Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1905-08-24
news OF THE week
m q Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
a Resume Of the less Important bssi
Not less Interesting ENsAse
of the Past WesA


Acting Mayor Fornes, of New York,
has been sued for divorce.
The czar has issued a manifesto sums
moning national assembly.
Eighteen bodies have been recovered
from the wreck at Bruces, Virginia.
Bombs have been sent to two New
York bankers. No damage was done.
A German port has refused to enter
tain the British feet in the Baltic sea.
Telegraph operators on the Great
Northern have voted to return to work.
A heavy wind, accompanied by rain,
did great damage to property in Tope-
ks, Kansas.
Roosevelt has again taken hand in
the peace conference in an endeavor to
prevent the breaking off of negotiations.
The government has discovered
new counterfeit IS silver certicfate OF
the series of 1895. 1t is poorly exc
cuted.
Apache Indians from Arizona are on
q raid in New Mexico. They have
killed number of ranchers and are
looting and burning houses.
Mayor Dunno, of Chicago, has order
ed that work stop on tunnels until the
Illinois Tunnel company devises means
to prevent the sinking of buildings and
streets.
Shonts has plenty of money to carry
on cnaal work until congress meets.
Great Britain and Germany again
seem on the point of breaking relations.
American Jews refuse to loan Rus
sia any more money until their race is
granted reforms.
A hurricane which swept the Marsh-
all islands killed 100 people, according
to a dispatch from Sydney, n. s. W.
Roosevelt may again come to the res
cue OF the warning nations and help
break the deadlock of the peace con-
ference.
The International Typographical
union, in session at Toronto, has de-
cided to inaugurate strike wherever
the employers refuse to grant an eight
hour day after January l, 1906.
Baron Hayashi, Japanse minister to
Great Britaino, is confident Russia will
yield. If war is resumed, he says ia.
pan will quickly take the positions now
held by the Russian army.
The cruiser Chicago, towing the die
abled gunboat Bennington, went ashore
in the San Francisco harbor. In pull
ing the cruiser off she collided with the
gunboat and both vessels were badly
damaged.
Two cases of yellow fever have ap-
peared in Indiana.
The British feet has sailed for it's
rcuise in the Baltic sea.
Slight skirmishes continue between
the troops in Manchuria.
Governor Folk, of Missouri, is ar
ranging to attend the Lewis and Clark
fair.
The quarantine at New Orleans is
causing banana famine in Eastern
cities.
Attorney General Moody says he has
recommended Judge R. S. Bean, of
Salem, for Federal judge.
Standard Oil dividends for the quar-
ter ending September Is are $6 per
share, less than for some years.
Charles NJ. Schwab is going abroad
for the purpose of investigating in Ger
mary new and secret process for the
manufacture OF steel, which may have
bearing on the future of that industry.
Experiments made with wireless te-
legraphy on engines running over the
tracks of the Chicago & Alton railroad
have proved so successful that the
management has taken steps to equip
all the engines of the company with
the apparatus.
One of Hawaii's volcanoes is agair
showing signs of activity.
Russia is buyinfg supplies heavily in
America.
Russia may propose a joint govern
ment of the island of Sakhalin.
Oyama is ready to fight at onc'
should peace negotiations be broken off
Yellow fever in New Orleans is OF
the decrease, but is increasing on plan
tations near the city.
Graft in the army has been found il
connection with contracts for supply
ing clothing and other supplies.