Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1905-06-16
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.
Mount Pelee is in eruption.


A smallpox epidemic prevails in
Chile.
Norway will send special envoy to
all the powers to ask recognition.
Yellow fever cases continue to be re-
ported from the Panama canal zone.
Two bombs were found in one of the
public school buildings of Pittsburg.
The quarantine service at Nome has
been abolished, despite the protests OF
citizens.
The biggest trust company on earth
is to be organized to handle the Euita-
BILE funds.
Sherbourne, England, has just cele-
<brated the 1,2O0th anniversary of its
foundation.
Near Warsaw, Russia, "a Jews have
been killed and 38 others injured in
riots in the past few days.
Russia and Japan are considering
choice of ENJOYS and place of meeting
to conduct peace negotiations.
Frank G. Bigelow, the defaulting
Milwaukee banker. has been sentenced
to 10 years in the Federal prison. He
is a nervous wreck and has been taken
to. the prison hospital.
The Pennsylvania road now has a
train running from Chicago to New
York in 1S hours, an average of go
miles an hour. One stretch of three
miles has been made in 85 seconds.
Attacks on Chicago strikebreakers
have again caused rioting in the streets.
Germany is drafting new CONNER
cial treaty for submission to the United
States.
An automobile in Chicago went
through an open draw, drowning three
persons.
All Europe joins in, praise of Roose-
velt over his success in bringing about
peace negotiations.
A collision between trolley cars near
Princeton, New Jersey, resulted in the
injury>of Is persnos.
In the case of the state of Kanass VS..
the Standard Oil company, the state
has won the first point.
London papers believe that the large
money indemnity Japan will ask of
Russia will break off peace negotia-
tions.
Both Russia and Japan have accepted
President Roosevelt's aid in making
peace. Negotiations will be carried on
in Washington.
The French government, has called
home its governor of French Indo-
China, to confer on plans for the de-
tense of the colony.
A test is to be made of the effective
ness of the defenses at Fort Monroe and
Old Point Comfort, conceded by army
and navy officers to be the chief defense
to Washington.
Attorneys in the beef trust inquiry
have disagreed.
Japan's terms of peace have been
stated to Russia.
Bowen wants to contine the Loomis
investigation in Venezuela.
American troops have killed band
of 40 rebels in the island of Samar.
The kaiser and czar will not recog.
nize the disunion of Norway and
Sweden.
Deadly riots continue throughout the
interior of Russia and hundreds of peo
pie are being killed.
The business of the Portland post
office for April shows an increase of 81
per cent over that of April, 1904.
Paul Morton, now secretary of tht
navy, has been elected chairman of the
Equitable Life Assurance society.
Admiral Enquist's report to the czal
on the naval battle says Rojestvensky'
feet was defeated in the first hour.
The National Editorial association il
it's convention at Guthrie, Oklahoma
adopted resolutions favoring immediate
statehood for the territory.
Swedish and Danish princes have re
fused the Norwegian throne and Nor
way is preparing to establish repub
lie. Great Britain urges the choosin.
of Prince Arthur for king. His siste
is to marry the crown prince of Sweden
The Russian warships at Manila hav,
disarmed.
The Japanese are said to. have cut Of
Vladivostok.
The Michigan food is subsiding.
A British submarine boat has beel
lost with IA lives.
In the Norway-sweden dispute Brit
ain is standing by Norway and Germ
any backs Sweden.
Sweden may not resist the dissolvin
of union with Norway, but desires Al
alliance against Russia.