Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-06-17
EVENTSOF THE DAY

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amt Happenings Of the Past Week.
Presented In Condensed Form, Most
likely to Prove Interesting.
Russia has called out more reserves.
Many deported union miners are ar
irving at Denver.
The Russian forces at Ping, south of
Niu Chwang have been forced to evacu-
ate.
Russia will not heed the protest of
Britain against declaring foodstuffs con-
traband.
An attempt has been made to kidnap
the Italian consul at Tangler, Morocco,
by bandits.
All.Russian warships at Port Arthur
are expected to be ready for service
within fortnight.
The tenth semiannual reunion of
Scottish Rite Masons of Oregon is in
session at Portland.
Congressman Metcalf, of California,
is slated to succeed Corte1you as seGe-
tary of commerce and labor.
The national heads of the Rathbone
Sisters and Pythian Sisters, at con-
terence, have prepared plan for the
consolidation OF the two orders.
A cloudburst on the tableland ada
cent to Sterling, Colorado, caused a
sheet of water 10 to 18 inches deep to
cover the lower portion of the town.
Much damage was done to growing
crops in that section.
The land Office at Oregon City may
be moved to Protland.
Abner Mckinley, brother of the late
President Mckinley, is dead.
The Colorado train robbers have
again eluded the posse and are further
into the hills.
The man who attempted to kill the
Spanish premier has been sent to pris-
on for II years.
The wife of Mayor Ballinger, of Seat
tie, has been warned of a plot against
her husbands life.
Ouluc5o q UdLtic war
fought June 9 within seven miles of
the inner forts of Port Arthur.
The Panama commissioners are sure
a currency system acceptable to the
United States will be adopted by Pana-
ma.
More union miners ale, being deport-
ed from Colorado and the work will be
kept up until all are taken out of the
state.
The Japanese are constructing rail-
road from Feng Wang Cheng to Shak
dedsi, 80 miles to the southeast, near
the mouth of the Yalu river.
Roosevelt desires Ambassador Choate
to succeed Knox as attorney general.
John W. Mimic has been appointed
postmaster at Portland, to take charge
July /.
Perdicaris, the American held by
Moroccan bandits, will soon be re-
leased.
The Japanese have dislodged Russian
forces in a number of towns along the
Lao Yang. %.
A waterspout in Oklahoma was the
cause of three deaths and washed away
many houses.
Kansas objects to being made the
dumping ground for the Objectionable
Colorado unionists.
Many union miners are being de-
ported from the Victor, Colorado,
mining district every day.
Cripple Greek alliance has decided
it will not try to break up the print
ers' union, fearing that the papers will
suspend.
Four hundred school children were
thrown in q mass at San Jose, CAL, by
the breaking down of q platform in q
theater. None were seriously injured.
The secretary of the Mineowners' as
sociation says the desire to make all
join the union and not the eight hour
day is the real issue in the Colorado
trouble.
Postmaster Bancroft, of Portland,
has resigned.
The American Medical association
will meet in Portland in 1905.
The alleged leader in the Victor,
Colorado, riots has been captured.
In battle between Colorado ranch
ers and train robbers one of the latter |
was killed.
Russia is not negotiating with Tur-
key for the passage of the Baltic feet
through the Dradanelles.
General Kuroki's movements are a |
puzzle to the Russians and they do not |
know what to expect next.
The mother of Lewis Etzel, the