Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-10-06
LATER NEWS.
Pasteur methods are subduing the
plague in Portugal.

lance between Japan, China and Corea.
Sir Thmoas Upton has been invited
to attend the Chicago corner stone lay
/ ing.
The empress dowager of China, it is
said, has determined to depose the en-
peror of Japan.
Brigadier- General Eagan has decided
to appeal his case to congress and
hopes to secure vindication.
Fifteen men, with knives, revolvers
and clubs engaged in street brawl
in Chicago and one man was killed.
A Chicago naturalist who has just
returned from Alaska brings news that
there are three active volcanoes in
Western Alaska.
Captain Albert Barker, who took
the battleship Oregon from New York
| to Manila, will take command of the
Norfolk navy-yard.
In the event of war the British ex-
peet early reverses in South Africa.
The government is blamed for having
delayed sending reinforcements to the
Cape.
Gen, Otis says the insurgents are
maneuvering solely to gain recognition.
| He has told Aguinaldo's envoys that
the only thing the United States will
| consider is white flag.
A paddle steamer en- route from
Hong Kong to Manila foundered and
seven of the crew were drowned. The
disaster is said to have been due to the
ravages of the white rat.
President Mckinley has determined
to urge again upon congress the au-
| thorization of a rsns-Pacific cable,
and when that body meets will be able
| to show the practicablity of such a
route by naval survey.
A crook arrested at Knoxville, Tenn.
has offered to reveal the hiding place
of the timepiece stolen dsom ex-Presi-
| dent Harrison some time ago. 1t is
worth more than 81, 900 and was pre-
sented to Mr.. Harrison by the senators
| ON his retiring from office.
| At Muncie, Ind, Francis Stoker, a
veteran of the civil war, dropped dead
from apoplexy. His son, Everett, now
coming home from the Philippines, will
learn of his fathers death and that OF
his betrothed, Miss Edna Fogel, at
Chicago, simultaneously.
The Nevada cavalry has sailed for
home.
The North Dakota soldiers have
reached home.
The insurgents in Eastern Mindanao
have offered to surrender.
The president has approved the sem
tence of Captain O. M. Carter.
Forty y-eight new cases and two deaths
from yellow fever were reported from
Key West Sunday.
Admiral Dewey has accepted the in
vitations of Philadelphia and Chicago
to visit those cities.
The Transvaal situation has caused a
stagnation in business in London and
stocks are at standstill.
The North Atlantic squadron will go
to Hampton Roads, where the change
| in commanders will take place and the
winter maneuvers be mapped out.
The Filipinos, have given up IA
American prisoners. All of them are
enlisted men, but Lieutenant Gilmore
and his comrades are not with them.
Rear-Admiral Walker, of the canal
commission, while in New York at the
Dewey celebration, declared that the
Nicaragua canal would surely be built.
The decision of the Japanese respect.
ing their schools to allow no religious
teaching will seriously embarrass the
missionaries, whose chief purpose is
TO proselyte the young.
If the volume of business continues
for the next four months at the ratio of
the past eight months, the export trade
of Havana for the first year of Ameri-
can occupation will exceed the hand
some sum of $29, 900, 900.
Not the faintest hint is allowed to
escape as to what diplomatic commu-
nications, if any, are passing between
London and South Africa. Troops are
massing ON the frontier and it is said
that the Beers may declare war at any
moment.
The United States cruiser New Or
leans has arrived at New York from
Santo Domingo, where she had been
sent to look after American interests
during the anticipated troubles subse-
quent to the assassination of President
Heureaux.
A number CT the ill-fated Scotsman e
crew arrived in Montreal. They were
placed under arrest and plunder to the
amount of $4,000 taken from them. 1t
was with difficulty that the police
saved the wretches from being hurled
into the sea by the infuriated Cana
dians
A letter from Fort Francis, Ontario,
says: Ungayaland, a region as deso-
late and unknown as the Klondike was
four years ago, has just been pene-
trated by party of prospectors. From
their reports and from the statements
of member of the Canadian geological
survey, they have run into a new Klon'
dixie, and one richer in diversified min
erals.
Emperor William is said to be the
only living sovereign of Europe upon
whose life no attempt has yet beer
made.
The society of total abstainers just
formed in Vienna is the first ever estab
lished in Austria. Everybody drink!
in Austria.
Thomas A. Edison and other Eastern
capitalists have bought the Ortiz grant
in New Mexico for $1,O00,O00. Mr.
Edison has new process of treating
low grade ores and placer dirt.
One married couple in five in France
!, have no children.
The little town of Morehead, Kan.
has cooperative hotel, laundry, hall
creamery and canning factory and 6
cooperative dining hall, with severa
cooperative farms near by.
One of New York's Dewey decora