Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-08-27
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David q. Swain, United States
army, retired. judgc-advocate general,
died in Washington, d. O., aged So, Of
Bright's diseAye;
The twenty-third annual session Of
the American Bakers Association con-
vened in Detroit. Mich. About 500
delegates were present.
Two 81 900 counterfeit notes were
presented TO the treasury department
for redemption. They were made over
30 years ago and are clever limitations
Of the originals.
BY decision OF Acting Secretary
Ryan, OF the interior department, the
decision being prepared by Assistant
Attorney-GeneraI Vanderventer, IL has
been settled that any person can take
100 acres Of land, and IL the person has
heretofore taken any part OF the 100
acres, he or she is entitled to make up
the full amount.
Railroad officials in st. Joseph report
that there is danger OF car famine on
Western roads, caused by the immense
grain crops. All roads entering that
city are taxed to their fullest capacity
now and the switching force has been
increased 90 per cent. The Burlington
company has issued orders that no more
coal be loaded in the tight box-cars,
stock.cars being used instead.
DIR. J. NJ. Bleir, reputable physi-
has discovered new cure for consump-
tion by electricity. He will read a
paper before the county medical society,
giving the details OF the plan, which
is in effect the sterilizing OF the effected
lungs in what Is known as eleetrolys.
He claims to have cured dozen per.
sons cassed as hopeless cases complete
ly, and many physicians Of high stand
ing are said 10 agree that the cures are
complete and efrectual.
The report Of the commissioner Of
education, DR.. William T. Harris, for
the year ended July !, 1896, has just
been completed. II shows total en-
rollment in that year in the schools
and colleges. both public and private,
Of 10, 907, 1877 pupils. This was an in
crease Of sos, 557. The number in pub
lie institutions was II, ,465, 37l, and in
private institutions ! ,635, S26. In ad-
lition to all these, there were 4lS, 900
pupils in the various special schools
and institutions. including business
colleges, music conservatories, Indian
and reform schools, making the grand
total enrolment for the whole country
l6,4f5.197.
| Frank Manninger, an aged painter,
i'll, penniess and proud, starved to
Heath in his room in West New York,
n, j.
Angiolillo, the Italian anarch-
lat who murdered Premier Canoyas,
has been tried by court-martial and
sentenced to be garroted.
A Canadian Pacific train struck q
carriage containing five persons at O
crossing near st. Therese, Quebec, kill
ing two women and injuring three 9TH
ers.
A special from Rome saysit is report
ed the pope will excommunicate Prince
Henry of Orleans and the Count ol
Turin, as dueling is forbidden by the
Roman Catholic church.
II is stated that President Mckinley
has expressed himself in favor Of the
admission OF New Mexico to statehood
A bill to that effect will be introduced
at the next session OF congress.
A Southern Pacific freight trair
struck burning stump that tumblet
down the mountain side in Cow creel
canyon in Southern Oregon, completed,
demollshing the engine and four car
and killing Fireman Robert McEwai
and an unknown tramp.
Justice Stephen J. Field, of TIN
United States supreme court, has es
tablished the record for the longes
service on that bench. The service o
Chief Justice John Marshall had beer
Il longest in the history OF the court
covering 85 years Justice Field
service exceeds that of Marshall. ii
was appointed in 1868 by Presiden
Lincoln, and is in his Slst year. II
has reached the age OF retirement, bu
he prefers to remain in active servic
on the bench, and tn &e is no presen
indication that he will retire.
Thomas jefferson Sappington, a
old-time resident of ST. Louis county
Missouri, who saved General U s
Grant from capture by Confederates
died near Sappington. q suburb OF y
Louis. In 1864, when Grant came bac
to make short visit to his farm nea
the latter city, Mr., Sappington, VII
was first lieutenant in the Second Mis-
souri, militia, learned that a number c
the most radical sympathizers with tn
South had planned to capture Gener'
; Grant and take him South prisoner
Mr.. Sappington determined to thwa'
the scheme. He hurried to st. Lou
and met General Grant just as he ws
starting out for his farm. The resu
mas a d;earpniutmant IN the man WI