Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1900-05-31
EVENTS or THE DAY
Epitomc Of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection ~ Items Frora
thu Two Iiemisph.res Presented
IL q Condensed Form.

British are within 40 miles Of
Johannesburg.
Much lumber IL going to Cape Nome
from Puget sound points
Rioting in st. Louis grows worse.
Three men and q girl wounded.
Ashland, Or. has quarantined
against San Francisco Cinnamon.
Republicans Of Alaska denounce Gov
ernor Brady. and ask for his retirement.
Republican leaders do not favor
Senator Washburn, Of Minnesota, for
yice.president.
Boer delegates will not be admitted
10 the floor OF the senate. Their mis-
sion il u failure.
The Iron Dyke mine. In Union coun
| ty, Or, has been sold 10 Pennsylvania
parties for ssb, 900.
william Il. Hearst, OF the San Fran
cisco Examiner. predicts the inaugura-
tion Of Bryan next spring.
Mexican government is still fighting
tho Yaquias, additional troops being
sent TO reinforce General Torres.
The war department refuses TO ac-
cept the designations oi volunteer off,
GERS now serving in the Philippines.
No municipal governments will be
organized in the hemp provinces OF
Luzon until the rebels are driven out.
Fire today destroyed Reeves Bros.
Boiler Works, at Alliance. Ohio. The
loss will reach $lsa, 900. with $40, 500
insurance.
Taylor and Beckham will both ba
candidates for reelection to the Ken
lucky govcrnorship this fall, and hot
election Is expected.
Colonel Bethune, while marching in
the direction OF Newcastle, was ann
bushed by party Of Beers and very
few OF his force escaped.
Nathaniel r. Hill, former United
States senator from Colorado. one OF
the wealthiest men In the state, Ia
dead at Denver. aged 6s.
The village OF Point Claire. 10 miles
from Montreal, Canada, has been almost
entirely wiped out by fire. Two hun.
dred people are homeless. No fatalities.
People in the neiqhborhood OF Falls
City. Or, are terrified by the report
that wild man il in tho neighbor-
hood. The man is believed TO be A.
r. Handy, who went hunting over q
year ago, and has not been heard from
since.
Frederic A. Bell. who made vast
fortune In the bituminous coal business
| In Philadelphia, and who was subse-
quently president of the Buffalo Eleyat.
ing Company, Is dead, ut his home in
Madison, N. j., aged 55. He leaves
an estate valued mt $25, 900. 900.
Fritz Meyer, murderer, was put 10
doath In the electric chair at Sing Sing.
An Ohio statesman shot and killed
his wife accidentally by taking her for
a rat.
Chicago Is afraid of the plague.
Coffee from an infected vessel found It's
way into the city.
The United States supreme court de-
cided the Kentucky goyernorship case
In favor OF Governor Beckham.
A bill TO prevent interstate commerce
in conyict made goods was passed in
the senate without division.
Chinatown OF Portland Is TO be
cleaned up 10 prevent the possible
propagation OF buhonic plague.
Two workrnen were killed and %
injured at a strikers riot in Berlin.
One hundred and three arrests were
made.
Mataaia, one OF the Samoan chiefs,
thinks he has been treated shabbily by
Germany, and a revolt may occur at
any time.
Filipinos lost 81 men killed in an
engagement at Agusan, In Cagyan
province. American loss, two killed
and three wounded.
Two cars OF kerosene were blown up.
a car OF bicycles smashed by collision
Ou ttto tNuftASfA taCAiAu NhACu uSCutEou
about nine miles east OF Spokane.
The postmaster general has suspended
Director-G General Of Post Rathbone and
appointed Fourth Assistant Postmaster.
General Brystow as acting director.
general OF post In Cuba.
| The Lodge amendment to the post
Office appropriation bill continuing the
pneumatic service in cities where COM
tracts have been made and appropriate
ing S22B, 900 for the same was adopted
by the senate, 3S to 30.
The Russian eml5assy has considera-
bly, perturbed governmental and diplo-
natio circles at Constantinople by In
yiting the immediate attention OF the
porte TO the deplorable situation OF
many districts Of Armenia. resulting
from brutal methods OF collecting taxes
and from prosecutions.
Berlin, with the approval Of the
kaiser, sent over 900, 900 marks for the
famine sufferers In India.
Six thousand passengers for Cape
Nome are booked for MAY sailings and