Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-06-03
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
Cost Of the New Sault Ste. Marie
Canal in Canada.
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sWINDLING ENDOWMENT CONCERNS.
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The Payments Of the Sugar Bounty for the
Present Fiscal Year-Louisiana
Confederate Veterans.
SWINDLING ENDOWMENT CONCERNS.

Baron Fava says he is glad to get back
to the United States.
Mrs. Grant has decided not to publish
her memoirs OF the General.
The prospects for crop OF cotton Is
per cent. less than that of 1912 is
promised.
The cost of the new Sault Ste. Marie
canal in Canada has been estimated at
"a, 100000.
The annual reunion of the Army Of the
Cumberland will be held at Chicanagga
on September Is.
Capitalists are said to be arranging to
pipe oil from Portland, Ind, to Chicago
for fuel purposes.
The Confederate Veterans OF Louisiana
will ask that the Legislature pass PEN
sion bill for them.
A bill has been passed in the Ken
lucky House making dealers in cigarettes
pay license of $3.50.
The Rio Grande and connections will
fight the Union Pacific by reducing its
running time to the East.
The necessary equipment for six miles
of electric tramway is now on its way
from this country to Siam.
A change of venue to st. Charles
county, Mo-, has been granted to Hedges
peth, the noted tran rvDDer.
| A Boston syndicate has purchased
eighty acres OF land near Chattanooga,
Tenn, and will mine for gold.
Comptroller Of the Currency Lacey
/ 4 g &Ex D.
ers' National Bank Of Chicago.
John F. Sullivan after two weeks
theatrical engagement at Brooklyn will
go into training for his match with Cor
bett.
Two Thousand PAYERS and stonecutters
are idle in Vermont, and the dealers cay
the lockout will last forever, unless the
cutters give in.
The census bulletin giving the statis-
tics OF dwelling houses shows that Phil
adelphia has 187, 900 dwellings, Chicago
147 900 and New York 81, 1928.
/ Lieutenant Hetherington's father dis
credits the story sent out from st. Paul
that Mrs. Hetherington returned to
America under an assumed name.
1t is announced that an English syndi-
cate is after the Kentucky distilleries,
with the intention of limiting the pro-
duction and sending up the price.
Senator Cameron has introduced bill
appropriating $25, 900 for the survey of
the proposed ship canal from Philadel-
phia to New York across New Jersey.
Archbishop Elder of Cincinnati has
declined to allow the Elks' funeral cere-
monies in Catholic cemetery. The
Cincinnati Elks are making great stir
about it.
Omaha bankers and railroad men have
refused to subscribe money to entertain
the Peoples party National Convention
on the ground that its principles are in
imical to their interests.
The payments of the sugar bounty for
the present fiscal year have amounted to
81, ,000, 600, and the payment is practi-
cally completed. The estimate for the
ensuing year is $l0,O00,000.
The government having made no ef-
fort to remove the cattle that have been
, driven into the Cherokee Strip, the cow
boys have established camps, and are
preparing to remain all summer.
+, According to the New York State
Board OF Health there has been in that
State So, 1893 deaths within the past three
9 months, and that the present epidemic
J of grippe has already caused 10000
!, deaths.
I The deal for the consolidation of four
I teen cotton presses in New Orleans has
: again fallen through. A fire interfered
: with the first option, and in the second
!. the contract did not receive the sigma
!. lures in time.
g Mortimer F. Elliott, who was defeated
! by only fifty-one votes for Congress in
! the Sixteenth Pennsylvania district, has
Il accepted the position of general solicitor
: OF the Standard Oil Company at salary
o Of $25, 900 year.
d Swindling endowment" concerns in
y Massachusetts, seem to have a strong po-
y litical "pull' in the Legislature. The
d effort to protect certificate holders by
= proper legislative regulations has so far
resulted in failure.
n The New York World publishes fac
d SMILES OF dispatches and checks in sup
a port OF DIR. John Trumbul's charges that
d Consul General McCreery speculated in
q the Chilian markets during the revolu-
ii ton, and that his profits were large.
n The Court of Claims has dismissed the
> petition OF Elizabeth Walk, formerly
Ie postmistress at Emporia, Kan. This il
e test case, involving the right of post.
le masters to recover the balances OF salary
,r found to be due under the readjustmeni
y act.
q 1t is alleged that number OF govern
q ment employees at Ellis Island, together
q with the employees Of several steamship
y lines, are working in collusion to defeat
le the operations Of the contract labor Law
ol and an investigation into the matter haG
" been commenced, which may result Ii
rs the dismissal OF some Of the governmen
u