Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1903-04-02
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, Mos.
Likely to Prove interesting to Our
Many Readers.

Presented In CONDENSED Form, Most
Likely to Prove Interesting TO Our
Many Readers.
| A new system Of searching for min.
eral ores by the use Of the telephone ia
being tried at the Teleacaa lead mine.
lin North Wales,
James McNeill- Whistler, the Amen.
can artist, will receive the degree OF
doctor Of laws ct the forthcoming Glas-
gov university graduation ceremonies.
The Mills & Wright company, OF
Boston, one Of the oldest printing and
book houses in New England, has made
an assignment. Liabilities SOL ,279,
with assets nominally tbs same.
Alfred G. Vanderbilt has visited
Commissioner Strasbourger, Of New
York, TO whom he explained that most
OF his securities were invested In nom
tsxhble properties not liable for per-
sonal assessment. He showed that he
was liable for assesemsnt on only $780,
600 but he agreed to an assessment on
$3.50, 900.
Judge P. b. Willie, of the Seventh
Iowa judicial district, has just rendered
an important decision regarding the
power Of assessors to ASSESS taxes on
property In the hands of trust COM
panT sc trustee. The court holds such
property is liable TO assessment both
for county and city taxes.
siquro, Mexico, is now the only
plague spot 1.-THE Mazatlan district.
Russia is trying to negotiate a loan
Of slO0, 900, 900 with Franco. Belgian
syndicate.
Owing to freight congestion, it is re-
ported that free will be put out in
1900 or more coke ovens in the New
River, w. Va, field.
-Four men were drowned at Bass lake,
nine miles from Owen sound, Ontario.
They were fishing in a leaky, fiat
bottomed boat, when it sank.
Claims against the city OF New York
for $500, 900 have been fled by per-
sons injured by exploding bombs last
election night in Madison square.
Every Lutheran lie to be asked to
give one cent day for period Of
one year for a benevolence fund for all |
objects OF the church. From the $50.
900 Lutherans in the synod il is expect
ed to raise nearly 81, ,OeO, 900.
A broken rail wrecked eastbound
Santa Fe passenger train No. at
Iakin, Kan, every car except one leav-
ing the track. Conductor Pond was
injured badly, but the passengers
escaped with severe shaking up.
Ambassador Choate has informed the
state department that sanitary con-
yress, which will consider matters of
importance, will be held
1t Bradford, England, rom July to
IL, and United States representatives
are invited.
The Pacific and Dominion express {
ompany, at Detroit, Mich, has In I
'reased the reward offered for the s23.. I
100 gold bar stolen last week. The re- i
ward is now 1000 for the recovery of
he bar and 81 900 additional for the
lrrest and conviction CT the thief.
The United States cruiser Albany has :
rrived at Palermo, Sicily, from Algiers.
The United States steel corporation
las put in operation more than 1900 !
lew coke ovens on Tug River, Wis, )
IS many more will be completed with :
u 80 days. :
Baron Mumm Won Schwazstein, who 81
1as for number Of years secretary ,ef a
mbassy at Washington, is to relieve Il
'ount Vodel as imperial German am- Q
assador at Rome.
The report of Lieutenant General Y
Tiles on his observations in the Philip = =
ines and on his trip around the world :
as been submitted to the secretary Of = :
ar, but it will not be made public, as = Z
is regarded as an inspection report. !. =
Two men entered the iewelry store of d
!. B. Huberman, at Omaha, and d
alEed out with two trays containing
OF the value of $4,000, the
erk's attention being directed to the
'lephone while they were looking at I
le gems. =
The Illinois appellate court for the st
ourth district has decided that when d
man Is sent to prison for the murder pl
his wife he is iudicially dead, and his Il
lildren are entitled to the insurance ii
/ the life of the murdered woman. in
ZEN If it was taken out in favor of her in
lsband. ri
,,,. Il
General William Thomas Clark, of 30
ashington, D. c., was knocked down =,
cab while attempting to cross =
ate street, Chicsgo, and severely in.
red. He is 73 years old, and has
stained, it is said, two fractures of !,
Q skull and internal injuries. His y
covery is said to be doubtful. Gen. ~ ~
81 Clark has the distinction of being =. y.
Q only surviving adjutant and chief y
staff of Grants army of the Tennes- ~ y
s.H He served two terms in congress ~ ~
I'm Texas. :. -
Luis Carlo Rio has been appointed Ii
mister of foreign affairs for Colom- fir
!, succeeding DR.. Paul. in
. 1
Nearly ell Cripple Greek mines have
On shut down.
Scarlet fever still RACES at Lake For m'
!, near Chicago, and all public places 20 20
} closed. vi
mi
In a fire at Shelton, Neb., a man pa
med Cotton was fatally injured by wa
q 70 II of a nall nuno ha,. ~ |