Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1896-09-18
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
From All Parts OF the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review Of tho Import
ant Happenings Of tho Past Week
Cuiied From the Telegraph Columns.

Cuiied From the Telegraph coiamns'
Ex.President Harrison has been ten.
dcred the presidency OF the new uni.
versity OF Indiana. but be declined
Another balloonisr met his fate near
Wards island. N. Y. His balloon
caught FIRE in mid.air and he fell into
the water near Hellgate and was
drowned
Mr.. Bryan has issued his letter Of &C.
ceptance He defines his position on
the questions Of the day and states
that be will uphold every plank Of the
platform adopted at Chicago.
Seventeen people were injured. some
Of them seriously, by the oyerturning Of
wagon, which rolled down an en-
bankment OF ten feet The accident
occurred near Clackamas station, Ore
gon.
There have been received at tho
granaries at Salem thus far this season
go. 600 bushels OF wheat. and il Is esti-
mated that about $4,000 bushels are
yet to come. Wheat now sells in the
capital city for AZ cents bushel.
James Applegate, who died at Mon.
rovia. was one Of the earliest pioneers
20 come TO the Pacific coast, He came
to Oregon from Missouri in 1S4s, to
gether with his father and two brothers.
He was 90 years old at the tine Of his
death.
Superintendent Paine, OF the Oregon
State Insane asylum, has fled with the
board OF asylum trustees a statement
cf expenditures for the month Of
August, which shows the per capita
expense for that month to be the lowest
In the history Of the institution.
William q. Bradford. Of Marysville.
CAL. met his death in the Webb mine,
near Browns valley. through the prem
ature explosion Of blast located at
about the b00foot level and some fifty
feet In drift. Tom Powers, who was
some fifty feet away also suffered seri-
rs aud possibly fatal injuries.
Engineer Il. +. Ingles, the hero Of
Webster. who saved his passengers
from being robbed by killing Bandit
Morgan on September 8, was called be-
fore j. A. Fillmore. A. ID. Wilder and
other officers OF the Southern Pacific
and given a testimonial for bravery.
The ceremony was simple. The brave
enigneer was given check for $3.50,
together with a beautiful watch and
chain suitably engraved.
| A terrible tragedy was enacted on
Broad street, Richmond. Va. james
u. WINNER, aged 46, a blacksmith
working at the Richmond locomotive
works, stabbed and killed 8. g That.
heimer, son Of . well known liquor
merchant The cause OF the homicide
was the alleged betrayal Of Winners
partially paralyzed daughter by young
| Thatheimer. WINNER, who was hunt.
log for the youth, came mp with him
on the street, caught hold OF him and
stabbed him In three places. That.
heimer walked half block and fell
dead. WINNER surrendered himself.
The losses by the recent severe fire
at Monmouth are being rapidly adjust
cd, and as soon as all are settled near
ly all the firms will take immediate
steps to rebuild their respective places
of business.
The annual exodus Of hop-pickers
has begun from Salem and other towns
in Marion county, and, although the
piokers will receive but 25 cents a box,
the usual number are leaving for the
fields with undiminished enthusiasm.
The twenty foot boat in which Cap.
tain Frank Charlsen and his brother
John, of Nyack, left New York Oh
June 81 last for Queenstown. wal
sighted two weeks ago bottom up some
$50 miles off the Irish coast, and the
fate of her crew is merely matter o.
conjecture.
There has been an election bet made
In Milwaukee, which for originality
lays over anything which has beer
made thus far Fred W. Burke anf
Albert Donaldson are the parties to the
wager. The former agrees to leave
J.
the country forever ON or before Janu'
ary /, 1897. IL William Mckinley Il
elected president, and the latter will
do the country like service II w. j
Bryan is elected. They have drawn
mp contract to this effect which hal
been formally attested before notary
public.
, The appellate court Of the fourth
district, Of Illinois, has decided tina
blowing corn ON Sunday in sight o
church. .goers does not in itself consti
tute disturbance OF the peace. II
constituting section 28l which relates t.
disturbing the peace by labor on Sun
day, under which Mr.. Foil, a Seventh
Day Aventist, was arrested, the cour
holds that this section does not prohibi
work or amusement on Sunday. bu
prohibits only such conduct as disturb
the peace and good order Of society
The defendant being Seventh Da.
Adventist, observes Saturday as tn
Sabbath, and plowed corn on Sunday
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