Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1900-04-12
LATER NEWS.

Emily Coghlan, the actress, died ut
Stamford, Conn. aged SO years.
Half the village OF Proctoryille, Ohio,
was destroyed by fire. Loss 5000, 900.
A German scientist has invented q
compound which mclts iron In five
seconds.
Beers In Natal are becoming active,
and an engagement with Bullcr 10 i'm.
minent.
The German flag has been raised over
the Samoan islands OF Upolu, Manono,
Apolina and saru.
Captain John Goldman, tho famous
advocate Of free ships and free trade. 10
dead at Boston, aged SO.
The statue Of Maud Adams will. aoJ
be admitted to the Paris exposition be.
cause II IL d personal exhibit.
At Pittsburg, Pa. q big cight-story
department. store was destroyed by fire,
causing loss Of over $1,000, 900.
Another brother OF President steyn,
OF Orange Free State, was captured at
Karee Siding, and 10 now At Bloem-
fontein.
The squadron OF the United States
navy, recently formed in Chinese
waters, Is to have Its headquarters ut
Hong Kong.
Forty people lost their lives at Austin,
Texas, due to an overflow OF the Col
orado river. Property destroyed ex-
ceeds $4,000, 900.
Walter Il. Groffe, the defaulting
cashier Of the Adams Express Company
ut Dayton, Ohio, who left the city
October last. taking with him $3. 600
Of the corporations money, has been
arrested In San Francisco.
The sitution In AshaEtce 10 unchang-
ed. A Coomassie runner reports that
ali the Ashantee tribes are in arms, the
king of Bekwal alone remaining loyal.
II Is believed that the Ashantee golden
stool has been found and that the rising
is due TO the endeayor OF the governor
OF the colony, Sir Frederic Mitchell
Hodgson, 10 take possession Of IL.
The American Plate Mirror Company
was chartered at Harrisburg, Pa, with
capital OF $50, 100000. This com
pany Is composed OF well.known plate
glass men. ana is looked upon as the
beginning OF determined move ON the
part Of the American plate-glass men
20 wrest the trade in this country for
plate mirrors from foreign manu-
facturers.
Senator Tiliman, from the committee
ON mines and mining, reported che
bill providing for the utilization OF q
part OF the proceeds OF the sales OF pub
lie lands in support OF schools for min
ing in the public land states. IL pro.
vides for the appropriation OF $4,000
annually for the present in each case
and the gradual increase Of the amount
to sec,
The Republicans elected 10 out OF s5
aldermen in Chicago.
Admiral Dewey has announced him
self as candidate for president.
Genreal French has given up his
chase after the retreating Beers.
Boston Is agitating the question oi
prohibition OF ringing church bells.
The United States building at the
Paris exposition viii be closed on Sun.
lays.
Queen Victoria landed at Dublin,
ireland, her first visit TO the island in
80 years.
A temperance movement has beer
inaugurated in Mexico, owing to the
increase OF drunkenness.
Admiral Dewey's collection OF curios
and trophies, at his request, will bt
placed in the Smithsonian Institute.
Turkish tower at the Paris exposition
obstructs the view OF the United State:
building and Commissioner Peck has
protested against it.
The Vanderbilts and Morgans now
have plans almost perfected which
will give them absolute control of the
coal supply Of America.
Forty-iour young men OF Thurston,
Or, have petitioned the military board
for the organization OF company o.
the National Guard at that place.
The mammoth auditorium in which
the Democratic National convention
was to have been held on July 4, wal
burned to the ground, entailing los
Of $3.50, 900.
At Logansport, Ind, $50 masked
men blew up two bridges and burnec
two toll houses ON the Logansport ant
Burlington pike at midnight. Tn,
road is the only pike In the county
and protests have been directed against
high toll and the alleged bad condition
OF the pike.
Michael J. Dady, the Brooklyn con
tractor who obtained from the Spanish
city government OF Havana a $l2, 600,
600 contract for sewering and paving
has received letter from Governor
General Wood, informing him that hi
plans for the construction Of sewers anC
the paving OF the city of Havana are
disapproved and rejected.
The newly organized American
Match Machine Company, q New Jer
sey corporation, is about TO enter int
competition with the Diamond Matci
Company, known as the match trust
The new company does not intend I,
confine Its attention to the trade OF tn,
United States, but will make vigor