Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1896-12-11
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
usmprshsnsive Review Of the Import
ant Happenings Of the Past Week
Called From ths TeIsgraph Columns


ant Happenings OF tho Past week
Called FROM the Telegraph Columns
The lighting cruiser Brooklyn. the
newest addition to the United States
navy, has been tested and accepted by
the government
John Abel, workman at the Nelson
Morris dressed beef works, st. Louis,
Mo-, was horribly burned while at
work. The flesh on the right leg was
parboiled. Abel tripped on the greasy
fioor in the rendering and fell
into vat Of boiling grease.
Jane Shelly. the 14.year.old daugh.
ter Of Joseph Shelly. farmer living
nine miles south Of Olympia, Wash,
was reaching for some object on the
mantiepiece, when her clothes caught
| fire from the fire in the fire. e.place. She
was terribly burned and died after
few days OF suffering.
Delbert Crawford, a young man 10
years old, was found twelve miles
from Pendleton, dead beneath an over
turned loaded wagon. He was hauling
grain 10 the city, and the wagon ran
of this grade into canyon. His four
horse team stood all night hitched to
the wagon, and were found the next
morning covered with snow.
7. J. Henry. living on the Apple.
gate, near jacksonville, Or, on Novem
ber 28 last went over 10 one Of the min
ing camps 10 look for job cooking for
the miners. He started home over the
Watkins trail. A storm started up
and he wandered about in the noun
tains and froze to death. The whole
community turned out TO search for
him. and succeeded In finding his body.
He had crawled into brush pile and
was frozen TO death. He leaves q
widow and six children practically des.
titute.
Jennie Ward, well-dressed young
woman, created sensation by walk
Ing along Wabash avenue. Chicsgo,
smoking People turned and stared at
the woman, but she paid no attention
to them, and continued TO send blue
clouds of smoke heavenward. She
was placed under arrest by Detectives
Woodbridge and Schubert and locked up
at the Harrison.street station. charged
with disorderly conduct. and when her
case was called for trial In Justice
Richardson's court she failed to apear.
"This Is something terrible,n said the
court, 'and as warning ] will fne
this woman 81 for smoking. Il Ii ter
rible. I"
/ A freight train of thirty cars loaded
with lumber and shingles from the
West got beyond control on heavy
grace east OF Mullen tunnel. on the
Northern Pacific road, and ran away.
Twenty.aix oars were scattered along q
distance OF eight miles. when the en-
gine left the track. Ed Jarbeau. head
brakeman, was killed. Fireman Young
had his collar bone broken, and En-.
gineer John Flunn's leg was broken,
besides internal injuries. Conductor
John McBean's thigh was broken, and
bis back wrenched IL is the worst
wreck the Northern Pacific has ever
had from the point Of damage 20 track
and rolling stock.
Thirteen prisoners escaped from a
Jail In Wyandotte. Kan. Three have
been captured and the officers are in
pursuit Of the others.
Rev. B. NJ. Hill. formerly mission.
ary to China. was stricken with paraly'
sic while delivering a sermon at his
church in Bentonville. Ark. He cannot
recover.
George w. Hill, well-knowr
printer and stationer. Of Portland. Or.
shot and killed himself. He was of q
despondent nature, and about five years
ago attempted suicide BY taking NOR
phine.
Farmers In the vicinity Of Tacoms
have lost many thousands Of busheli
OF potatotes because Of the cold Ont
farmer had 5000 bushels stored In hiI
barn. and nearly the wohle lot was de
stroyed.
The prisoners In Bedford, Ind, made
, a desperate effort to escape by setting
fire to the jail But for tho timely
discovery Of the fire by the sheriff. SOM
! Of them would have escaped, and other
would have been cremated.
Fifteen -year.old Emma Taylor, Al
orphan, has been held as an importan
witness against four man who, OF
Thanksgiving night, attempted TO Eol
a car full Of passengers in Kansas City
The young girl says that she mad
the masks for the robbers and knew
heir plans. Iti believed by the pc
$ lice that the girl was seized by the gam
and made to do their bidding.
I Advices received at Tampa, Fla.
B from Havana are that Weyler will sool
issue another tobacco order prohibiting
the expectation Of remedies Tobacco
from the islands Of Cuba. This wa
not included In his other order, and
Y. great deal has been exported. Havan
manufacturers have pettloned Weyle
10 close the Cuban ports 70 this tc
bacco, al Northern and Eastern manu-
lacturers were buying all Of Il for e.
portation to this country.