The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-08-05
LATER NEWS.

General Merritt has asked to have
to SO. 900 troops.
The Peruvian government is sending
agents to Europe to purchase warships
for the purpose of strengthening her
navy.
The designs of the three new vessels
of the Illinois type are to be changed
so as to make their minimum speed Is
knots an hour.
If the coal operators of the Pittsburg
district do not conform with the terms
of the Chicago agreement by August
10, 5000 miners will be ordered to
strike.
President Mckinley, it is said, will
call an extra session of both houses of
congress as soon as Spain accepts the
terms Of peace offered by the United
States.
The steamer Humboldt has arrived
at San Francisco from st. Michaels,
bringing down about 40 people from
the Klondike. The purser says that
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was brought down on the steamer.
Lieutenant R. P. Hobson. of Merri-
mac fame, is with his mother at Lithia
Spin Ga. The meeting between
mother and son was a pathetic one.
The son kissed his mother, who threw
her arms around his neck and for sew
eral minutes rested her head ON his
shoulder, shedding tears of joy.
Following is an official statement
given out by authority of the president
on Tuesday as to the terms of peace
offered by the United States: "In
order to remove any mIsapprehension
in regard to the negotiations as to peace
between the United States and Spain,
it is deemed proper to say that the
terms offered by the United States in
the note handed to the French ambas-
sador ON Saturday last are III substance
as follows: The president does not
now put forward any claim for pecuni-
ary indemnity, but requires relinquish-
ment of all claim of sovereignty over
or title to the island of Cuba, as we'll
as evacuation by Spain of the island;
cession to the United States and i'm
mediate evacuation of Porto Rico and
other islands under Spanish sovereign
ty in the West Indies and like cession
of an island in the Ladrones. The
United States will occupy and hold the
city, bay and harbor of Manila, pend
Ing the conclusion of treaty of peace,
which shall determine the control, dis
position and government of the Philip
pines. If these terms are accepted by
Spain In their entirety, commissioners
will be named by the United States to
meet commissioners on the part of
Spain for the purpose of concluding
treaty of peace on the basis above in
The United States commissioners
who are to prepare code of laws for
Hawaii will sail on the Mariposa,
August 10.
Advices from Havana confirm the
report that General Garcia has relin-
quished his command and gone home
to Camaguey.
Intrigue among the powers of Europe
to shut us out of the Philippines is
said to have been checkmated by Pres
ident McKinley's course.
A Madrid correspondent says that a
band of 800 Carlists recently appeared
near SEQ de Urge, in Catalonia, and
the troops are pursuing them.
The London Times announces that
the Royal Ulster Yacht Club has ar
ranged to challenge for the America g
cup. The New York Yacht Club will
be notified of the decision Immediately.
General Merritt has sent notice to
Washington that he was about to COM
bine with Dewey in joint demand for
the surrender of Manila, thus forestall-
ing the insurgents, and this movement
may cause rupture.
President McKinley's proposal has
reached Madrid, and the Spanish cabi-
net met Monday to consider and decide
upon the reply to be made. The terms
offered. it is quite likely, will be ac-
ceded to Immediately. Hostilities in
the Antilles in that case will be sus-
pended at once.
The governor-general of Manila, tele-
garphing to Madrid. says that aid is in
to resist the imminent at
tack of the American forces under Gen.
eral Merritt. The foreign warships in
the bay, the dispatch says, answered
the salute In honor of the queens saint
day, and the American vessels display
ed the American flag.
Some of the members of the Spanish
conservative party question the utility
of preserving the Philippines because of
the enormous EXPENSE that a suppress
sion of the insurgents would entail. The
latest dispatches from Captain General
are SO respondent about the
resources at his disposal that it is sur
missed that the fall of Manila is immi-
n6nt.
General Greely announces that he
is now in direct communication by
cable with General Miles headquarters
at Ponce, having sent the cable instru-
ments from St. Thomas. The British
officials who control the cable are will
ing to tarnsmit messages for the United
States government over it, provided
our forces are in possession of the cable
terminals, but they will not allow
their cables to be used If the instru-
ments are cut in at any intermediate
point.
Tie dynamite cruiser Nictheroy pur-
chased from the Brazilian government
will be turned into collier.
Richard Votaw, of Washington
county, KY, who shot four persons at
a tent meeting in Mercer county, was
shot and instantly killed by Sheriff /
George Coulter, of Danville.