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The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
GREEcE's GREAT MISTAKE.
On the Eve of Victory, the Retreat
From Larissa Was Ordered

On the Eve of Victory, the Retreat
From Larissa Was Ordered.
London, May lathe Athens CORE
spondent of the Daily Chronicle says:
The real and only cause of the Greek
retreat to Pharsala was the blunder of
one of who mistook the retreat of the
enemy for forward movement de-
signed to outfank the Greeks, and
therefore ordered hasty retreat
Crown Prince Constantine left Larissa
because he believed the exaggerated re-
ports of danger to his forces. 1t is
fact, however, that on the evening of
the retreat, Edhem Pasha, despairing
of breaking the Greek lines, had order
ed his army to retire to Elassona, while
the sultan had dispatched special
commissioner to the Greek government.
The state of the Turkish army at the
moment was simply pitiful, and terror
reigned at the Yildiz kiosk.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
CUBA IN THE SENATE.
Some Opposition Shown to Senator
Morgan's Resolution.

Washington, May 12.-The Morgan
Cuban resolutions was discussed at
considerable length in the senate. For
the first time since the debate began,
the opposition sentiment expressed it
self. The speeches were not OF a kind
to stimulate the galleries, being in the
main calm and dispassionate reviews of
the situation in Cuba.
| Hale maintained that it would be
most unwise to embraass the president
by the adoption of the resolution at a
time when he was investigating the
subject. He intimated also that the
acceptance of the resolution would
lead to the withdrawal of the Spanish
minister, and a termination of diplo-
matte relations between Spain and the
United States. The senator said few
real Americans were imprisanedsin Gu
ba. He had never heard of a genuine
Yankee being among them. They
were all Sanguillys or Delgados or
Ruizs. Returning to his associates,
Hale said that no one ever heard of a
Jones or Smith or Frye as victim
of one of these outrages. The senator
said the real motive for the Morgan
resolution was shown in the recent
statement of Morgan that the passage
of the resolution would prevent Spain
from making loan, and thus prevent
her from putting down the insurrec-
tion.
Gallinger dissented from this state
ment, showing the question of loan
was but one ground on which the
friend OF Cuba had favored the recogni-
tion of Cuban belligerency. There
were, he said, other and higher grounds.
Morgan also dissented.
Referring to the reports that another
Spanish loan was being negotiated,
Turpie said:
"Spain is now on its last legs fnan-
cially. Shall we fill up her treasury?
Are we charged with supporting and
maintaining the Spanish credit? It is
our duty to support the armies and
navies Of Spain on land and sea in her
vain efforts to subject the patriots of
Cuba once more to the oppression of the
Spanish yoke? think not. But the
senator from Maine says that if we pass
the resolution, the Spanish minister
will ask for his passports, break up dip
lomatic relations and go home. do
not attach much Importance to that
consequence. Ministers have hereto
fore received their passports and gone
away without destroying the political,
geographical or physical equilibrium of
the American hemisphere. / do not
attach the slightest Importance to the
fact that the Spanish minister may be
instructed to ask for his papers, sus-
pend diplomatic relations and go home.
Vest secured an agreement to reso-
luton directing the committee on COM
merce to inquire into the causes of the
recent floods on the Mississippi river
and report to the senate next Decemb ber.
Among the favorable reports was one
for a public building at Aberdeen, S.
D., to cost 100000.
Chandler, from the committee on
census, reported a bill for taking the
twelfth census.
A resolution was agreed to request
ing the secretary of war for information
as to the steps to locate deep-water
harbor at Port Los Angeles, or San
Pedro, CAL, in accordance with the
report of the commission.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
TO PROTECT CITIZENS.
The Marblehead Ordered to Puerto
Cortez, Honduras.

Washington, May 1.-THE interests
of the Unifed States citizens at Puerto
Cortez, the seat of the revolution in
Honduras, will be looked after by the
cruiser Marblehead. The vessel is now
ON her way from Key West, orders hav-
ing been given her commander yester-
day to proceed at once. These orders
were issued at the request of the state
department officials, who felt that the
United States should be represented
there by warship, so that if occasion
should arise there might be no delay in
affording the necessary protection to
citizens of this government.
Latest information received by, the
minister of the Greater Republic in
this city is that the rebels at Puerto
Cortez were awaiting the shipment of
arms from Belize, British Honduras,
about which some trouble had arisen,
owing to the representations made to
the officials of that country. Nicaragua
and Salvador, it is said, already have
dispatched troops to the scene of trou-
BILE, but as the journey is difficult
one, it is probable that they have not
vet arrived.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
MAY VISIT THE WEST.

President Invited to Attend the Salt
Lake Celebration.
Washington, May 12.-By appoint
ment, large delegation of Western
senators, representatives and prominent
/ men called upon the president just be-
| fore 10 this morning to invite him to
attend the semicentenary celebration of
the founding Of Salt Lake City, Utah.
There were among the callers, Senators
Cannon, Rawlins, Shoup, Perkins,
| White, Warren, Carter and Wilson,
Representative King, Delegate Mark
Smith, Judge Barch and P. H. Lam
nan, proprietor of the Salt Lake Tri-
bune.
The president received the visitors
cordially, had them shown into the
cabinet room Ga rather unusual cour-
tesy), and seated them at the cabinet
| table.
Mr.. Lannan presented the invitation
to the celebration, plainly but neatly
engrossed on one large sheet of parch-
ment paper, bearing at the top repre-
sentation of the buffalo skulls which
formerly dotted the plains in every di-
rection and were used by pioneers as
signboards for the benefit of other
travellers. On this skull was the in
scription:
Pioneers camped here June 8, 1847.
All we'll; made fifteen miles today.
Brigham Young"
The invitation itself began with the
statement that the delegation had come
in the name of the people of Utah and
the whole intermountain country, to
urge the president to visit the state the
oath of next July, the fiftieth ami
versary of the entry of the pioneers into
the valley of the Great Salt lake. The
formal invitation was read, and then
the members of the delegation added
strong verbal requests that the presi-
dent should make Che trip.
The president expressed strong de-
sire to accede to- gthe- invitation. It
would not, however, he said, be pos
sible now to make an engagement SO
far in advance, but he could promise to
attend the celebration if; at the time
set, congress was not in session, and
the state of public business would per-
NIT
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
Major McNamara Killed Himself.

Kansas City, May 11.-Major Henry
McNamara, veteran Of the Fenian
army that invaded Canada in 1866, and
again in 1870, and who was later prom
inent in the Inviucibles, the Clan-na-
Gael and kindred Irish societies, killed
himself last night rather than suffer
the disgrace of being sued for $40
debt. An acquaintance who loaned
him the money threatened arrest if it
were not paid. McNamara had been un-
able to secure work. and could not
meet the demand. Major McNamara
was so years old, and came West from
Boston. He was newspaper writer,
and had done more or less work on
dailies in the Southwest for years. He
left widow.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
Launching of the Umatilla Reef.

Portland, Or, May lin the pres
ence of great crowd of cheering spec
tators, who stood on the shore, on
steamers in the river, on buildings and
on barges, Umatilla Reef lightship No.
81, was successfully launched by
Messrs. Wolff & Zwicker from the
ways at Steffens' yard at2:50 yesterday
afternoon. Not hitch nor pause
marred the launching of the vessel.
From the knocking away of the first
prop under her bow to the moment
when the last obstacle was removed,
and she gradually gathered headway
for her plunge into the river, every
thing moved with the smothness and
regularity of clockwork. The launch
ing was witnessed by fully 5000 peo-
pie, and such a shouting, hurrahing
and waving of handkerchiefs has sell
dom attended any public celebration in
POrt1oud
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
Americans Were Fortunate.

New York, May 10.-A Journal dis
patch from Paris says: There were
very few American present in the char
ity bazaar at the time of the fire, and
these seem to have been especially IA
vored by fortune. Mrs. William Astor
left the bazaar quarter of an hour be-
fore the conflagration. Miss Fame, SIS
ter Of Frederick Fame, an American re-
siding in the Rue Prony, who is almost
totally deaf, was in the building when
the fire broke out. Her escape was
largely due to her infrmity. She saw
the fire and made her way to the ext,
being among the first to reach it.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
THE FIRE ON THE LEoNA.
Said to Have Been Caused by the Care-
lessness of the Crew.

New York, May 12.-There was a
grewsome sight presented on the NAL
lory steamer Leona today. Thirteen
bodies, blackened by fire and smoke,
were lying in the steamers steerage.
The men and women on deck looked as
though they had passed through an aw-
full ordeal Nobody was allowed either
to leave or board the vessel until after
the coroner viewed the bodies and gave
permission for their removal.
Coroner Hoeber. as matter of form,
placed Captain Wilder under arrest.
He was paroled III custody of Mr.. Mall
lory.
Thomas Doyle, aged 81, of Paterson,
N. J., who was on his way to Vallejo,
Cal, to see his uncle and aunt, will be
detained until the inquest Doyle was
among the steerage passengers who oc-
cupied hunks on the starboard side of
the vessel. He said that among the.
passengers who could speak English
was young Irish girl, Lizzie Sullivan,
on her way to Los Angeles, Cal.
Doyle stated he was lying asleep
early Sunday morning, when awakened
by suffocating feeling. The apart
ment was filled with smoke. He made
for the companionway leading to the
upper deck. At the entrance to the
companionway the steward was shout
ing. Doyle started up, and found two
men preceded him. He fell back, hav-
ing lost his balance, and when he start
ed up again was assisted by some one
from behind, who pushed him up.
On reaching the deck, Doyle says
his first thought was for Lizzie Sulli-
van. He started into the women's side
of the steerage to rescue her, but was
pulled back by members of the crew.
The crew worked like beavers to put
out the flames. The matches, burlaps,
ETC., which caught fire, Doyle says.
were stored only short distance from
the steerage apartments.
Samuel D. Schillraut, from Hungary,
on his way to settle at Columbus, Tex,
said:
''Many lives might have been saved
if the crew had done anything to help
the smothering passengers.
Schilleraut says the general impress
sion was that the fire was caused by
lighted match dropped into the cargo
He declares he saw members of the
crew smoking, and they were very care
less in throwing away matches.
Along the shore today it was thought
strange the fire was not discovered
earlier. 1t must have been smolderiny
for several days.
The bodies Of the victims were taken
to the morgue TODAY.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
Protection at the South.

No tariff bill ever passed in congress
received so many Southern votes as did
the one which has just passed the
house. Twenty-Five Republicans, five
Democrats, and one Populist from the
South supported the Dingley bill in the
house, and the other Populists from
that section declined to vote against it.
Protection in the South has made won-
derful strides in the last few years, and
will continue in the same line for some
time to come.
The importers of the country are
mad as so many wet hens. They ex-
pected to make millions out of their
excessive importations prior to the final
enactment of the Dingley bill, but the
retroactive clause introduced at the last
moment and passed by the house has
upset their plans completely. Their
hope Of being able to import hundreds
Of millions Of dollars worth of goods
during the discussion of the bill in the
senate is gone. and they will not be
likely to add materially to the enor-
NOUS stocks Of goods, which they had
already brought In, to escape payment
- iucreaoed rates OF dutiee
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
In the House.

Washington, May 12.-The house
today resumed the transaction of public
business, which had been suspended
since the Indian appropriation bill was
sent to conference, three weeks ago.
The consideration of the senate amend
ments to the sundry civil appropriation
bill was entered upon under special
order providing for recess each day
until disposed Of
Simpson pursued his tactics of the
last few weeks, attempting to harass
the majority with points of no quorum,
but without success. Nothing was
done except discuss the various amend
mentS.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
henry smith Broke the Record

Baltimore, May 12.-Henry Smith,
of the Maryland Century Cycling Club,
finished the 24-hour road race against
time this morning, in which he claims
to have established new set of Ameri-
can road records. At the end of 12
hours he covered ITO miles, and at the
end of "a, 314. The records will be
submitted to the Century Cycling Club.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
CoIIided at Sen.

Hamburg, May IA dispatch from
the island of Heligoland announces the
Dutch steamer Firkene, from Cagliari,
island of Sardinia, for Stockholm, col
lided with the Norwegian bark Roed-
var. Both vessls are supposed to have
foundered. It is reported thirteen
men of the two crews have been saved,
and that the drowned are largely in
excess of that number.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
Fire in a French Circus.

Paris, May 11.-The ring and sta
bles of the Circus Moliere were burned
tonight, a policeman being seriously
injured. M. Casimir-Perier was to
have presided at the opening of the
charity fete in the circus today, but
the function was postponed in conse-
quence of the calamity at the charity
bazaar last Tuesday.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
WEEKLY MARKET LETTER.
Downing. Hopkins 4 Company's Review
Of Trade.

Downing, Hopkins 4 Company's Review
of Trade.
The wheat market was very dull dur
ing the past week. On Saturday a
speculative demand sprung upon a
"tip" that the coming government re-
port on growing winter wheat would
show decline in condition of about 8
points and have tendency to enhance
values.
g. The slow demand from abroad for
our wheat is-especially discouraging, as
the inquiry is below anything figured
early in the season, on this side of the
Atlantic or on the other other. When
the figures of total production were first
compiled the only question that agi-
tated spectators was the problem of
how the world was going to get along
with so light supply, without prices
advancing to point that would turn
enough consumption to substitutes for
wheat, to make the less quantity of it
do for the whole crop year. Most peo-
pie thought then that nothing short of
90c to 81 bushel would do it. There
is where the mistake seems to lie.
About 75c in the primary markets
turned away enough wheat bread eaters
to substitutes to lengthen sufficiently
the supply, for all practical purposes.
Even at the moderate prices prevailing
last week, this country's foreign ship
ments were away under 1000, 900
bushels. The low price of corn at 25c,
of rye at $50, barley at 25c, and oats at
1Sc are particularly attractive to the
Practical economist who supplies the
family table, in these times, when SO
many are idle or in a. state bordering
upon idleness. The official wheat
yield in this country was something of
an error, but the usual commercial reck-
oning was not much astray. The fault
of calculation seems to be in the price
that would turn SO many consumers to
the cheaper cereals.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
Rushing in mexican Cattle.

Kansas City, May 1.-THE prospec-
tive duty on Mexican cattle, as pro-
posed in the pending tariff bill, has re-
suited in an unprecedented rush of
Mexican cattle into the United States.
The reports of the Kansas City office of
the bureau of animal industry of the
United States department of agricu1-
ture show that imports of Mexican cat
tie for April were 1854, the greatest
in the history of this country's cattle
trade with Mexico, as compared with
IA, 905 in April a year ago.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14

Leadville, Colo, May 10.-A double
tragedy occurred at the notorious house
of Mrs Wright. G. W. Ratcliff entered
the room of Belle Walker and shot her
dead. He ran out Of the house, entered
q cabin in the rear and put bullet
through his head. Ratcliff, who is q
Mexican. left good position in Ouray
= coms = Leedxille With the woman.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
Chi1d Burned to Death

Greeley, Colo, May 11.-Virgil, the
er living twelve miles northeast of this
city, was burned to death in. an old
stable today. It is supposed the child
was playing with matches and ignited
the building.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
The Archbishop At San ouentin.

San Francisco, May 12.-Archbishop
Riordan visited San Quentin peniten-
tiary today and, in the presence of
1000 convicts, administered the sacra-
ment of communion and confirmation
to sixty-two, who constituted the tri-
ennial class. Great interest was man
ifested by the prisoners, the majority
of whom were present to witness the
ceremonies, and all devoutly followed
the service from beginning to end.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
Plague ON the Chinese Frontier

Paris, May lat is reported that
several cases of bubonic plague have
been discovered by the Token officials
on the Chinese frontier, and just with
in the boundaries of the colony. Spe-
cial precautions are being taken to
prevent the spread of the disease.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
BUSINESS INCREASE.
Both Democrats and Republicans Well
come Its Evidence.

From all points of the compass it
comes, to cheer those who have been
depressed and to encourage those who
have always had faith that the turn in
the long lane of depression would soon
be reached. We mean the substantial
evidence that an era of better times is
at hand. The far East has spoken on
this subject many times of late, by the
renewed energies in its factories. Ohio
and Illinois have given satisfactory evil
aence that times are improving. The
tar West has not been entirely quiet
about the matter. Now comes word
from south of the Ohio river. The
Louisville Courier-Journal, speaking
IF the business outlook, says:
Business is better-there is no
doubt of it. Increased activity is
noted in many lines outside of the
stock markets, which, after long peri.
od of inaction, seem near the develop
ment of BOOM
''There is nothing feverish, uncer-
tain or speculative about this revival.
The best thing of all is that it seems
to have started with the farmers. who
are making supplies and will have
learned in spite of the calamity howl
ers, that, much as they have suffered,
they are not bankrupts, and are not
going to be bankrupts.
Matters have mended slowly for the
reason that farmers could do nothing
in the winter, but with the thawing of
the SHOWS they are on the move to Gre
ate the wealth where wealth must al
ways be created. They have now
given the impulse which every other
line of business is beginning to feel.
''The nation is inconceivably better
off than it was year ago.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
Spain Again Borrowing.

Madrid, May 1.-THE queen regent
has issued a decree authorizing the
raising of es, 600, 900, to be secured by
the customs duties of Spain, to meet
the cost of military operations in Cuba
and the Philippine islands. The Bank
of Spain will undertake the issue.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
A Montreal Fire.

Montreal. May 11.-Fire last night
wrecked the building of e. A. Small &
Co., wholesale clothiers, on Beaver
hill. The damage to the building and
stock is 1925, 900.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14

Under forced draught the new British
first-class battleship Jupiter made an
average of 18.4 knots in her four-houl
trial, nearly a knot more than the con.
tract speed
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
Gold Flowing In,

From the beginning of January on to
che present time more gold has come
into the country than has gone out Of
it. This is a very unusual circum-
stance. Gold generally goes out at this
time of the year, and sometimes, as in
1898, it moves in large amounts. The
heavy gold expectation in the early
months of 1898 was one of the symp-
toms of the financial dread which pre-
cipitated the panic just before the mid
die of that year. Except in 1896 and
1890, when the gold imports exceeded
the gold exports, the first quarter Of
1897 is the only one in any year of the
past dozen in which the inflow of the
metal has exceeded the outflow. As
the balance of trade continues to be
largely in our favor, and as European
owners of American securities are hang
ing on to them, no outward gold move
ment of Importance is in sight.-St.
Louis Globe Democrat.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14

It costs more to strike match in
France than in any other civilized
country, because the business is monop-
olized by the government.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14

Detroit, May 1.-The malthouse Of
Henry Reickel & Co., was burned to-
day. 1t is estimated that $50, 600
worth of malt was destroyed. The loss
on the building is $40, 900, fully in.
sured
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San Francisco, May II, 1897.

San Francisco, May II, 1897.
Potatoes-Salinas Burbanks, 9Oc@
81. 10; Early Rose, coo roc; River Bur-
banks, 100000; sweets, $1.40 per
GENITAL.
Onions-$2. 25 $500 per Genital.
Eggs-Ranch, IL q 13c per dozen.
Butter-Fancy creamery, 141ac; do
seconds, 1s1a@14c; fancy dairy, 1s@
1870; seconds, 111a q 1a12c.
Cheese--Fancy mild, new, 61a@7c;
fair to good, 6@61ac; Young America.
7@8c; Eastern, 14@15c.
Wool--Choice foothill, 10@13c; San
Joaquin plains, 8@1lc; do 10 months,
5000 per pound.
Hay--Wheat and cat, $7@10; best
barley, $6.5o@S.00; alfalfa, $5@S;
clover, $6@S; compressed wheat. Sc q
$50; do oat, $6@7 per ton.
Tropical Fruit-Bananas, $1,000
400 per bunch; pineapples, 1904.
Citrus Fruit Oranges, navel, 81. so
@3.75; seedlings. do, $1@1.50; COM
mon lemons, 75c@$l.0 fancy, 81. 90
per box.
Apples-$1.as@s per box; Eastern.
So. so per barrel
a. ! i
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
Shoe Factories Destroyed.

Seabrook, N. j., May 11.-Fire this
morning burned the shoe factories Of
Poor g Dole and w. H. Bradford, and
three adjoining buildings were also
burned. Loss, $40,
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14

There are $50 mountains in the Uni
ted States which have height exceed
ing 10,000 feet. The greatest aumber
il in Colorado and Utah.
The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1897-05-14
Explosion in a Mine

London, May 12.-An explosion has
occurred at Shaffel lead mine, Isle of
Man. Twnty miners were killed.