Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-02-26
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK.
From All Parts Of the New
World and the Old.
or INTEREST TO OUR READERS
uomprehsnsivs Review Of the Import
ant Happenings Of the Past Week
CuIisd From, the Telegraph Columns.

fixed March 90 as the date for the exc
cution Of jackson and Walling, the |
murderers Of Pearl Bryan.
The Havana authorities, in view Of |
the scarcity Of beef, have decided to re-
quest the government to allow the free
importation Of cattle from the United
States and Mexico.
Frank CASTLE, stockman, stabbed
and killed John Beck at Cleveland,
Wash, in an alteration at mas
querade ball. CASTLE surrendered him
self TO the sheriff and claims the act
was one OF self-defense.
DR.. Arthur Duestrow, the ST. Louis
millionaire, who on February l3, 1894,
shot and killed his wife and child in
tit Of drunken rage, in that city. was
hanged In the courtyard Of the county
Jail in Union. He broke down at the
last moment and confessed to the crime.
Secession has entered the proceedings
Of the convention Of the League Of
American Wheelmen, now being held
in Albany, N. Y. Colorado will take
the initiative and will probably be fol-
lowed by California and several other
states. Sunday racing is the bone of
| contention.
Before the legislative investigating
committee on trusts in New York, John
r. Searles admitted that the average
margin Of profit between raw and re-
fined sugar during the five years before
the trust was formed was 1884 Of a
\ cent pound and during the subsequent
| Eve years 1886.
A letter received by an official in
Panama from La Paz, Bolivia, states
that the Bolivian congress will declare
war upon Peru. The letter also states
that there is great activity in military
circles, the army is being placed on
war footing, and recruiting has begun
throughout the republic.
A special train form Chicago to Dem
yer, distance Of / ,026 miles, made the
run in is hours 52 minutes. The jour
ney goes into history as the greatest
railroad feat ever accomplished. The
train was q special conveying Henry ].
Mayham, a mining broker Of Chicago,
TO the death bed of his son. He arrived
few hours too late,
The battleship Oregon has returned
to San Francisco after her first long
cruise. She went as far as Acapulco,
Mexico, and has been absent five weeks
During her voyage she practiced with
her guns and has been tested as fight
ing machine and seagoing craft. The
vessel proved satisfactory in every re-
spect. She will soon proceed to Seattle
and enter the drydock.
DR.. Langley Hall, SO years Of age, q
pioneer OF Oregon, died at Oakland.
The Office OF the Pittsburg Post was
almost totally destroyed by fire. The
loss is 100000. we'll insured.
Harry Banquist was knocked over
board by the boom OF his fshing-boai
and drowned in the Columbia near AS
toria.
J. Danach, n travelling man, was held
up and robbed Of $40 by three maskec
men while driving through grove neal
Roseburg.
Capt. Chas. Swanson, of the pilot
] schooner Jessie, was drowned in AS
toria harbor while attempting to boarC
his vessel from small rowboat.
Cuban sympathizers held an open-ai
meeting in Tacoma and denounced Pre-
mier Canovas. The Spanish flag wa
trailed in the mud and then burned
A resolution was adopted praying tina
! Weyler might be subjected to the SAM
! torture by his victims.
The arrangements for the inaugura
ton Of President Mckinley are rapid,
nearing completion, and the indication
are that in point Of brilliancy and at
traetiveness the ceremonies, the decora
. tions and the festivities incident t
Inauguration week will be more lavisl
than those of former years.
{ A prominent church member OF Pen
dleton, Or, has headed Subscription
\ list with $5 for the relief Of Jim Hens
worth, the Rossland miner who save
the lives OF his two companions b
!, thrusting his arm into the cogs of
] rapidly turning windlass and in tha
way prevented heavy bucket of or
from falling on the heads OF his con
panions in the shaft below.
Charles Frohman and his manager
G. B. Dillingham;, OF the Garden thet
8 ter, gave a special performance
"Heartseasen (by courtesy OF Henr
Miller and his company, to the clerg.
= men OF New York. The theater WI
closed to all except the clergy, and n
J seats were Sold The box office me
and ushers were dressed in long blac
coats and black ties, and the playhou'
NJ and its strange audience had every Al
- pearance Of church. There wel
j ,0e2 ministers and their friends pre-
ent, including number OF ministe
from New Jersey. The only dcnomin
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