The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-09-16
LATER NEWS.

The Madrid senate has definitely
adopted the Hispano-Amerioan proto-
COL
General Brooke reports that about 18
per cent of his command are sick at
Porto Rico.
| Forty out Of every 100 of the Fifth
! regulars at Santiago are reported sick.
Five deaths have occurred among the
immunes from malaria.
! A 30-hours' rain in Texarkana, Tex,
caused considerable property loss. A
traip on the Texas & Pacific road ran
into a washout and one man was killed
and six were injured.
Aside from the loss of her colonies
and the ships destroyed in battle, the
war has cost Spain about 1884, 800, 600.
Information to this effect has been re-
ceived at the navy department from
the naval attaches Of this government
abroad.
The Cubans are out In new mani
festo, and the necessity for organiza-
tion of new party is set forth. The
document appeals to all Cubans having
the progress and welfare of the infant
republic at heart to join with the
nationalists in putting the government
on stable basis.
The spaniards appear to be In no
great rush to leave Cuba, and the gov
ernment has been urged to take vigor-
Gus measures to accelerate their move
ments. The charge is made in certain
quarters that the evacuation is being
delayed 80 that the Spanish govern
! ment may continue to collect Cuban
revenues for time
ment relief expedition, Is back from the
North with the crews of the whalers
which were crushed In the Ice Three
ships were wrecked. The OIca and
Freeman were lost last fall and the
Rosario last spring. All the crews
we're saved. Some of the men were
rescued by the Bear when on the very
=, verge of starvation. The Bear had a
narrow escape from destruction in the
ice off Point Barrow.
The navy department has arrived at
, what 1t regards as fair and satisfao.
tory settlement of the question of
awarding the contracts for the con-
struction of the three battleships. The
Cramps, the Newport News and the
Union iron works, of San Francisco,
wal each secure big fighting ma.
i chine. The latter two companies will
be asked to amend their bids to conform
20 ha oonoA &c Df
as set forth In Cramps plans.
Fearing a yellow fever epidemic.
half the population of jackson. Miss. +,
, have fed from the town.
The bitter passenger rate war is ter
minated. All western roads have agreed
to restoration of passenger rates, to
be effective September 81.
Captain James G. Blaine, assistant
adjutant-general, u. 8. ", has been
discharged from the army for his recent
fragrant escapades at San Francisco and
Honolulu.
Spain has lost another Pacific possess
sion. Native forces captured the gar
rison of Ponape and took full possess
sion Of the Carolines, which this coun-
try had contemplated seizing had the
war been prolonged.
Governor Lord, of Oregon, has uum-
pleted his investigation of the condition
of the $50 recruits of the Second Ore
gon volunteers encamped at San Fan
cisco, and has telegraphed to the secre-
tary of wal that he has found every
thing satisfactory.
General Rios, governor of the vi
sayas islands, and ad interim governor
general of the Spanish territory in the
Philippines, has wired the Madrid gov
ernment that he has arrived at ''an
understanding with the American
authorities respecting Luzon island" I"
There Is reason to believe that the
navy department has selected the Texas
as the future flagship of the Asiatic
station. The understanding is that
she will replace the protected cruiser
Olympia. which is to be ordered to the
United States as soon as her relief ar
rives on the Asiatic station.
A Madrid dispatch says Spain is
ready to concede our every demand,
and the impossibility of resuming the
struggle is fully recognized. The gov
rrnment is evidently of the opinion that
with strong navy there, might have
been different story to tell of the out
rome of the war with the United
titates, and deplores the fact that she
has but few ships left.
A Cu' an patriot writes that misery
among the Cubans is on the increase,
and that conditions in Havana City
and province are worse now than dur
ing the war, with no relief in sight.
The Spaniards, he says. are reveng-
ing themselves for the loss of Cuba by
robbing, maltreating and expressing In
every possible way the un fortunate
people of the island. Chaos reigns
and the public service has been COM
pletely abandoned in all departments.
Under peremptory orders from Cen
eral Miles, preparations are being made
to break up Camp Wikoff at once, by
sending home all the soldiers. The
new order conflicts with one from the
war department. Preparations are be-
ing made, however, to abandon the
camp in accord with the commanding
generals order and in direct disregard
of that of the secretary. Anger, when
questioned. passed the matter over by
saying Miles order was issued in fur
therance of the departments plans.
The Manitou & Pixies Peak cog rail-
way signed contract for large OBJ
servatory to be built at the top of
Pixies Peak, with a tower which can be
seen forty miles.
Mrs. Nancy Wellman. who died at
hel home near Louisa, KY, at the age
of 95 years, was the mother of 16 chill