Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1905-04-27
news OF The week
In a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
a Resume Of the Less important but
fiot Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.

Chicago teamsters threaten general
strike.
Secretary Hays health is much inn
proved.
The Rock Island system is trying to
obtain control of the Union Pacific.
Hitchcock has dismissed eight Off
cials in the Indian service for eorrup-
ton.
The Italian government is reported
to have ordered nmber of warships
to Santo Domingo.
The Chicago beef trust grand jury
has turned its attention TO the investi-
CATION of the sausage business.
Foreign Minister Delcasse, of France,
threatens to resign because of the pol
icy towards Germany and Japan.
Senator o. H. Platt, of Connecticut,
is dead. Although sick for some time,
his death came rather Unexpectedly.
He was rs years old.
The Panama canal commission has
purchased number of big locomotives
and cars for the railroad and will equip
the line with new and modern rolling
stock throughout.
Japan boils with anger at the French
violation of neutrality, claiming she
has positive proof that the Russian fleet
uses Kamranh bay as a naval base.
Great Britain may be called into the
trouble, and her Hong Kong fleet is in
readiess to go to sea.
The Japanese army is advancing
northward, preceded by cavalry.
The teSmsters' strike in Chicago
may affect all department stores.
A run on New York trading stamp
store has caused its being closed.
Irrigation committees of congress will
tour the West and visit Portland.
Senator 0. H. Platt is in a very seri-
GUS condition, having had relapse.
The.State department says it has not
received Minister Barrett's resignation.
The Union Pacific railway will build
more gasoline motor cars and run them
on all branch lines.
The strike in the Arkansas Valley
smelter at Leadville, Colo, has been
settled and work resumed.
Five miners were killed in an explo-
sion in the Cabin Creek mines 80 miles
from Charleston, West Virginia.
The beef trust has been caught in
the act of sending witnesses away from
Chicago who might tell too much.
The Great Northern has let contracts
for the extension of its line from Sioux
City, Iowa, to Ashland, Nebraska.
Bonds have been sold for the extern
sion of the Western Pacific railroad
from the present terminus at Salt Lake
City to Oakland.
Kalieff, the assassin of Grand Duke
Sergius, has been condemned to death.
Troops fred on railroad strikers in
an Italian town, killing and wounding
many.
The question OF broken neutrality by
the Russians has aroused keen interest
in Japan.
Contracts have been closed for build
ing an immense steel mill in China.
The work will cost close to 5000, 900.
Portland is now officially recognized
as the leading wheat exporting city Of
the United States. The department of
Commerce and Labor accords Portland
first place.
The Japanese government has let
contracts for the erection of huge steel
plants and other necessary machinery
for the construction of heavy ordnance.
An American firm will do the work.
No women spectators will be allowed
at the third trial of Nan Patterson.
The Chicago teamsters' strike against
Montgomery, Ward & Co. seems to be
losing headway. Riots continue, how
ever.
A young man of Muncie, Indiana,
has been fined $25 and costs for having
cigarette papers in his possession. This
is the first penalty assessed in Indiana
since the anti-cigarette law became
effective.
The senate committee on interstate
commerce has commenced its hearings
on railway legislation.
John A. Benson will have to stand
trial in Washington on land fraud
charges, the United States supreme
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