Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1900-01-04
EVENTS OF Tile DAY
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News Of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
AN Interesting Collection Of Items Fror
ths Two Hsn,ispheres Presented
~ y Condensed Form.


Butler has destroyed tho Colensc
iootbridge, and makes no further ut.
tempt to advance.
Armour's canning department, Chi
cago, IL rushed night and day filling
orders for the English army.
A drunken wife In San Francisco ha,
charged her husband with murder aud
he is being held by tho authorities.
Tho currency bill. according TO q
Washington correspondent. will be
rushed through the senate withou,
amendment.
The Great Northern will innugurats
q new departure. A large block OF the
company's stock " to be distributed
among the employees at par.
II IL said that England had beer
warned by General Butler. whom abe |,
now turning down. that II would moi
DO wise 70 attack the Beers until bet
ter prepared.
Should all Spanish war pensions nov
asked DO allowed, IL would cost $2..
725, 900. The Seventy first New York,
asks for annual allowances which Ak.
grcgate $s4, ,002.
Yaqui Indians plunder, kill and burn
villages and the Mexicans do not seen
10 make much headwAy In whipping
the aayages. An entire Mexican regi
ment seems 10 have disappeared.
Tho Fenians are organizing at Buffa.
10. N. r., for an invasion OF Canada
They expect, II Is said. TO raise l25, ,00t
men, and have two carloads Of arms
and munitions Of war in conccalment
There is disaffeetion among the Fres
Slater troops. They complain that
Cronje's men are overbearing and bot
ter fed than they. Tho Transvaaler',
are suspicious and the situation Ia be
coming grave.
The president OF the New York
prison association, who has made AL
investigation Of the Cuban prisons tells
u horrible tale OF the conditions there.
Offenders OF all classes sleep In filth
and vermin. No beds or clean clothins
Is provided. Money or influence Il
necessary before they can secure their
freedom.
The members Of the senate COMMITTEES
on privileges and elections declare
they will carry on the investigation o.
Senator Clark's case without regard Il
the decision OF the Montana supreme
court under which Welcome was dis
barred from practice on charges OF brib
cry In connection with the senator's
election.
Tho United States cruiser Mont.
gomery has been ON n secret mission
and the American flag may soon float
over Liberia. The little country haI
long desired an American protectorats
and 1t may now bo given. Mason O
Illinois will introduce resolution o.
inquiry In the senate, asking the pur'
pose for which the Montgomery wal
sent to Liberian waters.
The Grangers' warehouse ut Rose
burg. Or, was destroyed by fire; loss,
$4,000, fully insured.
A six-story building, 90 years old.
was destroyed by fire in New York, en-
failing loss OF 5000
Az San Francisco the Carlisle In
dians defeated the university of Cali
iornia In football game; score, 2 TO O.
julius Baldwin il dead at his home
at Tho Dalles. lie was one OF the old
est and most prominent pioneers Of tbs
Northwest.
Thirty men perished In colliery
horror caused by fire damp explosion
at the Braznell mine, near Browns
Vile, Pa.
Laurier's French. Canadian following
Is protesting against Canada sending
any more troops TO help England IN
South Africa.
Mrs. Potter Palmer will be appointed
by President Mckinley director OF til,
American woman's department at the
Paris exposition.
The state department will inyestiga gatt
the action OF the British government
In sezing several cargoes OF American
-four OF Dolagoa bay.
The trainwreck near Pomona, Cal.
In which one life was lost and foul
were injured, was caused by the break
ing OF a locomotive wheel.
At Rome the pope solemnly inaugu
rated the holy year by performing thS
impressive ceremony OF opening the
holy door Of st. Peters cathedral.
The charred remains OF w. J.
Thomas, u farmer, and his three chill
dren, we're found in the ashes OF theil
home, 4 miles southwest OF Chilli
cothe, Kan. II Is supposed that Thomal
murdered the children and then set fir,
10 the house and took his own life
About a year ago Thomas wife com
mitted suicide by taking poison.
Admiral and Mrs. Dewey have taker
pew In st. Paul's Roman Catholic
church, Washington.
The entire crop Of sugarcane and beet
for lS90-1900 will amount to about g.,
600, 600 tons--about the same amount
as last year.
Exports and imports at the five prin
cipal ports OF Porto Rico for tn,
months Of May, June and July show
balance OF trade In favor of these
ports Of $S47, ssa,