Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-03-02
THE NEWS Of THE WEEK
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS


OF INTEREST TO OUR READER;
Comprehensive Review of the Impod
ant Happenings of the Past weel
Culled From the Telegraph Columns
Leander J. Mccormick. of McCor
mick harvester fame, is dead.
Rev. James Smart, president of Per.
due University, Lafayette, Ind, is
dead.
The Nez Perces Indians will soor
get nearly 100000 from the govern.
ment.
Pacific Coast Steamship Company's
stevedores at Vancouver, B. c., are on
strike.
All business at Mafeking is now con-
ducted in 'bomb-proof" underground
chambers.
Operations in the Philippines are
drawing to close and police will re.
place soldiers.
Contract has been let for the erection
of new oil and guano factory near As
toria, Oregon.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany has established relief depart
ment for its employees.
The Fair estate has failed to break
down Mrs. Craven's testimony relative
to her marriage with the senator.
Admiral Dewey says that if the Mic
aragua canal is to be a neutral path
way, Notifications are unnecessary.
Women's rights have made such
progress in Chile that already two
thirds of the public school teachers ara
women.
Leslie E. Kelley, inventor of the
Kelley cure for the liquor habit, died
at his home in Los Angeles, CAL, OF
heart disease.
The sultan will pay for the losses OF
Americans in Turkey during the Ar
menian troubles. Tho sum involved
is about 100000.
General Hector Mcdonald, COM
manding the Highland brigade and
leading in the pursuit of Cronje's
forces, is severely wounded.
Representative Lentz, of Ohio, intro
duced in the house bill to provide for
the public distribution of a United
States map to all schools in tho United
States.
Upon representations of tho Spanish
government to the effect that some OF
the islands south of the Philippine
archipelago, which had been taken
possession of by the United States gun
boats, we're the property of Spain, the
authorities of the state department.
have examined the charts and con-
cluded to direct the withdrawal of our
claims to the islands Of Caygayen. Su-
lu and Subutu, both of which lie with
out the boundary lines laid down by
the treaty of Paris.
British have occupied Colenso.
At Detroit, Mich, Tom Sharkey
knocked out Jim Jeffords in the second
round.
Trains bearing provisions. fuel and
passengers are now to be started for
Kimberley.
Queen Victoria has appealed to re-
tired members of the army to enlist for
nome defense.
John Pentella, of Astoria, has sued
the Clatsop Mill Company for $40, 900
for the loss of an arm.
A split in the Populist National Con.
vention. being held at Lincoln, Neb.,
Two tickets will be put in the field.
Charles E. Macrum, late consul at
Pretoria, in the Transvaal, furnishes
proof of his charges against tho British
censor.
Filipino guerillas who attacked =
squad of Americans on February 2,
killing corporal, are to be tried be-
fore a military commission on the
charge of murder.
The steamer Coptic brought to local
San Francisco company 1,84O sacks of
ore concentrate from the mines Of
Corea, and is the second similar con-
signment within few months.
The war department. has issued .
statement that the receipts of public
funds in the Philippine islands, be-
ginning August 13, 1898, and ending
December 81, 1899, amount to $4,000,
O9O.
The Metropolitan Museum OF Art
Treasures, of New York, in their annual
report, state the value of Turner a
Grand Canal, Venice, bequeathed to the
museum by Cornelius Vanderbilt, as
100000.
In Chicago, 500 men employed by
the Gnera1 Electral Railway Copmany,
fought with employees of the Western
Indiana Railroad Company for the pos
session of the Dearborn street crossing.
A dozen men were injured.
Judge Seaman, in the United States
district court at Chicago, issued an
order denying the injunction prayed
for by the Chicago Tribune against the
Associated Press. This grew out of
alleged infringements of copyright.
Rear Admiral Bradford estimates the
cost of the Pacific cable at $40, ZOO, 900.
Dreyfus is still in Southern France,
where his health shows continued i'm
provement.
Eli Jimerson. full-blooded Indian
treasurer of the Seneca nation, is 81 900
short in his accounts.
During last year 44,000 migrants
settled in Canada. The number from
the United States is 11,000, or about
2,000 more than last year.
Imperial German regulations pre-.
venting practice of medicine by women
have been recinded.
You can take out spots from wash
goods by rubbing them with the yolk
of eggs before washing.
William Kerr of Providence r