Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1896-02-14
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Events of the Day in a Con.
densed Form.
OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS

OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS
Items of Importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources - Cream
of the Dispatches.
G. w. Smith, Of San Francisco, has
been named as a new receiver for the
| Atlantic & Pacific railroad.
The American board has received
word from Erzeroum, Turkey, that
through the relief money which is sent,
bread is given daily to about 1900
persons in that city alone. But appli-
cants for relief are nearly twice that
number.
March 25 the German reichstag will
celebrate in an elaborate manner the
signing Of the preliminary peace of
1871.
Three members of the last Ohio
legislature have been indicted for
bribery. The names are not made pub
lie yet.
The Liberty bell, which has been on
exhibition at the Atlanta exposition,
has been returned to Philadelphia.
Its arrival there was announced by a
salute of forty-five guns.
Charles Asimus, who murdered
James Greenwood September 81 last,
died ON the galiows at Kalama, Wash.
His last words were: 81 must die; /
am all right; the sheriff he good man;
one bad man, l, must die. I'm all
right"
Whitaker Wright, an Australian
yachtsman, has offered $500 cup, to
be sailed for during the Riviera season,
and with the object of bringing about
meeting between such big yachts as
Britannia, Satanita, Ailsa and possibly
an American yacht.
The Japanese legation in Washing
, ton has received an important cable
gram from the foreign Office Of japan
with direction to make it public, by
the terms of which the rich island Of
| Formosa, which Japan acquired from
China, will be opened up to trade and
commerce.
i The Blue Jay, Silver Bow and Gray
Rock mines, of the Butte g. Boston
group, in Butte, Mont, have closed
] down, and over 800 men are thrown
out of employment The pumps have
not been withdrawn from the mines,
!. which shows that the shutdown is only
temporary.
In view of the report circulating il
the United States that William K,
Vanderbilt is shortly to announce hi
n engagement to Miss Amy Bend, Vanity
Fair, published in London, this weel
asserts that William K. Vanderbilt
: will shortly announce his engagement
: TO an English duchess
: Lord and Lady Sholto Douglas hav'
y abandoned their theatrical tour through
California and returned to San Fran
:. cisco. The lord attributes the failur'
q of the trip to the heavy rains and th'
q fact that his advance agent left him IL
n an inopportune time. He says he will
e try it again shortly.
10 The London Observer says: NV,
have good authority leading us to ex
o press the belief that Germany recentl.
d invited Russia and other powers to co
t. operate in plan hostile to England
.. continued occupation of Egypt. Ac
IS cording to our information and belle
II this proposition was declined b,
r Russia"
D. Z Emperor William is firmly deter
mined to carry out the project of doubl
ing the size of the German navy.
~ high German official says he has had re
o peated conversations with the empero
on this subject during the past thre
D. weeks, and he asserted that during til
coming summer the plan for the reol
ganization of the navy will be draw
q up.
Ia A terrific coronado, accompanied b
n floods, occurred in North Queensland
attended with great destruction of lii
ID and property. Many vessels are mis-
e. ing as result of the storm. The rail-
n fall during the tornado amounted
at 90 inches, and it is estimated that Il
damage to property will amount
,a So, 800, 900. A large number of pc
A. sons were drowned.
The forthcoming monthly stat
H. ment of the government receipts al
expenditures for January will sho
st. that aggregate receipts will be appro
Ic- imately $29,2S7,670; expenditure
it. $32, 1896, 430, leaving deicit for Il
he month of about $3.50, 100, and f
he the seven months of the present fisc
Ity year of about $l3,s13,S75, Receip
from the customs during the prese
"a month will amount to about SIC, 6,3SC
10 796; from internal revenue, $11 ,04l
mt 4Ol; from miscellaneous sources, abo
ar. $1,S15,472. This is decrease
ras about 81, 900, 900 in receipts from t
vas customs as compared with Januar
1895, and an increase of about 90, 90,
900 in receipts from the internal rel
Au' nue..
ms A dispatch to the London Stands
ith from Madrid says: The papers h
protest energetically against the Unit