Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-11-16
LATER NEWS.
Corporate franchises will be taxed
In Texas.

and II almost past the danger point.
Montreal was visited by q 8se. dc.
stroying 100000 worth Of property.
Russia wants q loan. The effort to
got II in Germany resulted in failure.
The London fog is said to be 30 thick
that IL obscures tho actors in theaters.
Money ID going back East TO relieve
the stringcncy thcre due 10 . natural
movement.
Admiral Schley says the completion
OF the Nicaragua canal would make the
American navy inyincible.
Within tho last week there has been
much fighting at Ladysmith, but no dc.
cisive results are attained.
Banban and Tarlac have been taken
by the Americans, but Aguinaldo's
whereabouts Ia az much mystery as
before.
Official returns are very slow in Ken.
tucly. Both the Democrats and Re.
publicans claim victory, and . con.
test is sure.
The Mexicans had two fights with
the Yaquis in which the Indians were
repulsed, but not without considerable
loss to the Mexicans.
The Union Iron Works, OF San Fran
cisco, is said TO have been absorbed by
the seiigman syndicate. the gigantic
shipbuilding trust recently formed.
The Cherokee Indians will sell out
and leave this country. They disap-
prove OF the allotment plan. Mexico
has given them grant Of 5000, 200
acres.
An unknown man had one Of his legs
torn from his body while attempting to
board moving train near Kansas City.
He lived but Is minutes, dying in
horrible agony,
During shopping tour in New York,
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey we're COM
PEELED to seek refuge In store to avoid
the crowd Of curious people who were
pressing them.
Assistant Secretary Allen, In his an
nual report, favors the naval reserve.
He believes that 1t should be reorgan-
lied In connection with the regular
navy establishment.
Relations between Japan and Russia
are strained. The trouble is over
Corea, and the Mikado's government is
thought to be anxious to try conclu-
sions with the car.
A long.lost will has turned up, and
with IL the prospect that the estate OF
the late Andrew ]. Davis, the Montana
millionaire. will again burden the re-.
cords OF the Montana supreme court.
Mabalacat in Luzon has been occu.
pied by the Americans.
The Washington volunteers were pre-
sented with medals in Seattle.
Majors General Ludlow, civil COVER.
nor of Havana, is visiting in New York.
Twelve socialists and six liberals
were elected to the Berlin municipal
council.
The late John s. Pillsbury, OF Mime
apolis, left 100000 to a home for
children.
In Snohomish county $500 men are
employed in getting out logs and
shingle bolts.
Twenty men OF the Forty regi-
ment were injured in railway acci-
dent on their way to San Francisco.
Nez Perce Indians have demanded
more money than is paid for railway
rights of way through their reservation.
Assemblyman Mazet, of New York,
claims no was defeated by fraud, but
his friends say they will contest the
seating of Stewart.
The danger OF Basuto uprising is
now admitted to be imminent in South
Africa. and may render necessary the
mobilization Of second army corps.
An agreement as to the partition oi
Samoa has been reached at Berlin be-
tween England and Germany, subject
to the approval Of the United States.
A bark is loading l,000,00 feet OF
specially selected timber at Vancouver,
B. c., for the Cramps. OF Philadelphia,
to be used in building United States
ships.
The civil governor, counsellor, judges
and secretaries who constitute the new
government OF Negros, sent greeting to
President Mckinley on taking their
offices.
A cable message from General Otis
says that Major Hugh SMcGrath (cap-
tain Fourth cavalry died at Manila
from wounds received at the battle OF
Novaleta, month ago.
Frederick j. Cross, OF Honolulu, has
the exclusive rights to operate the Mar.
conf system OF wireless telegraphy in
the Samoas. 1t is expected to have
the system in operation January /.
| A 100000 gold brick, the largest
ever melted in Canadian mine, Is to
be sent down from the Kootenai dis.
trict shortly. This years wash-up il
the richest ever known in the district.
Russians and the Japanese on the
Corean peninsula are ON the most
friendly terms. The Russian and Jap
anese ministers assert that the reports
of friction are unfounded and are in
tended to distract attention from Other