Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1905-04-20

Kirin.
Another earthquake in India has
wrecked two towns.
The Russian fleet has changed its
course and gone eastward to coal.
Bloody disturbances are expected
throughout Russia ON May day.
Paul Jones' body has been found in
Paris and will be brought home for
burial.
The czar has announced his inten-
ton of revising the land laws in order
to quiet the peasants.
The Winnebago Indians, in Nebras
ka, have protested to Washington,
claiming to have been robbed of their
lands by agents.
The Rocky Mountain Bell Telephone
company will spend $500, 900 on new
lines in Utah, Idaho, Montana and
Wyoming in 1905.
An unknown malady is killing many
people at Tonopah, the new mining
camp CT Nevada. Hundreds ale fleeing
from the district to escape the disease.
A commission has been appointed to
decide the dispute on international
rivers. The waterways in question are
the Rio Grande and Colorado on the
south and the Milk river on the north,
Cader Powell has assumed office as
marshal at Nome, Alaska, pending in
vestigation.
Japan has been called upon to pun
ish Formosans who murdered eight
American sailors.
Four beef trust officials have been
indicted by the Federal grand jury at
Chicago for spiriting a witness away.
Both parties in the Chicago strike
refuse to confer and the employers have
adopted plan by which they hope to
win.
President Roosevelt has left Okla
homa for Colorado. He may be in
duced to c.me on to Portland and at
tend the fair.
1t is said the interned Russian ships
are preparing for dash from Shanghai
and China will be unable to prevent it,
as she has no war vessels near.
The two hostile fleets in Asiatic wa
tiers have not yet come together, but
they are fast approaching each other
and battle is expected at any time.
General Dragomiroff urges the czar
to continue the war, saying that in
four yeals Japan's resources will be ex-
hausted and she will then be at the
mercy Of Rsssia.
Representative Jones, of Washing
ton, expresses the opinion that Santo
Dominog is not capable of governing
herself and internal strife will continue
until some government takes charge.
The japanese are sending large forces
against Vladivost0k.
Edwin H. Morgan, of Aurora, n. Y,
has been appointed United States min
lister to COrea.
Admiral Sigsbee, commanding the
Caribbean squadron, reports all quiet
in Santo Domingo.
Two miners were killed and a num-
ber seriosuly injured in strike riot at
Hibbing, Minnesota.
The houses of two nonunion miners
at Blossburg, Alabama, we're blown up
by dynamite and a child killed.
The Chicago teamsters' strike con-
tinues without any material change.
Riots are of frequent occurrence.
The question of the government ac-
cepting railroad rebates on material
used in connection with the irrigation
reclamation service has been referred
to the attorney general for an opinion.
The Franklin county, Kentucky,
grand jury has returned about 400 in
dictments against the Standard Oil
company for failure to take out ped
dlars' license.
Dutch warships have reported to
their government the commencement Of
a naval battle between the japanese
and Russian squadrons near the Anam-
bas islands, east of the Malay penin-
sula.
Japanese cruisers have been seen
headed for Singapore
Commissioner Garfield has started
his investigation into the doings of the
Standard Oil in Kansas.
A Little Rock, Ark, lodge oi
Knights of Pythias accidentally killed
man who was being initiated.