Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-09-03
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE Day
Epltome Of the Telegraphic
News Of the World.
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An Intsrsstins Collection Of Items From
ths Now and the Old world In .
CeAdsnssd and Comprehensive Fosm

UuV last season.
Two young ladies from Alameda and
San Francisco have gone TO Trinity
county upon prospecting tour They
are equipped with complete miners out
fits and are determined to work hard to
find paying claim.
Edwin Corbin, Of Chicago, has closed
n deal amalgamating the United States
and Canadian Lakes Fisheries Com
panies, whereby the control OF 20 COM
panies passed into the hands of the
British company with $1,000, 900 cap
ital.
The British, Russian and French
ministers to Greece have notified their
respective governments that it is i'm
possible for Greece to pay an indemnity
exceeding e8, 900. 600 Turkish. II is
understood that negotiations are on
foot 10 induce Turkey to accept
smaller sum than the amount originally
demanded.
The county recorder in Great Bend,
Kan, has reported the release OF over
$50, 600 in chattel and real estate mort.
cages since August !, and half OF the
crop has not been threshed. II is pre-.
dicted that by the new year the county
will he in better shape than ever before
and will look back on the largest acre.
age of wheat in the history of the
county.
Paul J. Henning, who has Just ar
rived in San Francisco, says the Amer
lean flag is flying on Clipperton island.
He has been living on the island with
two other men and they successfully
blocked the attempt OF Captain Murt-
ray Of the ship Kinkora, TO hoist the
British flag there three months ago
The Kinkora was wrecked and the three
Americans held as wreckage nearly
million feet of lumber, which was
washed ashore. II. NJ S. Comus Wis
tied the island later, bat did not dis
turb the Stars and Stripes nor enter a
claim for the lumber.
Peters & Roberts furniture factory,
OF Portland, Or, was damaged by fire
to the extent OF 20, 900,
President Faure, of the French re-
public, visited Russia, and was royalty
welcomed by the czar at Cronstadt.
1t is reported that the government of
Brazil is negotiating with European
nation for the sale OF one of her war
ships in course OF construction.
Governor Lord has pardoncd Clar-
ence Wade out OF the Oregon peniten-
tiary. lie has been adjudged afflicted
with consumption and not expected to
/ live.
1t is officially announced at Buenos
I Ayres that very large crop OF grain is
anticipated in the Argentine Republic.
The wool clip, it is further stated, will
be heavy one.
| A Seattle man has gone to Boston to
secure 200 young ladies for an expedi-
ton to the Klondike gold fields. 1t is
/ said he will fit ont steamer and start
early in the spring.
The warehouse OF w. p. Fuller &
Co., in Portland, Or, was completely
destroyed by fire, The loss is about
1 $50, 900 partly insured. The origin OF
/ the fire is uncertain.
Aspecial from Lander, Wyo., SAYS:
Daniel Tracy, miner from Leadville,
has uncovered a vein of gold ore two
/ feet eight inches wide in the Wind
River range, on Gold creek The ore
is literally gemmed with gold the full
width of the vein.
q. II, Steel, sheriff, and Sam Young,
ex-sheriif OF Leslie county, were both
killed in a combat at Hyde, KY Both
men fought to desperation with pistols,
and both fell dead in the fifth round.
Steel was Democratic leader and
Young Republican. They quarreled
over politics.
A great strike is on in the building
trades ut Buda Pest, More than 20,-
900 men are involved. The strikers,
in the endeavor to prevent others from
working, came repeatedly in conflict
with the police, and desperate pitched
battles ensued in several of the princi-
pal streets of the city Two hundred
persons have been injured, some dam
gerously. The police have arrested 100
9f the ringleaders.
Telegraphic advices from the New
York Herald's correspondent in Rio
Janeiro state that the official report OF
operations against the fanatics around
Canudos during the last few weeks
show that 2, 400 Brazilian troops have
been wounded, Great difficulty is
found in transporting arms, ammuni-
tion and stores to the government ow.
ing to interference by the fanatics. In
the meantime large forces of fanatics,
all we'll armed, have appeared in the
states of Sac Paulo and Haran. They
have invaded several plantations and
small towns.