Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1896-05-01
EVENTS OF THE DAY
tPiTOME OF THE TELE0RAPHiC
NEWS or THE WORLD.

N Interesting Coliection Of Items From
the Two Hsmispheres Presented in .
Oondensed Form-A Large Amount
Of Information in Small Space.
Austin Abbott, LII. D., died at his
late residence, 16 East Fifty first street,
New York city, after an illness Of ten
weeks
/ A postoffice has been established at
Chase. In Yamhill county, Or. Will
liam o. Chase is the postmaster and
the Office 10 special one from McMinn-
vile.
The young ladies' club of the univer.
sity Of Washington defeated the young
ladies Of the Ellensburg normal school
at basketball by score Of six points
to three.
A New York Herald special from
Cairo. Egypt, says: A telegram to the
war department states that Colonel
Lloyd defeated the dervishes near Sua-
kin.
Joseph d. Higgins, one Of the oldest
Of the pioneers Of Oregon. died in As
toria. He was 73 years Of age. having
been born in Fulton county, ILL.,, in
1898.
/ A Madrid dispatch says: II is an.
nounced that the royal speech to be de-
livered at the opening Of the new cories
will promise political and adminisS=s-
tive reforms for Cuba and Porto Rico.
Judge B. F. Dennison, ex.chief JUS
tice Of the supreme court Of Washing
ton territory and one Of the ablest jur-
lists of the state. died in Olympia, aged
/ 76. He was q native of Vermont and
one Of the Argonauts Of California.
An old fiintlock gun. smooth bore,
and bearing the date Of 1776, was
found in cabin on the Colville Indian
reservation by two prospectors. They
also found string Of curiously carved
beads and a scalp-lock Of woman.
From Washington, D. c.. comes the
news that the postoffice at Excelsior,
in Pierce county, Wash, will be dis.
continued April 80. next. 1t is to be
consolidated on May with the post
office at Tacoma, to which all mail
should be sent.
Sir Hercules Robinson, governor Of
Cape Colony. telegraphs to the English
government that there is no sign that
Buluwayo is endangered, and that pre-
cautions are being taken to keep the
road to Buluwayo open in order to sup
ply it with food.
The first sleeping car porter is dead.
He was John D. Mitchell. and he was
with the Pullman company over thirty
years. He began his service as porter
on the Pioneer. the first sleeping
car ever built. the rolling foundation
of its inventors vast wealth.
The arrest Of the Baptist missionary,
Bishop Diaz. in Havana, was due %
the declarations by some prisoners who
were captured at Vivora, near that
place, and to the documents which
were found in their possession. His
case will be summarily pushed.
A dispatch to the Volks Zeitung.
Cologne, dated from Shanghai, declares
that it is true, as has been before re-
ported, that Ii Hung Chang, who is
on his way to Moscow to be present at
the coronation Of the czar, bears with
him secret Russo Chinese treaty.
A dispatch from Rome to the Pail
Mall Gazette. London, says the pspal
nuncio at Madrid has been instructed
TO propose the mediation Of the pope to
bring about settlement Of the trouble
in Cuba or to urge upon Spain the ac.
ceptance of President Cleveland's re-
ported offer Of mediation.
A dispatch from Havana says: Three
prisoners of war, Gregorie Birges. Es.
taban Hernandez and Jose Pacallao.
were executed at Cabana fortress. They
belonged to the insurgent band CON-
manded by DR.. Bruno Zayas, and were
captured by the soldiers Of Aarapiles
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qua.
A number Of the newspapers Of Mad.
rid and elsewhere demand that the
elections in Cuba be annulled and ex-
premier Sagasti intends to ask the
chamber Of deputies to annul the Cuban
elections on the ground that the ele,'
tors, owing to the state Of rebellion
prevailing, were not free to vote al
they pleased.
The London Daily Telegraph has Q
dispatch dated Buluwayo, via Pretoria,
which says: The enemy are maneuv'
ering and constructing laagers to pro
vide for retreat and organized attack
less than six miles out. A council Of
war has been held, and it has beer
decided that the local forces are to(
weak to make further attacks upon the
Matabeles.
James E. Allsop, alias A. A. Austin
who was arrested in Seattle by Detec
tive John Courtney, Of Minneapolis, OF
the charge of numbering Lena Olsen o,
the shore Of Lake Superior, near Du
luth, in order to get possession of $3.50
com,mittad suicida in the Oitv iail at