Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-02-23
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS

WOIlu dIlo IlIO Oloa
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review os the Import-
ant Happenings of the Past Week
CuIled From the Telegraph Columns
The Beers now claim to have 120, 900
fighting men.
The army appropriation bill carries
7 Sill, 7OO,364.
Treaty between the United States
and Trinidad has been signed.
Charles Lewis, of Lewisville, Or.
! killed himself accidentally while hun
ting.
Astoria, Or, is taking special pre-.
cautions against the introduction Of
plague.
The anti trust conference has de.
clared in favor of the government own.
ership of railroads.
A press agent of the defunct Franklin
syndicate believes that Miller made
million dollars out of the swindle.
Manufacturing. railway and ice har-
vesting interests have been greatly
damaged by severe stolms in New Eng
land.
Three well-known citizens of the
town of Nanaimo, B. c.. were drowned
while on a hunting trip on Vancouver
Island.
The United States government has
6l new naval vessels under construc.
tion, which will require in officers
alone, 1900 men.
: Willis P. Sullivan, Mayor Phelan's
secretary, was chosen by the board OF
police commissioners of San Francisco
to be chief of police.
Sam Beswick, an old and we'll
known character on the Chicago Board
OF Trade, died as a charity patient in
the Baptist hospital of that city.
Mexican papers are giving much at
tention to the proposed construction Of
the Nicaragua canal. They believe it
will benefit Mexican trade.
England is suffering from a severe
blizzard. Trains are showed up in all
directions and street-car lines blocked
and telegraph and telephone wires are
down.
The Salvation Army celebrated the
20th anniversary OF its. establishment
in the United States with the baptizing
of Booth Tucker shady. The ceremony
took place in New York.
The Vladimir Vostock, one of the
supply ships chartered by the govern
ment for the transportation of quarter
masters and commissary stores, ar
rived at San Francisco from Manila.
Patriotic women of Vancouver, B.
c., have devised means to aid the
British soldiers in South Africa. Three
thousand pairs of socks are ready for
shipment, besides sweaters, caps and
handkerchiefs.
The revolution in Venezuela, under
the leadership of Hernandez, is said to
be gaining headway.
The treasurer of Nez Perce county,
Idaho, was arrested for depositing pub
lie funds in national banks.
Two hundred shareholders of the
Panama Canal Company met in Paris
and chose new board of directors.
A bill appropriating $3.50, 900 for the
enlargement of the postoffce building
at Portland, Or, was passed in the
senate.
After an overhauling at Mare Island
navy yard, the Philadelphia will pro-
ceed to the island of Tutuila, one of
the Samoans.
A branch of the miners union has
been formed at Cornucopia. This is
noteworthy in that it is the first branch
to be formed in Oregon.
During the last three months nearly
$50 demented soldiers have arrived in
San Francisco from the Philippines,
and it it said 200 more are on the way.
The Corliss proposition for the gov
ernment ownership of Pacific cable
was defeated by the house committee
ON interstate and foreign commerce, by
q vote of 8 to 5.
F. o. TAFT, amatuer golf chapmion of
Great Britain in 1896 and 1898, was
killed during General MacDonald's re-
connaissance at Koodersberg, being shot
through the body. He had previously
been wounded at Magersfontein.
The British ship County of Edin-
burgh went ashore near Manasuan life
saving station, on the Jersey coast,
near Point Pleasant. She is hard and
fast aground, and it is expected to
break up. The crew were taken off in
the breeches buoy by the life-savers.
By an executive order, a certain por.
tion of the peninsula in the district
of Alaska, Immediately north of the
southern boundary, and embracing
Camp Point Spencer, has been reserved
for public purposes. The tract is
located on the west shore of Port Clar-
ence bay, comprising the peninsula on
which is Point Spencer. and includes
about four square miles.
French railroads have ordered 80 To-
comotives from Philadelphia.
A Leipsic newspaper warns German
manufacturers may crowd them out of
Russia.
A French court sent man to prison
for three months for insulting Queen
Victoria in pamphlet.
The queen of Italy has handker-
chief valued at $50, 1000. 1t took sew
sral women more than 20 years to
make it.
Governor Roosevelt asked the New
York legislature to spend $50, 900, 900
in improving the Erie canal.
A New York evangelist declares
churches should serve drinks, hold box
ing matches, or do anything else to
draw the people.
An autograph letter of the late Vice.
u0hor% COLL Ta-Ian Al,