Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-01-19
The NEWS OF THE WEEK
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS

OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
William jackson, the scout, is dead.
The United Verde mine was sold fol
$500, 900.
British authorities have released the
German steamer Herzog.
Two white men were shot and two
negroes were lynched at Ripley, Tenn.
Premier Mcdonald takes the attor-
ney-generalship of the new Manitoba
cabinet.
A British flag and portrait of the
queen were trampled under foot in a
Victoria saloon.
President Hill, of the Great North
ern, regards the ship subsidy bill as o
national scandal.
Lord Balfour in speech denied that
the lust for gold is the incentive to Eng
land in the Tranvaal war.
Suit has been begun in the United
States supreme court to test the valid.
ity of the Bland-Allison act.
Governor Brady and the Cape Nome
delegation have appeared before the
house committee on public lands.
The president has recommended the
promotion of Howison, Kautz, Remeny
and Farquhar to be rear admirals.
The United States cruiser Albany,
purchased from Brazil, developed q
speed of 20.S7 knots during builders
trial run.
England will release selzed Ameri.
can -four. Foodstuffs are not consid.
cred contraband of war unless intended
for the enemy.
Barnat Grinberg, formerly we'll
known Jewish business man of Seattle,
has been arrested in Tarnapoli, Ca
licia, Austria, on q charge of buying
girls for export from Austria to the
United States.
Secretary Gage gives as his reasons
for his recent action in utilizing ma
tional banks as depositories for national
treasury notes that thereby he prevent
ed disturbance in the business world.
He denies that he has Disseminated
in favor of any bank.
A London dispatch says the long
pent-up storm is now bursting over the
heads of home government officials.
1t says that if parliament were in ses-
sion, it is doubtful if they could retain
power, and only remarkable change
in the situation can save them when
the next session convenes.
Senator Hoar has made public let
ter he had addressed to a rumber of
Eastern papers in reply to a speech
made by ex-representative Quigg, of
the Essex Club. In it he says that
Aguinaldo is honest, and that the war
was caused by a mistake made by Gem
eral Otis; that the Americans were the
aggressors and Aguinaldo wanted
peace.
A pro-Boer meeting was held in
Seattle.
English parliament may be convened
before the end of the month.
Frenchmen are opposed to the new
treaty with America.
A Missouri lodge of Hibernians de-
cided that it would not help the Beers.
The Chicago baseball club will make
its spring training quarters at Los An
geles.
An Ontario (Or.) man has scheme
for using the natural steam of hot
wells.
The Pacific coast has sent forward
over $40, ZOO to the Lawton fund, and
more will be sent.
The Beers have refused to allow the
American consul at Pretoria to act as
British representative.
The secretary of war has asked for
$3.50, 900 for expenses in sending the
Spanish prisoners home from Manila.
California wants foreign countries
forced to reduce the duties on canned
goods through reciprocity treaties.
The shipbuilding trust has not yet
been organized. The amount of capt.
talization is not yet determined upon
The Big Four railroad will resume
payment of common stock dividends
and will take over the Chesapeake g.
Ohio.
Uncle Sam will press her claim
against Santo Domingo. France got
her money and now demands an
apology.
The Beers in spirit of humor have
named three prison streets in Pretoris
"Ladysmith, +" ''Mafeking" and "Kim-
berley."
England cannot understand why
Buffers forces did not press a passage
on the Tugela while White was cngag-
ing the Beers to the North.
At Battle Creek, Mich, the body OF
Sherman Church, miller, was found
wedged under a water wheel. The
hands were tied and a weight fastened
to the leg.
John Boston, a negro, of Russell
county, Ala, convicted of chicken
setaling has been pardoned by Governor
Johnston on condition that "for twelve
months he shall not buy, steal or eat
another chicken, or any part thereof"
A lady in Baltimore was so attracted
to pet monkey that when it shuffled
off this mortal coil she gave bang-up
funeral. There were six pall-bearers,
four carriages for the mourners, and
several floral designs, one of them be-
ing an ''empty chair"
A new cure for rheumatism has been
discovered in New South Wales. 1t is
called the whale bath. The treatment
consists in depositing the patient in the
body of dead whale. Almost invari-
ably the patient is able to climb right