Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-11-16
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphit
News of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection Of Items Frosx
tho Two Hcmispheres Presented
In Condensed Form.


made by swindlcr Captain Carter will
be tested.
Tho convention agreeing to arbitra.
tion OF Samoan claims was signed at
Washington.
influential San Diegans will build q
trarscontinental railroad Via Salt Lake
from their city.
Huntington denies that tho Pacific
Mail Steamship Company has Gbsorbed
the New Japan limo.
Tho bicycle, automobile and rubber
trusts now propose one great concern
with o capitalization OF 5000, 900, 900.
Wisconsin lumber dealers have Just
bought 1000, 900 acres Of timber land
on tho Pacific coast. They paid
30. 600, 900.
Owing to tho poor teiegraphic and
cable service from South Africa tho
London papers can get no news fos
their special editions.
The submarine .orpedo-boat Holland
has been successfully tested by Uncle
Sam and a purchase will probably soon
be made by the navy department.
The battleship Oregon has sailed
from Hong Kong, supposedly for Cebu.
Sho sailed sooner than expected and
was seemingly unprepared for sca.
A boats crew OF the Britieh ship
Pathan, recently chartered for trans.
port service. refused to accompany the
ship to the Philippines. Twenty-one
Of them were placed In irons.
A st. Petersburg correspondent says
that Russia, France and Spain have de-
rided to intervene and suggest a-bitra.
ton between England and the Beers II
Germany is willing TO cooperate.
Otis cables that tho Thirty fifth In.
iantry has reached Manila. This is the
regiment which was quartercd at Van.
couyer and embarked from Portland.
Private Cleary died on the voyage.
The Berlin correspondent OF the Paris
Figaro says Emperor William is re.
solved to occupy Tiger bay, south OF
Angola, on the west coast Of South
Africa, II England occupies Delagoa
bay.
Russia wants us to define our policy
in the partitioning of China. She
seems anxious to know II we are In the
scramble for q port Of entry and .
sphere Of influence. The impression is
that America will only insist upon an
open.door policy and protection Of her
treaty rights. Great Britain and Japan
will support her in these demands.
The Indiana, with the Tennessee
volunteers on board, is overdue at San
Francisco.
Tho Tacoma News announces author.
itatively that the Seattle Post.Intelli.
gencer has been sold. The purchasers
name Is withheld.
The officers OF the transport Ohio,
which has arrived at San Francisco,
report that there is scarcity OF food
on tho island OF Guam.
President Samuel h. Donnelly, oi
tho International typographical Union,
was accorded enthusiastic receptions
by the printers OF Portland and Seattle
and Spokane.
An ungrateful Indian, who had been
furnished with food and lodging, muir
dered q Nevada white woman and her
infant son. Robbery was the motive
Of the assassin.
The Russian steamer Dolney Vastok.
which was to have entered the trans.
port service, arrived in San Francisco
too late. q British steamer having
taken her place.
War in tho Transvaal has effected
the markets OF the East and specula'
tive operations have ceased. The effect
on prices, however. has not been al
great as anticipated.
A divorce has been granted to Count
Won Moltke, the emperor of Germany'I
nid-de-camp. The decree places the
entire guilt on the wife. The case hal
caused sensation In court circles fol
. year past.
Having learned that White Ia still
safe at Ladysmith, the British are Civ
ing attention to General Joubert's plaI
for the conquest of Natal Such q
movement is regarded as more daring
that Sherman's march to tho sea.
Judge Schoheld, of Illinois, has ar
rived in San Francisco from Samol
and Hawaii. He says tho natives o
Samoa should be allowed to work out
their own salvation. lie reports the
landgrabbers as doing rushing bust
ness in Hawaiian islands.
Swindlers in Wall street, New
York, have been selling washed d-out
Cancelled revenue stampl, the traffic
having reached enormous proportions
1t is estimated that 10 per cent of the
daily sales were fraudulent and thai
the government has been losing $6, ,00(
q day In the deal.
Bourke Cochran, the famous Nov
York orator, was once porter for A
I. Stewart.
Charles E. Littleheld, who succeed
Nelson Dingley in congress, will be th'
tallest man in that body, being si1
feet Ave inches In height.
A call has been issued by the execu
tive council for the nineteenth annua
convention OF the American Federation
Of Labor, to BIO held ut Detroit, Mich.