Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-29
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.

Emperor William is ON u visit to
Sweden.
A big strike for an eight-hour day is
anticipated in Cuba.
A regiment of Canadians desire to be
sent to South Africa in the event of wal
with the Beers.
Checks for SIS, 900, 900 have been is.
sued by the government for the antici.
pated October interest.
The permanent organization of the
American Hide & Leather Company
was effected in New York.
The Crown cotton mills, of Dalton,
Ga., has established worlds record
by paying dividend of 9s per cent.
The state grain commission of Wash
ington has reaffirmed the grades adopt
ed last year, and made them permanent.
The navy department has directed
that the Eagle and Yankee be accepted
at the Portsmouth navy yard by Octo.
ber IL.
The navy department. has awarded
the contract for building the Ports.
mouth dock to John Pierce, of New
York, at 81, $40, 900.
Relics of Spanish rule in Cuba are to
be disposed of. The property OF Gu
bans that was confiscated by the Span
iards will be returned.
The insurgent leader, General de
Castro, is making much progress in
Venezuela. He'is following the course
pursued by the revolutionists in 1899.
A passenger train collided with q
freight train Is miles southeast of Kan
sas City. Four people were killed and
four others more or less seriously in.
jured.
News has been received from Alaska
to the effect that the front of the Taku
glacier was shattered by q recent earth
quake. Thousands of tons of ice were
precipitated into the sea-
The master of the Norwegian cutter
Martha, reports that on September 9,
ON the north coast of King Chalres is
land, he picked up an anchor and buoy
marked "Andree Polar Expedition.
1t is probable that after the first oi
the coming year railroad employees will
have to pay fare when travelling over
any but their own lines. Influential
shippers will also be obliged to pur-
chase their tickets.
The steamer Kohn Ma:u foundered
in a typhoon off the Japanese coast,
going to the bottom like u stone. She
had 90 passengers ON board, the major
ity being women and children. Twelve
of these were drowned and two fatally
injured.
Captain Dreyfus has been pardoned
by the council of ministers.
Colonel John Miley, inspector-gen-
eral of volunteers, is dead at Manila
Hawaii will endeavor to secure set
tiers from northern Italy and Sweden.
Mark Hanna says it would be more
than disgrace for us to sell the Phillip,
pines.
At lumber yard fire in Los Angeles
three men were injured, two of them
fatally. 81
One battalion of the Thirty-fifth will
sail from Portland on the Elder withir
10 days.
Scheurer Kestner, chief exponent OF
the cause of Dreyfus, died on the day
the captain was pardoned.
A prominent Filipino has approached
General Macarthur in the matter oi
releasing the American prisoners.
The empress dowager of China is
said to be seriously ill and Earl L;
Hung Chang has been recalled to
power.
President Kruger has been informed
that the will receive no help from Ser
many in the event of war with Great
Britain.
Labor unions have ordered all work
in connection with the Chicago fall fes-
tival stopped until an agreement is
reached.
After six weeks siege Jules Guer-
in, the French Semitic agitator.
surrendered when the army was abon
to attack his fort.
Mrs. Mary Brooks, who has been in
Michigan prison for 23 years has been
pardoned. She Immediately married
the man who had her convicted.
Representative Dalzell, of Pennsyl-
vania, says that both the senate and
house will present bills in regard to
currency legislation at the next session
of congress.
G. N. Peck, prominent farmer hv.
ing near Lexington, Morrow county,
Oregon, died from hemorrhage of the
lungs. The neighbors thought he had
smallpox, became frightened and re-
fused to bury him, and two physicians
performed the task unaided
Frank 81 Burford, 15-year-old boy.
has been admitted to the bar in Guth.
rie, o T.
Two divinity students are working
their way through Yale by doing job
printing. The narle of the firm ID
Clark 81 Watkins.
At the coming session of congress
Hawaii will be represented by William
o. Smith, formerly attorney general
of that county. He will be appointed
by President Dole.
Cups are now being made with small
thermometers which tell the degree OF
temperature Of the cocoa or coffee they
hold.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson ID
arranging for an exhaustive scientific
investigation of the abandoned farms
OF New England, with view to their
reclamation.
David Rankin. of Talkio, No., who
is said to be the richest farmer in the
world, made his beginning with no 9TH
CT capital than horse. He now owns,
at the age OF AZ. $4,000 acres Of land,
worth from $50 to 800 an acre.