Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-06-23
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.


August.
Pope Plus has advised Catholics to
go into politics.
France and Germany have agreed
to conference on Morocco.
Police stopped the presidents Chauffeur
for exceeding the speed limit.
Cossacks have killed many wounded
Japanese in Red Cross hospitals.
Pittsburg steel workers threaten to
strike. Five thousand men are in
volved.
The Japanese are forcing the Rus.
siansl outposts to retreat by fanking
movements.
The president is Fastening peace ne
gotiations to prevent another big battle
if possibble.
Lightning struck tank at Lima,
Ohio, containing 33, 200, 900 barrels OF
oil. The loss is placed at 5000, 900.
The postmaster general and Minister
Obaldia, of Panama, have signed
postal treaty between the two countries.
The Chinese government has deco
rated John Barrett, minister to Colon
bia, for his services with the Chinese
exhibit at the st. Louis fair
1t is estimated that the influx OF i'm
migrants has reduced to the verge of
Restitution 10000 English speaking
families on the New York East Side.
Rioting by Chicago teamsters has
again caused trouble.
England has just added two new bat
tleshisp to her navy.
Railway officials say they can run
trains from New York to Chicago in II
hours.
Russia has tried to change the peace
conference to The Hague, but Japan
would not consent.
Germany and France have both ex
planned their positions to Roosevelt
and seek his support.
Mayor Dunno, of Chicago, will ask
the city council to construct 100 miles
of street railway lines to be operated by
the city
The Japanese have successfully float
ed two Russian battleships sunk at
Port Arthur and work is almost COM
piete to save third.
It would now seem that prince of
the house of Bernadotte will be selected
to rule Norway, King Oscar not being
opposed to such an arrangement.
Dowie has practically completed ar
rangements for the purchase of 1,000,-
600 acres of land in Mexico, and q
tropical Zion City is to be established.
General Maxine Gomez, the idol of
the Cuban populace, and the one man
above all others to whom the little
island republic owes its existence, is
dead. He was "a years old.
The Franco German dispute about
: Morocco nears crisis.
General Maxine Gomez is very low
and may die at any time.
Norway is likely to become repub-
lie, as no one desirable for a king is
willing to accept.
The next step in the Far Eastern
peace negotiations will be the signing
of an armistice by the generals COM
manding on the field of hostilities.
Governor Brady, of Alaska, wants to
attend the Lewis and CLARK fair, but
Secretary Hitchcock has ordered him
to remain at his post for the present,
as he may be needed.
The Federal grand jury at Chicago
has turned in number of indictments
against beef trust Officials, but particu-
lars will not be given out until the
jury has finished its work.
Not man was saved from the Rus
sian battleship Alexander III, and but
one each from the battleships Borodino
and Navarin, sunk by the Japanese in
the battle of the sea of Japan.
President Roosevelt is striving to
prevent another big battle in Manchu-
ria before peace is concluded.
Commissioner Richards, OF the Gen.
eral Land Office, has been ordered to
Portland to attend the land fraud trials
and lend assistance to the prosecution
A number of clerks are also being sent
with records.
The kaiser is planning to become
master of Europe.
Turkish troops have completely ex.
terminated a Macedonian insurgeni
band.
Japan's peace terms have been out
lined and will be moderate.
Grand Duke Alexis and Admira
Avellan, heads of the. Russian navy.
have resigned.
Missouri railroads have united in en-
joining the estate from enforcing thu
maximup rate law.
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