Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1900-07-19
LAIR NEWS.
American athletes we're successful al
the Paris tournament.

Mvely.
The Russian minister at Pekin Ii
said TO have been boiled 10 death by
Boxers.
Nine houses were entirely consumed
and many. others damaged by fire al
Dunsmuir, Gal.
A German paper says tho seizure Of
Kiao Chou has caused the present trou.
bic with China.
Fire at Durant, J. t., wiped out the
greater portion OF the town, causing q
loss OF 800, 200.
All foreigners have been removed
from the town Of Wa Chon. China, and
are safe at Shanghai.
United States Senator John n. Gear,
OF Iowa, died at Washington City OF
heart disease, aged 10 years.
A large part Of the bu dness district
Of Prescott. Arizona, were burned,
causing loss Of $1,000. 900.
The steamer City OF Topeka arrived
at Seattle fiom Lynn canal with be-
tween $3.50. 900 and 81 200, 900 in gold
dust from Klondike.
Twenty square miles Of forests were
blurred by fire started by firecracker
near Grub Gulch, Cal. The loss will
be hundreds OF thousands.
General rain has fallen over nearly
all India during the past few days and
the prospects are that crops have i'm
mense:y improved. The famine area
has generally been benefited.
Eight-hour shifts for all underground
men at the United Verde mine and an
increase OF 10 per cent in wages for
miners In certain portions Of the mine
were announced at jerome. Ariz.
Advices were received from sydney
that tribal wars are raging at the Solo.
mon group. There has been fierce
battle between the Marian (Boys) and
Malata tribes. The losses ON each side
were heavy.
Dynamite was exploded under a
Transit car In North st. Louis, and
four passengers were injured. A su.
burban car. the only union line in the
city. accidently ran into q strikers
bus wagon and injured ~ occupants,
two seriously.
Judge Thomas Aver, OF the United
States court OF appeals ut st. Louis,
has handed down an opinion declaring
that John p. Reese, the Iowa Miners
Union official who was sentenced to
In Kansas for violation
Of strike injunction, was illegally
Of his liberty, and granted a
writ Of habeas corpus releasing him.
Judge Aver ruled that the lower court
erred In incluing Reese under the in
junction.
William Ahles. an old resident Of
Tacoma, committed suicide.
Rich gold strikes have been made ON
the Koyukuk. some claims staked out
yielding - to the pan.
Robbers held up an Illinois Central
train near Paducah, KY. blew up the
express car and secured $4,000.
The empress dowager has ordered
the suppression Of the Boxers and the
protection OF the legations Mt Pekin.
A Pullman car was turned upside
down near Rsdding. CAL, the nine oc-
cupants were all more OIL less injured,
but none fatally.
Thirty.six bodies, horribly disfg
ured. have been recovered from the
hull Of the steamship Saale. recently
burned at Hoboken, N. j.
County Commissioner Campbell, of
Spokane county, WASH. was killed by
an o. r. q N. passenger train near
Latah, Idaho. He was crossing the
track In buggy.
A food OF gold is pouring in from
Alaska. The receipts OF the govern
ment assay office at Seattle in the fis-
cal year were SIS. $3.50, ,326. This
receipts may exceed $4,000, :
900.
The Chinese government is sorry for
the recent outbreaks, but holds the
powers hlamable. The empress dow.
ager says the attacks on Tien Tsin WEI
the result Of the bombardment OF Tien
Tsin.
Savages OF the Caroline islands at.
tackled 3 shipwrecked British crew,
sen iously wounding two Of the British,
and were only driven of when an
American cattle dealer came to the
rescue OF the British.
Or the Baltimore & Ohio railroad.
. deliberate attempt to wreck the
express, bearing $S,000,-
900 in gold to the subtresaury in New
York, came very near being successful
nc Folsom, n short distance outside OF
Philadelphia.
The general freight agents OF leading
roads have formed an arrange
ment for the pooling OF business. Joint
agencies are to be established at Kan
sas City, Omaha and st. Paul. A
Joint agent will be placed in charge of
the traffic at each Of these cities.
Colombian Tevolutionists, under Gen.
sral Juan b. Gonzales and Simon
Chaux, have captured the city OF Popa-
van, capital of the department of
Jauca. On the march TO Popayan the
-evolntionists took all the cities near
the Ecuadorian frontier, including the
Paport Tunico.
Robert Fitzsimmons will meet both
and Rubin next month.