Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1896-04-17
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Of Information in Small Space.
The Chinese government has decided
70 enter the postal union.
81. Z. Topping, q furniture dealer Of
Astoria, committed suicide by blowing
his brains out.
T. Simon Sam, formerly minister Of
war for Hayti, has been elected presi.
dent to succeed General Hippolyte, de-
ceased.
The schooner j. b. Leeds is long
overdue ut Gray o harbor from Quay
mas, Mexico, and great anxiety is felt
for her safety.
The London Times correspondent in
Vienna says: The vaterland publishes
communication from the superior Of
the Catholic station at Orfa, declaring
that s. 900 Armenians have been masss
cred thert.
Fire broke ont in the Washburn &
Moen Manufacturing Company's o
plant, at Quinsigmond, Mass, result.
ing in a loss of from $3.50, 900 to $685..
900, fully insured. Two hunrded men
will be ont Of work until the building
is rebuilt.
The Genessee river is higher than in
twenty years. 1t is over its banks in
the southern part of Rochester and has
washed away part Of the Erie tracks.
The houses are surrounded by water
and the occupants have had to desert
their homes.
Arthur Bradley and Richard Ingra-
ham, two factory hands employed in
Haverhill, Mass, engaged in a prize
fight, and as a result the latter was
killed by blow ON the jaw. The
fight was to be friendly one TO settle
the title as to who was the better man.
It is now known that one-half Of the
Texas peach crop has been killed by
frost Corn has all been planted, but
as yet no cotton, although the ground
is prepared for IL. Owing to the late
season, caused by cold winter, the
acreage will not be as large as last
year.
A novel measure, aimed at high
theater hats, was enacted into law by
the Ohio Legislature. It provides that
any manager permitting any person to
wear hat or other headgear in the
ater obstructing the view, shall be
guilty Of misdemeanor, and shall be
fined $40.
A foreign dispatch says: Ii is be.
lieved the dervishes lost 5000 dead,
wounded and prisoners in the engage
ment at Mount Moeran on April 2,
with the Italian native battalion COM
manded by Colonel Steveni from Cas-
sala.
The money order transactions
throughout the United States during
the last quarter of 1895, beat all previ'
GUS records in volume. The accounts
have just been audited and show the
receipts to have been aggregated $l5,'
575, OIL.
William Kemper and John Limpke
of Otis, Ind, engaged in a friendly
contest for boxing supremacy in
saloon at that place. After a few
passes, Kemper struck Limpke in ths
abdomen. The injured man fell un
conscious, and remained so until he ex
pired soon after.
It has been announced that chaii
Of the Russian language will be estab
lished at Harvard next year. Profes
sor Leo Weiner, of the University o
Minnesota, native Of Poland and ;
well-known scholar Of the Slavoni,
tongues, has been appointed to tn
chair for five years.
A special report to La Prenza state
that the situation among the Santa r
colonists in Buenos Ayres is desperate
They are without means and almos
without food. The commercial firm
are in terrible straits. The nationa
congress will attempt to succor the pee
Pile until the next harvest
A dispatch from Bucharest to tn
London Times says: The papers her
annouce the conclusion of militar
convention between Russia and Bulgs
ria under which, in the event OF wal
Bulgaria would cede to Russia pors
ON the Black sea, and would concen
trate an army at Shumla.
Edward Davids, a prominent farme
Of Fox Lake, Wis, was shot and In
stantly killed by Julius Zilke, farm
hand working for him. Davids ha
interefered to prevent Zilke from strik
ing young man in a quarrel, an
Zilke waited for Davids to come home
when he shot him in the presence c
Davids' wife.
John Selman. the victor of no les
than twenty fatal shooting affrays /
Texas, the exterminator of bad" mer
and the slayer Of the notorious job
Wesley Hardin, was shot and killed b
United States Deputy Marshal Geore
Scarborough. The men had quarr'
over game of cards. which resulte
in the shooting.
Letters received from Rainy rivel
ON the Canadian boundary, report th
death in Rainy river Of the entil