Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-02-02
EVENTS OF TIE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News Of the World.
TRRsE TICKS PROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Ooliection Of Itsins From
tho Two Hssnispherss Presented.
liz Condensed Form.


National Livestock Association is In
session at Denver. Nearly 1000 dele.
gates arc present.
Governor q. A. Culberson has been
elected by acolamation In the Texas
Legislature to be United States senator.
70 succeed Roger @. Mills.
Amalgamalion 81 the copper mine
interests Of the Houghton, Mich. dis.
irict and OF Montana has been delayed
by the severe i.lness Of Levy Mayer.
Judge E. w. Woodbury.. who framed
the first prohibitory liquor law enacted
by the Maine Legislature. IL dead at
his homo in Bethel. In that state, aged
81 years.
Tho fourth annual convention Of the
National Association Of Manufacturers
10 In session In Cincinnati. II IL
thought full attendance Of 1900
members will be present
The Spanish minister OF war has do
cided TO abolish military marsbals. to
retire half Of the unattached generals
and 10 greatly reduce the number OF
officers on the active list In the interest
Of retrenchment.
A dispatch from Washington says:
There Ia reason TO believe that tile va
cancy IN the Anglo-American joint
high commission caused by the death Of
Mr.. Dingiey Will soon be filed BY the
appointment Of Representative Tawney.
Of Minnesota.
The commissioners sent by the Cuban
assembly TO Washington 10 learn what
the United States government will 10
about paying the Cuban army. have
sailed for Havana. General Gomez
secretary, Captain Kohly, said that the
commission had obtained part OF what
they asked.
No more names will be considered
for appointment to any branch Of the
postal service In Cuba. The postoiiice
department has been overwhelmed with
applications for these appointments,
and enough eligible names are nov on
file 10 fill all possible emergencies for
five years to come.
Heavy rains. unusual in this lati-
tudc at this time OF the year. have In
jured the spring crop OF sugar cane In
Nicaragua. The coffee crop In Mica
ragua. now beiag gathered. will not OK
coed hall Of the annual crop. Laborera
are asking high priccs TO gather the
harvest and arc indisposod 10 work.
Boston capitalists are said to have
made an offer OF &s, 500. 900. Spanish
gold, for the San Jose warehouses and
wharves at Havana.
Hundreds Of caitlemen are in Dem
yer to take part in the convention oi
tho National Livestock Association.
The attendance will he large.
General Russell Hastings, OF Massa.
chusctts. has been chosen for appoint.
rheut as director Of the bureau Of
American republics, 10 succeed the late
Joseph Smith.
Bank notes to the value OF sec. .00c
have mysteriously disappeared. from
PARIS bank. In Bartholomew Lane,
London. England. II Is supposed that
they have been stolen.
A dispatch from Omaha says: The
Twenty-second infantry has received
orders to move at once for San Fran
cisco. The regiment has orders to sail
from San Francisco on the 2Sth.
| A bill has been introduced In con
gress which provides that mo person
living In OF practicing polygamy ahal
DO eligible TO bo q member OF eithel
house OF congress. nor shall such per
son be permitted TO hold seat therein. =
The secretary Of war has completet
the organisation Of colonial commits
sion to undertake the adjustment OF al
matters OF detail respecting the govern
ment OF territories acquired during tn,
war occupied by the United StateI
forces.
! Rev. Edward II. Budd, who wal
thought to have been lost on the Pau
Jones, 10 alive. The vessel was dc
tained In Pass In 0utre 80 long By
ioggy weather that Mr.. Budd grew i'm
patient and left the party, returning t
New Orleans
As result Of the assignment OF the
battle-ships Iowa and Oregon to til,
Pacific and Asiatic stations respective
ly. and tho decision 10 dispatch, th,
cruiser Newark to tine Pacific coast. tn
commissioned naval force OF the Unite,
States is about equally divided be
tween the two oceans.
i The treasury department has givei
instructions to the customs officials a
6itka and Skagway to stop the trans
portation of liquor under convoy from
Canadian ports through the White Pas
70 the Northwest territory. lnforma
tion has reached the department tina
instead OF being shipped ACROSS tho Dor
dor into the territory this liquor ha
been returned secretly to the localit,
Of Skagway and disposed Of thvle, con
: trasy to law.
Minor Nsws Items.
The Connecticut supreme court ha
rendered O decision that the propert