Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1902-09-25
EVENTS OF THE DAY
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS or THE
TWO HEMIspHEREs.
Comprehensive Review Of tho Import
ant happenings Of the Past Week,
Presented In Condensed Form, Most
Likely to Prove Interesting to Our
Many Readers.

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England has sent cruiser 10 Color
TO protect British interests.
A barbed wire plant ut PIttsburI
was burned, destroying property wortl
$4,000.
The next meeting OF the Interna
.tlonal Sunday School convention viii
be held In Jerusalem In 1904.
The United States will station a wal
vessel In the tropics and DO prepared
for emergencies at all times.
The sovereign grand lodge Of the ODD
Fellows has made national organiza.
tlon OF the Patriarchs Militant.
A panic In q Birmingham, Ala.
Negro church cost rs lives, and as
many more were seriously injured.
Two wrecks occurred on the Northern
Pacific In Washington, In which an
engineer was killed and several pas
sengerS injured.
A mob attacked Pittaton, Pa, col
liery, and after driving the nonunion
men from the mine, set fire TO the
breaker. Considerable damage was
dore before the names we're controlled.
Stanley Spencer, an English aero
nant, made successful flight Of 80
miles over London In an airship OF his
own invention. The craft was com.
pletely under his control during the
entire trip.
The sword has been abolished as
cavalry weapon In Canada.
The alleged 81. Louis legislative
boodlers have been indicted. E
Russia has set October 8 as the date
for the withdrawal Of her troops from
Manohnrii.
Colombia has filed protest against
American guards being on the trains
Of the Panama road.
There is much comment throughout
the East by the press regarding Speak
or Henderson's withdrawal from the
race for election 70 congress.
The president has started on tour
through Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Wis
consin, South Dakota, Iowa, Nebraska,
Kansas, Missouri and Illinois.
The fund for the relief OF FIRE suffer.
ers has reached ~, 500 in Clarke coun-
ty, Washington, and Portland has
raised IS 200 for the Oregon needy.
Lieutenant Peary has arrived iron
the Arctic. While he did not get so
close TO the north pole as other ex.
plorers, he made many important dis
coveries,
China 10 on the verge of another
Boxer uprising which may equal that
OF 1900, according 10 mail advices re-
ceived at the state department from
Minister Conger.
Danger from forest fires in Oregon
and Washington Is now over.
Speaker Henderson declines TO accept
the nomination for congress in Iowa.
Nicholas Fish, a we'll known New
York banker, met death In mysteri.
GUS manner.
Pennsylvania coal operators held a
conference, but took no action toward
ending the strike.
Mrs. Waggoner, the woman who dis
covered Merrill's body, has eloped
with the convict's brother.
st. Louis authorities are having much
trouble with packers on account Of bad
meat being placed on the market.
The government will supply men to
fight forest fires in Colorado and Wy
oming, where 1t has got beyond all
control.
The French marine minister made a
sensational speech in which he dis-
cussed the results OF possible wars with
Germany, Italy and England.
Rockport, a small town in Kentucky,
is in the hands of q drunken mob.
Citizens are afraid to ask for outside
aid for fear the mob may burn the
town.
The mouth OF the Columbia river is
In very bad condition. A sand bar has
formed clear across the entrance and at
no place on 1t is depth of more than
90 feet to be found at low tide. Four
years ago there we're 20 feet Of water.
Russia is preparing to evacuate Man
churia.
Explorer Peary has been heard from
In Labrador.
Senator Thomas r. Bard, Of Cali
fornia, is seriously i'll.
A heavy frost in Ohio did consid.
erable damage to late crops.
Seventeen men lost their lives by an
explosion in Norfolk, Va, mine.
Fire in coalbunkers at Stockton,
CAL, resulted in 5000, 900 damage.
Ysqui Indians are again causing
serious disturbances in Mexico near
the border.
A locomotive boiler exploded on the
Pennsylvania railway, killing one man
and seriously injuring two.
Reports from Pekin say that Boxers
are again becoming troublesome in
various parts OF the empire.
Twenty-Five villages have been swept
away and 5000 people drowned by
oysrAowing rivers In India.