Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1892-08-05
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
The Revenue Department Makes
a Peculiar Decision.
GAIN OF LAND FROM OLD MEXICO.
Key to the Hieroglyphics That VIII Unlock
the Mysteries In the Hlltite In.
scriptions Found.

INC MJStcilcS III llt Hlitltt iu-
scriptions Found.
Eleven deaths have resulted from the
riots at Homestead, Pa.
New York banks have 9,207 900 in
excess OF the legal requirements.
A Tennessee convict is pronounced by
the penitentiary physicians to he of both
sexes.
| New York business men are greatly
worried over the lack of warehouse ia
cilities.
The manufacturers OF Fall River,
Mass, have just increased wages 81
per cent.
There is quite rush of people into
the Southern States who have few
thousand dollars to invest.
General George F. Afford of Dallas,
Tex, is about to 90 to Europe to induce
farmers to settle in that State.
Marshall Field paid 100000 for 800
square feet Of Chicago land recently
the largest price ever paid in that city.
By cut OF the Rio 5rande river it
was shortened about two miles, and 300
acres OF Mexican land are now on the
American side.
Golden, suburb OF Denver, contain
ing 5000 people. i, in danger of being
swept away by grand landslide from
Table Mountain.
| The railroads are finding it necessary
to make cheap excursion rates in order
to supply harvest hands to Central and
Western Kansas.
| A Buffalo deaf mute has recently been
attacked by st. Vitus' dance in his arms
and fingers. He is learning to make
signs with his feet.
1 BY order OF the Commissioners OF the
District of Columbia all the theaters in
Washington must be fitted throughout
with electric lights.
The story of concessions by the Mexi-
can government to an American COM
pauy to build u railroad from El Paso to
Mazatlan lie again repeated.
i The Revenue Department has decided
that the bi-chloride OF gold institutes
which claim to cure inebriety are liable to
| the government for the retail liquor tax.
| An attempt has been made to burn the
State women's prison and reform school
for girls at Indianapolis Three fires
were started at the same time, but were
extinguished.
A student of Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity is said to have discovered the key to
the hieroglyphics that will unlock the
mysteries in Hiltite Inscriptions, hith-
erto wholly unknown.
The New York, New Haven and Hart
ford road propose to run an electric
train between New York and New Ha.
ven and make the distance seventy-four
miles-in sixty minutes.
| For second time since the passage OF
the silver law of 1890 80 per cent. of the
customs revenues at New York during
the first ten days of July was paid in the
new treasury notes issued under that Law.
i Over 400 damage suits have been filed
against the Little Rock and Fort Smith
and Missouri Pacific railroads for viola
tion of an Arkansas law fixing passenger
rates, and the court is deciding about
fifteen cases day against the companies.
A huge bowlder and beside it flag
staff fifty feet high have been erected in
Franklin, N. H., to mark the spot where
Daniel Webster was born. The birth spot
was originally in the town OF Salisbury,
but is now included In the territory ol
Franklin.
The father of Alice Mitchell, who
killed Freda Warde last january at Mem.
phis, testified that Alice's mother wat
insane and the girl had manifested sim
liar peculiarities. She speaks of Freds
as If she were living now, and takes nc
interest in her own trial.
Father Bay, Catholic priest in Chi
,, cago, shot and killed Barney Moran, 8
, burglar, who had entered the priests
house one night last week. Moran fired
twice at the priest, missing him. A
Coroner's jury decided that Father Bay
: was not to be blamed or censured.
: The strangest thing of this generation
, in the way of will-making is reported
4 from Kentucky. One OF the richest mer
! OF the State died few days ago, and cut
his sons off with 500 each because o
their liking fast horses. His widow and
daughter divide a fortune of 5000, 900
A Syrian woman, badly afflicted with
leprosy, was allowed to land at New
York, having passed inspection at quar-
antine. II is said the inspection Is to-
careless, and there is fear that unless /
Is made more rigid the danger OF i'm
porting cholera infection will be very
great.
The Haskell multicharge gun has agail
Z been tested at Reading, Pa, for penetra
tion into iron plates. The projectil,
penetrated the best range iron six inches
which is three plates more than any gun
= ever penetrated before. The projectiI'
4 was found TO be as perfect as when i
= came from the lathe.
The American Museum OF Natura
History at New York has secured th
! Harry Edwards chronological collection
which s we'll known in San Francisco
: The collection includes over 250, 900 In
sects of all kinds from all parts OF th
globe, and is very rich In the lepidopter
LOT North America, especially the butter
: niea OF the Paeife Coast.