Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1897-06-18
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome Of the Telegraphit
News Of the World.
rEHsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES
An Interesting Collection Of Items From
the New and the Old world In .
Condensed and CemprshsnsIvs Ferna

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An epidemic Of cholera has broken
out In Bangkok.
I Proof IL positive that Dr.. Ruiz, the
American, was murdered in q Spanish
prison In Cuba.
A boiler exploded in the print works
OF Norcega Bros, Puebla, Mexico, kill
ing so or more persons.
Fire destroyed $50, 600 worth Of prop
erty in Cairo. III. Twenty head
Of horses and number Of dwellings
were burned. @ X s~n
! A cloudburst, which caused the river
Norge In France TO rise suddenly,
wrecked over 500 factories and work.
shops and desolated many small towns.
II Is said in Astoria, upon what is
apparently good authority, that NAL
colin w. Sale, Of Young's River, whose
disappearance in March last created
somewhat Of sensation, is alive and
we'll.
Earthquakes were experienced in the
state OF oaxaca, Mexico. and some dam
age was done on the isthmus Of Te-
hnantepec, where slightly constructed
houses were cracked. One shock lasted
40 seconds.
Jerome Smeathers. his wife and seven
children we're poisoned at Yelyington,
KY, with Paris green, which acci.
dentaliy fell l.in bucket Of water One
child IL reported dead. two dying and
possibly none will recover.
Owing TO engineer and conductor for
getting orders freight train crashed
into work train, both going at a high
rate Of speed, near Hudson, Wisconsin,
and four workmen were instantly
killed. three bodies being burned.
There was collision between Ameri-
can and Spanish marines in Vera Cruz,
Mexico. The Spanish hurrahed for
Weyler and the Americans for Cuba.
The latter were helped by Mexicans and
the marines We're put bo flight.
The department Of state has been
officially informed that an internations
al conference will be held in Berlin
from October II to IS, 1897, to discuss
the leprosy question. There will be
lectures and exhibits connected there
with.
A Spanish captain and two lieuten-
ants were tried by court-martial in Las
Cabanas fortress and sentenced TO be
shot for cowardice in having. after II
days siege. surrendered the government
forts at Casa 0rro in eastern Cuba, to
the patriot forces OF General Calixto
Garcia.
More than three score Of men have
recently deserted from the awarships
New York and Massachusetts,, together
with those who left the Texas while
she was in New York. Twenty-eight
men took French leave Of the Texas
and. 30 are missing from the New York.
1t is not known how many are missing
from the Massachusetts, In every case
the desertera are Of foreign birth.
Alfred Pearce, in attempting to
board train at Mendoza. CAL, was
run over and horribly mangled. He
died at the hospital few hours after
the accident.
Lansing, Ia, was visited by a sup
posed earthquake. An explanation has
been found in the fact that meteor
was seen TO fall near the city at the time
OF the shock.
James Williams, editor OF the ChrOn-
icle, Of Armore, |. T., was shot and
killed by prominent attorney Of that
city for an attack made through the
columns OF Williams paper.
The grasshoppers are doing consider
able damage in Morrow county, Or.
Gardens have been completely ruined
around Lexington, and in many places
entire fields Of wheat have been eaten
up.
The pleasure steamer Hermosa, Of
San Francisco, while 30 miles off the
Golden Gate, was shaken up consider
ably while on her last outward trip by
colliding with whale The whale
was nearly cut in two and the steamer
will have TO so to the drydock for re-
pairs.
News comes from Grant county, Or.
Of the tragic death of JEFF Conley,
sheepman, at his cabin in the noun
tains. He went to thecreek to get wa
ter, and as he stopped over, his pistol
fell from his belt against the pail he
was carrying, and the weapon was dis
charged. The bullet passed through
his body, resulting in death the follow
Ing day.
An Astoria dispatch says the past
week has seen a radical change for the
better in the run Of salmon. The de-
liveries Of fish have been remarkably
large, even for this time Of the year
The canneries are all running at full
capacity. Not only are the fish un-
usually numerous, but the run as to
quality Is extraordinarily lne,s AS an
example, fisherman one morning, af-
ter q few hours work, turned into one
OF the lower town canneries 80 chinook
salmon, which averaged by actual
weight pnore then 30 Mounds apiece.