Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-05-04
LATER NEWS.


70 America.
General Olivier is reported to be
wounded.
President Mckinley signed the
Hawaiian bill.
Governor Pingree, of Michigan, has
turned Democrat.
Four deputy fish commissioners are
watching the Clackamas river.
1t is now known that Captain Carter 8
gigantic steal will reach $2.000,000.
Many thousands of people greeted
Admiral Dewey on his arrival at Chi
cago.
Governor Taylor has returned to
Kentucky. No warrant was served on
him.
Washington courts have declared
$50, 900 worth of Olympia warrants to
be illegal.
Mine people were killed by the fall.
ing of condemned bridge at the Paris
exposition.
Roberts must have more horses be-
fore he can advance. London complains
of his slowness.
By vote of 20 to 29 the senate re-
fused to consider the resolution of SYM
pathy with the Beers.
Charles Ingersoll, OF Ithica, N. Y,
an embezzling county treasurer, was
arrested in San Francisco.
German officials at Washington think
that Secretary Roots speech on the
Monroe doctrine was aimed at their
country.
Forest fires are raging furiously north
of Fish, Mich, and the property dam
age will be large. The town of Ames
has been wiped out.
The Boer forces have moved from
Thabanchu to stronger position, and
General French has abandoned the
effort to capture the burghers.
The American chamber of commerce
at Manila has entered a protest against
the excessive taxation exacted by the
military government under General
Otis.
William F. Miller, manager of the
Franklin syndicate, who was recently
convicted of grand larceny, was sem
fenced in Brooklyn TO 10 years. i'm
prisonment.
Rev. William F. Crafts, superintend.
ent of the National Refrom Bureau, in
speech at New York, said that heath
en- nations look upon Americans as
drunkards and that drink is a great
hindrance in mission work.
The first battalion of the Fourteenth
United States infantry, which has been
in quarantine, has landed at the reser
vation wharf at the Presidio, San Fran
cisco, after two years of continuous
fighting in the Philippines.
Three persons were drowned at Port
Gamble, WASH, by the capsizing of q
sail boat.
Fire destroyed the building occupied
by the Atlas Brewing Company, of Chi.
cago. Loss 100000.
At an Indian famine mass netting in
New York, $1,667 was contributed.
Helen M. Gould pledged 5000.
George G. Tod, formerly OF Ken.
lucky, a brother-in-law of President
Lincoln, died at Barnwell, s. G.
Desk Sergeant Timothy S. O'Connell,
of the Woodlawn police station, Chi.
cago, was shot and killed by footpads.
Mayor Harrison has issued an appeal
to citizens of Chicago to use their in.
fuence in settling the labor troubles
there.
The Berlin press says Lord Roberts
has blundered in believing that the
southern half of Orange Free State was
fortified.
Senior Perfecto Lacoste has accepted
the Office of secretary of agriculture Of
Cuba, made vacant by the resignation
of General Ruiz Rivers.
British ammunition wagons passing
through Basutoland were stopped by
Basutos, who informed General DeWet.
The British were forced to retire.
The British government has issued
orders for the clearing of all the hos.
pitfalls at Cape Town, with a view tc
providing for future contingencies.
Mrs. M. I. Warfeld Clay, the di.
vorced wife of Hon. Cassius M. Clay,
sage of Whitehall, died, S6 years old.
She was the mother of Brutus j. Clay.
Floods in Texas continue undated,
and hundreds of families are moving
from the submerged district. The
rainfall has been the heaviest since
1852.
The engagement of Albert G. Van
derbilt, second son and the principal
heir of the late Cornelius Vanderbilt,
and Miss Elsie French, the daughter OF
Mrs. Francis Ormond French. is an
nounced.
In the accident at Matanzas, Cuba,
which resulted in the death of the wife
of General Wilson, governor of the de-
partment of Matanzas, Santa Clara,
the daughter. who was driving with
her, was also burned, though not seri.
ously, while endeavoring to extinguish
the flames. Mrs. Wilson's hands were
go badly swollen before death that il