Union gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1899-1900, 1899-02-17

Gen. Brooke cables from Havana an
bouncing the death of Captain Oliver
Perry Smith, commissary, from acute
nephritis.
Ben Graves, Alexander Clark and
Will Johnson, Collins 60 lnty farmers,
were frozen to death a urday night
near Dallas Tex.
The senate has passed bill creating
the office of admiral of the navy.
Rear-Admiral Dewey, it is understood,
will be named for the position.
On Monday an ocean liner in dis
tress was sighted off Dread ledge. in
Swampscott bay, Mass. The life-sav-
ing crew could not reach her On ac-
count of TIE ice.
The outbreak at Manila has enliven-
ed business at&sthe United States re-
cruiting Office in Portland. Nineteen
more men mustered out of the Eighth
California were enlisted last week.
The senate has confirmed the nomi-
nation of 9. J. Bell, assistant secre-
tary of the treasury. and that of Lieu
tenant Colonel F. M. Coke, to be as.
sistant paymaster-general OF the army.
The army and navy captured lilo Ilo,
the second city of impol tance in the
Philippines Saturday, without the
loss of an American soldier. The Pet
rel and Baltimore shelled the city,
which forced the insurgents to eYaou-
ate.
Otis wires the war department list
Of deaths in his command since Febru-
ary 4, not including those of men killed
in action. They number nine. Among
the names appear those of Private Dam
iel Kyger and W. Chopwood. First
Washington, and Michael P. Crowley,
Second Oregon.
Speaker Reed was not at the capitol
Monday, and sent word he thought 1t
advisable to adjourn ON account of the
storm. Less than a hundred mem ben Q
were present, and those who braved
the storm refused to adjourn, and went
on with consideration of the sundry
civil appropriation bill.
There is reported serious hitch in
the work of the Anglo-American COM
mission. The obstacle is said to be a
demand made by the Canadian COM
mission for the cession of the town Of
Skagway, Alaska. The American com.
missioners have definitely refused to
ceded that gateway to the Yukon.
Terrible billiards. swept over the
South, East and Middle West Sunday
and Monday. The winds went SO high
&ha IL
steamships were storm bound in, the
harbors. Nine big Atlantic liners due
at New York Saturday had not put in
their appearance Monday. Intense
cold accompanied the storm and much
suffering is reported. The cold wave
extends from the Atlantic to Western
Texas
The Spanish government has decided
not to sell the Caroline islands.
The secretary of war has given orders
for the mastering out of the Third regi-
ment of immunes, now stationed aa
Santiago and vicinity.
The Notifications appropriation bill,
as it will be recommended by tine com.
mittee. carries 81, 744.798 as against
estimates of $l2, 151, ,19s.
1t is said the administration will
uphold Chief Justice Chambers, at
Apia, in his selection of Malietoa Tan
us as king of the Samoan islands.
The secretary of war reports that
sickness in some of the American regi-
ments in the Philippines is high as IL
per cent, but the average is about 10
per cent.
The report of the war investigating
commission is in the hands of the pres
ident, and the commission is dissolved.
During the investigation 500 witnesses
were examined.
Many accounts of deaths from freez.
ing are reported from the East. At
Bloomington, Ind, J. w. Hinkle, who
has served several terms as sheriff, was
frozen to death while going to his
home. Near Dayto O., Martin Duffin-
ger suffered like fate while feeding
his hogs.
The Filipino junta at Hong Kong
has issued statement in which it is
claimed that the American soldiers
precipitated the recent battle at Ma
Mia, and that the bonn mbardment of the
towns of Malate, Paco, Santa Ana and
Malabon caused the slaughter of 4,000
women and children.
A contract has been let for two 49,
0OO-ton steamships for the Pacific Mail
steamship Co. They will be the laIg-
lst so far built at an American ship
yard, their dimensions being greater
than those of the American liners st.
Louis and st. Paul. They are to ply
between San Francisco and China.
The supreme military court, Of
Spain, which has had under considera-
ton the loss of the Spanish squadron
at Santiago de Cuba on July 8 last. has
decided to prosecute, in connection
with the disaster, Admiral Cervera and
Commandant Emilio Diaz de Moreu,
ex-cartain of the destroyed cruiser
Cristobal Colon.
Chinese rebels are raiding Christian
churches and driving out missionaries.
At Chang Yang and Liechuan the Ro-
man Catholic chapels have been burned
and the houses of the native church
members have been destroyed. Several
hundred children under the care of the
Roman Catholics, are said to have
been drowned by the raiders near
Kueifu.
A fatal head-end collision occurred
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