Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-02-16
THE NEWS OF THE Week
From All Parts Of the . New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review of the Import
amt Happenings OF the Past Week
CuIled From the Telegraph Columns

Comprehensive Review of the Import
amt Happenings of the Past Week
Cuned From the Telegraph Columns
Lord Roberts and General Kitchene.
have started for the front.
The insurgents have been driven out
of Legaspi, province of Albay.
Thousands viewed the remains OF
Senator Goebel at Covington, Ken.
Affairs in Santo Domingo are in Q
turbulent condition. Insurrection is
breeding.
It is said the dowager empress of
China-is afraid to depose the emperor
at present.
On account of the serious roadbed
washout on its Lewiston division, the
Northern Pacific will lose 100000.
The transports Pathan and Sherman
arrived at San Francisco from Manila.
On board the Sherman are rs invalid
soldiers.
Fire at Little Rock, Ark, destroyed
property to the value of $265, 900. The
J.. p. Quinn Dry Goods Company will
lose $l50,00O.
British troops crossed the Upper
Tugela river at Kolendrift with the OBJ
ject of storming the Boer positions. but
We're driven back.
Three hundred Spanish prisoners re-
volted at the treatment they received
at the hands of Filipinos, dispersed
their captors and hold the fort.
The largest office building in the
world is to be erected in New York
City, by the Alliance Realty Company.
It will be 20 stories high and will cost
$1,000, 900.
President Havemeyer, of the Ameri-
can Sugar Refining Company denies
that the leading refneries of the COM
pany were closed down as result of
the loss of business.
Fish commissioners of Oregon and
Washington have issued a statement
that only citizens were granted licenses
and that false claims may have been
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The mortality in the city of Bonn
bay, India, in one day was unprece-
dented. There was a total of 408
deaths. The situation is aggravated by
the advent of famine refugees.
Word has been received by the de-
partment of Indian affairs and by the
police authorities OF fresh troubles
among the Indians of Upper Laird, B.
G. Seven members of q Scotch family
are said TO have been murdered.
The Sunset Telephone Company OF
Oakland, CAL, has mortgaged to the
Old Colony Trust Company. of Boston,
its entire possessions in California, Ne
vada, Arizona and New Mexico, as se-
curity for the payment of gold interest
bearing bonds to the amount of 80, 500,-
600.
The Nicaragua canal bill will be
pushed through both houses this
month.
Mexican liberals favor the candi-
dacy of President Diaz for reelection
by vote of three to one.
The league of Republican clubs of
Oregon convened at the armory in Port
land. with 500 delegates present.
Mrs. Lille Devereaux Blake has
announced her candidacy for the presi>
dency of the National Women Suffragiss
Association.
Members of the Algonquin Club, a
leading social organization of Bridge
port, Conn, have declined to entertain
w. J. Bryan.
The plague in Honolulu has broken
ont in several isolated places outside of
the originally infected district, and it's
progress is regarded as serious.
John d. Rockefeller iss no longer
president of the Standard Oil Company.
He resigned last December, but the
facts were kept secret until now.
Fifty-seven paintings, the property
Of Austin H. King. of Providence, R.
l., were sold at auction in New York
for $77,375, an average of ST. ,356 per
picture.
Adelbert s. Hay, the new United
States consul at Pretoria, was received
by the Transvaal government, and pre-
sented his credentials. He created an
excellent impression.
Astoria, Or, now has the right of
immediate transportation. A dispatch
from Washington states that Senator
George W. McBride's bill providing for
such has passed the senate. This
means bonded warehouse at Astoria
and the unloading of Oriental freight
at that place.
By way of preparation for the great
struggle now in progress, the Beers in
the year 1898 bought from France
alone, guns, swords, carbines, pistols.
cartridges, lead, zinc, powder caps,
fuses, ETC., to the invoiced value of
1856, 900, according to report of the
state department. from United States
Consul Covert at Lyons.
Henry Hughes, hero OF the old navy,
has been admitted into the county
almshouse at Chester, Pa, at the age
of 90 years.
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the sending of wireless telegraph mes
sages. This has been tested i'm South
Africa.
During the last year 25, 202, ,9O1 bush
els of grain and 2.l98.513 gallons of
molasses were used for the manufacture
of liquor in this country.
William L. Wallace, OF Chicago,
has been appointed special agent in
the census bureau, in charge of the
collection of lumber manufacture sta
tistics.
Fort Bayard, N. M, has been dis
continued as q garrison post and the
buildings will be turned over to the
surgeon general of the army for sani-
tarium.
Jay B. Burrows, one of the principal
organizers of the Farmers Alliance and
the Populist party in Nebraska. died