Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1900-05-17
LA1eR NEWS.
a cheese trust has been formed in
Chicago.


Lord Roberts entered Kroonstaad,
which had been evacuated by the
Transyaal forces.
Honolulu has been officially declared
clean port, the plague being Efficient
ly stamped out.
The senate. by q close vote, rejected
the proposition for an aTmor-plate plant
operated BY the government.
The towns Of Hilongos and Maasin,
In Leyte, have been captured by the
Americans with few casualties.
The American pavilion AZ Paris was
turned over 10 the exposition authorities
with impressive ceremonies.
A woman and 8-year-oId child were
burned to death At South Omaha, Neb.,
by starting o fire with gasoline.
Germany Is said to be supplying the
Filipinos with arms TO enable them 70
continue their fight against the United
States.
Charles Panstein. = murderous ath-
leto OF Butte, Mont, shot aud killed
q butcher, his wife and then committed
suicide.
The Populist national convention at
Sioux Falls nominated w. J. Bryan for
president, Charles A. Towne for vice.
president.
Before leaving Kroonstaad, President
Steyn issued proclamation making
Lindley the seat OF government OF
Orange Free State.
Middle-of-the- Road Populist conyen.
tion ut Cincinnati, nominated Wharton
r. Barker for president and lgnatius
Donnelly for yice-president.
The work OF the Chicago city di.
rectory enumerators for 1900, almost
completed, shows that the population
Of Chicago 10 not less than 2,00l 900.
Seven men were killed and 20 or
more fiFemen hurt by collision In q
tunnel in Philadelphia. The wreck
caught Ere, and the total loss 10 $l40,-
600.
Owing to the alarm being taken in
America over the influx OF Japanese
and the probability Of anti-Japanese
legislation, the japanese government is
making efforts 20 turn the tifs Of its
surplus population 10 Formosa.
The cholera continues TO rage In the
famine camps OF India. There have
! been 400 deaths in three days ut Man
dive So numerous are the cases At
! Cindra that Il IL impCsihs.s ~ collect
/ the bodies, which lie for days In the
sun. The people have fed and cannot
be induced TO return. A similar state
OF things prevails at Breach.
Plague has broken out at Hong Kong.
Ira Williams. a logger, was drowned
In the Necanicum river, near Astoria.
The government OF the Orange Free
State has been moved from Kronstadt
to Heilbron.
Republicans OF Illinois In convention
assembled, indorsed the Mckinley ad-
ministration.
Two men and two boys were killed
by the wrecking OF fruit train. near
Rawlins, Wyo.
Excessive customs duties imposed by
the military government are fast kill.
ing American trade In the Philippines.
The First and Second Irish fusiliers
sailed from Cape Town for Athlone,
ireland. to recuperate from their try
ing experiences In the field.
Captain Gushing, OF the revenue cut
ter Rush, which has sailed for the Arc.
tic, will take census OF the inhabit-
ants OF the Aleutian islands.
President Powell. OF the Order OF
Railway Telegraphers, issued an order
formally disseminating the strike OF
the Southern railway telegraphers.
During a riot between strikers and
workmen at the Buttonwood mine Of
the Parish Coal Company at Wilkes.
barre, Pa, about 30 men were badly
injured. the strikers dispersing the
workmen.
The British iron ship Sierra Nevada,
Captain Scott, from Liverpool, Janu-
airy 10, for Melbourne. Aus, was total
ly wrecked outside the harbor of the
latter place. Five OF her crew were
saved, but 22 others, including the cap
tain, peTished.
One hundred and fifty-seven japanese
immigrants have landed In San Fran.
ciaco M xvhiNh fuuhar 7k ware admit.
tod by certificates of landing signed by
the United States immigration COM
missioner at Vancouver, b. O., and 80
on certificates from the commissioner
at Seattle.
Franklin w. Fisk, d. D., whose res
ignation after al years incumbency oi
the office OF president Of the Chicago
Theological seminary. takes effect al
the close OF the current year, has been
elected professor emeritus Of the chair
OF sacred rhetoric of the institution,
The election is for life.
Tho secretary OF the treasury has di.
rectod Collector jackson, at San Fran
cisco, to detail an inspector from the
Chinese bureau to attend to the making
out OF papers for Chinese merchants
doimciled In this country who are on
the eve Of departing for China with the
invention OF returning. They will have
these papers on their return to thil
country to facilitate their landing.