Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-10-27
THE news OF THE WEEK
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS

OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns
A new German warship has been
launched. She was christened Kaiser
Karl der Crosse, by DIR. Won Moncke-
berg, burgomaster of Hamburg.
The Beers, according to a especial dis
patch from Pretoria, repulsed small
force of Cape mounted police near
Berkeley, West Cape Colony, captur-
ing two.
The dwelling once occupied by ex-
president Martin Van Buren,, at 81
East Twenty-seventh street, New York,
has been sold, and it is announced that
the property will be converted into a
business block.
General Joubert has
arrived at Newcastle, Natal. He
found only 100 men there when he en-
tered the town. The report current at
Delagoa bay that 5000 Beers have been
repulsed at Newcastle is false.
An Ashcroft, B. c., report states that
there was big robbery at the Cariboo
mine, near Quesnelle Forks. The big
safe in the Cariboo Hydraulic Com
pany's office was blown open, and part
of the amalgam, worth $50, 900, stolen.
The Great Northern road has lately
bought IL, 900, 900 feet of fir timber in
Washington, nearly all of it for the
roads proposed ore dock at Allouze
bay, ON Lake Superior. Nearly half
this enormous order has been bought in
the past 10 days.
The transport Senator is expected to
arrive from Manila next week. The
news of the terrible experience of the
steamship Empress of India causes no
alarm for the safety of the Senator,
which is supposed to also have passed
through the typhoon.
A dispatch from Ladysmith says
that letter was brought to the Brit
ish pickets by Boer cyclists bearing a
white flag, signed by the Newcastle
magistrate and sent by permission of
General Joubert, stating
that the British who remained in New
castle are we'll.
Three hundred recruits, under COM
mand of Captain w. N. Hughes, Thir-
teenth infantry, and Lieutenants Will
SON, Pascoe and Kinzie, have been as
signed TO the transport Manuense, at
San Francisco, with two companies of
the Thirty-first, under command of
Lieutenant-C Colonel Hayes.
The postmaster-general has issued q
formal warming to all postmasters
against the levying of political assess
ments, and simultaneously the civil
service commission has called attention
TO the law governing the subject, and
of the commissions intention to en-
force it.
For a week snow storm has been
raging in the mountains surrounding
Leadville, COL, something unprece-
dented at this time of the year.
The powers are again wrangling over
Samoa, and there is talk of partition
ing the islands England has offered
% purchase Germany's interest.
A band of 500 Mayo Indians have
Joined the Yaquis in their war with
Mexico. Heretofore the Mayos have
refused to aid the Yaqui tribe in its
rebellions.
Klapper, editor of the Deutsche
Agrai Correspondent, at Berlin, has
been sentenced to imprisonment in a
fortress for six months, on charge of
lese majestic, for criticizing Emperor
William.
An explosion of mine gas in COL
iery near Pittsburg, Pa, resulted i'm
entombing % miners. Ten we y re-
scued alive, but it is feared the others
are dead. The mine took fire and is
burning.
The Columbia won the second race
with the Shamrock. Soon after the
start the Shamrock's topmast was
broken and size returned. The Column
bia sailed over the course and was given
the race.
Surgeon-General Sternberg has re-
fused to recommend the building of a
large military hospital at Vancouver,
Wash, saying that the post hospital at
that place is abundently able for the
present needs.
A dispatch from Nogales, Ariz., says:
A sheriff's posse has encountered Mexi-
can bandits and killed one an wound
ed another. American and Mexican
officers are now in pursuit of five 9TH
ers, who escaped.
The smallpox scare at Astoria, re-
sultant from the case of Beecher D.
Slorp, has about died ous. The patient
Is getting along nicely, and the attend
ing physicians have no doubt as to his
speedy recovery.
The British steamship knight Bache-
lor has arrived at New Orleans from
Hamburg, Germany, with 73,567 bags
of raw beet sugar, equal to 1910 tons.
This is the largest cargo of foreign
sugar ever brought to New Orleans.
Charles Winters, of Jacksonville,
Or, a native of Sweden, aged 70 years,
who has been resident of Jackson
vile for many years, died at Talent,
where he had gone for short visit
with friends.
Hardy Getty, 16-year old boy,
while operating stamping machine in
q Fairhaven, Wash, metal works, had
both of his hands SO badly mangled
that he will never be able to use them
again.
In Surrey, England, there is great
poultry -fattening establishment, which
annually sends about $4,000 fowls te
London.
The controller of the currency ha.
declared a second dividend of 10 pei
cent in favor of the creditors of the Co