Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-01
LATER NEWS.

Tie governor of Wyoming and his
staff will meet the states returning
volunteers in San Francisco.
An agreement has been reached with
Germany whereby packages weighing
:lI pounds may be sent by post.
l.. kiuger's concessions to England are
so far reaching that tits thought his
resignation will be demanded.
In South America the products of
Great Britain are being replaced by
those from. the United States and Ger
i many +s-S- . ~ -.
w hile 16 men were descending into
the Couchard mine atssHautecreix,
France, a cable broke and all were
fkifled. se.ts .-
/ Commercial .travelers will endeavor
to have uniform style adopted in mile
age tickets by the railways of this
country.
An Italian anarchist organizer in
New York stated that workmen all
over Europe are organizing for a
great uprising.
The recent withdrawal of troops
caused trouble in Panay and Cebu
islands. but robber bands and aimed
Tagals were punished.
A, witness, who at the former trial
gave expert testimony that .Dreyfus
wrote the bordereau, has now declared
that EsteIhazy wrote it. =. -
Through the heroic work of the sis
ters only four deaths resulted from the
terrible oonf1agration in the Orphan
asylum at Sparkill, N. Y.
An alleged member of the old royal
| family demanded the throne of Corea
and was beheaded by order Of Lady
No. the power behind the throne.
Free trade privileges for 10 years
have been granted Spain in the Sulu
| islands. Germany and Great Britain
will also be granted like privileges.
The pope blessed the Olympia's crew
and sent an autograph letter Ito Adj
miral Dewey. He is much concerned
about war and. expressed the hope that
| it will soon end...
| The Santo DOMINICAN government
has surrendered to the revolutionists.
| The rebels reached the capital and
threw up the sponge.
So satisfactory have been the results
of expeI itnents made with thorite, the
new high explosive discovered by an
Oregon professor, that it will be recon-
mendedSby the hoard of ordnance and
Notifications for use in the Philip
lspines. sse'
The national farmers congress will
meet in Boston in October.
I Our commerce. with Germany for
1899 exceeds all previous records.
"A stage in. Yellowstone park turned
over. Zone person was killed and q
humber were injured.
The eucalyptus tree is to be expert
mented with quite extensively in Cuba
as apgti.malarial .g.t /! agent.
Suspicious cases of. fever have oc-
Cured at OIizaba, Mexico, and it is be-
tlieVed to be yellow fever.
General Otis reports every thing quiet
at Manila. He is protecting. the lives
and property of all classes.
The, e,governors of 81 states have ap-
pointed delegates to the antitrust con-
tference to be held at Chicago in Sep
ftem Das.. 80 4:
The Olympia's battalion of $50 men
will. lead the parade in New York on
the OCCASION Of the arrival of Admiral
Dewey. a~..
Sergeant Crawford, who escaped, af-
ter lettlngeigllt men out of the prison
at Wardners has been arrested at Mis-
soufa, Mont. -. -. -
Sir Thomas Upton, the owner of the
Shamrock has. sailed for this codntry..
He was given hearty farewell by his,
lfish friends. - ~:
It is announced in London that the
governor of Natal has refused to allow
the transit of empty cartridge cases
intended Get the E4aissvaai
s, a determined effort is being made at
Cleveland. O., Ito secure the discharge
of a number OF volunteers in the Four
f,teeath sUasted-statss infantry. '>a = - :
L A Washington special says that a
modus vivendi has been agreed .upon by
lsthe Alaska Sbohndats commission and
FFsssi fsEs As effeit hsloga songress. meets
in December.
| .A::Nianna. .;paper says that .depnta-
tion of American merchants from Ma
ynila has gonS TO Washingtori to promise
1-a sch heIhe fol 'cet}ihg THE Philippines to
Gresst Britain.
IL ,@srFf.S..siR sl;.-.;.4al -:
says treason has been discovered in
Luzon. : AtIati*e. mayor had opened
q rebel. EeGsruiting :station and was be-
Eing aided by: insurgent officers in dis
guise. He was arrested and taken to
Jail. .,s.
The waf, department. has given out
for publication a statement of tie
| finances OF Cuba. 1t shows that under
the management of the United States
government the receipts of the islands
t from january TO June of the current
million dollars.
Venice has a cafe which claims that
it has been open day and night for $50
|. years.
F.. AT ,Foxcroft, Me-. Mayo & Son are
running their awoolen mill from A.
M. to 10 Pm.
4 Electricity has supplanted steam on
| the railroad from Milan TO Monza, the
oldest railroad in Italy.
A clock is being constructed for Liv-
erpool Stree: station in London. The
interior of its case would allow five
persons to dine comfortably.
The output of sardines ON the Maine
coast is likely to be increased from
100000 cans in 1898 to 2, 900, 900 this
year, in consequence of the introduc-
tion of the new canning machine.
Eight hundred Japanese workmen
are now am nlnYad in track work ON