Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-10-06
THE NEWS OF THE Week
From All Parts of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
comprehensive Review of the Impert-
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns
Lumber is worth $3.50 thousand at
Cape Nome.
The Idaho volunteers were given a
reception as they passed through Port
land.
1t is estimated that there were
1000, 900 visitors in New York during
the Dewey celebration.
A fire in Rossland, B. c., for time
threatened to wipe out the town, but
the flames were controlled with loss
of $50
A scheme is on foot in New York to
secure American capital for the COM
pletion of the unfinished Porto Rican
railroad in Porto Rico.
The bark Tillie Baker has returned
from Havana with a cargo of such OF
the armor plate as the divers were able
to recover from the wreck of the battle
ship Maine.
The cruiser Chicago, the flagship OF
Rear-Admiral Howison, has reached
New York, after long cruise, during
which she touched the coast of Africa
and visited Port Said.
Some of the non-union men put to
work in the New York Sun office when
the union men walked out some time
ago have struck. They allege that the
Sun did not keep its agreement.
News has reached Victoria of an ac-
tive volcano on James island, one OF
the Galapagos group. 1t became active
three months ago, sending broad
streams of lava down its sides.
At meeting of citizens recently the
name of Anvil City, Alaska, was
changed to Nome. This was done to
make the name of the city correspond
with the name of the postofice.
A new national temperance organiza.
ton, to be known as the Young Peo-
ple's Christian Temperance Union, was
organized in Chicago. 1t is pledged tc
raise 1000, 900 votes for the Prohibi.
tion party.
Generals Marcono and Ron, who
have been in command of government
forces in Venezuela, have Joined the
revolutionsts with all their arms. AT
CARTE the revolutionists captured a
gunboat, but lost four killed and two
wounded.
A large rush order for American
draft horses was placed at the Chicago
stockyards by the English government.
No limit was placed on the number
wanted, and they are to be for immed-
late shipment. They are for use in
the Transvaal in the event of hostili-
ties.
American machine and tool compan.
les are going to erect works in Ger
many.
The new torpedo boat Craven has
been launched at the Bath, Me-, iron
works.
A hail and wind storm through the
apple district of Missouri did great
damage to the crop.
Between four and five hundred per.
sons were killed in India by earth.
quakes and landslides.
Fire did $500 damage in nine.
story building in New York. The
watchmen were asleep.
Last British dispatch to the Beers
was pacific in tone and it is said will
clear the way for peace.
Five officers of the japanese army
are reported to be assisting the insur.
gents in their war preparations.
There is great excitement in the
Cheyenne Sioux agency over the muir.
der of Long Haley, by a squaw man.
General Manual Guzman Alvarez,
governor of the province of Bermudez,
has revolted against the Venezuelan
government.
The governing body of the Colorado
Mining Stock Association has voted to
reduce the rates of commission charged
practically 90 per cent.
Reports from Guadeloupe estimate
the damage from the recent hurricane
at $5,000,O00 Forty lives were lost
and 250 persons seriously injured.
The three treaty powers, Great Brit.
ain, Germany and the United States
are considering at Washington tht
claims arising out of the bombardmen
of Samoa last summer by the American
and British navies.
A new steamer line between Mexico
and South American ports to begin Janu
ary l, will strive to develop Mexico'l
cotton industry and place her in posi-
tion to compete with the United States
England and other countries.
A head-end collision between pas
senger train and freight occurred OF
the New York Central about half
mile west of Auburn, and as result
three people were killed, two fatally
injured and four seriously injured
The responsibility for the accident i
not yet determined.
Sir Thomas ]. Upton says he owe
his business success to his commercial
training in America.
Lieutenant-C Colonel j. R. Campbell
of the Thirtieth volunteers, is the onl,
newspaper editor holding that rank il
the army.
The bronze statue of the confeder
ate admiral, Raphael Semmes, to b.
set up in Mobile, Ala, is to he o
heroic size, the work of Casper Buberl
of New York.
Prince David Wawanakoa, of Hon
lulu, who is in Washington visitin
his aunt, Queen Liliuokalani, say
that annexation is decided success.
Because his wife fell in love witt
another man, John Bliha, of Noun
Carmeil, Pa, sold her for 5000. TIL
purchaser was her husbands brother
George Bliha.
In the reappointment by Governo
Wolcott, of Massachusetts,, of DIR.
G. Selby to the position of medica
examiner in Barnstable county, tn