Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1896-02-28
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/ The Cramp shipbuilding Company
OF Philadelphia has been awarded tn,
contract for building revenue cutie
No. 8, for the Pacific coast. The new
cutter is to be 100 feet long.
While the American steamer Paris
from New York, was docking In South
anton, she came into collision witt
the steamer Majesty, belonging TO tht
Isle OF Wight. The Majesty was snnk
but all her crew were saved.
Meager details have been recs;yed in
San Francisco of disastrous hurricane
on the Tonga islands, in the South
seas. The barks Woosung and West
Australia and the Samoan schooner
Aele were wrecked, but no lives were
lost.
Ii Hung Chang and Shas Yu Lien
have been appointed delegates to rep
resent the emperor of China at the
coronation Of Emperor Nicholas III, Of
Russia, at Moscow. Negotiations are
still In progress looking to the conclu.
sion of commercial treaty between
China and Japan.
Mangus G. Crosby died in Astoria.
The deceased was one Of Astoria's lead
ing business men, and was twice elect
cd mayor of the city. He left a widow
and five children. The cause Of his
death was a complication of Bright's
disease, from which he had been suffer.
ing for several years
Through Senior Andrade, It's min.
lister in Washington, the government
Of Venezuela has notified Secretary
Olney that it will respond affirmatively
to the invitation of the Venezuela COM
mission to submit all the evidence in
its possession touching the location of
the true boundary line.
Count Zeppelin. of Germany, has
delivered lecture at Stuttgart in the
presence Of the king Of Wurtemburg
and the military authorities on steer
ing airship. which, it is said, will cost
about $40, 200 and travels eleven miles
an hour. 1t is claimed such an airship
can remain in the air for IL days.
The Brisbane river in Queensland
has been greatly swollen by foods.
A small steamer crossing the river
with about ninety passengers capsized,
and only forty were saved. The cap
sized steamer was the ferryboat Peral
The current was very swift and the
river banks and Victoria bridge were
endangered.
A telegram received from Irkutsk,
Siberia, says Siberian trader named
Kouchnareff, the agent of DR.. Fridtiof
Nansen, the Norwegian explorer, who
sailed in the Fran June "a, 1898, for
the Arctic regions, has received in.
formation that Nansen reached the
North Pole, found land there, and ie
returning toward civilization.
For the first time in half a century
the American falls Of Niagara practic-
ally ran dry. by the formation Of an ice
bridge or dam, extending from Schlos.
ser's dock, on the American balsk,
about half way across the river. The
water was almost entirely diverted to
the Canadian falls It was possible
for time for man with plank to
have walked from the mainland 10 Goat
island without wetting his feet.
Advices just received from Seoul,
the capital Of Corea. say an uprising
took place there February IL, during
which the premier and seven officials
were murdered. These dispatches add
that the king and crown prince sought
shelter in the Russian legation. The
king ordered the ministers put 70
death. Two hundred Russian sailors
and mariners are now guarding the
legation in that country.
During the debate on the address in
reply to the queens speech in the house
Of commons, Sir William Vernon Har.
court, supporting the amendment for
not proposing self. government for Ire-
land. pointed ont that the colonies,
from which there was evidently a
splendid testimony of loyalty to the
crown, enjoyed home rule, and he
that the policy Of home
rule could be as successful in Ireland
as in the colonies
A great fire ragged in Guayaquil.
Ecuador, resulting in the death of
thirty persons. When the firemen and
soldiers who were hurriedly ordered
out to help them. finally brought 1t
under control, thousands of panic
stricken persons were wandering home
less in the streets, many lay dead in
the morgue, and property worth nearly
90, 600, 900 had been destroyed, includ-
ing the noble cathedral and the con-
vent which adjoined it.
Milton Evans, chairman Of the
farmers committee, of Walla Walla,
has received letter from Washington,
through Senator Squire, from w. r.
Morrison. Of the interstate commerce
commission, in which Morrison says
the commission had considered the
complaint made by Evans against the
Oregon Railway & Navigation Com.
pany, alleging that excessive freight
rates were charged on wheat, and that
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