Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-06-04
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News of the World
rEese TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection or Items From
the New aud the Old World In .
Condensed aud Comprshensivo Form


A dispatch from Berlin says that
the powers, including Turkey, have as
sented TO the appointment OF Prince
Francis Joseph Of Battenburg as gov
ernor-general Of Crete.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Rome says the king Of Greece Is be.
ginning to reassert himself and will
soon be able to dismiss M. Ralli and to
appoint NJ. Kalaptano as premier.
AT Colfax, Wash, John Leonard.
who murdered Jacob Malquist last
July, was sentenced by Judge McDon-
aid to be hanged July 2. The sentence
did not affect the prisoner. lie had
nothing to say.
WhilesGeorge Allen, George Warren
and his son Willie were crossing the
Grand river at Fruita, Colo, in tenn
porary ferry, the cable broke and all
three were drowned. The river Is very
high, and is half mile wide at that
place.
The New York Herald's correspond
ent in Guatemala cables that the gov
ernment has issued decree sunspend-
ing specie payments for six months.
The banks lend the government ,500,-
900 pesos to be repaid in six months in
silver.
Officers OF the Cuban league have de-
cided to attempt the raising OF fund
OF 81 900, 600 in the United States, be-
lieving that this will enable the Gu
bans TO establish their independence.
The fund Is to be raised in two ways
by donations and by the sale OF gold
bonds at per cent, payable "ten years
after the evacuation OF Cuba by the
Spanish troops" +"
L. Q. Brice, whose claim to pro.
cess for making gold and silver from
chemically pure antimony and other
base metals has been under investiga-
ti0n by committee OF experts, with
only negative results, has made appli-
cation to the comm issioner of patents
for another test. In his request he as.
serts that the other commission did not
follow his directions in important par
ticulars.
The decree OF the Turkish govern.
ment calling for the expulsion OF all
Greeks from the Ottoman empire, has
been suspended. in view of the peace
negotiations
Governor Ellerbee has announced
that he will appoint Congressman
John l.. McLaurin to be United States
senator, in successin to the late Sena-
tor Earle.
The Cretan chiefs have sent docu.
ment to the Greek government declar-
ing,that they are almost unanimously
I in favor OF political union with Greece,
but asking the advice OF the govern.
ment as to the best course to pursue
consistently and with due regard to ma.
tional interests.
President Mckinley sent cablegram
/ to Queen Victoria, congratulating her
ON the celebration of her roth birthday.
The message was az follows: ITO the
Ambassador OF the UnitedsStates, Lon
don: The president desires you to con-
vey to the queen his sincere congratula.
tions and those of the American people
upon the celebration Of her roth birth
day"
Governor Lord has appointed J. v.
b. Butler, Of Monmouth, to succeed
himself; Judge John ]. DAILY, of Dallas.
vice J. G. White. and E. G. Pentland,
OF Independence. vice p. Haley, men,
bers of the board OF regents of the state
normal school at Monmouth, Or, each
to hold for six years. Judge q. q.
Blakely, Of The Dalles. has been ap.
pointed member OF the Oregon state
board Of pharmacy, vice M. M. Davis.
The 70-year-old widow Of Colonel
Samuel Colt, the millionaire firearms
manufacturer, has been sued by Nor
man Colt, OF Seattle, and james b.
Colt, of Washington, D. O., for big
slice OF the estate which has been in
control Of herself or her son since the
colonel's death in 1869. Mrs. Colt ID
accused of alternating her husbands
affection from his nephews by fraud
and deceitful statements, while he waf
in weak mental and physical state.
GlulntiHb ALSO dNeT 'hnV tho hiiii'"H
aires death was hastened by an over
dose of medicine.
Seven years ago James Brazell made
proposition to the English govern
ment TO send out $4,000 prospector'
covering an area of 10 miles through
British Columbia, in nothwesterly
direction from Rossland. The cost o
such an expedition was such that thu
English and Canadian government
would have nothing to 10 with it, thu
hazard being one that the home sec
retary would not countenance. The
proposition, however, has met will
the approval of syndicate Of Englisl
capitalists. who sends forth l6o mel
from San Francisco, with James Bra
N~ll at kha hand