Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-07-02
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE day
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News Of the World.
rERs9 TICKS FROM THE WIRES

train was held up ny lone r0DDer,
who secured about $4,000.
| Mrs. Henry Scott, Of Chicago, and
Mrs. Maria Hay, formerly OF Chicago,
were killed by runaway at Du.
buque, La.
John II. Moss and Levan Berg have
been arrested in Seattle, charged with
the murder Of Michael j. Lyons, the
Port Blakely saloonkeeper
Charles Peterson, Swedish laborer
about 20 years old, committed suicide
on farm near Ellensburg, by cutting
his throat with a pocket knife.
President w. II. Cromwell. Of the
Blackburn university, and instructor In
Latin, has resigned, TO take the Latin
chair In Puget Sound university, Taco
ma.
John Quincy Adams, Northern Pa
ciAc switchman, while running over
the tops cf cars at Missoula, Mont, slid
and fell between the cars and was
killed.
Louis Sickmiller was instantly killed
and Albert sickmiller. Charles Faille
and George Steinhelder fatally injured
by the Erie fast express near Mans
6eld, o.
The River Kur has overfiowed its
banks near the railroad depot of Naw-
thig, Russia. Nineteen men belong
Ing to the Mimi Novgorod dragons
we're drowned.
Every boat brings to Port Townsend
men TO look over the proposed 70 tifca.
tions sites with view to bid for the
contracts for construction. All the
Western, as well as several Eastern and
Southern states are represented.
A meeting OF representatives Of q.
A. r., Loyal Legion and woman's Re-
(, lief Corps, has been held at indianap.
oils. Ind, 10 perfect plans for the erec-
ton OF monument and care of the
grave OF Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother
OF Abraham Lincoln, in Spencer coun.
ty, this state.
Christian Ross died Of heart disease,
at his home in Philadelphia. He was
the father Of Charley Ross, and up to
his last illness Mr.. Ross never gave up
the search for his missing boy, whose
abduction startled Philadelphia on July
l,lS74. and became an unsolved mys.
terry the world over.
A terrible explosion OF torpedo on
the Mexican International, near Eagle
Pass, Tex, completely wrecked loco
motive and killed the engineer and fire.
man.
A sidewalk collapsed in Chicago and
100 people, mostly children We're
thrown 10 the ground, ten feet below.
A number were seriously injured and
one fatally.
Mrs. Know, wife Of J. W. Know,
living near Latah, Wash. gave birth
to three girls and one boy. Each child
Is we'll formed and weighs Az pounds
Mother and children are doing we'll,
The walls OF saloon gave way with
out warning in Watertown, S. D., bury
ing number Of persons in the ruinA
The place was crowded at the time.
The work Of clearing away the debris
resulted in the finding OF one body.
/
! Five others were seriously injured,
II has been discovered that the act oI
the last session OF the Colorado legisla.
ture in regard to negotiable instru.
ments, repealed the statute establish
ing the Fourth Of July, Thanksgiving
Christmas, New Years, Washington'i
birthday and Memorial day as lega
holidays
! A mob Of 800 infuriated peasants .,
Odessa, Russia, seized and savagely
lynched one Dunkirk, a murderer, wh'
was being conveyed by the police t
jail. Dunkirk was charged with tn,
commission Of IS murders. The po
I. lice have arrested 80 ringleaders Of thu
lynching party.
Alma Fallmer, 10y years old, has beer
convicted Of theft, and ordered sent t
the reform school at Whittier, Cal
\ From the bottom of a mortar box sh
took an old plank, with which to buil'
playhouse. She was convicted 0
! petty larceny by an Alameda judge
and now she is behind the bars await
ing her removal to the reform school.
A telegram received in Seattle iron
United States Senator Wilson says tina
plans for the Notifications ut Magnol
bluff, the army post near Seattle, hay
. been approved, and an assignment o
. $500, 900 made. General Weeks, quar-
termaster.general United States army
has been ordered to Seattle, and direct
: ed to proceed with the work immedl
ately.
y The basement and entire lower pol
tion of the postoffice building in Port
land, Or, was wrecked by q terrific e1
n plosion OF gas Monday. The head jan
\. tor, whose thoughtlessness caused tn
explosion by taking a lighted csndl
into the basement, was severely burne
about the head and arms. A clerk !
the stamp department was also hurt
but not seriously.