Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1900-05-31
lA1EH NEWS.

On Johannesberg, and big battle is
imminent.
Dick Croker says he believes Bryan
will beat Mckinley. He does not com
slider Dewey 'fn It,"
The steamers Geo. w. Elder and
Nome City sailed from Portland for
Cape Nome with 750 passengers and
large quantities Of freight.
The secretary Of war has awarded
tho contract for the construction OF q
breakwater at San Pedro. CAL, TO the
California Construction Company, at
It's bid Of ~. .a75, 900.
Arthur Rehan. brother OF Miss Ada
Rahan and Mira. Oliver Doud Byron.
died In Brooklyn, aged 88 years. He
had managed many OF AuRustin Daly'i
theatrical road companies.
Timothy d. Blackstone, formerly
president Of the Chicago q Alton rail.
road, and ono OF the Oldest and most
prominent railroad officers In Chicago,
died suddenly at his residence In that
city.
Captain Page Mccarthy, one of the
principals In the famous Mccarthy.
Mordeci duel, Is dead, the result OF .
long illness. The duel, which tool
place at Richmond, Va, in the spring
Of 1878, was one Of the most celebrated
since the civil war.
General Wade. who was directed 10
proceed 70 the Northern Cheyenne In.
dian agency, NJ Tongue river. Mont.
aud investigate the reports that the In.
dians had the Messiah craze, and
intended 70 rise against the whites.
has telegraphed the adjutant- general
that he could find no reason to antici-
pate trouble. He says the Indians are
in bad condition, but peaceable and
well disposed.
Commissioner Hermann, OF the gen.
eral land Office, has issued an order In.
structing superintendent OF forest re-
serves throughout the West to plant
suitable aplings and trees whore por-
tions OF the forests have been destroyed
by fire. lie is also making arrange.
ments for the establishment OF tele-
phone system, which 10 to connect all
the forest stations In certain districts
so that in the future in case OF fire
help may be summoned immediately.
Collector OF Internal Revenue Lynch
IL making preparations 20 establish m
office In Honolulu. the Hawaiian
islands having been added TO the Dis.
trict OF California. The internal reve.
nue. laws go into effect In Hawaii on
June i4. All deputies at the Honolulu
office will be selected from citizens Of
Hawaii. The stocks OF beer. wines,
liquors. opium, cigars and tobacco now
in the islands will be inspected and In.
yentoried. After June ID goods from
the United States must be stamped be.
fore being sent 70 the islands.
Eight hundred Beers surrendered at
Vryburg, north OF Kimberley.
Plague In Honolulu has been effect
ually stamped out, not recording 9
single case in 40 days.
Recent injunction decisions have
stirred up the labor unions. and they
urge concerted action.
The auditor OF the war department
finds II big task 10 straighten ont the
Cuban and Puerto Rican finances.
Twenty-Five miners, 10 whites and IL
Negroes. lost their lives in an explo-
sion in coal mine near Raleigh N. g.
/ At Pueblo, COL, negro fiend who
had rayished and murdered two girls in
an orphan home, was lynched by a
mob.
Grand Chief Arthur, Of the Brother
hoou Of Locomotive Engineers. was re.
elected at the convention at Milwaukee,
Wis.
General Warren occupied Douglas
after heavy fighting and without sus-
tanning any loss. The Beers have re-
treated TO the north.
The will OF the late Benjamin ii.
Howell, the sugar merchant, OF New
York. disposes of an estate valued at
81, 300, 900, and gives $40, 900 10 Brook.
lyn charities.
The Methodist general conference at
Chicago, after considerable discussion,
voted to abolish the time limit ON pas
torates. The result OF the vote was re-
ceiyed with great applause.
Another note regarding the Ameri.
can indemnity claim has been handed
to the sultan's envoy, Terofik Pasha.
II IL couched in more precise terms. in
sisting on prompt settlement.
Considerable California capital has
been invested in an extensive mining
enterprise in Siberia and Manchuria.
Concessions for large tracts of land
have been obtained from the Russian
and Chinese governments, and the work
Of development will soon begin.
At the Kansas Democratic conven-
tion, at Wichita. to elect delegates to
the national convention, in his opening
prayer, Rev. Dubber set the delegates
wild by tho praying of the nomination
and triumphant election OF Bryan,
The applause lasted several minutes.
The water OF largo lake near the
town Of Zapotalan, Mexico, disap.
peared in great fissure in the earth,
produced by an earthquake. The bed
/ Of the former Lake Ia now dry and the