Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-04-06
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 os the Import
amt Happenings of tho Past Weel
Oulled From the Telegraph Columns
The Beers are rushing men to the
front.
Latest advices report two new case,
of plague at Honolulu.
Five men were killed by an explo'
sion in paper mill at Erie, Pa.
President Mckinley has again re.
fused to interfere in the Kentucky
squabble.
Relations between Russia and Tur.
key are badly strained and war prepar.
ations are in progress.
Several men were seriously hurt al
Laramie, Wy, by an explosion at the
Union Pacific oil house.
W. III. Cotton, charged with com.
plicity in the murder of Goebel, is said
to have turned states evidence.
Beers are blowing up the coal mines
in Natal. The Dundee colliery, with
its machinery, has been destroyed.
Harvey l.. Goodall, for 80 years the
publisher and proprietor of the Drover's
Journal, died in Chicago of heaft fail.
ure.
The navy department will investi.
gate the value of Grab island, south.
: east of Puerto Rico, as coaling sta
tion.
General Joubert, the intrepid leades
of the Transvaal forces, is dead. Hs
had been suffering from stomach com.
plaint.
The coasting steamer Glenelge found
cred during gale off the GippsIanG
coast. Australia. Out of ships COM
pany of S3. only three " ere saved.
Rear-Admiral Benjamin F. Day has
been retired. Captain Terry, com.
manding the Washington navy yard,
will be promoted to the vacancy.
Prof. Mau, the profound student of
Pompeiian antiquities, proves conclu-
sively that Pompeii was a well-paved
city "A years before the birth of Christ.
In Chicago, Albert Stedge, II years
old, avenged the insults cast upon his
mother by William Hobson, boarder,
by dealing Hobson q fatal blow over
the head with barrel stave.
The commercial treaties committee
of the Italian chamber of deputies has
discussed and approved in principle the
reciprocity arrangement, under the
third section of the Dingley act, recent.
ly signed in Washington by Baron
Fava, Italian ambassador to the United
States. and Mr.. Kasson. special pleni-4
potentiary for the United States.
A story of suffering and death from
starvation comes from San Nicholas
island, off the California coast. A
party of three Cinnamon had been ON
the island for six months gathering
and curing abalones. Three months
ago an unknown sloop from San Pedro,
CAL, called at the island. During the
absence of the Cinnamon, the visitors
stole everything eatable from the camp
and put to sea. One of the Chinese
died about a month ago, and the other
two, when rescued, were too weak to
move.
The Danish Antilles have been sold
to the United States.
DIR. Edward E. Fall, an old pioneer
of Walla Walla, is dead, aged 90.
General Botha denies that Transvaal
women were wounded in the Tugela
trenches.
The transport Sheridan arrived at
San Francisco, from Manila, with SO
sick soldiers and IL insane.
At cabinet council it was decided
20 officially inaugurate the Paris expo
sition on Saturday, April IA.
Seattle, WASH, is overfowing with
criminals. Twenty additional police
men were called for within week.
Cape Colony Dutch declare that Eng
land will make mistake if she de-
prives the South African republics of
their Independence.
A large number of miners and PROS
pectors from Utah and Colorado have
arrived at Baker City, Or, ready to go
out into the hills adjacent.
The Russian squadron is at Che.
mulpo, in the Yellow sea. 1t is believed
this presages a demand for a conces-
sion of land in Korea. Japan is un-
easy.
The war department has recognized
Honolulu as an open port. The trans
port Hancock, which sails with the
Philippine commission on April 10,
will stop there.
A severe fight has taken place be-
tween Boxers" and imperial troops at
Yen Chin, Chi Lii. Each force num-
bered ], 800 men and there were casual.
ties on both sides. -"
Representatives Wilson, of Idaho,
and Cushman and Jones, of Washing
ton, are urging governmental appro-
priation of $454, 900 to build portage
railroad at The Dalles, Or.
The United States government will
establish postal service to Nome City.
Chicago sends 10000 quarters of
dressed English beef" to England
every week.
The sugar trust profits are about $12,.
600, 600 year in spite of fluctuations
in the value of its stock.
A New York grand jury will investis
gate gambling houses, said to pay Tam.
many So, 600, 900 a year for police pro-
lection.
proposition has been made to equip
81 cities with pneumatic tube mai:
service for 80. 500. 600.