Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-05-21
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News of the World.
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection of Items From
the New and the Old world In
Condensed and Comprehensive Form

Condense and Comprehensive Form
Four men were drowned at the Ciin
house in San Francisco.
A dispatch from Honduras says the
revolution there has ended and the
country is peaceful.
Two blacksmiths OF Brownsville, Or,
have invented q new machine for pull
verizing clods. IT has been tried. and
it is said, works to perfection. They
have applied for a patent.
OF the ia Chinese who came on the
steamer Victoria to Tacoma, only fifty
will be admitted. The other sixty-four
will be returned, orders from the secre-
tary OF the treasury to that effect hav-
ing been received.
Judge Day, OF Ohio, qualified as as
sistant secretary OF state. Rockhill.
whom he succeeded, will remain until
Assistant Secretary Day becomes en-
tirely familiar with pending negotia-
tions, when ii is expected he will be
appointed to some foreign mission.
Harry Flynn was drowned in Lake
Michigan, near Chicago, and 1900
people saw him die and were unable to
aid him. During the excitement
which prevailed Albert Mattari, a spec
tator, dropped dead. 1t is supposed
that heart disease was the cause OF the
second accident.
The o. r. & N. will send experts to
the Seven Devils mining district to
make estimates OF the probable traffic
OF that region. The company is figur-
ing on dividing the freight business
with the Union Pacific. The construc-
tion Of a sawmill near Riparia is part
Of the company's plan.
The cabinet has decided to send one
Of the new gunboats now building on
the Pacific coast to Sitka, Alaska,
about July !. Great activity in Alas
ka, growing out Of the gold discover.
les, has made the president and cabi-
net deem this step advisable for safe.
guarding American interests.
The recall of the forces from Crete
has been received with resignation b,
the Athens public. The Delyannis or
gans attack the government bitterly
for appealing TO Europe, but most o.
the papers accept this as inevitable anC
violently attack the Ethnike Hetairia
asking it to render an account Of 1t
action.
The steamer Rover, flying the Ameri
can flag and plying between New Or
leans and ports OF Spanish Honduras
was fred on by Nicaraguan man-of
war, while four miles from Puert
Cortez, and narrowly escaped being hi
amidships. 1t is said the man-of-wa
. thought the Rover was aiding the Hon
duras revolutionists.
The Brussels exposition has beel
4 formally opened. King Leopold an
the diplomatic corps were present.
Prince Bismarck was honored O
Friedrichsruhe, Germany by a torcf
light procession given by his townsmer
The agricultural department crop re
port puts the condition Of wheat at 80.
J against sl.4 last month and ~ on Ma
last year.
The interests Of United States cit
zens at Puerto Cortez, the seat OF Il
revolution in Honduras, will be locke
= after by the cruiser Marblehead. I'll
vessel is now on her way there.
A petition is now being circulated
New York and signed by bankers al
business men, urging President Mcki
lev to do all in his power to effect
speedy settlement of the Cuban insu
rection.
b Lewis L. Macarthur, member OF Il
D legal firm Of Bronaugh, Macarthur, Fe
> ton g. Bronaugh, of Portland, Or, al
one of the prominent lawyers OF t
state, died in Walla Walla, Wash,
heart disease.
7 The supreme court Of the Unit
|. States has decided the Berliner pate
case in favor of the Bell Telepho
Company. The decision is against t
. government and has been pending sin
~ 1891. According to the decision t
N bcll NOnpuIl1 Wlii SuhNiuA WV f"'>
for ten years.
Frank Barr, his two sons and
~ brother, Chris Barr, prosperous Il
] man farmers of Redtield, S, D., w
asphyxiated in we'll ON their far
Frank Barr was overcome by gas VIII
at work in the well. The others I
scended one at time in an attempt
rescue him, and all met the same fa
We The British ship County OF Ill
dington, which has just arrived out
Cardiff, Wales, reports terrible aC
dent which happened last Decemh
n just as the vessel was getting away fr
U the Columbia river, after letting
the tugs hawser Four seamen W
sent aloft to unfurl the main topgall
NJ sail, and one of them named Edw
Butt slipped and fell to the deck, bre
= ing his neck and both of his legs, de
being instantaneous. The body
buried at sea the same day, and