Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-01-05
LATER NEWS.
A railroad boom has struck Hawaii.

Beers fired plum pudding at Lady
smith garrison.
! Oregon woolgrowers expect to get 90
cents for their 1900 crop.
Vigilance of Americans prevented a
projected uprising in Manila.
At New York Kid Mccoy knocked
out Peter Maher in five rounds.
Idaho produced So, 500, 900 in gold
and Sc, 1O3, 900 in silver last year.
France and England may have
trouble over Newfoundland fisheries.
The United States may buy the
Danish West Indies for 81, 100000
Ohio Irishmen offer sympathy,
money, arms and soldiers to the Beers.
One child received fatal and several
persons serious burns in a New York
| fat fire.
Several thousand attended very
brilliant New Years day reception at
the White House.
Nicholas, czar of Russia, has again
issued an appeal for peace to the
pewers of the world.
Multnomah's football team defeated
Stanford university's eleven at Port
land; score, IL to 8.
Hilliard F. johnson, waterfront
reporter in San Francisco, was
drowned in bathtub.
Government off icials say the cruiser
Montgomery was sent to Liberia to
give the Black Republic assurance of
protection.
More miles of new railroad have
been built during 1899 than in any
previous year since 1890, when SOTO
miles OF line were completed, Since
January /. 1899, no less than $500
miles of track have been laid in the
United States on 812 lines in "A states
and territories.
The torpedo-boat destroyer Colds
borough, built by Portland, Or,
firm, on her second contractors trial
covered eight miles in 10 minutes,
which is at the rate OF Ba miles an
hour, against a 21d-knot current.
Steam was made without effort, and
not bearing was heated. The run
was made in the Columbia river, near
Kalama.
Boutelle will probably never return
to congress.
The Boer trenches at Colenso are
bomb proof.
/; Pingree's tax resolution was defeated
in the Michigan senate.
People are tired of Colombian war
and ask for Intervention.
British Columbia has sent gold dis
play to the Paris exposition.
If Delagoa bay is closed the Beers
will raid Portuguese territory.
The Stahl & Straub failure in Phila-
delphia is clear case of looting.
An important witness against Sena-
tor Clark has confessed to perjury.
Robert Cornelius, aged 20, was
found dead in the woods near Glencoe,
Or.
Fossiliferous remains of gigantic
sea serpent were found on the coast of
Chilli.
At its last meeting the cabinet dis.
cussed the agricultural possibilities in
Alaska.
Buller's army ON the Tugela has now
reached the enoromHs strength of 49,
900 men.
Luzon hemp ports will be opened In
time for supplies to reach this country
by next harvest.
A London dispatch says Russia longs
10 seize Herat, and she only waits for
England to occupy Delagoa bay.
G. G. Coad, of Dallas, Or, has been
appointed assistant sergeant,atrarms in
the United States senate.
The Beers have mounted new gun
at Ladysimth in the place of the one
captured by the British cavalry.
The clerk of the court of appeals has
refused to administer the oath of Office
to members of the state election board
in Kentucky.
A Colorado Midland passenger and
Santa Fe freight collided near Palmer
Lake. Colo. One fireman was killed
and two engineers were hurt.
An English military expert asserts
that the time has come for change in
the cabinet. He favors either dicta-
torship or an all-powerful military
minister.
Miss Florence Blythe Hinckley,
heiress to the Blythe millions, was
quietly married in San Francisco to A.
A. Moore, jr,, deputy Encouragement
of California,
Americans have captured another inr
surgent stronghold. Many rebels were
killed, wounded and captured and an
amount of ammunition and food taken.
Their supposed impregnable position
was north of San Mateo.
An Ottawa dispatch says that treason
is talked openly among the French Ca-
nadians, and all of their members have
retired from parliament. All the lat.
ent hostility to British rule has been
aroused by Canada's action in sending
troops to the Transyaal.
The Pittsburg baseball club has
bought the pick of the Louisville team
for sum said to be $25, 200 cash.
Mrs. @. A. Burling. moth r-in-law
of Rear.Admiral William T, Sampson,
died at her home in Rochester, N. Y,
aged 78 years.
Ex-Sheriff Weis. of Dayton. o., has
received by mail commission from
President Kruger appointing him
brigadier-general in the Boer army.
Weis is personal friend of Kruger's,
and once visited him in Africa.
The empress of Germany is stanch
defender of the bible. and deprecatea
all sighting remarks at court relative to
the church or the scriptures.
Nearly every grocery jobber and
wholesaler in Missouri, Kansas, Okla.