Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-02
LATER NEWS.

about at an end.
Prince Christian Victor, of Schles'
wig II olstein, died at Pretoria.
Venezuela was visited by a great
earthquake, killing 10 persons.
Damage by flood is reported from Ls
Crosse, Wis.,. and Winona, Mimi.
Professor Max Muller, the famous
philologist. died in London, aged n.
There was a general resumption ot
work in the Pennsylvania coal region
The new gold strike in the Baker
City, Or, country, is extensive and
rich.
A Democratic leader predicts that
Idaho will give Bryan a majority oi
5000.
Chicago posteffice clerks have affili'
ated with the American Federation oi
Labor.
The Beers are said to have $4,000
armed men in the field in Orange River
colony.
Prince Hohenlohe says he resigned
because he was ignored on important
occasions.
Chinese looters stole Manchu throne
and colossal archaeological objects ol
great value.
Boxers at Pao Ting Flu declare the
provincial treasurer ordered them to
kill foreigners.
Prince vi and Wing Men are added
to the list of those whose execution
France has demanded.
More than 500, 900, 900 in gold dust
and bullion has been deposited in Seat.
tie assay officethis year.
Seven people were killed and al
many injured in Northern Pacific
train wreck near Livingston, Mont.
Many persons were injured and per-
haps killed, and a dozen buildings
wrecked in a New York fire and ex.
plosion.
A special from Victor, Colo, says
the 800 miners who walked out of the
Independence mine on account of the
order to search them when they came
off duty have been discharged. Every.
thing is quiet about the mine.
At Spoakne, WASH, Mrs. Edith
Strobei, wife of an engineer on the
Great Northern, killed herself by blow.
ing out her brains with a revolver
She was 80 years of age. and before he1
marriage was Tekoa, WASH, girl
Temporary insanity is said to have
been the motive.
New York Democrats gave W. ],
Bryan another reception.
A plot to assassinate President Lou
bet, of France, has been discovered.
George W. Shaver, pioneer steam.
boat man, of Portland, Or, Is dead.
Roosevelt concluded his tour in New
York state with a speech in Binghamp
ton.
All but one colliery in the Hazleron
mining region have granted the miners
demands.
Four hundred native Christians were
massacred at Mukden before the Rus
Sian OccupaClOH.
Near Frederickstad, the Beers under
Dewet. were scattered in all directions
by British force.
A Republican parade lasting six
hours was the elimination of the cam.
paign in Chicago.
The evacuation of Cuba will not be
ordered till the character of the new
government is tested.
Edward Dewey, brother of Admiral
Dewey, died at his home in Montpe.
lier, VT, aged II years.
An Everett, WASH, saw mill has re.
ceived and order fol- z, 100000 feet oil
lumber from South America.
Spangle. WASH. for being drunk and
disorderly, committed suicide by hang
ing himself in Jail.
The 150-ton schooner Fischer Bros.
of Seattle. is reported to have been
wrecked on the beach of Behring sea
in a storm near Port Clarence. No
lives were lost.
w. S. Robson, one OF the most ex.
tensive cotton planters of Texas, has
gathered statistics from the Brazos and
Colorado valleys and declares that the
ball weavil has destroyed $4,000, ,000
worth of this years crop.
A sheriff s posse in pursuit of five
prisoners who escaped from the Doni.
phan, Kan, Jail, overlook the men
near Dalton, Ark, and battle ensued
in which two mem bers of the posse
were dangerously wounded. Three ol
the prisoners were wounded and recap
tured.
The war department has made public
an order issued by General Macarthur
looking to the plotection of the health
of the soldiers in the Philippines
This recites that 80 per .cent of the
sickness in the army is avoidable by
sanitary precautions. the most import
ant of which are the boiling of al
drinking water for not less than &c
minutes, and the adoption of the strict
est cleanliness as to camps, quarters,
kitchens and cooking utensils.
A German firm has built locomo'
tive on the American pattern.
The international peace congress il
Paris condemned Great Britain course
in the Transvaal.
During the last year 2,400 duels