Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-07-08
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
The Gambling Spirit Peryades
New Orleans, La.
NUMBER OF DIVORCES GRANTED.
The international typographical Union in
Session at Philadelphia Repeats
the s0-Hour Law.
NUMBER OF DIVORCES GRANTED.

Mississippi is threatened with plague
OF grasshoppers.
The negro population Of the South is
increasing rapidly.
A mountain of red paint has been dis
covered near Denver.
Michigan crop reports indicate big
yield of grain and fruits.
Judge Tourgee predicts massacre by
negroes in the next ten years.
Newfoundland is rejoicing over the
catching of 400, 900 seals by her feet this
season.
Arrangements have been made for the
electrical illumination of Niagara Falls
at night.
One hundred bodies are now known to
have been stolen from the cemetery at
Hamburg, La.
The general deficiency bill provides no
money for the payment OF bond-aided
Pacific railroads.
1t is said that there are really 1.OOO.-
600 more acres planted in corn in Kansas
this year than last.
| A Michigan woman who was cured OF
the morphine habit at Kelley institute
became violently insane.
Suit is to be instituted for the land
upon which the cities Of Dallas and Fort
Worth, Tex, are located.
The census returns show that in the
entire State of Virginia the surplus OF
women is but thirty-nine.
The Cape Cod ship canal bill was de-
feated in the Massachusetts House last
week by vote of SO to go.
Governor Fifer's appeal for aid from
the citizens of Illinois for food sufferers
has resulted in raising $1l, 600.
The international Typographical
| Union repealed the 59-hour law by a
majority of one in forty-eight votes.
/ L. W. Habercorm has resigned as Fifth
Auditor of the Treasury. He will prac-
tice law and write for the German papers.
| OF the 428, 900 divorces granted in the
United States during the last twenty
years 100000 we're granted at the re-
quest of wives.
In consequence of the Mckinley bill
Johann Hoff, the famous maltrextract
manufacturer at Berlin, is about to open
factory in New York.
Within three years 5000 people have
lost their lives in Western Pennsylvania
because of weak dams originally CON
structed in siovenly manner.
During May the exports Of breadstuffs
from the United States were $19, All, $40,
against $12. $50, ,231 in May, 1891; of pro-
visions, $l0, ,501 ,592, against 81, ,068, ,0O8 in
1891.
i The lady landlord OF Cincinnati ho-
tel has demanded $100 damages on &C
count of Texas banker committing
suicide in one of the rooms Of her
house.
i The gambling spirit go thoroughly per
vades New Orleans that even the grand
jury ia found recommending the passage
of law under which gambling shall be
licensed.
i A. Nelson and James Taylor, Greek
Indians, have been sentenced to death
for stealing, the statutory laws making
conviction for theft the third time pun
ishable with death.
Edward s. Dunn, Secretary and Treas
urer of the National Savings Bank OF
Buffalo, is defaulter for heavy amount.
He was a trusted officer and q leading
financier OF the city.
The New York Board of Health re-
ports that there are Eve schoolhouses in
that city in which the only method of
ventilating the rooms is the primitive
one of opening the windows.
The total number of regular trains OF
all classes in and out OF Chicago daily
via all railroad lines Is 1880. Twenty
eight railroad companies operate nearly
10000 miles of railroad lines that center
) there.
A statement is being circulated that
the vast lead and zinc industries Of Mis-
souri,, including several smelters at St.
, Louis and in Southwestern Missouri, are
about to pass under control of foreign
capital.
The good people OF Philadelphia are
seriously disturbed. The use OF soft coal
by the locomotives of the Pennsylvania
railroad is filling the air with eoot and
shutting the famous purity of the town
buildings.
Lotta Crabtree was defeated in suit
! in the Superior Court at Boston recently
! by May Robinson, who obtained YER
: dict for $500. The suit was for $4,000
for injuries sustained while passing the
Park Theater, which Lotta owns.
Considerable excitement was occa-
stoned at Homestead, Pittsburg, by the
announcement that Manager Potter OF
Carnegie's plant had signed q three
Z years agreement with all skilled labor
! except members Of the AmaIgamatad
: Association at the present wages.
! The run Of shad in the Hudson river
:. has been growing less and less for sew
J mission, fearing an eyentful famine. has
!. just placed 500, 600 two-day-old shad fry
i in the river at Kingston. It usually
takes three years to develop them.