Oregon union. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1897-1899, 1899-02-10
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Te1egraphic
News of the World.
TERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the Two Hemispheres Presented
in Condensed Form

in a Condensed Form.
Fine buildings covering half bloch
in the heart of the businesss portion o1
Columbu O., were destroyed by fire
The transports. Ohio and Senator
bearing the Twenty-second infantry te
the Philippines have sailed from San
Francisco.
The second battalion of the Seven.
teenth infantry are en- route to Manila
via New York. They sailed from that
port on the transport Sherman.
The largest combination of whisky
and distilling interests yet attempted
has been concluded in New York. un.
der the title of the Kentucky Distillers
& Warehouse Company.
Negotiations for the consolidation oil
the leading pottery interests have been
concluded in New York by the forma-
tion of the American pottery compa.
mics. with capitalization of $40. .000,.
600.
A snow slide occurred on the Cana
dian Pacific at Rogers Pass, in the Sell
kirk range. The railroad roundhouse
and other buildings were demolished.
Nine persons are known to have been
killed and two injured.
Conti acts have been let for the erec-
tion of large beet-sugar factory at
Amers. a small town west of Omaha,
on the Union Pacific. The men who
are furnishing the money to build the
factory are Boston capitalists.
The United States transport Grant.
which left New York January 10, hav-
ing ON board Major-General Lawton,
the Fourth infantry and q battalion of
the Seventeenth infantry. bound for
Manila, has arrived at Gibraltar.
Steamer Rhynland, from Liverpool.
for Philadelphia, went ashore four
miles north of Penwick's island life
saving station. A heavy snow-stor M
was prevailing at the time. There
were AZ passengers and a crew of 70 on
board, all of whom were rescued.
There has been no further general
fighting between the partisans of the
rival chieftains in the Samoan islands,
since the last advices except that a
party of Mataafa' q followers was routed
in the bush by Malietoans. 1t is ex-
pected, however, that fighting will be
resumed, as Mataafa is arresting per-
sons who have been already fined and
released. The work of piilage con-
tinues, among the houses looted being
Wilma, the home of the late Robert
Louis Stevenson, the novelist.
Iowa mineworkers are making an
effort to have eight hours declared q
days work.
Native troops are to be utilized in
Cuba and American soldiers gradually
withdrawn.
A syndicate composed of American.
Canadian, English and French. capital
lists, is making an effort to secure con-
troll of all the railroads in Cuba now
building and in operation, and all to
be constructed hereafter.
The bishop of Havana has declared
that Protestant services cannot be held
over the graves of the Maine victims in
Columbus cemetery, as it is copsecrated
ground. Americans were preparing to
decorate the graves on the anniversary
of the explosion.
The Central Cable Company an
nounces that the United States govern
ment in the Philippines has modified
the recent prohibition of telegrams in
cipher or code. Messages in secret lam
guage may now be accepted, subject to
government censorship.
The senate committee on naval
affairs has decided upon favorable re-
port on the bill providing for addi-
tional pay to laborers in navy-yards
who worked overtime during the emer-
gency of war with Spain. The amount
required is about 100000 and about
6. 900 men are involved.
General Otis cables the war depart
ment, giving the number of deaths in
his command since January 2. The
total is 10, many of whom died of
smallpox. The greater number of
deaths W ere of Kansas, Colorado, Cali
foTnia and Pennsylvania pTivates. In
the list appear the names of Allen E.
Carlyle, private, First Washington.
January 16. typhoid; Earld A. Jeans,
First Washington; January 26. ty-
phoid; Wistar Hawthorne, private,
Second Oregon, diphtheria.
Cuban General Gomez refuses to
disband his army unless paid nearly
$50. 600. 900. He claims to have 40, 900
men under arms. for which he asks
pay for three years. service, at the same
rate as given American soldiers. For
his own services in the past he wants
$l1. 900 a year. the same as paid an,
American lieutenant-general. He has
about 200 brigadier generals, who de-
mand pay at the rate of s.. 500 annually
for three years past, besides numerous
other officers. whose pay aggregates
So, 1888, 900.
Minor News Items.
The third regiment, infantry, has
left st, Paul for New York en- route to