Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1899-01-13
LATER NEWS.

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The ravages of grip among the MEM
bers of the national house and senate
may compel an extra session of con.
greEs.
A disastrous freight wreck occurred
on the Wabash, at Belleville, Mich.
The loss on rolling stock is estimated
at $50, 900, with So, 900 loss on a store
house.
Thirteen persons were killed and
from 80 to 45 injured in railway COL
lision near Bound Brook, N. J. There
was a head-end collision between a
local train and the Black Diamond ex-
press.
President Alonzo's advance guard is
within six leagues OF La Paz, capital
of the republic of Bolivia. It is likely
a decisive battle will be fought soon
between the government troops and
the rebels who now hold the capital.
1t is proposed that memorial he
erected at Manila to the memory of all
Americans who fell in the capture or
died of disease during the campaign.
The proposal is that all Americans now
resident in the Far East, of whom
there is very considerable NUM- mber,
should be invited to contribute toward
this object.
Filipino committees have made a
formal protest, and President McKin-
ley has been warned from Paris. Madrid
and London not to attempt to take
forcible possession of Ilo Ilo. The
ground is taken that the American
claim of sovereignty is premature,
and that the United States is not the
possessor of the Philippines until the
peace treaty is ratified. The Filipino
agent at Hong Kong says fight with
the Americans at lilo Ito is unavoida-
BILE, but little apparent uneasiness is
felt at Washington.
The Cincinnati Express Gazette has
collected data anent the operations of
trainrobbers during the past year. The
effect of federal jurisdiction upon train
robbe1ies is evidenced in Mexico. Dur
ing the past year there WAS not even
an attempt at train robbery in the Sis
ter republic. The crime is punishable
| there with instant death. The record
| for 1898 is as follows: Number of
| train hold-ups, %; number of stage
robberies. z; number of passengers and
train men shot, 4; number of robbers
killed, s; number of robbers shot. 6.
Captain R. r. Shaw and the crew of
the British bark Glen Huntley, long
given up for lost, are alive and we'll,
and on their way to Liverpool. They
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gale June 4, 1898. For 154 days the
IL sailors lived on Tristan d'Acunha d
isle. more than 1900 miles south by
west of the Cape Of Good Hope. They
subsisted on penguin eggs and the flesh
of sea eagles. and shared with 70 white
inhabitants the soanty stock of provi
sions that the captain of passing ves-
sci had given them.
At fire which broke out in the Ho-
tel Richelieu, at Pittsburg, Pa, three
guests lost their lives and five people
were badly hurt.
Colonel Potter, special emissary of
General Otis to Ilo lilo, reports that the
rebels threaten to burn the town If the
Amedcans lombard the place.
Governor Leedy, of Kansas, has COM
muted the sentence of ]. r. Colean,
who, while cashier of the Safe bank, of
Fort Scott, in 1895, stole $52, 900 of it's
funds.
Four dead, two injured. one of these
perhaps fatally, and the loss of proper
ty of the Southern railway to the
amount of about $25, 900, is the result
of wreck which occurred at Knox
vile, Tenn.
A heavy wind storm swept over the
remote section of Scott county, Ark.
At Boles, schoolhonse was blown
down and three pupils were killed, an
other was fatally wounded, and dozen
or more sustained more or less injuries.
A tremendous landslide occurred near
Spence's Bridge, on the Canadian Pa
cific railroad. A mountain which has
long been an object of curiosity to
travellers crashed into the Fraser river.
damming it completely, and sending
the water in torrents over the fertile
Nicola valley. The course of the river
was changed completely.
According to late advices from Daw-
son, the United States government will
be called upon to relieve INDECENT min
ers in the Kiondike. The Dawson
Nugget says there is strong move
ment on foot at Dawson to send rep
resentative to Washington for the pur-
pose of enlisting the United States
government in the cause of aiding in
remedying the great distress which
prevails among the miners of the Yu-
kon.
At the annual convention of the
Brotherhood of Steam Shovel and
Dredge Engineers and Cranesmen of
America, held in Chicago, resolutions
were adopted, urging congress to pass
the Nicaragua canal bill and also that
law should be passed making eight
hours days work on said canal. Res
olutions were also passed urging con-
gress to pass the river and harbor bill
at the present session of congress. Con-
gress was also urged to create a labor
commission of three union men to see
that the laws in the interest of work.
ingmen were enforced OF all govern
ment work.
Mrs. john Quark, aged 100 years,
died at her home near Galena, Ill.
Lieutenant Commander Sumner G.
Payne. United States navy, retired,