Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1899-01-20

liSn0u Dy the Onlteu StateS gOVoInmen
at Manila.
Commissary-G General Eagan has sent
to the war investigating commission {
revised statement in place of that orig
inally made in response to Miles
charges. He has omitted the objection.
able portions.
Austria's hesitancy in raising the
rank of her diplomatic mission to the
United States is due entirely to her de
sire not to give offense to Spain. In
formation to this effect is in the posses
sion of the state department.
West Point appointments are to be
made by the present congress. One
will be from the first Oregon. The list
will include eight cadets, all of whom
must enter West Point next June. Nc
further vacancies will be filled until
1900. when So cadets will be named
The present class will graduate Febru.
ary 10.
: Commodore Watson, now in COM
mand at the Mare island navy-yard.
has applied for the command of the
Dewey, when that officer shall have
ceased duty. Dewey will retire from
active service next Decem ber, provid.
ing the law be not amended in his in
terest.
French sentiment is once more being
worked up against the United States
On account of the Spanish war. Hos
tile newspaper criticism, which tenn
porarlly was shut down by the victor
les of Manila and Santiago, is now re-
assuring itself in consequence of the
difficulties which President McKin-
ley's vacillating policy has caused in
the Philippines.
The steamship City of Macon, from
Boston, brought into Savannah, Ga,
Captain Kennerly and the crew. nine
men all told, of the schooner Aloha, of
Bath, Me-, abandoned Saturday night,
$50 miles southeast of Georgetown
light, in sinking condition. The
Aloha left Fernandina week ago with
a cargo of phosphate rock, bound for
New York.
At Pana. ILL.,, the scene of the re-
cent labor trouble. Ike lngles shot and
killed Dave Evans, fellow-negro
miner, at the Springside mine. The
trouble arose over dividing their wages.
Frank Jones and James Palmer. nom
union white miners, were assaulted to-
day and seriously injured. Their as
sailants are unknown. Three COM
panies of militia, which have been do
ing guard duty for several months.
have been ordered home.
The first detachment of the Seven
York, en- route to the Philippines.
The entire military department. of
Santa Clara, Major General ]. G. Bates
commanding, is quiet. Twenty seven
thousand Spaniards still remain in the
vicinity Of Cienfuegos, but one trans
pected to arrive at an early date. 1t
is impossible, however, that the evacu-
alton will be completed much before
the middle of February.
Great fear is felt for the safety of
the naptha launch Paul Jones, hailing
from Louisville, which left the mouth
of the Mississippi river January 3 for
Pensacola, Fla. with a party of ladies
and gentlemen from Chicago and In
dianapolis on board. Nothing has been
heard there of the launch, and one of
the fastest tugs has left to make thor
ough search on the Gulf.
A train of empty cars on the Oregon
Short Line, while leaving Butte, ran
into an open switch near the city, and
crashed into a switch engine. Both
engines and some of the cars were
wrecked The crew of the train and
that of the switch engine all jumped.
Conductor Joseph Grant, of the freight,
was thrown under the wreck and
killed. Fireman Bowling was injured.
The rest escaped unhurt.
A Madrid dispatch says the govern
ment. on the reassem bling of the COR
ties, will Immediately ask La Reforma
for authority to sell the Marianne
(Ladrones), Caroline and the Pelea
islands, since Spain is powerless to
maintain sufficient force to defend
them. The government arrived at this
decision in consequence of advices from
GeneI al Rios that an army of 1000
men, a man-of-war and two gunboats
would be necessary for the purpose.
Official dispatches from lilo llo, is
land of Panay, indicate that the ma
ii yes are disposed to be friendly, al
though absolutely opposed to the land
ing of the United States forces without
order from Malolos, the seat of the So
called Filipino native government.
Some of the officials at Ilo Ilo are not
in accord with the revolutionary gov
ernment. but are willing to accept an
American protectorate, and will go to
state the case to Aginaldo if furnished
transportation by the Americans.
The Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don Times quotes from the Cologne
Gazette that "rumors as to the annex
alton of Vauva, one of the Friendly
islands. by Germany, are an invention
OF those who desire to stir up ill-feel-
ing between Germany and the United
States. He says, how ever, as the
Cologne Gazette was among the most
active originally spreading reports of
Germans intention to annex the Phil
ippines, its excessive Indignation in
the present instance is somewhat over
done.
A violent gale swept over the Eng
lish channel and the east coast of
Great Britain, doing immense damage.