Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-12-21

Major-G General John G. Parke died
at his home in Washington.
The Porto Rico case is before the
United States supreme court.
Congressman Bouteile was placed
on the retired list of the navy.
The military commission begins its
Investigation in the Booz hazlng.
Fresh Instructions sent to Conger
will clear the way OF all obstacles.
A cure for strikes was discussed by
the arbitration conference at Chicago.
Preparations are being made for de-
velopment of natural gas near Rosalia,
Wash!
A Washington county farmer was
murdered by a shot fired through his
window.
The official report of the finances of
the Paris exposition, shows loss of
100000 francs.
The Oregon supreme court decided
that the Portland vehicle license ordi-
nance was invalid.
Five cases of what is believed to be
bubonic plague have developed in Tucu-
man. in the Argentine Republic.
A resolution was introduced in the
United States senate for an investiga-
tion of the conducts OF Judge Noyes in
Alaska.
The officials of the Santa Fe and
the off GERS of the different trainmen's 8
1ol fo,ro in,
Chicago.
Seven hundred Beers have crossed
| from Orange River colony into Cape
Colony near Aliwal North, and have
reached Kaapdal.
President Mckinley expects to ar
range his Western trip SO as to be in
San Francisco to witness the launch
ing of the battleship Ohio.
Fire in Cleveland, Ohio, destroyed
five out of seven buildings of a machine
company. causing q property loss of
over $500, 900, and throwing 1,100
men out Of employment.
The war revenue bill has been passed
by the house.
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boycott the Santa Fe.
Lord Kitchener has called for all
available English troops.
England has awakened to the new
4 seriousness In South Africa.
Colonel Tullock's expedition failed
to find the Chinese treasue.
At Rockport, Ind, two negroes, who
had murdered white man were
lypched.
The German training ship Gneisenan
foundered near Gibraltar and 100 were
+, drowned.
A large Boxer force is said to be
approaching Peking with the intention
of attacking it.
The senate cannot considered the
army and appropriation bills until
after the holidays.
John Addison Porter, Mckinley g
former private secretary, died at his
home in Putnam, Conn.
i The British admiralty is arranging
to test various inventions for steering
torpedoes and submarine boats.
! The Oregon Historical Society pro-
poses to hold great fair in 1905, in
! commemoration of the Lewis and
Clark expedition to the Pacific coast
100 years ago.
As result of mysterious poisoning
case at the Forsyth mines. near Mar
ietta, Ohio, four persons are dead. four
dying and two others seriously ill.
j Five unknown men whol asked the
marshal of Brighton. ILL.,, for shelter,
in the calaboose, locked him up amp
then broke into bank and two
stores.
The building occupied by the con-
struction department at the Norfolk
, navy yard, was destroyed by fire. II
contained all the important papers.
models and plans of the construction
department.
Telephoning without wires WIS sue
cessfully accomplished by transmit.
ting the voice across the Mississippi
river, at Minneapolis, a distance oi
over 1000 feet
Advices from Ilo 1lo report that the
American troops have been northward
and westward for several days and
that detachments of the Sixth, Eigh.
teenth- and ,Twenty-sixth regiments
4 have been active near their stations
> The insurgents losses during the last
, 10 days there have been FIVE killed
0 seven wounded and 40 taken prisoners
? The Americans have lost two killed
and three wounded.
!, Prairie chickens are said to be more
I ABUNDANT in western Kansas than fo1
years.
!. During the past five years the state
(. of Pennsylvania has purchased more
8 than 100, 900 acres of land to be issued
as forestry reservation.
q Former Ambassador to Italy w. F,
I Draper has been decorated with the
: order of SIS. Maurice and Cazal by the
. king of Italy, for services during bis
i embassy to Rome.