Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-11-03
THE NEWS Of THE Week
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings OF the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.
A national billiard association may
soon be in the field.
Washington is said to be the most
productive of the Tanning group of
islands.
1t is rumored that A. D. Clarke, an
Englishman, may try for the cup to get
even with Lord Dunraven.
Colonel Frost says the stories of
American soldiers looting churches is
absolutely false. He praises Otis.
The university of Oregon will play
football against the university of Cali
fornia at Berkeley campus November 18
ST. Louis worlds fair is to be
great one. The fund has already
reached 81, 900, 900. The total amount
aimed at is S5,000,0O0.
The White Star steamer -Germanic
collided with barge near Liverpool
and was seriously injured. She will
not sail for New York this trip.
Reverend McKinnon asserts that
General Luna, the rebel chief killed by
Aguinaldo's orderly, had killed his
wife and mother-in-law in Paris and
fed
A Paris dispatch says Russia has no
interest in Kruger's people or their lit
tie republic, and will not interfere.
Germany is said to be friendly to the
English.
A giant brass combine is being
formed which it is stated will comprise
all the plants in the Naugatuck valley,
Connecticut. The main Office will be
in New York city.
At Paris, Mo-, the grand jury re-
turned an Indictment for murder in the
first degree against Alexander Jester,
on the charge of numbering Gilbert
Gates, son of Chicago millionaire, %
years ago.
The 19 Russian men-of-war in the
Pacific will shortly be reinforced. by
six ships from the Eastern squadron.
The Berlin Tageblatt sees in this con-
nection with the rumors of the Chino
Japanese alliance.
Secretary Long will make a recon-
mendation for but a limited increase of
the new navy in his forthcoming annual
report. He will devote most of his
energies to urging abolition of limit of
cost in the construction of battleships.
Herr Hopeff, ex-treasurer of the AL
bert Verein, a charitable organization
under the patronage of the king and
queen of Saxony, was sentenced to i'm
prisonment for four years and nine
months for misappropriating 250, 900
marks of the society's funds.
The Burghers are said to have secured
the services of $4,000 natives.
Prolongation of war beyond British
expectations is now said to be certain.
The navy department. is to give Mar
coni's wireless telegraphy a practical
test.
England will expect the Beers to
pay the cost of war when the end
comes.
The government of Venezuela has
been turned over to Castro, who seems
to be very popular.
United States army officers have
been sent to South Africa to watch the
progress of the war.
Fifteen sick men of the Iowa regi-
ment are now in the general hospital
at the Presidio, San Francisco.
Russia has at last agreed that the
claim resulting from the seizure of
seals in Behring sea shall be arbitrated.
lilo Ilo is stirred by the expectation
of important fighting. Volleys are be-
ing fred at the American outposts
nightly.
Colonel John B. Yates, one of Cen
eral Sherman's main supports in the
famous march to the sea, is dead at
Amesburg, Ont.
The battleships Texas and Indiana
are to go out of commission, as the
officers and men are needed in the
Philippines. Others may follow.
A Berlin dispatch says kilograms
from Brussels announce that in the
Transvaal legation circles it is stated
that France and Russia will not per-
NIT the annexation of the Transvaal
and Orange Free State to England.
At Atchison, Kan, two robbers shot
and killed one man and wounded an.
other in a store, which they later rob-
bed. They were pursued by a posse
and they shot and killed policeman
and another man, both members of the
pursuers.
Canada has made new proposition
for permanent settlement of the Alaska
dispute. She again asks for arbitra-
tion on terms similar to those imposed
by the United States and Great Britain
over Venezuela. Fifty years of occu-
pancy is considered conclusive evil
dence of title. She is willing to give
mp Skagway aAl Dyea, but wants Pyra-
mid Harbor.
One hundred years ago it was consid-
cred a wonderful achievement for ten
men to manufacture $4,000 pins a day.
Now three make Z, 800, 900 pins in the
same time.
1t is complained that the blacksmiths
OF Minneapolis. st. Paul and Duluth
show lack of interest in the operation
of the hoHseshoers' license law. The
members of the craft in Duluth were SO
disinterested that they conceded their
vacancy to the board of examiners to
Minneapolis.
A Filipino newspaper makes the
statement that independence will be
given to the islands in December,
when Bryan will be elected president
of the United States. The newspa per
also makes the statement that the
American casualties have been 23, 600
since last February and that the policy
now is a retreating fight.
The cigar-makers' official journal re-.
ports that Ala, ,356, 931 cigars were man.
ufactured in the United States during
July-an increase over the output OF