Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1896-06-19
The EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News Of the World.
or INTEREST TO ALL READERS

ant Happenings Of the Past Week
Culled From the Press Dispatches.
A violent wind and rain storm visit
ed Newark, N. j., and did damage to
the amount Of $50. 900.
Russian engineers have been in
Philadelphia and have made contract
for $500, 900 worth Of machinery there.
Mrs. Annie Dyer, the baby farmer,
Of Rudbig, Eng, arrested on March 8
on the charge Of numbering many in.
fants intrusted to her care, was hanged
in Newgate prison.
The three.masted schooner Edward
G. Allentrue, Captain Mclaughlin,
from Baltimore for Portland, sank of
Jobs neck, on the south side Of this
island, near Vineyard Haven, Mass.
From the fact that the vessels boats
have come ashore in pieces and ar
ticles Of clothing have been picked up
1t 10 feared that all on board were lost.
Sixty cloakmakers employed by q
Chicago firm, were thrown intoa panic
by fire, and IL seemed for time that
some Of them would be trampled to
| death In the scramble to escape. The
fire was in the stairway on the second
floor and escape was finally effected by
rushing through the flames. 1t was
soon extinguished with but little dam
age.
o. r. Tyler, son of President Tyler,
is a prisoner in Richmond, Va, charg-
ed with shooting with intent to kill
Jack Carr, young negro. Tyler is
dairyman residing near Richmond.
He went to the assistance of another
person who got into difficulty with
Carr, and says the shooting was in
sell. defense The accused was sent to
the grand jury and allowed bail.
One hundred and eighty cans Of
dynamite exploded about mile below
Lilly, Pa. with frightful results. One
man was killed by the explosion, and
seven others fatally injured. Con-
tractor McManus' workmen on the
Pennsylvania railway were getting
ready 10 make a blast when prema'
ture explosion occurred, burying the
seven men beneath sand and rock.
James Creelan, the war correspond
ent who had to leave Cuba recently by
order Of General Weyler, says he
thinks there will be war with Spain.
He says the American people will be
thunderstruck when the documents in
the possession Of the state department
are made public. Spain is anxious fol
war. twenty-five million dollars
worth Of American property has beer
destroyed in Cuba and many Ameri
cans killed without provocation.
Since the collapse of the "bricl
trust" at the close of May. the loca
brick market in Chicago has been de
moralised. The Generalization ha
reached such a point that common
brick were sold at $4.10 per 1000.
A Peoria. Ill, dispatch states tina
Daniel Anderson, who was nominate
. for United States senator by the Pre-
hibitionists at their Springfield con
vention, has withdrawn from the rae
and the party.
A four cent fare ordinance was passe
in Milwaukee. Thirty days time
given in which to allow the companie
to print regulation tickets and make al
rangements for carrying out the term
of the ordinance. The company vii
carry the matter to the courts.
While two dozen people crowded o
portico were witnessing a oircu
parade In Ottawa, Kan. the structur
gave way, precipitating men, wome
and children fifteen feet to the wal
below. Seventeen were injured Mr'
David Day, of Rantoul, will probabl
die of injuries.
An Astoria dispatch says the body
Gus Norburg, foreman of the Fisher
mems cannery. who was reported miss
ing, and also that of Russian Fin
named Ovick, who is supposed to hav
been out in the river with him, wei
found in the river below Tongue Poin
II ia not 80 far known how their death
occurred, but the conjectures is th'
they were both accidentally drowned
The emperor of China has testife
his appreciation of the gallantry show
by the bluejackets of the America
warships in rescuing drowning persoi
in the recent terrible disaster resultir
from collision at Woonsung betwee
the steamers Onwo and Newchwan
by presenting to the captain OF each
Uncle Sans cruisers in Asiatic waite
an elaborately engraved and high
n complimentary testimonial.
The once beautiful little village
Lake City, CAL, at the head OF Su
prise valley, in Modoc county, is
scene of devastation. ruin and disaste
What was once brisk and lively bu
of 400 inhabitants with neat and co
dwellings is now but vista Of tangl
wreckage. nearly every building
q town being wholly or partially d
molished. II was struck by a wate
spout--a veritable water cyclone