Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-09-30
WEEKS DOINGS
General Review of Important Happen
penigs Presented in a Brief and
Condensed E0rm.

Condensed Eorm.
Two more of the Billings, Mont.
Jail breakers have been captured.
Unofficial estimates by Japanese off,
GERS place the number of their sick and
wounded soldiers at 5000.
A Massachusetts, justice fined an at
tache of the British embassy and later
found he had exceeded his authority.
He has apologized.
United States custom officials at
oItland believe that nearly 20 per
cent of the Chinese population OF that
city are in this country illegally.
The Vancouver, B. c., police think
they have in custody the leader OF the
three men who held up the Canadian
Pacific train near Mission recently.
The Philippine islands will not be
able to exhibit at the Lewis and Clark
fair unless aid is given. Too heavy fan
expense at st. ouis is given as the
reason.
A passenger train on the st. Louis &
1EOu uOuutdlu wac oOAo'ASN
I25 miles from St. Louis and injured
35 persons, a number of whom are 80
badly nurt it is believed they will die.
Reports received from near Shang-
hal say that the Boxers are openly dis
tributing pamphlets couched in the
came language as those circulated be-
fore the rising of 1900. October II is
fixed as the date for the determination
of all foreigners.
The Chilean training ship General
Baguedana is at San Fancisco.
The Japanese are preparing for a
fanking movement against Kuropatkin.
Reports from Port Arthur claim that
there is plenty of coal fol- months yet.
Figures just published show Japan's
financial coalition to be in good shape.
Large numbers of japanese rein
forcements are being hurried to Muk-
den.
The Port Arthur feet is expected to
make another attempt sbortly to es-
cape.
Senator Hoar is very low and his son
says his death may be expected at any
moment.
Russia is likely to again yield to the
protest of America and remove cotton
from the contraband list.
The steamer Crusader, from Port
land, reported captured by Japanese,
has been released and proceeded to
Shanghai.
President Reyes is meeting with
much opposition in the Colombian sem
ate to the resumption of amicaple rela-
tions with the United State
The German navy is to be increased.
Russia will probably demand OF
Britain her intentions in Thibet.
Fire at the Bethleham, Pa, steel
works destroyed property valued at
$250,000.
A foreign cruiser was sighted 30
miles off Golden Gate, which may
prove to be the Russian vessel Korea.
The British steamer Crusader, from
Portland to Chinese ports with lum.
ber has been captured by Japanese
Cruisers.
General Orloff will be transferred
from the Manchurian army on &C
count of his blunder at Lao Yang, and
may even be retired.
Carrie Nation announces that she
Is about to begin another crusade at
Wichita, Kan, and asks the women
of that city to join her.
The Japanese have captured six
more forts at Port Arthur with loss
of 5000 men. One of the forts taken
guards the water supply of the garri.
son and city.
A Pennsylvania woman suffragist
advocates that all married women
should go on strike and refuse to cook
for their husbands until given the
right to vote.
A freight train struck wagon load
ed with dynamite near Cumberland,
w. Va. Two trainmen were killed
and nine persons injured.
Japanese forces, divided into four
armies, continue to advance on Muk-
den. st. Petersburg does not believe
KuropatkIn will stubbornly resist the
advance.
Admiral Dewey has just celebrated
the 50th anniversary of his entrance
into the navy.
Vesuvius is gradually becoming act
i've. Ashes and sparks of fire rise oc-
casjonlaly to height of 700 feet. The
eruption is the most spectacular in the
last ten years.
The Japanese are attacking Port
Arthur in a much fiercer manner than
ever before. Whole battalions are
killed by Russian mines. The squad
rons of Togo and Kamimura assist in
the assault.
The new Russian minister of the in