Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-11-10
LATER NEWS.

LATER NEWS.
The Indiana, with the Tennessee
volunteers on board, is overdue at San
Francisco.
The Tacoma News announces author:
itatively that the Seattle Post-Intelli-
gencer has been sold. The purchasers q
name is withheld
The officers of the transport Ohio,
which has arrived at San Francisco,
report that there is a scarcity of food
on the island of Guam.
Senator Morgan is quoted as saying
that congress should define a govern
ment for the Filipinos without delay.
He favors congressional commission.
Trouble is anticipated on the Chero.
kee Indian Nation, owing to ballot-box
stufing at their election last August,
the facts of which have just leaked
out.
President Samuel B. Donnelly, of
the International Typographical Union,
was accorded enthusiastic receptions
by the printers of Portland and Seattle
and Spokane.
An ungrateful Indian, who had been
furnished with food and lodging, muir
dered Nevada white woman and her
infant son. Robbery was the motive
of the assassin.
The Russian steamer Dolney Vastok,
which was to have entered the trans
port service, arrived in San Francisco
too late, British steamer having
taken her place.
War in the Transvaal has effected
the markets of the East and specula-
tive operations have ceased. The effect
on prices, however, has not been as
great as anticipated.
A divorce has been granted to Count
Won Moltke, the emperor of Germany's
aid-de-camp. The decree places the
entire guilt ON the wife. The case has
caused sensation in court circles for
q year past.
Having learned that White is still
safe at Ladysmith, the British are CIV
ing attention to General Joubert's plan
for the conquest of Natal. Such a
movement is regarded as more daring
that Sherman's march to the sea.
Judge Schofield, of Illinois, has ar
rived in San Francisco from Samoa
and Hawaii. He says the natives of
Samoa should be allowed to work out
their own salvation. He reports the
landgrabbers as doing a rushing busi-
ness in Hawaiian islands.
Swindlers in Wall street, New
York, have been selling washed-out,
cancelled revenue stamps, the traffic
having reached enormous proportions.
It is estimated that 10 per cent of the
daily sales were fraudulent and that
the government has been losing $5, 900
day in the deal.
The British think they inflicted terri
BILE loss on the Beers in Thursdays
fighting.
Ex-President Harrison has returned
to the United States after an extended
trip abroad.
Puerto Cabello has surrendered to
General Castro and the officials of the
de facto government.
Half a million dollars worth of
property was destroyed by fire in Kan
sas City.
The Washington boys are home.
They were greeted everywhere with en-
thusiastic demonstrations.
The general belief in London is that
the Beers are now waiting for more
guns from Pretoria before attacking
Ladysmith.
Eastern Oregon is experiencing its
first labor strike. Fifty miners of the
Bonanza mine near Baker City, are out
for shorter hours.
Of the Occur d'Alene rioters tried in
Moscow for conspiracy against the
United States, 10 were found guilty
and three were acquitted.
The ship Charles E. Moody, long
overdue at Honolulu, has at last ar
rived. She was 100 days in making the
passage from Norfolk navy yard.
Beers are said to have issued letters
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States, and British commerce may
suffer, even if the transports do not.
In his annual report United States
treasurer suggests the impounding of re.
deemed treasury notes and thinks
banks should increase their circulation
England has sent 10, 900 rounds oi
lyddite shells to South Africa. Ac'
cording to estimates, single shell OF
this kind falling into compact body
will kill 800 men.
John R. Mclean, Democratic candi.
date for governor of Ohio, has given
out an address through the press in
which he predicts that Hanna il
beaten.o
The most important expedition of the
fall campaign chasing Aguinaldo il
now ON, and it is predicted that the
rebel capital will soon be untenable fo1
the insurgents.
Marconi will not operate with the
signal corps of the United States, but
will return to England in connection
with the use of the wireless system o
telegraphy in South Africa.
Nicaragua wants some Of Costs
Rica's coast territory. The govern
ment has completely routed the insur'
gents and dealt death blow to the re-
volutionary movement in Peru.
A charter has been issued by the
state department. of Pennsylvania tc
the Sharon Steel Company, of Sharon
with a capital of So, 1000, 900.
Steps are being taken in Hartford