Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-08-05
WEEKS DOINGS
General Review of Important Happen
penigS Presented in a Brief and
Condensed Eorm.

Condensed Form.
Railway telegraphers on Texas roads
are on a strike.
The government statement for July
shows lagre deficit.
Large receipts of livestock are being
received and handled at the Chicago
stockyards.
Special efforts will be made at San
Francisco by the government in the
land fraud cases.
The battleship Ohio fell below the
required speed in the first trial trip in
Santa Barbara channel.
The New York Building Trades alli-
ance has caused work to cease on a
number of large buildings.
The Diamond Special'' on the Illi-
nois Central was held up near Chicago
by four maksed men who went through
the coaches and secured $4,000 in
booty and escaped.
Genreal Count Keller was killed by
Japaense shell July 29 while resist
ing the preliminary attack of General
Kuroki's army. He is the first high
Russian officer to be killed in the Man.
churian campaign.
A cloudburst in Nevdaa flooded sew
eral towns.
The assassin of Won Plehve still re-
fuses to talk.
Packres and strikres both claim VIC
tories at Chicago.
Relations between France and the
vatican have been broken off.
The Japanese are said to have made
great gains around Port Arthur.
Count Ignatieff will succeed to the
Russian ministry OF the interior.
The Sntaa Fe tracks were washed out
for IL miles by food in Arizona can
yon.
N. Y, trolley road were injured in
collision.
Clash between Russians and Japan
ese armies is soon expected. The Japs
have l2O, ZOO men and 100 guns and
the Russians 10000 men and 120
guns.
The steamer Arabia and her cargo
may yet be confscated. Much of the
-four aboard was unconsigned. The
Russian government has no official
notice of her release.
Packers say they can now afford to
ignore the strikers.
A rupture between France and the
vatican seems inevitable.
A Japanese cruiser and a gunboat
were lost off Port Arthur by striking
mines.
President Golden, of the packing
teamsters' union, has been arrested for
picketing.
Russia has filed protest with Great
Britain on shipping of contraband of
war to Japan.
Russia will assist the United States
mander islands.
Peace promotes from Iowa failed in
their effort to settle the Chicago strike
and have revurned home.
The Portland & Asiatic steamer Ara
bia has been released at Vladivostok.
All contraband cargo was removed.
The principal in the assassination of
Won Plehve was Little Russian, but
the instigators of the deed have not yet
been identified.
Leaders in the Benson Hy yde- -Dimond
land ring will probably escape punish
ment. United States Judge Lacombe
has declared the indictments invalid
as the crimes were against states and
not the government.
A general attack is believed to have
begun on Port Arthur.
A Spanish war veteran drew the first
homestead in the Rosebud agency in
South Dakota.
The question of payment for Port
land -four seized by Russian vessels
will probably go before prize court.
The steamer Korea, frcm San Fran
cisco, has lodged the Russian feet and
arrived safely at Toxic.
Other attempts at assassination are
expected in Russian official circles.
Russian officials had been warned of |
the plot by which Minister Won Plehve
was slain. The assassin, believed to
be a Finn, was perhaps fatally injured.
The German steamer Arabia, from
Portland with cargo of -four, has ar
rived in Vladivostok in charge of a
prize crew.
The state Departments note on the
seizure of the AIabia's cargo is couched
in courteous language and no rash de.
mands will be made.
Russia has intimated to Great Brit