Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-18
LATER NEWS.

1t jefferson, Or.
Butler has taken Boers' stronghold
On the Biggarsberg.
The British were received at Kroon-
stad with open arms.
The minority report on the ship sub
sidy bill is strongly against a subsidy.
The governor of Missouri has offered
aid to the police in the st. Louis strike.
Nationalists won two-thirds of the
vacant seats in the Paris municipal gov
ernment.-
The Chicago & Rock Island railway
will probably build to Portland, Or.
Surveyors are now in the field
Dreyfus is in Paris and France is
worried. Officials will try to hurry
him away, owing to fear of demonstra-
tions.
Landing privileges at Manila are
held by an unscrupulous monopoly that
is accumula ing a fortune and throt-
tling trade.
The number of cases of bubonic
plague at Sydney, N. s. W., officially
reported to this date is 216, of which
76 proved fatal.
Chicago and other Mississippi valley
cities are expecting the hottest May
weather in years. There were four
prostrations in Chicago.
Joe Barker, found guilty of man
slaughter for the killing of Charles
Johnson, in Seattle, three months ago,
was sentenced to 10 years. imprison-
ment.
After writing note of farewell to
his former sweetheart, Harry S. Bar
rett, of Chicago, prosperous in business
and heir to an estate worth $75, 900,
took carbolic acid and died.
Fifteen thousand Mohammedan
weavers met in Benares and Endorsed
memorial to the Indian government
against the plague rules, declaring that
they were contrary to the laws of Mo-
hammed.
In the United States supreme court
at Boston, Charles II. Cole, former
president of the now detunct Globe
National Bank, who recently pleaded
guilty on an indictment charging him
with misappropriation of funds of the
institution, was sentenced to serve eight
years in Greenfield.
Alec Whitney, aged 25, . society
leader, was shot and killed on street
car at Augusta, Ca, by a negro in a
quarrel over a seat. The negro, Gus
49, 80 rsoi1
road passenger train at Harlem. 20
miles from Augusta, by a mob and
lynched. He was being taken to
Atlanta for safekeeping.
A cheese trust has been formed in
Chicago.
Arbitration with regard to the St.
Louis street car strike has failed.
Lord Roberts entered Kroonstaad,
which had been evacuated by the
Transvaal forces.
Honolulu has been officially declared
a clean port, the plague being efficient
ly stamped out.
The senate. by close vote, rejected
the proposition for an armor-plate plant
operated by the government.
The towns of Hilongos and Maasin,
in Leyte, have been captured by the
Americans with few casualties.
The American pavilion at Paris was
turned over to the exposition authorities
with impressive ceremonies.
A woman and 8-year-old child were
| 20 o$ 1o Nah
by starting fire with gasoline.
Germany is said to be supplying the
/ Filipinos with arms to enable them to
continue their fight against the United
States.
Charles Panstein, q murderous ath-
lete of Butte, Mont, shot and killed
: butcher, his wife and then committed
suicide.
The Populist national convention at
Sioux Falls nominated W. J. Bryan fo1
president, Charles A Towne for vice.
president.
| Before leaving Kroonstaad, President
Steyn issued a proclamation maxim
Lindley the seat of government
Orange Free State.
Road Populist conven
tion at Cincinnati, nominated Wharton
P. Barker for president and Ignatius
Donnelly for vice-president.
The work of the Chicago city di.
rectory enumerators for 1900, almost
completed, shows that the population
of Chicago is not less than 2,001, 1000.
Seven men were killed and 20 OF
more firemen hurt by collision in 9
tunnel in Philadelphia. The wreck
caught fire, and the total loss is $140.'
900.
Owing to the alarm being taken il
America over the influx of Japanese
and the probability of anti-Japanese
legislation, the Japanese government il
making efforts to turn the tide of its
surplus population to Formosa.
The cholera continues to rage in the
famine camps of India. There havt
been 400 deaths in three days at Man
dive So numerous are the cases a
Godra that it is impossible to collec
1 the hodies which lie for days in tht