Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-01-05
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
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Wesl
Cuned From the Telegraph Columns
San Franciscans are arranging for q
big pro-Boer demonstration.
E. G. Hodges & Co., one of Boston'i
largest banks, has closed its doors.
II the engagement at Ladysmith Fri.
day, 10 British were killed and 16
wounded.
England has discovered that her mil.
itary resources were overestimated by
10000 men.
Mat Chandler, the old-time pugiiisi
and former partner of John l.. Snlli.
van, is dead.
The queen has given warning that
British subjects must not help Beers OF
Free Staters.
Plague of severe type is raging and
many deaths from that cause have oc.
CURED in New Caledonia.
Sydney Paget. William G. Whitney's
racing partner, has left this country to
Join the British rough riders.
A Paris dispatch says that France
would be happy If the Delagoa bay in
cident caused an anglo-American quar-
rel.
Alfred Borlini was arrested in San
Francisco WI lie ON his wedding trip.
He is charged with being o bank dee
faulter.
Iowa farmers have formed syndi.
cate TO grow rice in Texas. They have
secured options on IA, 900 acres of land
to cost $225. 900.
The Boer army on Modder river is
growing greater each day. They are
building trenches within three and one
half miles of Methuen's picket line.
The Northern Pacific wreck in Idaho
was bad one. After 10 days the last
body had not been recovered. The
trainmen were to blame.
Governor Geer, of Oregon, does not
approve of Oregon citizens contributing
to fund for Lawton's family. He
thinks the state should look after her
own heroes families first.
The Countess of Canavarro thought
she was q convert to Buddhism. She
entered their convent and changed her
mind, and has applied TO friends in
San Francisco for assistance,
Winston Spencer Churchill has
cabled TO the London Post of his escape
from the Boer prison. He made his
way overland from Delagoa bay and
scaled walls while guards were not
looking. He journeyed for six days,
walking at night, with nothing to eat
but chocolate.
Over 500 British prisoners captured
at Stormberg have reached Pretoria.
Butler has destroyed the Colenso
footbridge, and makes no further at
tempt to advance.
Armour's canning department., Chi
cago. is rushed night and day filing
orders for the English army.
A drunken wife in San Francisco has
charged her husband with murder and
he is being held by the authorities.
The Great Northern will inaugurate
n new departure. A large block of the
company's stock is to be distributed
among the employees at par.
Ii is said that England had been
warned by General Butler, whom she is
now turning down, that it would not
be wise TO attack the Beers until bet.
ter prepared.
Should all Spanish war pensions now
asked be allowed. it would cost $2.-
725, 200. The Seventy first New Yorks
asks for annual allowances which ag-
gregste $34. .662.
Ysqni Indians plumber, kill and burn
villages and the Mexicans do not seem
10 make much headway in whipping
the savages. An entire Mexican regi.
ment seems to have disappeared.
The Fenians are organizing at Buffa-
10, n. Y, for an invasion of Canada.
They expect. it is said. to raise 125, ,00G
men, and have two carloads of arms
and munitions of war in concealment,
There is disaffection among the Free
Slater troops. They complain that
Cronje's men are overbearing and bet-
ter fed than they. The Transvaaler's
are suspicious and the situation is be-
coming grave.
The president of the New York
prison association, who has made an
investigation of the Cuban prisons tells
horrible tale of the conditions there.
Offenders of all classes sleep in filth
and vermin. No beds or clean clothing
Is provided. Money or influence is
necessary before they can secure their
freedom.
The members of the senate committee
on privileges and elections declare
they will carry ON the investigation of
Senator Clark's case without regard to
the decision of the Montana supreme
barred from practice ON charges of brib-
cry in connecpon with the senator's
election.
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey have taken
a pew in st. Paul's Roman Catholic
church, Washington.
The entire crop of sugarcane and beet
for 1Se9-1900 will amount to about g.
o00, 900 tons-about the same amount
as last year.
Exports and imports at the five prin-
cipal ports of Porto Rico for the
months of May, June and July show
q balance of trade in favor of these
ports of $S47, $50.
A seat in the New York stock ex-
change was sold for $40, 900, the high,
est price ever paid.
William Cleggett, of Rochester, N.
Y, was killed by an elephant at jack
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