Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1905-02-16
news OF THE week
ln q Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
a Resume Of the Less important but
Not less Interesting Events
Of the Past Week.
Japan will next besiege vladivOstok


workmen at st. Petersburg have
struck again and increased their de-
mands.
Many German coal minres have been
blacklisted and the strike may be re-
newed.
Many conflicts between police and
strikers in Poland cause hundresd of
deaths.
The president has appointed Joseph
n. Kibbey, of Arizona, to be governor
Of that territory.
General Stoessel has answered his ac-
eusers by showing that food and am
munition would not have held out more
than four days longer.
Al new blizzar is raging east of the
Rocky mountains, with the tempera-
eure ranging from below at Chicago
70 20 below at Duluth. All trains are
late on account of wind and snow.
Eleven Eastern Oregon projects for
the reclamation of arid land are now
under consideration by the government
engineers. Malheur ranks first, but
obstacles are still in the way which
may cause it to be abandoned.
The governor of Warsaw has been
killed by Polish strikers.
Grand Duke Nicholas is reported to
be going to Manchuria to help kuro-
patkin.
John Barrett, minister 10 Panama,
Gays that there are but few cases OF yell
low fever on the isthmus.
The American Tobacco company has
declared an initial dividend Of ~ per
cent on its common stock for period
not yet stated.
A conference of 100 ministers in New
York has decided to stare crusade
against vice by holding series of
mass meetings.
In New York in a single quarter last
year, with total population of $685.
S24, there were "a, ,034 births and 21,-
O5S deaths, natural increase of 2,056
in the popultion of the city.
Albert T. Patrick, who is under sem
tence of death for the murder of Will
liam NJ. Rice in New York, hopes to
escape by proving at a second trial
that embalming causes congestion OF
che lungs. The prosecution proved
that Rice died by chloroform admins
tered by Patrick.
The Industrial General Trust COM
pany, of London, has asked the New
York supreme court for a special jury
70 try its suit for over 81 900, 900
against j. Kennedy Tod and others for
damages for unauthorized sale of bonds
for the Birmingham, Sheffield & Ten
neessee railroad company, the ground
being that an ordinary jury would not
understand the case.
The reported resignation of Kuropat-
kin is denied by st. Petersburg officials.
Huge ice foes fill New York harbor,
making navigation difficult and almost
impossible.
The assassin of the procurator oil
Finland has been captured. He is a
medical student.
The ocean steamer Damara has been
wrecked off the coast of Nova Scotia
and many lives lost.
Governor Folk, Of Missouri, recon-.
mends additional appropriation for the
Lewis and Clark exposition.
St. Petersburg workmen threaten to
renew the strike unless those engaged
in the previous strike are taken back
70 work.
The National Editorial association,
which meets in Guthrie, Okla, in
June, will visit the Portland fair after
Its session is closed.
Rapid fire guns mounted on automo'
bile cars are to be used by the Russians
for the protection of the Trans-Siberiar
IdlIEOdus OLA Vi blOGC Sdio hdFO DSOL
ordered in Chicago.
A blizzard is raging over Northern
and Eastern Texas and rain and sleet
falling in many sections of Southern
Texas, Mississippi and Tennessee
Thousands of cattle are reported to bt
suffering and in many cases totally de
void of water.
The strike has spread to Transcau
casia.
The reign Of terror continues il
Poland.
A n agreement has been made for {
parcels post and quick mail servic'
with Britain and France.