Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-07-28
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.


Mobile has established a quarantine
on the cities below on the Mississippi
river.
A Federal grand jury at Washington,
D. c., is investigating the cotton
scandal.
Five members of Philadelphia fam
lily were fatally poisoned by eating
toadstools.
Komura, one of Japan's peace en-
voys, says his country is not over anx-
ious for peace.
All of the crew of the warship Ben
nington have been accounted for with
the exception of one.
There is danger that Chicago team
sters may again strike. They are dis
satisfied with the number OF union men
taken back to work.
A party OF Mazamas on their way up
Mount Rainier narrowly escaped death
by a boulder above them becoming
loosened and rolling down.
Reports from the immigration bu-
reau show that during June over TO-
OGO Chinese applied for admission and
nearly 5000 were admitted.
China fears an alliance of Russia and
japan.
Wltte says the czar will finally settle
the peace question.
A new mutiny has broken out in the
Russian Black sea fleet.
Jerry Simpson, ex-Populist congress
man from Kansas, is critically i'll.
Yellow fever has broken out at New
Orleans and a quarantine has been es-
tablished.
Linievitch is anxious to fight and
Oyama is willing, SO another great bat
tie again seems probable.
The president has decided not to
transfer the Panama canal to the State
department, but will leave its construc-
tion with Taft.
The Navy department says some one
was to blame for the Bennington dis
aster and the guilty ones will be found
and court martialed.
The grand jury investigating the
frauds at Milwaukee is finding plenty
of work. So far 251 indictments have
been returned. Crime honeycombs
state, county an city officials and has
been going on for years.
The grave of sacajawea, the Indian
woman who acted as guide for Lewis
and Clark, has been found in the Sho-
shone reservation near Lander, Wyom-
ing. Major Baldwin was able to locate
the place, her son having at one time
been the majors guide.
The state treasurer of Kansas will be
ousted from Office.
Stormy times are expected in the
Morocco conference.
The canal commission has called for
bids for supplying labor.
A negro colony from Florida is to be
established in Southern Idaho.
A bomb was thrown at the sultan of
Turkey, but he was not injured.
Another batch of indictments has
been returned against Milwaukee graft
ers.
Georgetown, Indiana, near the Ken
lucky line, has, been washed away by
a cloudburst.
Some Russian defenses have been
captured by the japanese, together with
several guns.
A murderer sentenced to be hanged
20 years ago has been found alive in
the Illinois penitentiary.
A storm has swept over Midway is
land, destroying the military camp
maintained by the United States.
1t is said that in the peace terms to
be demanded by Japan is a provision
against double tracking the Siberian
railway. Russian papers declare that
the acceptance Of this would be COM
mercial suicide.
Japanese positions in Mancnhuria
are strongly fortified.
The Russian GARRISON at Vladivostok
expects an attack by land and sea any
time.
Baron Komura, Japanese peace en-
voy, has arrived in Seattle and started
on east to Washington.
China will insist on Manchuria being
returned to her when the war is over,
no matter how it terminates.
A cloudburst near Joplin, Missouri,
caused great damage to crops. The
loss will reach $150,000. One man
was drowned.
A majority OF the naval board of con-
struction has recommended that no
more work be done on the cruiser San
Francisco, and it has heen taken out of
commission.