Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-20
LAIR NEWS.
Ten thousand Beers are massing nea,
Pretoria.


duty in the Philippines. .----.E
Chinese reformers are using every en-.
deavor to save the foreigners.
A mountain of gold bearing quartz is
river district.
A daughter of Theodore Havemayer.
the sugar king, shot and accidently
killed herself.
Manila is now the counterfeiter'
paradise. Big snap in making Ameri-
can dollars out of Mexican dollars.
Andy Smith, 70 years old, was struck
with paralysis at Kalama, WASH, and
when found had been four days without
food or water.
Heavy rain storms are raging in
Northern Wisconsin. ALI railroads
have suffered from washouts. Hail did
great damage to crops.
1t is reported that. 10000 Beers are
preparing to ennigrate to America.
President Kruger will refuse to surren-
der until his supplies are exhausted.
Theodore .Greil, aged so. an employe
of the woolen mills at Oregon City,
Or, was accidentally drowned while
attempting to get into a boat to row
home.
The American bark McNear was lost
on reef near Laysan island, near
Japan. The passengers and crew spent
two days on the water and landed on
Laysan island.
,-Aumlral Seymour was compelled to
shoot his own wounded during the re.
cent disastrous retreat of the Pekin re.
lief expedition. They preferred it to
tortue by barbarous Cinnamon.
Judge W. H. Washington, of Phila-
delphia. direct descendant of Angus
tine Washington. father OF George
Washington. is dead at Castle Creek
Hot Springs, Arizona, of consumption.
He was 45 years old and lawyer of
recognized ability.
A Holland submarine torpedo boat
may protect the port of Portland, Or.
Two of the new ones soon to be con-
structed will be assigned to service on
the Pacific coast, and one may come to
the Columbia river.
The Washington government will take
every precaution against violence to
Chinese in the United States, which is
intimated in some sections. in order
that the force of our demand for satis-
faction from China shall not be weak
ened by counter claims.
American athletes were successful at
&1,< De- 10,
An all day fight between the Beers
and British at Platkop resulted indeci-
sively.
The Russian minister at Pekin is
said to have been boiled to death by
Boxers.
Nine houses were entirely consumed
and many others damaged by fire at
Dunsmuir, Cal. E-s
Kiao Chou has caused the present trou-
BILE with China.
Fire at Durant, /. T., wiped out the
greater portion of the town, causing a
loss of 100000.
All foreigners have been removed
from the town of Wa Chou, China, and
are safe at Shanghai.
United States Senator John Fl. Gear,
of Iowa, died at Washington City of
heart disease, aged 70 years.
A large part of the business district
of Prescott. Arizona, were burned,
causing loss of $1,000,00O.
\ The steamer City of Topeka arrived
at Seattle flom Lynn canal with be-
tween $3.50, 900 and $1,000, 900 in gold
dust from Klondike.
Twenty square miles of forests were
bunred by fire started by a firecracker
near Grub Gulch, Cal. The loss will
be hundreds of thousands.
General rain has fallen over nearly
all India during the past few days and
the prospects are that crops have inn
mense.y improved. The famine area
as generally been benefited.
. Eight hour shifts for all underground
men at the United Verde mine and an
increase Of / 5 per cent in wages for
miners in certain portions of the mine
were announced at JeIom Ariz.
Advices were received from Sydney
that tribal wars are raging at the Solo,
mon group. There has been fierce
battle between the Marian (Boys) and
Malata tribes. The losses on each side
were heavy. r...-.. ~.
Dynamite was exploded under
Transit car in North St. Louis, and
four passengers were injured. A .su-
burban car. the only union line in the
city. accidently ran into a strikers
'bus wagon and injured II occupants,
two seriously.
Judge Thomas Aver, of the United
States court of appeals at St. Louis,
has handed down an opinion declaring
that John P. Reese, the Iowa Miners
, Union official who was sentenced to
imprisonment in Kansas for violation
of a strike Injunction, was illegally
restrained of his liberty, and granted
writ of habeas corpus releasing him.
Judge Aver ruled that the lower court
erred in incluing Reese under the in
junction.
Robert Fitzsimmons will meet both
Sharkey and Rubin next month. 81
Gold hunters in Russia are governed
by arbitrary laws, one of which COM
pels them to turn over all gold they
may find to the imperial treasury,
which pays the miner at standard