Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-01-12
LATER NEWS.


finances.
! Tod Sloan, the great jockey, is COM
ing West.
Money rates have taken 8 tumble
and may go lower.
Affairs of the Globe National bank,
at Boston, will be wound up.
AS training-sh the Hartford will
J sail for South American ports with
400 boys.
! Christian science treatment allowed
| two children to die of diphtheria at
Pittsburg.
Heavy losses on both sides are the
chief results of recent hard battles at
! Ladysmith.
Montana politics are getting much
needed airing by the testimony in the
Clark case.
German vessel-owners regard Eng
lands recent seizures as scheme to
kill competition.
The released American prisoners
were barefooted and in rags when they
arrived in Manila.
Editor Stead has published letter
in London in which he gives some in
side facts of the Jameson raid.
A miniature battle of San Juan hill
was fought by Chicago youngsters.
The police intervened, but not before
the Spanish" officers were seriously
wounded.
After a days bombardment, the
Beers captured the British garrison at
Kuruman, Bechunaland, taking 120
prisoners, arms, ammunition and pro-
visions.
The Beers whipped Whites forces
out of positions three different times,
but each time the Britishers' gallantry
returned to the fray and recovered all
the lost positions.
Our losses in the Spanish war were
81, ,296. The grand total of the volun-
teer force was 223, ,235. About $4,000
of these were discharged or deserted.
The total deaths were less than 1000.
Friendship between China and the
United States would be complete if the
Chinese were admitted to the Philip
pines. Our trade with China increased
40 per cent last year, all due to friend
ship.
The shotgun quarantine has been re-
vived in Honolulu. Bubonic plague
has a strong hold on the city. Two
more deaths had occurred BY December
30 and there were seven new cases of
plague. The National Guard was
called out and they burned the infected
district.
French Canadians believe their day
of redemption is at hand, and gioat
over British defeats in South Africa.
They expect complications to arise by
which their independence will come
about. They do not want to be an
nexed to the United States, saying this
would not better their condition.
The United States is ahead of Great
Britain as coal producer.
The Montpelier tin-plate mill, en-
ploying 200 men, has closed.
Cubans are well pleased with Wood,
and say he is the one man for the task.
Three persons were killed and seven
injured in tenement-house fire at New
York.
The staemr Gazelle was wrecked off |
the Florida coast. A passing steamer
saved the crew.
California capitalists are going into |
fruit culture in the states of Vera Cruz
and Oaxaca, Mexico.
The United States will not prevent |
frances attempt to settle her claim
with Santo Domingo.
Michigan has sensation and sew
eral state officials have been indicted |
for bribery and embezzlement.
Rev. DIR. Edward McGlynn is dead |
at Newburgh, N. Y. He succumbed |
to Bright's disease after seven weeks.
A bill will soon be presented to con-
park, to be located at the headwaters
of the Mississippi.
There will be a conference of the
governors of the arid states and terri
tories at Salt Lake January IL to con-
slider the question of arid lands.
In Clay county, Kentucky, two men
were shot and killed and four other
participants seriously wounded in q
fight that started at a murder trial.
A Pacific Mail steamer arrived in
San Francisco with cargo of 9,614
tons, nearly twice as much as any ship
Congressman Hopkins of the house
ways and means committee says there
will be no revision of the war revenue
tax law at this session of the 56th con-
gress.
Attached to the annual report of the
dation for agricultural experiment sta
tions in the governments new island
possessions.
A brother of one of the Boer generals,
who is visiting Chicago, says that if
Britain crushes the Transvaal armies
there will be no peace, as the Beers
will fight to the last.
General Greeley, the chief signal
officer of the army and the well-known
Arctic explorer, was assaulted and
seriously injured by messenger in his
own home at Washington.
According to the Montreal Herald,
Canada never before was so prosperous.
Miss A. B. Mulroney, of Philadel-
phia. has made $50, 200 out of her
shops in the Klondike.
Mrs. Louisa j. Cabel, of Lowell, Me-,
is justice of the peace, and PERSONAL
ly manages farm and an express bus
mess.
Lead and zinc have been discovered
in the vicinity of Centaur, st. Louis
Louis.
Admiral Montojo, in his official re-
port, charges his defeat in Manila bay