The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-11-04
LATER NEWS.

| ::
General Rio del Pinar, chief rival OF
Aguinaido, has been arrested on a
charge OF having disregarded the au..
thority of the insurgent Dictator : -; !
Controller Dawes, who is treasurer
of the Lafayette monument fund. is
being deluged with contributions from
the school children of the country.
| The United States of Central Amer
ica, the new republic, has sprung into
life. 1t is composed of three countries,
Honduras, Salvador and Nicaragua.
1t is the intention of the administra-
tion to urge the construction of the
| Nicaragua canal by government aid, in
accordance with the concession of the
Maritime Canal Company.
Rear-Admi1al Bunce's retirement on
December 25 will make Rear-Admiral
Dewey the senior officer of the navy,
and if congress revives the grade of ad-
miral, as desired by Secretary Long,
fihis appointment to that rank will fol-
low without any further jumping.
A cash indemnity will be demanded
of Spain, and the United States will
insist upon being reimbursed for every
dollar expended directly or indirectly
ON account of the war. A general bal
ance of accounts is to be struck and the
indemnity will be deducted from the
sum allowed for the Philippines.
The murder OF a prospector named
Botleau, on the Ashcroft Glenora trail
has been reported; to: the provisional
police. The murderer is variously
known as T. Wilson, McGregor and
McGraw. The killing was the culmina-
tion of several weeks of quarreling. in
duced by privation and disappointment
on that desolate trail. g. ... -
A dispatch to the Herald from Ha-
vana says no decision has yet been
reached by the commissioners regard
ing the date of evacuation. One or two
communications have passed on minor
agreements as to the day when Spanish
sovereignty in the island shall cease.
The Spaniards, however, will again be
ordered to get out by January l.
Four privates of the Nineteenth in
fantry, who were left at Fort Wayne
when the regiment went South, were
badly injured b.y an explosion of pow
der which they were transferring from
the basement of the gruadhouse for
transhipment to the regiment in Porto
Rico. The men are Fred Fisher, Archie
Miller and Robert Lavall 1t is be-
lieved the powder was ignited by
spark from cigarette, which soldier
was smoking. -:---.
Porto Ricans, it is said, will demand
territorial rights.
The new French premier has succeed
ed in forming a cabinet. 2'- -. j.
Agricultural experiment stations are
to be established in Alaska.
A company of Chinese naval reserves
is to he formed in. Philadelphia. ~.
John II. Dialogue. head of the sbi p.
building firm. of that name, is dead at
his home at Camden, N. ].
According to Pension Commissioner
Evans the war has. cost the United,
States 5000 lives to date. :',s.. Z:
The Paris exposition has granted
America extra floor space, and the
allotment - now amounts to- 2lo, 600
square feet -s-..,..
A dispatch to the Herald from San
tiaga, Chile, announeers that, the pro-
tocol on the Puma de Alcala dispute has
been signed. This settles the Chile
dispute: .:s.-* ~ -
The fermer Spanish cruiser, the
Maria Teresa; which was sunk during
the battle with Gervera s. fleet and
raised under the direction Of Naval
Constructor. -Hebson.s. has sailed from
Caimanera for Hampton roads.
1t is rumored.t that the. United States
has bought Samana bay, Santo Domin-
go, and will establish a coaling station
there. SANTANA bay is deep inlet in
the northern coast of the island and is
in the direct route to Porto Rico.
A proposition being considered by
the Cuban assembly is the division of
Cuba into four states, to be called
Orient, Camaguey, Las Villas and Oc-
cident. Between the proposed states |
of Camaguey and Las Villas would be
a space of land which would be a spe-
oial federal district on territory where |
the capitol would be built, new in.
land town for this specific purpose.
In his annual report James A. Dur
mont, supervising inspector general of
states that the total num-
ber of accidents to steamships result
ing in loss of life during the year was
81. The resultant loss of life was 283.
an increase over the last previous year
of 100. OF the lives lost "a were pas
sengers and 199 crews. The estimated |
number of passengers carried on vessels |
by the service during the
year is $50, 900, 900. ..:::.~.,... i
At meeting of the Paris peace COM
mission the Americans presented
written expression OF the purpose of
the United States to take the entire
group of the Philippine debt as has
been spent for the benefit of the islands
in public works, improvements and
permanent betterments. 1t was also
'et FORTH that the United States would
1ot assume any part of the Philippine
lebt which had been incurred by Spain
'or the fuFtheTanee of military OF naval
operations to quell the instructions of
he natives.
Graham A. Young, of the army en-
yineers corps, who died at Willett's
Point, was heir to over 81, 200, 900. -
!, Thomas Greenwald, a private in bat
cry J., Seventh United States artillery.
vas shot dead while trying to desert
rom Fort Slocum, near New Ro-
;helle, n. Y. =. .-... -...-4 e.. Il
The Canadian senate Is the most pa7
riarchial of contemporary upper