Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1905-02-02
news OF THE WEEK
h q Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
A Resume of the Less Important but
Not Less interesting Events
of the Past Week.

A plot against the life of the cHar has
been frustrated,
Peabody declares he will continue
the contest for governor to the end.
The new cruiser Maryland exceeded
speed requirements on her trial trip.
Officials in charge of the canal zone
are employing drastic measures to
stamp out yellow fever.
The cabinet has discussed the advisa-
bility of teaching iiu-iitsu in the mill
tary and naval academies.
Labor Commissioner Wright says he
believes both sides were to blame in
the Colorado labor trouble.
Workmen in Russia are returning to
work, the government forcing conees-
sions from their employers in st.
Petersburg and Moscow.
President Roosevelt has signed the
bill providing for the construction and
maintenance of roads and schools and
the care if insane persons in Alaska.
Father Gopon, tn priest leader of the
strikers, is in the hospital recovering
from wounds. As soon as we'll he will
be court martialed and if found guilty
viii be hanged.
A great battle has begun on the Hun
river, Manchuria.
Ladrones nj the province of Cavite
are in state of revolt.
Troops from European Russia are un-
willing to fight and Kuropatkin advises
peace.
Several more cases of yellow fever
have been reported from the Panama
canal zone.
A number of Moscow employers are
saving their factories by paying wages
20 the strikers.
The Russian strike is extending rap
idly, but without disorder, though new
trouble is feared,
It is believed that Judge Swayne will
not be convicted of the charges now
pending against him in the senate.
Governor Trepoff. of st. Petersburg,
says he will curb the agitators, main
tain order and make no concessions.
Fire in New York among lot of
Tookeries caused the fire department a
desperate battle and destroyed 800, 900
worth of property.
Frank P. Sargent, commissioner gen.
eral of immigration, asks an appropria-
tion of $500, 900 for thelimprovement Of
stations in various parts of the country.
The Russian strike has spread to
nearly every town of Importance in the
empire.
The Rogers Locomotive works, at
Paterson, n. J., have been sold to the
American Locomotive company.
Meetings throughout Germany de-
nounced the coal mine owners, but
they refuse to yield to the strikers.
Father Gopon, leader of the St.
Petersburg strikers, has issued a proc
lamation absolving soldiers from oaths
Of allegiance to the czar.
The bills providing dental surgeons
for the navy and to increase the eff
cheney of the navy hospital corps will
be reported favorably to the house.
B. J. Yoakum, director of the Rock
Island road, has bought the Colorado
Springs & Cripple Creek district rail-
road, which runs between Colorado
Springs and Cripple Creek.
A. G. Chapslin, fireman, was killed,
and several passengers were injured in
wreck of an Illinois Terminal railroad
train near Ashton, I'll. A car contain
ing 80 passengers turned over.
The supreme courts of Hawaii has
decided that six miles of the trans
Pacific cable, which lies within the
three-mile limit below low water mark,
is taxable, and values it at $4,000.
All printing works in St. Petersburg
are closed and no newspapers are being
issued.
A new French cabinet has been
formed by Rouvier.
Experts examining the Denver bal
lots Edeclare one-third of them are
fraudulent.
T. ]. O'Brien, Of Grand Rapids,
Mich, has accpeted an offer to become
minister to Denmark.
The senate will confirm the nomina-
tion of T. G. Powell, of Portland, to be
marshal at Nome, Alaska.
The Oregon delegation is confident
of small appropriation with which to
begin work on the Cello canal.