Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-12-31
VENTS OF THE DAY.

the Telegraphic
If the World.
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oiiection Of Items TPem
the Old world In .
comprehensive Ferm
b will be made by
ng the recess OF con-
eof emergency. De
tnent OF this fact,
iors at the White
aarge.
sold and heavy
are beginning
upon sheep in
red that, unless
weather soon,
avy. Sheepmen
Der have already
the currency has
OF the failure Of
bank, Of Pe,nbina,
has capital OF $780,.
hy 10 its last state
Psita aggregating SOS, :,
Eaminer Anheiser hae
eharge.
the acting controller Of
y has called attention to the
10 retirement OF national bank
ing the Arst 30 days OF Decem
ned the sum Of $4,000, 900.
isnid to bs the first time during
"a 10 years that the voluntary rec
ient has reached this amount In
one month.
.ftcr a week OF conference in Bos.
Justices Putnam and King, the
hmissioners for the United States
nd Canada. respectively. In the arbi-
tration OF the Behring sea claims, have
completed their work for the present,
and II Is understood will soon begin
the preparation OF their reports 10 their
respective governments
The first meeting OF the National
Building Trades Council was held at
st. Louie, and was marked by scsth
ing denunciation Of the American Fed.
Grafton OF Labor for having passed q
resolution at Nashville opposing the
formation OF the national council. The
/ Federation Of Labor opposed the new
organization as tending to create fur
ther division in the ranks of labor.
Fireman Martin ]. Oakley was killed
/ at fire in q five story tenement on
East Foity.fourth street, New York
+ city. Oakley was suffocated by smoke
( and escaping gas. Assistant Fireman
Thomas Head. Jamos Davis and Peter
Connolly, OF the same company, were
I rendered unconscious by inhaling
smoke and gas, and were with dim
Guilty revived. They are in hospitals,
and their condition Is serious.
While skating on the ice near Gard
ner. Miss, three young people sudden
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could reach them we're drowned.
At Tonawanda, n. Y, while a party
were skating, the loo gave way and
j precipitated four young people into the
I water. Three OF them were drowned.
China approves Of tho Russian feet
wintering at Port Arthur, being per
shaded that this action is taken In the
interest OF China. and necessitated by
the German occupation Of Kiao Chou.
A rate war is on between the various
river transportation lines running to
The Dalles. A reduction OF fare from
The Dalles to Portland is the result.
This cut in rates has been looked for
by the public since the opposition line
was put on, some two months ago,
+. M. Gideon, tho clerk of the gen.
eral land Office, who was referred to
by Thomas Reddngton in tho testi.
mony before the senate Pacific railroad
committee, Saturday, as having
changed the land-ofiice records 70 as to
throw 5000, 900 acres of government
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clear denial OF the charge.
A dispatch from Christiania, Nor.
way, to the London Chronicle, says the
political situation, since the failure o.
the united committee on foreign affairs,
has become critical, and 1t Is feared
that Sweden will seek an occasion foI
armed intervention in Norway, The
dispatch adds that the Swedish presl
hopes for assistance from Emperor
william.
The committee appointed at the
house civil service conference 10 days
ago to draft notifications of the civil
service law have met and gone over
tho various bills pending before the
house. The committee expects to have
4 measure framed by the time congress
reconvencs. Its members are opposed
to the present law as including toe
many offices within its SCOPE.
A freight train OF 81 loaded cars,
a