Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-02-09
TIE NEWS Of THE Week
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS

Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past weel
CuIled From the Telegraph Columns
The Beers credit divine pyovidenc,
with their Tugela victory.
No river and harbor bill will be pre-
sented at this session of congress.
The British parliament has reassem.
bled. No disorder was manifested.
Alexander Dunsmuir, the coal king
of the Pacific coast, died in New York
city, aged AZ years.
Services in commemoration of the
martyrdom of Charles /, of England,
were held in Boston.
The transport Missouri, en- route to
San Francisco from Manila, has IL in
sane soldiers aboard.
Fire destroyed the business portion
of the town of Winfield, Kan. Hun
dreds of people are homeless.
Lieutenant Winston Churchill de-
scribes the battle of Spionkop as the
hardest fight of the South African war.
All is quiet in Samoa. The natives
are more settled than at any time since
the disturbance between the native
factions.
The sheriff of Colfax, WASH, has
offered a reward of $500 for the capture
of Clemens, the murderer of a man
named Boland.
A special dispatch from Cape Town
says $50 American scouts, who arrived
there as muleteers, have enlisted in
the British forces.
"A cold wavs is prevailing east of the
Rocky mountains. The temperature is
eight degrees below zero at Chicago and
six below at Omaha.
The Fergus Printing Company, OF
Chicago, one of the Oldest printing
houses in the city, was thrown into the
streets for non-payment of rent.
Great Northern officials and en-
ployes' grievance committee held a
conference and it is announced there
will be no strike, all differences being
settled.
Governor Taylor declares that state
of insurrection now prevails in Ken
tucky. He has ordered the Legislature
adjourned, but the Democrats have re-
fused to obey his edict.
R. v. Wilson has been arrested in
San Francisco on the charge of having
embezzled package containing 5000,
while he was agent for, the Great
Northern Express Company at Frank
lin, King county, Wash.
Lee Gong, q Chinaman Of Fargo, N.
D., who alleges st. Louis is his home,
appealed today from the United States
court to the secretary of the treasury,
and was released or bail. He was the
first of the 71 Cinnamon charged with
violating the exclusion act, to be heard
by the courts.
Plague at Honolulu is under control
Dawson evil-doers are forced to saw
wood.
Surveyors are now at work on the
Oregon Midland railway route.
A big steel mill was wrecked in
Pittsburg by boiler explosion.
A bill was introduced in congress to
provide mining laws for Cape Nome.
Money is now ready for the purchase
of the Salem, Or, federal building site.
Census Supervisor Kelly has left for
Alaska to enter upon his duties there.
Owing to a split in the National
League, Baltimore may lose her base
ball club.
An attempt to rob the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texas railway train at Holden,
Mo-, was frustrated.
The United States transports City of
Pueblo and Senator have arrived at
San Francisco from Manila
Near Corunna, Spain, torpedo boat,
name and nationality unknown, has
been totally lost, with all. on board.
Quarantine officers in San Francisco
are adopting stringent measures to pro-
tect that port from the bubonic plague.
The Union hotel, at Revelstoke, B.
c., was totally destroyed by fire, the
blaze originating in the furnace room.
The German steamer Remus has been
wrecked near Aarhaus, Denmark,
where she was bound. The captain
and Is men perished.
Colonel Charles F. Williams, COM
v.Ia 0f AkA Tvxs%
corps at Mare Island, died suddenly of
hemorrhage of the stomach.
"Nick'' Haworth, suspected murder
er of Night Watchman Sandal, at
Kaysville, Utah, attempted to commit
suicide at Salt Lake by bleeding.
Robert Fitzsimmons now claims he
was drugged when he was whipped by
James Jeffries for the championship
of the world at Coney Island, last June.
A runaway electric car on the Day
ton & Xenia traction road, at Dayton,
o., left the track at sharp curve and
was demolished, killing three persons.
San Francisco has daily paper
printed in Chinese.
Joseph L. Mayors, state senator OF
Ohio, from Coshocton, walked to the
capitol from his home, a distance of
100 miles, to show his independence of
railroads.
Citizens of Dickinson county, Kan,
have organized relief association for
the purpose of sending corn to India
for free distribution in the famine
stricken districts.
The mass of the lava elected from
Vesuvius since 1895 amounts to 81. .00O,-
900 cubic meters.
The Southern Federation of Colored
Women, which has in view the eleva-
tion of the negro women of the south,
has been organized in Montgomery, Ala.
The highest ranking officer of the
United States navy who will retire
from active service during 1900 be-
cause of the age limit, is Capt. W. G.