Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-01-12
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS

OF INTEREST TO OUR READER:
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Weel
Culled From the Telegraph Columns
Tagals are not friendly to Archbishop
Chapelle, now at Manila
The Stanford football team defeated
the all-Seattle players by score of q
to o.
The treasurer of Shelby county, In
diana, is short $125,000. His book
are missing.
The Paris high court has found M
De Roulede of guilty conspiracy under
extenuating circumstances.
Hanna will be chairman of the next
Republican national committee, be-
cause the president wishes it.
Because he rode ON railway pass.
suit has been filed against member
of the Kentucky election board.
President Cole, of the Globe National
bank, of Boston, which recently failed
has returned and will stand trial. ;
Peter S. Wilkes died at Stockton,
Cal. He was a confederate congress.
man during the last year of the war.
The president has nominated Genera.
Bates, Young and Macarthur for pro.
motion. Bates is to succeed Lawton.
A native was found with all tn.
symptoms of bubonic plague in Manila.
Two deaths occurred in the house
where he was sick.
AS a result of campaigning in the
Philippines IA soldiers are insane as
the Presidio in San Francisco. They
will be sent to Washington.
The situation at Ladysmith is be.
coming horrible. Twenty deaths in
one day were reported by General
White. Entric fever and dysentery
are prevalent.
The recent California earthquake
caused inactive volcanoes in the desert
to become active; made old gas we1ls
at Yuma flow again and caused fissurel
in the ground.
Trunk lines have all advanced freigh.
rates. Merchants have filed protests
saying that the new tariff will drive
business away from New York, ship
pers taking advantage of shorter hauls
to New Orleans and other. ports.
Both houses of congress are after Sec-
retary Gage The legislators desire to
know by what right the treasurer in
creased deposits of government funds
in New York banks during the recent
financial furry there and correspond
ence in the matter is asked.
On her recent trip the steamer Aus
tralia would not accept steerage pas
sengers at Honolulu on account of the
plague scare. One death occurred on
December %, and two Chinese were
found dead on Christmas day. These
fatalities started the plague scare
again.
The gold yield for 1899 in New South
Wales was 500, 418 ounces, an increase
of 168, 925 ounces over 1898.
The battleship Wisconsin will have
the heaviest battery in the navy. The
boat will have her trial trip soon.
South Dakota Christian Scientists
are opposed to vaccination and will
take the question into the courts.
Twenty-Five thousand Pittsburg la.
borers were advanced from to 10 pc.
cent and in some cases even a greater
percentage.
In st. Louis the electric lights IN
parks, public buildings and alleys are
turned OFF because a contract has not,
been renewed.
A German steamship company re-
fused to take back contract-labor emil
grants and the captain was arrested al
Texas port.
Booker T. Washington, the promi.
nent colored man, says the Negro't
only salvation is to make himself use-
full and keep pace with the times.
At Colesburg General French wac
opposed by from 5000 to 1900 Beers.
The British losses were slight, while
Beers are said to have lost heavily.
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Rosser, Ala. A woman was cut to
pieces and the remains were partially
burned. An old negress is suspected.
Secretary Hay announces that. favor
able replies have been received from
England, Germany, France, Russia
and Japan to an open door policy in
China.
Secretary Root has taken measures
to break the corner in hemp. He has
had many complaints and has instructed
Otis to open Southern Luzon porte
soon.
Senator Harrell, of Kentucky, says
Whallen tried to buy his vote against
Goebel. Harrell wanted $5, 900, but re-
ceived only 81, 500 and now charges
bribery.
Secretary Root has directed the es-
tablishment of government line of
steamships connecting San Francisco,
Honolulu and Manila, similar to that
running between New York, Cuba and
Porto Rico points.
Mrs. Ezra Shoupe, near Saltillo, Pa,
had lively fight with big buck,
which she first wounded with rifle
and then dispatched with knife.
The Russian government has ordered
all the rivers of the empire surveyed
with a view to connecting all the inn
portant streams with canals.
The Noah Webster association.
which has been formed at Hartford,
Conn, will raise funds for a library
building in memory of the lexicogra-
pher.
A woman's society for the preven-
tion of cruelty to animals has been
formed in New Jersey.
New York young women have formed
classes for instruction in intelligent
foreign travelling.
Andrew Carnegie has given away