Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-11-30
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Comprehensive Review of the Important Hap
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Condensed Form.
Another snow storm is sweeping over
British Columbia.
Seventy lives were lost in the
tornado in the South.
Negotiations are under way for re-
ciprocity treaty with Russia.
difference of opinion has brought
the Chinese negotiations to standstill.
Paul Kruger, ex.president of the
South African public, has arrived at
Marseilles.
The ways and means committee Of
the house, decides to reduce the war
tax $50. 900. -s...-
Macarthur is pushing the campaign
against the Filipinos, reinforcements
being sent to the several divisions.
The official count for Ohio is as fol.
lows: Mckinley 543,918, Bryan 474.
882; McKinIey's plurality, 69,O36.
Lampson P. Sherman, brother of the
late Senator John Sherman, of Ohio,
died at Des Moines, Iowa, aged 70.
The official count for Nebraska,
shows that McKinley's plurality in the
state is 1892. The total vote of the
state is 251, 1898. Mckinley received
121,Ss5 and Bryan 114,013.
The popula tion of the state of New
York as officially announced by the
census bureau, is 7.263, ola, as against
5,997,853 in 1890. an increase of
1870 159, or all per cent
At Republic, Wash, Charles Kramer
was found hanging by his neck. in a
slaughter house. He had been missed
since November 9. His body was
found by George Raglan. who visited
the slaughter house. He was general.
ly despondent, and having lost 500 on
the election, it is supposed that induced
him to take his own life.
Labor troubles that have been smol-
dering for some time at the Plano Har-
vester Manufacturing Company's plant
at West Pullman. Illinois, eliminated
III lockout of 900 workmen. Notices
have been posted announcing suspen.
sion of work for IAN indefinite period.
The plant was shut down last July, but
work was resumed again the day after
election.
points out 'the dangers OF permitting
Beers to trek into German Southwest
Africa, since they are unmanageable
and incapable of accepting orderly con-
ditions." Giving a word of warning,
it says: ''The Beers would seek to
hold the groun1, thus forming state
within a state. The German colonial
authorities should remember that it
would be generations before. the Beers
forget that they once possessed an inde-
pendent political existence"
The allies at Pskin resolved ON
strong measures.
The opening of the Milton creamery,
the first in Eastern Oregon. was cele-
brated.
Russia deals the Pacific coast hard
blow by putting a high tariff on -four
to Siberia.
tee considered the reduction of the
stamp tax.
An ex-rebel chief will start in pur-
suit of Aguinaldo, who Is said to be in
Northern Luzon.
The population of Florida is 52S, 50,
as against SOL ,224 in 1890. an increase
of 1877, 120, or 35 per cent.
The assistant postmaster general Of
the United States pleads for wide ex-
tension of the rural free delivery.
E. Gates was convicted at South
Bend, Wash, of murder in the second
degree for killing Captain Beeson.
The situation in South China is i'm.
proved SO that the rebels have been
conquered, and the rebellion is nearly
extinct.
The population of Rhode Island was
announced to be 428, 556, as against
345, SOC in 1890; increase of 83,O5O, or
"a per cent.
John II. OFT, the comedian. died at
New York. of a complication of dis
eases. He was taken ill about two
weeks ago. He was SO years old.
The big cotton mill operatives strike
in Alamanie county, North Carolina,
has been declared off. The strike has
been in force about three months, and
several thousand hands were involved.
Dawson City advices brought by the
steamer Danube, arrived at Victoria,
are to the effect that on November Is,
Dawson was reported to have been free
from new cases of smallpox for 10
days.
The British warship Pheasant, sta
toned at Victoria, b. c., received rush
orders from the Admiralty dispatching
her to Panama to protect British inter-
.sts in the revolution which has re-
.rred there.
More than four-ffths of the popula.
tion of Mexico are of mixed or Indian
blood.
Bresci, slayer of King Hum bert,
wrote to his wife in New York, that
he is kept in damp we'll and COM
PEELED to stand all the time.
Turkey has been taking census of
Islam, and finds that the number of
Mohammedans in the world is 1885,
100000. Of these 100000 are in
Turkey