Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-04-27
LATER NEWS.

Sir Charles Warren will be governor
of Orange Free State.
Coal has advanced in price for the
first time in 10 years.
Croton Landing, N. Y, strike is
considered at an end.
Alaska is badly in need of laws.
Settlers on lands there cannot acquire
title.
Webster Davis, until recently assist
ant secretary of the interior, says he is
out of politics.
Governor Taylor, of Kentucky, de-
nies that he is fleeing from the grand
jury Indictment.
Massachusetts, Democrats will pay
81, 100 day for their hotel accomoda-
tions at Kansas City.
In an interview, General Lew Wal
lace, former minister to Turkey, says
the sultan is an honest man.
The steamship North Star. aground
near Victoria, has been hoated. The
vessel was only slightly damaged.
1t is reported that Pearl Harbor, Ha-
waii, is worthless as naval rendez-
vous until improvements are made.
Americans captured, killed and
wounded 1000 Filipinos last week,
with loss of nine killed and 16
wounded.
1t is expected that $4,000 working
men and women will be in line in the
May day parade which will take place
in New York City.
At Madison Square Garden, New
York City. an elephant in Forepaugh
& Sells circus was Choked to death in
an effort to subdue him.
Members of the "Boxefs'' society
have massacred many Chinese Catho-
lies near Paro Ting Flu. in the province
of Pi Chi Lii, southwest of Tien-Tsin.
A paper has been signed by all the
| business men except two of Walla
Walla agreeing to close their places
| every evening except Saturday at 8
| o'clock.
The capture of Bocas del Toro. and
| the threatened attack on Colon by Co.
lombian revolutionists, may compel
| forcible intervention by the govern
ment of the United States to preserve
the perfect neutrality of the Isthmus OF
Panama, guaranteed by the United
States in the treaty of 1S46.
| Captain Bollen. wealthy retired
navigator of Tacoma, committed sui
eide on ranch on Fox island. blowing
off his head with a shotgun. He re-
Gently bought steam launch, and the
| Cylinder head blew out. This affected
him SO that, after brooding over it one
night, he decided to kill himself.
The revolution in Colombia is spread
ing throughout the republic.
Benjamin Northrup, well-known
newspaper man, of New York city, is
dead, aged "A.
The plant of the st. Louis Chronicle,
St. Louis, Mo-, was destroyed by fire.
Loss, $50, 900.
The loss to railroads by the recent
food in Mississippi will amount to
more than $1,oOo,oOO.
Plague is still rife in Manila, foul
breeding place having been discovered
in the heart of the city.
Rev. Charles Beecher, brother of the
late Henry Ward Beecher, died al
Georgetown, Mas, aged "a year.
Efforts to stamp out the plague II
Sydney, Autralia, have not been sue
cessful. The epidemic is spreading.
Bush fires are raging in Manitoba
and advices from Winnepeg state that
500 persons are in danger of losing
their lives.
Five men were killed at Balmain,
Australia, by being precipitateo to the
bottom of an 1,800-foot perpendicular
shaft of mine.
"A strange tale of crime has come tt
light in the case of a rich Colorado
miner, who is charged with the muir
der of four persons.
i Ex-Congressman David G. Colson
on trial at Frankfort, KY :, for the muir
der of Lieutepant Scott and Luther
Demaree last January l6, has been &C
quilted.
The total receipts of the Cuban treas
ury for the month of March, 1900, wer
81, ,67s, ,6S8. The receipts for the cor
responding month of 1899 amounted t.
$963, ,OsS.
Queen Victoria reviewed the nava
and infantry brigades and the boys o
the Royal Hibernian military school a
Dublin. Two hundred thousand peopl
witnessed the review.
At Atchison, Kan, reader of cheal
novels was given 1s years in the peni
tentiary for arson. He set fire to
house in order to play the part of her
: by rescuing the family.
: Adelbert Woiceth Bogdsmowski ant
Anton Rody, alias Anton Koschinowski
who arrived in New York recently o.
the steamship Palatia, will be sen
back to their native country. The mel
,, admit they were implicated in tn
burglary of a store in Lemberg
Galicia, in which they got about 10,
900 florins and seriously wounded tn
Q proprietor Two of the men have bee
? arrested on the other side The specia