Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-12-29

oregon pheasanCS are 70 De pianted.
in Illinois.
General Chaffee may be sent to the
Philippines to succeed General Lawton.
Prayer-meetings are being held in
Holland for the success of the Boer
army.
The navy is in need of more training
vessels and two first-class ones will
soon be asked for.
Three wagon loads of mail will leave
on the transport Grant for the soldiers
in the Philippines.
The Santa Fe is now competitor
against the Southern Pacific for South
American business.
A Paris dispatch says that the bank
of Russia has advanced tho bank Of
England eS, 100000.
Two big lawsuits have been insti-
tuted in Chicago courts between Nom
tana cattle companies.
Samuel Gompers has been unani-
mously reelected president of the
American Federation of Labor.
The interstate commerce commission
will grant railways more time to equip
their cars with safety appliances.
A marvellous quartz discovery is re-
ported from Dawson. The ore assays
$500 to the ton, and the ledge is mile
wide.
Senator Fairbanks has introduced q
bill granting pension of s., 900 yearly
10 the widow of General Lawton. A
similar bill has been introduced in
the house.
The National Association of Retail
Druggists is strengthening it's focres to
fight the cut-rate druggists throughout
the country.
Beers, with sense of humor, sent
Baden Powell, at Mafeking, q message
in q five-pound she'll: Don't drink
all the whisky; leave some for us
when we get in.''
The consul from the Orange Free
State in New York city reports that
many Americans have applied to him
for enlistment in the Boer army. The
majority of the applicants were sold
iers who fought in the Spanish-Ameri-.
can war.
England's troubles are multiplying.
Abyssinia now threatens to turn upon
the British. Emperor Menelik can put
2e0, 600 men in the field and is said to
-ss.sse been preparing for war over the
question of territorial rights. His
armament is in excellent condition.
The senate will take up the currency
bill on January 4.
The Negros uprising was caused by
the Filipino junta at Hong Kong.
Two Chicago electricians are heirs to
an estate in Hungary worth $4, ,O00,-
600.
Fire in Florence, s. c., destroyed
the city hall, hotel, bank and. ivo
stores.
The controller of the treasury finds
that Admiral Sampson was allowed too
much pay.
The remains of the late Lieutenant
Brumby were sent to Atlanta, Ca, for
interment.
Eight lives were lost in tho burning
of two big tenement houses in New
York city.
Goebel is making preparations for his
coming fight against Governor Taylor,
of Kentucky.
The transports Hancock and City of
Puebla have reached Manila with two
regiments of infantry.
All aged employees of the Pennsyl-
vania railroad will be retired and PEN
stoned January 10, 1900.
England has at last decided to send
more cavalry to South Africa. This is
according to Buller's wishes.
Senator Mcbride, of Oregon, has in
troduced a bill to increase the pay of
letter-carriers in large cities.
Senator Shoup and party will visit
Arizona and New Mexico to report ON
their application for statehood.
General Lawton was killed while in
front of his troops at San Mateo, Lu-
zon. He was shot in the breast and
died Immediately.
The supreme court of Ohio has rem
dered its decision in the bribery case
of Attorney General Monnett against
the Standard Oil Company. The at
torney-general furnished information to
the effect that he was approached by
Charles Squires, of New York, with q
bribe of $40O,0 900 if he would permit
the cases pending against the Standard
Oil Company to go by default. 1t was
claimed that Mr.. Squires was the repre-
sentative of the Standard Oil Com
pany. The decision dismisses the cases
ON the ground that this fact was not
established.
The Chicago & Northwestern road
added 298 miles to its lines during
1899.
widower, and the social duties of his
administration will devolve upon his
stepdaughter, Mrs. Babcock.
Miss Mayme Jester. niece of Buff
falo Bill, is said to be the only female
press agent on the road. She left the
newspaper business to 60 into this new
field.
Ex-President Harrison is one of the
busiest lawyers in the United States
and has probably the largest income
from legal practice in the west.
To mark the completion of Professor
Edward Gideon's 50th year as teacher
in Philadelphia over z, 900 of his former
pupils attended q reception in his
honor.
During the first nine months of
American occupation exports of mer-
shandise and gold coin from Havana to
he United States reached a total Of |