Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1896-06-19
NEWS IN BRIEF.

ADAAhOs A. - oOb AAOWh INV hO W0b /
killed.
The trustees of the university Of Illi- |
nois were arrested in Champaign and |
held In 5000 bail to answer to the
grand jury the charge Of failing to fly |
the flags from all university buildings
Governor Altgeld 10 member Of the
board.
Except Savannah, the capitals Of the
new states of Wyoming, Montana and
Utah are the only places that got ap-
preparations for public buildings at
this session Of congress. The house
policy has been to report no bills for
new buildings.
The Hammond incident is finally
settled. At special meeting Of the
executive council held In Pretoria, it
was decided to release John Hays Ham
mond, Cecil Rhodes, George Farrar
and J. w. Leonard, the leaders OF the
johannesburg reform committee, upon
payment OF fine Of e25, 900 each, or
in default, fifteen years Punishment.
Ben Dice, rancher living on the
Tule river, twenty miles southeast OF
Visalia, Cal, killed his brother-in law,
Grant Smith. They quarreled about
water in an irrigating ditch, and Dice's
wife attempted to remove the dam in
the ditch on Smiths place.
Three thousand Harvard men, en-
| couraged by the phenomenal event of
Harvard victory, fought 100 policemen
| in the streets of historic old Cam"
bridge. II was the biggest riot that
the university has ever seen. Many
students and policemen were injured
In the melee, but the bluecoats finally
came out victorious and the students
were locked up.
Thiede, who was convisted Of the
murder Of his wife in Salt Lake, must
hang. This is the decision of the
Utah supreme court.
Fire destroyed the Boylston brewery
and mammoth icehouse, in Boston, and
damaged many buildings The total
loss is $4,000.
The French Niger expedition from
Salaga, West Africa, has been routed
and many of its members killed by
poisoned arrows, in the Borgeo coun-
try.
Two midgets, each less than four
feet high, were married in Niagara
Falls. They are NJ. L. Comfort. of
|. Oswego, N. Y, aged 90, and Miss Eva
B. White, of Monroe, Mich, aged A..
They have known each other for twen-
ty years. They met by appointment
and are spending their honeymoon
there.
An emergency club has been organ
ized in Des Moines, Ia, its object be-
ing the care of sufferers from tornadoes
and similar public calamities.
The American line steamer St. Paul
has again broken her record across the
Atlantic. The st. Paul left Southamp-
ton at noon May 80 and passed The
Needles about so P. NJ. June 5. Her
time for the trip was 8 days. hours
l and S5 minutes, beating all records by
: over 1h hours. The best previous
9 western record of the st. Paul, made
D on Ger last voyage, was days, hours
and minutes. She has, in the pres.
4 ent trip, reduced that time SO hours,
A and also made new western record
!. from Southampton.
i. Alarming news regarding the plague
e which is raging in China and Other
countries of Southern Asia was brought
, by the steamer Peru, which arrived
: from Hong Kong and Yokohama il
;. San Francisco, seven days late, on ac
! count of being detained at quarantine
at Nagasaki. Deaths are occurring By
: hundreds in the Orient. At Cantor
there were S15 deaths in one week re
Gently. At Hong Kong, when TIN
n Peru sailed, May 8, 617 persons wer'
IS down with the cholera, and new case
e were being reported at the rate of q
n day.
James Mckinney, Of the commission
s. firm Of Mckinney Bros, Of Kansa
y City, has practically oornered the pc
tato market Mckinney is said t
If have more of the product to sell thal
r. all the other potato brokers in tn
;. West. Within the past four days, Mr.
n Kinney has raised the price Of potatoe
re 25 cents, and further rise is antici
re pated. Twenty days ago McKinne
t. contracted for the only available pc
is tateos now in the West, 100 calroads
at from Greeley, Colo. Mckinney is sal
!. to have cornered the market five year
\, ago, when he raised the pirce from 2
:, cents to 81 bushel
IN S. Asano, one of the chiefs in th
rs naval department Of the government Q
10 Japan, will arrive on the next steame
IN from the Orient in San Francisco. A
o. important matter connected with tn
oi coming visit of S. Asano to the Paoiti
rs coast is the opening of new steamshi
lv line between Toxic and the Paciti
coast. In heralding the advance Q
this new line Asano will say that
OF will handle freight cheaper than eithe
+ of the lines running from San Francisc
q and Puget Sound, and that the landin
II place ON this coast will be at Portland
re The japanese legislature recently az
sy propriated IS. 900, 900 to float the CON
90 pany. and selected Portland as bein