The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-07-15
LATER NEWS.

| report to the department tuesday say
ing that he had the city surrounded
completely. and that Toral was then
considering proposition for surrender
ing. A flag of truce was again up at
the time he sent the dispatch. Only
four casualties were reported to have
occurred in Mondays fight. There is
terrible suffering among the refugees
from the doomed city despite Shafter's s
efforts.
The town of Antelope, Or, has been
almost totally destroyed by fire.
A great military hospital under tents
is to be established at Fort Monroe.
Still another cabinet crisis is report
ed in Spain. All the ministers have
rendered their designations, and Sagas-
ia is to form new cabinet.
frances new minister, M. de L.
Case, has notified the Spanish ambas-
sador at Paris, Senior Leon Castillo, that
the French government is ready to ten
der the good offices of the French am
bassador at Washington in opening
negotiations for peace if the Madrid
government will permit it to do SO.
Ambassadors at Madrid have ex-
pressed desire that negotiations for
peace be opened at once. The senti-
ment in favor of peace is said to be
gaining in strength throughout Spain.
| The Madrid government favors the
movement If 1t implies only the loss Of
Cuba. No peace overtures have been
received at Washington.
A dispatch from Nicaragua says Ze-
| laya's government has released several
hundred political prisoners. A coali-
tion is being planned and representa-
tives of Salvador, Honduras and Nicar-
aqua have held a meeting with the
purpose of forming union to succeed
the greater republic of Central Ameri-
ca. which is thought to be upon the
eve of dissolution.
The movement Of the American army
on Porto Rico may be said to have be-
| gun. The continued forwarding Of
additional troops to Santiago, when it
Is recognized that Shafter has as large
an army as he needs to take that town,
Is in reality the laying of the founda-
| tion Of the Porto Rican expeditionary
force. An effort will be made to avoid
the mistakes of the Santiago campaign.
The expedition to go against Porto Rico
will consist of between 5000 and S0,-
900 men.
Captain Rowell, second officer, was
killed during the bonn bardment of San
tiago, Sunday.
| Major General Otis is authority for
the statement that the regiment to be
stationed at Honolulu has not yet been
selected.
William Jennings Bryan's regiment
of Nebraska infantry has been ordered
to join General Fitzhugh Lees corps at
Jacksonville.
The war department has instituted a
system of bulletins for the benefit of
the public, giving quick and concise in
formation of important happenings.
The attorney-generalo of Great Britain
has ruled that in evicting the Spanish
spies from Canada the Canadian gov
ernment is not liable to be sued for
| damages.
1t Is reported from London that the
Spanish government is preparing to send
additional troops to Porto Rico by the
fastest steamers available.
A force of 200 men is to be kept
oontantly in our Southern coast to serve
as re-enforcements for our troops in
Cuba If needed.
A hospital train bearing the wounded
| 70 Fort MnDhnrcny, in nd
| collision six miles south of High
Springs, Fla. No one was hurt, but a
private car was demolished.
The refugees from Santiago are be-
coming serious military problem to
General Shafter. The most intelli-
gent of the refugees say that only few
Spanish soldiers have recently entered
Santiago-not more than 1000. They
report friction between General Toral
and General Linares.
General Shafter has sent a revised
and corrected report of the casualties
bseBe Santiago July 1, 2 and 8. 1t
| slightly increases the number killed
and wounded, as given in the first re-
port, and is as follows: Killed, %
officers, 208 men; wounded, 80 officers,
1,023 men; missing, 81; total, 1886.
General Shafter is of the opinion that
the number of missing will be reduced
somewhat
All the warships of Camara's fleet
sailed from Port Said for Spain, Mon
day. The Spanish admiral was al
lowed to transship 600 tons of coal from
San Augstine In the harbor. on furnish
ing written guar that the Pelayo
needed it, and that the entire squadron
was returning to Spain direct The
Spanish tordedo-boat destroyers sailed
from Messina, Sicily, for home the
same day.
The Brooklyn, Indiana and Texas,
under Commodore Schley, bombarded
the city of Santiago at $40 O'Clock
Sunday afternoon In obedience to re-
quest from General Shafter conveyed
by signal from shore. The warships
lined up from the east to west, quar-
ter of a mile from shore, and fired over
the limestone cliffs that come down to
the sea and hide the city, five miles dis.
tant. The bombardment; continued one
hour.
Chief Inspector Marshall, known as
the Sherlock Holmes of the English
police, has retired from Scotland Yard
after 38 years. distinguished service.
While driving to Dallas, Tex, to ap.
pear as witness before the federal
grand jury, James Morrison, farmer
of Ferris, was struck dead by lightning.
At the commencement of the Bloom
| ingonfield academy, the national school