Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-04-15
Loss Of Stock and Sheep
in Colorado.
MICHIGAN'S GERRYMANDER.
Arabs Arrive in New York With a Stud
Of Thoroughbred Arabian
Horses-Etc.

New York will repeal its prison-for-
debt law.
The new city Of Niagara Falls claims
population of 10000.
The Pawnee Indians in Oklahoma
Territory threaten to give trouble.
Injunction suits were filed against all
the saloonkeepers at Muscatine, La.
Ohio is considering a law making it
criminal to discharge employees for union
ism.
The Pennsylvania road will test the
constitutionaiity of the Indiana tax
laws.
Members Of the Board Of Education at
Chicago are found to have been in the
scramble for Doodle.
United States engineers are consider
ing project for new bridge at the en-
trance of Duluth harbor.
i Kansas farmers are still paying OF
their mortgages. The total decreased
$500, 600 during February.
1t is estimated that the losses to stock
and sheep men Of Colorado by the recent
blizzard will reach $200, 900.
Chicago is securing Nebraska grain by
rate manipulation, which shuts out st.
Louis and Kansas City buyers.
The IaEsst ind among amateur singers
Is to have part Of the cartilage Of the
nose removed to improve the voice.
Secretary Foster says that the govern
\ ment has as available assets $64, 600 600,
exclusive Of the $l00, ,OO0, 900 gold reserve.
An effort is to be made 10 have the ls-
gality Of the Michigan gerrymander de-
termined By the United States supreme
Court.
4 The window-glass mandatory at
count of the failure OF its natural-gas
supply.
Secretary Foster says emphatically
that the gold reserve OF $1O0, 0,00O. 600 will
be held intact in the United States
Treasury.
A company has Just been formed in
Chicago to run buses ON the boulevards
propelled by accumulators or other cleo
trical appliances.
There is great strike in New York
against the employment of hod-hoisting
machines. The complaint is that the
machines can't vote.
1t is said to have cost three corpora
tions q total of nearly 500, 600 to get
three franchises through the Chicago
City Council recently.
Nearly forty committees have been ap-
pointed to canvass among New York's
business men for funds sufficient to COM
plete its Grant monument.
A great derrick picked 100000 eggs
from the Hudson river, and never broke
one. They were contained in eight
freight cars on q sunken float.
The President has signed the bill Civ
ing certain land contiguous to the Lick
Observatory to the astronomical depart
ment OF the University of California.
It is stated that General Miles expects
to have his staff at Chicago increased to
seventeen, making it the largest of any
department headquarters in the army.
i The cornerstone Of General Grants
monument in New York will be laid by
President Harrison April 27--the seven
tieth anniversary Of the dead hero's
birth.
Postmaster-G General Wanamaker q few
days ago received q $50 Confederate note
from the Postmaster General of Italy,
end yes requested 70 cash il, i bat il @s.
returned.
i Ferd Wards term of ten years in Sing
Sing will expire April 50, and he will be
released. He was sentenced October 81,
1885, and about one-third Of his time
has been commuted.
The Missouri river at Jefferson City is
moving sand bar up stream 80 az to
cnt off the ferry landing, and threatens
to 20 over to the Galloway side and cut
out lot OF rich land.
The Thirteenth Infantry, the Fifth and
part of the Seventh Cavalry will soon
be ordered to the Cheyenne and Arapa-
hoe reservations to clear sQuatters off
before throwing open the lands to settle
ment.
The committee appointed by the Ohio
Legislature to investigate the charges Of
, corruption in the reelection Of Senator
) Sherman has been unable to find sim
gle item of proof to suetain the accusa-
| tions.
Mrs. Homer G. Baldwin, who was in
: jured go terribly in the New York Gem
tral collision at Hastings on Christmas
! eve, has sued the railroad company for
I $2bJ, 900 damages. Her injuries are Of q
I fearful character.
Exports of breadstuffs continue enor-
: Nous. and show wonderful increases in
! value. For the eight months, July,
! 1891, to March /, 1892, their value was
!. $2l0, 900 900, against SS73 900, 600 for the
( same pariod in 1901.
: The Illinois State crop report places
: the area of winter wheat at 1885, 900
: acres, or per cent. larger than last year.
!, Condition OF the plant 10 reported 10 be
. fair except in the southern part Of the
State, whore ii il poer.