Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-12-14
NEWS OF Till W[[k
From All Parts of the New World
and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR MANY READERS


Comprehensive Review Of the Important Hap.
peninss of the Past Week ina
Condensed Form.
The ministers at Pekin have reached
an agreement.
The new war revenue bill will reduce
taxation $40, 1000, 34S.
The pension roll for the coming year
will call for $142, 100000.
The governor of Shanghai publicly
executed 80 Boxer leaders.
Secretary Cages estimate for govern
ment expense is 1926, 1852.
George Won l.. Meyer, of Boston, will
be appointed ambassador TO Italy.
Charles A. Towne accepted the ap-
pointmenr of senator from Minnesota.
Mccall made sensational speech in
the house against holding the Philip
pines.
A small American force routed a
band of rebels at Santo Domingo.
Luzon.
Contract for erection of Salem, Or,
postoffice has been awarded to a Chi
cago firm.
In a street duel in West Virginia
town a minister was killed by prom
inent lawyer.
1t is estimated that taxable valuation
of Oregon for 1900 will be about $2,-
900, 600 less than in 1899.
Fire in the Cambridge, Ohio, works
of the American Tinplate Company,
caused loss on finished tin alone of
between $175, 900 and 100000.
John Luke Hely- Hutchinson, fifth
earl of Donoghmore, st one time assist
ant commissioner in Eastern Rou-
mania, died of paralysis, in London.
Robbers raided the office of the West
ern Lumber Company in Portland, Or,
Just before the employees wers ready to
receive their November wages in coin.
and secured $4,700.
At New York, the Fasig- Upton Com
pany closed the most successful auction
sale of trotting and pacing horses in its
history. The proceeds of the sale were
1852, 1870 for 7e2 horses, an average of
about $500 head.
A serious cave-in occurred at the
Ray Aug. mine, near Dunore, Pa.
Fifty-one men Were entombed. The
rescuing party, after nearly three hours
hard work, succeeded in digging into
the cham ber in which the men were
entombed All were rescued, not one
being seriously injured.
Consul General Stowe says the Boer
war is nearly ended.
Kruger's mission to Europe was frus.
trated by the Kaiser.
Nine men we're killed in a train
wreck near Su1sun, Cal.
The Isthmian canal commission
recommends the Nicaragua route.
Senator Fairbanks, of Indiana, in
troduced bill to admit Oklahoma as a
state, with two repl esentatives.
A report comes from Queen Charlotte
island that the Indians there are short
of food. Their wants will he attended
to.
1t is reasserted in Tien Tsin that the
Germans lost 20 killed and many
wounded west of Pao Ting Flu, where
they were attacked by 2. 800 Boxers.
Congressman briggs introduced a
resolution in the house requiring the
secretary of war to investigate the
practice of "hazing" at West Point.
Senator Pettigrew introduced a reso.
luton in the senate calling upon the
postmaster-general to send to the senate
any information he may have in his
possession concerning postal frauds in
Cuba.
outraSes upon the Pao Ting Flu mission
aries, was paraded through the streets
of Tien Tsin in a cart under strong
German guard, previous to being hand
ed over to the provisional governmental
tor decapitation.
Frank Hawley, an American electric
promoter, is now in London in the in.
terest of an American syndicate. Mr.
Hawley says the capitalists he repre-
sents are ready to spend no less thar
ga, 600, 900 in the construction of cleo
tric surface roads in Lon Ion and to the
suburbs to radius of 80 miles. Not
a penny of British capital will be
asked. He expresses himself as conf
dent that the undertaking will be q
financial success.
Major Wood, commanding the Cana
dian mounted police in the Yukon ter
ritory, who collects the royalties OF
gold, reports the collections this veal
on the Klondike output as amounting
to nearly 5000, 900, about $10O. .0O(
more than was received last year. Ter
per cent of the gold mined is supposed
to be paid to the government, which
would indicate the Klondike output fol
the season to have been only $4,000,
600, but the general estimate has placed
it at nearly $40, 900, 900.
A correspondentsso of Santiago de Cubs
says the natives there are becoming
adopts in the American game of base
ball. Havana may yet bid for place
in the National league.
A celebrated Enlgish physician say.
that he has found that warts can bt
cured by revaccinaton. He revacci
mated girl of Is who had "a warts OF
one hand, and seven weeks after the