Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1898-02-18
Current EVENTS OF THE DAY
Epitome Of the Telegraphic
News CT the World.
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

The Rhode Island locomotive works
OF Providence, has filed petition In
insolvency.
Dordane, nephew Of ex-President
Duensk, Of Salvador, IL insane in San
Francisco hospitai'
9. s. Kellogg, aged 10. was found
frozen TO death near Reno, New, In
the Silver Hill mountains.
Potter Palmer, OF Chicago, is to
build a mansion at Newport which will
cost between 81, 100000 and $8,000,-
600.
John Mulligan, aged "a, Lee Multi
gan, rs, and Ethel Baker, II, were fa-
tally asphyxiated by fumes from char
coal AZ Modoc. Thursday night.
Tho sugar bounty conference an.
nounccd to begin February 10 at Brus-
sells, has been indefinitely postponed,
France having rene wed her objections
Jndge Mcmahon, In the high court
at Toronto, has decided that union is
not liable on the charge Of conspiracy
for expelling a man from tho order.
According to trustworthy intelli.
gence. says a 81. Petersburg dispatch,
China has finally abandoned the idea
OF raising sloan in London or else
where.
A New York Herald dispatch from
San Juan del Sur says: Conservative
refugees who have been threatening an
attack on the government since their
failure last September rushed through
the village without the slightest warn.
Ing and surprised the barracks. There
was one fatality on each side. Further
fighting 10 anticipated. A force OF ma
rines from tho U. s. battleship Alert
has been landed to protect American
interests.
Judge Hanford, OF the federal court,
sitting In Tacoma. has rendered deci-
sion in the case Of the Tacoma Grain
Company VS.. the Oregon Railroad
81 Navigation Company and tho Great
Northern railway, which Is vital im-
portance to wheat growers OF the state
and shippers. Tho decision sustains
the constitutionality Of the recently
enacted railway transportation law.
fixing a maximum charge for hauls
within the state.
A Peking correspondent says poor
old China is afraid to borrow from
either Russia or England. She Is en-
deavoring TO secure an extension from
Japan in the payment OF the war in
demnity.
News has been received of landslide
at Quesnelle Forks, Cariboo. Three
miners, william Allen, Joe Rich and
Alex Mclean, were buried. The slide
was | 900 feet Wide, 500 feet long and
25 feet high.
Insane jealousy prompted the wife Of
William v. Place, an insurance ad-
juster Of Brooklyn, TO kill her i7-yoar-
old stepdanghter and almost take her
own life and that OF her husband.
The crime was fiendish in its nature,
the weapon being an ax.
The steamer Capilano, which has
just returned from the northern halibut
fishing grounds, reports the drowning
OF two Of her fishermen, named Robert
Loughead, Of Ontario, and Michael
Drscoll. The captain OF the Capilano
reports the toughest weather In his ex.
perience,
The house OF representatives has re.
ceived the official report of the death
OF Colonel Ruiz, the Spaniard who
was executed for carrying message
from Blanco imploring the Cubans to
accept autonomy. Aranguren, the Gu.
ban general, who is supposed to have
ordered Ruiz put to death, Is not cen
sured in the official report.
1t is ANNOUNCED that Hetty Green will
build railroad through Oklahoma.
The proposed road will run from Med
ford on the Rock Island to Sherman,
Tex, where it will connect with e. r.
Green's road. There the line will be
connected with the Hutchinson & Okla
homa, and will give the territory an
other connection with tho Gulf. The
road 1t Is said will be built the present
year.
One Of the biggest silk manuiactur-
ing houses In Europe, with mills al
Cien6eld, Germany, is to remove to
this country, locating at Paterson, N.
j., and build what is intended to be
the largest silk mill in the United
States. The incorporation papers filed
in Paterson give tho name of the con.
cern as tho Andiger-Meyer Silk Com
pany. Employment will be given to
1900 weavers.
The trial OF M. Emile Zola and M.
Perreiux, manager of the Aurore, who
are being prosecuted by the French
government as the result OF a letter
which the novelist caused to be pub
lished In Aurore in December last,
strongly rejecting upon high officials
connected with the Dreyins case. Ii
creating q great amount Of excitement
in Paris. When Zola entered the
courtroom the first day of the trial
cries OF "spit upon him" came from
the spectators.