Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-05-27
EVENTSOF THE DAY
comprehensive Review of the Import.
ant Happenings of the Past Week,
Presented In Condensed Form, Most
likely to Prove Interesting.

The Russians are preparing to retreat
into Lao Yang.
Secretary Moody is ill. His all
ment is not serious.
. The range war in Eastern Oregon has
broken out afresh.
The warships Oregon and Alexander
have arrived at Hong Kong.
Fire at Newport, Arkansas, destroyed
100000 worth of property.
The vladivostok squadron is said to
have captured three japanese cruisers.
Both Russia and Japan have agents
busy trying to purchase steam trans-
ports.
Cholera is said to have broken out
among the Japanese troops and there is
an average of 100 deaths daily.
Two thousand pounds of opium,
worth $50, 900, have been seized by
United States secret officers at Seattle.
One arrest has been made and others
will follow.
A third army is being modified by
the Japanese. A change in the Jap
anese plan, arising from the naval dis
asters, involves the utilizing of the
second army for the reduction of Port
Arthur and therefore the first army is
entrenching at Feng Wang Cheng.
A plot to wreck train on which the
czar was travelling was nearly success
full.
The internal revenue receipts for
April were $577, ,749 less than for April.
1908.
The government will send only the
best of its exhibit at St. Louis to the
1905 fail.
seattle's mayor is receiving numer-
GUS threatening letters on account of
having closed down gambling.
The Russians are reported to have
blown up the cruiser Bogatyr to pre-
vent capture by the Japanese.
Estimates of the damage caused by
the flood in the Cache la Poudre valley,
Colorado, run from 81 ,000, 900 up.
Several thousand bacilli taken from
plague sufferers in India have been lost
somewhere between St. Paul and Chi
cago.
France has ordered her ambassador
to the vatican to take a vacation as a
protest against the note regarding the
visit of President Loubet.
A daily newspaper is to be published
on the steamers of the Cunard line.
Telegraph service will oe furnished by
the wireless system and news will be
received from both sides of the At
Iantic.
The National Editorial association
will visit Portland during the 1905
fair.
The Russians have forced the Japan
ese army to retreat to Feng Wang
Cheng.
The British steamer Turret Bay went
on the rocks off the Cape Breton coast.
The vessel was lost with Is of the
crew.
Governor Chamberlain has offered
$4,000 for the capture of the murderer
of Creed Conn, in Lake county, Oregon,
and $500 apiece for sheep slaughterers.
The Russian fleet at Port Arthur
will 90 out and take the offensive as
soon as the cripples are ready. Only
one vessel is now holding them back.
The Japanese are preparing to storm
Port Arthur, the waters becoming too
dangerous for the feet on account of
the floating mines turned loose by the
Russians.
England has sent warship to Mo-
rocco to compel that government to
take immediate steps to capture the
bandits who hold a British subject for
ransom. An Am erican vessel will also
De sent.
An imperial ed'ct has been issued by
Corea still further involving it with
the Russian government and obliterat-
ing all semblance of neutrality. Co.
rcan steamships are aiding in the land
ing of Japanese.
Two thousand Russians were killed
or wounded in an engagement at Hsien
Yen Cheng.
The cruiser Tacoma has left Homo
lulu in search of an unknown island
between there and Panama.
Russians attribute the Japanese
naval disaster as divine interference,
and believe the tide has turned.
Bandits in Morocco have seized a
rich American and his stepson and
will hold them for a heavy ransom
The Corean govelnm has an
nulled all treaties and agreements with
Russia. This is practically a declara-
tion of war. II is feared China will
follow.
Admiral Togo reports that 651 men
went down with the two warships sunk
bv Russian Mines