Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-02-09
LATER NEWS.

William Henry Glider, the explorer.
died at his home in Morristown, N. j.
The transports Ben Mohr and Meade
have arrived at San Francisco from
Manila.
Conditions in Cuba are such that the
people are not yet ready for self-gov-
ernment.
Major General Otis has appointed
civil governor in Northern Luzon and
opened the hemp ports.
The Northern Pacific has selected
Everett, Wash, as the point from
which they will ship to the Orient.
Henry Watterson says the Louisville
& Nashville Railroad is the head and
! front of the present troubles in Ken
lucky.
The Echo Mountain house, large
hotel near Pasadena, Cal, was de-,
stroyed by fire. The loss is estimated
at 800, 900.
The natives of Borneo are in REBEL
lion. The trouble is serious enough to
demand the attention of British gum,
boat and marines.
4 John G.. Brady, governor of Alaska,
says that there will be lawlessness and
reign of terror in the new gold fields
of Cape Nome next summer.
The Hay -Pauncefote treaty, amend
ing the Clayton-Bulw treaty, relative
to the construction of the Nicaragua
canal, was signed at the state depart
ment by Secretary Hay and Lord
Pauncefote.
The famous Cherokee hydraulic gold
mine, of Orovilie, CAL, from which
$13, 900, 900 in gold has been taken.
and comprising 100 miles of water
bitches, 80 miles of "debris" canals
and /, 500 acres of patented channels,
has been purchased by a Pittsburg SYM
dictate.
The adjutant-general has received
| telegram from Assistant Adjutant Gen.
eral Mccain, at Vancouver barracks,
stating that Colonel Ray, at Fort Glib
bon, Alaska, reports the safe arriva r
there of Lieutenant Heron and party,
who were supposed to have been lost
while exploring the Copper river coun-
try.
Recruiting for the Strathcona horse,
the detachment which is being equip
ped and maintained by Lord Strath-
coma, Canadian high commissioner in
London. has begun at Fort Steele, B.
G. Although the number to be taken
from this section is restricted to 40,
there are over 200 applicants for enlist
ment.
The Beers at Stormberg are hard
pressed.
The house passed the Indian app,o-
priation bill.
The transport Manuense has arrived
at San Francisco nom Manila.
w. J. Bryan spoke to an audience of
2,000 people aS Chicopee, Mass.
Cardinal Gibbons commends congress
fer it's action in the Roberts case.
Nelson, of Minneapolis, lowered tho
two-mile skating record of 5:51 to 5:33.
William Stanley Hazeltine, the ma
rine artist, is dead in Rome, aged 54
years.
A serious riot occurred in Porto Rico
during the parades of two political
parties.
: Chicago trades -unionists in the Fed
GRAFTON of Labor denounced Governor
Taylor, OF Kentucky.
The president has issued proclama-
tion fixing q tariff of duties and taxes
for the island of Guam.
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The passengers and mail brought
from Honolulu by the steamer Austria
liza were released from quarantine.
The strike at Cramps shipyard.
which has been in progress since Au-
gust, has been officially declared off.
VIM. Goebel, the contesting gover-
nor of Kentucky, is dead from the re-
suit of the bullet fired by an unknown
assassin.
The British government has contract
ed with the Philadelphia & Reading
Railroad Company for 1,OO0.O0O tons
of coal.
Fire in st. Louis destroyed four
blocks, causing q property loss of
81, SOC, 900. One man was killed and
6CtOldA III Oos
A reward of $5, 900 has been offered
for the arrest and conviction of the per-
son or persons who made the attempt
on the life of William Goebel..
General Kobbe has occupied the is
lands of Lamar and Leyte. In the
fight at Catbalogan 10 insurgents were
killed and the Americans captured five
cannon, with their artillerymsn.
Secretary Reitz, of the Transvaal re-
public, says that the Boers have never
abused the white flag, and that the
British murdered women, children and
American citizens at Derdepoort.
The value of property captured by Ad-
been estimated by the board of ap-
praisal at 1926, ,141. The largest items
in the statement are: "Ship and boat
equipment, $241, $3.50; ordnance mate
rails, $14,294, and fuel, $40, $685."
The appraisal waS called for as evil
dence in the suit brought by Admiral
Dewey for the award of prize money.
A newsboy of Philadelphia was ar
rested under the blue law of 1874 and
fined four dollars for selling news
papers on Sunday.
Admiral Schley, who was recently
made a thirty second degree Mason,
has been member of the fraternity
since his twenty-frst birthday.
A law just passed in Norway makes
girls ineligible for matrimony unless
they can show certificates of skill in
cooking, knitting and spinning.
During the present year 25 important
conventions will be held in Cleveland.
Frank Steunenberg, governor of
Idaho, is seven feet tall and straight as
pine.
Rev. Benaiah L. Whitman, president