Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-10-13
LATER NEWS.

There is big stampede of miners
from Dawson to Cape Nome.
The First Washington volunteers
have arrived at San Francisco.
The medical department of the army
considers Vancouver desirable place
for sanitary hospital.
Reports to the marine hospital serv-
ice say there were 20 new cases of yell
low fever and three deaths at Key
West.
The United States transport Newport
has arrived at San Francisco, S3 days
from Manila. She has 465 members
of the volunteer signal corps aboard
and Is civilians.
A c&blegram to the war department.
from General Otis states that the trans
port Indiana sailed from Manila with
4S officers and 619 men of the Tennes-
see regiment. The regiment left no
sick.
The steamer Cottage City, from the
North, has among its passengers Sena-
tor Shoup, who has spent several weeks
in Alaska, visiting various points for
the purpose of obtaining information
relative to future legislation for Alaska.
President Galloway, of the New York
Central railway was before the indus
trial commission to give testimony re-
.lative to the question of railroad trans
portation. He favored pooling law,
and advocated the prohibition of the
present brokerage system.
A riot prevailed in the barracks of
company L, of the Eighth infantry, at
Fort Smelling. With only a dozen ex-
ceptions, the company was locked in
the guardhouse. The trouble arose
from charge of robbery preferred by
Corporal Fonner against Privates Stout,
Kelly and Brazille They had been in
st. Paul on spree.
Captain Cope, of the steamer Ameri-
ca Maru, which left Yokohama, Sep
tember ~, reports the transport Tatar,
with the Kansas boys aboard, sailed
two days ahead of him, and should
reach here tomorrow. He thinks he
| passed the Tartar Saturday night in
! the fog, but he is not sure.
The Maxim -Nordenfeldt Gun & Am
munition Company, Ltd, of London,
has shipped two six-gun batteries OF
mountain guns to Manila. They were
inspected here prior to shipment by
Captain George w. Vandusen, First
United States artillery, who will follow
the guns Thursday. The ordnance is
of the latest pattern.
Oberlin M. Carter, the disgraced
army officer, has paid the fine of $5, 900
| imposed by the court-martial. His
check for that amount was sent to the
United States District Attorney Bur-
| nett. Mr.. Rose, of Carter's counsel,
has been called to Savannah, and Judge
Lacombe has, therefore, extended the
| time for submission of briefs in the
habeas corpus proceedings.
Admiral Dewey will receive a 81, 900
watch from the municipality of Boston.
The city will spend $12,50O giving
the admiral a welcome.
The Marquette Club, of Chicago, en-
| tertained President McKinley~at a
banquet in the Auditorium Saturday
night. Thirty five hundred guests were
present.
According to the Sebastopol corre-
spondent of the Daily Graphic, the
Russian naval credit for 1900 amounts
to the ernomous total of $780, 600
rubles.
The Thirteenth Minnesota regiment,
returning home from the Philippines.
was royalty entertained in Portland.
The regiment remained over night and
attended the exposition.
The Spanish government has sold
the Havana floating dock for $500, 900
| to syndicate of Vera Cruz merchants.
asked for terms for conveying the dock
to Vera Cruz.
Admiral Dewey has chosen j. w.
Crawford as his official secretary. Mr..
Crawford is an employe in the Office
of the judge-advocate-general of the
navy. He will hold the rank of lieu
tenant in the navy.
| Near Chicago FIVE persons were in
| jured in a collision bewteen a Haw-
| thorne race track train on the Illinois
Central, and a freight engine which
stood upon a siding, the switch OF
which had been left open.
Don Emanuel Aspiroz, Mexican am
bassador to the United States, and the
first of the distinguished guests whom
Chicago has arranged to entertain dur
ing the fall festival, has arrived in the
windy city from Washington.
The third attempt to sail the first
race beteen the Columbia and Sham
rock, which took place Saturday,
| proved failure, the wind giving out
when the yachts were five miles from the
finish. When the race was abandoned
the Columbia was slightly in the lead.
A petition to President Mckinley,
urging the friendly services of the Uni
ted States in mediation between Great
Britain and the republics of the Trans
vaal and the Orange Free State, has
| received the signatures of more than
| 400 representative men, including 80
| odd presidents of colleges, so church
dignataries, governors of states, may
ors of cities, justices of the United
| States and state courts, senators, con-
| SAOcSAICA, Ou4tO16 hAu OtIlO1S OO1Sp p4Su-
ous in public matters, the professions
and commerce.
The American Jewish year book, just
issued, estimates the Jewish popula-
tion of the United States at 1,O43, 800.
A Toledo (O.) wheel mandatory is
filling an order for five bicycles for the
children of the king of Siam.
The University of California will
erect monument on the college camp
us to the collegians who died at the
front in the late war after having
abandoned their studies there to enlist
as volunteers.
Devona Burklin is the new queen of
the gypsies. She was crowned at Lam