Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-07-01

Presented IN CONDENSED FOfms moSS
Likely to Prove Interesting.
Perdicaris says the brigand Raisuli
iR posing as patriot.
London papers praise Admiral Togo
for his latest victory off Port Arthur.
Russians are said to have been de-
feated in decisive battle at Tashichao.
Count Tolstoi inveighs against the
present war and holds the czar up to
ridicule.
The body of another woman has come
to the surface from the General Slocum
disaster.
I. H. Amos, of Portland, is q posi-,
BILE candidate for president on the Pro-
hibition ticket.
Heat prostrations have been numer-
GUS the past few days in New York and
Washington.
John Alexander Dowie has returned
to the United States.
Hartman is said to be about to Sc
cure control of the Santa Fe system.
The American Federation of Labor
has entered into the Colorado miners
strike.
Russia has redoubled her efforts to
get the Baltic squadron in shape to sail
for the Far East.
The Kansas wheat harvest will be
delayed many days on account OF the
recent heavy rains.
What is thought to be final report
on the General Slocum disaster shows
that l ,O31 lives were lost.
Eleven persons were seriously injured
and many more slightly in a collision
of two street cars at Chicago.
A call has been issued for a meeting
of the Trans Mississippi Commercial
congress at St. Louis September 1O-l7.
Chinese bandits are helping the jap
anese by giving movements of troops,
attacking outposts, and blowing up
bridges.
Fire, supposed to be of incendiary
origin, destroyed $500 900 worth of
property in the lumber district of
Cleveland.
Generals Oku and Kuroki are be-
lieved to have joined their forces.
A decisive battle between the main
armies of Russia and Japan is expected
shortly.
France will send warship to Hayti
to enforce redress for the attack on
her minister.
A boiler valve on the United States
torpedo boat Blddle blew out seriously
burning two men.
Perdioaris and Varley have been re-
leased by the Moroccan bandit and
have returned to Tangier. The former
has aged graetly from the hardships
suffered while captive.
Fire destroyed the Hoo-Hoo house at
the St. Louis fair and for a time en-
dangered the Oregon, Texas and Ger
man buildings. The loss is placed at
100000 and insurance of 10000 car
ried.
Five more bodies have been recov-
cred from the General Slocum wreck,
making a total of 9l2, of which S24
have been identified. 1t is believed
the casualties will reach 1000. More
than 500, 900 has been subscribed to
the relief fund.
The president has announced the fol-
lowing cabinet appointments: Will
liam H. Moody, of Massachusetts,, at
torney general; Paul Morton, of Illi-
nois, secretary of the navy; Victor H.
Metcalf, of California, secretary of
commerce and labor.
Thirty persons were killed and many
injured in train wreck in Spain.
H. E. Huntington has resigned as
vice president of the Southern Pacific.
Perdicaris and Varney are believed
to have been liberated by the Moroccan
bandit.
The hull of the ill-fated steamer
General Slocum has been raised but no
bodies found.
Palace guards at Port au Prince,
Hayti, threw stones at the French and
0crmAn ministers.
A packing company has completed
arrangements for placing a 100000
plant in Portland.
Russians attacked Japanese so miles
from Feng Wang Cheng and were re-
pulsed With considerable loss.
The national 'O5 board has decided
on five buildings at the Lewis and
CLARK exposition with an immense floor
space.
The Citizens alliance of Cripple
Greek has ordered 5000 buttons for
coat lapels bearing the inscription
''They can't come back"
The total number of known dead in
the General Slocum disaster is now 9O7.
Conditions at Port Arthur remain