Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1900-10-19
LATER NEWS.

Reformers defeated the imperial
army ON East river.
The Beers are very active in the
Kroonstadt district.
Russians take the first step ON the
right bank of the Amur.
Lord Alverstone will be the new lord
chief justice of England.
Mexican troops arc having hard
campaign against Indians.
Captain Shields and his 81 men were
rescued from the Filipinos.
A milk combine has been formed by
milkmen of Vancouver, B. G.
Roosevelt concluded his Kentucky
tour with speech in Covington.
The rebellion in Southern China is
anti-dynastic rather than anti.foreign.
Yellow fever is expected to increase
in Havana while sewers are being dug.
Fire at Herrick, ILL.,. destroyed 10
business houses, causing loss of $780,
900.
John F. Adams, patient at the
Oregon insane asylum, hanged him
self.
Lii Hung Chang expresses regret for
recent occurrences and thanks Ameri.
cans.
Dewet proclaims that burghers who
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of war.
A case of illness, suspected to~be bu-
bonic plague. is reported at Stepney,
parish suburb of London.
Records that fell into the hands OF
correspondents show that Chinese au-
thorities supported the Boxer moye-
ment.
A dispatch from Port Limon, Colon
bia, says that serious fire broke out
and that several prominent commercial
buildings were destroyed.
The sultan of Turkey has leased to
Germany for 80 years the island of
Uroan, in the Red sea. 40 miles north
of Kamaran, for coaling station.
Full returns as to the wine harvest
throughout Germany for the year show
that it is more abundant and of more
excellent quality than for several years
previous.
Miss Amanda Fairman, a prominent
young lady of Philipsburg, Mont, was
found dead in her room, having been
shot with shotgun. A shotgun was
lying on the table. The suicide theory
is denied. and it is believed she was
Lii Hung Chang is in Pekin.
Southern rebels defeated General
Hos army near San Chun.
The submarine boat Holland has
been placed in. commission.
Russia urges that the Chinese in
demnity question be arbitrated.
Coal miners in the state of Kansas
have won strike and gone to work.
The members of the Chilean cabinet
have resigned, owing to a politica
cause.
The National League baseball season
came to close with Brooklyn the pen
nant winner.
Charles Fargo, second vlce-president
of the American Express Company, is |
dead at Chicago.
The Lorraine. O., plant of the Federal
Steel Company has been closed, shut
ting out 8, 900 men,
The queen regent of Spain will ar
bitrate the differences at present exist.
ing between Peru and Chilli.
A clergyman of Blair. Neb., convict
ed of bigamy, was sentenced to four
years in the penitentisry.
Dysentery is raging among the troops
at Tien Tsin and the German conting.
ent will transfer its headquarters to
Pekin.
The steel plants of the Illinois Steel
Works, at South Chicago, were closed
down, $500 men bel: thrown out OF
A minor official of the Vatican at I
Rome has been arrested on the charge |
of giving the thieves access 20 the |
room from which the sum of about
$50, 600 lire was recently stolen.
Striking coal miners will accept the
10 per cent increase in wages offered |
by the operators if it lasts all winter.
the men will not resume
work until officially ordered by union
off
In northern Panay, October IL, Com
pany D. Twenty-sixth United States
volunteer infantry, was attacked by a
force of Tagals. The enemy lost 20 !
men killed and 40 wounded, while the
Americans had two men wounded.
prisoners and IL rifles and
q quantity of ammunition were cap
tured.
A colony of 500 Sicilians from New
Orleans is to leave for Hawaii early in
January, under the leadership of Father
Nasca, an italian priest. The colony
will be in the employ of an American