Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1902-10-09
EVENTS OF THE DAY
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS or THE
TWO HEMIsPHEREs.
Comprehensive Review Of the Import
ant Happenings Of the Past Week,
Presented In Condensed Form, Most
Likely to Prove interesting to Our
Many Readers.

A tornado In Tennessee, near Mem.
phis. did great damage 10 property and
cost one life.
II IL estimated that there will be ful.
w 300 delegates In attendance at the
irrigation congress-,
Steamship companies have raised
freight rates on coal from foreign ports
20 the United States.
II Is certain that President Roose.
volt will make another move towards
settling the coal strike M soon ~ he
can find q way.
A Southern Pacific through train
was wrecked near San Antonio, Texas.
A number OF passengers were Injured,
but none fatally.
Another attempt IL 10 he made Ia
combine the plow manufacturers OF the
country into one organization. The
new combine will have capitalization
Of t76, ,000,000
The Southern Pacific has sold its
large holdings Of coal fields In British
Columbia. This is taken to mean that
II IL the company's intention TO use oil
for fuel In the future.
Retail merchants Of New Orleans cay
that II the street car strike IL not set
tied at once they will close their
stores. Such move would throw g.
600 clerks out Of employment.
Prince Chun, brother OF the emperor
OF China, 10 married.
The national debt shows a decrease
Of 200, 900 for September.
Bulgarian bandits have murdered l50
Greeks during the past two months.
President Roosevelt has asked both
sides 10 the coal strike TO confer with
him al the White House.
An effort Is being made 10 effect q
combine OF Pacific coast Touring mills
with n capital Of t25, ,0OO, ,00O,.
Mrs. b. T. Jamea, mother OF Louis
James, the tragediAn, Is dead at her
home In Poughkeepsie, N. 7.
Tho Jury has been completed in the
st. Louis legislature Doodle case, and
the taking Of testimony Is in progress,
The state election In Georgia result
ed In the election Of the Democratic
ticket. Joseph NJ. Ferrell, ex-state at
torney general, was chosen governor.
A plan has been perfected whereby
the coal companies will ship a supply
OF fuel 10 New York, the tenement dis
tricts TO he supplied first, the hospitals
next and then the transportation com.
panies.
Continued heavy rains have stopped
oil war maneuvers at Fort Riley, Kan.
Secretary shaw'a order releasing the
reserve, put 5000, 900 into circulation
at Portland.
savages on the warpath in New
Guinea have massaered many people
and burned whole villages.
The presidents condition continues
10 improve fast and he Is able to attend
TO great deal OF business.
The Gu ban government has made a
law which provides for Cuban labor in
all kinds Of public service.
Miss Alice Hay, daughter Of secie-
tary OF State Hay, was married TO
James W. Wsdsworth, Of New York.
Two American inventors are expert
menting with flying machines on Long
island. One ship ascendet 1000 feet
and sailed about two miles and the
other assembled 1000 feet and made a
flight OF nearly five miles.
The senate committee on Pacific is
lands and Porto Rico has finished its
work IN the Hawaiian islands and has
sailed for San Francisco. The com.
mittee listened TO testimony regarding
the land laws, public improvements
needed, bubonic plague epidemic and
many other matters Of lesser import
ance.
One thousand people are now be-
lieved TO have perished in the Sicily
disaster.
In spite OF rain, the full war maneu-
vers are being carried out by the troops
at Fort Riley, Kan.
Lumber shipments by water from the
Columbia river will this year, for the
first time on record, exceed l00,OO0,'
600 feet.
Brigadier General Sumner, in charge
Of the movement against the Moros
says the rebels are not SO unruly al
reported.
1t is said that Queen Maria Chris.
tina, mother of King Alfonso of Spain
has married Count de Escorura, hel
master OF the house.
Three desperate prisoners in tho
Dillon, Mont. jail sawed their way out
1t is believed they secured aid from the
outside. Officers are in close pursuit
Venezuela plans to cut all the cablei
and an American gunboat may be ne
cessary in those waters.
Cholera still RACES in the Island o
Samar. The population of many o
the towns have been heavily reduced
through death and the flight of th'
panic stricken people.
A tidal wave swept Japan, drowning
at least 500 people. Much propert,
was destroyed. A Japanese warshiI
was driven ashore, but will probabl,
be hoated.