Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-15
LAIR NEWS.

Four persons were killed in troll.
ley-oar accident at Providence, r. I.
The Republican convention hall at
Philadelphia will seat 16, 900 people.
Beers have torn up "a miles of rail-
road between Pretoria and Kroonstad.
Tacoma will have captured Span
ish cannon for use in it's Fourth of July
celebration.
| Beers captured a British battalion
of 500 men at Roodeval, severing Rob-
erts' line of communication.
Philippine rebels aim to follow the
tactics of the Cuban rebels during the
war of the latter against Spian.
The steamer City of Seattle, which
arrived at Seattle from Alaska, brought
22O Klondlkers and $500, 900 in gold.
Senator Clark was given great ova-
tion at Butte, Mont. He made a
speech denouncing his enemies as per-
jurers.
Documents slezed in the Philippines
indicate that in rebel plot for an up
rising in Manila, women were to take
important part.
Chinese minister in London says it
is s.bsurd that the powers should believe
the empress dowager is aiding the Box
ers' movement.
May shipments of coal from Seattle
to San Francisco by water amounted to
10000 tons, or half of the total amount
of coal received at that port during
May.
AS result of weeks scouting in
the Philippines. more than 200 in
surgents were killed and 16O captured,
while 140 rifles, with ammunition and
stores were seized.
Two five-story brick buildings, owned
by Geo. E. Ketcham, on West avenue,
New York, containing 1880 bushels
of grain, were destroyed by fire, caus-
ing loss of $4,000.
In the preliminary examination of
of James Collins at Arlington, Or, a
physician testified that Collins could
easily have been saved.
it is estimated that during the past
month various railroad corporations
have placed orders for 20, 900, 900 to 30,-
000,0 feet of Washington fir, mainly
in bridge timbers, dock stuffs and ties.
The cleanup of gold in the Klon-
dixie this season will be 500, 100000 to
$25, 100000 according to the estimates
of well-known miners arriving from
the Klondike. The Spring work il
we'll along in the district, the only
drawback being the scarcity of water.
This fact, it is said, will result in de-
laying the cleanup until late in the
summer.
Russia and Japan may come to war
as result of the Boxers movement.
General Pho del Pillar, the Filipino
leader, was captured by Americans six
miles east of Manila.
Two men were instantly killed and
eight seriously injured by the explosion
of boiler at brick works at Annis.
ton, Ala.
The Boxer movement is spreading
throughout China. Russia gives notice
that if the powers do not act she will
60 it alone.
An explosion, caused by mining
fuses at the customs department, at
Oporto, Portugal, killed two persons
and injured 13.
Harry Decker, we'll known pro.
moter of Western railroad properties,
shot and killed himself in his apart
ments at New York City.
One man was killed and four hurt
by the falling of freight elevator in
the Nichols & Shepherd Implement
building at Kansas City.
A fire in the oil refining and salt
peter district of Hamburg, Germany,
destroyed property to the value Of
100000 marks, including many
dwellings.
A tannery owned by Fayette, Shaw
& Co., at Miller, Wis. was destroyed
by fire, causing a loss of 100000.
Nine hundred men were thrown out Of
employment.
The investigation of the affairs Of
Adolph A. Kuhn, junior member of the
firm of Kuhn Bros, brokers, of Chi
cago, shows he has left a shortage of |
81, 100000.
The president has approved the find
ings and sentence in the case of Cap |
tain Deming, of Buffalo, assistant COM
missary of subsistence, U. S. ", tried |
at San Francisco on a charge of forgery
and embezzling public funds.
Alexander Stevenson, line repairer |
of the Utah Electric Light & Power
Company, of Salt Lake, was instantly |
killed by electricity on Third South |
and Main streets. He went up a pole |
to do some work, and took hold of a
live wire. His body hung suspended |
in the network of wires in the presence
of hundreds of people.
In Japan a new law just put into op-
Grafton forbids smoking by persons un,
der 20 years old, and also forbids the |
selling of tobacco or other smoking |
material to youths of this age. Fines
are provided for the smoker and for
whoever sells to him the stuff. The
law provides also for fning the parents
of such voufhfu1 smOkers hecause thov