Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1896-08-14
THE NEWS OF The WEEK
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
OF INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review Of the Import
ant Happenings Of the Past Week
Culied From the Telegraph Columns.

ant Happenings of the Past Week
Cullod From the Telegraph Columns.
In severe thunderstorm near Oma-
ha, Neb., three people were killed by
lightning.
A dispatch from Meath. announces
that forty miners were entombed in
the Brincoch pit by an explosion.
Miss Ida Fuller, New York actress,
while in bathing at Manhattan beach,
was grasped by an octopus and nearly
drowned.
Governor Altgeld has issued mani
festo declaring that eight hours shall
constitute days work on park i'm
provements in Chicago.
Miss Anna Pritchard, a widow from
San francisco, left $l,2S0 in green
backs done up in newspaper on the
Oakland ferryboat, and has not been
able to find the package since.
John Hazel jumped from an Illinois
Central passenger train that was run.
ming forty miles an hour and was IL.
stantly killed. He was in custody Of
an officer and was wanted for horse.
stealing in Missouri.
A detachment Of company |, who
were guarding the Brown hoisting
works, near Cleveland, O., fired upon
mob Of strikers and wounded one Of
them. Excitement runs high, and
more trouble is feared.
A sale on the courthouse steps Of
Elizabethtown, KY, was a reminder Of
ante-bellum days Instead Of negro
slave being transferred to another
owner, 1t was a white man sold at auc.
tion for vagrancy under an old law sell
dom enforced.
The administration Of President Pie.
rola, Of Peru, is to be credited with
another triumph in effecting loan Of
so, 900, 900 francs. The loan, which
will be guaranteed by salt tax and
other revenues, will be subscribed part
ly in Paris and partly in Lima.
Bill Doolin, the outlaw who escaped
from the Jail in Guthrie, o. t., four
weeks ago, was surrounded by deputy
marshals at Wewoka A desperate
fight took place, and during fusilade
Of shots Doolin escaped. Deputies
Gregor and Reynolds were killed.
I In Chicago, twelve persons sue.
cumbed to the heat in one day. Two
or three of these are not expected to
recover. 1t was the hottest day of the
/ year. the signal service thermometer
registering ninety-four in the after
noon. Thermometers on the streets
registered four and five degrees more
! than that in the tower.
A bloody affray occurred among a
crowd of school boys at Buchville,
Ark. Robert Chew and Beuregard
/ Poole became involved in a fight
Friends of the belligerents joined in
the fray. Pocket knives were used.
Z Several boys were dangerously wounded.
/ Poole was stabbed in the breast several
times and died of his wounds.
The Chicago stock exchange will re-
main closed until the Moore Bros
| failure has been settled. The action OF
/ the governing committee in closing the
doors is said by some financiers to have
averted panic. There is no telling
4 where it would have ended" said q
/ member of the stock exchange. 1T
might have resulted in the ruina.ion
of dozen business houses and banks. v
A special from Madrid says a great
!. fire RACES at Rueda de Medina, a town
of about 4, 900 inhabitants, twenty five
miles southwest of Valadolid. Hun.
dreds of buildings are said to have been
destroyed. The inhabitants are report
ed as being in state of panic.
The syndicate of foreign bankers
which came into existence to check the
drain on the United States treasury
reserve exerted by Europe has been sig
nally successful in its efforts in that
direction, but the Withdrawals of gold
for shipment to Canada continues.
James Fulton Shepard, one-legged
boy of Alameda, CAL, saved a l2year'
old lad named Durant from drowning
in the tidal canal. Shepard rescued
Durant as he was sinking for the last
time. The boy had swallowed guam
tity of water, and it required an hours
hard work to bring him to.
Another rebellion is reported IRON
! China. Two powerful bandit societies
are in revolt. Several villages have
been captured, Helpless inhabitants
h ave been foully murdered and theil
h. mes destroyed. Foreign missions
ha We been attacked, and two French
pri, sts narrowly escaped with theil
live =
&c vernon Mcintyre, of Colorado, ha
recei, ed letter purporting to be from
VILLA un Smeiduth, for the murder O
whom Columbus B, Sykes is serving
life sen tence. What were supposed t.
be Smei, iuth's remains were found ~
his ranch, near Dallas, Colo, Marcl
IS, 1894. The chief of police of Sal
Francisco mas been requested to find th'
man claiming to be Smeiduth, wh'
writes that he is staying at the Wha
Cheer house on Sacramento street, Sai
Francisco.
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