The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-06-10
tP|TOAE OF THE DISPATCHES
Happenings Both at Home
and Abroad,
A WEEKS NEWS CONDENSED

Interesting Collection of Items From
Many Places Culled From the Press
Reports of the Current Week.
A Kingston, Jamaica, dispatch says
16 warships have been sent to reinforce
Cervera at Santiago.
A st. Petersburg dispatch says the
new Russian cruiser Sveitlana, 3,S2s
tons displacement, has been ordered to
the Pacific.
The movement against Porto Rico is
likely to be launched Immediately.
Schley's warships are to be left to dis
pose of the Santiago matter, while the
military forces will at once begin the
campaign of conquest at the island
further East.
Major General Merritt has been Or
dered to hasten the departure of the
Manila expedition. The administra-
tion intends to get the entire Philip
pines expedition under way at the
earliest practicable moment. Measures
have been taken to render Manila bay
impregnable.
The auxiliary cruiser st. Paul, Cap
tain Sigsbee commanding, has arrived
at New York. Sigsbee says he had
plenty of target practice off Santiago
and that Cerve1a is bottled up. While
cruising before Santiago he went in SO
close to the harbor that he was able to
make sketches of the Notifications,
which were sent to Washington.
Commodore Schley's official report
of the Santiago fight has been received
by the president. He says there is no
reasonable doubt that Cervera's feet is
inside the harbor, that his firing was
to lealn the strength of the enemy's
batteries, and was in that respect en-
tirely satisfactory. None of his vessels
were hit and no casualties occurred.
A special from Kingston reports that
5000 United States troops have land
ed near Punuta Cabrera, little to the
west of Santiago, where junction was
effected with General Calixto Garcia's
army of 5000 insurgents. 1t is added
that the landing was effected under
cover of the fire of SIMPSONS fleet.
With the troops were several heavy
guns.
Ambassador Hay called at the
foreign office in London, Monday. and
presented evidence that Spanish off,
cials are making Canada a base of ope-
rations, and protested against the con-
tinuance of this practice. The protest
is based on the fact that it would be
a breach of neutrality for Great Britain
to permit her territory to be used for
such hostile purposes. Hay also re-
Gently drew the attention of the foreign
office to the small expectations from
Great Britain of war munitions for
Spain.
Madrid newspapers maintain that
Cervera's feet is sailing in the direc-
tion of the Philippines.
The secretary of war has sent con.
gress request for appropriations
amounting to $53.879,359. These ap-
prorpriations will be used for the
equipment and maintenance until June
i, 1899. of the 125, ZOO volunteers re-
Gently called for by the president.
Santiago is to be invested by land
force. Government officials think
naval attack alone might not be effect
i've. Haste is essential, as the prospect
of the early approach of the cyclone
season makes Schley's stay in the open
sea perilous. Secretary Alger intimates
that the invasion of Porto Rico will
promptly follow the fall of Santiago.
The state department and the attor-
ney-general, by direction of the presi-
dent, are working hard in the prepara-
tion of form of government for Cuba
after the Spaniards are driven out. An
effort is being made to have a complete
plan for these operations ready to be
put into effect as soon as peace is de-
clared.
Loaded with wealth but deserted and
starving, John Rochel, once a we'll
known manufacturer Of Sioux City, Ia,
peIished last April on the trail between
Dawson and Dyea. Alaska. The news
of his death reached Sioux City in a
letter to his widow by Richard Hem
Erickson. from Seattle. He was aban- |
doned by his comrades and left to die. |
In the engagement at Santiago the
Spanish flagship Cristobal Colon was
struck twice by shells from the Massa- |
chusetts and the batteries were badly |
damaged by the firing of the cruiser |
New Orleans. Three hundred shots |
were fired by the Americans. No
American vessel was hit and no one on
Z llo chi no niI1ra1 Tho ,l,
was not heavy.
Chas. W. Post, who has just re-
turned from Hong Kong. says that pre-
vious to the battle of Manila, Admiral
Dewey had social passage at arms
with Prince Henry, a brother OF EN-
peror William of Germany. Prince
Henry sighted the United States at a
series of toasts rendered at a banquet,
and was made to apologize to the hero
,f Manila. The apology was written.
Minor News Items.
Maj. Henry 7. Stanton, the widely
Known Kentucky poet, died at
Frankfort.
J. G. Fickes, of Steubenville, O.. has
constructed boat propelled on the BIZ
cycle principle.
Mrs. Frances Hodgson Burnett, au-
hor of Little Lord Fauntleroy"
md other novels, has been granted a
livorce from DR.. Swain M. Burnett,
With permission to use her maiden
lame, Hodgson.
Count Castellane, who married Anna
Sould, was a successful candidate in
he parliamentary elections at Paris,
rance.
Walter G. Sanger. one of the lead
ng bicyclists of the world, has made