Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1897-11-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK
From all Parts of the New
and Old World.
BRIEF AND INTERESTING ITEMS
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Cur
rent Week.

ant happenings OF Ine cur
rent Week.
The bubonic plague shows no abate-
ment in the Poonah district of India.
Within 48 hours there has been 134
new cases and "a deaths.
The official vote for governor at the
Ohio state election is thus recorded:
Bushnell, Rep, 429, 9,S16; Chapman,
DEM, 401, ,71o; Holiday, Pro-, 1868;
Coxey, Peo., 6,254; Dexter, Nat. Dem. !,
1861; Watkins, social, 4,242; Lewis.
negro protect, 476; Liberty, 3,170.
Bushnell's plurality was 80, 101.
The final act upon the part of the
government in the ratification of the
treaty adopted by the recent universal
congress was taken Tuesday, when
President Mckinley signed the formal
convention or treaty and Secretary of
State Sherman had the government
seal affixed. Postmaster General Gary
had already signed it. The treaty
takes effect January l, 1898.
At session of the knights of Labor
council, at Louisville, it was voted
unanimously to set apart the last Sun
day in June as labor memorial day.
This day will be observed by all the
district assemblies in the United States.
It was expressly stated that the day
should not be regarded in the light of
a holiday. 1t was fixed upon Sunday
so it could not be made holiday, with
its attendant festivities.
An immense claim, embracing
1000, 900 acres of land in the North
west, including the cities of Minneapo-
lis and St. Paul, has been brought be-
fore Commissioner Hermann, of the
general land Office, and the assistance
of the government in securing official
data is called for. The claimants are
c.. B. Holloway, of Holland, O., and
A. Gum. of Momee, o. They are
making an examination of the general
land Office records with view to seeur-
ing copies of certified paper, which,
they assert. will establish their title
to the lands claimed by them. Their
ancestor, through whom they claim
title, was Jonathan Carver. an English
man, we'll known explorer in the last
century.
Political excitement is intense in
Brazil and martial law is in force.
Koon Sang, Chinese priest, was
killed by highbinders in San Francisco.
]. R. Sovereign, the recently retired
master workman of the Knights of La
Dor, has declared his intention to run
for president of the United States in
1900.
The blue and gray have met again on
common ground. Military triumphs
were honored at Orchard Knob, Tenn,
Monday, and monuments to the
achievements at Chickamauga and Mis-
sionary Ridge accepted.
A. J. Sage, a well-known fancher,
living few miles below Sand Point,
Idaho, was shot and instantly killed
while out hunting. An old acquaint-
ance, named John Snyder, who went
out with him hunting, and who became
separated from him for short time,
seeing what he supposed to be deer
moving among the trees, fired at it, and
upon reaching the spot was horrified to
find that ne had shot his friend dead.
Rev. Myron W. Reed, pastor of one
of Denver's leading churches, during
his discourse Sunday created somewhat
of sensation while discussing the kill
ing of the Ute Indians by deputy game
wardens in Colorado recently, by de-
claring that he intended to see that
Warden Wilcox and his deputies are
tried for murder. He also denounced
the preachers who have remained silent
in the matter.
Fifty-two families have arrived in
North Yakima, Wash, from Polk
county, Minnesota, to make new
homes. Many have already selected
lands along the Yakima valley canal,
west of the city, and others will locate
in the vicinity of the Mckee artesian
wells. The colony is made up almost
wholly of French people, and they will
be the means of bringing many more
settlers to Yakima county if their ex-
perience proves satisfactory.
The state supreme court of Montana
has sustained the constitutionality of
the inheritance law passed by the last
legislature. The law imposes tax of
5 per cent on bequests to any benefci-
ary, not a relative, where the estate
amounts to over 500. The tax on es-
tates directly inherited, where the value
of the estate is over 81, 500, is per
cent. 1t is estimated that the decision
will yield the state $4,000 from es-
tates already in process of settlement.
The Wyoming supreme court has de-
cided that foreign-born citizens must
be required to read the constitution in
the English language in order to vote.
One hundred and fifteen Firms, who
voted the Republican ticket at the re-
cent election in that state. could moi
read the constitution in English, but
.. their votes were accepted, as they could
Lad it in their own language. The
Jeoegs,n will put the Democratic can
sffice, and settles an import
aal question.
nnual address
of Albany,
N. si1S relasGons of
Ameri sland in the mbeth
:. conference, was very intensa con-
demnation of what is 20
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ternational arbitration, he said@rhe
/ spirit of hostility, so openly expressed
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