Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1898-09-01
What Has Happened In the
Civilized World.
GIVEN IN THE PRESS DISPATCHES
a Compiote Review of the News of the
Past Seven Days in This and
All Foreign Lands.

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beginning TO ask the government for 70.
lief A famine Is feared.
General Merritt las assumed go7orn-
or's duties In the Philippines, and the
command OF tho army al Manila has
been transferred to General Otia
Correspondence published BY Secro-
tary Long goes TO show that Commo.
doro Hchloy agreed with Admiral
Sampson as TO the danger OF entering
Santiago harbor as long as the mines
wero In position.
| According 10 dispatch from Madrid
10 London news agency there has
been serious fighting between the Span
| ish and insurgents In Cuba In which
insurgents lost 800 killed and wound
cd. The report cannot bc confirmed
from other sources.
Madrid Is irritated at tho failure OF
the Cubans 10 respect the protocol In
Cuba. Trouble may possibly follow,
and the Spanish government threatens
10 send the Spanish troops in Cuba
against the insurgents unless the latter
cease their reprehcnsibie actions and
abide by the terms OF the protocol.
| The first mastering out orders Issued
include eight regiments Of infantry, Ave
| batteries and six troops Of cavalry.
j The list as made up by the war depart
ment include rs batteries Of artillery,
nine regiments oi cavalry and G2 regi-
l'ments Of infantry. Both batteries Of
Oregon artillery are included In the
4 order.
A Madrid dispatch says the govern
ment has advioes from Rios. governor
OF the Viscayas islands. and successor
oil General Jnudcnez In tho governor
gcneralship OF the Philippines, saying
there has been bloody lighting between
Spanish troops and insurgents, with an
estimated loss to the lattor Of 500 mon,
Tho Spanish losses were "unimport-
ant. = The dispatch says number Of
insurgcnt chiefs were captured aud
shot.
A Manila dispatch says that at a
conference hold between the insurgents
and Americans. the formor declared
emphatically they were Willing TO CO.
operate with tho Americans and to SUR
render their aims promptly il assured
tho islands would remain either an
American or British colony, under the
protectorate of either nation. Other
wise the insurgcnt leaders asserted they
would not dare to disarm.
4 Orders for releasing 100000 volun-
eoIs have been issued by the govern.
nent.
John Polo was drowned by the oap-
sizing OF his boat during the iishboat
raoo at tie Astoria regatta.
The supreme lodge, knights Of Py-
thias, met In biennial session In the
hall Of the house OF representatives at
indianapolis, Ind.
Tho British expedition In tho Soudan
reports terrible scenes Of slaughter by
the deryishes. Everywhere are evi.
dences ol misery and decay.
Tho aith annual meeting of the
American Bankers Association con-
voncd at the Broadway ihcater, Denver,
Colo, Tuesday. Most OF the 500 dele
gates Q; pected were present
There arc now in the hospitals at
Camp Wikoff, MoLtauk Point, moro
than 1900 men. OF these about 900
are In the general hospital in deten-
tion. Many OF those in the general
hospital arc improving. and some are
now being discharged as well every
tlaY.
Eight men wore killed, possibly 10,
and Ave injured, two fatally, at the
Carnegie tunnel on Charters division
Of the Panhandle railroad near Pitts
burg. Pa. The accident was due to the
wall OF the tunnel caving In. The
dead are, John Jones, foreman; Felix
Mills, a laborcr, and six unknown
foreigners.
| General Merritt has sent word to the
/ war department that ho needed no
more troops. This statement was In
response to an inquiry from the White
House. The president and his war
Etlhnhkolh MN Nuh piNonuu Win tHu
generals dispatch. They accept 1t as
an assurance that the American COM
m6nder has the Filipinos under his
control.
Coincident With the West Indian
sugar conference to assemble at Barba-
i does September 8. for the purpose OF
protesting against the sacrifice Of the
colonies, Jamaica is preparing plebis-
cite to the British parliament, request.
ing permission to endeavor to arrange
for annexation 10 the United States,
Tho promoters Of this movement are
cndeavoring to secure intoI-colonial CO.
operation, but arc not depending
upon II.
Minor News Itoms.
John II. Lane, atorokccper of the
United States transport Mlnnowaska,
dropped dead on his boat at Savannah.
Ga.
Il The total earnings Qf 5a railroads for
tho month Of jury amounted to e24,-
428, ,4S3, an increase Of S660,a7e over
tho same month In 1897.
One OF the first business enterprises
70 follow the acuuiaiti0n OF Porto Rico