Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1896-04-24
EVENTS OF THE DAY
GPiToME or THE TELEoRAPHIC
NEWS or THE WORLD.

The state Of Ohio, on and after July
!, will infict capital punishment by
electricity, the bill having passed both
houses.
Gustav Koerner, ex-lieutenant.g gov
ernor Of Illinois, and ex.minister to
Spain, died In St. Louis aged 81. He
had good war record.
The house committee on territories
has voted to report the New Mexico
statehood bill to the house, and also
decided to defer action on the Arizona
bill.
The Rome correspondent Of the Lon
don Chronicle says the pope sanction
ed the publication Of the appeal for ar
bitration by Cardinals Vaughan, Lo-
que and Gibbons.
Senator Gallinger has introduced in
the senate bill for the creation Of a
United States commission to treat with
commissioners from other Christian ma.
tions for the correction Of intolerable
evils in the Ottoman empire.
Baron Won Schrader, master Of cere-
monies at the Prussian court, is dead
from injuries inflicted by Count Won
Kotz. formerly one Of the court cham
berlains in duel fought in the vicin-
ity of the Neus Palais, at Potsdam,
Prussia.
Deputy Game Warden Brewster, Of
Grand Rapids, Mich, begun whole
sale arrest Of fishermen and seizure Of
their nets upon the charge that the
meshes are smaller than the lawful
size. Nearly every fishing firm in
Grand Haven is complained against.
Americans intending to travel in
Germany and Russia this summer are
advised to obtain passports at Wash
ington, as the new rules make identi.
cation indispensable before the pass
; rts are issued from the American
embassies in Europe.
News from Seoul says that the Cor
cans are determined TO exterminate the
Japanese, holding them responsible for
the murder of the queen. Bands Of
men have been organize to threaten the
Japanese factories Japan has sent
warships to Fusan, and other points
on the coast.
The first bicycle militia company in
the Northwest has been organized in
Tacoma by twenty-five members Of
Company Q, under command of Cap.
.os,. unxuall Tka .,,ay.hara ara r,ran.
ticing the cycling movements adopted
by the United States army.
BY the explosion Of 200 pounds OF
powder in magazine on the l, ,l00-foot
level Of the st. Lawrence mine in
Butte, Mont, six men lost their lives.
Their names are Con G. Lowney, John
Quinlan. Ed Shields, James Dwyer,
John Mcveigh and Patrick O'Rourke.
| The Taylor brothers, the condemned
murderers Of the Meeks family, broke
from the county Jail in Carrolton, Mo.
George Taylor made his escape, but
Bill was retaken, and is again behind
the bars in Jail, in which the two
brothers were to have been hanged to-
gether on April S0
John Hayes was shot and killed by
two masked robbers at Los Angeles
The men entered his store, and com
PEELED him to throw up his hands
They took what money there was il
the cashdrawer, and demanded tina
he open the safe. He resisted and wa
shot in the breast and killed.
In Philadelphia regularly organi
zed and equipped military bicycle corp
is now engaged in drilling and othe
work preparatory to embsrking 70
Cuba. About l50 members are en-
rolled. Officers have been elected, an,
the baggage and munitions of war ar
now being secured. They are all Phil
adelphians.
Premier Bowel has introduced bill
in the Canadian senate respecting tn
Behring sea claims, the object of whic
is TO confer ON the commissioners VIII
may be appointed to investigate an
prepare the claims that will becom
due under the Paris award the ful
power of judges, with respect to tn
summoning of witnesses, while adju
dicating upon the claims.
Robert w. Edgren, of the universit
of California. has again beaten th
worlds hammer-throwing RECORD
From the regulation seven-foot ring b
hurled l6.pound hammer the astoI
ishing distance of 148 feet 8 inches
This was over three feet farther tina
the worlds record and foot fartht
than Edgren's previous trial throw.
The situation in Gloucester, Enl
land, where the virulent smallpox
raging, is so serious that the govern
ment is likely to take charge. Up
March 30 there were 700 cases, al
since then there has been an increase
fifty weekly. The percentage of dealt
is twenty-five, and the town is in
state of panic. The dean of Glouoest
has issued an appeal for assistance
Heavy drifts of Arctic ice dro
along the shore in the neighborho,
Of st. Johns, N. f., and crowds of fis
lermen started on the foes in search