Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-03-24
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
From ALI Parts Of the New
World and the Old.

From ALI Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READER:
Comprehensive Review of the Import
amt Happenings of the Past Weel
CuIled From the Telegraph Columns
Reports of the likelihood of renew.
al of the trouble among the Indians q
Leach Lake, Mimi. are not credited a
the Indian bureau, at Washington.
A report is current involving the o.
tablishment in San Francisco by the
most widely known financial men O
the world of commercial bank, with
q paid-up capital Of $5, ,o0o, 900.
The snow-bound train on the Chey'
enne s. Northern at Wheatland has
been abandoned by the company Off
cials, who will take steps to rescue the
passengers by sleds.
Acting Postmaster-Ge General Heath
has ISSUED an order directing that here
after fees for postal money orders issued
in the United States for payment in
Cuba shall be the same as those fixed
for domestic money orders.
Orders have been issued for the mus
ter out of the First Texas at Galveston
and the Second Louisiana at Savannah.
Both regiments are now at Havana.
The Sixth company volunteer signal
corps, at Augusta, Ga. was also ordered
mustered out.
The drought which was threatening
the loss of millions of dollars to Cali
fornia has been broken by rain storm
continuing for several days. Reports
show that both grain and fruit crops
are in excellent condition through the
big Sacramento valley.
A special from Madrid says: Pre-
mier Silvela, in an interview just pub
iished, spoke in favor of the interven.
tion Of France for the purpose Of OBJ
tanning permission from the United
States for Spain to resume direct nego-
tiations for the release Of the Spanish
prisoners held by the Philippine rebels.
Six men have arrived at st. Michaels
from the North American Transpor "a.
tion & Trading Company's steamer, P.
B. Weare, which is ice-bound in the
Yukon, near Holy Cross mission. The
men do not think they will be able ia
save her in the spring. Seven men
left the steamer. but one got lost COM
ing down, and the others think he was
frozen to death.
: A party OF some Sc members of cons
gress, senators and representatives, will
accept the invitation extended by gen.
tlemen representing Panama canal in
terests and will inspect the Nicaragua
and Panama canal works. The party
left New York, March .. This body
: has nothing to do with the official in.
vestigation which will be made by the
commission to be appointed by Presi.
dent Mckinley.
General Otis is planning another
blow at the insurgents in the exeuction
OF his general scheme OF Fastening the
end OF the rebellion in Luzon before
the advent Of the rainy season.
The appellate court. at Chicago. haa
unanimously sustained a decision
rendered by Judge Tuley last summer,
that express companies are obliged to
furnish war revenue stamps to all ship
pers.
The sovereign camp Woodmen of the
World. the fifth largest fraternal and
beneficiary order in the United States
are in biennial session at Memphis,
Tenn. The session will last ten days
or two weeks.
Mrs. Minnie Adams has been arrest.
ed at her fathers home, in San Fran.
cisco, on suspicion Of having murdered
her two-year.old illegitimate child,
John Richard Gray, by administering a
dose Of carbolic acid.
Senior Quesada, of the Cuban junta
in Washington, has received a cable-
gram form Santiago which says: 1.-THE
people OF Santiago disauthorize the as
sembly, sustain Gomez and are pre-
pairing public manifestation"
At the annual meeting of the Asso-
ciated Chambers Of Commerce in Lon
don. resolution was passed urging
the British government to maintain the
''open door" in China and prior Brit
ish rights in the Yang tse Kiang valley.
A contract has been concluded be-
tween the German government and
Cecil Rhodes, the British South Afri-
can magnate. for the construction Of q
telegraph line in East Africa. A
contract for building railroad through
the same territory is upon the point
Of conclusion.
Rear-Admifal Hichborn. chief naval
constructor. in his statement OF work
accomplished on the vessels now build.
ing for the navy. shows that there are
now actually under construction. or al
ready contracted for, 5>vessels of vari-
QUE types. ranging from battie-shIps to
torpedo boats.
Three thousand insurgents moved
down to the towns Of Pasig and Patsros
on the shore OF Laguna,de Bay, 'front.'
ing Wheaton's troops on the Pasig river
line. BY heavy fighting Wheaton dis
lodged and drove them back, taking
400 prisoners and inflicting heavy losses
in killed and wounded.
Minor News Items.
Two surveying parties are locating
the line of the electric road between
Tacoma and Seattle. distance OF 80
miles. The road is expected to be in
operation by November 1.
A double tragedy is reported from
Nanaimo, B. G. Dave Evans shot Lib