Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1900-03-16
TIE NEWS Of THE WEEK
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review of the Import-
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From tho Telegraph Columns

49,
Culled From the Telegraph Columns
command of the Beers.
The total cost of the war in the Phil
ippines SO far is $50, 100000.
British casualties in the final relief
of Ladysmith were almost 1000.
The island of Tutuila, of the Samoan
group, is to be useI as naval station.
Fire in the retail dry goods district
of Philadelphia caused q loss of $780,
900.
Beers say that the retreat from Lady
smith was due to commanders mis-
take.
Senator Hoar now wants to give
Queen Liliuokalani $3.50, 900 from the
treasury.
The Puerto Rican tariff bill was de-
nounced from the pulpit by Washing
ton minister.
Steps are being taken to organize a
bank with $25, ZOO capital at lone,
Morrow county, Or.
Strikes and labor troubles of various
kinds have thrown $4,000 men out Of
employment in Chicago.
Civil war is imminent in China.
One province is already in revolt over
the dethronement of the emperor.
The senate has confirmed the appoint
ment of Fl. B. Miller, of Josephine
county. Oregon, to be consul at Chung
Kiang, China.
Lady White, wife of General Sir
George White, has been invested by
Queen Victoria with the Order of the
Crown of India.
Congressman Alfred c. Harmer, of
Pennsylvania, father of the house of
representatives. is dead at Philadel-
phia, aged 75 years.
The United States government has
ordered that the California Mammoth
Tree Grove, in Calaveras county, be
bonded for park purposes.
The Pure Food and Drug congress.
in convention at Washington, adopted
resolutions seeking congressional action
to provide penalties for adulteration.
Isaac Gordon, of Birmingham, Eng
land, the notorious money lender, is
dead. He was known all over the
kingdom, under various aliases, and is
said to have been worth 81, 100000.
DIR. Nansen, the explorer, questioned
in regard to the possible fate of Andre.
said: 81 believe as long as possible,
in his return, making the most liberal
allowance of time for his reappea, ance,
but no longer have any hope. / don't
believe that he is living; otherwise we
should certainly have heard of him.
All that can be looked for now is the
recovery of his body"
The plague in Honolulu is under con-
troll.
General Gatacre has occupied Storm
berg.
Orange Free State.
General Joe Wheeler has arrived at
San Francisco from Manila.
A resolution was introduced in con-
gress asking for repeal of the tariff on
paper.
The British government has decided
to retain Lord Pauncefote as ambas-
sador at Washington indefinitely.
The latest sugar trusts dividend was
smaller than usual, supposed to be the.
result of the fight with Arbuckle.
Yaqui Indians dispersed 800 Mexi-
can soldiers who were acting as escort
to the mail, near Potam. Mexico.
Geraldine. the famous racing mare,
holder of the worlds record for half a
mile, is dead at Napa Farm, near
Napa, Cal.
Lieutenant Edgar Koehler, of the
Ninth infantry, was led into an am
bush of Filipino rebels north of Tarlac |
and killed.
The Howe Lumber Company of |
Lowell, Mass, has assigned as result |
of the failure of the Globe National |
bank, in Boston, to which the ompany |
owed large amount of money.
A revolutionary movement near San
Salvador was recently nipped in the |
bud, and confiscation by the govern
ment of $4,000 belonging DIR. Jose
AIfarado. took place, who, it is report
ed, was to have led the revolt.
Sir Charles Tupper, ex-premier of
Canada, believes that the Alaska boun-
dairy and other disputed questions be-
tween the United States and Canada,
will soon be settled and that Canada
will get the worst of it. -
At meeting OF the Baptist Social
Union OF Boston. it was announced ON
behalf of the Union Theological Insti-
tuition that John D. Rockefeller has
undertaken to contribute one-half of
the $400, 900 needed to complete the
equipment of that institution.
In the United States there are 5,427,-
767 bachelors and 1924 494 spinsters.
The first woman's clup of Puerto |
Rico has been organized by some Amer
icaD women living in Ponce.
The longest span of telegraph wire in
the world is that over the river Kistna |
in India. 1t is over 5000 feet long.
The usual output from 100 gold |
mines in the immediate vicinity of |
Johannesburg is 15 tons of gold a
month.
More than 1900 passenger and !
freight cars and 100 locomotives have /,
been ordered by 20 railroads, the cost
amounting to $13, 900, 900.
Mrs. Theodore Thomas, of Chicago,
has removed her stocks and bonds out
side of Illinois to escape excessive taxa