Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1905-09-14
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 Woek.

Swedish Norwegian relations are
again warlike.
China has placed big flour order in
the United States.
Municipal ownership is She issue in
the New York campaign.
More graft has been discovered in the
army supply department.
Shonts has let contracts for housing
and feeding canal employees.
An independent telephone line is
planned from New York to Portland.
Disorders at Baku are subsiding, but
are not yet stopped. Troops are pour
ing into the disturbed districts.
An earthquake in Southern Italy
killed more than 400 persons and de-
stroyed many towns and villages.
The president has removed Public
Printer Palmer and appointed Oscar ].
Ricketts, to fill the office Temporarily.
The Grand Army has elected James
Tanner, of New York, commander in
chief. He was pension commissioner
under Harrison.
Japanese rioters at Toxic have torn
down statue of Ito, recently erected.
The disorders, however, are growing
less, and quiet is expected soon.
The various railroads have carried
1904 passengers from east OF the
Rockies to the Pacific coast this sum-
mer. OF this number Al 7,1lS came
direct to Portland.
The sultan of Morocco has granted
Frances demands.
In the past year 9,152 members Of
the G. A. r. have died.
The Norwegian-Swedish conference is
in danger of disagreement.
The New, York hop crop will not be
over so or 20 per cent of last years.
Japanese disorders may. interfere
with resumption OF the -four trade.
A rotten building in New York fell,
killing two people and iniuring 20
others.
A mob near Fort Worth, Texas,
burned negro at the stake. He had
confessed his crime.
After a silence of Is months inquir-
les are being sent to the Pacific coast
from Vladivostok for -four and wheat.
Cholera continues to spread rapidly
throughout Prussia, but the govern
ment is working hard to suppress the
disease.
A Chinese gunboat at Annoy saluted
the Ammerican flag as amends for an
insult two weeks ago. The boycott is
a thing of the past there.
A meat famine is general in Ger
many. Live cattle are worth l4A
cents per pound and live hogs IA cents.
The government has been petitioned to
admit cattle free of duty.
Hezekiah Butterworth, editor OF the
Youths Companion, since 1870, is
dead.
The peace treaty has been signed by
the Russian and Japanese plenipoten-
tiaries.
Marshall Field, the Chicago million
aire, has just been married. He is 70
years old.
The president has demanded the res
ignation of Public Printer Palmer.
Bad management is the cause.
The Long Island Railroad company
has discovered system of robbing it of
many thousand dollars by selling tick
cts twice.
A freight train on the Burlington
crashed into passenger train at Brush,
Colorado, 88 miles east of Denver.
Four passengers were killed and 20 Sc
verely injured.
Tests are being made with wireless
telegraphy between Brooklyn navy yard
and Washington that promise to great
ly increase its efficiency and do away
with the relays now used.
Turkey has called out more troops to
suppress the rebellion in Macedonia.
The fire loss of the United States and
Canada for August aggregates $11, 1885,
800, as compared with $9,715,20 for
the same month last year. The total
for the first eight months is Sly, $780,
$50. There were 211 fires during Aug
ust where the loss reached $4,000 or
more.
Thirty five thousand people attended
the fair Labor day.
Western Nebraska has reported its