Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-06-30
news OF THE WEEK
In a Condensed FERN fer Our
Busy Readers.
A Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.

VICE royalty VI 1Huid.
Germany has assumed more peace
full tone toward France.
The Japanese are said to be engaged |
in great turning movement.
Generals Linievitch and Kuropatkin
appeatr anxiousto continue fighting.
A heavy gale in the outskirts of New
York wrecked several buildings under
construction.
A foreign diplomat at Washington
says Germany desires Russia to con-
tinue the Far Eastern war.
Secretary Taft says trial by jury in
the Philippines could not be wisely
adopted at the present time.
A Danish training schooner and a
British schooner collidedl near Copen-
hagen. The cadet ship sunk and car
ried % cadets with her.
The president has been informed
that M. Nelidoff, Russian ambassador
at Paris, and Baron Rosen, the newly
appointed ambassador at Washington,
will be two of Russia's peace plenipo-
tentiaries.
Reorts of strikes and demonstrations
against the government pour in from
all over Russia. Red flags fly from
barricades in the streets of Warsaw and
Cossacks and police charge the crowds,
killing and wounding.
War fever in Sweden may overturn
the present ministry.
Agitation has commenced for a sep
aration of Hungary from Austria.
Ex-Presldent Alexander, of the Equit-
able, has returned $25, ZOO to the com
pany.
Oyama's advance is making the Rus
sian positions untenable, and monhs of
labor will be lost.
The mining town of Ophir, near Au-
burn, California, has been entirely
wiped out by fire.
He will then investigate the business
methods of the various diplomatic posts
of the United States in Europe.
The illness of Count Lamsdorff, Rus
sia's miniser of foreign affairs, has
brought peace negotiations to stand
still.
Colombia is trying to sell the Cali
pagos islands to the United States.
Financial difficulties are given as the
reason.
The outbreak in LODI, Russia, has
spread to Warsaw, and other cities.
Hundreds of men, women, and children
have been xii ed The wounded will
number over 1000.
Assistant Secretary of State Loomis
has sailed for Europe. He will act as
special ambassador of the United States
and formally receive from the French
government the remains of Paul Jones.
President Roosevelt has small hope
of securing an armistice in time to stop
the general engagement now imminent.
The feeling aroused by King Oscars
proposition to recognize the independ-
ence of Norway is causing much uneas-
mess in the Swedish capital.
The latest reports from Oyama show
that he will soon have the entire Rus
sian army surrounded. Several small
engagements have proven victorious fol-
the Japanese.
Paul Morton, chairman of the Equit'
able Life Assurance society, is prepar
ing to make those who have acCumulat
ed millions from the society in few
years, disgorge.
Frances reply to Germany's Morocco
demands is unsatisfactory and negotia
tions are again deadlocked. A peace
full solution of the difficulty seems fur
ther off than before.
Castro has created several new Gus
tom house ports in Venezuela in orde
to dodge his creditors, who are to re
ceive 80 per cent of the receipts of tn
regular ports of entry.
The czar has abolished offices in th
Far Eastern territory.
The torpedo boat destroyer Perry, a
Portland, has established new recor
for fast time on the Columbia, havin
made IL miles in 16 minutes. This
at the rate of Al miles an hour.
Roosevelt will renew his efforts fo
an armistice.
The United States has been oficiall
notified of Norway's separation fro1
Sweden.
Oyama's army is enveloping th
Russians and they must retreat or
surrounded.
A Rio Grande train was wrecked mes
Pinto, Colorado. No one was killed
but 29 passengers received painful il
juries.
John Parmelee, of Chicago, left b
entire estate of $40O, 900 in trust fl
the purchase of fuel for the poor out
the income.
The wreck of the Twentieth Centul
Limited on the-Lake Shore road cost