Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1899-02-03
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the .Te1egraphic
News of the World.
TRRsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in n Condensed Form.

IN n condensed fOrms
The New York Evening World prints
an interview with John Sherman, in
which the latter forcibly expresses him
self against expansion.
According to figures published at
Madrid, 80, 900 Spanish soldiers per-
ishetl, chiefly through sickness, during
the last campaign in Cuba.
1t is reported in Havana that Gen
eral Rabi, with 1900 Cuban insur-
gents, has taken to the hills in Santa
Clara, in defiance of American author
tiles.
A battle has taken place at San An
Gamma, Ecuador, between government
troops and insurgents. Four hundred
men were killed and 800 wounded, and
400 insurgents were taken prisoners.
The premier, Senior Sagasta, has an
nounced that the government had de-
cided to convoke the cortes during the
second half of February, whether the
United States senate ratifies the peace
treaty or not.
A bicycle saddle combine is to be or
ganized and capitalized at 81, 100000
preferred and $3.50. 600 common stock.
Those already in line are said to pro-
duce 90 per cent of all the saddles used
In North America and fair percentage
of those used abroad.
Considerable alarm is felt in admin
istration circles over the possibility
hot i0o
the. Philippine republic = Germany
from interested motives and Spain to
free the 5000 or 10, 900 Spanish troops
held as prisoners by Aguinaldo.
The strike which has been in prog
ress at Colon, Colon mbia, for nearly
extended to Panama, partly owing to
the fact that the Chilian line of steam
ers has increased the wages of its en-
ployes. thereby acuentuating the dead
lock.
John F. Kennedy, who attained no.
toriety in connection with the numer-
Gus train-robberies and other crimes in
the vicinity of Kansas City, has been
held without bail at Mansfield, Mo-,
for hearing before the grand jury of
Wright county on a charge of train
robbery.
The Planters bank, at Kansas City,
with a capital of $40. 900, has been
closed by the state. The proplietors
are under arrest by order of Secretary
of State Leseur andAssistant Attorney
General Jeffries The bank has no Wis.,
ible assets, it is alleged, whatever.
The second annual convention of the
National Livestock Association is in
gates are present.
Governor @. A. Culberson has been
elected by acclamation, in the Texas
legislature to be United States senator,
to succeed Roger @. Mills.
Amalgamation of the copper mine
interests of the Houghton, Mich. dis
trict and of Montana has been DELAYED
by the severe lness of Levy Mayer.
Judge E. w. Woodbury.. who framed
the first prohibitorv liquor law enacted
by the Maine Legislature. is dead at
his home in Bethel, in that state, aged
81 years.
The fourth annual convention of the
National Association of Manufacturers
is in session in Cincinnati. 1t is
thought a full attendance of 1900
members will be present.
The Spanish minister of war has de-
cided to abolish military marshals, to
retire half of the unattached generals
and to greatly reduce the number of
officers on the active list in the interest
of retrenchment.
A dispatch from Washington says:
There is reason to believe that the va
cancy in the Anglo-American joint
high commission caused by the death Of
Mr.. Dingley will soon be filled by the
appointment of Representative Tawney,
of Minnesota.
The commissioners sent by the Cuban
assembly to Washington to learn what
the United States government will do
about paying the Cuban army. have
sailed for Havana. General Gomez
secretary, Captain Kohly. said that the
commission had obtained a part of what
they asked.
No more names will be considered
for appointment to any branch of the
postal service in Cuba. The posteffice
department has been overwhelmed with
applications for these appointments,
and enough eligible names are now on
file to fill all possible emergencies for
five years to come.
Heavy rains. unusual in this lati-
tude at this time of the year, have in
jured the spring crop of sugar cane in
Nicaragua. The coffee crop in Mica
1agua, now being gathered, will not ex-
ceed half of the annual crop. Laborers
are asking high prices to gather the
harvest, and are indisposed to work.
Minor News Items.
The Connecticut supreme court has
rendered decision that the property
of Yale university is exempt from tax
alton.
A dispatch from Rio Janeiro states
that the Brazilian congress has APP
proved treaty of extradition with the
United States.
Miss Virginia Evans, daughter Of
"Fighting Bob" Evans. will make
her bow to society during the present
Washington official season.