Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-02-02
LATER NEWS.

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the Populist nomination for the presi-
dency.
The fall of Ladysmith garrison is
now expected as result of Buffers
second defeat.
Lord Pauncefote will retire as am
bassador of Great Britain to the United
States, April /.
The interstate commerce commission
has sued the Northern Pacific to en-
force disregarded laws.
Senators are said to want no change
| in the manner OF their election. The
house favors popular vote.
Dundonald's forces, for whom fears
were entertained, are safe on the south
bank of the Tugela river.
Five business men of Walla Walla
were victimized by smooth foiger,
who cashed bogus checks.
The Prince Regent of Bavaria has
conferred the Order of St. Michaels,
frst-class, on DR.. Nansen, the explorer.
In Cincinnati, Charles Barlruff,
tanner. killed his wife, his son and his.
daughter and then tried to set the
house on, fire.
A funeral train, arranged by the
Southern Pacific, will convey the re-
mains of General Lawton and Major
Logan to the East.
James III. Britton, ex-mayor of st.
Louis, and for many years one of the
leading bankers of the West, died at
Ardley, N. Y, aged 83.
London papers scathingly criticize
the language Of Buffers report. and
accounts of battle from Boer sources
are accepted as correct.
Church property in the Philippines
has been turned over to, the United
States government by Spain, but the
Catholics claim it.
Captain G. III. Stockton, president
of the naval war college, says: Com
mand of the sea on our North Pacific
coast and the waters of the western
basin of the North Pacific should be in
our hands in peace and war time.
This can only be effected by readiness
of a proper and sufficient naval force
either ON the spot, or to be furnished
from the Atlantic through an un-
tramelled canal. In addition to this,
and ready for combining, should be the
available forces normally attached to
the Philippines and the waters about
China, Japan and Corea. In other
words, the Pacific ocean, from Samoa
northward, should be within our
CONTROL
The plight of Kimberley is urgent.
The ,kaiser's birthday was celebrated
in the usual way throughout Germany.
Buffers army has retreated to the
south of the Tugela, with heavy losses.
Revolution in Venezuela, under the
leadership of Hernandez, is spreading.
Fire in Minneapolis destroyed four
story brick building, causing loss of
$120, 900.
1t was reported on: good Transvaal
authority that Mafeking was relieved
on January %.
Edgar Oswalt, 6-year-old boy of
Astoria, was run over by q street car
and fatally injured.
The Bank of Deerfield, Deerfeld,
Wis, was robbed of about $4,000.
The vault was blown open by dynamite.
Fire destroyed the works of the Elec-
trio Improvement Company at San
Jose, CAL. entailing loss of $100, 900.
Samuel Gompers, in conference
with President Mckinley, advocated
an eight-hour law for all government
work.
It is said that Lord Roberts favored
leaving Ladysmith to its fate and
marching on Bloemfontein, capital of
Orange Free State.
The surgeon general of the marine
hospital service has shipped to Homo
lulu l 300 doses of halffkine prophylac
tic, plague serum
Phil Armour Jr., son of the Chicago
millionaire, died suddenly near Santa
Barbara, CAL. Death was due to con-
gestion of the lungs.
Dr. Leyds, diplomatic agent of the
Transvaal, says the Beers do not need
to apply for mediation, as everything
was going splendidly.
Three masked men entered the fac
tory Of DIR. Peter Fahrney & Son, at
Chicago, blew open the safe and escaped
with 81, 700 in currency.
The senate committee on Puerto
Rico, has decided that the island shall
be known as Porto Rico, and not
Puerto Rico, as fixed by recent execn.
tive order.
The weather in the vicinity of Mel
bourne, Australia, has broken all re-
cords for heat recently. On New
Years day five deaths occurred from
prostration. The thermometer stood at
Ia in the shade, and 156 in the sun.
Cowboys and miners in Southern.
Arizona and New Mexico, have organ
lied and are preparing to invade the
state of Sonora. Mexico, to avenge the
murder of the six American pros
pectors by Mexican soldiers under Gen.
eral Torres. They will fight against
the Mexican troops for the independ-
ence of Sonora and the Yaqui nation.
Brigadier-Generai Greely, chief of
the signal corps, is steadily recovering
from the injuries inflicted on him by a
drunken. expressman.
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The resemblance between Roberts,
the polygamist, and Senator Pritchard
of North Carolina, is remarkable. They
might be twin brothers. Both are of
the same build, have the same: cast of
features, wear mustaches trimmed
alike, and their curly hair might be
duplicate wigs.
Senator Kyle of South Dakota, the
tallest man in the senate, is very fond
of small boys, and by some strange
affinity he likes the shortest page in
that body.
The preliminary estimate of the pro-
duction of gold and silver in the Unit