Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-31
LATER NEWS.

The allies are said to have lost 1900
men in battle in Pekin.
Senator Carter will accompany
Roosevelt on his Western trip.
Minister Conger reports the situation
practically unchanged in Pekin.
Bressi, the assassin of King Hum.
bert, attempted to commit suicide.
General Olivier, the Boer leader,
was captured by the British at Win
burg.
General Lung .Wu is declared to be
the real author of the anti foreign out
break.
The Hankow uprising was started
by followers of Kang Yu Wei, the re.
former.
Gold Hill postofice and store safe
was cracked by burglars and over $500
secured.
Two men were killed and three
men and woman wounded in Gill
man, ILL.,. riot.
Camille d'Arivlle, the opera singer,
was married to E. W. Crelin, an Oak.
land millionaire.
The Populist national committee &C.
cepted Stevenson as the vice-presiden-
tial nominee of the party.
The naval veterans parade was the
feature of the second day of the G. A..
r. encampment at Chicago.
Work on The Dalles portage road
closed for want of funds. Company
being organized to complete the same.
Oregon timber lands offer good
chance for investment. Situation re.
viewed by former Michigan lumber.
man.
Nicholas Aylward, aged IS, an in.
mate of the county infirmary. at st.
Joseph. Mo-. died from the effects OF
a beating administered by Jack Han
Ion, an attendant. Hanlon cannot be
found.
A wholesale Jail delivery occurred al
Red Lodge, Mont, Persons outside
pried off window bar and opened the
cells with skeleton keys, and four
Montana desperadoes made their
escape.
After nearly 20 years, man turns
up at Fort Worth, Tex, who claims
Jesse James was not killed at st.
Joseph, Mo-, by Bob Ford, but that II
was detective who was killed. The
man says Jesse James IS now running
a grocery store 20 miles from Trini-
dad, Colo.
Large masses of Boxers are still in
Pekin.
Chinese rally their forces and pre-.
pare to attack the allies in Pekin.
The Russian commander in Pekin
forbids communication with Chinese.
1t was Prince Tum and not Prince
Tuan who was captured by the Japan
nese.
Three young women were drowned
while bathing at Findlay Lake, New
York.
Beers laid trap for General Buller's
cavalry and succeeded in capturing
number.
The United States will not sacrifice
its guaranteed rights and privileges in
China.
Food supply at Tier Tsin is INSULT
cient for refugees and famine is i'm
minent.
Japan has notified Ii Hung Chang
that negotiations will be impossible
until plenipotentiaries acceptable to
the powers are appointed. =
The population of New Orleans as
announced by the census bureau is
2S7, 104, aaginst 242,O39 in 1890, an
increase of 45,O65, or 1882 per cent.
Fire destroyed the top floor of
building in New York City occupied
by Birkenfeld- Strauss Company, manu-,
facturers of ladies' underwear, causing
loss of $500, 900.
Five overturned fishing smacks were
found with all their sails fat on tn
water in the Gulf of Georgia, l 5 mile
from Vancouver. B. c., after a gale.
and as a result several fishermen were
drowned.
The Yaqui Indians, who have been
fighting the Mexican troops in Sonora,
have sued for peace. Two thousand Of
the bucks yet under arms refuse to
join the tribal negotiations, fearing
that it means humiliation. 4
Twenty Thousand packing house EN-.
ployes in the big cities of the country
may be thrown out of employment Sep
tember 15, on account of being unable
to secure what they consider an equita-
BILE adjustment of the wage scale.
Joseph Kronke, a butcher in the Po-
lish district of Detroit. Mich, known
as "King of Poles," power in poll
tics, was accidentally killed in his own
ice house by being pinioned between
two chunks of ice and frozen to death.
At Helnea, Mont, thieves stole
S., 600 worth of gold from the assay
offace of the Jay Gould cyanide plant.
The gold was in a retort and represent.
ed a two-weeks' cleanup of R. A.
Harsh's cyanide mill. The amalgam
was red hot when taken from the Office.
having just come from the furnace.
Mrs. Samuel Swartwood. wife of
railroad engineer living in Wilkesbarre,
Pa, has just given birth to her 25th
baby, 20 of whom are living.
Lewis Wilkins, farmer near st.
Paul, thinks he's the tallest man on
earth. He was six feet when 10 years
old, and is now feet 11H inches.
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