Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-03-09
LATER NEWS.


mand nine-hour day.
Six people were burned to death in a
New York tenement-house fire.
The increase in American imports
has been nearly doubled in three years.
Steamers Victorian and Prosper COL
lided in Port Townsend, WASH, har
Dor.
San Francisco highbinders murdered
two men. both leading merchants of
the city.
| General Woods asserts that trouble
in Cuba is now absolutely out of the
question.
The transport Grant has arrived at
| San Francisco from Manila with 201
sick soldiers aboard.
The British second-class cruiser
Hemes is reported off Cat island, in
the Bahamas, in distress.
President David Starr Jordan. OF
Stanford University, in a speech at
Chicago, said that England would soon
topple.
Trouble has arisen between the cigar
| and box manufacturers of Tampa, Fla.
Advance in the price of boxes Is the
cause.
Tom Sharkey and Bob Fitzsimmons
signed articles of agreement for 25-.
round bout before the club Offering the
| largest purse.
The Yaqu1 Indians are headed for
the United States. General Merriam
has troops in readiness to stop them if
they try to cross the border.
The United States government will
begin the manufacture of smokeless
powder and compete with private man.
ufacturers in point of quality.
The American Clay Manufacturing
Company. the $10,OO0,O00 .consollda-
tion of sewer-pipe manufacturers, will
control 85 per cent of the industry.
Near Olympia, WASH, three chill
dren, aged 5, 2 and 9 years, were
burned to death while their parents
were absent from home attending a
dance.
At Hanover, Germany, some persons
not vet identified tore a British flag and
made an anti British demonstration in
front of the residence of an English
man, who had displayed the Union
Jack in celebration of the successes in
South Africa.
Prospects for the termination of the
Colombian revolution are poorer than
ever.
At Vienna, the Crown Princess Steph-
anie, of Austria, was married to Count
Won Lonray.
The total number of Boer prisoners
captured at Paardeberg by the British
is 4,660 men.
A party of six American rubber pros
pectors have been massacred by Indians
in the wilds of Brazil.
+. The twelfth convention of the Nation
al Republican League has been called
to meet in the city Of st. Paul, July
II, 1900.
Frozen meats, supplied to the Ameri-
can army in the Philippines, is reported
by officials in Manila to be highly
satisfactory.
A passenger train on the Canadian
Pacific, near Toronto, Canada, jumped
the track, and several members of par
lament were injured.
The Kentucky legislature has passed
bill appropriating $1,000 to carry
ON the work of hunting down the as
sassin of William Goebel.
In an engagement between Mexicans
nd Moro Traiono Ern1
600 Mexicans defeated 5000 Indians
Indians killed mum bered 80.
Filipino insurrection has not yet
been subdued. The rebels are pkepar-
ing for the rainy season and will carry |
on guerrilla warfare on large scale.
William Henry, half-breed Indian |
of Coreto, CAL, shot and killed Nettie |
Smith, young Indian woman, and |
then killed himself. Jealousy was the
cause.
Forty-three and one-half inches of |
snow in 63 hours is the new record |
established at Rochester, N. Y. The |
railroads are recovering from the biggest |
fight against the elements they have
had in many years.
The Gainesville, Ill, union miners,
who have been on trial for the past 40 |
days at Vienna, charged with murder
ing negro miners. were acquitted by |
the jury. Four other charges are pend |
ing against the miners.
Belief in the efficacy of prayer as a
sure cure for disease was the cause of |
the divorce granted to George E. |
White, ex-congressman and wealthy |
lumber dealer of Chicago, from his |
wife, Minnie A. White.
The Canadian Papermakers' Asso-
citation at Montreal, adopted scale of |
prices for carload lots, fve-ton lots and |
2O-ream lots of different grades of |
paper. The increase in present prices
is from 10 to Is per cent.
Women sailors are employed in Dem
mark, Norway and Finland.
Reports from 45 colleges show dis
couraging religious conditions in but
three.
Booth Tucker says God uses America
as a connecting link between other
nations.
Thomas Yates, of Toledo, O., is the
only living American who took part in
the charge of the Light brigade at
Balaklava.
A new railroad from Salt Lake City
to Southern California is likely to be
built by the Southern Pacific