Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-22
The news OF THE WEEK
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
amt Happenings OF the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns,

Comprehensive Review of the Imports
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Coiumns.
Admiral Howell will succeed Far
quhar as commandant at Norfolk navy
yard.
A new cabinet has been formed in
Venezuela, with Senior Calcano at the
head, with the foreign portfolio.
John King and his wife. an aged
couple, were killed by their 1rink-
crazed son at outhbridge. Mass.
The mill situation at Fall River,
Mass. has been greatly simplified, as a
combination of stock is likely soon to
be effected.
Bourke Cochran has advised Piesi-
dent Mckinley to tender his gooG
Offices in the settlement of the Trans
vaal muddle.
Harry Metzler. 12 years old. was
washed from taft by a passing steam
er and drowned in the Willamette al
Portland, Or.
4uO uldLl uiOtki u0W OCCdulC, tllO Ulk-
gest vessel in the world, arrived in
New York, six days and two hours
from England.
New York and Boston capitalists
will form livestock com bination with
a capital of $50. 900. 900 to control the
cattle business.
Attorney General Blackburn has de-
cided that game warden cannot grant
permits to hunt game out OF season for
scientific purposes.
The Earl of Yarmouth, who has been
spending the summer at an Atlantic
resort will 60 on the stage. Charlee
Flohman has engaged him.
The troops quartered at the Preside
in San Francisco now number nearly
$4,000. This number includes 5000
returned from the islands and awaiting
muster out.
Emile Zola has published a protest
against the Rennes' verdict, in which
he shows conclusively the weakness of
the prosecutions case before the eyes
Of the world.
The commissioners of Clallam ooun-
ty, Washington. have appealed to the
secretary of the interior 20 modify the
boundaries OF the Olympic reserve.
Four hundred and fifty thousand acres
of agricultural land is included in the
reserve.
The Filipinos have made their reply
to our offer of autonomy. The docu-
ment repeats arguments contained in
recent appeal to the powers for recog-
milton. 1t further says that the race
prejudice of the Americans is to blame
for the hostilities.
The Civic Federation conference on
the uses and abuses of trusts and COM
binations opened i'm Chicago with
representative men from nearly every
state in the Union in attendance.
Governor Tanner and Mayor Harrison
each delivered an address Ct welcome.
Recent incendiaiy fires in Paris are
attributed to anarchists.
The revolution in Venezuela under
Castro is gaining strength.
DIRECTOR Merriam, of the census, ad.
NASOs CAuAAAOAatOAc W 0O cOAuO cbhdy
Cornelius Vanderbilt died suddenly
at his home in New York of paralysis.
Bush negroes of Jamaica have re-
lapsed into sayagery and gone upon the
warpath.
The great council of Improved Order
of Red Men opened in Washington with
1000 delegates present.
Some of Aguinaldo's officers are tired
of fighting for the Filipinos' cause and
will seek capture by the American
forces.
The yacht Narno has arrived at
Honolulu ON a trip around the world.
She left New York four years ago and
has made nearly 10000 miles.
Oakland, CAL, has accepted the offer
of Andrew Carnegie to give $50, 006
for public library building. and will
guarantee the necessary s.. year
for its support.
The Portland chamber of commerce
will send Senator Simon to Washing
ton to push recognition in the matter
of embarkation Of troops for the Phil.
ippines from that port.
At Tuckahoe, NJ. Y. Terry McGov.
ern, an American pugilist whipped
PedlaI Palmer. an English batam. In
the first round. and wins the title OF
champion in this class.
Secretary Ray, of the interstate com.
merce commission, who has been in
Hawaii Investigating the labor situa.
tion, says he is of the opinion that the
solution of the labor problem there is
the employment OF free white labor.
Chairman Van Horn. of the Canadian
Pacific. says the Canadian Pacific is
anxious to establish great steamship
line between Liverpool and Halifax to
take business away from New York
lines, and expects TO receive subsidy
from the Canadian government.
William H. Bodwell, well-knowD
printer, ex president of the Interna-
tional Typographical Union. died at
Whitehall. N. Y, aged 81 years.
An imperial ukase has been issued
establishing a system of education for
the children of the nobility in Russia,
largely at government expense.
Salvation Army folks are forbidden
to use trumpet, drum or tamborine in
the streets of Philadelphia. and speech
only is left to them in their public
worship.
During the international exposition,
soon to be held at Buffalo, the Niagara
falls will be illuminated by huge elec-
tric searchlights. equipped with multi
colored glasses and arc lights.
The American Automobile Company
has been organized In New York to
control the manufacture and operation
of all the automobiles and motors in
which kerosene or gasoline is used.
Prof. R. A. Fessenden. of Allegheny,
Pa, addressed the American Associa-
tion for the Advancement of Science in