Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1896-05-22
THE NEWS RESUME
a DIGEST FROM ALL PARTS or
THE WORLD.

ant Happenings Of the Past weeI
cuiIed From the Telegraph Column
AT Home and Abroad.
4 II is said that the war costs SPAR
4 800, ,0O0,o annually and 10, 900 sol
diers every year
A tight between negroes and Hun
garians at Keystone. w. Va, resulted
in two negroes and one Hun being
killed. Wilson Worthington and Geo
Manard were also injured.
Rear Admiarl Kirkland has been or
dered to command the Mare Island
navy.yard in place Of Captain II. L.
Howison, who is ordered to special
duty In connection with the Oregon.
| Carl Albrecht, who killed his wife in
Marshfeld. Or, February IS last, wal
convicted in circuit court at Empire
City of murder in the first degree.
The jury brought in verdict after fif.
teen minutes deliberation.
The railroad station in Florin, Cal.
was entered by burglars The bur.
glars robbed the railroad station, the
postofiice and Wells-Fargo express
office. which are all in the same build.
ing. A small sum Of money was taken.
Crazed with drink and brooding over
trouble which he considered disgrace
to himself and relatives, Frank Wal
ton. aged 80, threw himself in front OF
an engine on the Rock Island track
near Lincoln, Neb., and was ground 30
pulp
In the Canadian prohibition case,
the privy council has decided that par.
Lament cannot pass general prohibi-
tory law, nor can the provinces abolish
the traffic in liquor, but they can pass
laws to regulate il by licenses, under
reasonable conditions.
Notice has been given by the 500 line
OF its intention to put into effect a
round-trip rate Of $50 from st. Paul
and Minneapolis to Kootenai points.
The tickets will have limits in both di.
rections Of forty days and final return
limits Of ninety days.
The city Of L'Anse, at the head Of
Kewana bay, Michigan, has been wiped
out by fire. The L'Anse company's
lumber mill and nearly all the business
houses were blurred. Two hundred
persons are homeless. The total loss is
$3.50. 900; insurance small.
A dispatch from Panama says:
Puerto WHO. the capital of Manabi,
with population of 10000, has been
entirely destroyed by two earthquakes
The shocks were succeeded by floods,
inundating the city. Many lives are
supposed to have been lost.
In boxing match between John
Houlihan and Pat Nolan, which came
off in Pennington, Conn. Houlihan
was knocked out in the eleventh round
and rendered unconscious He was hot
resuscitated, and it is believed his in
juries will prove fatal.
1t is stated in Kansas City that the
firm of Swift q Co. will shut down
their big packing plant at that point
for an indefinite period. Their plant
gives employment to 300 men, and in
capacity ranks second among the pack
ing establishments Of Kansas City.
In Rome, N. Y, ]. Watson Hill.
dreth, the boy trainwrecker, receievd
life sentence. His companions, Plato
and Hibbard. who pleaded guilty Of
manslaughter in the first degree, were
sentenced to twenty years imprison-
ment on two indictments, or forty years
in all.
William Laverone and Jack Roberts,
highwaymen, captured few days
since, overpowered the jailer in Ma.
dera, Cal, beating him severely over
the head with a brick. They took his
keys and arms and escaped. They are
desperate characters and it is feared
will kill some Of the posse before they
are captured.
News is received Of brutal murder
committed in Oconto. Wis, in a dis.
pute between two farmers about a
team of horses, in which man named
Olsen shot one named Lissot. He
then carried the body to brush pile
and set it ON FIRE. A deputy sheriff ar.
rested Olsen and had him handcuffed
by one hand, but by desperate effort
the man escaped and hid in the woods
BY vote Of 425 to 9S, the Methodist
general conference, in session in Cleye-
land, o., decided the four women dele.
gates might retain their seats. This
does not mean that the women have
won complete victory Tbs decision
was the result Of a compromise, and
with the understanding that it should
not prejudice the claims Of women in
the future or establish precedent for
future conferences to follow.
The Vulcan iron works of San Fran
cisco were destroyed by fire, and the
loss is estimated at 800, 900, with in
surance at $8i, 500. The fire spread to
the third floor OF the Reliance machine
works, damaging the building slightly
and destroying considerable stock. The
loss of the Reliance company is more
than covered by the $26,OoO insurance.
While chasing robber from his
store, T. J. Marshall, proprietor of the
Golden Rule dry goods store, at a74