The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-05-06
EP|TOME OF THE DISPATCHES
Happenings Both at Home
and Abroad.
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Interesting Collection of Items From
Many Places Cu1led From the Press
Reports of the Current Week.

Many Places Cu1led From the Press
Reports of the Current Week.
The senate has adopted the confer
ence report on the naval appropriation
bill.
The harbor defense plans of San
Francisco are said to be i'll the hands of
the Spanish.
A New York Journal dispatch says
the government is preparing to seize
several small islands in the South At
lantc as bases of supplies.
Blanco, in his report of the Matanzas
bonn bardment says the French and
English cOnsuls have entered protests
on the ground that no previous notice
was given.
1t is announced that extraordinary
naval and military activity is displayed
throughout France. All the ships re-
Gently modified are kept in fighting
trim. The reserves expect to be called
out.
1t was officially announced at Madrid
that the f0rtificatIons of MatanZas have
not suffered, in spite OF 800 shells fired
by the American feet, and that not one
man was killed or wounded thereby.
The stories OF the bonn bardment received
from the United States are received
with shouts of derision.
Spanish mail has been ordered confis-
Gated by the postoffice department. In
the first batch received at the dead let
ter office, the discovery of numerous
contra band letters, some of which are of
great importance to the naval and mil
taly authorities, has demonstrated that
the order is not only justified, but a
wise precaution.
A proclamation has been issued, by
the autOnOmist government ut Havana.
Spanish adherents in Cuba are urged to
resist the American invasion. The
war is classed as an unholy one. The
American campaign is denounced as
being one of aggression and the Unite ]
States government is accused of sailing
under palpaby false colols.
News has reached San Francisco of a
terrible explosion of powder that was
being carried by pack train to Colonel
Dan Burns Candelaria mine in Mexico.
The pack train was unusually large. 1t
consisted of over 110 mules and the
attendants numbered some 10 MeXicans.
A part of the freight consisted of am
munition, caps and boxes of powder. 1t
is said that 21S boxes of powder and
10000 caps exploded with su,h force
that I5 men and 60 mules were killed.
Lead and sugar are advancing rapidly
in London owing TO the war.
Secretary Alger has submitted esti-
mates of $34 900, 900 to cover addition.
al army expenses to July ]. This will
be included in the general deficiency
bill.
The committee on military affairs
has favOrably reported the adm,nistra.
tion bill suspending important laws
governing the quartermaster' depart.
ment in the army.
The emergency war measure was
passed in the house on the 2Sth by
unanimous consent. 1t repeais the
limitations upon the purchase of quar-
termaster's supplies during the existing
war with Spain.
Minister Clayton communicated to
the foreign department of the govern
ment at Mexico the resolution of the
American congress declaring war with
Spain. Minister Mariscal, of the for
eign department, replied, assuring the
American minister on the authority OF
President Daz, that Mexico will main.
tain the strictest neutrality.
Oriental advices received by steamer
in Vancouver, B. c., tell of shocking
massacre which occurred near Taipoh,
China, at the house of one Yang Kin.
shang. A party OF over 20 robbers
entered the house and murdered Yang,
his wife, his mother and children and
servants, l5 persons in all, who resist
ed them in their attempt to loot the
house and attack the daughters. When
the raiders had butchered all the in
mates they set the house on fire.
The large packing houses Of the At
lantic Powder Company, near Dover
n. J., containing high explosives fol
the United States government were
blown up and two men are known t(
have been killed. Several are missing
and a number were injured. The ex
plosion is believed to have been the
work of Spanish spies. Suspicion:
characters had been seen around tht
buildings for several days.
The large Spanish steamer Guido
bound from Corunna for Havana with
large cargo OF provisions and money
for the Spanish troops, was captured by
the United States monitor Terror. The
capture took place 10 miles off Car
denas, after a desperate chase, during
which the monitor Terror and the gun
boat Machias fired several shots, almos
blowing the Spaniard's pilot house into
the water. One man in the pilot house
was seriously injured. 1t is estimated
that with her cargo she is worth nearly
$780, 900.
Minor News Items.
A newly discovered spot on the SUI
visible now, is said to be 80, 900 mile:
in diameter.
The sale of salt is a government mo
nopoly in China, viii III yields yearly
revenue of $l1, 900, 900.
Jews have become farmers in Maine
in such numbers as to be recognized al
a factor in trading.
Ihe contributions to the james Rus
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