Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-08
LATER NEWS.
A silk ribbon trust has been organ

,zed.
Fear of war is effecting trade in
England.
The Washington volunteers have
sailed for home.
The condemned ship Relief is to be
used as floating hospital at Manila.
Otis will send the Ohio after the
grounded Morgan City troops at Nag.
asaki.
Yucatan Indians now refuse To pay
taxes In Mexico, and more trouble ID
expected.
British seamen have declared a gen.
eral strike and the movement will
effect all British ports.
Thousands of veterans are in attend
ance at the national G. A. r. encamp-
ment in Philadelphia.
Admiral Dewey has arrived at Glib
raltar. He will sail for New York be-
fore the middle of the month.
Five of Colonel Bell's men encoun-
tered rebel outpost near Porac and
one of their number was killed and an
other wounded.
Private Mcveigh. sentenced to be
shot at San Francisco for murderOusly
assaulting an officer, will have life
term of Imprisonment instead.
The retail butchers propose to make
great fight against the trust. They
have $40. 900, 900 of capital and MEM
bers in nearly every large city in the
United States.
Kruger has Withdrawn his conces-
sions to England. The time of resi-
dence necessary to obtain franchise has
been incr reased instead of decreased as
England demanded.
given formal notice that he will seek
information in foreign channels, as has
the prosecution. This, it is said, will
bring about grave complications.
EzterlIazy, who Is in London, says
disastrous results will follow the ac-
quittal OF Dreyfus. Mercier certainly
will be condemned. and that will only
be the beginning of trouble in France.
A Washington correspondent says
the president has made up his mind as
to the government of our new posses
sions. Each group will have differ
ent form of control. Cuba will be in
dependent, unless annexation is de-
sired. in which event, American senti-
ment will determine form. Philip
pines will be governed by three com.
missioners; Porto Rico by territorial
government and Hawaii as recommend
I'd lV the the commission.
Eighteen cases and three deaths is the
yellow fever situation at Key West.
The presidents census proclamation
does not impress the Cubans favorably.
Santo Domingo City. the capital,
has declared for Jimines. the revolu-
ZIONIST.
A Kentucky desperate carried out
HIS threat and killed an officer sent to
arrest him.
The rebels attacked Angeles with ar.
tillery, but were driven off by Colonel
Smiths men.
New England silverites eulogized
Aguinaido and denounced the Ameri-
can war policy.
The matter of abrogating the Clay
ton-Bulwer treaty will soon be taken
up with Enlgand.
The Beers are rushing supplies to
the Natal border to be prepared to
strike the first blow.
The transport Morgan City, bound
for Manila with reinforcements for
Otis. grounded at Nagasaki. Japan.
Dreyfus' friends say the tide has
turned and the prisoner cannot now be
condemned. His innocence is almost
proven.
The United States hospital ship Re.
lief. which recently arrived in San
Francisco from Manila. has been con.
demned.
The Kansas regiment has left Manila
for home. The Iowa and Tennessee
regiments are now the only ones left
in the islands.
While mentally unbalanced, Henry
Emde, a Chicago carpenter. shot and
killed his wife and fatally wounded his
5-year -old daughter.
A member of Admiral Samps
staff says he does not want to retire.
The admiral is in good health and
wants to stay with the squadron.
As result of row between strikers
and repair gang at West Pittston,
Pa, John Pollock. was killed and
eight others were severely injured.
Kruger has backed down from the
position he had taken. He has agreed
to the proposed conference at Cape
Town and will explain the franchise
law.
Senator Morgan, of Alabama, proph-
estes that expansion will be the SAL
vation Of cotton. and is about to start
a crusade in the South to spread the
| new gospel.
The secretary OF the interior has or
dered that sheep be excluded from the
Rainier reserve in Washington. Graz
ing is considered injurious to forests.
This decision is but precedent, and
it is said it will be but short time
until sheep are excluded from all the
forest reserves of the country, includ-
ing the great Cascade reserve in Ore.
gon.
Charles PIophenas, of Mllburn, N.
j.. says he has solved the problem OF
perpetual motion.
Preparation for the erection OF the
$l5.O00,0 900 steel plant which is to be
located at Stony Point. near Buffalo,
N. Y. are in active progress.
Captain Davis Dalton, the swimming
| expert who was drowned Fear Far
Rockaway. was known as the champ pi0n
life saver of the world, having rescued
27S people from drowning.
David Henderson, the theatrical
manager, received a discharge in
huuk krnptcv in the TIpitad C@otoe a..