Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-12-28
LATER NEWS.

Spokane has decided to hold a min
eral fair during 1902.
Oregon has paid out nearly 500. 900
in scalp bounties during 1899.
Public attention in Germany is oc-
cupied with crime in high circles.
Kitchener reports that Boer invasion
into Cape Colony has been checked.
Germany wants the sultan to pay its
bill before buying an American war
ship.
Rebels are scattered in the pro-
vinces of Panay and Cebu, Philippine
islands.
England will buy $4,000 horses and
mules in the United States for army in
South Africa.
Delay in negotiations has caused
great change of sentiments as regards
China in Japan.
A tornado did great damage in Ala
bama. News is meager, owing to all
wires being down.
H. Phelps -Whitmarsh has been ap-
poinGed governor of the province OF
Benguet, Philippine islands.
Forty-five insurgents were killed and
one American wounded in an encounter
near Gunobatan, Philippine islands.
E. H.. Southern, the we'll known ac-
tor, who ha been laid up for some time
by an accident. is entirely recovered.
A large portion of the Philippines
must be abandoned unless the relief of
the army is immediate, says Secretary
Root.
The police are working on the case
of Long. the Portland burglar recently
arrested. 1t is thought that charge
of murder will be laid at his door.
Fire which started in Pennsylvania
coal mine AZ years ago is under control.
and 1t is said that the next two years
will see it extinguished. The fire has
consumed about 35 acres OF the finest
coal land in the anthracite region.
Frank Fl. Morris. auditor of the war
department., was shot and killed by
Samuel Macdonald, postoffice depart
ment clerk. Fancied grievances and
liquor were the causes that led up to
the shooting. Macdonald afterward
shot himself and will not recover.
There is another hitch in the Chinese
negotiations.
Troops are being concentrated in
Northern Cape Colony. =
The English war office has arranged
to reinforce Kitchener at once.
Nicholas, Darnell, pioneer of East
ern Oregon, is dead, aged 63 years.
Senator Mcbride has asked for large
appropriation for customs service
launch at Astoria.
The Booth-KeIly Lumber Company
inaw to Eugene, Or.
Governor Geer asks Pacific Northwest
states to join Oregon in celebration of
Lewis and Clarke centennial.
A mob at Gulf Port, Miss, lynched
negro. 1t now appears that he was
the wrong man.
The supreme court of Ohio has dis
missed five cases brought under the
trust laws of that state.
1t is probable that the president will
visit Portland and the Puget sound
cities on his trip in May.
State of Washington pays $11, 800
sugar bounty to local sugar beet fac
tory for Spokane county crop.
T The striking telegraph operators on
the Santa Fe have given up the fight.
Their places have been filled by new
men.
Over ], 900 Christians are reported to
have been massacred by Turks. The
Turkish authorities show the utmost
Indifference.
The controller of the currency has
appointed receiver for the American
National Bank of Baltimore. 1t is
thought that depositors will be paid in
full.
A dispatch from Tien Tsin says:
prince Ching asserts that Emperor
Kwang Hsu, unaccompanied by the
Empress Dowager, left Sinan Flu De-
cember 10, bound for Pekin."
The dead body of Peter F. johnson
was found in water ditch on Park
avenue, Puyallup. The presumption
is that johnson fell into the ditch and
was unable to rescue himself.~
Conger was instructed to sign the
note.
A coal mine under the city of Pitts.
burg, Pennsylvania, has partially
caved in, allowing part of the principal
street of the town to fall into the mine.
It is feared other sections will also
sink.
Following the break of the Lulu H.
land dyke, floods have caused further
damage to the seawalls protecting the
farmers of the Fraser river valley.
Owing to high tides, strong winds and
heavy rains, the lands have been badly
flooded, and the village of Stevenson
is three feet under water.
The agricultural Department. has
established at Washington a laboratory
for testing all torts of road materials
The immigration bureau has al
lowed contract laborers from Porto
Rico to land in the United States as
citizens.
The cost of the public schools OF
Greater New York for the year 1901
will be SIT, The number of
pupils in the schools is estimated at