Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-01-19
LAT Err NEWS.
The bombardment of Mafeking was
renewed Friday morning.

The ombardment of Mafeking was
renewed Friday morning.
Many Beers are believed to be trek
king northward from Ladysmith.
The national convention of United
Mine Workers opened at Indianapolis.
When Bryan visits New York he will
be entertained exclusively by Tam
many.
For the first time in history grocery
stores and meat shops closed in Chicago
on Sunday.
General Wood has crossed Orange
river and established the first British
post in the enemy's country.
A determined woman and huge
bread knife kept mob at bay in Chi
cago until assistance arrived.
Sir Wilfyed Laurier says that Cam
ada will give England both men and
money to help her in the present strife.
Summer resorts of Rockaway beach
and Jamaica bay, New York, may have
to move on account of threatening
waves.
Wheaton and Schwan's troops are
keeping the rebels of Southern Luzon
moving. Americans have few losses,
but the rebel losses are heavy.
The transatlantic steamship lines
have increased their passenger rates be-
tween New York and Europe, owing
to the heavy travel expected to the Paris
exposition.
John P. Reese, under arrest in Fort
Scott, Kan, has been released by
Jugde Thayer's order. Reese was being
held for contempt of court for address.
ing striking miners.
The Servian ministry has resigned.
owing to King Alexander insisting on
granting amnesty to all the political
prisoners convicted of high treason
against his father, King Milan.
A circular appealing for peace and
pledging for the Beers, signed by 400
clergymen of all denominations in the
Netherlands, has just been delivered to
the ministers OF all Christian churches
in Great Britain.
The suit for the prize money for the
destruction of Cervera's feet involves
the question of whether or not the
cruiser New York really participated
in the battle. The encouragement
AYERS that as all the Spanish fleet and
property were destroyed they were not
prizes.
The urgent deficiency appropriation
bill, the first of the important bills for
the government, reported TO the house
by Chairman Cannon, carries $56, 127,-
84l, of which SAT, ,603, 1872 is reappro-
priated for the military and naval es-
adjustments, and $8, 1926, 500 for dis
trict appropriations.
The Beers have looted all the stores
and mines in Swaziland.
Two cases of bubonic plague are re-
ported from South Australia.
Londoners are still complaining over
the rigid censorship of war news.
Carter Harrison has refused to accept
the candidacy for governor of Illinois.
The rodmill workers at Cleveland,
O., will strike, involving 1900 work
men.
General George Sharpe. veteran of
the civil war, is dead at Kingston,
N. Y.
Dutch colonials taken in arms are
not treated as war prisoners, but are
being prosecuted for treason. s
The latest official report upon the
foreign commerce of China shows
great increase both in its imports and
exports.
The Cree Indians of Canada may
take the warpath and strike blow at
Great Britain, now that the British
are busy.
Frederick D. Bonfils, one of the pro-
prietors of the Denver Post, was shot
and mortally wounded by a lawyer of
that city.
French warships have taken posses
sion of Kwong Chau Wan bay, where
a boundary dispute has been pending
for several months.
The wreck in st. Mary's bay, N. F.,
is still unidentified. although it is be-
lieved to be the Helgoland, which was
under charter by the Standard Oil
Company. Ten bodies have been To-
Gated among the rocks.
A lone robber held up two restau-
rants in the midst of Kansas City at 6
in the morning. Both jobs were ac-
complished in less than five minutes,
and the robber escaped, the gaping
people making no resistance.
Mrs. G. M, Foote, of Los Angeles,
Cal, aged IS. died suddenly on the
north-bound Oregon express between
Gazelle and Montague. in the Siski--
yous. She was accompanying the re-
mains of her late husband to Seattle
for burial.
John Barrett, ex-minister to Siam,
in public address in Chicago, said
that Senator Hoar's speech, which
was cabled to Hong Kong, and subse-
quently put into hands of the Filipinos,
caused the open insurrection in the
Philippines.
Mrs Christina Hirth, of East st.
Louis, emerged from a trance to find
herself under process of being en-
balmed and prepared for the grave. A
movement of the eyelid saved the
woman from death at the hands of the
undertaken or from burial alive.
From the stomach of a woman who
died in Indiana, short time since, the
handles of sx silver teaspoons were
taken, and now the stomach of dead
child at Lebanon has turned out several
silver coins.
Toothache troubled cat belonging
to James Dever, of Norristown, Pa. A
dentist extracted all her teeth and
fitted an artificial set in her jaws.
Every night, before retiring, she runs
to her master to have her teeth re-
moved.
William L. Decker. of Greenwich,
Conn, is certainly an unusual man.