Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-09-07
LATER NEWS.

The pay of Chinese officials has been
stopped.
Ex-Governor Llewellyn, of Kansas,
is dead.
The British garrison at Ladybrand
| is invested.
German troops have been landed at
WI Sung.
Several forest fires are raging in Coos
county, Oregon.
An outbreak has occurred in Bohol.
Philippine islands.
The czar is trying to frustrate EN-
pe1or William S plans.
War on the foreigners was ordered
by the empress dowager.
The entire Democratic state ticket
in Arkansas was elected.
Lord Roberts has issued proclama.
tion formally annexing the Transvaal.
Labor day celebrations were held in
speaking in Chicago.
Labor day was celebrated in St.
Louis by labor parade, wherein more
than $4,000 men of all trades partici-
pated.
In an alteration near Walla Walla,
Emanuel Edwards shot and slightly
wounded p. B. knight in the left leg.
The trouble is said to have started over
horse.
Labor day was celebrated in Cincin-
natl by a parade of workingmen, esti-
mated from $4,000 to $4,000. 1t was
the best-appointed procession ever seen
there on Labor day.
Santiago, Cuba, is experiencing the
severest weather known since 1877.
The lower part of the city is five feet
under water. The firemen and police
are assisting the sufferers.
Having lived 26 years, Miss Emily
II. Trevor, one of the most popular
young womn of Yonkers, N. Y, has
come into a fortune of 81, 15S, 795.
This large amount represents Miss Tre-
vors' share left by her father, the late
John B. Trevors, who died December
20. 1890.
At sheep slaughtering and dress
ing exhibition at Indianapolis, Ind,
Charles J. Gardner, of indianapolis,
broke the worlds record. In 1898 he
killed and dressed 10 sheep in 80 min.
ntes and seconds; this time he killed
and dressed 10 sheep in 80 minutes and
% seconds.
So much of the general orders of
August l last as direct Light Batteries
G and NJ. Seventh artillery, for duty
in China have been amended SO as to
direct those batteries to proceed instead
to the Philippine islands for assign
ment to station. Major George
Greenough, Seventh artillery, has been
ordered to accompany the batteries tc
the Philippines.
The public debt increased nearly $3,.
600, 900 in August.
Philippine volunteers will begin re.
turning i'll November.
There are 83 suspected cases OF
plague in Glasgow, Scotland.
Charles A. Towne opened the cam
paign in Idaho for the Democrats.
General Otis has been assigned to
command the department of the lakes.
The governor of Shan Tung has 20,-
900 men ready to oppose German ex-
pansion.
Lii Hung Chang is intriguing to set
the foreigners to quarreling among
them selves.
Thirteen persons were killed and
many injured by railroad collision at
Hatfield, Pa.
The Chinese situation now depends
on the responses of the powers to the
american proposals.
W. w. Rockhifi, American commits
sioner to China, says now is the time
to settle the status of foreigners in
China.
The Brallamer copper mines, situated
on Howe Sound, near Vancouver, b.
c., have been sold to English capital.
lists for $4,000, 900.
A 1S-year-old boy accidentally shot
and killed his 16-year-old brother at
HUTCHINSON, hduSds, Willie dttem mptlus
to remove cartridges from a revolver.
Secretary Fosters annual report OF
| the cotton crop of the United States
makes the crop for 1899-1900 1885,
4l6 bales, against 11.274, $40 last year.
About 25, 900 idle tinplate workers
of the American Tinplate Company
| have resumed work, owing to the tim
pl te makers agreeing to new wage
scale.
Fire destroyed the plant and yards
| of the Otter Creek Lumber Company,
at Hambleton, W. Va, with 12,000,-
900 feet of lumber, causing loss of
$25O,000.
Six hundred longshoremen who went
on strike recently at the Erie rail-
| way ore docks, returned to work pend.
ing a settlement of their grievances by
arbitration.
| A serious confagration occurred at
| Guaymas, Sonora, Mexico, few days