Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-11-17
LATER NEWS.


The Bank of Athens, Athens, Ca,
has gone into the hands of receiver.
Speaker Reeds rules in congress
will not be disturbed to any great ex-
tent.
The Beers are raising more men, and
all neutrals must now fight or get out
of the country.
James J. Corbett has challenged
James j. Jeffries, and has posted a
SIS, 600 forfeit.
The McGiffert case will probably
again be referred to the Presbyterian
general assembly.
Europe is in need of more money,
and England, it is said, may see 8
per cent rate before long.
Young Republicans from all parts
of the United States will banquet at
st. Louis in January or February.
The English government declares it
is not holding back the news. but is
giving out all that comes from South
Africa.
The university of Chicago will send
an expedition to Southern cities to
watch the total eclipse of the sun next
May.
Samuel Gompers, president of the
American Federation of Labor, has
offered to arbitrate the piano-workers'
strike now on in Chicago.
The supreme court of Oregon has
affirmed the decision of the lower court
and Magers will have to hang for the
murder of Sink, unless the governor
interyenes.
The Beers suffered q severe defeat at
Ladysmith Thursday morning. The
Boer guns were silenced after four
hours fighting, during which their
losses were heavy.
On behalf of Admiral Dewey and
his officers and men, Washington at
torneys have asked the court of claims
to find that the amount of bounty
money due them is 1882, 800. of which
the admiral is to get $40, 1894.
Governor Roosevelt favors Wood for
the governorship of Cuba. He has in
duced President Mckinley to agree
with him on all points, but the ques-
tion of immediate appointment. This
the president desires to leave to con-
gress.
Corporate franchises will be taxed
in Texas.
Vice. President Hobart is recovering,
and is almost past the danger point.
Montreal was visited by q fire, de-
$4,000, 900 worth of property.
Russia wants loan. The effort to
get it in Germany resulted in failure.
The London fog is said to be so thick
that it obscures the actors in theaters.
Money is going back East to relieve
the stringency there due to natural
Admiral Schley says the completion
of the Nicaragua canal would make the
American navy invincible.
Within the last week there has been
much fighting at Ladysmith, but no de-
cisive results are attained.
Banban and Tarlac have been taken
by the Americans, but Aguinaldo's
is as much q mystery as
before.
Official returns are very slow in Ken
tucky. Both the Democrats and Re-
publicans claim q victory, and con-
test is sure.
The Mexicans had two fights with
the Yaquis in which the Indians were
repulsed, but not without considerable
loss to the Mexicans.
Orders were issued in London for
an additional five thousand troops to
sail for South Africa between Nove1n-
Der 10 and November Is.
The Union Iron Works, of San Fran
cisco, is said. to have been absorbed by
the Seligman syndicate. the gigantic
trust recently formed.
The Cherokee Indians will sell out
and leave this country. They disap-
prove of the allotment plan. Mexico
has given them grant of 5000, 900
acres.
An unknown man had one of his legs
torn from his body while attempting to
board a moving train near Kansas City.
He lived but 15 minutes, dying in
horrible agony.
During shopping tour in New York,
and Mrs. Dewey were COM
pelled to seek refuge in store to avoid
the crowd of curious people who were
pressing them.
Assistant Secretary Allen, in his an
nual report, favors the naval reserve.
He believes that it should be reorgan-
lied in connection with the regular
navy establishment.
Relations betvEsn Japan and Russia
are strained. Inc tronble is over
Corea, and the Mikado's government is
thought to be anxious to try conelu-
sions with the czar.
s A long-lost will has turned up, and
with it the prospect that the estate of
the late Andrew J. Davis, the Montana
will again burden the re-
cords of the Montana supreme court.
Gen. John Bidwell, of Chico, CAL,
who led the first party of whites over
the Sierras into the golden state, is
still hale and hearty at the age of 80.
Official estimates of the wheat crop
in France place the yield at SAG, 6,600,-
554 bushels this year. This is a falling
off of 25, ,098, 963 bushels from last year.
Gen. Lawton, who has been de-
scribed in newspaper biography as
able to drink any man under the
table. (" tells correspondent in Manila
that he never drank drop of liquor.
Baron Won Windheim, chief of the
Berlin police, is coming to this country
soon for study of our police methods.
The Lake Drummond Canal and
Water company. a corporation which
George Washington was instrumental