Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1901-01-17
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Oregona state levy tax has besu
fixed at 81 mills.
The kingdom OF saxonY soiIoits u
loan OF $40. 900. 900.
Burglars blew open safe In store
at irving, Or. but secured no booty.
Beers captured three agents of Brit.
ish peace commissioners and put one
to death.
The Umatilla reef lightship has
again broken loose aud dirfted from
her station.
Tho rebels In Colombia made des
perate attempt TO enter Colon but were
driven back.
Prince Chang protests against con.
templated appointment OF successor TO
III Hung Chang.
Governor Hunt, of Idaho, has abol.
ished the famous permit system In the
Occur d'Alenes.
London papers loudly demand that
reinforcements be sent to the scene OF
war In South Africa.
A Leavenworth. Kan. fiend only
escaped lynching by being placed in
the state penitentiary.
Northern Pacific train was wrecked
In Washington while passing over
sinking bridge and five people injured.
Samuel Lewis. tho notorious money
lender and usurer. who has been called
the greatest and meanest OF modern
Shy locks, Is dead.
. During theater performance In Chi.
cago. man raised the cry OF fire and
as result seven persons were killed
and many injured.
While engaged In thawing dynamite
In one OF the tunnels OF the Ample
mine. near Lillooet. b. c., John OLE
son, a miner, was instantly killed and
two others seriously injured.
An artesian oil we'll has been struck
near Beaumont, Texas. Thousands OF
people are flocking 20 The place TO ses
the novel sight. So far, 1t is esti-
mated go, 900 barrels have been wasted
ON the prairie.
The Chehalis. s.south Bend. WASH.
train ran into landslide about eight
miles west of Chehalis and the engine
and three freight cars ran off tho track
into the Chehalis river. The passenger
coach left the track and the front end
hung over the river bank. The engineer
was the only one injured.
A metropolitan police force will be
organized ut Manila.
von Bulow made his debut as chan.
cellor In the Prussian diet.
J. ]. Hill denies that he Is trying to
form q railroad combination.
Canada will send recruits for Baden.
Powell's African constabnlary.
The Chinese emperor's brother may
be the imperial envoy TO Berlin.
There Is objection to commissioning
the battleship Wisconsin on Friday.
The Rome press is indignant at the
Duke OF Norfolk address to the pope
Southern Philippine ports may be
closed to prevent communication be-
tWse rebels.
Northern transcontinentals announce
reduction In through rates to the
Scents basis.
Ambassadors Choate and White are
working for the removal oi negotia.
tlons from Pekin.
The Northern Pacific has declared
regular quarterly dividend of per
cent on its preferred stock.
Kirk d. Armour, nephew of the late
Philip D. Armour, and head of the Ar.
mour interests in Kansas City, Is crit.
ically Ill at his home with pneumonia,
BY the accidental discharge OF .
blast in the Malachite mine ut Mindls
Pass, Anz., one man was blown to
atoms and two Others seriously injured.
Cornelius L. Alvord, the defaulting
NGW 1uEk uduk tolAoAs plUauSu guilty.
before the criminal branch OF the
United States court and thus saved
the state the expense OF trial.
A 15-year.old boy, who was stealing
ride on freight train, near Salem,
Or, lost his hold and fell, the train
passing over and severing both legs
above the knee. He died from his in.
iuries.
In a water front fire in New York.
one fireman was seriously injured and
so seamen narrowly escaped with their
lives. One steamer and pier was
burned to the water's edge. Loss,
$500, 900.
BY collision on New Jersey rail-
road, near Laurel Run, a car filed
with powder exploded with such force
that the report was heard 30 miles.
No one was injured, but the cars next
the one in which the powder was were