Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-09-15
THE NEWS Of THE WEEK
From All Parts of 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.
Chicago has just passed through the
longest dry spell siEoe the time of the
great fire in 1871.
The Porto Rican relief committee
will appeal for aid to all the churches
and barks In this country.
The Tennessee Coal & Iro: Company
is believed to have corner on the
GOAL product OF Tennessee.
Walker Hill. OF st. Louis, has been
chosen an the neDt president of the
American Bankers Association.
Railway surveyors are at work ir
Eastern Oregon and it is ruinored that
they are in the employ of the BuTling-
ton.
At the Empire City Trotting park,
New York city. Joe Patchen defeated
Star Pointer, John R. Gentry and
Searchlight.
Samuel B. Bishop and Henry Hawk
were blown to pieces by an accidental
explosion OF giant powder in the May
flower mine at Nevada. Cal.
An open switch on the Erie road
near Meadville, Pa, caused collision
between freight and passenger train.
Three were killed and three injured.
Texas, Chicago and New York capi.
ABalists have bought 100000 acres o.
timber and range land in Mexico. ant
will build up an industrial and COM
mercial center.
A freight train near Williamson, w.
Va. broke in two and the two seotione
came together in tunnel, resulting in
the killing OF three OF the train crew
and four tramps.
American apples are in such great
demand in Germany this year that
earlisr than usual. last year 20, ,85l
barrels were sent abroad. This year
it is expected the shipments will leaol.
400. 000sbarrels.
AS reward for the Santiago cam
paign Major General Shafter will Con
tinue in command of the department
Of the Pacific with his present yolun-
teer rank after the time reached for his
retirement, which was to have taken
place the l4th of September.
Ten regiments will leave San Fran.
cisco for Manila before the October
ALL unnecessary noises are to be
stopped by the health and police off,
eials Of Chicago.
The plague is reported to be spread,
ing in India and famine ia staring
them in the face.
The state department has been i'm
formed that revolution has broken
out in Venezuela.
Mrs. Sarah A. Baker, who has just
died at Forest Home, Pa. was the old
est American actress.
A band of Maoabee scouts number.
ing 100 has been organized at Manila
from former Spanish volunteers.
An American interviewed at Allan
ia, Ga, knows much about the Drey.
fus case, and says Esterhazy 10 the
guilty one.
The Thirty third regiment of volun.
taers has started from Houston, Tex.
for San Francisco, for embarkation to
the Philippines.
An American company will estab-
lish a gigantic locomotive-buildin
plant in Switzerland. employing
Amarieau rnathods
The retail business of the country 10
now being done largely ON cash basis.
and banks are seeking new mediume
for Investment.
President Schurman, of Cornell uni
versity, will act as Governor Roose-
velt's representative at the Chicago
trust conference.
At Johnson Springs, Va. mob as.
saulted Mormon Elder Jose Wuffin.
and then threatened lynching II he at
tempted prosecution.
This years. corn crop breaks the rec
ord. The United States will produces
2.5OO, OOO, 900 bushels. with Kansas in
the lead and Nebraska second.
Chicago will have hotel for the
poor FiIst-class rooms including 6
bath can be hal for 30 to 80 cents .
night. The building will be 10 stories
high.
The American Bankers Association
at their annual convention in Cleve.
land, o., took steps to have the COM
meroial pap4r laws the same the world
over.
English newspapers seem to regard
the outbreak of hOstilitles with the
Beers as a mere matter of time. Ths
officials, however. deny the situation
is so serious.
A Washington special SAYS Great
Britain and the United States have
practically agreed upon the Alaskan
boundary line and present negotiations
relate only to minor questions.
The legislative council of WesterF
Australia has passed bill enfranchis
ing women.
Faneuil hall. Boston. which has been
undergoing repairs for several months.
is to be reopened to visitors about the
middle OF September.
Governor Atkinson, OF West Vir-
ginia. claims that his state leads the
union in the production Of oil and
lumber and that it is second in coke
and third In lumber
Thomas Balm. new speaker OF the
Canadian house of commons, is the irs
farmer to gain that post.
William Robbins, instructor of man.
ual training in the schools of Passaio.
N. j.. shot and instantly killed his
brother. Ralph Robbins, aged l6,
while hunting In the Adirondacks.