Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1896-02-07
TELEGRAPHIC RESUME
Events of the Day in a Con.
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OF INTEREST TO ALL READERS
Ttems Of Importance From Domestic
and Foreign Sources Cream
Of the Dispatches.
John Tyler, eldest son Of President
Tyler, died in Washington, aged rs.
Twenty mine hundred miners at Co
lumbus, o., returned to work, having
settled their trouble.
President Cleveland has consented
to be present at the anniversary cele-
bration at Princeton college.
The Berlin correspondent of the
Standard says that the czar's corona.
tion has been fixed for May 10.
A San Francisco paper says the presi-
dent has accepted an invitation from
Attorney w. w. Foote to spend part
of his vacation next summer on the
Pacific coast.
The ice gorge in the Maumee river,
about eight miles above Toledo, broke
and in running out carried away two
spans Of the new bridge in course Of
construction. The loss is estimated at
$50, 900.
In heavy fog, with the wind in the
northeast and the surf running far up
the beach, the American liner st. Paul,
bound in, went ashore on Long Island.
All Of the 700 passengers were safely
transferred to land.
A special to Novoe vremya from
Vladivostock says news has been re-
ceived from Peking that the Chinese
government has assigned a large sum
for the creation Of feet. The plan
OF construction is very large.
Herr Knebel- Doeberitz. high off,
cial of the ministry of the interior,
who drafted the regulations excluding
the American insurance companies
from doing business in Germany, has
received high decoration from En-
peror William.
The Hon. Theodore Runyon, United
States ambassador to Germany, expired
suddenly and unexpectedly at Berlin
of heart failure. Mr.. Runyon had
been in somewhat feeble health for
some time past, but no immediate
fatal results were anticipated.
A special to the New York World
from Kingston. Jamaica, says a serious
uprising is reported in Port-au- Prince,
the capital of Hayti. After three days
rioting in the streets. the insurrection
was suppressed. There is general un-
easiness throughout the island.
Colonel Crofton has been reqested to
retire by Secretary Lamont. The col
onel refuses to comply, and relies on
the influence Of his nephew, Dupont of
Delaware, who claims an election as
United States senator, to retain for
him his position in the army.
A special to the Boston Traveller,
from New York. says that the ban
placed by the Catholic church upon
the orders of Knights of Pythias, Sons
of Temperance and Odd Fellows is alb
solute, and offers no further discussion.
This is the mandate of the pope,
through his representative. Cardinal
Satolli.
The imperial court of Leipsic, Ger
many, has ruled on case which affects
the rights of Communications. Il.
w. Beohine, of Brooklyn, N. Y, was
fined in September last the sum of 400
marks for evading military service by
emigrating. The court quashed this
sentence. as not being in accord with
treaty rights.
A bill has been introduced in the
Kentucky legislature by Goebel to re-
peal the charter of the Southern Pacific
Railway Company, obtained in 1884
by @. P. Huntington. The road has
never been operated in Kentucky, but in
California, and the action of the sena-
tor is prompted by resolutions of mass
meetings of citizens of California.
Postmaster. General Wilson has is
sued general order providing that in
all cities and towns having free deliv-
cry postal service, the postal system be
extended to include house toulouse
collections. For the convenience of
the department, however, the introduc-
tion of boxes in houses, until further
orders, will be confined to twenty-five
places.
A meeting of the American mer-
chants in Pretoria, was held, and it
was decided to telegraph to Secretary
of State Olney that in view of the in
terests of American citizens and the
fact that their property was jeopar-
dized, it was requested that a diplo-
matic agent be sent to arrange matters
with view to any exigencies which
might arise.
The secretary of the Oakland, Cal,
branch of the American Railway Union
has received a letter from the private
secretary of E. v. Debs. in which the
statement telegraphed from the East
that Debs is to resign the presidency of
the union is denied. He says Debs
will win the fight he is now engaged
in on behalf of organized labor or die
in the attempt.
The Chinese government has agreed