Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1904-12-22
HAPPENINGS OF TWO CONTINENTS
A Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.
The bandit Raisuli is again active.


for an industrial school.
Both armies in Manchuria are seri-
ously hampered by cold weather,
New York is inquiring into the mat
ter Of building city light plant.
Kuropatkin, when he receives more
troops, may try to relieve Port Arthur.
Traffic has been considerably delayed
in South Dakota and Nebraska by
snow.
Stoessel has again been wounded,
this time by rifle bullet, but not seri-
ously.
Fire destroyed property at the Silver
Lake mine, Silverton, Col, valued at
100000.
The remains OF Kruger have been
laid in the tomb at Pretoria with inn
posing ceremonies.
The crown prince of Denmark, who
is very anxious to meet Miss Roosevelt,
is looking for wife.
An American captain Just home from
the Orient says he saw General Kuroki
in November. The general was re-
ported killed early in October.
A Japanese cruiser is reported ashore
in Yungching bay.
The Oregon land fraud case has been
uDfI
A japanese wing of 0yama's army
driven back recently is again advancing
The Japanese are fearful lest the
Russian government buys number of
warships from Chile
The suspension bridge at Charleston,
W. Va, collapsed, drowning three
school girls and iniuring five people.
Brigadier General S. NJ. Whiteside
is dead. He had command of the de-
partment OF Santiago during the Span
ish war.
Four men were scaldedd to death
and four others badly injured by an
explosion on the battleship Massa-
chusetts.
The new Portland postoffice will not
be large enough and the architect has
been asked to provide for the construc-
tion OF another wing.
A number of prominent rural mail
carriers who we're too active politically
during the recent campaign, have
been removed. They were all in New
York and New Hampshire.
Wireless telegraph messages have
been sent from Kansas City to Cleve-
land, Ohio, 725 miles, without relay.
This is said to be the longest distance
overland messages ever covered.
Fire destroyed an immense coal bun.
ker at Buffalo.
The real work will not begin until
early in January.
John d. Rockefeller has given Chi
cago University 100000.
The nomination of Governor Brady,
of Alaska, has been held up by the
senate.
The national convention of Travelling
Passenger agents will meet in Portland
in 1895.
The international commission to in
quire into the North sea incident is
expected to meet in Paris D, cember 20. |
Barbed wire stretched in trout of the
Japanese trenches is proving the worst
foe of the Russian army in Manchuria.
A number of Boxer leaders in North
ern China have been placed in prison |
and it lie thought probable that the in.
tended uprising has been nipped in the
bud.
At the last cabinet meeting Secretary |
Hitchcock spoke briefly of the land |
fraud cases, indicating that some start
ling developments in them might be
expected in the near future.
The second trial of the Oregon land
fraud case is in progress in Portland.
The Rough Riders will have place
Of honor in the inaugural parade.
A Chinese capitalist declares that he
knows Port Arthur has provisions for
three months.
Of the 100 locomotives ordered for
the Hartman lines, so are for the
Southern Pacific.
Dowie has paid the last installment
on his debts and Zion City is again on
q sound financial basis.