Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-07-15
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
Building and Loan Associations Of
the United States.
THE MISSOURI CROP BULLETIN
Great Drought in Northern Mexico and
Portions Of Texas - Chicago
River Swollen.
rHE MISSOURI CROP BULLETIN

| Harvest hands command $3 day and
their keep" in Kansas this year.
The Cleveland street car strikers have
refused the compromise proposition.
| Cut-worms are proving very destruct-
i've to tobacco in Henry county, Tenn.
The population OF the town OF Okar-
che, Oklahoma, grew 1,50J in one night
recently.
The Louisiana Legislature has re-
pealed the law creating the board of
hour inspectors.
Great trouble is experienced in VEN
tiiating the st. Clair tunnel, which was
operei last year.
A leather trust has been Incorporated
| in New Jersey. 1t will deal in all kinds
OF goods male from leather.
Building and loan associations OF the
United State are trying TO perfect ma
tional organization at Chicago.
Because of the enactment OF the sepa-
rate coach law, the negroes OF Kentucky
propose to boycott the railways.
About 1000 negroes in and around
Nashville, Tenn, are making ready to
emigrate to Oklahoma in the fall
|
Immigrants to the number OF 92,242
arrived in this country during May in
May, 1891, the number was s5,94I.
The Missouri crop bsletln reports a
very good condition and yield in har-
vested grain, but with light acreage.
The great drought in Northern Mexico
and portions of Texas still continues,
and there is much suffering in conse-
quence.
The defalcation of Treasurer Dahn OF
the Buffalo National Savings Bank will
probably reach between $4,000 and
100000.
The English party composing the sym
dicate which owns the Black Hills tin
mines near Rapid City are to visit the
property.
The Sugar Trust has agreed to give the
wholesale grocers who maintain fixed
prices rebate of one-eighth of cent
per pound.
It has been estimated by high au-
thority that the country will have as
much wheat to export this year as it
had last year.
! Iron has been discovered at Mulhall,
Kan. by man digging well, who,
when down some seventy feet, struck
iron. A shaft is being sunk.
The elevator men at Chicago have
wired to their country correspondents to
stop shipping corn there till after July
18th, as it Is coming in such bad condi-
ton it will not grade.
Senator Gallinger is at the head OF
} movement to establish government SAN.
), l far in ha
t established his plan is to assist con-
sumptives to emigrate thither.
The New York State census shows
that there are about 4. ZOO Indians living
on the several reservations in that State
who still maintain their tribal systems,
subject to State jurisdiction.
A clergyman of indianapolis, Ind. has
entered upon vigorous crusade against
church fairs, grab bags. raffles and all
other schemes to raise funds for church
purposes in illegitimate ways.
An eight-foot tunnel, extending four
: miles out into Lake Michigan, has just
been completed at Chicago. 1t will sup
ply 10 the city l3 l,000,n0 gallons oil wa
9 ter per day, and has cost over 81 100000.
y The Broadway cable line in New York
. Ciry will be operated in October. Nearly
5000 horses are to be displaced. The
n total cost Of the new road IS $4,000 }.
L Cotton drive rope is used to prevent
, noise.
The Chicago river is swollen to such
= an extent that nearly 1900 houses in
Ravenswood, suburb OF Chicago, were
l. surrounded by water. The main sewers
e il Chicago are clogged and Easements
i. flooded.
|. Following are the newly elected di.
1t rectors oil the Nlcaraguan Mail, Steam
% and Navigation Company: Albert o.
Cheney, SamuelC Miller, Louis Chable,
:, Warner Miller and George w. DAVIS, all
4 of New York.
d There is law on the Kansas statute
n hook which provides for the delivery oi
all letters for girls under IL and boys
ID under 2l years of age to their parents
lie and guardians, but it would take the
militia to enforce it.
le The Lighthouse Board has arranged
Of for series of experiments on Staten
le Island, N. Y. of new magnesium
re light, which is reported to have devel
r. oped wonderful Illuminating powers al
<, recent observations in Germany.
:. OWlnR largely 10 the pollutlOn OF III
81 water by sewage, there were 1897 deathi
from typhoid fever in Chicago last year
n. that being the highest known rate for /
i. great city and more than five times al
1e many az in New York.
e. In the Senate the other day Stewar
r offered as a substitute for his free coin
~ age bill one providing that the owner D
e silver bullion may deposit the same e
il any mint OF the United States. to b,
II coined for his benefit, the coins to b.
n legal tender for all debts and dues
rn Foreign silver, coin or bullion, is ex