Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-07-06
lA1ER NEWS.

General Botha is showing increased
Activity.
The Beers attacked Hammonia, but
were repulsed.
The United States cruiser Brooklyn
has proceeded to Taku.
Chinese have begun the destruction
| of missions at Shan Tung.
At Angeles, Luzon, General Aquino
surrendered to General Grant.
Chinese situation exercises depressing
influence on trade in Germany.
Many workers in Pittsburg are idle
pending the adjustment Of wage scales.
The postoffice at Union, Oregon,
was looted by burglars and $3.50 was
carried away.
A weeks scouting in North Luzon re-
suited in 90 rebels being killed and 40
wounded. One American was killed.
The Indians on Rainy river, Ontario.
threaten an uprising. Three thousand
are gathered near the mouth of Rainy
river.
The great lumber yards, covering
half mile, at Black Rock. suburb of
Buffalo, N. Y, were burned, with a
loss of $40O, ,OOC.
The steamship Nome City. which
made the trip from Portland to Nome,
rescued AZ people on the way, the
crews and passengers of two wrecked
schooners.
Over $40. 900, 600 worth of property
was destroyed, many lives lost, many
persons injured and at least l, 500 lives
imperiled by a fire on dock at HO-
boken, N. ].
The transport Sumner arrived at
San Francisco from Manila with 43
sick soldiers, 20 discharged men, IL
insane patients and 10 members OF
the hospital corps.
A special dispatch from Shanghai,
dated June 80, says that all on board
the United States battleship Oregon
which went ashore in the Gulf of Pc
Chi Ii, have been saved. There is
some chance that the vessel may be
foated. .-
Terra Urea, commonly called Santa
Teresa, the young senorita who, it is
alleged. helped to incite the various
Yaqui Indian rebeliions in Mexico, was
shot at Clifton, Ariz., by 6. N. Rod
riguez, to whom she had been married
was regarded as saint, and hundreds
OF Mexicans chased Rodriguez into the
mountains, where he was captured,
after hard fight. He was unmerci-
fully beaten and narrowly escaped
lynching. The girl will live.
President Kruger is still at Macha-
dodorp.
Japanese laborers of Hawaii are on
Q strike.
Porter's Cuban tariff schedule must
be revised.
Sixty passengers from Dawson
brought out $3.50. 900.
Lord Roberts is preparing fol, the f.
nal battles of the war.
Japanese fishermen at Stevenson, B.
c., are said to be srming.
Dole was inaugurated governor OF
Hawaii on the 14th inst.
Colorado still maintains q quaIan-
tine against San Francisco.
Penitentiary at Salem has $50 pris.
oners less than few years ago.
Germany has ordered 25 big guns for
immediate dispatch for China.
Speaker Henderson has been 1enom-
mated for congress in his district in
Iowa.
England is making poor headway
with the rebellion in the Gold Coast
Colony.
Beers attacked the British at Sena.
kal and Roodvalspruit, but were beat.
en- back.
Spreckles Bros. have purchased the
California Lumber Company's sawmill,
at Marshfeld, Or.
Will Larkin, logger, was drowned
at Monroe, Or. John Bavnon fatally
injured at Niagara. ~
Stockmen of Polk county, Or, have
united and offer liberal bounties tor
lcalps of wild animals.
The steamer Geo. W. Elder. which
arrived at Portland, made the round
tip to Nome in 33 days.
David Bell, formerly one of the best
known lumbermen of Canada, is dead
at his home in New York city, aged 70
years.
Remains of Reinhart Brook, of Port
land. recently drowned by falling off
the Bailey Gatzert, were found near
Kalama, Wash.
In Chicago, two slaughter houses oc-
cupied by Hess Bros, and Ruddy
Bros, were destroyed by fire with
loss of $4,000. ...
Ralph Platt, formerly of the Oregon
volunteers. just arrived at Tacoma
f,om China. He claims to be accred-
tied agent of the Chinese emperor on a
special mission to Washington.
The Southern Pacific and Santa Fe
roads have perfected a traffic deal that
is designed to control effectually all
the passenger business in California,
within the territory of the two COM
panies. The main features of this
agreement are an interchange of tick
cts to San Joaquin valley points, no
Santa Fe passenger trains to Los An
geles and no rate cutting.
China's new railroad from Canton to
L.