Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1896-05-15
THE NEWS RESUME
A DIGEST FROM ALL PARTS or
THE WORLD.


ant Happenings Of tho Past Week
CuIIed From the Telegraph Columns
AT Home and Abroad,
j. @. Sommers, q millionaire banker
Of Keokuk. Ia, was killed by train
In the uinon depot at Burlington.
Columbia university will seEd q
band Of naturalists TO explore the Puget
Sound region. The expedition will sci
out from New York June 10.
The six.story building Of the Junior
Order Of United American Mechanics,
in Philadelphia, was entirely destroyed
by fire. Loss, about 100000.
The Paris newspapers confirm the
rumor that M. Hebete, French ambas.
sador to Germany, will at once return
to Berlin, to present his letters Of re.
call.
A woman named Mary Shore. leaped
from bridge into Elkhorn river, near
Washington, w. Va, fifty feet, to es.
cape a passing engine. She was rescued
but will die.
Warren Fisher, who came into
prominence in 1876 through his con.
nection with the investigation Of
charges directed against James q.
Blaine, died at his home In Roxbury,
N. Y.
Rain fell almost continuously fol
twenty -four hours in Oconto, Wis.
and all the lowlsnds are flooded. The
city is nearly inundated and the river
reached the highest mark that it hai
for years.
Princess Beatrice, the youngest
daughter Of Queen Victoria, and widow
Of Prince Henry Of Battenbug, has Deer
appointed governor Of the Isle Of
Wight, the Office previously held by
her husband.
Word has been received In Washing
ton by telegraph that the Canadian
government has adopted an order in
council exempting American vessels
from entry and clearance charges al
Canadian ports.
A dispatch from Madrid says: The
Spanish government has declined tbs
pope's mediation in Cuban affairs, OF
the ground that acceptance would b
tantamount to recognizing America
right TO interfere.
The black plague is still prevalent a
Hong Kong and Canton. Two Eu'
ropean children have been attacked BY
the disease. Japan is taking elabor
ate precautions TO prevent the intro
duction Of the plague.
| An attempt was made TO burn An
derson, CAL, by saturating a number
Of buildings with coal oil. The plot
was frustrated by the discovery Of th'
Ere five minutes after it was started
when it was soon extinguished.
An explosion. by which 100 persons
are believed to have perished, has oc
CURED at Micklefielo. Yorkshire, Eng
land. The explosion took place in
colliery, and twenty injured person
have been rescued from the shaft.
An "X' ray win kill the bacteri'
of diptheria. The electrical depart
ment Of the university Of Missouri, a
Columbia, announces that, after exten
siye experiments. diphtheria germs ha'
been killed by the Roentgen light.
Seven hundred mem were thrown on
Of work by a strike of the employees il
Sherman & Company's iron mines Il
Port Henry, N. Y, whose demand 10
an increase of forty cents day was re
fused. The mines were shut down.
In Woodland, CAL. two armed me
stood up Jailer Labrie in the jailyar
and relieved him Of $187 in cash and
watch chain. The official had occasio
to 20 into the jailyard for moment
and left his pistol and hat in the offict
NJ. Coubertin, president of the intel
national committee Of the Olympi
games, writes to the London Times ths
the games in 1900 will be held
Paris, and for 1904 the committee wi
choose between New York, Berlin an
Stockholm.
William A. Holcomb. one Of the be-
known business men of the Pacit
coast, president of the San Francist
Produce 81 Merchants Exchange, die
at his residence in Oakland. Mr.. Ho
comb had been i'll for some six montl
with an affection of the kidneys.
The little 2-year-old son of Mr.. For'
trainman ON the Sumpter Valley raj
road, Baker City, Or, walked ON Il
track as the engine and two cars can
along. He was unobserved and Il
train passed over him. His skull WI
badly fractured, and the child will di
The fast westbound mail ON Il
y Northern Pacific met an eastbound ca
tie train near Livingston, Mont
wrecking both trains. Engineer Fa
ming, Of the cattle train. was kille
Fireman p. McClelland, was fatally !
jured and several were badly hui
Many passengers jumped,
James Beals, a stove dealer, OF lro
ton, O., shot and fatally wounded
4 wife. The couple had been out wal