Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-06-22
IAIER NEWS.

Roberts may seize Delagoa bay road.
Chinese forts at Taku fired on foreign
vessels, but were soon forced to snr-
render.
Russia has demanded of China an in.
demnity of $4,000. 900 taels for the
damage done t, the railroad from Tien
Tsin to Pekin.
John Vass, one of the best-known
mining experts on the Pacific Coast,
died of consumption at Baker City,
Or, aged 46 years.
Trouble is rife in the northern part
of the Republic of San Domingo. Many
arrests have been made, including lead
ers of the former government party.
In consequence of the gravity of the
situation in China, England has order
ed the Seventh Bengal infantry at
Simla. India, to proceed to Hong Kong.
J.C. Pardee, aged SO years, brake
man on the Southern Pacific train. who
lives in Ashland, Or, was killed at
Dunsmuir, CAL, by bein run over by
train.
Information from Pekin, brought to
Shanghai by refugees, says that the
city is in a state of panic. Incendiary
fires are of nightly occurrence, and
scores of outrages are reported. Wo-
men and children from Tien Tsin are
pouring into Shanghai. The chief
danger there is the fact that the native
town, behind the European settlement.
is full of bad characters, whose atti.
tude is becoming every day more inso-
lent and menacing.
At Needles, CAL, the federal quaran.
tine inspector has been prevented from
molesting passengers on Santa Fo trains
at the state line and his authority is
ignorned by the railroad officials. Or
ders have been issued to all conductors
to take up the pass of the inspector,
Mr.. Jenkins, if presented, and collect
his fare. Jenkins has wired to Surgeon
Kenyoun for instructions. The con-
ductors have also been ordered TO give
the inspector no information.
S. j. MCGOWAN, superintendent of
the Phoen <, Ariz., Indian Industrial
School, ha, ing been directed to inves-
tigate the condition of the Pima In
dians on their reservation on the Gila
river. 80 miles from Phoenix, who
were reported to be suffering from
famine. states that 5000 Pimas and
an equal NUMBER OF Papagoes are in
great distress. Congress has appropri-
ated $33, 900 for the relief of the In
dians and Iations will soon be distri-
buted.
A second-class naval station will be
established at San Diego, Cal.
Churches and residences of foreigners
in Tien Tsin have been burned.
An extra session of congress may be
convened owing to the Chinese war.
China will have heavy bill of dam
ages to pay for the Boxer outrages
when order is again restored.
Fire destroyed the Home for the
Friendless children at Leadville, Colo,
causing the death of four of the inmates.
Francis of Orleans, Prince of Join
vile, son of the late Louis Philippe,
king of the French. is dead of pneu-
monia, aged 80 years.
Three persons were killed and 16
seriously injured by collision between
an express train and train filed with
near London, England.
G. P. Rummelin, well-known
merchant of Portland, Or, was muir.
dered in New York city, presumably
for the purpose of robbery. His throat
was cut from ear to ear.
A native rising has occurred in the
Gambia colony, West Africa, and two
British commissioners and six memb bers
of the police have been killed at Sam.
kandi, on the south banks of Gambia
river, by Mandingoes. The party had
gone to Sannkanndi to settle question
OF local administration, when the Man
dingoes suddenly attacked and MUIR.
dered them.
The Mexican government, following
the example set by Texas, has quaran.
tined against San Francisco, and until
notice to the contrary is given, all per-
sons who have been in San Francisco
within period of Is days will not be
allowed TO pass the border until they
have remained in quarantine for suf-
ficient length of time to make up the
15 days. The Mexican quarantine
relates to passengers only. The border
have the matter in hand.
Journal specials from towns in South.
west Nebraska tell of violent rain and
wind storms with some hail. At Syra-
cuse, 5 n inches of rain has fallen in
"a hours. Damage to crops is heavy.
The Little Nehama valley is one vast
lake, and many families have been
to abandon their homes.
Freight trains on the Burlington have
been abandoned. Weeping Water
creek, at Weeping Water, Cass county,
is the highest known for 10 years and
Missouri Pacific trains are delayed.
Able Mareux, the astronomer, has
discovered and sketched through the
big telescope in the optic palace of the
at Paris. remarkable spot
IN the sun. forming part of an extens-
i've group, and having diameter of