The Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Or.) 1862-1899, 1898-10-21
LATER NEWS.

Inc lmmeQlato SCaDllSnmenG VI
fever hospital at Havana is urged by
surgeons in charge there.
The transport Pennsylvania arrived
at San Francisco from Manila and Hon
olulu, with 30 sick soldiers.
The war investigation hoard has left
Washington for the Southern army
camps on tour of inspection.
Naval Constructor Hobson expresses
himself as confident that the wrecked
Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon can be
saved.
The departure for camps of the South
of troops now in the East has been post.
poned, owing to the prevalence of vel.
low fever.
A cash balance in bank exceeding
100000 now stands to the credit OF
the Trans-Mississippi exposition. The
attendance is also increasing.
Illinois manufacturers have urged
President Mckinley to establish open
ports in the new American possessions.
The presidents reply was encouraging.
Insurgents at Lagaspi, Philippine
islands have refused to allow the Ameri-
can steamer Hermossa to land there, on
the ground that there were Spaniards
aboard.
Eight hundred soldiers have sailed
from San Francico for the Philippines.
The expedition included the Oregon
recruits and the Washington volun-
teers.
The United States is now formally In
possession of the island of Porto Rico
as a sovereign. American flags have
been raised on the public buildings and
forts in the city, and saluted with
national salutes.
Advices form the North say Ameri.
can doctors and American lawyers are
forbidden to practice In Dawson. In
the meantime the hospitals are crowd
ed with patients, and typhoid fever has
been epidemic. The discrimination
will cost many lives in the Klondike.
The o. R. & N. steamer, T. ]. Potter
ran into and sunk the 6. w. Shaver on
the lower Columbia. The accident
ACQUIRED off Deer Island, five miles
from Kalama. The Shaver was struck
in the middle and in a short time was
resting at the bottom of the river. The
night was dark and heavy fog pre-
vailed.
The Oregon legislature adjourned sine
dis Saturday.
A genuine blizzard visited the Middle
Western states, doing considerable
damage.
A Polish priest has sued the Catholic
church for $4,000 for excommunicat-
ing him.
It is said in London that the Frencl
must either withdraw from Fashoda OF
60 to war with England.
The German government has now
decided to appoint permanently a naval
attache at Washington, who will reach
his post in January.
The British ship Blengfelt, from New
York, burned off Margat, England,
early Monday morning. Eleven of the
crew, besides the captains wife and
children, persisted.
Seven barges, containing 100000
pools of naphtha have been burned at
the petroleum port Of Ast1akhan, Rus
sia. Three persons were killed in the
confagration, and several others in
jured.
The war department has received
detailed description of the fortifica-
tions of Havana. Besides old guns,
there are 43 new guns. These guns are
principally OF the Hontoria and Ordonez
pattern, but there are few Krupps
among them.
In head-end collision between two
freight rains near Great Falls, Mont.
due to misunderstanding of orders,
Engineer Charles Goddard and Brake
man Robert 7. June were killed, and
Fireman A. L. Ritchie was probably
fatally injured.
The government will undertake the
transportation of Christmas boxes for
soldiers at Manila. A steamer will
start from San Francisco early in No
vember. so packages must be forwarded
soon. Only small quantities of sweet
things will be accepted.
1t is announced that Montreal and
Quebec are to be thoroughly fortified
as part of the scheme for the defenses
of Canada. Colonel Dalton, chief of
the imperial defense commission, is in
Montreal, completing plans for the
Notifications of the cities.
A curious method of aiding charities
has been Initiated in Paris, where, it is
the saloons of the high
which have hitherto been
extremely exclusive, will be opened to
strangers, on reception days, for a
money consideration, which will be ap-
piled to the charitable works of which
the lady of the house is patron.
The French wheat crop is estimated
at 1873, 900, 900 hectoliters, the largest
since 1874.
Owing to the overproduction of yarn,
the ingram carpet splnners of the
Pennsylvania district have decided to
shut down their mills for an indefinite
period.
At white lake, near Forestport, N.
Y, deer hunter while stalking mis-
took moving object in the woods for
q deer and fired, killing instantly his
son.
Lady Gay, a noted dog owned by
Samuel B. Stannard, died at Mr.. STAN
nard's kennel in st. Louis. The collie
was valued at S., 200 and has taken
first prizes all over the country at
bench shows.
DR.. G. H. Wetmore has rendered his
as superintendent of the
state insane asylum at Topeka. KAN,
to Governor Leedy. Among other
charges the doctor accuses