Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-08-25
The NEWS OF THE WEEK
From ALI Parts Of the New
World and the Old.

World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review of the Import.
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From tho Telegraph Columns
Tire Colorado volunteers have ar
rived in San Francisco from Manila.
General Davis says the deaths from
the storm in Porto Rico will reach
1900.
The partner OF Alex Mcdonald. the
Klondike king. denies the latter's
bankruptcy.
The meat combine has forced New
York butchers to raise the price three
cents pound. Nj
According to news received of the
feet now in Beiing sea the whaling
season was not great success.
The California Passenger Association
has agreed on a rate of $ST. 90 to the
Missouri river for returning soldiers. y
An emblem of badger four feet
long, cast from Spanish cannon, will
adoln the new battleship Wisconsin.
At Gar bondale, Ill.,. striking miners
were arrested for violating the courts
injunction against interference with
mines.
Illinois wants deep waterway to
the Gulf and river convention will
be held in Chicago in Octorber to or
ganize.
The anti-expansionists talk of put
ting national ticket in the field
against Mckinley as Continental Re-
publicans.
Eighteen thousand unstamped cigars
were captured at Tampa. Fla. The
factory has been carrying on profit
able traffic for some time.
The automobile is to be given test
for war service. An experiment., will
be made in carrying messages and mail
from Chicago to New York. !
In brush with the insurgents who
again attempted to retake Angeles, the
Americans lost two killed and IL
wounded; the insurgents loss is esti-
mated at 400 men.
Admiral Sampson will have charge
of the naval, reception to Admiral
Dewey. The North Atlantic squadron
will probably meet the admiral days
sail from New York.
! President Ratchford. of the United
Mine Workers, blames the state author
tiles for the trouble at Wardner. Idaho.
He says the miners organization is not
oliminal nor defender of criminals.
! A Paris special to the New York
Journal says that syndicate has plot
ted to kill Dreyfus if the trial results
in acquittal. The plan included the
killing of Labori. Assurance is given
that speedy acquittal may now be
Hooked for.
! Portland, Or. is to have a bicycle
factory.
The Santo Domingo rebels have es-
tablished junta at New York.
! Advices from Honolulu say that VOL
canic action of Mauna Loa has entirely
ceased.
Willamette valley hopgrowers have
agreed on 40 cents as the price for hop
pickers.
July reports show that both exports
and i'm ports increased over the same
month last year.
Andrew Carnegie has sent another
1900 check to the Anti-lmperialistic
League at Boston.
President Mckinley spoke to the
scholars at the Catholic summer school
at Lake Champlain.
] A suspicious disease. having all the
symptoms of bubonic plague has madc
its appearance in Portugal.
M. Labori is recovering from his
wound, and expects soon to be able to
attend the court-martial.
A case of yellow fever has appea, ed
among the marines guarding the gov
ernment property at Havana.
Lily Langtry, the actress, has again
married. The groom is but 28 years
of age. OF English parentage.
The United States cable steamer
Hooker is ashore in Manila bay and
efforts to tow her off have proved un-
successful.
Mexicans are holding the Yaqui In
Il. Il Al Al L
the Yaqui's war will be confined to the
Indian reservation.
! The navy department has received a
letter from Admiral Dewey speaking in
high terms of the treatment he and his
men received at the hands of the Aus
trian people.
The shooting of M. Labori stirred up
all Europe. The opinion is general
that Drefyus' cause is loser thereby
from the enforced absence of the at
torney during the conformation.
Secretary Wilson while in Chicago
after his recent trip to the coast says
he learned something of Philippine
agricultural conditions while here, and
is enthusiastic over the future of the
islands.
James Brooks, of MCPHERSON. Kan,
walked 81 miles to see circus.
TIE Chinese emperor is obliged by
his religion to fast "a days in year.
In Cuba 500 plantations under nor
NAL conditions aLe good for 1000. 900
tons of sugar.
A New Orleans man is said to have
invented sugar cane planter, in the
form of wagon. that with three men
and foui mules will do the work here
tofore done by nine men and nine
mules.
A giant 1eaping machine at Red
lands, CAL, cuts swath so feet wide.
Since 1883 military operations in the
Soudan have cost the British govern
ment about $40, 900. 900.
The Maryland peach crop, both in
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