The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-08-12
tP|TOAE OF. THE DISPATCHES
Happenings Both at Home
and Abroad.


A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Interesting Collection of Items From
Many Places Culled From tho Press
Reports OF the Current Week.
The government will make an i'm
mediate attempt to raise the Cristobal
Colon
The Italian government intends to
propose the construction of six armored
cruisers.
The transports Arizona and Scandia
will. when they reach Manila, be con-
verted into floating hospitals.
President Mckinley has decided to
assert our rights in the Pacific by es-
tablishing coaling station at Samoa.
The next troops for Manila may go
by way of the Suez canal. A scarcity
Of transports On the Pacific coast is
the cause.
Aguinaldo has sent message to
Consul General Wildman, saying the
United States should declare its inten-
tions before asking the insurgents to
state theirs.
General Shafter has received orders
to move his entire army North. This
will apply not only to the sick. but to
the we'll, as it is thought that the hard
ships through which the men have gone
must have taxed the vitality of even
the strongest.
Well-founded rumors are in circula-
tion that a concerted attempt will be
made next month by fleet of Cana
dian sealers to raid the Iookeries on the
islands of St. Paul and St. George.
There Is but one government vessel, the
gunboat Wheeling, to guard Behring
sea against pelagic sealers.
There is great uneasiness on al, sides
says London dispatch, in regard to
the Chinese situation, which is re-
garded as bringing an open conflict be-
tween Great Britain and Russia within
measurable distance, and it is univers-
ally felt that the Marquis of Salisbury,
in yielding TO Russian aggressiveness, is
responsible for a dangerous complica-
tion which can only be overcome by
prompt and most finn intimation that
Russia's open opposition to British
commercial concessions must cease.
In this connection a story Is current
that the Princess of Wales hurried de-
parture from England was in response
to dispatch from her sister, the dow
ager empress of Russia, bearing upon
Anglo Russian relations. 1t is we'll
Al IL =
strenuously working to conclude de-
finite understanding regarding Anglo
Russian interests in the Far East,
and it Is said that great importance
attaches to the meeting OF the sisters
at Copenhagen.
On Wednesday General Brooke land
ed 5000 men at Arroyo. 60 miles east
1. of Ponce, Porto Rico. From there he
can strike the military road leading
to San Juana to Cayey. beyond Aibonlto.
This will compel the Spanish COM
mander, General Otega, to abandon his
stronghold. or be caught between two
fires.
Mayor Van Wyck of New York,
made a record as a beach hero. He
rescued three young women from death
in the waves at Freeport, L. l. One
had gone beyond her depth, and the
others, in attempting her rescue, also
went down, when the mayor dashed
in and brought al three ashere uncon-
scious.~
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt has sent
an urgent appeal to General Shafter
to reomve our troops from the fever
districts of Cuba. He says: TO
keep us here, In the opinion of every
officer commanding division or brig
ade, will simply involve the destruo-
tion of thousands. There is no possible
reason for not shipping practically the
\ entire command North at once"
A cablegram to the Boston Journal
from Ponce, Porto Rico. says. A tre,
mendous sensation has occurred in~the
Sixth Massachusetts friction be-
tween the line officers and the officers
of the brigade, which has been grow
Ing ever since the command left Cuba,
reached climax Monday, when Col
onel Woodward, Lieutenant Colonel
Chafin, Major Taylor, Chaplain
Dousseault and Captain Goodell, COM
pany K. resigned their commissions.
Aspecial to the Tribune from Wash
ington dated Wednesday says: Spain
has practically agreed to the terms OF
peace without asking for their material
modification. The hour spent by Am
bassador Cam bon at the White House
this afternoon not only removed all
doubt on this point, but sufficiently
indicated that formal conclusion OF
the negotiations would be secured more
promptly than had been expected by
even the most sanguine. The charac-
ter of the inquiries regarding certain
details demonstrated that Spain in all
sincerity was ready to end the war. the
not resist temporizing for few days
for the sake of avoiding an appearance
OF too great precipitancy in surrender
ing, and at the same time taking
advantage of the opportunity to gain a
few trivial concessions which would
be popular with Spaniards generally.
Minor News Items.
1t is said that by brave dash at a
cliticl moment the negro troops saved
the rough riderss from determination
at Santiago.
Official advices in Washington from
Santiago place the entire number OF
cases of yellow fever in our army there
at 800 or less
1t is believed In San Francisco that
the monitor Monterey will stop and take
possession of the Caroline islands en-
route to Manila.
The French ship Olinde Rodriguez