Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1906-08-10
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 Week.

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E. A. Gage. a son of Lyman Gage,
committed suicide in Seattle.
Rear Admiral Train, commander in
chief Of the Asiatic squadron is dead.
A frad Of two and half million dol.
lars is to be raised to build cottages for
the homeless of San Francisco.
The forts at sveaborg. Russia, are al.
most insstotsl ruins as the result OF
6ghting. between mutineers and loyal
troops.
San Francisco is threatened with an
epidemic of typhoid, which the health
board says is being carried by the COM
mon house fly.
The state law OF New York restrict
ing the labor by women and children
to 10 hours day has been declared un-
constitutional.
The state auditor OF Kansas says he
will cancel the polices of all insurance
companies who do not pay their San
Francisco losses in full.
Provision contractors on the isthmus
have formed q trust and raised the
prices Hooper cent. The canal COM
mission has ordered supplies OF $500
and over bought under the open bid
system.
Brigadier General William Bolton is
dead.
Mayor W. II. Moore, of Seattle, is
seriously i'll at Los Angeles.
The business Of the Lewis and Clark
exposition has been wound up.
7. W. Davenport, Of Silverton, Ore
gon, father OF Cartoonist Davenport, is
dead.
Fifteen hundred copper miners at
Calumet, Michigan, have had theis
wages voluntarily raised s2 per month.
Four men were killed and two
wounded in battle between a sheriff's
posse and bandits in Knott county,
Kentucky.
1t has been charged that General
Wood is drawing two salaries, one as
governor and one as his regular pay in
the army. The president says this is
not so.
A San Francisco woman has Just se-
cured divorce on the ground that her
husband had not spoken a word to her
for eight years, although living in the
same house.
A Porto Rican merchant has sued
Federal Judge Hunt, of Montana, for
500, 900 damages. 1t is claimed that
at the time the Judge was governor of
the island he was instrumental in ruin
ing the merchants business.
Fire in a Buffalo, N. Y, planning
mill destroyed $l70, 900 worth of prop
erty.
The National Sculpture society is to
establish an old age home for its MEM
bers.
The st. Paul is laying steel for its
new Pacific coast extension. The work
is being done in South Dakota.
Judge James F. Tracey, OF the Phil
ippine Supreme court, will likely be
the next vice governor of the islands.
John D. Rockefeller says there is
more good than bad in the world, and
that everything is for good in the end.
The Pennsylvania railroad has cut
passenger rates to 21f cents per mile.
Mileage books will be issued at the rate
of 2 cents per mile.
The failure of the sultan to receive
an Ambassador instead of minister is
likely to be the cause of diplomatic
differences between the United States
and Turkey.
Two transcontinental railway COM
panies cay they will shortly install
theater cars on their trains in which
plays will be given while the trains
are in progress.
Vast frauds have been unearthed in
San Francisco's municipal affairs.
Examination of public records show
that there has been an extensive graft
in letting contracts and that city pay
rolls have been padded.
Truck workers in San francisco have
struck for more pay and shorter hours.
Nihilists wrecked train in Belgium,
thinking Grand Duke Vladimir, Of
Russia, on it.
Dowie says he will appeal from the
recent decision Of the court ousting him
from control of Zion City.
The Pacific Coast Steamship company
is eaid to be considering the manning
of it's vessels with Indians.