Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-03-24
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.

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of the Past Week.
Strikes and peasant revolts are being
renewed in Russia.
Japan is raising the sunken Russian
ships at Port Arthur.
The president has announced his in
tention to change the canal commission.
Kuropatkin has been appointed COM
mander of the First Manchurian army.
Russian bureaucrats are being driven
to make peace by terms dictated for
new French loan.
The United States. government has
called for arbitration of the Venezuelan
dispute, with the alternative of force.
Over 1000 men hve been thrown out
of employment as the result of theshut-
down of'the Havefneyer sugar refinery
in Brooklyn.
"A new island has. risen in the sea OF
Japan, ,.cansed by the action of vol
cano. The .mikado's flag .. has been
raised on its top, which has a circum-
ference of two and three-fourths miles.
Although the city ordinances of New
York forbid the erection of brick and
stone buildings in frosty weather, some
rs fat buildings have been finished
since January 1, and now that the NOR
tar is thawing they are falling down.
News of another crushing blow to the
Russian army is being withheld.
A Chicago Judge says woman has a
right to. kill her husband in self
defense.
Italy has sent warship to santo
Domingo to demand the payment of
her claims.
An addition is being built to Presi-
dent Roosevelt's summer home at Sag
amore Hill, Ii
The war party in Russia is caricatur-
ing Roosevelt andtrying to draw France
and Germany into war.
The governor of Viborg province, IN
Southern Russia, has been mortally
wounded by terrorist.
Two masked men held up messengers
of the Pacific Coast Oil company near
Berkeley, CAL, and secured $40, 900.
The Chicago council has taken away
the franchise of the largest street rail-
way. The property is valued at $780,
600, 900.
One of the most perplexing questions
confronting the administration is the
Panama canal. It is admitted that the
commission is failure.
The United States court of claims
has awarded the Cherokee Indians
$4,500,0 900 for lands secured in 1888
but never entirely paid for. Of this
amount 81 Ill ,284 is principal and the
balance interest.
Chinese complain of outrages by jap
anese
There is great rush of homeseekers
from all parts of the East to the North
west.
Porch, small town near Hobart,
Oklahoma, has been wrecked by a cy.
clone.
The armored cruiser Washington has
been launched at the Camden, N. j..
ship yard.
Secretary Hays health has broker
down and he may resign. He has gone
to Europe for rest.
Root, Taft and Knox are three strons
Republicans who are already being
sookenh of as the next candidate fol
president.
French faith in Russia's ability t.
cope with the japanese has been severe
ly shaken by the latest defeats to thu
czar's s arms. -~
The Missouri legislature elected Will
liam Warner, Republican, of Kansa
City, United States senator to succeed
Francis M. Cockrell.
Oyama announces that he will ente
Hardin on April 10 and that Vladi
vostok will also be in possession of th'
Japanese on that date.
A special wire will run from Port
land to the White house and by press
ing button the president will ope1
the Lewis and Clark fair next June.
ex-senator Hawley, of Connecticut
Is dead.
The czar is breaking down under tn,
continued nervous strain.
The Japanese are pursuing the Rus
SLAMS beyond Tie pass and are infictin,
terrible loss.
Twenty thousand prisoners were cap
tured by the Japanese when Tie pas
was taken.
The Japanese minister to the Unite,
States denies any danger of his govern
ment going to war with this country.
Governor Peabody resigned as gov
ernor of Colorado as agreed and Lieu
tenant Governor Mcdonald has steppe,
in.