Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-03-23
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 Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.
Methuen occupied Boshof. ON the
way to Mafeking.
The Illinois river is flooded, owing,
it is said to the Chicago drainage canal.
The house adopted the conference
report on the currency bill by a vote
of 166 to 120.
General Cronje and the remainder of
the Paardeburg prisoners will be taken
to St. Helena.
Rather than have it captured by the
British, the Beers will raze Johannes
burg to the ground.
The seth anniversary of the birth of
KING Humber /, was appropriately cell
ebrated throughout Italy.
General Kobbe has been appointed
governor of Albay province, Luzon.
Hemp ports have been opened.
Lord Roberts forces have occupied
Bloemfontein, and Kroonstadt will be
the Free States seat of government.
James G. Smith, president Of the
Telegraphers' Union and an inventor
of telegraphic devices, died at his
home in New York, aged SO.
The Armstrong Steel Works, at Flint,
Mich, burned with a loss estimated
at $3.50, 1000. Goldens' brewery and
cooper shop, adjacent to the steel works,
were also destroyed.
Patrick Egan, ex-minister to Chill.
and ex-president of the Irish National
Federation, has written letter in
which he says that 85 per cent of the
Irish people dislike Queen Victoria.
AT Price, Utah, Indian Agent Myton,
leased 700, 900 acres of government land
ON the Uintah reservation to Eastern
Utah fockmasters. The leases run FIVE
years, and the amount involved is $18,-
900, which goes to the Uintah Indians.
Rev. DR.. Isaac Meyer Wise celebrat-
ed his 8lst birthday at Cincinnati. He
is the Oldest rabbi in active service in
the United States. DIR. Wise was born
in Steingrub, Bohemia, March IL,
1919. After more than half century
spent in America he stands today at
the head of the Reform Jews of the
country.
President Wheeler has announced to
the regents of the University of Cali
fornia that experts of acknowledged
repute have been engaged to make ex-
cavations and explorations in parts of
the world rich with relics of ancient
learning. The entire expense of the
work will be borne by Mrs. Phoebe A..
Hearst. In Egypt, DIR. George Reisner
will have charge of the explorations.
The materials collected by these scien-
fists will be placed in the Archaeology
cal museum to be established at Berke-
ley.
Filipino insurgents are fighting hard
to keep the Americans out of southern
Luzon.
Plague in Honolulu is stamped out,
after total of 62 cases, 53 of which
were fatal.
A brother of President Steyn, of the
Orange Free State, has been captured
by the British.
General George White has arrived at
Durham and embarked upon the trans
port for East London.
England politely declined the proffez
of the United States to intercede in
the war in South Africa.
Near Baker City, Or, an o. R. & N.
freight train ran down four Japanese
section hands, two being killed.
Labor troubles are rife in Martinique
Riots and incendiary fires spread terror
through the island, and ignorant
negroes threatened to behead the
whites
purchased the steamer Colum bia from
the Northern Pacific Steamship Com
pany. She will go on the regular
Manila run.
The steamship Armenia, loading at
New York, will carry supplies to Ma
ulld IOT bIl0 huiSIlCdu III bl6
Philippines, and 2, 200 tons of rails and
a large amount of steel bridge and
structural work for the Siberian rail-
way, to be delivered at Vladivostock.
changing the name of the Paris, of the
American line, to the Philadelphia.
Three of the ships of the International
Navigation Company constituting the
American Transatlantic mail service,
already bear names of American cities
the ST. Paul, the st. Louis and the
New York.
T. K. Sudborough, formerly clerk in
the auditors Office of the Pacific Ex-
press Company, at Omaha, has sued
the express company and Erastus
Young, its auditor, for $4,000 dam
ages, alleging that by reason of his ar
rest ON May 26, 1898. on the charge of
embezzlement, he has been brought
into public scandal and disgrace.
At Cripple Greek, Coi., the February
output of gold was 81, 296, 700.
Throughout Illinois, Michigan, Indi-
ana, the southwest and west, the heav-
lest snowstorm in years prevailed.
Democrats of the Kentucky legisla.
ture appropriated 100000 for detec-
ton of Goebel's murderer.
Many college presidents and profess.
ors met in Chicago to form an organi.
zation to make uniform higher degrees
and shut out cheap diplomas.
The state business of Kentucky il
paralyized through two sets of officers
seeking to get control.
In Chicago 40 horses belonging tc
Patrick Mulchare, scavenger contrac'
tor, were burned to death in stable.
In wreck on the Missouri Pacific