Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-14
LATER NEWS.
General Joseph Wheeler has retired.

the Philippines.
Republicans carried Maine by ST..
900 to $4,000 majority.
An appeal is issued by Texans in be.
half OF the Galveston sufferers.
Germany and England are said to
have agreed to remain in Pekin.
Rumor is denied that stock grazing
on forest reserves is to be restricted.
Galveston's death list numbers fully
/ 200. Some estimates place it higher.
Texas City and many smaller towns
near the gulf were partially wercked.
Oregon has been asked to erect a
building at the Buffalo Pan-American
exposition.
Oregon prune prices have been
doomed bv action OF the California
Fruit Association.
Ninety-three missionaries are known
to have been killed and ITO are missing
from the recent uprising in China.
Henry Watson died at his home near
Albany, Or, aged 70 years. He was a
pioneer of 1S47, and an Indian war
veteran.
The Eureka shingle mill at Harrison,
Idaho. was burned recently. The loss
will amount to about $4,000, of
which only $4,000 is covered by insur-
ance.
Pekin, who is responsible for the MUIR
del of the German minister, has been
arrested and is confined under Ger
man jurisdiction.
At Rock Creek, in Park county.
Mont. Frank Forrest, ranch hand,
aged 20, shot and killed Willis Hoard,
well-to-do rancher, aged 30; fatally
wounded Miss Laura Linn, aged 16.
and then committed suicide by shoot
ing himself through the heart.
Henry A. Chittenden, a journalist of
note and the man who secured for Oak
land, Call, the $500 Carnegie free
public library, is dead at that city OF
a throat aff1;stion, aged "a years. He
served as reporter and editor ON
Eastern papers. For 10 years he was
employed by James Gordon Bennett,
"O1hIuS OA tA0 anu
At Seattle, the large steamer Inver.
ness, 3,3l3 tons, was formally turned
over to the United States officials for
use for transport service in the Philip
pines. The vessel is large and COM
modious, and will at once be placed in
commission. Two other ships have
been secured by the government from
the British-American line for like
service They will all be used for car.
rying army and other supplies.
The American troops have orders to
get ready to leave Pekin.
Lii Hung Chang will be permitted to
go to Pekin Tor a conference.
France agrees unwillingly to Rus
sia S proposal TO evacuate the imperial
city.
Seven vessels We're wrecked or
stranded on the Florida coast by the
recent hurricane.
Two persons were killed and one SER
iously wounded in row in restaurant
at Reno, Nevada.
Commandant Theron, noted Boer
scout, has been found dead on the field
near Krugersport. small town about
90 miles northeast of Lydenburg.
The census bureau announces that
the population of Portland, Or, is co.
426. as against 1885 in 1890, an in
crease OF 44.041, or "a. 95 per cent.
Germanys' reason for rejecting the
proposals of with
drawal from Pekin is that the time is
inopportune and calculated to prol ong
the war.
The American ship May Flint COL
lided with a bark in the bay of San
Francisco, then drifted onto the battle
ship Iowa. where she was split open
and sank to the bottom.
Ex-President Cleveland has declined
the presidents appointment as a MEM
Der of the International Board of Arbi-
tration, under The Hague treaty. Ex.
President Harrison has accepted the
appointment.
The staff surgeon of the German lega-
tion at Pekin announces that an ex-
animation shows the cause of Baron
Won kettelers' death to have been a
bullet through the neck. which must
have been instantaneously fatal.
Francis Edward Hinckley. one of
the incorporators of the Chicago Uni
versity, and prominently identified
with many important railroad and COM
mercial enterprises, is dead at his
home at West New Brighton, Staten
Island, aged &c.
The weather in India is now promis-
ing for crops. Excellent rain has
fallen in all the famine districts and
the winter sowings are practically as
sured. The number now receiving re-
lief is something under 100000, an
encouraging reduction.
Ulysses kellogg, aged IL years, and
George Oglesby were killed by firedamp
in ain abandoned shaft at Newcastle,
Wash. The former descended into the
hole to look for chicken which he
had thrown therein, and was followed
by Oglesby. Both were overcome by
the vapor and fell to the bottom of the
shaft.
A New York man who was knocked
insensible by brick during parade
30 years ago has just received an apollo
gy from the man who threw it.
To relieve the poor of Dublin Baron
Iveagh will build artisan dwellings in
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