Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-12-08
The NEWS OF THE Week
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns,

The battle of Graspan WAS the first
battle fought on Free State territory.
The internal revenue collected in
Oregon the last fiscal year amounted
to $413.775.
Troops in Cuba are to be removed.
General Wood has given his approva,
of such action.
Secretary Gage will probably con.
tinue the purchase of government bonds
for another month or more.
Ex-Collector of Customs Thomas J.
Black, died suddenly of heart trouble
and asthma at Portland, Or.
Four blocks of business houses were
laid in ashes in Philadelphia. The
total loss is estimated at So, 900, 900.
The iron and steel trade is rathe,
quiet in some lines, but prices are
holding up, and scarcity is predicted
President Mckinley is considering q
plan for dividing Cuba into two parts
and placing Geanels w. Wood and Lud.
low in charge.
The Oregon, Samara and Callao,
with 160 bluejackets and marines cap
tured the port of Vigan, province of
south Slicos, notrh of Manila.
American manufacturers are selling
to the outside world over $1OO, 900, 600
worth of iron and steel in excess of any
earlier year in their history.
General Methuen, in command Of
the British forces, was slightly wound.
ed at Modder river. Colonel Northcott
and Lieutenant Colonel Stopford were
killed.
The great Thanksgiving football
game at Portland between the Multi
nomahs and the Olympics, of San Fran
cisco, resulted in a tie, neither side
scoring.
Eight thousand Beers were defeated
by General Methruen in the hottest
battle of the war. The fight took
place at Modder river and lasted 10
hours.
Great Britain has protested vigorous.
ly to this government against the or
ganization of expeditions here, in
tended, presumably, for the assistance
OF the Beers.
The vanderbilts now have the B. &
o. They have also acquired Morgan
holdings in the Big Four and Cheas-
peake & OHIO. This is q combination
not contemplated.
Lightship No. SO, whose station is at
the mouth of the Columbia, after yicis-
situdes probably never experienced be-
fore by q lightship, is ashore on Nc
Kenzie head, between Cape Disappoint-
ment and North head light, and will
probably be total loss. Her crew of
eight men we're rescued by the breeches
buoy.
Richard Croker says Tammany will
support Bryan.
Chicago is after the Republican ma
tional convention.
Admiral Dewey believes war in the
Philippines is practically over.
New zealand's government is stock
ing up the island with American game
birds.
Great Britain now realizes that the
war is real and seeks expression of neu-
trality.
Bert Repineff, of Nashville, Tenn,
won the six-day wheel race at st.
Louis.
The transports Elder and Belgian
King are now out of the government
service.
1t is expected to have an all-trolley
line from Portland, Me-, to Boston opep
by spring.
If Goebel is given certificate of
election martial law will be declared
in Kentucky.
Whalers are preparing to go out
again. Expense of the business has
increased 40 per cent over last year.
General Methuen's second battle in
the advance to relief of Kimberley re-
suited in the loss of nearly 300 British
soldiers.
The Pacific Mail Company is charter
chartered by the government for trans
port service.
The Knights of Labor will depart
from their time-honored custom and
take hand in politics. 1t also con-
templates establishing schools for its
members.
A manufacturer of wine asserted be-
fore senate committee that so per
cent of the imported wines are Ameri-
can wines sent abroad, doctored and
sent back.
The Puget Sound Can Company has
Incorporated under the laws of New
Jersey, capital 5000, 900; Oregon Can
Company, 5000, 900, and California Can
Company, 100000.
The descendants of Queen Victoria
now number Il. She has seven sons
and daughters living, 33 grandchildren
and Observation-Disclosures.
Fritz Eloff, one of President Kruger's
90 grandchildren, bears the honorary
title of lieutenant, despite the fact
that he is only years old.
Mrs. Roger Wolcott, of Boston, has
given an imposing monument to Pep
perell, Mass, in memory OF the men
of that town who fought at Bunker
Hill.
Rev. DIR. Henry S. Stimson, of Man.
haitian Congregational church, New
York, at a gathering of churcenhm
raised missionary collection of $-'9e
600 in 56 minutes.
General Baez, who was exiled 20
years ago, has arrived in San Domingo.
The partisans of the present government
who want Baez as the head Of power
full party, summoned him to return.
George H. Daniels, general passenger
agent of the New York Central rail-
road, is reported to be at the head of q
movement to abolish the practice of.
"tipping" the porters on sleeping cars.