The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-10-14
LATER NEWS.

destitution in Northern Cuba.
Thirty-six deaths and 47O cases of
yellow fever are reported in Mississippi
to date.
Cuban sugar planters refuse to resume
operations unless guaranteed proper
protection.
The Oregon and Washington recruits
who have been enoamped in San Fian-
cisco for some time are to be sent to
Manila.
All the furloughed soldiers of the
Washington battalion and battery A,
Oregon volunteers, have. reported for
duty, and will be mustered out.
The health of the United States
troops now in the province of Santiago
has considerably improved, not more
than 10 per cent now being on the sick
list.
An association, to be known as the
Lumber Manufacturers of the Pacific
Coast, has been formed, and has ad-
vanced the price of lumber from $3.50
to SO to $11 per thousand, cargo de-
livered.
PROPOSALS for the cession of Porto
Rico and Guam islands to the United
States and providing for the independ'
ence of Cuba will be discussed by the
peace commission in Paris at its next
session.
The American commissioners have
notified the Spanish authorities in
Havana that the United States will
assme entire control, military and gov
ernmental, of Cuba December 1. The
same control will be exercised in Porto
Rico October 18.
A meeting of importance, it is said,
will be held in few days in some
Havana province, of all the command
ers of the Cuban army. Gen. Maximo
Gomez will preside. The meeting will
have significance. as deciding the
future policy of the Cuban army on the
| island.
The great strike at Paris may be ex-
tended, and pressure is being put on
unions not affected to join in the move
ment. Forty thousand men are now
out. Violence has already been resort
| ed to in few cases to cause men still
| WOEkIuS W COIHO Oub. AIO CeASOso "a
Paris are taking on the appearance OF
a military camp. The soldiers sympa-
thize with the strikers.
The annual report of the commits
sioner of Indian affairs, William l..
Jones, shows a general advancement in
the condition of the nations wards. I"
Education, the GREATEST factor in solv-
ing the status of the Indians, is being
pushed forward in the service, and now
there are lat well-equipped boarding
schools and an equal number of day
schools engaged in the education OF 49,
957 pupils.
Kansas negro soldiers stationed at
Santiago will be allowed to vote in the
state election. ~
Colonel Tyson, with detachment OF
ITO men and 3s officers. has left Brook
lyn for San Juan de Porto Rico.
An attempt to compromise the Leech
lake trouble resulted in failure, as the
Indians refused to join in the confer
ence.
Secretary Day says the Paris negotia-
tions will soon be ended, and the peace
commission will finish it's work before
congress meets.
The yellow fever epidemic in Louisi-
ana is said to be of mild type, and
the state board of health has decided
to name it ."yellowoid."
Secretary Alger has sent an answe,
to the war investigating committee,
which, in the words of one of the COM
missioners, "does not answer"
| A Madrid dispatch says evacuation
will be rushed, and Spaniards will be
out of Porto Rico by next week, anc
out of Cuba by the end of November.
President Mckinley and party have
gone to Omaha, where they will bt
guests of the Mississippi exposi
tion and participate in the peace jubi
, lee.
Thomas Greenwald, a private in bat
terry I, OF the Seventh artillery, wa:
shot and instantly killed while trying
to escape from Fort Slocum, near New
Rochelle, N. Y.
The members of the United State
evacuation commission gave an elab
.. crate luncheon to the members OF tn
Spanish evacuation commission at tn
Hotel Trocha, Havana.
The French government is prepaIin
, for an emergency and has issued specia
: orders to the garrisons of numerou
: towns near the capital to send immedi
ately to Paris 500 infantry each.
News has been received of tie fine
ing of gold quartz at Skagway, goin
3 81 900 to the ton. Although the exae
: location is not made known, it is sal
, to be within very short distance {
8 the Gateway city.
4 A woman's love and mans insan
d jealousy caused murder in the Sevent
= immune regiment at Lexington, KY
9 and another man who acted as peac'
;. maker is at deaths door with a pist'
Q ball in his abdomen.
:. In the annual report of Surgeon
- General W. K Van Reypen, which
= the first of the navy bureau reports sui
= :. mitted for publication. the surgeon
:. general states that he began preparir
for war when the Maine was blown VI
There are 800 patients in the div
l. sion field hospital at the PresidiO, Sa
d Francisco.
II Colonel Charles Williams has bee
appointed chief quartermaster for Fl
n vana and other provinces of Cuba.
It Colonel W. j. Bryan has recover
9 from his attack of fever and will jo
his regiment at Jacksonville, Fla.
q The Second army corps will be shi
10 ped from Camp Meade to Annisto