Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1905-10-26
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President Roosevelt visited the home
of his mother at Roswell, Georgia.
Linievitch has ordered the barricades
and trenches he has been occupying
destroyed.
Twelve commissioned army officers
have been convicted during the past
year by court martial.
Quantities of rich pearls are being
found on the kankakee river, says
La Porte, Ind, dispatch.
The weather bureau says that during
the clear cold nights Northern Lights
of rare beauty should be seen.
A Chicago woman dressed in mans
garb instinctively reached for her skirt
in crossing street. Her arrest fol-
lowed.
The geographical survey has reported
that the sand of the Pacific coast is
nearly one-third iron. This is the re-
suit of tests made during the past sum-
mer at the fair grounds.
Japanese merchants are to put fleet
of steamers on the Pacific coast trade
that may make heavy inroads on pres
ent companies. They will carry freight
at about one-third the present rate.
Pekin advices say Russia and China
will renew the treaty of 1927. This
will allow Russia to extend her trade
in Mongolia and permit her subjects
to engage in mining and railway enter
prises.
Western railroads are placing heavy
orders for equipment.
1t is announced that the strikes in
Russia have been ended.
The entire middle West is buried
under blanket of snow
Enthusiastic ovations greet the presi-
dent at every stop on his Southern trip.
President Roosevelt has received
messages of thanks from the czar and
mikado.
W. j. Bryan, who is touring the
Orient, will he received in audience by
the mikado.
Japan will celebrate her victory
over Russia with a parade of the cap
tured warships.
Japan has sent troops to Corea to
suppress an uprising. The government
forces we're inadequate.
Secretary Shaw is arranging with
Wall street bankers for the sale Of
bonds of the Panama canal issue.
A resident of Philadelphia, who was
travelling in Nicaragua, has been sent
to prison for 10 years for numbering his
guide.
Announcement is made that the sur
vey of the Flathead Indian reservation
in Montana has been completed and
that the allotment of lands will begin
within short time. 1t is expected
that the reservation will be thrown
open to settlers in the fall OF 1906 or
spring of 1907.
The canal commission and engineers
have returned.
Ten Denver bankers have been in
dicted for stealing.
A French fleet is moving against
Venezuela with American approval.
The president has forbidden the ex-
port of arms to Santo Dominican rebels.
A German economist says Europe
will form a tariff alliance against
America.
Japan announces that another Rus
sian battleship sunk at Port Arthur has
been raised.
Practically no new cases of yellow
fever are being reported in the infected
districts of the South.
Discovery has been made that many
young American girls are being sold
into slavery in China.
Liberals have decided not to vote in
the Cuban election.
President Morton, of the Equitable
Life Assurance society, advocates pub
lie examination of accounts Of all cor
porations.
In the Young court martial, in con-
nect.on with the Bennington disaster,
Ensign Wade testified that he had con-
demned the gunboat's boilers.
Life insurance companies entering
Texas after this year will have to an
swer numerous and largely personal
questions before permit will be given
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