Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-12-03
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News Of the World.
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

The great trial OF Arroyo's murder
ers Ia over, at the City OF Mexico, hav.
ing terminated with tho sentence OF
death pronounced on 10 Of the police
officers and policemen concerned in the
butchery Of the hapless wretch whose
audacious attempt on the president d
life caused 30 profound a sensation
there. The jury was out over seven
hours.
One OF the most important features
OF the Bchring sea negotiations not
heretofore disclosed il that in the event
that Great Britain aud Canada consent
TO suspension Of pelagic sealing for
one year, the United States for the
same time will agree to suspension
Of all taking OF seals for one year on
Pribyloff islands. constituting the
American seal possessions in Behring
sea.
Postmastcr-General Gary is receiving
many letters regarding the postal-sav-
ings bank proposition strongly urged
by him in his annual report. Many
people throughout the country have
written commenting on the projected
radical extension OF the postal service,
and have submitted some suggestions
calculated in their opinion to make the
scheme more feasible. As whole,
the correspondents indicate rather
general commentator.
Ex-Governor Crittenden, OF Missouri,
who was consul-general to Mexico
under the last Cleveland administra.
tion, announces that he will leave
Kansas City next week for San An.
tonic, Tex, where he will be joined by
w. j. Bryan and Mrs. Bryan, and that
the three will depart from San Antonio
on weeks tour of Mexico. Aided by
the ex-consul's knowledge Of the people
and country, Mr. Bryan will make a
careful study OF Mexico's financial sys-
! tenn.
Passengers on the steamer Mascotte,
which has arrived in Tampa, report
that Engel pasee, who betrayed Gen
eral Castillo to the Spaniards for
81, 900, was captured by insurgents on
4 his way to Cienfuegos, court-mar-
tailed on drum-h head and hanged.
! A great fire broke out at Melbourne,
Australia, and in a very short space Of
time did enormous damage. 1t is esti.
mated that the loss will reach s. ,0O0,-
900, while the trade in soft goods has
received serious setback. Hundreds
OF employees of all sorts have been
thrown out of employment.
Changing its name and principles the
American Railway League has become
full-fedeed political organization.
Hereafter it will be known as the Rail-
way Employees and Telegraphers' Polit-
ical League Of America. Its object Is
to deal entirely in state and national
politics, chiefly on legislative lines.
A big masonry wharf, having 'front.'
age of 800 meters on the river Tagus,
opposite the custom. .hsuse in Lisbon,
suddenly subsidized and completely dis
appeared in the riverbel. The wharf,
which was recently constructed at a
cost of ESQ, 900, rested en- mud. For
tunately, no one was hut in the col
lapse.
! The hostility between the Christian
socialists and the social democrats,
which exists in all parts OF Austria
and frequently leads to sharp collisions
between the rival partisans, has result
ed in serious rioting at Gratz, the capi-
tai city of Sitira, and the sat Of inn
! portant cotton and woolen manufac-
I tories.
The official programme for the re.
ception of 1898 at the White House by
I President and Mrs. Mckinley has been
issued. All of the events, excepting
New Years reception and the public
reception, will be by card invitation.
Only those invited will be given an OPP
portunity to be present at least once
during the season. The avoidance OF
excessive and dangerous crowding will
add to the attractiveness of all the re-
ceptions.
The theosophists of San Francisco
are taking very active interest in the
fate Of Durrant. II is tenet of their
faith that capital punishment is wrong,
and they are getting up petition
praying Governor Budd to stay the exc
oution and to commute his sentence to
life imprisonment. The petition was
prepared by DR.. Jerome A, Anderson,
president of the San Francisco Theo-
sophical Society, and 1t has already re-
ceived number of signatures
The commission appointed to revise
the criminal code OF the United States,
in the partial report which it will make
to the president and congress, will
present code for criminal justice in
Alaska. The commission is authorized
| ~ do this in the act which creates il as
a territory. At present the laws OF
Oregon are made applicable to Alaska,
and these will be revised, codified and
amended by Il commission to suit the
present conditions, and will be sub
mitted as a partial report for the basis
Of legislation by congress.