Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1893-01-06
BEYOND THE ROCKIES.
An Advance in Stocks Increases the
Value Of Gould Property.
BOOMERS READY FOR A RUSH.
Application for an Injunction Restraining
the Commissioners From Closing
the Fair on Sundays.
BOOMERS READY FOR A RUSH.

The tobacco trust has captured the
Lorillards.
The Supreme Court OF Mississippi has
decided that alcohol is not beverage.
New York health officers are preparing
TO receive the cholera again next sum-
mer.
About 1000 men are without employ
ment and on the verge Of starvation in
Toronto.
Secretary Foster estimates deficiency
Of $4,000 in The quarantine estimates
for 1887.
Justices Of the United States Supreme
Court bar cigarette smoking from their
apartments.
The Iowa corn crop is reported TO be-
lar short OF the usual average, caused BY
the wet weather.
The City Council OF Dubuque, Ia, has
decided to buy the plant OF the Dubuque
Water Company.
General Boynton asks the House AID
propriations Committee Tor 100000 for
the Chickamauga National Park work.
For the fun Of chasing Cara, tho Mex
lean border bandit, the United States
government has thus far paid 5000, 900.
A New York syndicate is trying to buy
for H,000,0 GOO all the rolling-nIll and
heat furnaces in and about Youngstown
o.
The Hudson river lie to be dredped to
a uniform depth of twelve fee. from
Troy southward at an estimated expense
OF 5000, 900.
The recent advance in stocks has made
the Gould property worth about $l5,-
0OO 600 more than it was on the day OF
Gould's death.
The packing in Chicago since the
opening of the winter season ia t;32. 600
hogs, or so per cent. less than the same
time last year.
Among the Missouri exhibits at Chi
cago will be twenty-four varieties OF to-
baceo from the experimental farm Of the
State University.
Another appropriation for the govern
ment exhibit at the Worlds Fair of
$20i 900 is asked, making the entire ap-
preparation 81 100000.
A supposed ghost at Flatbush Hos
pitaI, New York, turned out to be live
man who had been hustled off to the
morgue as dead, but returned.
There is trouble with the Welsh tin
workers at Elwood, Ind. They refuse to
permit the company to operate patent
machines with unskilled labor.
Boomers are already assembling on
the southern border of Kansas in antici-
patton of the opening to settlement OF
8 OOO. 900 acres OF land in Cherokee Strip.
Telephones have been introduced at
the government rifle ranges at Fort Sher-
idan, ILL.,, as means of communication
between the ngpoints and the targets
Elmer Perrin of Long Branch, N. J..
is reported to have vomited eight green
peppers, each an inch and q half long,
that had grown from seed in his stom-
ach.
j. F. Lee, the American astronomer.
who has been studying at Berlin for four
years with Prof. Forester, has been APP
pointed to the chair of astronomy at the
Chicago University.
Premier Gladstone will be invited by
the Worlds Fair authorities, they say,
to cross the ocean in order that he NAV
deliver the address at the formal open
ing OF the exposition on May 1.
The Eastern railroads are getting
ready for the Chicago Fair. Car builders
are overrun with orders. One Eastern
firm is turning out seventy-five cars per
day, and has orders ahead for {, 1000 cars.
Boston is to get gas for cooking, heat
iF1tyo f@p NrefN
feet, while that for illuminating pur-
poses is to have candle power of at
least twenty-five, instead of sixteen as
now.
zinc miners at Webb City, Wis, have
noticed lately that shaft they were dig
ging has been growing hotter. At
depth of 1853 feet the other day they had
to stop work, as flames burst through into
the shaft.
A new serpent mound, the largest now
known, has been discovered by Prof.
Putnam near Fort Ancient, o. 1t is 900
feet long and about ten thick, and is CON
sidered one OF the most remarkable OF
prehistoric works.
An application for an injunction to re-
strain the Worlds Fair Commissioners
from closing the fair on Sundays is to be
made before the courts at Chicago. The
application is based on the assumption
that the Jackson Park is public property
held by the Park Commissioners in trust
for the people, and that they have no
authority to debar the public from en-
trance TO 1t any day in the year.
For some time John Voorhis has been
a teacher in the primary department OF
the public school at williamsburg, Col.
He was also an amateur dentist. When
children were unruly he extracted their
teeth as punishment, threatening them
with greater punishment If they should
tell their parents. He extracted ten
teeth from one Italian boy, who told his
parents. This was the direct cause Of
the mob organizing to lynch the man.
Voorhis got wind Of their coming. and
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