The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-09-30
EP|TQME OF THE DISPATCHES
Happenings Both at Home
and Abroad.
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Interesting Collection of Items From
Many Places Cul1ed From the Pr ess
Reports of the Current Week.

over lO, OUO people witnessed the
opening of the Portland exposition
Thursday night.
The state fair opened at Salem,
Thursday. Most of the stock, poultry
and exhibits are on the ground.
Mr.. Angel, our late minister to
Turkey, reports that the sultan repudi-
ates the American claims. and recon-
mends naval demonstration to bring
him to time.
Major-General Miles, commanding
the United States army. has completed
his plan for the reorganization of the
volunteer forces into corps, divisions
and brigades. This plan has been SUBJ
mitted to the war department for ap-
proval. 1t contemplates reorganiza-
tion of the volunteer force which has
not been ordered mustered out.
Frank P. Myers shot and killed John
Lenhart, constable. and NJ. Kerns, by
stander, at Garrett, Nd, while resist
ing eviction from house which was a
subject of family dispute. He then
was finally captured by the sheriff. AS
he was being taken to Jail, some one
in the crowd shot the prisoner and he
fell dead.
According to special dispatches from
Peking, members of the European com
munity there believe the emperor OF
China is in danger. 1t is added that
the dowager empress desires to place
Prince Kwang's grandson on the
throne. The emperor realizes the
strength Of the conspiracy against him
and has ordered the guards at the pal
ace strengthened.
A dispatch to the London Globe from
Hong Kong ports gives the details of a
secret convention signed recently at
Peking. 1t appears that the Chinese
thereby concluded an agreement with
St. Petersburg by which China ceded
Port Arthur and Talien Wan, stipulat-
ing that only Russian and Chinese
warships should enter or dock at Port
Arthur.
Aguinaldo and his chiefs have made
plea to the powers for recognition of
belligerency and Independence. An
goncillo, his agent, who was passen-
ger on the steamer China, is on his
way to Europe to submit the question
to foreign arbitration. Before proceed
ing to Europe Angoncillo will stop in
Washington and attempt to impress
the administration with his appeal.
No mention of the United States nor
any American force is made in the doc
ument which he carries.
Cambon. the French ambassador at
Washington, is to be transferred to
Vienna.
Gomez has issued a general order to
the army under his command to the
effect that Spaniards must have con-
sideration shown them, and American
orders obeyed.
The navy department has ordered
400 sailors to be sent to Admiral
Dewey's squadron at Manila to take the
place of sailors whose terms of service
have expired.
General Blanco has issued an order
authorizing the soldiers of the Cuban
army to travel unarmed on railway
trains in the provinces of Pinar del Rio
and Havana.
AS far as new discoveries went. the
expedition sent out by the university Of
Pennsylvania to study North Alaska
from a scientific standpoint has been a
failure. Three men OF the party re-
turned to Seattle on the Excelsior.
Nearly $4,000 specimens, weighing
111a tons, were brought back.
The report that the last Spanish gar
rison in the island of Luzon had sur
, rendered is premature. The Spaniards
still hold seven seaports in Albay prov
ince, the principal hemp district.
The distur Dances have already resulted
in the diminution of the output of AL
bay hemp by 100000 bales. as COM
pared with last years figures.
Advices from the Orient state that
China and Japan have been visited by
thunder storms and destructive floods,
in which many hundreds OF people have
lost their lives. The region north OF
the Anshang mountains has been inun-
dated for hundreds of miles by the Vel.
low river. Several hundred thousand
persons have been plunged into the
deepest distress. and many into abso.
lutte penury, which local authorities
are unable to alleviate.
News received at San Francisco re.
ports the loss of the schooner g. G..
Funk, on Flanders island, on July 81 !,
with 10 of her crew. Only two seamen
we're saved, and but one body has been
recovered. The list of the drowned is
as follows: Captain and Mrs. Nesson
and two children, aged s and 5 years,
respectively; A. Hansen, chief mate;
j. Stump, second mate; Charles Olsen,
Peter Nelson. Charles Joahansen and
Peter Anton, able seamen. The vessel
was driven ashore by gale and went
to pieces in the surf.
Minor News Items.
Russia's common soldier gets So 20
year.
Our daily output of powder is 16, 600
tons.
Cuba has 10000, 900 acres of virgin
forest.
War has doubled the price of army
horses.
| Italy's war department utilizes $45,-
900, 900 year.
Policemen in Boston have been in
structed to salute the flag whenever 1t
is carried past them in parade.
Four unfortunate sailors belonging
to the steam whaler Mary D. Hume.
escaped from the vessel during the
winter and started overland to the gold
fields of the Yukon. They have not
been heard from since, except from In
dians. who report finding the bodies oil
the four considerable distance from