The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-10-28
tPITOME Of THE DISPATCHES
happenings Both at Home
and Abroad.
d WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED

WEEKS NEWS CONDENsEI
Interesting Collection of Items Fror
Many Places Cu1led From the Pres
R"n"rts of the Current waah-
The lockout in the window Slas
trade at Pittsburg is ended.
Yellow fever has been completed,
stamped out at Guantanamo
Charles Kugadt was hanged at Hous
ton, Tex, for the murder of his sister
Fully 10000 people participated in
reception to General Shafter at Lima, O
The independent battalion of Wash
ington volunteers has been mustered
out.
Ex-Governor Charles Sheldon, oi
South Dakota, died at Deadwood o.
rheumatism.
Superintendent Lukens, of the Chi.
cago- Virden Coal Company has been
released from custody on bonds
The wireworkers' strike at Cleve-
land, O., has failed, and general re.
sumption of work will soon follow.
The Colorado supreme court has de.
cided the silver Republican factional
quarrel in favor of the anti-Tellerites,
who are given the right to the title and
emblem of the party.
Battery B, Oregon volunteers, has
been mustered out of service, and it's
members returned to private life with
out having the much -sought-for chance
to battle for their country.
Agoncillo. envoy of the Filipinos.
has reached Paris, In reply to Span
ish statement, the American peace COM
mlssloners have declared that the
United States refuses to assume
sovereignty over Cuba.
A Havana dispatch says: An agree
ment between the two com Missions as
to the date of evacuation again seems
probable. The American ultimatum
likes upon January /, and this date
will be finally accepted by the Span
iards.
Lieutenant Peary's vessel is caught
In the ice, and there is little prospect
that it will get out this year. The
present position of the steamer is much
farther north than whalers usually 20.
The vessel will return safely next
spring after the ice thaws.
A sensational story comes from Ha-
vana to the effect that Captain General
Blanco together with other prominent
Spanlards, had formed a plot to set I'D
n 10 ;,,T
the island back to Spain. Their plans
were upset by the signing of the peace
protocol.
Rev. tChas. Heath, colored, is dead at
his home in New York city, aged lO1
years. The first notable event in his |
life was in 1899, when his mother car
ried him to the funeral of George |
Washington, SO that he could always |
say that he had attended the burial of |
the first president of his country.
President Mckinley addressed
large body of railway employees before
leaving Chicago.
Advices from Porto Rico saws all
nigh otflclals there have taken steps to
become naturalized Americans.
The British ship Blenfeld burned
at the mouth of the Thames river, and
IA OF those on board lost their lives.
The Spaniards at Havana are becom-
ing insolent, and disregarding the
American demands. Blanco has auc-
toned on cannon which rightly be-
longed to the United States.
In the annual report of the third
assistant postmaster-general a strong
is made that negotia-
tlons be opened looking to the reduc-
tion of the international rate to cents
a half ounce or fraction thereof.
In terrible typhoon off Formosa
hundreds of lives were lost. Among
the ships lost was the American bark
Comet. The crew was saved. Home
ward-bound passengers say they passed
numerous abandoned vessels. The loss
Of life must have been enormous.
The eoal-mining town of Yelling
ton, Vancouver island, has been the
scene of several subsidences, and there
IS general alarm there owing to indica-
lions that another is likely to take
place. The whole town is under
mined, owing to the extensive opera
lions for coal mining.
A dispatch from Manila says: The
nsurgent general, Pho Pillar, has agreed
o evacuate Paco Paco, the last suburb
# Manila held by the Filipinos Tues
lay. This completes the American I
onquest of the city. The last rebel &
las left Cavite and Manila, the rest of I
he island of Luzon being in the hands ]
# the insurrectionist faction. c
Disastrous typhoons, sandstorms and g
loods have caused fearful loss of life /
nd property in the Orient. In the
istrict watered by the river Feng, in
apan, hundreds of villages have been +
wept away and 2,0OO people drowned. =
mother report says $50 towns are un- n
er water. Thousands of refugees are +
ocking to the cities. The Ishkarie 4
iyer also overfowed, drowning over T.
900 people. 4
Minor News Items.
The Kentucky court of appeals holds v
he separate coach law valid. c
Commodore w. P. McCann saws Cen "
-al BlancO ia the man who ord arad tho