Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1898-12-29
LATER NEWS.


peace commission, has arrived home.
A loaded lumber schooner 10 ashore
vt Cannon beach, near Elk creek, Or.
Tho recently appointed register Of
the Nulato land Office In Alaska 10
missing.
In a trainwreck near Lexington. KY,
nine trainmen were injured, two prob.
ably fatally.
lmportations Of manufactures from
Great Britain into the United States
seem likely to show an unusually small
total in the year 1898.
The United States troops have begun
q regular patrol Of the city Of Havana.
In order TO guard against possible dis
orders. General Lee is arranging for
the evacuation day parade.
Public men In Office, especially those
In congress. newspaper correspondents
dnd everybody who Is supposed TO have
influence in shaping legislation or with
the administration are being flooded
with literature from foreign countries
In relation 10 our changed condition Of
affairs as result OF the American
Spanish war.
Fire destroyed the house occupied by
Senior Don Carlos Morla Vicuna, the
Chilean minister, at the corner OF Con-
necticut avenue and N street. Wash
ington. The roof and top story were
destroyed and the furniture OF the
whole house was ruined by smoke and
water, eniailing loss OF $4,000. The
minister and his family barely es-
capped.
At Brookline, Mass, by the sudden
breaking Of tha Ice on Loyerett pond. in
the park system, 80 young girls and
boys were thrown into eight feet OF wa
ter, and though numerous spectators
and the police worked hard to rescue
the children. three we're drowned before
help could reach them. They were ].
w. Clattenburg, jr., 10 years old; Ar
thur Collins. ~ years DID,. and Emma
Miller. IA years old.
The cotton receipts at Houston. Tex,
since the beginning OF the present sea-
son have been 1900. 900 bales. record
never equaled by an interior town or
port Of the United States, and which
will be celebrated by banquet to
which all the the prominent civic OFF,
ciala and cotton men will be invited.
II is estimated by Secretary Warner. Of
the cotton exchange. that 500, 600
bales will yet be received during the
remainder OF the season.
Senator MeBtide OF Oregon. has In
troduced bill making Astoria the ter
minus Of the trans Pacific cable.
According to new time card Of the
Great Northern TO go into effect jam
ary 4. the transcontinental schedule
will be reduced i2 hours.
| Congress has adjourned until Janu-
ary 4. After the holiday recess the
Tights OF General Wheeler and others TO
hold their seats will be inquired into.
Among network Of wires 30 feet
above the ground, Roderick Chisholm.
la Chicago electrician, was slowly
burned TO death in sight OF several
hundred spectators.
Colonel +. S. Barrett, national pres
ident Of the Sons OF the American Rev
olution, was killed by falling from a
window 81 his home at Concord, Mass.
He was 60 years Of age.
In Louisville, KY, il is estimated BY
the health department that there are
10, 900 cases Of grip. The rayages Of
the disease have been so widespread
that In some cases business has been
seriously impeded.
Hereafter brooms will cost cents
more apiece. Members Of the Broom
Manufacturers Association of the
United States met in Chicago and de-
cided TO advance the price Of brooms "a
cents dozen.
A rear-end collision occurred on the
Phcnnsylvania railroad three miles
from Railway, N. j., which resulted in
the loss OF two lives and injury to many
persona. The killed are William q.
Dewolf, a railway clerk; and +. knight,
. colored porter Of the sleeping.car.
While examining state documents OF
the 10th century in the Vatican library
recently, Able Cozzaluzzi, assistant
librarian, found the original manu-.
sTipt OF treatise by Galileo ON the
tides. The manuscript is all in Cali.
leo's handwriting, and ends with the
words written at Rome in the Medici
Gardens on January s, 1915.
The president has nominated Ethan
A. Hitchcock, OF Missouri, to be secre.
tafy Of the interior. MI. Hitchcock il
ct present ambassador to Russia. lie
was appointed minister more than a
year ago. and when the rank was raised
TO an embassy, he was re-appointed.
He Is wealthy lawyer and business
man OF st. Louis, and was foi some
time an extensive plate-glass manufac.
turer. He is great grandson of Ethan
Allen, OF Revolutionary fame.
The table of proposed stations oI
United States troops, submitted by
General Wade, shows Il total OF 10000
troops, distributed as follows: Province
Of Pinar del Rio, 5000; province Of
Havana, $4,000; province of Matanzas,
10, 900; province OF Santa Clara, 10, 600
province of Puerto Principe, 2,O00
province of Santiago. 1000. The
recommendation of the commission, Il
carried out. would require 45 regiments
Of infantry and five OF cavalry, with 81,
batteries OF light artillery, four fol
Havana and two for Matanzas.