Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1905-04-13
news OF THE week
n a Condensed Form iOr Our
Busy Readers.
a ResDme Of the Less Important but
Net Less Interesting Events
Of the Past Week.


Two prominent Mexican scientists
declare that the tapeworm will kill
consumption germs.
Reports from the interior Of India
show that hundreds of soldiers were
killed by the recent earthquake.
The fight against the Standard Oil
company has been carried into North
Dakota by the independent dealers.
Paris is in a ferment lover the sup
posed plot against the French republic.
More prominent men have been arrest
ed.
Oregon has secured perfect title for
The Dalls-Celilo canal and the work
viii soon be taken up by the govern
ment.
Chairman Shonts, of the Panama
canal commission, says the work will
be done on business principles and
without any politics.
All Chicago teamsters are out and
the strike threatens to spread to other
branches. Trouble between the Gar
mentmakers' union and Montgomery,
Ward & Co. was the start Of the strike.
The annual parade of the Horse
Guards, always heretofore one of the
most spectacular military ceremonies of
the year in Russia, was chiefly notable
this year by the absence of the car,
who was afraid to show himself.
Another general strike of Chicago
teamsters is on.
The Japanese main army is advanc-
ing to envelop the Russian tlauks.
Four persons were killed in New
York tenement house by escaping gas.
Russian peasant mobs are burning
and looting estates in the Baltic pro-
vinces.
An electric railway is projected from
Cripple Greek to Colorado Springs and
Pueblo, Colo.
A colored policeman has been ap-
pointed desk sergeant by the Chicago
chief OF police.
A Chicago & Northwestern train has
been driven from Clinton to Boone,
Iowa, a distance of 202 miles, in l89
minutes.
A voluntary increase of 10 per cent
in wages has been given employees of
the Interstate Steel works at Quaren-
tum, Pa.
Fire caused panic among the guests
of the Rienzi hotel, at Buffalo, N. Y,
and many jumped from second story
windows. Loss, $4,000.
The Vanderbilt and Hartman rail-
road interests are to combine. The
valuation of the roads is placed at
billion dollars and over $4,000 miles
will be placed under one head by the
new deal.
An earthquake has shaken India and
caused great loss Of life.
Reports from Secretary Hay say his
health is much improved.
England accuses Germany of violat-
ing agreement regarding island trade.
The Russian minister of war admits
that Kuropatkin was out-generaled at
Mukden.
The French Cable company has ap-
pealed to the entire Venezuelan court
regarding the loss of its franchise.
Secretary Taft has approved report
that the bayonet used by the army be
made longer and not attempt to make
an entenching tool of it as well as
bayonet.
1t is apparently settled that George
H. Baker, of Goldendale, will be ap-
pointed marshal for the new Eastern
Washington judicial district, but the
time of his appointment is uncertain.
During his hunting trip in Colorado
President Roosevelt will be kept in
touch with the government by wireless
telegraph from his camp to the nearset
telegraph station.
The governor of Montana has de-
clared quarantine against sheep from
California, Colorado, Minnesota, Ne
braska, Kansas, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Wyoming, Washington and
Oregon on account of reported scab.
Both armies in Manchuria are ready
for another big battle.
Italian warships are at hand to en-
force demands on Venezuela if neces-
sary.
1t is officially announced that the
Russian feet has finally started for
VladiVostok.