Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1906-07-27
news OF THE WEEK
Ii a Condensed Form for Our
Busy Readers.
A Resume Of the Less Important but
Not Less Interesting Events
of the Past Week.

1t is believed the car will dissolve
the douma.
Suppression Of newspapers caused a
riot in st. Petersburg.
Peace has been signed among the
Central American republics.
The last OF the ladrone chiefs in the
Philippines has surrendered.
Germany proposes to exclude Ameri-
can canned meat Of every description.
A revolution in Mexico is threat.
ened. inspired by hostility to Ame!i
cans.
The National Livestock exchange de.
nuunces the reports recently made on
the meat packing industry.
John d. Roekefeller will be arrested
Immediately on his arrival in the
United States. He has sailed for this
country.
The whole city OF Syzran. Russia,
has been destroyed by fire. The con-
fsgratiou has rendered $1,000 persons
homeless, who are also without food.
Meager reports have been received of
fierce Ere in Yokohama, Japan. More
than a thousand houses were d, stroyed
and some life is known to have been
lost.
The capital Of Alaska has been moved
from Sitka to Juneau.
Scotland will try to induce parlia-
ment to grant home rule.
Santo Domingo will borrow $40, ,000,-
900 and pay all outstanding claims.
Germany and Austria will help the
czar if another revolution breaks out.
A forest hre in Calaveras county
threatns destruction to California's big
trees.
The bishop of Zululand accuses the
British troops Of wantonly killing many
natives.
Santos Dumont has new airshjp
which he believes an improvement over
anything yet built.
The mayor OF Socorro, Tex, says re-
ports of the recent earthquake were
greatly overdrawn.
The English parliament will appro-
pirate 81, ,0oO, 900 for the relief OF the
unemployed this winter.
The National Pure Food convention
endorsed the stand taken by President
Roosevelt on the pure food law.
General Stoessel, commander of Port
Arthur, during the Russo. Japanese
war, has been sentenced to death by a
military commission for surrendering
to the Japanese.
Missouri is after the ice trust.
Evidence is being secured against
the tobacco trust.
A French dirigible balloon recently
remained in the air eight hours.
The government is preparing to gauge
many Oregon and Washington streams.
Kansas packing houses have been
given five days to clean up or close up.
The Virginia 2-cent-a-mile railroad
rate law has been declared unconstitu-
tional.
A tramp steamer bumped into the
new battleship Rhode Island, springing
her armour plates badly.
The executors of the estate OF the
late Marshall Field estimate the value
of the property left ut $25, 100000
Canada has received an address from
King Edward in which he says it will
be impossible for him to make the
much desired visit.
The Cleveland, Ohio, grand jury ad.
journed without indicting any Standard
Oil men. Prosecutions of the company
is to b, resumed in other cities.
All express companies operating on
the Northern Pacific and Great North
ern roads have consolidated and here
after will be known as the Northern
Express compan-. The deal also in
cludes the Adams Express company on
the Burlington.
A strike Of Portland street car men
seems imminent.
Siam has started movement for the
abolishment of gambling.
Plans are being prepared for new
lightship off the Columbia bar.
Major Dreyfus has been assigned to
command of the crack French regiment.
Alfred Belt, who controlled the gold
and diamond output Of Africa, is dead.