Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-03-05
THE NEWS OF The WEEK
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
,F INTEREST TO OUR READERS
Comprehensive Review Of the Import
ant Happenings Of the Past week
Cuiied From the Telegraph Columns.

cuiisd From the Telegraph Columns.
A premature explosion or dynamite
Mt a gravel pit in Murray, KY, killed
five negro laborers and wounded as
many more.
A house Of i'll repute was burned near
Wheeling, w. Va, and two girls and
two men were burned TO death. A
number Of others are reported seriously
injured.
A Calcutta dispatch says that cholera
has broken out among the people en-
ployed at the relief works among the
natives, in the state OF Rewah. In
two days 1G0 deaths occurred.
Again an offer for the Lc Roi gold
mine has been refused. This time the
would-be purchasers, the Royal Tinto
Company, Of London, made an offer Of
81 900, 900, Of which $780, 900 was to
be cash and the remainder in thirty
days.
Eighty-two passengers, more than
half OF them Quilted with dogs, sleds
and other paraphernalia necessary for
the invasion of the Yukon country,
crowded the steamer Al-Ki on her last
trip 20 Alaska. This is said to be only
a beginning of the vast numbers who
will leave for that country the coming
spring.
Louis Mansfield, who was confined in
the county Jail In Baker City, Or. !,
awaiting the action Of the grand jury
on charge OF robbery. committed sui
eide. He told his fellow prisoners
some days before that be Wefernd to
be dead rather than go to the peniten-
tiary. Mansfield leaves a wife and two
daughters.
The East has again been visited by
foods, resulting in great loss Of life
and property. Many plants at Pitts
burg are under water, and clordburst
at the headwaters of the Mononganela
has caused great damage. More than
10000 men have been forced to quit
work in Pennsylvania ON account OF the
rapidly rising waters.
At the annual meeting Of the Lum-
ber Manufacturers Association of the
Northwest, held in Tacoma, the secre-
tary was instructed to formulate an in
vitation TO Eastern lumbermen to visit
the Pacific Northwest next July. An
executive committee was appoin ted to
make suitable arrangement for enter
tanning the exoursiOnists, who are to
be shown the great forests and mills Of
the Northwest.
A special from McMurray, Skagit
county, Wash, says that sad accident
occurred there by which the 3-year-old
daughter of w. Il. Merry was instantly
killed and his wife seriously injured.
Merry was engaged in falling tree
which endangered his house. In fall
ing, the tree struck another, which
stood in its path, the latter falling in
the direction of the woman and child.
The child's neck and back were broken.
Mrs. Merry now lies in critical condi.
tion.
A mail train on the Pennsylvania
railroad crashed into q box car near
Ebensburg, Pa, and was badly wrecked.
Five persons were seriously hurt.
Charles +. Miller, sailor, brutally
murdered his wife at Port Blakely,
Wash. Much excitement was occasion
ed, and a lynching was prevented with
great difficulty.
Stephen Ringhoffer, aged IA, the soc
Of Joseph Ringhoffer. of Walla Walla,
was shot and killed by Charles Woody,
who is 10 years old. The boys were GU,
hunting when the accident occurred.
White settlers at Yerrington, In Ma.
son valley, Nevada, have appealed for
help, fearing an outbreak of the Piute
Indians in that neighborhood. One Of
the Indians was killed in quarrel and
the Indians have begun gathering in
numbers. Governor Sadler has sen,
Adjutant- General Galusha on special
train to investigate.
The Chesapeake g. Ohio west bound
passenger train encountered washoul
opposite Portsmouth, o. The engine,
baggage and express car, mail Car and
1 uAlC COiSH WGlS ucEhltCus IA VI 6IOut,
supervisor Of the O. s. o., was killed,
The engineer, fireman, mail clerk and
express messenger were all injured, but
not seriously.
While making desperate effort tC
avoid arrest for some trivial offense,
/ Nicholas Mentgen lost his life under
the wheels OF train in Chicago. Fol
lowed by an excited crowd and patro1
wagon containing officers, Mentgen rar
to the tracks and did not see the train
approaching. The locomotive knocked
him thirty feet and the train passet
over him.
j Charles Kreiner was drowned in tht
Willamette river at the Altonas' whar.
in Salem, He was cook on the steame
Ramona that plies between Portland
and Independence. An effort was mad'
to save the man with a small boat
without avail. The river was dragget
4 and dynamite used, but the body ha
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