Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-11-03
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der to the Beers.
This loss to the British deprives
them of 1000 men and seven big guns.
The recuperative powers of the Beers
are regarded with wonder by the
British.
The South American republics will
try to patch up their difficulties by ar
bitration.
The Peruvian cocoa crop is failure.
The plants were damaged by insects
and the price has already doubled.
A professional baseball league for
1900, to include Seattle, Tacoma, Port
land and Vancouver, B. c., is now on
the tapis.
Admiral Schley will go to South
Africa in command of the South At
lantic squadron to protect American
interests during the progress OF the war.
Interesting experiments of Marconi's
system on warsh1ps resulted in wire
less telegraph messages being success
fully transmitted over 30 miles of
space.
Professor Arthur McGiffert, of Union
seminary. New York, refuses to quietly
resign from the Presbyter ministry,
and another heresy trial seems inevt-
liable.
The president, it is said, considers
that the Germans and British caused
the trouble at Samoa and that they
should pay the greater portion of the
damage.
AT Kamfoops, B. c., John Hayes is
to be tried for murder. He is accused
by the confession of his sister of hav-
ing killed her husband, she acting as
accomplice.
Dwight L. Townsend, founder of the
Postal Telegraph Company, United
Lines Telegraph Company and the fam
GUS Havemeyer sugar factory, is dead
at New York.
In his message President Mckinley
will ask for an appropriation for a
commission to be appointed to investi-
gate the commercial and industrial con-
dition of the Chinese empire.
Bell had hot brush with the insur-
gents at West Guagua, killing four
rebel officers and wounding 18 men.
One enlisted man was killed and cap
tain and lieutenant wounded.
The Aberdeen Packing Company's
cannery at Fairhaven, Wash, was
burned. All machinery and stock, in
cluding $4,000 cases of canned salmon,
went up in smoke; loss, $4,000
Captain Leary, the naval governor of
the island of Guam, in the Ladrones,
was forced to adopt heroic measures to
enforce his administration. The friars
were hostile to his orders SO he invited
them to leave.
The Boer loss at Glands Laagto was
36 killed and 81 wounded
John Barrett, ex-United States min
lister to Siam, is lecturing in the South.
Eight men were buried alive by
cavern on the Isabella mine at Cripple
Creek, Colo.
President Mckinley and Secretary
Long attended the launching of the Shu-
brick at Richmond, Va.
The Twentieth Kansas volunteers
have been mustered out. They left for
home on special train.
Colonel Ray thinks the Valdes trail,
an all l-Americap route to the Alaskan
gold fields, suitable for a railroad.
Agents of the Transvaal government
are in Chicago seeking to enlist Amer
leans for service in the ranks of the
Beers.
With impressive military honors the
body of General Guy V. Henry was
buried at Arlington cemetery, Wash
ington.
The move for the increase of the Ger
man navy was made by Emperor Will
liam in person, and as yet is wholly
unsupported.
The Fourth infantry, 1000 officers
and men, has left Fort Riley, Kansas,
for San Francisco, en- route to the
Philippines.
A circular issued by the Ohio repub.
ican state executive committee, solic.
iting contributions from federal EN-.
ployes has been declare by the civil
service board, contrary to law.
According to the latest reports from
Cape Town General Joubert has Joined
hands with the Free State forces, and
there has been some outpost fighting
President Kruger has arrived at Glen
cOe.
Michael Hatal was killed while per-
forming a feat of magic in catching
bullets in his teeth, at New York.
Leaden bullets had been substituted by
some one for the usual dummy" arti.
Gle.
General Fitzhugh Lee, while visiting
in Washington, said in an interview
that the Cuban people are steadily i'm.
proving under the existing protectorate
of the United States, but are not yet
quite ready for purely Cuban govern
ment.
A desperate street fight between
members of a Tennessee colony recently
located at North Salem, Ind, and citi-
zens of North Salem, resulted in the
instant death of one man and the fatal
wounding of another, and minor injur-
les for many others.
The special correspondent of the Lon
don Daily Mail at Lady smith, describes
the arrival of the war balloon there.
1t was welcomed, he said, with wild
dances by the Kaffirs, who regard it as
a deity. General White and General
Archibald Hunter both ascended and
reconnoitered the enemy's position.
1T begins,'' says Tin and Terne,
"to look as though Anderson and FL
wood are to be the tinplate centers of
manufacture in the West.''
The union cigar-makers of Tampa,
Fla. have enforced a demand that
cigar factories be scrubbed and cleaned
once month.
There are upwards of ], 100000 ship
pers of produce in the United States,
and it is believed that from their ranks