Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-11-17
THE news OF THE WEEK
From All Parts CT 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

Mabalacat in Luzon has been occu.
pied by the Americans.
The Washington volunteers were pre-
sented with medals in Seattle.
Major General Ludlow, civil govern
nor of Havana, is visiting in New York.
Twelve socialists and six liberals
were elected to the Berlin municipal
council.
The late John s. Pillsbury, of Mime.
apolis, left 100000 to a home for
children.
In Snohomish county $500 men are
employed in getting out logs and
shingle bolts.
Twenty men of the Forty-second regi-
ment were injured in a railway acci-'
dent ON their way to San Francisco.
Nez Perce Indians have demanded
more money than is paid for railway
rights of way through their reservation.
Assemblyman Mazet, of New York,
claims he was defeated by fraud, bui
his friends say they will contest the
seating of Stewart.
The danger of Basuto uprising. is
now admitted to be imminent in South
Africa, and may render necessary the
mobilization of second army corps.
An agreement as to the partition OF
Samoa has been reached at Berlin be,
tween England and Germany, subjec.
to the approval of the United States.
A bark is loading 100000 feet of
specially selected timber at Vancouver,
B. G., for the Cramps. of Philadelphias
to be used in building United States
ships.
The civil governor, counsellor, judges
and secretaries who constitute the new
government of Negros, sent greeting to
President Mckinley on taking their
offices.
A cable message from General Otis
says that Major Hugh McGrath (cap-
tain Fourth cavalry died at Manila
from wounds received at the battle of
Novaleta, a month ago.
Frederick ]. Cross, of Honolulu, has
the exclusive rights to operate the Mar
conf system of wireless telegraphy in
bu0 CaIuOdS. Lib 1S 0ApcCb0u W IdtO
the system in operation January l..
A 100000 gold brick, the largest
ever melted in Canadian mine, is to
be sent down from the Kootenai dis
trict shortly. This years wash-up is
the richest ever known in the district.
Russians and the japanese on the
Corean peninsula are on the most
friendly terms. The Russian and jap
anese ministers assert that the reports
of friction are nnfounded and are in
tended to distract attention from other
questions.
The validity of government contracts
made by swindler Captain Carter will
be tested.
The convention agreeing to arbitra-
tion of Samoan claims was signed at
Washington.
Influential San Diegans will build
transcontinental railroad via Salt Lake
from their city.
Huntington denies that the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company has absorbed
the New Japan line.
The bicycle, automobile and rubber
trusts now propose one great concern
with a capitalization of 5000, 900, 900.
Wisconsin lumber dealers have just
bought 100000 acres of timber land.
on the Pacific coast. They paid
$4,000, 900.
Owing to the poor telegraphic and
cable service from South Africa the
London papers can get no news for
their special editions.
The submarine torpedo-boat Holland
has been successfully tested by Uncle
Sam and purchase will probably soon
be made by the navy department.
The battleship Oregon has sailed
from Hong Kong, supposedly for Cebu.
She sailed sooner than expected and
was seemingly unprepared for sea.
A boats crew of the British ship
Pathan, recently chartered for trans
port service, refused to accompany the
ship to the Philippines Twenty-one
of them were placed in irons.
A st. Petersburg correspondent says
that Russia, France and Spain have de-
cided to intervene and suggest arbitra-
zion between England and the Beers if
Germany is willing to cooperate.
Otis cables that the Thirty fifth in.
cantry has reached Manila This is the
regiment which was quartered at VAN
couver and embarked from Portland.
Private Cleary died on the voyage.
The Berlin correspondent of the Paris
Figaro says Emperor William is re-
salved to occupy Tiger bay, south of
Africa, if England occupies Delagoa
bay.
Bourke Cochran, the famous New
York orator, was once porter for A.
T. Stewart.
Charles E. Littlefield, who succeeds
Nelson Dingley in congress, will be the
tallest man in that body, being six
feet five inches in height.
A call has been issued by the execu.
tive council for the nineteenth annual
convention of the American Federation
of Labor, to be held at Detroit, Mich,
December l / next.
John Wanamaker authorizes the
statement that he never advertised i'm
Sunday newspaper and never will.
The navy department has sold the
steamer Hector, formerly the Spanish
merchantmen Pedro, for $65, 1000. The
Pedro was one of the first vessels cap
tured during the Spanish-American
war.
The dwelling once occupied by
former President Martin Van Buren, at
No. 81 East Twenty-seventh street,
New York, has just been sold and it is
announced that the property will be
converted into business block.