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

A Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
The senate will not increase the Co.
lumbia river appropriations.
Joseph w. J. Lee has been named
for consul general at Panama.
The Panama canal commissioners
have violated the law in buying sup
plies without advertisements public for
bids.
George S. Boutwell,, of Massachusetts,
formerly secretary of the treasury, is
dead.
Peasants are joining in the strike
movement in Poland and are burning
saloons.
The Russian officers who broke their
parole have been ordered back to San
Francisco.
The final settlement of the Klamath
irrigation scheme has been postponed
until April. -1sts
The Russian government has adopted
strong measures to keep the railways
in operation.
The Russian Third Pacific squadron
has passed Cherbourg, France, on its
way to the Far East.
Gorky, the priest strike leader, has
been released and re-arrested, to be ex-
lied from St. Petersburg.
Eleven persons were killed and more
than so others injured, some probably
fatally, by the collapse of floor in
New York colored church.
Starvation threatens Fairbanks,
Alaska.
Secretary Taft will speak at the Lewis
and Clark fair.
Oil men of several states have united
to fight the Standard Oil company.
Northwest senators have asked an in
crease in river and harbor appropria-
tions.
Automobiles are to race from the At
alntic coast to Portland for the Lewis
and Clark fair.
A big ice gorge has carried out a
Union Pacific railroad bridge on Loup
river, at Columbus, Nebraska.
St. Louis financiers are interesting
capital for the construction of an elec-
trio road from St. Louis to Kansas
City.
What is believed to have been Paul
Jones' body has been found by the
searchers in the old St. Louis cemetery,
in Paris.
The secretary of state has received
for presentation to President Roosevelt
large photograph of the empress dow
ager, of Chin.
The Japanese have captured Rus
sian position of Importance after an
awful battle. The losses of both sides
will reach into the thousands, but it is
believed the Japanese lost the most
men.
1t is believed that Judge swayne will
be acquitted.
John D. Long says the Monroe doc.
trine is carried too far.
The blockade of Vladivostok is nov
complete, but food is not scarce.
King Edward favors Irish liberty al
a step to Anglo-American alliance.
The cazr has yielded to the railroad
strikers and traffic will be resumed.
Norway threatens to dissolve he
union with Sweden and establish re
public.
The greatest battle of the war ha
begun in Manchuria, the Japanese out
fanking the Russians.
The bill dividing Oregon into tw
judicial districts has been killed and
similar Washington bill passed.
DIR. Louis Wilcoxson, who wa
charged with having a United State
bond, stolen 20 years ago from tn
Manhattan bank, has been released o.
$4,000 bail, and will now seek for
W. Millecr, from whom he obtaine
the bond.
venile asylum, but all the 1900 child
rem were taken out in Is minutes an
the flames we're soon extinguished.
Riots at Baku, Russia, have cause
1000 deaths, and twice as many wer
wounded.
Railroad strikes have cut off Polan
and all southwestern Russia from til
rest of the world.
Following an operation for append
citis, Sidney Dillon Ripley, the fna1
cier, is critically ill at his home
New York.
The state assembly of Wisconsin hs
passed a bill prohibiting the sale
giant frecrackers and other dangero,
explosives.
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