Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-12-08
LATER NEWS.
The British transport Ismore was
driven ashore near Cape Town.

Thlrty-elght wheelmen started IN
six-days' bicycle race in New York.
General Methuen is believed to have
resumed the advance to Kimberley.
Four vessels from Brazil are quaran-
tined in New York for fear of plague.
The schooner Eureka, on the beach
near Coquille river, will be total loss.
After 32 days the Glory OF the Seas
has arrived at Frisco from Puget
Sound.
Five persons at a Thanksgiving party
in Medford, Or, had combined ago
of 376 years.
The postmaster at Cape Nome reports
to Washington that the district is as
rich as is represented.
Mr.. Taylor, of Ohio, objected to the
swearing in of Roberts, of Utah, as
soon as congress opened.
A big log boom gave away at Che
halls and 100000 feet of logs are
afoat in Gray's harbor.
Appropriations for the three state
scohols in Oregon are running short
and the schools may have to quit.
The United States supreme court has
declared that a com mbination of pipe
manufacturers is unconstitutional.
Owing to the death of Vice-Presi-
dent Hobart, the presidents message
was not sent to congress on Monday.
Section men on the Southern Pacific
near Milwaukee, Or, struck because
they could not go home TO meals and
lodging.
Eastern woolen mills have bought
1850, 900 pounds of wool in st. Louis
at one sale. 1t is the biggest sale ever
made in the West.
The latest report from the Modder
river camp says the Beers were not
driven to retreat, but marched away in
the night after the battle.
Among the river and harbor improve
ments eestimatd for under continuous
contracts on which the sum asked for
is $1O0, 600 or more are the following:
Oakland, CAL, harbor, $1S0,00O; San
Francisco harbor, $4,000; San Pedro
habor, $2o0,000; Everett, WASH, har-
Dor. $3.50, 900; Gray's harbor, Wash,
$345, 200. Also the following river
and harobr improvements: Mouth of
Brazos river, Tex, 1920, 900; lower
Willamette river below Portland, Or,
5000, 900; Columbia river at the cas-
cades, Oregon, $125,0OO; waterway
connecting Lakes Union and Washing
ton, 100000.
The Samoan treaty was signed at
Washington.
This years hop product of Washing
ton amounts to 33, 983 bales.
The new Austrian budget provides
for consul-general in Chicago.
The tone of the Japanese press on the
war in the Transvaal is decidedly pro-
British
Genreal Joe Wheeler writes that the
Filipino war is being prolonged by the
antis in this country.
The British railway. companies have
agreed to convey free to the port of en-
barkation, all books, papers and peri
odicals intended for use of the troops
engaged in South Africa.
At the caucuses held in Washington
the democrats chose James D. Richard
son, of Tennessee, as their candidate
tor the speakership. The republicans
nominated David B. Henderson, of
Iowa.
General Leonard Wood will be the
master of all Cuba under the direction
of the president until the time comes
when congress takes action by provid-
ing a new civil government for the
island.
The Hernandez revolution is gaining
ground in Venezuela from day to day,
and is supported by leading members
of the financial and commercial worlds,
who supply the revolutionists with all
the arms and money they need.
The British dead and wounded at the
hard-fought battle of Modder river
numbered hundreds. The war depart
ment has given out the information
that the total number of causualties
was 452, and the number killed, IS.
The Boer loss was slight.
Bubonic plague has made its entry
into Japan, five undoubted cases having
been reported at Kobe, three already
proving fatal. The pest is traced to
cotton imported from China. Much
dismay prevails in the infected city
and the most drastic measures are be-
ing taken by the authorities.
According to late advices the great
drought in Australia was broken in
October. Terrific storms followed, do
ing great damage, specially to build
ings. The Adamstowc Roman Catholic
school, in which 40 children were as
sembled, collapsed One scholar was
killed and two others seriously injured.
1t has been definitely settled that the
auditing department. of the Oregon
Short Line is to be brought under the
supervision of Auditor Erastus Young,
of the Union Pacific, and all accounts
for both lines audited at Omaha 1t
is also rumored that the o. r. & N.
auditing department. is soon to follow
in the wake of the Short Line.
Mrs. Mckinley has made over 1000
pairs of knit slippers for charitable in
stitutions.
Former Senator Davis, of West Vir-
ginia, is to present the state with an
orphan asylum.
Hiram Cronk, of Ogdensburg, N. Y,
is 80 years old and the last survivor OF
the Mexican war.
Harry J. Macdonald, who died il
New York recently, was the son of a
native African king.
The gifts of John d. Rockefeller to
the city of Cleveland, now amount to
the surprising sum of ST., 900, 500.
Admiral Dewey's wife has many
friends among Washington's poor peo-
pie because of her liberal charity.
A Paris Journal estimates the public
debt of France at 2,757, ,000, 1000