Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1898-11-03
LATER NEWS.

lHo pTcbiHeut Ihh lsbuou ME AHHuAi
setting apart Thursday,
November "a, as Thanksgiving day.
The wooden steamer L. r. Doty was
lost in gale on Lake Michigan and Of
II people on board, none we're saved.
The French, anticipating the pro-
posed demands OF England, have with
drawn Major Marchand from Fashoda.
The French conrt Of cessation has dc.
cided in favor OF revision OF the famous
Dreyfus case. and the immediate pro-
visional liberation OF Dreyius,
At Lake Linden. Mich. boiler In
the Calumet a. Hecla boiler-house ex-
plodcd, killing three men instantly and
burning one seriously.
The San Francisco grand jury has
voted TO iDdict Mrs. Botkin on the
charge Of murder. The trial will be
held in the superior court.
The steamer l.. r. Doty, with her
crew OF is men. is believed by marine
men to have been lost In the great
storm in midlake of Kenosha, Wis.
Colonel George r. waring, jr.. for.
merly street commissioner OF New
York, 10 sick at his home In that city
with yellow fever. contracted at Hay-
ana.
At Richmond, Tex, Manuel Morris
and Peter Autre, negroes, were hanged
from a double gallows. Morris mur.
dcred and then outraged 6.year-old
blind girl. Autre assassiDated bis mis-.
tress.
Vice President Hobart narrowly es.
capped being killed in o runaway acci-
dent in Philadelphia. A team behind
which hc was riding bolted. and when
terrible disaster seemed certain a
police officer dashed out. seized the bits
Of the horses and stopped them.
Ex-S.ate Representative George
Ogle. Of Clackamas county. Oregon.
has refused TO accept the money voted
him by the recent session Of the legis-
lature for full pay for the disorganized
house Of 1897.
Three more warships are TO be sent
to Manila. Two will proceed by way
OF the Suez canal and one aoross the
Pacific. The Brooklyn will be the first
TO sail and will leave new York early
this week with supplies and ammuni-
tIon for Dewey's fleet. The Helena ID
soon to follow. The Yorktown Is to
leave San Francisco soon after being
placed In commission.
Cubans have resented the American
assumption Of authority at Manzanillo
and the situation IL strained.
General Butler has warned Secretary
Alger that some show of strength mus
be made soon or America will lose al
prestige With the Cubans.
The recent storm on the lakes wat
most furious. Chicago's water from
was badly battered in spots. The sever
Ity Of the blow was the greatest since
| 1894. The total damage is estimated
ut &sI, 800.
An electrician has made the startling
discovery that escaped electricity II
New York fellows underground pipe
and resulting electrolysis cuts away tn
bottoms of street.car rails and iroI
foundations OF all kinds Of structures.
Complete returns received by tn
treasury department show that the doc
umented American merchant shipping
June so, 1893. comprised 22, 706 YES
sells, OF 4, 747,7 ,7SS gross tons, compares
with 22,6SS vessels Of 4,769. .020 ton
on the like date of 1897.
Governor Tanner. of Illinois, say
that labor must not be imported to hi
state, and IL an attempt is made til
train carrying the imported taborer
will be met at the state line and sho
to pieces with gatling guns.
President Mckinley is said to have
plan to get back at Germany by exclud
ing impure German products. and thu
retaliate against the kaiser's govern
ment for the unjust discrimination cor
.. tinually being made against America
polk and other meat products.
, The Cuban debt question has bee
, finally disposed of at Paris. The Spar
ish peace commissioners acquiesced |
the refusal of the Americans to hay
the heavy burden saddled upon tn
United States. The cession Of Guam
America was agreed npon and all diffel
enoes regarding Porto Rico settled
mutual understanding.
The monthly statement Of the collie
tions OF internal revenue shows thu
during September last the total receip
: from all sources we're cal, ,7lS,SS9,
gain as compared with Septembe
1897, Of $s,S6S, ,s83. For the thr'
months ending September 80, 1898, Il
/ receipts were $7l, 1889, AGO, a gain
I compared with the same period in Is!
Q OF $a8, 198.S2S.
II Ia expected that the decision OF u
. secretary OF the navy to retain all Il
o vessels purchased during the war vi
: have the effect of causing a boom
American shipbuilding. II comes ju
/. at time when there is an unusual d
Z mand for ships flying the Amoric'
Z flag on account OF the expanding col
/ merce OF the United States in geners
q and particularly ON account of the d
oision of the administration to contl
= trade between American ports al
Porto Rico to American vessels.
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