Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-03-09
The NEWS OF THE WEEK
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review % the Import
amt Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns


An arid land conference will be held
at Salt Lake April 18.
The Puerto Riean tariff bill has passed
the house by vote of 172 to 100.
The Inniskilling fusiliers were
caught in Boer trap at Railway Hill
and numerically slaughtered.
Two persons were killed and several
badly injured in a collision between
two passenger trains near Kansas City,
Mo.
During the carnival procession al
Caracas, Venezuela, two shots were
fired at President Castro, without
effect.
ish armored cruisers sunk off Santiago
has gone. The Cristobal Colon has
slid into deep water.
The Russian press is clamoring fol
intervention. They contend it is time
to end the most infamous war England
has.ever waged through slust for gold.
The greatest fire Newark, N. j., even
experienced swept through the retail
dry goods district, destroying a score
of buildings, causing loss of 81, GEO.,
600.
The Swedish mail steamer Rez
stranded off Lohmergui Island, off the
coast of Germany, during fog. Five
stewardesses were drowned in attempt
ing to leave the ship.
General Miles says that Cronje's sur.
render is not a serious injury to the
Boer cause He expressed admiration
for the 1000 patriots who stood off TO,
10 days $4,000 of the British army.
Lon Curry, one of the train robbers
who was engaged in the Wilcox, Wy.
oming, held-up on the Union Pacific
last June, when something like $780,
900 was secured, was shot and killed
by officers near Kansas City while re-
sisting arrest.
Two men who have arrived at Ana.
helm, CAL, from the Santiago noun.
tains, report that there have been many
earthquake shocks in the section since
last Christmas. No serious damage is
known to have been done, as there are
few habitations there.
At a meteing in San Francisco, q
plano organization has been agreed
upon by the promoters of the Pacific
Commercial Museum. All commercial
bodies on this coast have been asked
TO request their congressman and sena-
tors to support the pending bill to ap-
propriate $4,000 for public mu-
scum at Philadelphia.
Lord Roberts casualties at Paarde.
berg. were 721, in one days fighting.
Profits of the Kimberley Diamond
Mining Company last year were $l0,-
600, 900.
Democratic officers for minor state
offices in Kentucky have been given
certificates.
Evansville, Ind, people are heirs to
an estate in the Fiji islands, valued at
$40, 900.
P. D. Armour, Jr., who died recent.
ly in Pasadena, CAL, left an estate
valued at $8.000,0O0.
Astoria. Or, physicians urge the peo.
pie to exterminate the rats in order tc
keep out the bubonic plague.
just 10 years after the Boer victory
at Majuba hill, Cronje and 1000 men
surrender to the British forces.
The transport Hancock has arrived
at San Francisco from Manila, with
<ha halfoc Of
The president has nominated Henry
B. Miller, ofJosephine county, Or, to
be consul at Chung King, China.
Prince Poniatowski, of San Fran.
cisco, has purchased the island OF Basi.
Ian, one of the Philippines, for $780,
900. Theeisland is valuable for its
pearl fisheries and hemp trade.
The Baldwin Locomotive Works OF
Philadelphia, has received an order
froom the Paris 6 Orleans railway OF
France, for 80 10-wheeI passenge,
engines. This is the first locomotive
contract ever placed by the railway in
America.
The Chamber of Commerce of San
Francisco, has appointed committee
to consider the advisability of estab.
fishing a branch of the New York
Ameriean-As3atic Association, the pur-.
pose OF which is to increase trade with
the Orient: s..@-s.
The steamer Australia arrived at San
Francisco from Honolulu. She brings
news that after IL days had passed
without sign of plague, three cases
were discovered on February l9, and
all ended fatally. The victims were
two Chinese, males, and a woman,
half Chinese and half Hawaiian. The
council has appropriated another $780,.
600 to allow the board of health to
carry on the work of fighting the
plague.
Miss Susan B. Anthony recently cele.
brated her eightieth birthday anni-
versary.
In German cities merchants are not
allowed to put up signs unless the
wording is true.
Prince Henry of Russia was robbed
by bandits while on his way to visit
the king of Siam.
Col. George T. Perkins, of Akron,
O., has presented that city with SO
acres of land valued at $4,000 as a
playground for children.
The dowager empress has abolished
study of European sciences in Chinese
schools.
Miss Susan B. Anthony has willed
her extensive collection of books on
woman's suffrage to the National
library at Washington.
The centennial anniversary of the
graduation of Daniel Webster from
Dartmouth college will be observed by
that institution next year.