Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-04-08
John Browns Fort Taken
to Chicago.
A SUBTERRANEAN RIVER.
The New York Legislature Defeats the
Bill to Annex Brooklyn TO
New York City.

A scheme has been formulated for min
ing beneath the city of Aspen, Col.
A subterranean river of vast extent
has been tapped in Plainfeld, NJ.
Ford county, Kan, looks for 800 fami-
lies OF Danes to settle there this year.
A new cable to connect the Central
American States with Cuba is soon to be
laid.
James Calhoun, postmaster at Big
Pine, Wyo., is dcfaulter to the govern
ment.
Franklin, Pa, is in the throes of a re-
ligious revival, business even being neg
lected.
A Kansas man applied for a divorce
because his wife would no longer sup
port him.
The Minnesota license law has been
declared void, and saloons may run all
the time.
Chicago has given up its war against
the English sparrows. The sparrows
hold the field.
Another vessel loaded with food for the
starving Russians will leave Philadel-
phia on April l3.
Minnie Johnson confesses to having
fired the female reformatory at Indian
apolis on March L.
Railroad officials estimate that only
one-third OF the Western crops of 1891
have thus far been moved.
Secretary Tracy expresses fear that the
House will be parsimonious in the mat
ter OF naval appropriations.
The Massachusetts House has decided
to make the salary OF the Governor So
900, the present figure being 5000.
The bottom and 5000, 900 gallons of
water one day last week dropped out Of
the new reservoir at Leavenworth, Kan. I.
The Commissioners report in favor OF
the entrance OF the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad into Washington City by an ele-
waited road.
Reports to the Philadelphia Board Of
Health of contagious diseases and deaths
therefrom indicate death rate far above
the normal.
The Congressional Committee on Pub
lie Lands has reported favorably on the
projected Mariposa wagon road into the
Yosemite Valley.
Ex-Auditor Lavelle, indicted for at
tempting to burn the Daviess county
(lnd.) courthouse, is short in his ac-
counts over $4,000.
Alleged Doodle transactions are re-
ported to have existed among the Brook
lyn Aldermen in giving the elevated
railway franchise of 1886.
The Senate bill to change the name Of.
hn ICtr l1aaEsa,
OF Wilmington, CAL, to that OF Los An
geles has passed the Senate.
Two rain companies in Kansas are
making contracts with the counties OF
that State at 5000 a county to produce
from one to two inches of rain.
According to the new count of the pop-
ulation of Buffalo by the State enumer-
ators the total will be 2S4.0O0. The CEN
sus figures in 1890 were 255, ,664.
A bill has been introduced in the Ohio
Legislature to enlarge and extend the
Ohio canal so that boats can be towed
from Lake Erie to the Ohio river.
The State Department officials say that
there is no truth in the report that the
United States has established an alliance
with the Argentine confederation.
The Legislature at Albany has defeated
the bill to annex Brooklyn to New York
city. Tammany rule in the latter place
is the chief impeachment to the consoli-
Satien.
At present 2. 691 students are attending
the University of Michigan at Ann Ar
Dor, which is the largest number ever
attending an American institution of
learning.
David Wenger, who struck rich vein
OF silver bearing ore while digging a
well at Lincoln, Mo-, several days ago,
has purchased machinery, and will de-
velop the lead.
Testimony is being taken at Chicago
in the disputed heirship to the estate of
Samuel Sankey of San Francisco regard
ing the title to $4,000 worth OF property
situated in Chicago.
The old Harper's Ferry engine-house
fort, which John Brown stormed and
captured, and behind whose brick walls
he bid defiance to powerful force, has
been removed to Chicago.
The recent heavy disbursements have
reduced the treasury balance to $29,65I,-
325, OF which $l2, 1911 ,20l is on deposit
with national banks and SIS, ,225, 900 is in
subsidiary and minor coin.
The Nicaraguan government is max
ing the most liberal offers to intending
coffee growers. 1t gives to a married
man 240 acres and to single man 120
acres of good coffee ground.
Governor Flower declined to sign bill
fixing the salaries of the Brooklyn Alder
men at $1,000 on the ground that the
Legislature should only grant permission
to local authorities to fix salaries.
General Miles believes the great need
of this country is coast-defensive works.
He thinks too much dependence is placed
on the navy. Fortifcations are necessi-
ties, and they may save the country from
great losses.