Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-05-26
news OF THE WEEK
In a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.

DUVy hVoAVAV Vs
A Resume of the Less important but
Not Less Interesting Events
Of the Past Week.
The Servian cabinet has resigned.
The bank at Goldfeld, Nevada, has
failed.
Efforts to settle the Chicago strike
have been renewed.
The German empress fell down stairs
and sustained severe injuries.
Minister Russell is coming home to
testify in the Bowen-Loomis dispute.
The fraternal temple at the Lewis
and Clark fair has been formally dedi-
Gated.
The Machen-Lorenz-C Crawford post
Office fraud case is on trial in WASH
ington.
The st. Paul railroad is to reach the
coast by connection with the Oregon
Short Line.
The Hague arbitration tribunal has
decided that Japan cannot tax foreign
concessions.
A number of colliers accompanying
the Russian feet caught fire and will
be total losses.
A number of St. Louis fair exhibitors
have asked for hearing, holding that
the awards were unfair. A.,
The president will call an extra ses-
sion of congress in October to act on
the railroad rate question.
The divided Russian feet will meet
at the Babuyan islands, north of Luzon,
and proceed to Vladivostok.
The Presbyterian general assembly
has decided on union, but the Cumber-
land Presbyterians have not yet
reached decision.
General Chaffee will make tour of
the army posts in Alaska.
The Venezuelan supreme court has
cancelled the asphalt concession.
The president has been asked to make
q national Investigation of life insurance
companies.
The Goulds will extend the Western
Pacific road from Winnemucca, Nevada,
to Portland.
Rojestvensky has left his slow ships
in French port and will make dash
with the fast ones.
Tie body of John Paul Jones will be
brought to this country from France
with an escort of three warships.
Negotiations to end the Chicago
teamsters' strike have again failed and
it is believed the strike will be extend.
ed.
Speaker Cannon says supplies and
materil for the building of the Panama
canal will be purchased in the United
States.
Judge Holt, of the United States
court, has ordered that John A. Benson
be tried in Washington for defrauding
the government of land.
The United States government has as
yet taken no definite action towards ir.
rigating tract of 55, 900 acres in the
Yakima valley and the state may pro
ceed under the Carey act.
Anew commander has been sent tt
Vladivostok.
Both armies in Manchuria are ready
for another great battle.
Chicago teamsters are seeking way
out of the strike, acknowledging theil
defeat.
Pala, the. outlaw Moro chief, hal
been killed by the. troops under Gene
raj Wood.
The fourth division Of Rojestvensky'
squadron will sail for the Far Eas
June IA.
Henry E. McGinn, of Portland, will
likely be appointed ags Judge Belling
er's successor.
Taft's position on buying canal sup
plies has split the cabinet and may re
suit in tariff revision.
Rojestvensky is said to have asket
st. Petersburg to be relieved from com
mand of the Russian fleet on accoun
of sickness.
OF the land to be reclaimed in Kla
math basin, lac, 400 acres is in Oregol
and 80, 900 acres in California. Worl
will begin on the Oregon side.
A number of papers relating to tn
Bowen-Loomis case, sent 5sto Secretar,
Hay by the minister to Venezuela
have been lost. Mr.. Loomis has charg
of the documents as acting secretary o
state.
A Japanese steamer has been sunk a
Port Arthur by coming in contact will
a floating mine.
General Nogi and his army is max
ing a forced march to reach Tsitsihar