Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1900-09-20
EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome of the Telegraphic
News OF. the World.
VERSE TICKS FR0m .'aE WIRES
An Interesting Collection ~ Items From
'he Two Hsnlisphercs Pres s,h
Ia Corienssd Tcsm.

The three silver parties in Colorado
will fuse.
France will accept Prince Ching as
q peace envoy.
Americans and French nearly
clashed In Peksn.
Lord Roberts is pushing operations
In Eastern Transvaal.
American soldiers took no part In
the looting OF Tien Tsin.
Many gulf coast towns In Texas suf.
cred severely from the storm.
The state department Is not ready to
begin negotiations with Ii Hung Chang.
New Hampshire Republicans nomi-
mated Chester B. Gordon for governor.
Colonel W. d. Shaw, OF Illinois.
will make Republican speeches In Ore.
gon.
The steamship San Pedro arrived nj
Seattle from the north with 300 pas.
scngers and $50, 900 In Nome gold.
Americans on their way to hunt gold
In Siberia got the best OF trick at.
tempted by Russians. and seven Yankees
took 80 Russians.
The controller Of the currency has
issued call for the condition Of ma
tional banks at the close Of business
September !, 1900.
The population Of Duluth. Minn as
officially announced by the census
bureau, is b2. go, an increase In popu-
lation OF 10, 1854, or 59.9 per cent from
1890 to 1900.
At Reno, Nevada, wreck on the
Nevada. California ~ Oregon extension
derailed IA cars Of beef cattle. reduc.
ing the cars 10 kindling wood and kill.
ing 20 bead OF fat steers.
The destruction OF shipping at Gal
weston may reduce the volume VI early
cotton deliveries at Lancashire, Eng.
land. Reports from there show that
20, 900 looms had stopped and that "a.
900 operators were idle.
The postmaster.gene has received
communication from +. w. vaille,
director OF posts in the Philippines,
showing that there will he q surplus OF
receipts over expenditures up to June
/ 80 OF $le,4a7. This does not include
fees for money orders OF $6,5 and
there IL one department. that OF Baco-
lor, yet TO hear from.
| The government transport Lawton
sailed from San Francisco on her
errand OF mercy 10 the far north.
/ With all available space below decks
devoted to berths. provided with bed
ding for nearly n thousand persons, be-
sides the regular complement OF off,
GERS and crew. the big transport will
| proceed 10 Cape Nome. stopping at
Seattle for supplies.
! General Joseph Wheeler has retired.
japanese troops will not withdraw
from Pekin.
i This American troops will winter In
the Philippines.
Republicans carried Maine by 81.
600 10 81, 900 majority.
An appeal Is issued by Texans in be.
half OF the Galveston sufferers.
i Germany and England are said "a
have agreed to remain in Pekin.
Rumor Is denied that stock grazing
on forest reserves Is TO be restricted.
Galveston's death list numbers fully
1000. Some estimates place IL higher
Texas City and many smaller towns
near the gulf were partially wercked
Oregon has been asked TO erect q
building at the Buffalo Pan-Americar
exposition.
Oregon prune prices have been
doomed by action OF the Californis
Fruit Association.
| Ninety.t three missionaries are known
to have been killed and l7U are missing
from the recent uprising in China.
Henry Watson died at his home neal
Albany, Or, aged 20 years. lie was 1
pioneer. OF lSl7, and an Indian wal
veteran.
The Eureka shingle mill ut Harrison
Idaho, was burned recently, The los
will amount TO about $4,000, o.
which only $4,000 is covered by insur
ance.
At Rock Creek, In Park county
Mont, Frank Forrest, ranch hand
aged 20, shot and killed Willis Hoard
q well.to.do rancher, aged so; fatally
wounded Miss Laura Linn. aged 10
and then committed suicide by shoot
Ing himself through the heart.
Henry A. Chittenden, a journalist o
note and the man who secured for Oak
land. CAL, the $250,000 Carnegie fro,
public library, is dead at that city o
a throat affiiction, aged 81 years, ii,
served as reporter and editor oil
Eastern papers. For 10 years he wa
employed by James Gordon Bennett
working ON the Herald and Telegram
Chicago police have recovered a 81,
00U poodle that was abducted the othe
day, but there are number OF SAB
. children quite hopelessly missing, 4
say nothing OF $ab parrot.
: Earl Calvin Titus, OF Iowa, and 0
the Fourteenth United States infantry
was tho first soldier to plant the Ameri