Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1905-07-27
news OF THE week
In a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
A Resume of the Less Important bu'
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.

Morocco conference.
The canal commission has called for
bids for supplying labor.
A negro colony from Florida is to be
established in Southern Idaho.
A bomb was thrown at the sultan Of
Turkey, but he was not injured.
Another batch of indictments has
been returned against Milwaukee graft
ers.
Georgetown, Indiana, near the Ken
lucky line, has, been washed away by
q cloudburst.
Some Russian defenses have been
captured by the Japanese, together with
several guns.
A murderer sentenced to be hanged
SO years ago has been found alive in
the Illinois penitentiary.
A storm has swept over Midway is-
land, destroying the military camp
maintained by the United States.
1t is said that in the peace terms to
be demanded by Japan is provision
against double tracking the Siberian
railway. Russian papers declare that
the acceptance OF this would be CON-
mercisl suicide.
Japanese positions in Mancnhuria
are strongly fortified.
Chairman Shonts and Chief Engineer
Stevens are on their way to the isthmus.
The Russian GARRISON at vladivostok
expects an attack by land and sea any
time.
Baron Komura, Japanese peace en-
voy, has arrived in Seattle and started
on east to Washington.
China will insist on Manchuria being
returned to her when the war is over,
no matter how it terminates.
A cloudburst near Joplin, Missouri,
caused great damage to crops. The
loss will reach $150,000. One man
was drowned.
A majority of the naval board of con-
struction has recommended that no
more work be done on the, cruiser San
Francisco, and it has been taken out OF
commission.
After being on strike for los days,
during which time 19 people were
killed and 462 injured, the Chicago
teamsters have surrendered and will
seek employment where they can.
Clifford Pinchot, United States forest
superintendent, has started west Tor
tour of forest reserves. He will be
Joined later by Secretary Wilson. who
will accompany him on part of the
journey.
Norway will ask the United States
for recognition.
Travel to the Lewis and Clark fair
surprises Eastern railroads.
Rumors are thick in St. Petersburg
OF plots to dethrone the czar.
Newark, N. j., offers bounty on
pests which infest shade trees.
Witte says other powers may be
called into the peace conference.
Both Norway and Sweden are pre-
pairing for war while trying to keep
peace.
There is great increase of immigra-
tion to the United States from Norway
and Sweden.
British cotton manufacturers have
combined to promote the growth of
cotton in the island possessions of
Great Britain.
President Roosevelt says he has done
his part in bringing the warning ma
tions together and will not meddle in
the peace conference.
The governor of Alabama has called
out the satte cavalry to prevent the
lynching of negro confined in the
Linden, Marengo county, Jail.
Russia is making arrangements to
double track the Siberian railway.
Japan has succeeded in raising the
battleship Bayan, sunk at Port Arthur.
Five Russian vessels are said to be in
such shape that they can easily be put
into commission.
King Oscar says he does not favor a
forcible union with Norway.
A severe wind storm has wiped out
the town of Anawa, Wisconsin.
All telegraph operators on the North
ern Pacific railway are ready to go on
strike.