Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-09-17
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News Of the World.
TERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

Condensed and Conpreh ensive F0rm
A terrible explosion N nitroglycerins
occurred in Cygnet, o., resulting in the
death Of six persons and the injury Of
large number.
II Is said that John w. Mackay, the
American millionaire, will lay Cana
dian Pacific cable from Vancouver, b.
O., to Australia.
Count Okuma, OF Japan, has notified
his minister at Honolulu Of the terms
and conditions Of Japan's acceptance Of
the proposal to arbitrate the dispute
with Hawaii
A New York Herald special from
Barcelona says that it is stated on the
highest diplomatic authority that the
present Spanish government will go
out within fortnight, and that the
liberals will come in.
Customs inspectors at Laredo, Tex,
have found an unclaimed grip on .
train, containing 100000 worth Of
diamonds, jewelry and other valuables.
The papers in the valise indicate that
II belonged TO Spanish officer. 1t is
believed II was stolen by man who
lacked the courage to claim ownership.
w. p. Atwell, commercial agent Of
the United States at Robaix, France,
sends TO the state department report
on the short wheat crop in France.
He says the crop in France, and in fact
all Europe, has fallen much below the
average, and that il is estimated that
the United States and Canada will be
called upon to export from 1870, 600, 600
to 1870, 900, 600 bushels more than they
exported to Europe last year. France
will require about 10000, 900 bushels
to meet the deficit in that country.
A Portland company has offered to
build sugar beet factory in La
Grande.
q. ]. IAyzell was killed and Claude
Hawthorne severely injured by fire
on launch in Astoria, Or.
Falls Company, manufacturers Of
cotton goods, in Norwich, Conn. have
started up on full time, giving employ
ment to 500 hands.
The New Orleans health authorities
have sent out notice OF death by vel
low fever in that city. Quarantine has
been declared by several Southern
cities.
A rich strike IN reported in the
Schroeder mine, In Yreka, CAL, on the
l,200-foot level, the vein averaging
four feet in width, and running $3.50 to
the ton.
Edward Lyons, a patient at the Ore.
gon state insane asylum hung himself
to tree in the asylum grounds. He
was committed from Multnomah county
last March.
In the Milford labor union, at itf
games in Milford, Mass, II. s. Dono.
van, of Natick, ran 100 yards in 4
seconds, breaking the worlds record by
one-tenth Of second, according to the
timekeepers.
George w. Clark broke the worlds
high-dive record by jumping off the
railing of the Halstead-street life bridge
in Chicago, when the structure was
raised to an elevation OF l65 feet above
the Chicago river. The diver was
taken out of the river uninjured, ant
was placed under arrest by the police
The Washington Star says: 1t il
stated that S. d. North, of Boston, hal
been selected as superintendent OF tht
next census, and that his appointment
will be made as soon as necessary legis
lation can be enacted. The presiden
is said to favor the establishment of |
permanent bureau on census, and i
likely to express some views on tina
subject in his next message to congress
Wild horses have become a nUisanc,
in Northern Arizona, and Attorny
General Frasier has been asked ii the,
may not be legally slaughtered Tha
. vicinity has been overrun by severa
large bands, hundreds in number, un
branded and unclaimed by any one
! They have rapidly increased in numbe
and have become wilder than deer an,
vicious as we'll. The matter has beer
referred to the livestock board.
A Phoenix, Ariz,, dispatch says it /
, expected that work will be resume,
within go days on the great Rio Verd
irrigation enterprise which is to redeem
400, 700 acres Of the finest land in tn
Salt river valley, OF the 100 miles 0
canals that will constitute the Ri
Verde irrigation system, 22 have bee
dug, and large amount of work, cost
; ing altogether 5000, 900, has been don
at and near the headworks.
"We are on the verge Of great min
ing era," remarked Clarence King
former chief of the United States gee
logical survey, in Denver. "The tim
is not far distant when man can star
out OF Denver and travel to Klondike
= stopping every night at a mining camI
Already two American stamp mills ar
pounding away on the border of tn
Straits OF Magellan, and the day is az
preaching when chain Of minin
camps will extend from Cape Horn t
St. Michaels.