Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-11-04
WEEKS DOINGS
General Review of important Happen.
penigs Presented in Brief and
Condensed Eorm.

General Review or ImpOrIdnI happen.
peniaS Presented in Brief and
Condensed Eorm.
The greatest battle of the war is at
hand near Mukden.
The Japanese are tightening the lines
around Port Arthur.
The Russian. ..warships at Vgo expect
to remain for two weeks.
China will allow no more contraband
to pass through her ports.
A Memphis, Tenn, building collaps-
ed, burying a number of persons.
ffThe jury in the Ames case has again
disagreed, and Minneapolis ex-mayor,
inditced for grating, is likely to go
free.
Rothschild has guaranteed the sue
cess of the entire loan of s27O.000, 900
to be floated by Russia the first of the
year.
Russian papers are warning the pub
lie not to be too sanguine of an entire
ly satisfactory settlement OF the trawler
affair.
The St. Louis fair has reduced the
balance due upon the United States
government loan of $4,60O,0O0 to
$191, 1851.
With both employers and employees
confident of victory, engineers in Illi-
nois coal mines have gone on strike
against a reduction in wages. Fifty
thousand men are affected.
Another great strike is threatened in
Italy.
John W. Gates has made $4,000, 900
in four months dealing in stocks.
Admiral Rojestvensky, commanding
the Baltic squadron, has resigned.
Charles Sweeney, of Spokane, may
build 81, 100000 hotel in Portland.
Japan wants an airship to use in ex-
ploding dynamite over Russian forts
and ships.
The work of rescuing the men en-
tombed in the Colorado coal mine is
proceeding slowly.
The aumiral commanding the Rus.
sian Baltic feet clings to his story that
he was attacked first.
The commission to fix the blame for
the North sea incident will be COM
posed of five members.
From October 9 to l8 the Russians
place their loss in killed and wounded
at 500 officers and 45 900 men.
Captains Joseph Kuhns and John F.
Morrison, American attaches with the
Second Japanese army, have been re-
called and ordered to Washington
A big forest fire is raging in the Blue
Ridge mountains in New Jersey. Over
1000 acres have been devastated.
Much fine timber has been destroyed.
Ex-Governor Nash, of Ohio, is dead.
Viceroy Alexieff has left fer st. Pet
ersburg.
The Japanese have taken several
more tol ts around Port Arthur.
Unimportant fighting continues south
of Mukden with the odds about even.
Wholesale frauds have been discover
ed in the Santo Domingo customs se1v-
ice.
The 1905 meeting of the transmits
sissippi congress will be held in Port
land.
General Stoessel has wired the car
good bye and says Port Arthur will be
his grave.
The cruiser Columbia is to be fitted
for sea at once to carry Secretary Taft
and party to Panama.
Germany is not looking for trouble |
and will take no part in the dispute
between Russia and Great Britain.
The Russian battleship SevastopSl,
at Port Arthur, has been damaged by
Japanese shells and two steamers sunk.
All danger of war between Russia
and Great Britain is over. The trouble
growing out of the Baltic fleet firing
upon the fishing vessels will be referred
to an international commission under
The Hague court.
The Japanese army in Manchuria
have resumed the offensive. The Rus
slams are reported to have lost a num-
Der of important positions.
The great New York subway has
been opened for traffic.
Chinese at Mukden expect severe +
fighting and are closing up their bust
ness affairs.
The skipper of Swedish steamer
declares that his vessel was chased
and fred upon by a Russian cruiser
previous to the Hull affair.
The Tribuna, a leading italian paper,
calls Rojestvensky lunatic, and adds
that if complete and prompt satisfac-
tion is not given, war will be inevita-