Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-12-09
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NewSy Items Gathered fr0mAn
Paris of the World.
or INTEREST TO OUR READERS
General Review of Important Happen
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Eighteeentpersons were injured, some
OF them seriously, in New York fire.
The effect of prevailing bad times
throughout England will tend towards
lean Christmas
The Portland Minister'S association
is making strong effort to have tho
Lewis and Clark fair closed on Sum
days.
1t is asid the large shipment of beef
from Omaha for the Russian amy will
60 by way of the Puget sound instead
of Portland.
James M. Tyner, postmaster general
under President Grant and assistant
attorney general until forced to resign
under the recent postal fraud investiga-
ton, is dead.
A Santa Fe train was held up and
robbed between Ludlow and Dggett,
CAL, and the express messenger wound
ed. Drafts and money to the amount
of &c. 900 was secured.
Simon Lake, an inventor, is building
a submarine torpedo boat at Newport
News in which he expects to cross the
Atlantic. The new vessel is to be 83
feet long and proportionately large.
She will carry four topedo tubes.
The father of an Illinois football
victim is endeavoring to have a state
law passed prohibiting the game. He
has secured the promise of Legislator
to introduce such bill in the Indiana
legislature and hopes to succeed in
Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin as
we'll.
Experts find many ballots in Dem
yer precinct to be illegal.
Senator Bacon, of Georgia, favo1s
disfranchising all negroes.
Now that the capture of 2O3-Meter
hill at F o,t Arthur has been confirmed,
the Russians declare it to be an unim-
portant position.
The supervising architect will 1e-
commend appropriations of 500 900
and $50, 900 respectively for Federal
buildings at Oregon City and Baker
City.
Representative James A. Hemenway,
of Indiana, is sure OF Senator Fair
banks seat in the senate, ,s all the
other candidates for the place have
withdrawn
Russians at Port Arthur are engaged
in oil rhov 1f oh
would Seem to indicate that the REM
nant of the fleet intends to make an
other effort to escape.
The Russian supreme prize court up
holds the seizure of 5000 SACKS Of -four
on board the Portland and Asiatis line
steamer Araia, seized by the Vldivostok
squadron, July %.
The Russian supreme court in the
appeal of the German steamer Thea,
which was sunk off the Japanese coast
by the Vladivostok squadron, has de-
cided that the act was unjustifiable.
Bristow urges that the postage rate
on packages be reduced along rural
routes.
Denver ballot boxes have been open
ed and fewer votes found than were
given in the returns.
The merchant marine commission
will urge bill to give Panama busi-
ness to American shipowners.
The Russian press urges that the
Black sea and Baltic fleets be COM
bined. Great Britain would object.
General Rennenskampff is vigorously
pursuing the Japanese in Manchuria,
who are retreating. St. Petersburg is
fearful lest he fall into trap.
st. Petersburg has almost given up
hope for Port Arthur. The Russians
have made several unsuccessful at
tempts to retake 2O3 Meter hill.
Fire which is believed to have been
of incendiary origin, destroyed three
of the St. Louis fair buildings and
many valuable paintings. The loss is
placed at $75 900.
There has been tremendous rains
throughout Chile, such as have seldom
been equalled at this season of the
year. The crops have been damaged
fully so per cent.
Tafts mission to Panama will be a
success.
The Japanese expect the fall of Port
Arthur December IL.
Queen Alexandra, of England. has
just celebrated her Goth birthday.
Reports have reached the state de-
pa, tment of very unsettled state of
affairs in Venezuela.
The Northern Pacific and Great
Northern railroads are considering a
plan to electrify the roads through the