Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-07-23
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News Of the World.
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She View ana the UiN world In
Condensed and Comprehensive Form
The Minnesota state board OF par.
dons refuses TO pardon the Younger
brothers
The National Republican League con
vention met In Detroit. Delegates wer,
present from nearly all the states
The departure from Portland Of tn,
British ship Glenelvan brings the grais
feet for the present season up to II
vessels compared with 6S the year be-
fore.
Advices from Constantin0ple !ndicat
that the sultan Is obdurate regardin.
the acceptance Of the peace proposals.
Edhem Pasha is Fastening back to Do
mokos, and the furlougha Of all Turkish
officers have been Cancelled, in readiness
for renewal Of hostilities.
Advices from the south Of France
show that the destruction by the foods
there was greater even than earlier re.
ports indicated. Tho losses are esti-
mated at 200, 600, 900 francs in the aggre-
gate. Hardly village has escaped
damage, and the number Of .,ersons
drowned is nearly 800.
e. M. Waite, about 10 years old. who
was the oldest printer in Oregon.
dropped dead in Salem. The printers
were 10 play the BARRIERS game Of
baseball. Waite carried printers
towel AZ banner for the printers in
the parade. He tainted from the heat
and never regained consciousness.
The parliamentary South African
commission, which has been inquiring
into the Transvall raid, has agreed
upon its report. The report will ex-
press an emphatic opinion that what.
ever justification there might have
been for action on the part OF the peo-
pie Of Johannesburg, there was none
whatever for Cecil Rhodes conduct ir
subsidizing, organizing and stimulat-
ing an armed insurrcction against the
government Of the Transvaal.
Henrique Laidley, Portuguese vice
consul at San Francisco, is at Monterey,
CAL, at the request Of the Portuguese
minister at Washington to make thar
ough investigation regarding the dis
turbance over the hauling down of the
Portuguese flag from the pole above
Manuel Ortin's grocery store and the
burning Of the flag. 0rtin's notIca-
tion TO the minister at Washington re-
suited in the investigation Laidley
declares II the affair is not satisfactorily
explained the Portuguese government
will demand an apology from the Unit
ed States.
Reports from the North say the Al
aska Commercial Company's steamer
Arctic was crushed by ice.
The International Goldmining con-
vention at Denver selected Salt Lake
City as its next meeting place.
BY the explosion OF lamp Samuel
w. Brown, miner. and his wife,
Mary, were burned to death in bed at
Pittsburg.
Five thousand wrought nail workers
Of South Staffordshire and North
Worcestershire have struck for 10 peT
cent advance in wages.
Preparations are on foot in Dublin
for the Parnell anniversary demonstra-
tion in October, and it is believed this
year 1t will be larger than ever.
The British government has notified
the collector Of customs at Vancouver
that no duty will be charged on salmon
brought from the United States.
The statement Of the Bank Of Spain,
which has been formally gazetted, has
| increased the adverse comment on the
bank management. II shows a note
circulation Of 1876, 100000 pesatas in
excess OF the authorized issue.
Fully 900 men are employed on the
branch line from SLOGAN, crossing to
SLOGAN lake. About 450 men are on
each end Of the line working toward
the center, and the contract requires
that grading be concluded by October 10.
II is expected that trains will be run
over the road by December l., Twelve
miles Of wagon road have been complet-
cd from the crossing inland.
The difficulty growing out Of the
boundary dispute between Costa Rica
and Nicaragua Is nearing the point
where diplomacy and arbitration will
be out OF the question. The boundary
commission appointed by ex-President
Cleveland shortly before he rein-
quished his Office has suspended work
for two months to watch the actions Of
both sides before proceeding further.
What is said to be the greatest oil
discovery ever made is reported from
Alaska. Some gold prospectors several
months ago ran across what seemed to
be lake of oil. The lake was fed by
innumerable springs, and the surround
ing mountains were full of coal, They
brought samples to Seattle and tests
proved it to be OF as high grade as any
ever taken out OF Pennsylvania wells.
1t is said there ID enough oil and coal
In the discovery to supply the world.
It is close to the ocean; in fact, experts
say that the oil ooseS out into the salt