Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-03-30
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review of the Import
Culled From the Telegraph Columns

Comprehensive Review of the Import
amt Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns,
Machinists of Cleveland, O., have
been ordered out.
Bonneville, Iowa, is being terrorized
by striking miners.
General Kitchener has occupiec
Prieska, in Cape Colony.
The crown princess of Austria and
Count Lonyay were married at Vienna.
The Beers at Aliwal North are still
holding position in the big hills on
the Free State side.
j. F. Allen, of New Orleans, has
bought 100000 Paris exposition tick
cts as speculation.
The will of Philip d. Armour, Jr..
was proved and admitted to probate
The estate is valued at So, 600, 900.
John F. Norton, Northern Pacific
switchman, was run over in the yards
at Tacoma, WASH, and died few
hours later.
The slayer of Goebel is said to be
mrlatto. who is now supposed to be il
hiding in the wilds of one of the noun.
tain counties.
At Buda Pest, Hungary, "a peasants
were drowned by the capsizing of
boat. in which they we're crossing the
Danube during gale.
Lieutenant Seaton Schroeder, pres
ent secretary of the naval inspection
board, has been selected to succeed
Captain Lea,y as governor of Guam.
Osman Pasha, the hero of Plerna, is
dead. In 1875 he defeated the finest
troops of the czar in three pitched bat
ties, which cost Russia over 10000
men.
Eight ladies of the sultan's palace at
Constantinople have been sent into ex-
lie for Vaccinations in connection
with the sultan's fugitive brother in.
law, MANNED Pasha.
The city council of Astoria, Or,
passed an ordinance authorizing the
chief of police to pay bounty of 6
cents each for all rats caught or killed
within the city limits within the next
80 days.
The house committee on foreign af.
legation made by Charles E. Macrum,
ex-consul to Pretoria, relative to the
opening of his official mail by the
British authorities.
Sir William Van Horne, former pres
ident of the Canadian Pacific railway,
is interested in project for the. con-
solidation of all the railways in Cuba.
For the development of this project Sir
William has $25. 900 at his dis
posal.
The Beers have 10000 fighting men
left.
President Kruger does not expect
any aid from the powers.
The Beers have blown up the bridges
ing to the north.
Central American governments are
opposed to the Davis amendment to the
Hay -Pauncefote treaty.
Senator Davis, chairman of the sem
ate committee on foreign relations and
in charge of the French reciprocity
treaty, said that notwithstanding the
purpose to extend the time for the ex-
change of notifications, he proposes to
do all he can to obtain ratification dur.
ing the present session.
Elizabeth T. Struble, editor OF the
Nautilus, a Christian science news
paper ct Sioux Falls. s. D., pleaded
guilty in the federal court to sending
obscene literature through the mails,
and was fined 5000. Mrs. Struble re-
fused to pay the fine and was taken to
Jail.
The differential freight rate of 70 per
cent ON the Canadian Pacific between
the East and San Francisco is abolished.
This is the outcome of a meeting held
in Chicago, at which agents of the
American lines threatened to secure
legislation debarring the Canadian Pa
cific from participating in traffic orig
mating in the United States if the diff
erential were continued.
Much concern is being shown by the
German government in the threat made
by Montague White that the Beers will
destroy Johannesburg to prevent it be-
ing made the base of the British opera
tions against Pretoria. The Berlin au-
thorities will strongly oppose such ac-
tion, because of the damage which will
done to the property owned by Ger.
mans.
Great excitement PREVAILS m San
Jacinto, as it has been discovered that
part of the San Jacinto mountain has
slipped into subterranean cavern. A
territory covering so acres, at an eleva-
ton of 4 1000 feet, was dislodged by the
recent earthquake and has slipped 100
feet lower than it had previously stood
for centuries. The face of the new val.
ley is thickly traversed with assures
and cracks.
Diplomats in Constantinople believe
Russia aims at commercial protectorate
of northern Asia Minor.
The American Political league, new
organization, will hold national CON
yention in Boston July A.
Congressman and senators have 15,
900, 900 packages of seeds to distribute
among their rural constituents.
Nearly all the progressive railroads
are abandoning wooden cars and adopt
ing the steel built structures.
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The cure of worldly love is divine
love for the world.
The advanced price of turpentine,
raisins and naval stores is making hun.
dreds of Florida producers rich.
DIR. John P. Wood, of Coffeyville,
Kan. claims to be the oldest practicicg
physician in the world. He is 80 years
old and still makes daily visits to many
patients.
The war department. issued the state
rmant that the raceipts of puhlic fnnds