Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-08-17
LATER NEWS.

Dr.. Steinitz, the chess champion,
died in New York.
A site has been chosen for the new
Fort Hall Indian school.
The Russian minister will not leave
Pekin before his comrades.
The besieged foreigners in Pekin have
food to last them only week.
Bryan's speech of acceptance will be
reproduced by phonograph.
Twelve persons were killed and 40
injured in train wreck in Italy.
The empress intends to leave Pekin
before the foreign troops arrive.
Appropriations by the last session
of congress were $710, $50, ,s62.
The ameer of Afghanistan is prepar.
ing to cross into Russian territory.
The annual convention of the Typo.
graphical Union opened in Milwaukee.
Several cannerymen were arrested
for packing salmon after close of sea.
son.
By mistake British and Russian ar.
| tillery shelled the Americans at Yang
Tsun.
Judge Lacombe, of New York, re.
fused to sign a writ of extradition foI
Neely.
About 20 farmers near Salem real.
lied Sc cents per bushel fol wheat Dy
pooling the same. -
Export of gold from New York is ex-
pected to relax the financial tension al
European capitals. s..
The state department replied to the
edict appointing Ii Hung Chang s
peace commissioner.
Two government pack trains leave
| Vancouver to take transport at Seat.
tie for service in China.
The report that the Canadian govern.
ment has abandoned the royalty on the
Yukon gold output is not correct. Ar
export duty is under consideration.
Parejita, well-known Cuban bandit,
was shot and killed at Palma Sorito,
20 miles from Santiago, by corpora
of the rural guard. This outlaw haC
been terrorizing the country for several
years. He has committed numerous
murders.
ham, N. NJ, between a posse, under
Deputy Sheriff w. K. Foster, and two
bandits who robbed store in Graham
in broad daylight. One of the robbers
was killed. The other was wounded,
but he escaped.
C. N. Mcmahon, young society
man, of Woodward avenue. Detroit.
was robbed of $500 in greenbacks while
coming out of the California theater.
San Francisco, after the performance
by pickpocket, who secured the roll
of bills and escaped.
Extreme hot weather continues in
the East. ..
Prince Tuan is preparing to escape
! from Pekin.
The Klondike gold yield this year is
| $25, 900, 900.
Several persons were killed by a
storm in New York.
Governor Roosevelt will speak in
Oregon in September.
Seattle inaugurates a move for an
, international fair in 1904.
There is a great demand for timber
, and farm lands in Oregon.
Hot weather killed SO persons in
| New York and Philadelphia.
Bryan has decided to make general
campaign tour of the country.
Sealing schooner Minnie, of Victoria.
! was wrecked in Northern waters.
King Victor took the constitutional
, oath before the Italian parliament.
General Randall is given authority to
, send destitute persons out from Nome.
The ringleaders in the Pretoria plot
, to capture Lord Roberts have been ar
rested.
General Macarthur sends news of
the surrender of a Filipino command
of 172.
Jefferles is anxious to meet Fitzsim-
mons and Sharkey in the last week Of
August.
In the French naval maneuvers a tor
pedo boat destroyer was sunk and 42
lives lost.
Many American soldiers were pros.
trated by the heat in the advance on
Yang Tsun.
Chinese viceroys want the United
States to prevent the landing of troops
at Shanghai.
Fifteen persons were killed by rail-
road train striking an omnibus in
Pennsylvania.
Congressman Overstreet says the
Republicans must work hard to control
the next house. !.
Encouraging developments are re-
ported from the Sumpter district Of
Eastern Oregon.
Six persons were killed in an Italian
railroad wreck. The king and queen
went to the scene.
An advance guard of the information
al column has pushed on from Yang
Tsun to occupy Tsai Tsun.
A London newspaper correspondent
writes bitter complaint of the con-
duct of affairs in South Africa.
The French press and people are not
pleased with tho appointment of Won
Waldersee as commander-in-chie
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