Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1905-02-09
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.

10 resign MS command III MafChuTla
and General Myloff win succeed him.
One death and four cases of illness
in one Chicago family have been
caused by supposed ptomaines in
canned goods.
So much money from the interior has
been pouring into the New York banks
that the clerks cannot count it as fast
as it arrives, and some banks have to
rent outside vaults to store it.
The Japanese are reported to have
forced a breach in the Russian center.
The dispatch has been received at st.
Petersburg and papers have been re-
fsed permission to mention it.
The Interstate Commerce commission
finds the Santa Fe road guilty of will
fully violating the law by granting the
Colorado Fuel & Iron company lower
freight rates than other companies pay.
Joseph Racicut, q wealthy Califor-
nian, who is said to have had 800, 900
on his person, went out into the coun-
try near Saait Ste. Marie, Mich
few days ago, and has not returned,
and is supposed to have been muir
dered.
News of riots in Russia is causing
disaffection in Kuropatkin's army.
The new Excelsior Roller mills at
Marysville, Kan, were destroyed by
FIRE. Loss $3.50, 900.
The New York chamber OF commerce
has asked the legislature to spend
100000 on the Lewis and Clark fair.
The bursting of large water tank on
the roof of the Denver dry goods store,
a large department store, caused dam
age to stock estimated at over $50, 900.
Professor H. Cole, of Chicago, has
discovered what is believed to be the
largest spot ON the sun. 1t covers one
tenth of the suns surface, is egg-shaped,
and can be seen through smoked glass.
Fire in the Cramp shipbuilding plant
at Chester, Pa, destroyed valuable
blueprints, models and charts, includ-
ing plans of the battleships Idaho and
Mississippi, and the cruiser Tennessee,
but work on these ships is not much
delayed.
Extreme cold weather is prevailing
throughout the Eastern and Middle
states. The entire country from the
Atlantic to the Rocky mountains is in
the grasp of blizzard and the temper
ature ranges from below at Kansas
City to 53 below at Glendive, Mont.
The annual report of President
Charles w. Eliot, of Harvard univers-
ity, for the year 10000, shows def
cit of 100000, and he predicts an an
nual deficit unless tuition fees are
raised or large endowment created.
He says $500, 900 is needed for rea-
sonable objects in view.
Three would-be assassins of the czar
have been captured.
A number of senators are opposing
the Malheur irrigation bill.
The Japanese have captured another
vesselb ound for Vladivostok with con-
traband Of war.
The federal grand jury working on
Oregon land fraud cases is still grind
ing out indictments.
Thirty-six Russian refugees from
Port Arthur on their way to Cheioo in
junk we're caught by a storm and
drowned.
Grand Duke Vladimir defends the
action of the Russian government and
says she has not deserved the fierce ex-
ecrations of the world.
Russian officers declare before the
North sea commission that they saw
torpedo boats of foreign country
among the fishing boats.
In the Colorado election contest case
Peabody urges that all fraud-tainted
precinct returns be thrown out. A
= number of ballots from precincts out
side of Denver have been examined
and found to have been made out in
the same handwriting.
Governor Deneen ruges the Illinois
legislature to appropriate sufficient
money for the Lewis and Clark fair to
enable building to be erected.
Russians accuse British of melting
the riots and Great Britain has asked
for an explanation.
A canvass of the Denver vote in the
Colorado contest shows one-third of the
ballots to be fraudulent.
The residence Of Governor Trepoff,
Of st. Petersburg, was almost demol-
ished by bomb. The governor was
absent.