Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-10-22
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News Of the World.
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that Aliferouck Bey has been appointed
Turkish minister TO the United States.
Hon. Charles W. Jones, former
United States senator from Florida,
died at Detroit, after a sickness Of sev.
eral weeks.
The national council Of Switzerland
has adopted bill making insurance
against sickness compulsory In cases oil
all dependent persons.
II Is reported that an English syndi-
cate has purchased, for $2, 900, 900, the
big plant OF the J. |. Case Machine
Company, at Milwaukee.
Jackson and Williams, the O. X. &
N. trainrobbers, were sentenced to the
Oregon penitentiary for term OF 80
years and seven months each.
Heavy shipments OF wheat to Europe
continue. Over so grain.laden vessels
have left San Francisco during the last
two months, and six more are ready to
sail.
The naval armor board will leave
Washington soon for the South to look
at certain places, with a view Of ascer-
tanning their adaptibility for sites for
the proposed armor plant.
The cruiser Baltimore has been put
into commission with Lieutenant Com
mander Gottfried Blocklinger. her first
lieutenant, in command. The BaIti-
more will meet the Philadelphia in San
Francisco on the latter's arrival.
The monthly treasury statement Of
the principal articles Of domestic ex-
ports shows that during September last
the exports Of breadstuffs from tho
United States amounted to $34, ,829, ,a46,
an increase, as compared with septem-
ber, 1896. of over 100 per cent, and an
increase Of about 800 per cent over Sep
tember, 1895.
General Weyler announces that he
will embark from Cuba on October 20.
Benjamin Nelson was found dead on
the floor of his cabin near Hendricks,
Or.
The general grand chapter Of Royal
Arch Masons Is In session at Baltimore.
Delegates are present from all parts
OF the world.
The whalers that wintered in the
Arctic last year are having hard luck
this season. Only one OF them succeed
ed in killing whale this summer, and
the feet that will return this fall will
bring only small revenue to their
owners.
Sunday was the sixth anniversary Of
the death of Charles Stewart Parnell.
Five thousand nationalist paraded tho
streets Of Dublin TO the bleak Glasnev.
in cemetery, where they heaped high
the grave of their famous and talented
leader with flowers brought from all
the counties OF Ireland.
Senorita Evaneelna CisneTos, the
Cuban girl who escaped from Casa de
Recogias, in Havana, is said to have
arrived in New York city. American
friends accompanied her by train from
New Orleans. On reaching Jersey City,
Miss Cisneros was taken in closed car
riage to the headquarters OF the Cuban
sympathizers.
Cubans OF New York celebrated the
29th anniversary OF the beginning OF
the 10 years war by mass meeting,
presided over by Tomas Estrada Palma,
president of the junta. All the speak
ers emphasized, amid great applause
from the audience, the firm resolution
Of the Cuban people to carry on the
struggle until absolute independence Of
Cuba Is accomplished.
A dispatch from Long Valley, Idaho,
says there has been battle between
settlers and sheepherders, and that
three OF the farmers were killed The
trouble is the outgrowth of the strained
relations that have existed in that SEQ
tion between the settlers and sheepmen
fcr some time. II has been no uncom-
mon thing for stock to be MANNED and
haystacks to be burned, and even for
settlers and sheepmen to exchange
shots, but no one has heretofore been
killed.
The United States board of geogra.
phical names, which meets at Washing
ton, d. c., at state intervals, has just
rendered decisions determining the
spelling Of lac geographical names.
These include number in Alaska, sig
nificant at this time in view of the
Klondike excitement. Many vara-
tions OF nomenclature for the same
place are encountered, and the boards
action settles the uniform usage. As
to Klondike, the decision is to spell it
as here given. and not Clondyke The
inlet, river and village at the head OF
Linn canal, which now appears in the
newspapers almost daily under the
form of Dyea, the starting point for
the overland route, is an Indian word
which has sppeared in many forms.
Admiral Meade, in 1869, wrote 1t
Ty-Ya; Krause, in 1889, wrote IL
Dejah; Schwatka, in 1883, Dayi; Dali,
in 1883, Taiya. The board adopts ths