Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-24
LATER NEWS.

Senator Stewart, of Nevada, will
support Mckinley.
A tornado did great damage in sew
eral Wisconsin towns.
Ex-senator John J. Ingalls, left an
estate valued at $25O,000.
japanese are beginning to distrust
the Continental Europeans.
Chicago's population as shown by
the United States census, is 1893. 575.
: More rebels are reported to have sur
rendered in the United States OF Co.
lomb bia.
A drunken Kansas doctor killed three
persons, and was shot dead by sher-
ifs son.
William NJ. johnson, of New Jersey,
succeeds Perry Heath as assistant
postmaster-gene
Lord Roberts issued proclamation
prescribing severe penalties for Beers
who violate their oaths.
Estimates of the shortage in the
Pacific coast salmon pack vary between
600, 200 and 1000, 900 cases.
A posoffice employe killed Kansas
City woman and wounded her husband
as result of quarrel over rent.
The Chinese government asks that
Conger or some other American be ap-
pointed to open peace negotiations.
The Willamette valley hop crop. is
practically out of danger. The yield
will be heavy and prices re advancing.
The state Board of agriculture orders
the erection of $50 additional stalls for
livestock exhibit at the state fair at
Salem, Or.
Caleb Powers, ex-secretary of state
of Kentucky. issued statement in
which he declares his innocence, and
says he had political trial.
The reported of the plague in Manila
for the two weeks ending July II, a.
just reported to the marine hospita
service, is seven new cases and five
deaths. OF the new cases four were
Filipinos and three Chinese.
The Kansas City firemen. in q class
created at the Paris exposition for paid
fremen, won the worlds champion
ship cup. The officers received gold
medals, and silver medals and the
money prize, 900 francs. was divided
among the officers and men. The min
lister of war. General Andre. presented
the prizes to Captain Hale. Portugal
won the volunteer championship.
American troops shared in the as
sault ON Pekin.
Fire in Wellington, Ohio, caused
loss of $4,000.
Frenchmen accuse England of dupli-
city at Shanghai.
Unirrigated crops in Idaho are suf-
fering from drouth.
Another attempt was made to assas-
sinate the shah of Persia.
The Typographical Union has refused
to enter the political field.
Two persons were killed in an acci-
dent at the Paris exposition.
The population of Greater New York
is shown by the census to be 3,437, ,202.
Four deaths and Is prostrations as
result of another hot wave in Chicago.
Steel mills at Wilmington, Della
ware, shut down, affecting 800 men
The Shanghai muddle is beginning to
assume serious aspect, international
troops being landed.
Puget sound salmon pack for this
season is about 199. 900 cases, compared
with $4,000 for 1899.
Philip Koenigberger, New York
tobacco dealer, cut his throat in. bar
ber shop in San Francisco.
Caleb Powers was convicted of COM
plicity of in the Goebel murder and
sentenced to life imprisonment.
Lord Robe, til will be recalled from
Africa in October and appointed COM
mander-in-chief of the British army.
War in China caused the closing OF
a large mill in Biddeford. Me-, throw
ling 5000 hands out of employment.
Shipments OF lumber from the state
of Washington for the year just ended
amount, approximately. to 81, 500. 900.
Foreign anarchists. said to have
come to this country to assassinate
President Mckinley, are under arrest
at New York.
Ex-President Ignacio Andrade. who
was deposed from the presidency of
Venezuela and succeeded by Cipriano
Castro, the present incumbent. is dead.
A forest fire near Encampment,
Wyoming, has burned over territory
eight by 10 miles in extent and now
threatens two towns. Two Thousand
sheep and one man have perished in the
flames.
The general attack on Pekin began
August 15, in the morning, when the
Japanese demolished the Cham Chang
Lang and Tong Chi gates and entered
the capital. The other armies entered
by the Tong Quien gate, and sent de-
tachments at once to- the legations,
where the ministers were found safe.
An Atlanta jury decided that a wife
is responsible for the burial expenses
of her husband.
Cheap lands in Nebraska have been
taken up so rapidly that few desirable
acres remain.
An addition of two miles will short