Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-04-20
THE NEWS OF THE Week
From All Parts of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
amt Happenings of the Past Week
Cullsd From the Telegraph Columns

water.
The total British losses in the Boer
war are now $4,000.
A Texas town in the flooded district
was destroyed by tornado.
Fishermen testing the Columbia
river near Astoria found but few Chi
hooks.
The Puerto Rican bill, as amended
by the senate, passed the house by
vote of 163 to l53.
Admiral Dewey denies the story of
his withdrawal as a candidate for presi-
Dental nomination.
II. G. Frick will dispose of all his
holdings. something like $16, 600,
in the Carnegie Company.
An international naval demonstration
will soon take palce at Taku Gin, the
gulf of Pc Chi Lii, China.
During fight with riotous laborers
in New York, one Italian striker was
killed and several wounded.
At the Georgia Populist convention,
Senator Marion Butler, of North Caro-
lima, was denounced as the 'tchief Of
all traitors"
George w. Hull, an Arizona million
aire, was arrested in New York ON
charge of perjury in a divorce case
against his wife.
Competent authorities estimate that
the wastage of horses. monthly by the
British forces in South Africa, must be
calculated at not less than 5000.
B. C. Bergin, an assayer in the Uni
ted States mint at San Francisco, has
been arrested for stealing small
amounts of gold daily for months past.
Capitalists of Berlin, through Chi
cago firm, have made an offer to pur-
chase the Ferris wheel. The wheel,
which weighs 1900 tons, will be ship
ped to Berlin.
In San Francisco, 500 pounds OF
plug cut tobacco have been seized in
various local stores by internal revenue
agents, because the packages were in
sufficiently stamped.
Burglars in Chicago stole diamonds,
jewelry and silverware valued at $40,-
600 from the home of Orrin w. Potter,
dent of the Illinois Steel Company.
The period of time allowed Spanish
residents in the Philippines. to elect
whether they shall remain Spanish SUBJ
jecis or adopt the nationality of the ter
ritory in which they reside has expired.
Commodore William K. Mayo, died
at his home in Washington, aged 76
years.
General Lee has been appointed to
command the new department of
Havana and Pinard de Rio.
Nicaragua has landed troops in
Columbian territory. The nature of
the movement is not understood.
A 21S-year-old child was scalded to
death by falling into tub of hot water
and lye, near Ashland, Or.
Indians attempted to rescue the
murderers of Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Horton,
but were driven off by Skagway troops.
The United States government denies
the report that it has joined with other
powers in threatening to land troops in
China.
the seating of NJ. S. Quay as senator
from Pennsylvania, will be taken ON
Arril "a.
Thomas FL. Tongue was renominated
for congressman flom the Second dis
trict on the first ballot at McMinn-
Vile, Or.
Texas and louisiana, to guard against
bubonic plague, may establish quar-
Rntine against Cinnamon coming from
California.
An inventor of thorite has announced
his willingness to sell the government
the right to manufacture the explosive
for $l50,00O.
The British bark Iranian, which
sailed from New York, November 25,
for Yokohama, has been wrecked on
the Japanese coast.
The Building Trades Assembly, of
Houston, Texas, has ordered a general
strike in sympathy with the carpenters,
causing 1900 men to walk out.
Two negro murderers were executed
at Summerville, Texas. When sem
fenced both asked for deck of cards,
and declined the offer of Bible.
A minister of Ballard, CAL, near
Santa Barbara, committed suicide by
blowing the top of his head off with
shotgun. Temporary insanity was the
cause.
Former Congressman Charles A.
Towne, of Duluth, Minn has an
nounced himself as candidate for the
presidential nomination ON the
Democratic ticket.
Great Britain's naval estimates
amount to $50, 100000.
Buffalo Bill says 10000 Mormons
from Salt Lake will found a city in
Wyoming.
Steamer Prairie, with American ex-
hibits for the Paris exposition. has
arrived at Havre.
1t costs $4, 400, 900 year to MAIN
tain the "a royal palaces of Emperor
William throughout the German
empire.
DR.. W. D. McKim, of New York,
favors killing of confirmed criminals,
idiots and imbeciles to improve society.
The steel steamer Orlando M. Poe
for the Rockefeller fleet was launched
at the Globe yards in Cleveland, O.. It
is 490 feer long and will carry 5000
TONS of iron ore net.
J. G. Schurman, recently of the
Philippine commission, says the plan
of the government for the Filipinos
recommended to the president and ac-