Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1896-10-30
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
From All Parts Of the New
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Comprehensive Review Of the Import
ant Happenings Of tho Past week
oulIsd From the Telegraph Coiumns.


ant Happenings Of tho Past week
0uIIsd From the Telegraph Columns.
J. II. Rook. white. was shot and
killed, by negro near Snnpyside. Miss.
A posse hanged the negro. 1t IL said
that In consequence the negroes have
challenged the whites and riot is i'm.
minent.
Saturday, October III, has been de.
clared as flag day by the national
chairinen Of the Republican. Demo.
cratic and Populist parties. IL is re-
quested that the national oolors bs dis
played on all residences and places Of
business on that day.
The Berkey u Gay furniture factory.
Of Grand Rapids. Mich, the largest in
the world, has resumed operations
after a period Of enforced idleness DUR
ing the business depression. The fac.
tory employs moro workmcn than any
other institution In that city.
II Is now certain that the lumber
combine, known as the Central Lum.
ber Company. Of California, will have
new lease Of life January /, 1897,
and that it will early In the spring
attempt to hold prices at higher fig.
ure than they have been for years.
W. 7. Rambusch, the defaulting
banker Of juneau. Wis, shot and killed
himself in fredericksburg, VI. He
left note expressing desire that he
be identified in order that his wife
might get bis life insurance. About
500 was found on his person.
While the Dunham family was do.
ing its aerial bar act in Barnum's cir.
GUS. at Chicago, one Of its members.
John, met with an accident that is
likely to prove fatal. He dropped
eighty feet into net. alighting on his
head. His spine was injured and low.
er limbs paralyzed.
I. p. Farnsworth, OF Cresco. Ia, 40.
cidentally killed bis wife in that city.
just ms they were going TO dine Farms
worth was In the act of loading his re-
volver. when the cartridge exploded,
the ball striking his wife nearly in the
oepter Of the forehead, killing her in.
stantly.
Hamlin J. Andrus. president Of the
Arlington Chemical Company. Yonkers,
N. Y, was instantly killed by the OK.
plosion Of bomb in his office. He was
alone when the tragedy occurred
Who placed the bomb In the Office, or
whom 1t was intended for is unknown.
John Andrus. a brother Of the victim,
was generally the first TO enter the
Office. and as the dead man Is very well
liked, IL Is supposed that his brother is
the one whose life was desired.
The loss occasioned by the burning
Of the Touring mill and wheat ware
house at Weston, Or, has been placed
ut about $40, 900. The mill was owned
principally by l. z. Sailing and P. A.
Worthington, and there was no insur.
ance. The mill was equipped with
modern machinery. and was almost
constantly operated. II had 100 bar.
rels daily capacity. The warehouse
contained 10000 bushels of wheat that
were insured for half their value.
The origin Of the fire has not been dis.
covered.
General Carlos Ezeta has taken quar-.
ters In Oakland, CAL, and says he il
prepared to meet his enemies. He i'm.
agines he is being pursued by hired
assassins in the employ of Mr.. Lopez
the minister from Salvador. Lopez as.
serts that the general is a buffer and Ii
afraid to make move.
The board Of supervisors OF San
Francisco has appropriated 5000 foi
the purchase Of supply Of the Cote
remedy for leprosy. 1t will be used
for the relief Of the thirteen men and
two women in the leper colony at the
pesthouse. The remedy as far as tried
by the physicians has had good effect
and many Of the afflicted will recover
Weyler and Blanco will be recalled
Premier Canovas will fall, and grave
events will occur In Spain, Madrid dis
patches say, 1t is believed there, unless
the rebels in Cuba and the Philippine
islands are conquered within month.
Tho Madrid press openly attacks Cano.
vas and Weyler because Of their in.
ability to check the Cuban revolution.
Albert Hence Downing, a highway.
man arrested in Denver, COL. has con.
fessed that he murdered Joel g. Ash.
worth in that city and committed
numerous robberies. besides having
murdered man in 1885 at San Jose.
CAL. and committed other crimes
there. He promises to plead guilty to
all the crimes which he has committed
and says he wants to be hung.
The people Of Albuquerque, N. M.
paid their homage to true hero at the
funeral Of John Braden, who sacrificed
his own life to save those of women
and children. During parade in that
city Barden was driving an ammuni'
tion wagon, the contents of which ex'
ploded and set fire to the wagon. The
team started to run, in the direction
of a crowd of women and children, but
Braden stayed at his post until he had
checked the frenzied animals, and theu