Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1903-01-29
EVENTSOF THE DAY
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS OP THE
TWO HEMsPHBREs.

Comprehensive Review Of the import
ant Happenings Of the Past Week,
Presented In Condensed Form, Most
Likely TO Prove interesting to Our
Many Readers.
Severe earthquakes shook South
Carolina and Georgia.
Governor Chamberlain has signed
the Portland charter bill.
Germans say veneSueIans began the
recent dght at Fort San Carries.
A driving snow storm in Central
Kansas has demoralized business.
An explosion OF dynamite In tunnel
ct Pittsburg resulted in four deaths.
A wealthy Jersey City produce merch.
ant was doped and robbed OF tl1, 900.
Ex-Governor Charles r. Ingersol!, OF
Connecticut, is critically Ill. He is
81 years old.
The bill providing for fire boz. at
Portland has been passed by both
houses Of the legislature.
Action has been brought in New
York to have the famous "Flatiron"
building declared a nuisance.
At Olympia Friday the vote for sen.
ator stood: Ankeny 55, Preston A,
Wilson 0, Turner 20, scattering O.,
total 1856.
The vote for senator at Salem Fyi-
day stood: Fulton 20, Geer Is, Wood
Is, scattering Is, absent and raired
IL, total 80.
II is said that President Roose=slt
has turned against the admission OF
Oklahoma, New Mexico and Arizona
because OF suspicion Of jobbery.
Coal miners are:.demanding the gov
ernment ownership of mines.
A blizzard in the western part OF
Colorado has blockaded a.: railroad
traffic.
Mild weather and free imports have
caused the price Of coal to drop slightly
in New York.
An Illinois Central train ran into an
open switch at Memphis, Tenn, fatal
ly iniuring three trainmen.
A Chicago & Great Western train was
wrecked at Freeport, H., and three
men killed and Is others injured.
The second ballot for senator at
/ Olympia resulted as followss Ankeny
so, Preston AZ, Wilson IL. Allen 8,
Crow 4, Graves l, Turner %, total 1856.
The third ballot for senator at Olym.
pia resulted as follows: Ankeny SO,
Preston Al, Wilson IL. Turner %,
Sharp 5, Allen 8, Grow l, Sanders 4,
total 1856.
The third ballot for senator at Salem,
stood. Fulton 32, Geer II, Wood II,
George s, Pittock 4, Williams 8, Mills
2, Wolverton, Carey, Hermann, Hall,
Fenton, Barrett, Paxton, one each,
absent 8, total 80.
The second ballot for senator at
Salem stood: Fulton 81, Geer Is,
Wood IL, Pittock 8, George 4, Will
liams 2, Mills 2, Linthicum, Wolver-
ton. Carey, Hermann, Cake, Fenton,
Kundret -one each, asbent 4, total 80.
/ President Roosevelt will speak at the
bi-centenaryof John Wesley in NewYo
on February %.
The agricultural Appropriation bill
carries $5, ,23S $50, an increase of t29,-
900, but $400, 900 less than the esti-
mates.
A movement has been started in In
dianapolis 10 buy residence to be pre-
sented to John Mitchell, president OF
the Mineworkers' union.
The number OF striking garment
workers In Vienna has increased to 49,.
900. It Is expected that the employers
will be obliged to Capiatulate.
Mayor Wells, of st. Louis, has sus-
pended Patrick R. Fitzgion, the city
registrar, who is charged with corruptly
contracting for city printing and bind
ing.
A boiler explosion in Tupper's iron
works at Biltson, Stafford, England, re-
suited In the killing of FIVE persons and
| the injury of 20 or 80 by steam and
pieces Of flying metal.
The postoffice appropriation bill car.
ries t16S, ,4S0. .O49, against $lSS. .416, ,59S
last year. The principal increases are:
About e., 900, 900 for railway mail SER
vice, IS, 900, 100 for rural free delivery
and $4,000 for pneumatic tube SER
vice.
The American Federation of Labor
will begin campaign in favor of child
labor laws and the bill making eight
hours a days work on government con-
tracts. It will investigate the charges
of inhumanity to Porto Rican laborers
in Hawaii.
The Spanish minister Of marine be-
gan action in Edinburg, Scotland, to
recover 1876, 900 from the Clydebank
engineering and shipbuilding company
because of the companY's failure to de-
liver in contract time four torpedo boat
destroyers which had been intended for
use during the Spanish-Amerioan war.
The senate IL considering the Cuban
reciprocity treaty.
Sir Thomas Upton has offered cup
to Pacific coast yacht clubs.
Minister Bowen has arrived from
Venezuela. He will find discord among