in railway collision at karls'
thor, Germany. The accident was Que
to an error in signaling. One official
has been arrested.
Andrew G.. Armstrong, one of the
founders of Scribner's Magazine, anc
one of the oldest publishers in New
York city, died at his country home
at Stamford, Conn.,, aged II.
Five thousand pilgrims assembled al
the St. Nikandel monastery, in the
Porkhoff district. St. Petersburg, fol
religious festival. During the night
one of the upper floors collapsed and
many of those sleeping there fell upon
those below. A panic was caused by
false alarm of fire, and four men and sc
women were crushed to death, many
others being seriously injured.
Arrangements for building 5000
freight cars for the Baltimore q Ohio
railroad by the Pullman Company, at
Pullman, ILL.,, has been completed.
The contract calls for 2, 500 box cars,
each with capacity of co. 900 pounds.
and 500 fat cars. The total cost OF the
rolling stock will be $l.S65, 900. This
is the second large order for freight
equipment given by the Baltimore q
Ohio management within the last week.
! The first order was for 5000 steel cars,
to cost 100000.
Having found the natives OF Tutuila
| fit to serve as policemen and maintain
peace and order, Commander B. f.
Tilley believes they would make excel.
| lent soldiers to man the Notifications
| of Pango Pango harbor. In private
! letters to officers on duty he has indi.
Gated that they would make effective
4 artillerymen. To enlist regiment oi
natives, it would be necessary to OBJ
tain special authority from congress.
I fiv1D a
men were enlisted by Commander Til.
/ ley as landsmen. 1t is likely. how
ever, that a force of marines will be
permanently stationed at Pango Pango.
The Beers are active in Orange River
Colony.
Roosevelt spoke to two big meetings
in Chicago.
Japanese troops are withdrawing
flom China.
Bourke Cochran discussed the issues
in Topeka, Kansas.
The battieship Texas may be perman'
entity retired from service.
A collision on the Great Northern
line near Seattle resulted in the death
of an engineer and the serious injury
of another.
A tornado struck the town of Biwa'
blk. in Northern Minnesota, killing
nine persons, injuring several Others
and doing damage 10 the amount o.
$500, 1000.
The secretary of the interior has de-
cided to dispose OF the Indian lands
ceded to the Chippewas in Minnesota
amounting to "A, 125 acres. They con
sist of pine and agricultural lands.
Fire on the docks of the Atlantic
Transport Line, in the North river
New York, destroyed one of the piers
of the company, with all the merchan
disc on it, entailing loss of $175.000
The population of the city of Taco
ma, Wash, according to the United
States census for 1900, is officially an
nounced as 81, against 36,001 il
1890, an increase of ,708, or 4.S4 pc
cent.
1t is officially announced by the cen
sus bureau that the population of tn
state of New Hampshire is All, 58S
| III 1851, tu0 pOpuldIlOu WAS oto,ooo
the increase being 35,05S. or $50 pc
cent.
Lii Hung Chang has ordered the re
lease and safe escort to Pekin of fiv
Belgian engineers and Is missionaries
who have been kept prisoners man.
weeks at Pao Tisg Flu. LII Hun
Chang is apparently doing his utmos
) to please the powers.
At Trenton, N. j., Eddie Mcbride
, 10 years old, died from burns receive
while playing "Indian" with compan
IONS Mcbride was tied to a stake an
his clothing saturated with gasolin
and then ignited. The boy broke loos
and ran screaming to his home, wher
he died.
: The war department has approve
an exhaustive opinion by Judge Adve
! cate General Lieber to the effect tina
4 absentees from volunteer regimen,
, save prisoners of war, are discharge
from the service on the same date upo