Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1902-08-28
EVENTS OF THE DAY
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OF THE
TWO HEMISPHERES.

Comprehensive Rpvssw Of the Import
ant iiappsuinsn q the Past Week,
Presented h Condensed Form, Most
Likely 90 Prove Interesting to Our
Many Readers.
Chicago messenger boys are on
strike.
A thousand more Boer prisoners have
just sailed from et' Helena TO South AZ
rica.
z. II. Hartman. president of the
Southern Pacific road, Is TO be elected
president Of the@swells Fargo Express
company.
Reports from simla, British India,
state that the plague mortality in that
country is increasing at The rate Of
900 weekly.
The Staakburger Zeitung says Gem
eral Won Gossler, Prussian minister Of
war, has resigned his post. He was ap-
pointed in 1896.
Nine men were killed at Wilmington,
Del, by pulp mill explosion.
The anthracite coal mine operators
declare they will not Egive In or make
any concessions.
Five non-union woFkmen were shot
from ambush at Scranton, Pa. No
one was fatally hurt.
Secretary Of the Treasury Shaw, in
q speech at Morrisville, VT, alleged
that he wGs not opposed to tariff revis-
ion in moderation.
Judge jackson Of Parkersburg, w.
Va, has released John 1. Gehr OF
Color ado, the last OF the miners serving
sentences iorscontempt Of court.
Japan will not claim the Midway
islands, but will turn them over to the
United States. She disclaims any in-
terest further than the protection Of
japanese inhabitants.
Vancouver, B. c., is having sugar
war, the beet sugar people Of Germany
having put sugar on the market in
competition with the local refinery, and
cut the price nearly half cent.
Emperor Francis Joseph of Austria
has just celebrated his I'D birthday.
Patrick Sharp, striking miner, was
shot and killed at Nesquehoning, Pa.
R. Remington, prominent society
man, suicided at Newport, taking the
Cholera continues to spread in Man.
churia, China, and isolated cases have
been reported in Siberia.
Large numbers OF Chinese are arriv-
ing in Mexico, and the majority will
probably find their way into this coun-
try.
The New York Ship Building COM
pany has placed an order abroad for
80, 900 tons Of manufactured iron aud
steel.
Reports from Victoria, B. c., show
that the total salmon catch OF the
northern canneries for the season was
only 145, 800 cases.
Two hundred carmen, including car
penters, painters, ETC., employees at the
Union Pacific shops at Omaha, have
oona ol1t IN q atrika
w. II. billiard, wanted by United
States authorities at San Francisco Tor
issuing 4S fraudulent Chinese certifi-
Gates, has bcen caught in Seattle and
will be sent below.
An examination is being made into
the affairs Of the defunct Griffin Liquid
Air company Of New York, in an effort
to locate several hundred thousand dol
lars worth Of stock.
T. s. sharretts, the treasury expert
commissioned to negotiate tariff
treaty with China, reports the same
signed.
The run of fall salmon has begun and
is very good. The fish caught in Bakers
Bay are mostly silversides of exception
ally fine quality.
Baron Won Walterhausen, Of Berlin,
advocates the erection of common
tariff barrier against the United States
by all of Europe.
Arrangements are being made for
establishing banks in the Philippines
to loan money to farmers, the govern
ment to guarantee 5 per cent interest.
Prince Chen Tuen, who has been in
this country for several days, arrived
in Vancouver, B. c., Sunday and sailed
for home Monday on the steamship
Empress of japan.
The body OF Mrs. Jessie Tuman was
found near Muscatine, Iowa, the head
split open with an ak. Her husband
was mortally wounded and unconscious.
They were killed for their money.
Grand Master Fitzpatrick of the
Brotherhood of Trainmen has COM
pleted his tour Of the anthracite coal
regions and has addressed the brother
hood on their duties should the roads
attempt to haul non-union coal.
Colonel vHemphill, founder Of the At
lanta Constitution, is dead.
The New York Republican state con-
vention will be held at Saratoga Sept.
%.
In the athletic sports at Cliftonville,
England, Murray, the Irish champion,
defeated Duffy, of Georgetown, the