Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-11-19
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE day
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News Of the World.
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
IN Interesting Collection of Items From
.he New and the old World In a


In New York city. He had been con.
fined to his bed for five weeks.
The labor troubles which have been
brewing in Randsburg, Cal, for some
time eliminated Wednesday, when
about 100 members Of the miners
union went in body to the Roxie
mine and peremptorily drove superin-
tendent Clarke and five men out Of the
camp for working below the schedule
Of the union.
A new industry has started in
Owensboro, Ky, with 100 employees.
II Is to utilize cornstalk ccllulose for
lining battleships, Materials for max
ing an imitation Of silk and for making
celluloid are among the products. Pa
per is another product. w. W, Gibbs,
Of Philadelphia, is president. and the
stockholders are Fasteners.
The owners Of the German ship Po-
trimpos, stranded at Long Beach,
Wash, have bought two 10, 600. pound
anchors Of the United States warship
Vandalia, which was wrecked at Samoa
several years ago, and will ship them
from San Francisco ut once, for use in
floating the Potrimpos next month. IL
is expected that the ship will be put
into deep water in less than a month.
A remonstrance against allowing
Chinese coal miners to be imported
into the state for the purpose Of min
inu caol at IItip,ipotou .uI a, har A,,,,y,,a
in place Of the striking miners, will be
placed before Governor Tanner in The
name OF the United Mineworkers of
Illinois. The governor will also be
asked 10 cooperate with the secretary
OF the miners federation in keeping
out the coolie labor. Secretary Ryan
says ii the Chinese come bloodshed
will surely result. II Governor Tanner
refuses to interfere President Mckinley
will be appealed to.
Three men were burned to death in
a fire at Hot Springs, Ark.
Marshal Blanco has extended a full
pardon to all rebels in Cuba.
A rumor has reached SimIa that a
native officer and 35 Sikhs belonging
TO the Kurram column have been inter-
cepted by the tribesmen in rayne
and slaughtered.
Two men met death in Southern Or.
egon. One was struck and hurled
from trestle by train on the South
ern Pacific, the other was run over by
the same train while switching in the
yard at Grants Pass.
A Naples dispat tch says Mount yesu-
vius is in great activity. A mass Of
lava is pouring out from the Artio do
Cavello crater. which opened in 1895.
Two wide streams are flowing down in
the direction of vitrova and Hiano del
Inestro.
A terrible famine is raging in the
province Of Archangel, Russia. Many
have already died. OF starvation. The
l5ople wander about reduced almost to
skeletons, the heads swollen to the size
OF baskets. The only means of subsist-
ence is tea.
The chamber of commerce of San
Francisco, has sent the following mes
sage to President Mckinley: ''In the
name of humanity and patriotism, the
chamber of commerce of San Francisco
respectfully urges upon you the prompt
dispatch Of the revenue cutter Bear to
the Arctic, under command of Captain
Healy, with discretionary orders, fully
equipped and provisioned, to rescue
over 400 men imprisoned by ice near
Point Barrow, and with authority to
use, il necessary, reindeer, at the gov
ernment station, to facilitate the land
ing"
The United States supreme court has
affirmed the decision of the lower court
In the case Of the interstate commerce
commission against the Alabama Mid
land and the Georgia Central railways,
and others. The case arose out of
charges by citizens of Alabama that the
companies were disregarding the long
and-short-haul clause Of the interstate
commerce law. The point at issue was
whether, when there was competition
between railroads and water transpor-
tation, the roads must file lower rates
with Interstate commerce commits
sion, and 1t was decided in the mega
tive by the court.
The anarchists of New York cele-
brated the 1lth anniversary of the con-
viction OF their comrades in Chicago,
at public meeting There were
about 500 anarchists in the audience,
Johann Most presided and spoke of the
"canaille of capitalism" which he said
congratulated itself that the social
question had been squelohed, and that
peace and order prevailed. He wanted
to tell the political bandits that "the
anarchists were not gathered to mourn
or to shed tears, but to sing song Of
triumph, for the future was not far off. !"
He called the governm ent a cowboy
government, with apologies to cowboys,
and tickled his hearers by saying only
one bomb was fired in the Haymarket,
but 1t did excellent execution.