Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1900-10-11
LArea Mgws.

.Jolony.
Roosevelt spoke tc two big meetings
In Chicago.
Japanese troops are withdrawing
nom China.
Bourke Cochran discussed the issues
IN Topeka, Kansas.
The battieship Texas may be perman.
entity retired from service.
A collision on the Great Northern
line near Seattle resulted in the death
q ~, engineer and the serious injury
\ Of another.
A tornado struck the town Of Biwa.
blk, In Northern Minnesota, killing
nine persons, injurina several o.herl
and doing damage 10 tho amount Of
100000.
The secretary OF the interior has de-
cided 70 dispose Of the Indian lands
coded to the Chippewas in Minnesota,
amounting to "a, l25 acres. They con
sist Of pine and agricultural lands.
Fire on the docks Of the Atlantic
Transport Line. In the North river.
New York. destroyed one Of the piers
81 the company, with all the merchan-
disc on it. entailing loss OF $l76. 900.
The population Of the city Of Taco
ma. Wash, according TO the United
States census for 1900, is officially an.
nounced as 81, iU4. against BG,0OI ID
1890, An increase Of 708, or asa per
cent.
u is officially announced by the CEN
sus bureau that the population Of the
state Of New Hampshire Is 4ll,5
In 1890. the population was s7s, $50.
the increase being 35.05S. or $50 per
cent.
III Hung Chang has ordered the re-
lease and safe escort TO Pekin OF five
Belgian engineers and is missionaries.
who have been kept prisoners many
weeks ut Pao Ting Fu. Ii Hung
Chang IL apparently doing his utmost
to please the powers.
At Trenton. n. j., Eddie Mcbride,
10 years old. died from burns received
while playing Indian with compan-
ions. Mcbride was tied TO stake and
his clothing saturated with gasoline
and then ignited. The boy broke loose
and ran screaming to his home. where
be died.
The war department. has approved
an exhaustive opinion by Judge Adyo-
cafe-General Lieber to the effect that
absentees from volunteer regiment,
save prisoners OF war. are discharged
from the service ON the same date upon
which their organization Is mustered
ont. The decision was important ne
affecting the pay and status Of many
officers serving on detached duty.
Fighting has broken out again in
Ashantse.
Shan Hal Kwan forts surrendered to
the British.
A plot to assassinate President Nc.
Kinley has been discovered.
In train hold-up near Council
Bluffs, one robber was killed.
Passengers ON Nome steamer were
vacinated ON account Of new outbreak
OF samllpox In Alaska.
Evidence claimed 10 have been found
which proves that Mount Baker mines
are not In American territory.
In an explosion at tho Corning RNw.
der Works at Santa Cruz, CAL. @. |
Merier. an employe. was killed, and J.
Valencia was fatally injured.
Portuguese officials at Lourenco
Marques have warned President Kruger
to make no more speeches and forbid
his wearing insignia Of office.
The latest report OF cotton damage
10 the state OF Texas By the recent |
floods places the estimates at 400, 900 |
bales. The value is estimated at not I
less than $50, ,O00,O 900.
Beers captured British convoy and
wrecked train. OF the conyoy's 4
escort of go men only l2 escaped and
in the train wreck. five Britons were
killed and 10 injured.
The population OF Arkansas, as otii-
cially announced by the United States
census bureau, is 1911 ,664. an in Z
crease over the population of 1890 OF \
lSS,3S5, or 1926 per cent.
General Wood, commanding the
United States forces in Cuba, has made
his annual report to tho war depart
ment. II contains his recommendation
that all troops in Cuba be mounted, TO-
gether with an account OF the with
drawal Of the troops during the past
year. The health OF the troops. he
says, has been good. and their conduct
is commended.
O. Il. Galloway, aged so. died at
Denver. Colo, from injuries received
by being struck by tramway car.
He was believed to he the Oldest news
paper editor in the United States He
was born in Portage county, O.. Feb
ruary iS, 1912. learned the printing
trade In Lawrenceville, Ind, and pub
lished and edited newspapers in Ohio,
Illinois, Missouri and Utah.
Private letters received from Havana
indicate that much apprehension ex-
lists among the Americans there regard
ing the yellow fever, as the conditions
grow worse instead Of improving.
Civilian employees in Cuba seem TO be
subject TO the disease, and in several