Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1893-01-27
BEYOND THE ROCKIES
Important Patent Decision Made
by the Supreme Court.
WAR ON SWEATERS IN BOSTON.
The Number Of Victims That Judge Lynch
Has Executed During the Past
Year-0ther News.
WAR ON SWEATERS IN BOSTON.

The authorities OF North Dakota pro-
pose to enforce the prohibition law.
The Carnegie mills at Homestead,
Pa, are running full in every depart
ment.
The New York theater ladies have
taken to removing their hats during the
| performance.
The boys in the State Reform School
at Topeka have just finished putting up
$50 tons of ice.
DIR. McGlynn says he never ridiculed
the Pope, although charged wi]h the eo-
clesiastical offense.
A combination Of manufacturers of
wire goods and cut nails is being formed
by large Western firms.
George G. Slosson has challenged any
body in the world to a match game Of
billiards for 81 900 O. side.
The principal operators of silver mines
in Colorado have practically agreed to
shut down until silver advances.
New Orleans is finding much difficulty
in enforcing the Sunday law, owing to
the apathy OF the police officials.
The Carnegie Company was a great
financial loser by the recent strike, and
it is economizing in it's management.
Gidon Marsh, the fugitive P. esident Of
the wrecked Keystone Bank OF Phila-
delphia, is said to be in South Africa.
In Boston the bosses and the clothing
cutters have joined hands to compel the
sweaters to grant the demands of their
workmen.
The Comanche, Kiowa and Apache
agreement for the cession of 2,5O0,OO0
acres of land has been sent to the Sem
ate by the President.
The train bearing the old liberty bell
to the Worlds Fair will run only by
day, in order to give people along the
route a chance to see it.
The industrial and financial conditions
in South Carolina are reported as graft
Tying because of the improvement in
the agricultural interest.
1t is reported that unless prompt meas-
ures OF protection are adopted in the
natural-gas district OF Indiana the sup
ply will soon be exhausted.
Chairman Hood of the New York
Board of Assessment estimates that
fully $4O0, ,000, 900 OF personal property
in the State escaped taxation.
Philadelphia is entitled to be known
as the city OF sisterly love. According
to recent police census the city boasts
of %, 900 more women than men.
A New York letter to the Philadelphia
Press intmates that Baby Ruth is to
have rival, and there will likely be q
birth at the White House this spring.
President Harrison has received cane
made from the wood of house on Porto
Santo, one of the MADEIRA Islands, in
which Christopher Columbus once lived.
Congressman Dalzell is going to make
another attempt to get through Congress
the bill providing for survey for ship
canal to connect Lake Erie and the Ohio
river.
1t is estimated that Judge Lynch has
executed during the past year 23S
people-an increase over 1891 OF forty
one. His victims were 231 men and five
women.
The railroad construction in the
United States during 1891 does not reach
| high figures, being only 1000 miles.
The total was the smallest since 1878,
except those OF 1884 and 1885.
Major General Scho6eld does not
think the massing of troops at the
Worlds Fair for display would prove
good idea or that it would give any
beneficial return for the expense in
volved.
The Cotton Bureau of the National
Alliance at Memphis, Tenn, has issued
an address to planters, advising the
planting of q less acreage to cotton.
This seasons crop is largely reduced,
and the planters have got better prices.
Michigan's war Governor, Austin
Blair, received a certified check for
81, l25 as Christmas gift from promi-
nent residents of that State. The ex-
Governor is writing his recollections OF
the war, and the money will be used in
getting out the book.
In the case of the DIR. Briggs heresy
case the New York Presbytery, without
expressing approval of the critical or
theological views embodied in DIR.
Briggs address, or OF the manner in
which they have been expressed and
illustrated, pronounces Briggs fully ac-
quilted of the offenses alleged against
him.
The Mutual Life Benefit Insurance
Company of Hartford, Conn.,, has de-
cided to go out of business, and has
msdA arrangements with the National
Mutual Insurance Company of New
York to take all it's members who apply
for transfer.
The Supreme Court has denied the
motion to advance the case OF Merrick
OK rel. vs. Charles Foster, Secretary Of
the Treasury, popularly known aa the
silver brick case. This is the case
wherein the plaintiff sought to compel
the Secretary to coin into dollars silver
L brick nffarad at the mint for that mr..