Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-08-13
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News Of the World.
VERSE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection Of Items From
the New and the Old world I'm .
Csadsnssa ana ccmprshsnsivs Esrum.

dcring Australian miners.
Federal and state authorities are
again in q tangle in Kansas and CLASH
Is expected.
The corn crop in Kansas il now said
to be damaged so per cent by the pre-
vailing hot weather.
Senators Quay and Morgan are to 70
TO the Sandwich Islands to post them
selves on the country and Its possibil.
tiles.
The internal revenue Office has issued
orders to local collectors to seize tobacco
prize packages under the provision oi
the new tariff law.
Over 100 tramps and harvesters took
possession OF freight train on the
Northwestern line, near Omaha, Neb
The train was sidetracked. and the
sheriff and police we're called upon for
assistance. After an hours delay the
tramps were dislodged. The sheriff
had desperate fight in trying to Jail
the men, hut was successful The sur.
rounding country IL overrun with
tramps.
The following Is an extract from q
private letter received in San Fran.
cisco from Manila, Philippine islands:
Here things are In frigbtful mess.
Spanish dollars have been introduced
at 10 per cent less value than Mexican.
Everybody wants to sell ont. Native
brokers are all over the place trying to
sell their possessions, aud find no buy
ers. In the sugar provinces. cane
plants are being burned up for lack Of
rain. "
Samuel Wolf, Jersey City contract
or, offered dish OF cream 10 the boy
who would hold his arm the longest
time In an ice cream freezer. A num-
ber Of boys who were around VOLTS
store contested for the prize Willie
Lockwood outdid them all. Although
suffering great pain, held his arm in
| the freezer for four m..dtes. When he
withdrew it the arm was frozen stiff.
He was taken TO the hospital, where it
was said 1t would be necessary to am
putate the arm.
A letter received in Portland from
juneau, Alaska says: There are 500
| people now at Dyca, waiting to get over
the pass. There are several more
steamer loads now on the way, loaded
to the guards. The Indian packers at
Dyea and pack animals have all the
freight they can carry TO the lakes by
| the time winter sets in. There will
| be hundreds camping at Dyea and on
the lakes all winter, eating the proyi.
sions they have taken with them.
! Other parties bound for the mines by
this route have to carry their own
freight over the mountains. The prices
I for packing across the mountain have
risen TO 25 and 81 cents per pound, and
the packers are independent at that.
Kansas and Missouri are again being
scorched by heat.
Six persons were killed in noun.
tain slide few miles from Berlin Sat-
urday.
A non-union coal miner was shot
and killed at Scottdale. Pa, during q
quarrel with striking miners
The potters Of Trenton, N. j., and
the sheet iron workers OF Phillipsburg,
N. H., now threaten to go on a strike,
The monitor Puritan broke her rud.
der in New York and will be laid up
for month, and will cost about 80, 900.
George Fl. Walker, Washington, d.
c., lawyer and former correspondent,
has been appointed assistant postmas'
ter-general.
Four boys were drowned at Kansas
City while in swimming, four in Win
1ipeg aA1 two more at Boston, one o.
whom was so years Of age.
Bluejackets from the warship York
town and Boston were stoned and beater
by Japanese at Kobe, Japan, and some
OF them were badly used up.
Andree's north pole balloon is report
ed TO have been seen in several places
:ecently, but each time away off 1T
course. Many have given him up al
lost.
Professor Arion, professional high
wire performer, fell from his wire, q
distance of rs feet. while riding bi
cycle at Ridgewood Park, N. j., ant
was killed
The monthly statement issued by tn,
director of the mint shows that during
July, 1897, the coinage executed at th,
United States mints amounted Il
s870, $50.
A Missouri Pacific train ran into
freight standing on the main track a
Yates Center, KAN, and Enginee
Joseph Clown and Fireman Gal Rowan
were killed. Other persons were In
jured.
Captain General Weyler has par
doned forty political offenders unde
death and other hard sentences. at tn,
suggestion OF the home government
and 1000 Cuban exiles have beel
granted amnesty.
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