Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1907-03-15
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.

Radicals have elected officers of the
Russian douma.
Jerome has decided to recall Mrs.
Thsw to the stand.
Hearst has won another decision in
the New York mayoralty contest.
The sugar trust has been sued in
New York court by crushed rival.
Roosevelt is preparing to close the
gates against Japanese immigration.
North Dakota solons passed a law
providing 2h cent passenger fare.
The woman suffragist bill has been
talked to death in the British parlia-
ment.
An electricians strike In Paris put
the city in darkness and demoralized
the newspapers.
The Spanish minister to the United
States says the battle of Manila bay
was a victory OF iion over wood.
Leonidas Preston, Texas million
aire, committed suicide by taking poi
son. Physicians found enough of the
deadly hydiocyanic poison in his sto-
mach to kill six men.
The Kansas legislature has voted
$4,000 for the Seattle fair.
There is a promise of harmony be-
tween the ear and the douma.
President Bonilla, Of Honduras,
claims a victory over Nicaraguan
troops.
A rich copper strike has been made
in Nevada not a great distance from
Tonopah.
Hartman offers to cooperate with
the government in settling the railroad
controversy.
Thaw;s lawyers announce that the
defense is through. Jerome will send
the case to the jury.
The news of the acceptance Of Swet-
tenham's resignation was received with
rejoicing at Kingston.
The attorney general has decided that
the new immigration law excludes
stlte aided immigrants.
Four OF PortlaLd's largest sawmills
are closed on account OF labor difficult
ties. Nearly fifteen hundred men are
out.
Railroads in Nebraska will comply
with the 2-ceT passenger fare law, but
will not grant special rate Of any
kind.
The Russian douma has opened with
radicals in control.
Milliners predict more expensive
hats for this season.
Jerome defied the Judge in the Thaw
trial and was sternly rebuked.
Grover Cleveland objects to state re.
strictions on insurance investments.
The Northern Pacific will lose rich
timber land through the new forest re-
serves.
England says her navy is equal tt
that of any two other nations OF the
world.
Secretary Taft and number of con
gressmen are going to Panama, Cubs
and Porto Rico.
The upper house of the Californis
legislature has voted down the pro
posed woman suffrage.
The transport Thomas has just sailec
from San Francisco with full cargo o
supplies for the troops in the Philip
pines.
By the explsioon of l 900 pounds o
dynamite in storehouse near Noun
Carmel, Pa 40 persons were injured
The property loss will be $15O,00O.
Governor Swettenham's resignation
has been accepted.
John F. Stevens has been appointe'
Temporary chairman Of the Isthmial
Canal commission.
The congress which has just adjourn
ed passed appropriation bills aggregat
ing total Of $9l9, $50
The Standard Oil company is on tria
in Chicago for accepting rebates fror
the Chicago & Alton railway.
A Missouri Pacific train was held u
at Pittsburg, Kan, and the passenger
robbed. One man who resisted wa
shot.
The steamer Dakota is still on tn
rocks in Toxic bay. Much of the ma
has been removed, but the baggage ha
been lost.
Hill and Hartman have come to a
agreement regarding Puget sound tel
.,,inala ht,k nothing has hAan vialde