Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1898-01-28
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Rpitome Of the Telegraphic
News Of the World.
rERsE TICKS FROM THE WIRES

facturer Of Boston, committed suicide
by shooting.
The casino at Willard beach, South
Portland. Me-. valued at $3l, 900 was
destroyed by fire.
The United States supreme court has
decided that heirs cannot recover in
surance on suicides.
Emperor william celebrated the cor.
onation fete on Sunday with all the
usual pomp and ceremony.
A steamship, supposed to be one OF
the Allan line, was sighted TO the east
ward Of the Brand Links, heavily list
ed TO starboard.
General Sir Arthur Power Palmer,
X. g., will succeed Gen. Sir William
Lockhart as commander Of the Tirah
field force on the northwest frontier OF
India.
The executive committee OF tho
Brotherhood OF Railroad Trainmcn is
holding its annual session at Peoria,
Ill. The membership increased 5000
during the last year.
Forty persons were killed and IS in
jured by an explosion Of gas in one Of
the mines Of the Donezares Company,
In Tagenrog district, on the north
shore OF the sea OF Azov, Russia.
British steamer Newlyn is reported
disabled in latitude 81 north, longi.
tude 20 west, with her shaft and pro-
peller gone The Gladis towed her for
80 hours, but was obliged to drop her.
Three suicides occurred in New York
city Sunday, w. p. Morrison, stock
broker, by hanging; Bertha Valenier.
waitress, by carbolic acid, and Sig
mund Politsko, also by carbolic acid.
DIR. d. i. Salmon, chief OF tho hu-
reau of animal industry. has found
both preventive and cure for hog
cholera, IN the form OF anti-toxine
serum. OF pa animals treated in
affected herds, but 80 died. He asks
an appropriation sufficient to carry on
the work thoroughly.
A fire in the Boston dry goods store,
at Butte Mont, which did $25, 900
damage, narrowly missed creating a
panic in the Mcguire opera house, ad.
joining, in which Under the Dome"
was being given. Several men were
trampled on in the rush, but no one
was seriously hurt.
The Peoria, H., water works were
sold under decree OF court to bond
holders for 81. 100000.
Destructive brush fires in the colony
Of Victoria, Australia, have done an
enormous amount Of damage.
In fight over a game Of cards at
Sandy Forks, KY, eight men, all col
ored. were killed, and four seriously
wounded.
w. ]. Trenholm, former comptroller
OF the currency, has retired from the
presidency of the American Surety
Company.
Governor Budd, of California, has
ordered an inquiry to be made into the
mental condition of Salter d. Worden,
the trainwrecker.
While at small arms practice at
Tampa, Fla, four men on the cruiser
Marblehead were injured by an explo-
sion, two seriously.
Funds have been secured in London,
and three immense sugar beet factories
will be erected at Chicago, Marysville
and Red Bluff, Cal.
Mrs. Eliza Kohler, widow Of a we'll.
known San Francisco liquor dealer, has
made an assignment, with liabilities
of 1888, ia; and assets, $323, 1856.
Since the serious illness of Cornell ius
Vanderbilt, William X, his brother,
has become the actual dominant force
in the New York Central railroad,
The court martial of Captain 0. NJ.
Carter, which has been in session al
Savannah, will sit at Augusta here.
after for the convenience OF witnesses
A Chicago syndicate with $1,000.
900 has purchased the 1900, 000.acre
Lopez ranch in Northern Mexico, which
has on it valuable deposits of asphalt,
um.
American schooner George w. Whit
ford has been ordered forfeited by the
Colon supreme court for loading car
go at Porto Bello in violation Of port
regulations.
Charles Marsh, arrested at Kansas
City for swindling J. Il. Calhoun, ol
Spokane, is the welI.known confidence
man, known by the alias Of Boston
Charley.
The Oakland, CAL, authorities have
suspicious that Joseph Raeside, the
trainer, whose mangled body was found
alongside the railroad track at Shell
Mound, was murdered.
Sanford B. Dole, president OF the
Hawaiian republic, has arrived at San
Francisco, en- route to Washington,
where he will discuss annexa. ion OF the
Islands to the United States.