Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1903-02-26
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 70 Prove interesting to Our
Many Readers.

Brigsdier General g. wv. Baird has
been placed on the retired list.
The Panmaa canal company may not
accept the offer Of the United States.
There is disagreement between the
bouse and senate over the Alaskan
billie.
Pope Leo celebrated the 25th ami.
versary Of his accession with imposing
ceremonies.
Two men are under arrest for hold
ing up the Los Angeles street car.
They have been identified.
A fierce battle occurred between
Turks and reyolutionists. While the
rebels lost heavily, they succeeded in
gaining the mountains.
The California Legislature appro.
priated s26, 900 TO defray the expenses
OF the national g. A. r. encampment
TO be held at San Francisco in August.
The United Mineworkers of Illinois
has raised the salaries Of all its Off
GERS. The resolution iavoring govern
ment ownership Of mines -=ed railroads
was lost.
The resolution passed by the senate
providing that Rear Admiral Schley be
given the pay and allowance OF rear
admiral on the active list was tabled
by the house.
The only woman member Of the Utah
legislature has introduced bill max
ing 1t uBlayful for candidate to give
away or treat to cigars, drinks or other
refreshments or 10 furnish voters trans
portation to the polls.
The house passed the naval bill with
appropriations for more ships.
Provision has been made for cadet
at Weet Point from Porto Rico.
The powers Of Europe have all united
in demanding reforms in Turkey.l
Brigadier General Morris G. Foote
has been placed on the retired list.
Ex-Lieutenant Governor Tillman has
been refused bail in the Gonzales mur-
der case.
Wyoming has made an appropriation
for the 1905 fair. Colorado will soon
be heard from.
A bin appropriating $40, 900 for the
Lewis and Clark fair is now before the
California legislature.
A bill has been fayorably reported in
the senate for delegate fiom Alaska
to be appointed by the president.
A party of the North Dakota press
association visited Portland and while
there pledged their support for the
1905 fair.
A hotel at Cedar Rapids, Iowa,
burned. A number of persons lost
their lives and several others were seri-
ously injured by jumping from win
dows.
|. The president has announced the APP
p0intment OF Judge William r. Day to
be justice of the United States supreme
court in place of Justice Shiras, re-
signed.
United States Ministe. Squiers has
sailed for New York from Havana.
Robert E. Peary thinks he can reach
the pole II he is given hacking to the
extent Of 100000.
Ex-senator @. H. Simth, of Jackson,
Mich, has accepted the Office of prose-
cutting attorney at Manila.
Susan B. Anthony has just sent to
the congressional library at Washington
. large number of valuable books, auto
graph letters and scrapbooks.
A syndicate Of New York capitalists,
headed by Charles Green, formerly with
the International paper company, will
build big paper mill in Rev Hamp-
shire.
Hay is to be distributed on the Teton.
Yellowstone forest reserves to cave from
starvation 10000 elk, whose feeding
ground is covered with snow 10 feet
deep.
The Merchants national bank, one
Of the Oldest institutions in Philadel-
phia, has gone out of existence and
transferred its business to the Girard
national.
A section of 200 seats in the Lakeside
auditorium, at Racine, Wis, gave way,
creating a panic among 1000 specta-
tors and iniuring many people, two
fatally.
Two bills have been reported to the
Kansas legislature making it crime
for railroad to confiscate any coal con-
signed to shipper, no matter how
great it's need may be. As a penalty
for violation, a fine Of 81 900 is pro-
vided.
A local passenger train on the Frisco
line was wrecked near Pittsburg, Kan,
and five passengers we're injured.
Memorial services for the late Presi-
dent Charles Kendall Adams, of the
University OF Wisconsin, were held at
Madison, Wis.
The Standard oil company has de-
clared dividend of 500 per share, pay.
able March 16, which is $40 more than
the last dividend.
Nathan Doros, diamond broker OF
Philadelphia, was robbed of $4,000
worth of diamonds within 10 minutes
after stepping from a train at Cincin-
natl.