Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-04-20
LAT Err NEWS.
,ngress will adjourn in June.


this session of congress.
Great Britain will levy tax on
mines to pay the expenses of the war.
A burglar entered saloon in Che
halls, WASH, and took $500 in silver.
Four men were killed and several in
jured in drunken riot of coal miners
near Johnstown, Pa.
Heavy rain and snow storms in the
vicinity OF Denver are causing much
delay to railroad traffic.
John Hannigan, aged 63. one of the
best-known horse trainers in the coun-
try, died at Mildale, Ky.
Two Mexican outlaws held up
gambling house in johnson, Arizona,
and killed prominent mining man.
Rev. William J. Rutledge, of jack
sonville. ILL.,, prominent Methodist
R., is dead, aged SO.
The legislature of Trinidad has re-
jected the offer of Canada for recipro-
cal trade and adopted the convention
with the United States.
Two hundred or 800 families bought
1900 acres of land near Eugene. Or,
with the intention of dividing it up
into 40-acre tracts and working ON the
colonization plan.
Burglars at Toronto, Ont, dug
through the nine-inoh brick wall of
the vault of st. Simon's church with
:oTr c4olo
the, Easter Offer ing.
Conditions in famine-stricken India
are deplorable. Sixty millions of peo-
pie are suffering and $1,000, 900 are in
dire distress, and only 100000 are
receiving government aid.
In New York, Julius Roster, a brick
layer, who had inherited $500, 900
from his brothers. estate in Germany,
was found dead, swinging from a rope
in an empty water tank on the roof OF
his house. He had been ill. and the
sudden change from poverty to riches
affected his mind.
In New York, school of voice cul
ture was begun ON portentious scale
at Carnegie Hall, under the direction
of Giacomo Minkowsky, called the
Metropolitan School of Voice and Sing
ing. Edouard de Reezke and Nine.
Nordica will give scholarships to the
best gifted pupils under Minowsky.
Maurice Grau and Andrew A. McCor-
mick are lending their influence. Min
kowsky is a composer of note.
The Paris exposition was formally
opened.
Filipinos are again active near
Manila.
One man was killed and a boy fatal
ly injured in $400. 900 fire which oc-
Cured in Brooklyn.
During fire in coal mine near
Pittsburg. Pa, one man perished and
two others in the pit escaped.
During the siege of Ladysmith. Gem
eral Whites total losses from all
British people insist ON a change in
the army service, owing to the unsatis-
factory conduct of the campaign against
the Beers.
Three men are said to have found
gold in quartz formation within two
miles of Joplin. Mo-, which assays $40
to $50 ton.
A Chinaman, possessing documents
bearing the seal of the court of Peking,.
identifying him as emperor, was arrest
ed at WI Chang.
The University of Edinburgh, Scot
land, conferred the degree of LII d. on
Joseph III. Choate, United States am
bassador to Great Britain.
At New York, 5000 cigarmakers,
employed by six of the largest firms in
that city, have been locked out. No
reason is given for the action.
Rufus Wright, millionaire and
treasurer of the firm of Morgan &
Wright, bicycle tire manufacturers,
was fatally shot by u woman in Chicago.
The cruisers DeJroit and Marblehead
and gunboats Bennington and Concord
have been ordered out of commission,
owing to the lack of a suffi cient number
of officers.
The Chinese government has sent
1000 troops to Shan Ting to suppress
the "Boxers. !" However, it is notori-
GUS that the majority of the troops are
members of the same society.
The transport Lake Erie. with up
wards of 500 Transvaal prisoners, in
Guiding French. German and Russian
members of the foreign legion, captured
at Boshof, sailed from Cape Town for
st. Helena.
The trial of Perico Pipin, who re-
Gently led small uprising against the
government of Santo Domingo, has
ended with the conviction of the pris-
oner, who was sentenced to 20 years.
imprisonment and to pay fine of $780,
900 in gold.
Mrs. Kruger, wife of Dom Paul, ON
being interviewed, said that she trust
ed God would soon stop the merciless
bloodshed, but that the republic would
be victoriously defended, even if Pre-
toria were finally taken. She added
that she had had in the field 33 grand
sons, two of whom were killed, four
sons, six sons-in-law, and numerous
other relatives.
At meeting of the De Beers COM
pany Cecil Rhodes said annual profits
of diamond mines in Kimberley are
$40, 100000.
Public sentiment in England insists