The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-05-13
LATER NEWS.

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of 10000 immunes in the South.
1t is said Spanish spies are apparent
ly at work in this country. Evidence
has been discovered of plot to blow
| up the locks at Sault st. Marie.
Admiral Montejo, in charge of the
Spanish fleet at Manila, is reported to
have been killed by the populace after
having escaped from Cavite.
Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn has
chartered about 80 ships with ca
pacity of 25, 900 men. They are to be
used to convey troops to the Philip
pines and Cuba.
The Spanish government has no
money to- buy war supplies. and will
therefore insist that the cortes sit con-
tinuously until credits are voted. Pro-
visions and especially wheat are becom-
ing scarce at Madrid.
A correspondent of a London paper
says Sagasta knows Spain's cause is
hopeless. He acknowledges the situa-
tion is most grave, and again declares
that his country was forced into war by
the United States.
The entire army stationed at Chlcka-
mauga Park has been ordered to the
front. The First and Tenth cavalry
go to New Orleans, the Second cavalry
to Mobile, the Third and Sixth to
Tampa. The entire body OF infantry
goes to Tampa.
The torpedo boat Winslow engaged
three Spanish gunboats off Cardenas
bay. She disabled one, and put all
three to flight, and came out unscathed.
Lieutenant Bernardo, Ensign Bagley
and the men of the Winslow thought
the odds of three to one fair.
1t is asserted in Hong Kong that Ad
miral Dewey finds the insurgents at
the Philippines growing dangerous.
He cannot control them, nor can he en-
able the Spaniards to do SO. Massa-
cres are said to have occurred outside
Manila, the insurgents killing Spanish
women and children.
Under the law Admiral Dewey and
his meu have become entitled to rich
bounty. Even if the numerical i'm
portance of the feet of Admiral Mon
tejo has been overestimated, the off,
GERS and men of the Asiatic squadron
will be entitled to share among them
something like $1s7, 900 bounty money.
Sir Charles Dixie, an eminent British
authority, when asked whether any
question of international law or prac-
tice affected the United States right
to retain the Philippines, said: ''None
whatever. The States will hold the
Philippines by the right of conquest.
No power or powers will have the
slightest title to interfere.
News has been received by the navy
department that the Spanish Cape
Verde feet has arrived at Cadiz. The
object of this move, it is believed, is
the concentration OF the entire Spanish
fleet for bold stroke, in accordance
with the plans of the Spanish minister
of marine, as unoficially announced
from Madrid last week. The return
of the Cape Verdes feet to Cadiz leaves
Sampson with no Spanish feet to fight,
except those smaller craft in Cuban
waters.
A Madrid dispatch says orders have
been sent to the governor-general of the
Philippines to resist to the death the
attack on Manila.
A dispatch from Bahia, Brazil, an
nounces the arrival there of the battle
ship Oregon. 1t is said her call at
Bahia was in accordance with instruc-
tions from Washington.
The cabinet has decided to inaugurate
an aggressive campaign against the
Spaniards in the Philippines and Cuba.
Five thousand troops will be sent to
Manila at once from the Pacific coast.
Later on Havana will be attacked from
the re,r by the United States and in
surgent troops. and by the fleet in
front.
Cable advices received from Rear
Admiral Sampson announce his arrival
off the coast of Hayti with a division
of his fleet. He will remain at the
point where he is now located until the
department Or one of the scouts inform
him of the appearance of the Spanish
men-of-war, which sailed from St.
Vincent nine days ago.
The dons tricked Commander Lam
berton. says a Manila dispatch to the
New York Herald. He had been sent
to take Cavite arsenal. He demanded
their surrender, but they asked for more
time. Upon their request being grant
ed they improved their opportunities
by fleeing to Manila and taking with
them the Mauser rifles of the fort.
Another tale of death on the Alaska
trail has been received at Victoria, B.
G. Twenty-Five men were engulfed in
the waters of an icebound mountain
stream near Crater lake. OF the party
not one life was saved. The sudden
breaking of the ice on which tt e gold
seekers were walking sent them to
their doom without a moments warn
ing The names of the dead are un-
known.
The surgeon of the Castillo says that
in the battle of Manila the Spanish
Admiral Montejo was wounded. The
captain, chaplain and 90 others were
killed and 60 wounded on the Castillo.
One hundred and fifty were killed and
80 wounded on tire Reina Cristina,
Admiral Monteio's flagship. Five were
killed and 80 wounded on the Don Juan
de Austria; four killed and 30 wounded
on the Ulloa.
Lynde Bradley, an expert e1ectri-
clan in Milwaukee, has perfected plans
for the use of the X-ray on board of
war vessels and on the field.
Many cases have been discovered in
which rich New York women hired
proxies to go to Oklahoma to imperson-