Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-12-07
LATER NEWS.

tile Philippine bill.
Kruger wept at Emperor William q
refusal to meet him.
Five men were killed by the blowing
mp of power house in Chicago.
The short session of the Fifty-sixth
congress was successfully opened.
Colorado game wardens arrested 16
Mormons who had killed 80 deer.
Robbers blew up a silverton, Or,
bank, but failed to get at the cash.
A strange woman is exciting the Pa
pago Indians to be guided by their
dreams.
Congressman Lacey and Senator Tel
Ter are in favor of offering homes to the
Beers.
Oscar L. Booze, West Point cadet,
10 dying from the effects of a burning
drink given him by hazers.
A drunken man was killed and his
body derailed a heavy locomotive on
the O. r. s. N, near Hood River, Ore.
gon.
SOAOAC1 JoAA w AAlAdlAcp OAiAo nu-
ditor of the treasury under President
Cleveland, died at La Fayette, Ind,
aged n.
Rev. William Howard Day, D. D.,
general secretary of the A. M. E. Sec
ond church, did at Harrisburg, Pa,
aged 73 years.
Rev Patrick Feehan, archbishop of
the Catholic archdiocese of Chicago,
will retire from the active manage
ment of his Office with the close of the
present year.
General W. T.. White, ex-ouarter-
master-general of the Michigan Ma
tional guard, pleaded guilty to compile.
ity in state military clothing frauds,
and was sentenced to 10 years in prison.
John Baines, a constable, was MUIR
dered at Dallas, Tex, by burning. His
clothing had been saturated with tur-
pentine and ignited. Both eyes were
burned out. John Chapman and Ed
Faulkner, saloon keepers, were arrest
ed, charged with the murder.
The Pacific cable committee has &C.
cepted, on behalf of the government of
Great Britain, New South Wales,
Queensland and New Zealand, the bid
of the Telegraph Construction & Main
tenance Company, to make and lay
cable from Vancouver to Queensland
and New Zealand, via Tanning, Fiji
and Norfolk islands, for 81, ,795, 900,
the work to be finished by the end of
1909.
Boxers are active around Tien Tsin.
The Guam typhoon was the worst in
40 years.
House Democrats will offer new
army bill.
Secretary Hay signed a canal treaty
with Nicaragua.
The United States gunboat Monocacy
will winter at Takd.
The Chinese court has lost confidence
in Earl Lii and Prince Ching.
Twelve hundred boIomen surrender
ed to the Americans at Vigan.
An Austrian field marshal criticizes
the British army organization.
An American warship will make a
demonstration against Morocco.
Six men were drowned in ferry
boat disaster ON Spokane river.
Texas vote for presidential electors
was: Bryan, 267, ,4s2; Mckinley, 121,-
573.
University of Oregon defeated Uni
versity of Washington in football by
43 to 0.
Fulton, Kentucky. was visited by a
fire which destroyd 30 establishments
and cuased loss of $3.50, 900.
A Sumpter, Or, miner was badly in
jured by the explosion of giant powder
which he placed on stove to thaw
out.
Fred W. Buhsnell, for several years
city editor of the Minneapolis Tribune,
died at that city of cancer of the stom-
ach.
The population of Indian Territory is
89l 800, as against 100, 162 in 1890,
an increase of 211,775, or 117.5 per
cent.
The population of Wisconsin, as an
nounced by the census bureau, is 2,O69.-
O49, as against /, ,686, $50 in 1890, an
increase of 3s2, 142, or 22.6 per cent.
Two steamers collided on the river
about 20 miles above Huntington. W.
Va, sinking 80 coalboats containing
100000 bushels of coal, entailing loss
of 100000.
Advices from Australia state that
the volcano on Beach island, in the
New Britain group, has again become
active, causing great upheaval on
land and sea. Many natives have been
killed.
The award of the Swiss government
in the Franco Brazilian boundary dis
pute gives Brazil LAT, 900 square miles
OF the contested territory. France
gets about 5000 square miles north Of
the Tumuc Huemac range.
There are 400 cases of smallpox in
the city of Winona, Minn., and to pre-
vent its spread the public schools have
been closed and street-car companies
compelled to stop their cals at the
boundary of the infected district.
Unsatisfactory rate arrangements
with railroads may prevent the G. A.
r. ,encampment in Denver.
The man who built the city hall OF
Denver is now selling cigars and tobac.
co at a stand in the corridor of the