Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-02-10
news OF THE WEEK
In a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
A Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
The strike has spread to Transcau-

of the Past Week.
The strike has spread to Transcau-
sasia.
The reign of terror continues in
Poland.
Another Russian squadron is to sail
for the Far East in May.
German mine owners have rejected
overtures from the strikers.
Heavy rains in Southern California
have washed out railway tracks.
A agreement has been made for
parcels post and quick mail service |
with Britain and France.
All the smaller harbors of the New
England coast are frozen over and 9TH
ers are blocked with ice foes.
A storm of snow and sleet has swept
over the South, stopping communlca
ton and killing cattle and fruit. /
Soisalon Soininen, procurator general
of Finland, has been assassinated by an
unknown emissary of the terrorists.
Another great storm is raging in New
York state and cold weather is predict
ed for the entire section east OF the
Rocky mountains.
Henry B. Miller, consul general at
Niuchwang, China, will be promoted
to one of the best Oriental posts on ac-
count of his good work during the jap
anese-R Russian war.
An insurrection has broken out in
Argentine.
Taft recommends revision of the
Philippine tariff.
The weather has greatly moderated
in the middle states.
Atlantic coast ports are blocked with
ice and navigation is stopped.
The crews of the Russian Black sea
feet are on the verge of mutiny.
1t now seems certain that Smoot will
be able to retain his seat in the senate.
Fire in Birmingham, Alabama, de-
stroyed property worth not less than
100000.
The governor and a committee of
Massachusetts solons will visit the
Lewis and Clark fair.
Governor Mead, of Washington, has
broken ground for state building at
the Lewis and Clark fair.
Many Poles acre fleeing from Russia
into Germany. The entire working
population of Poland is on strike.
The terrible weather in Manchuria
has forced truce. AS soon as it mod
crates the Russians will be confronted
with the alternative of withdrawing in
order to avoid being intercepted by g
Japanese column or of undertaking 9
general advance.
General Grippenberg has been forced
to resign his command in Manchuris
and General Myloff will succeed him
One death and four cases of illness
in one Chicago family have beer
caused by supposed ptomaines il
canned goods.
So much money from the interior has
been pouring into the New York banks
that the clerks cannot count it as fas
as it arrives, and some banks have tt
rent outside vaults to store it.
The Japanese are reported to hav'
forced a breach in the Russian center
The dispatch has been received at St
Petersburg and papers have been re
fsed permission to mention it.
The Interstate Commerce commission
finds the Santa Fe road guilty of will
fully violating the law by granting tn
: Colorado Fuel & Iron company lowe
freight rates than other companies pay
Joseph Racicut, wealthy Califor
nian, who is said to have had $780,
on his person, went out into the coun
try near Sault Ste Marie, Mich,
few days ago, and has not returned
and is supposed to have been muir
dered.
News of riots in Russia is causin
disaffection in Kuropatkin's army.
The new Excelsior Roller mills a
Marysville, Kan, were destroyed b
fire. Loss $4,000
Professor 81. Cole, of Chicago, ha
discovered what is believed to be tn
largest spot on the sun. Itcovers one
tenth of the SUMS surface, is egg-shaped
and cah be seen through smoked glass
Fire in the Cramp shipbuilding plar
at Chester, Pa.,, destroyed valuabl
blueprints, models and charts, incluc
ing plans of the battleships Idaho an
Mississippi, and the cruiser Tennesse'
but work on these ships is not muc
delayed.
The New York chamber of commert
has asked the legislature to spen
100000 on the Lewis and Clark fair
The bursting of large water tank c