The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-09-16
EP|TQME Of THE DISPATCHES
Happenings Both at Home
and Abroad.
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED
Interesting Collection Of Items Froa
Many Places Cui1ed From the Press
Reports of the Current Week.

The naval station at Newport, R. l.,
is to be discontinued.
Fifty Spanish prisoners captured at
the naval battle July 8. off Santiago,
have sailed from Jersey City on the
steamer City of Rome for home. The
men had been held prisoners at Nor
folk, Va.
Illinois has secured the commander
in-chief of the g. A. R., in Colonel
James A. Sexton, of Chicago; and
Pennsylvania has secured the location
of SD annual encampment at Phila-
delphia next year.
A dispatch from Manila says: The
attitude of the Philippine insurgent
leaders is daily becoming more danger
Gus. So open is their opposition to the
American authorities that the situation
is strained and reconciliation may be
difficult.
Texarkana, Ark, is overrrun with
idle negroes, who are said to have come
from the Northern districts of Texas,
whence5 they were driven by white
caps, who are alleged to have made
several murderous attacks on the
negroes.
At the Washington state convention
held at Ellensburg, Wash, the Demo-
Gratis renominated James Hamilton
Lewis for congress by acclamation,
and the silver Republican convention
Ienominated Congressman w. G. Jones
by acclamation.
It is officially announced that Senator
George Gray, of Delaware. has been
selected as the fifth member of the
Paris peace commission. This COM
pletes the personnel of the commission,
which stands composed as follows: Ex-
Secretary of State Day, Senators Frye
and Gray and Whitelaw Reid.
Two million dollars. for the purchase
of the Center Star mine, in Rossland,
B. c., has been deposited with the
cashier of the State Savings bank. In
Butte, Mont. The purchasers are an
English syndicate, of which Sir Charles
Ross, now In New York, Is the head.
The stockholders who sell out are prin.
:ipally Butte people.
A dispatch to the New York Herald
from Ponce, Porto Rico. says that ILL
ness among the United States troops is
increasing. There are now more than
25 per cent of the men unfit for duty
within radius of few miles of Ponce.
There are 900 soldiers in the hos
pitfalls. In some commands there are
80 per cent of the men down with fever,
principally typhoid.
Thomas Fl. Wheeler. son of General
Joseph Wheeler, and Second Lieuten-
ant Newton d. kirkpatrick, First cav.
airy, were drowned while bathing near
the camp at Montauk Point.
Hawaiian advices announce the death
of Sergeant Ormond Fletcher, of the
Second Oregon volunteer engineer
corps. He was formerly county sur.
veyor of Multnomah county, Oregon.
A cable from Hong Kong announces
that a committee of three Filippinos.
appointed by Aguinaldo, has left Hong
Kong to confer with President McKin-
ley upon the future of the Philippines.
Several salmon. averaging % pounds
in weight, have recently been caught
in the Sacramento liver. From the
fact that the adipose fin had been re-
moved from each they were identified
as marked fish liberated from the hatch
elies on the Clackamas river, in Ore
gon, In 1897.
The president of the Cretan executive
committee has notified the foreign ad-
mirals that in view of the massacre at
Gambia it is impossible to continue the
effort to organize the administration
until the Turkish functionaries and
troops are withdrawn. He demands
the convocation of the Cretan assembly,
and proposes to place a force of Cretans
at the disposal of the international ad-
ministration.
Joseph Chamberlain says an Anglo
German understanding has been per-
fected, and treaty has been signed.
England is to support the Kaiser's pre-
tensions in Egypt. Chamberlain also
gave it out officially that England
favors American retention of the Phil
ippines. One thing the Continental
powers most fear Is that the United
States and Great Britain may enter
into an international understanding.
A report is published in London of
daring plot to assassinats.kthe czar at
conspirators was to allow gas to escape
into house on the route of the czar's
procession until the atmosphere in every
room was saturated. One of their
number was to remain in the house
and strike light when the czar was
passing in the expectation that the
house would be blown to pieces and
the czar killed. The conspirator
would perish himself as sacrifice to
the cause. The explosion was mis-
timed and staff officer and his wife
were killed, together with the conspir-
ator. Thirty people were injured.
Minor News Items.
When the trans-Siberian railroad
is completed it will be easy for per-
son to go from London to Japan in 13
days.
At meeting of the executive COM
mittee of Tammany Hall it was de-
cided not to recognize the new state
election law.
The amount of gold coin in actual
circulation in the world is estimated
by the Bank of England officials to be
about 865 tons.
The emperor of Austria will have
reigned so years on December 3.
Admiral Dewey and Captain Sigsbee-
are among recently-elected members OF
the New York Yacht club.
The bicycle craze has decreased the
consumption of cigars in America by
about 100000 day. The decrease
since the craze set in has actually been