Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1896-09-04
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
From All Parts of the New
World and the Old.
or INTEREST TO OUR READERS
oomprshsnsive Review Of tho Import
ant Happenings Of the Past Week
CuiIsd From the Telegraph Columns.

Cuiled From the Telegraph Columns,
A powder house near Xenia, o.,
blew up and shook the country for
miles around. Two men were killed
A farmer named silvers. living near
Santa Rosa. CAL, attempted TO poison
himself, wife and family by putting
arsenic In the coffee. A doctor ar
rived In time TO save them.
The locked ont men Of the Brown
Hosting and Conveyancing Company's
works. at Cleveland, o., have voted
20 return 10 work. and the famous
strike, productive Of several battles and
riots. is broken.
Minister Terrell has notified the
Turkish government that the latter's
answer 10 the demands Of the United
States for indemnity for the burning Of
the American missions at Kharput and
Msrash are not satisfactory.
Hilton, Hughes 81 Company (once A.
T. Stewart 81 Company, one Of New
York's largest department stores, have
made an assignment. The Assignment
is without preferences. The failure is
due to the gradual decline Of business.
The civil service commission has is.
sued an order to federal office.holders,
warning all their employees against
seeking or making contributions for
campaign purposes. The order en-
braces all branches Of the government
service. violators will be prosecuted.
In New London, Conn, as an excur.
sion train was just landing Its passen.
gers a boy bent on mischief let loose a
heavy tramcar on an incline. II dashed
into the crowd killing one woman and
seriously injuring several persons. A
panic ensued in which several more
were injured.
According to cablegram received
In Philadelphia the steamer Laurada
has Just landed one Of the most for
midablc filibustering expeditions yet
shipped TO Cnba. She landed over 400
men and an immense cargo, which con-
sisted Of $4,000 pounds of dynamite,
eleven field guns, four cannon, seven
gatlings, and a quantity Of ammuni.
tion.
Fire has destroyed the village Of On
tonagon, Mich. The large mills OF the
Diamond Match Company were com.
pletely destroyed. The flames then
descended into the business and resi-.
dence quarter Of the city and finally
lodged in 1876, 900. 900 feet of sawed
lumber on the dock. The destruction
Of the village was complete. The loss
Is nealry $4,000, 900. About 1900
men, women and children are homeless
and in need Of clothing and shelter.
P. o. Minor, pioneer resi-, emit Of
San Jose, Cal, prominent lawyer
and capitalist. shot and killed him.
self in that city. Nocause is assigned.
United States Marshal Thomas and
deputies killed Bill Doolin. noted out
law, in battle near Clayton. Payne
county, o. 7. One deputy was
wounded.
q. Nj. Schilling, the one.armed
athlete who has undertaken to walk
from Pittsburg to San Francisco and
back in ten months, and to return
with 81 900 in cash, although restrict
cd from begging or purchasing supplies
en- route, has arrived In the latter city,
twenty-six days ahead, but 5000 be.
hind his schedule.
Captain Burnside and twenty-five Of
the crew Of the British tramp steamer
Moldaya were picked up at sea In
three open boats by the Anchor line
steamer Circassia, which has Just ar.
rived In New York. The Moldava
struck an iceberg in fog and sank
giving the crew barely time to provi.
sion the lifeboats and lower them.
All hands were saved.
The wedding Of Miss Gertrude Van.
derbils, the eldest daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, to Mr..
Harry Payne Whitney, the eldest son
Of former Secretary Of the Navy w. G.
Whitney, took place at "The Break
ers," Newport. r. l. The affair was
somewhat of disappointment to So
ciety owing 60 Its simplicity. Only
fifty persons were present.
The sultan Of Zanzibar, Hamed Bin
Thwain Bin Said. is dead. He was
about 40 years Of age, nephew Of
the late sultan, Ali Khalif. and Bur-
cash, and succeeded to the sultanate ON
the death Of Sultan Ali. March 5, 1898.
He was one Of q number Of claimants,
and was selected as the most fitting
by the British government, which ex-
ercises a protectorate over the sultan
ate.
Feeling against the Southern Pacific
Company ID intensifying among the
l5. 700 wheelmen Of San Francisco and
10000 wheelmen in the state, over the
recent decision Of that company to
charge s5 cents for carrying bicycle
between any two points, and for tax
ing bioyolists who cross the bay 10
oanta for aaoh wheel A hoyoott has