Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-05-05
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.

Japan again complains that France
favors Russia.
Japan is seeking to strengthen the
British alliance.
No lotteries will be allowed to oper-
ate in the canal zone.
May l was the twenty-ffth ami
versary of the prohibitory law in Kan
sas.
Another Japanese loan has been
hoated. The bonds were taken eagerly
at a premium.
British papers insist that the guns on
q large percentage of the war vessels
are worthless.
The president will 60 to the bottom
of the scandal involving Assistant
Secretary of State Loomis.
Fire did $780, 900 damage to the
Household Sewing Machine company
plant at Providence, R. I.
The New York police are taking a
census of Chinese in connection with
their crusade on Chinese vice.
The present week is expected to see
nearly $4,000 laborers of different
trades 90 on strike in New York.
President Roosevelt will confer with
cabinet officers at Chicago on the Far
Eastern war and the Chicago strike.
The Russian fleet is off the coast of
Indo-C China. Togo's whereabouts is
absolutely unknown to any but the
Japanese government.
Many strikers are being killed in Po-
land by troops.
A Santa Clara, California, aeroplane
has made very successful flight.
The treasurer of Athens county,
Ohio, is $71 900 short in his accounts.
The president has had slight attack
of malaria and rested in camp for a
day.
Paderewski is suffering from nervous
prostration and has cancelled his Ros-
ton dates.
Government rate regulation is de-
clared by railroad men to be injurious
to the West.
The Interstate Commerce commission
has sued 18 railroads for discrimina-
tion.in beef rates.
The epidemic of cerebro-spinal men
ingitis in New York has abated with
the coming of warm weather.
Twelve leaders of the Chicago strike
have been arrested. Riots and other
disturbances continue. One death has
been reported.
Minister Bowen, of Panama, who has
been called home in regard to the
charges against Loomis, will be given
the choice of proving his assertions and
receiving promotion or failing and be-
ing discharged from government service
Great Britain will build the worlds
greatest battleship.
Linievitch condemns Kuropatkin' e
retreat from Mukden. ~
The Russian feet is seeking to elude
Togo and reach Vladivostok.
Russia is now planning canal te
connect the Baltic and Black seas.
Minister Bowen has been ordered
home to explain the Loomis charges.
The New York police have forbidden
Summing parties to visit Chinatown il
automobiles.
The Russian government has los
control of the Caucasus and lawlessnes
is supreme.
Fire is still raging in the Picton min'
of the Colorado Fuel and Iron compan,
and it will have to be flooded.
/. Poland peasants have served notic'
on the authorities that they intend t.
seize the land and divide it anon,
themselves.
The state portage railway commission
says the portage road between Th
Dalles and Cello will be ready TO
business May 15.
Fitzhugh Lee, veteran of the Confed
crate army, and of the Spanish war, i
dead. The end came very suddenly
he being stricken by apoplexy.
Japan awaits naval battle in conf
dence.
Carnegie has given $40, 200, 900
pension retired professors.
A witness has testified in the Ma
Patterson trial that Young shot him
self.
.ohn Barrett is to be minister to CO
lombia when his Panama Office is abo
ished.
Russia will let contracs to all shiI
building yards in America for the COZ
struction of warships.
AL Russia is in panic as result {
threats of dynamiters to begin opers
tions at Easter.
Frank Bigelow, the defaulting pres
dent of the Milwaukee bank, is benin
in his accounts 1927 900.
Rojestyensky will be Joined by NJ