Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-04-14
news OF The WEEK
In a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
a Resume Of the Less Important bNt
Net Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
Japanese cruisers have been seen
headed for Singapore.

Japanese cruisers have been seen
headed for Singapore.
The japanese have complete plans of
the ,Vladivostok Notifications.
Commissioner Garfield has started
his investigation into the doings of the
Standard Oil in Kansas.
A Little Rock, Ark, lodge of
Knights of Pythias accidentally killed
a man who was being initiated.
The third trial of Nan Patterson for
the murder of Caesar Young has been
postponed week in order to get new
witnesses.
Russian school boys placed guam
tity of explosive behind picture of
the csar, blowing it into fragments and
injuring four pupils.
The Russian feet can't get into Sal
gon and may seize Dutch island.
The Dutch East Indies squadron has
gone north to preserve neutrality.
The teamsters strike in Chicago is
the cause of many riots. Streets are
barricaded and serious conflicts have
occurred between police and strikers.
The controller of the treasury has
issued decision in which he condemns
the Interior department for accepting
railroad rebates on irrigation material,
in violation of the very law the govern
ment is trying to enforce.
Senator Platt is much improved in
health.
The battleship Minnesota has been
successfully launched.
Hundreds of persons we're killed by
the collapse of reservoir at Madrid,
Spain.
The Japanese government has ordered
500, 900 gunstocks from Cedar Rapids,
Iowa, manufacturer.
Eight men were killed at Allisonia,
Virginia, by the premature explosion of
a charge of powder.
The St. Petersburg war Office claims
that the Baltic feet has eluded Togo's
ships and will reach Vladivostok in
safety.
Exeriments at Illinois insane asy-
lums show that women are more capa-
BILE of handling the patients than men
attendants.
The government is after the Klamath
Irrigation company, in Southern Ore
gon, for diverting water from the Kla-
math river without permission of con-
gress.
The Federal grand jury at Portland
has finished its work and has been dis
missed. Seven more indictments were
returned. State Senator Booth and his
brother are among those implicated in
the latest disclosures of land frauds.
Three hundred American marines
have been sent to Santo Domingo.
Two prominent Mexican scientists
declare that the tapeworm will kill
consumption germs.
Reports from the interior of India
show that hundreds of soldiers were
killed by the recent earthquake.
The fight against the Standard Oil
company has been carried into North
Dakota by the independent dealers.
Paris is in ferment !over the sup.
posed plot against the French republic
More prominent men have been arrest.
ed.
Oregon has secured perfect title fol
The Dalls-Celilo canal and the wori
will soon be taken up by the govern
ment.
All Chicago teamsters are out anc
the strike threatens to spread to othel
branches. Trouble between the Gar
mentmakers' union and Montgomery
Ward & Co. was the start of the strike
The annual parade of the Hors'
Guards, always heretofore one of tn,
most spectacular military ceremonies o
the year in Russia, was chiefly notable
this year by the absence of the czar
who was afraid to show himself.
Chairman Shonts of the Panam
canal commission, says the work will
be done on business principles an,
without any politics.
Another general strike of Chicag
teamsters is on.
The japanese main army is advanc
ing to envelop the Russian fanks. :.
Four persons were killed in a Ne,
York tenement house by escaping gas
Russian peasant mobs are burnin
and looting estates in the Baltic pre-
vinces.
A Chicago & Northwestern train hs
been driven from Clinton to Boone
Iowa., a distance of 202 miles, in 1s
minutes.
A voluntary increase of 10 per Ger
in wages has been given employees
the Interstate Steel works at Quarer
tum, Pa.
Fire caused panic among the guesi
of the Rienzi hotel, at Buffalo, N. Y