Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1905-06-01
news OF THE week
In a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
a Resume Of the Less important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.

rioting.
King Alfonso has approved the plans
for new navy for Spain.
The belief is general in Japan that q
naval battle has been fought.
Natives in East Siberia are in a
starving condition and whole tribes are
dying.
A killing frost throughout Germany
has done much damage to fruit and
vines.
Russian warships at Woosung have
been ordered to leave and China is pre-
pared to use force.
A San Francisco firm secured the
contract just let for furnishing lum-
Der for the Panama canal.
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, head
of the Paris branch of the great bank
ing firm OF Rothschilds, is dead.
The Russian Vladivostok squadron
hgs left that port and is supposed to be
on its way to join the Baltic fleet.
John Barrett, late minister to Co
lombia, says yellow fever cannot be en-
tirely stamped out In the canal zone.
A number of French anarchists have
been arrested in Paris for plotting
against the life of King Alfonso, who
will visit France.
The Russian government is willing
to do almost anything to raise money
for the war. Three of the most lucra-
tive railway lines in the empire are to
be sold.
Warsaw, Russia, is in the hands of
riotous Jews.
Bulgaria has purchased Argentine
warships for Russia.
Heavy rains in Centarl Kansas have
washed out railway tracks.
Norway is preparing for war with
Sweden on the consular question.
The railroads have opened a cam
paign against government rate regula-
tion.
William Ziegler, the millionaire bak-
ing powder man, left fortune OF $685.
100000.
The steel rail pool has dissolved to
avoid antitrust law after fixing price
for Panama road.
One man was killed and so injured
as result of a collision between troll
ley cars near Baltimore.
Skirmishes in Manchuria continue
and both governments expect any day
to hear of a general engagement being
on.
The Turkish government is rushing
troops into Arabia, parts of which have
been in state of revolution for some
time past.
A heavy wind, almost reaching the
proportions of a tornado, has swept
Northern Texas, damaging crops and
many houses. Three people were in
jured.
The third jury in the case of Henry
Lundburg, ex-inspector of steamboats,,
charged with having failed properly to
inspect the steamer General Slocum
prior to the burning of that vessel, has
disagreed.
The senate committee on railroad
freight rates has completed its inquiry.
The Cumberland Presbyterian gener-
al assembly has voted for union with
the Presbyterian church.
The Russian admiralty ridicules the
stoy that Rojestvensky is dead, but has
no news from the feet.
Shanghai dispatches say Admiral
Togo's feet is still off Masampho, on
the southeastern coast of Coca.
All negotiations to end the Chicago
strike have failed. The trouble will
spread and troops will be called out.
A number of prisoners, insane from
the siege of Port Arthur, have been
returned to St. Petersburg.
August Machen has been sentenced
to two years more in prison for con-
spiracy in government postal frauds.
In statement ssued by May or Will
Jams and President Goode, of the ex
position company it is assured that
there will be Accommodations for all who
visit the fair.
A big crowd will be present at the
opening of The Dalles-Celilo portage
road, June 8. The governors of Ore
gon, Washington, Idaho and California
and congressional delegation will be
present. 1t is possible Vice President
Fairbanks will also attend.