Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1898-09-15
LATER NEWS
Tho naval station at Newport, II. l..
ie 10 be discontinued.

AHo uhVhi bthtIOn nv Nc%pOrt, ~. A.s
is TO be discontinued.
Chicago thugs seized and terribly
beat shipping clerk and carried of
1929 In cash intended for tirc CON.
pany's payroll.
Professor Crooks, OF the British asso.
citation for the advance Of science says
the worlds water supply will fall short
the coming century.
Fifty spanish prisoners captured al
tho naval battle July 8. off Santiago.
have sailed from Jersey City on the
steamer City OF Rome for homo. Tie
men had been held prisoners at Nor.
folk, Va.
Illinois has secured the commander.
in-chicf OF the q. A. H., In Colonel
James A. Sexton, Of Chicago; and
Pennsylvania has secured tho locat tion
Of 38d annual encampment at Phila'
delphia next year.
A dispatch from Manila says: The
attitude OF the Philippine insurgenl
leaders is daily becoming more danger.
Gus. So open 10 their opposition TO the
American authorities that the situation
Is strained and reconciliation may be
difficult.
Texarkana, Ark. 10 oyerrrun with
idle negroes, who arc said 10 have come
from the Northern districts OF Texas,
whencoL they were driven by white.
caps. who are alleged to have made
several murderous attacks on the
negroes.
AT the Washington state convention
held at Ellensburg, WASH, the Demo.
crats renominated James Hamilton
Lewis for congress by acclamation,
and the silver Republican convention
fenominated Congressman w. O. Jonet
by acclamation.
1t is officially announced that Senator
George Gray. Of Delaware. has been
selected as tho flith member OF the
Paris peace commission. This com.
pietes the personnel Of the commission.
which stands composed as follows: Ex-
Secretary OF State Day, Senators Frye
and Gray and Whitelaw Reid.
Two million dollars. for the purchase
Of the Cente, Star mine, in Rossland.
b. o., has been deposited with the
cashier OF the State Savings bank, in
Butte, Mont. Tho purchasers are an
English syndicate. Of which Sir Charles
Ross, now In New York, is the head.
The stockholders who sell out are prin.
cipally Butte people.
A dispatch to the New York Herald
from Ponce, Porto Rico. says that i'll.
ness among the United States troops IL
increasing. There are now more than
90 per cent of the men unfit for duty
within radius Of few miles OF Ponce.
There are 1000 soldiers In the hos.
pitala In some commands there art
30 per cent Of the men down with iever,
principally typhoid.
Millions Of feet OF fine timber have
been destroyed by forest fires along the
lower Columbia.
Thomas II. Wheeler. con OF General
Joseph Wheeler, and Second Lieuten.
ant Newton D. Kirkpatrick, First cav.
airy. were drowned while bathing near
the camp at Montauk Point.
Hawaiian adylces announce the death
OF Sergeant Oraond Fletcher, Of the
Second Oregon volunteer engineer
corps. He was formerly county sur
veyor of Multnomah county, Oregon.
A cable from Hong Kong announces
that committee Of three Filippinos,
appointed by Aguinaldo, has left Hong
Kong TO confer with President MoKin.
ley upon the future OF the Philippines.
Several salmon, averaging rs pounds
In weight, have recently been oaugh,
In the Sacramento river. From the
fact that the adipose FIN had been re-
moved from each they were identified
as marked fab liberated from the hatch.
cries on the Clackamas river, In Ore
gon, In 1897.
The president Of the Cretan executive
committee has notified the foreign ad.
mlrals that in view OF the massacre at
Gambia 1t is impossible to continue tho
effort to organize the administration
until the Turkish functionaries and
troops are withdrawn. lie demands
the convocatlon OF the Cretan assembly,
and proposes to place force of Cretans
at the disposal OF the international ad-
ministration.
Joseph Chamberlain says an Anglo
German understanding has been per-
fected, and treaty has been signed.
England is to support the Kaiser's pre-
tensions In Egypt Chamberlain also
gave Il out officially that England
iavors American retention OF tho Phil
lppinea One thing the Continental
powers most fear is that the United
6tates and Great Britain may enter
Into an international understanding.
A report Is published In London of a
daring plot to assassinate the GEAR at
Moscow last week. The plan Of the
conspirators was 10 allow gas TO escape
into house on tho route of the czar's
procession until the atmosphere in every
room was saturated. One OF their
number was to remain In the house
and strike light when the czar was
passing In the expectation that the
house would be blown to pieces and
the czar killed. The conspirator
would perish himself as sacrifice to
the cause. Tho explosion was mis-
timed and a staif officer and his wife