Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-04-13
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The Edward T. Smith box factory
at New York, was destroyed by fire;
loss, $3.50, 900.
Ex-Governor Pattison, of Pennsyl-
vania, is wanted for vice president on
the Democratic ticket.
Beers claim to have captured II guns
at Bloemfontein waterworks, instead
of seven, as first reported.
Building tradesmen in Indianapolis
have returned to work. their employers
conceding to their demands.
Generals in the Philippines are call
ing for more troops. They cannot hold
the rebels down with the present force.
The Beers have succeeded in cutting
off General Brabant's two or three
thousand troops from all other British
forces.
The 65tn anniversary of the birth of
King Leopold, OF Belgium, was appro-
priately celebrated throughout the
kingdom.
The British North American and
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by one battleship, two cruisers and
several torpedo boats.
The body of an unknown young man
was found in the Willamette river near
Oregon City. with his head entangled
in fish net. 1t is case of deliberate
suicide.
H. II. Pitcher, banker of Oakland,
CAL, committed suicide by blowing
his brains out. Pitcher was trustee of
an estate valued at 100000. His
trust was being Investigated in court.
The United States supreme court de-
cided the case of Grundling VS.. the city
of Chicago, involving the validity of
the anti-cigarette ordinance of that
city. The ordinance was attacked as
unconstitutional The opinion of JUS
tice Peckham held the ordinance not
to be unconstitutional.
In his address at the memorial SER
vices held in memory of the late DR..
Isaac M. Wise, at Isaiah temple, DIR.
Emil G. Hirsch made an appeal to the
Jewish people of Chicago to raise $780,
900, which is the amount yet required
to lift the debt on the Jewish Union
College, in Cincinnati. By SO doing,
DIR. Hirsch said, the great work which
was begun by DIR. Wise, and carried
forward by him under difficulties,
could be fully accomplished.
Emily Coghlan, the actress, died at
Stamford, Conn. aged SO years.
Half the village of Proctorville, Ohio.
was destroyed by fire. Loss $2OO,OO0
A German scientist has invented
compound which melts iron in five
seconds.
Boe-s in Natal are becoming active.
snd an engagement II itn Buiier j. 5n.-
The German flag has been raised over
the Samoan islands of Upolu, Manono,
Apolima and Saru.
Captain John Goldman, the famous
advocate of free ships and free trade is |
dead at Boston, aged SO.
The statue of Maud Adams will not |
be admitted to the Paris exposition be-
cause it is personal exhibit.
AT Pittsburg, Pa. big eight-story
store was destroyed by fire,
causing loss of over $l,O0O,OOO.
Another brother of President steyn,
Of Orange Free State, was captured at |
Karee Siding, and is now at Bloem.
fontein.
The squadron of the United States
navy, recently formed in Chinese
is to have it's headquarters at
Hong Kong.
Forty people lost their lives at Austin,
Texas, due to an overflow of the Col
orado river. Property destroyed ex-
,eeds $3,ooO,00O.
Walter E. Groffe, the defaulting
cashier of the Adams Express Company
vt Dayton, Ohio, who left the city
October last, taking with him $4,000
If the corporation's money, has been
lrrested in San Francisco.
The sitution in Ashactee is unchang-
ID. A Coomassie runner reports that
Ill the Ashantee tribes are in arms, the
King of Bekwal alone remaining loyal.
It is believed that the Ashantee golden
tool has been found and that the rising
s due to the endeavor of the governor
If the colony, Sir Frederic Mitchell
dodgson, to take possession of it.
The American Plate Mirror Company
was chartered at Harrisburg, Pa, with
! capital of $50, 100000. This COM
oany is composed of well-known plate
glass men, and is looked upon as the
beginning of a determined move on the
part of the American plate-glass men
20 wrest the trade in this country for
plate mirrors from foreign manu-
acturers.
Senator Tillman, from the committee
IN mines and mining, reported the
bill providing for the utilization of a
part of the proceeds of the sales of pub
ic lands in support of schools for min
ng in the public land states. 1t pro-
'ides for the appropriation of $4,000
annually for the present in each case
and the gradual increase of the amount
% 500, 900.
A national congress of mothers is to
be held at Des Moines, Ia, May 2l-25.
The department of agriculture will
plant 100000 rubber trees in the Ha-
waiian islands.
At Lady Lansdowne's concert in
London, Nine. Patti is said to have
worn diamonds worth over 81 900, 900.
Gen. John J. Elwell, hero of the
civil war, died at Cleveland, o. His
service extended from 1851 to
1866.
Commander Richard Wainwright
mas assumed his new duties as superin-
sendent of the naval academy at An