Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1898-01-07
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE Day
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Balle and Waldo Orem. children,
were asphyxiated by coal gas at their
home in Leipsic. o.
The barge Canistee, which went
adrift Off Cape Cod. has been found In
Barnstable bay, with all the crew we'll.
The Auditorium at Kansas City. 70.
Gently burned, will be rebuilt at once.
and will be ready for occupancy Sep
tember l.
In saloon row between Kentucky
mountaineers at Manchester, Will
Burdy, James Philpot and Bob Gregory
were killed.
Veins OF gilsonite Of sufficient size to
warrant development have been dis
covered on Willow creek in the Middle
Park, Colorado.
M. Tunakoshi, Japanese vice-consul
at San Francisco, has been hurriedly
recalled to Toxic. II was thought hs
would be secretary to the legation as
Washington.
The French embassy at Washington
denies that M. Maillard passed through
Washington en- route to Cuba 10 invest.
igate for his government the conditions
on the island.
Jacob Stryer and wife were cremated
In their burning farmhouse in Fayette
county, Pennsylvania. Within 4S
hours, six others burned to death in
that county.
Frederick Walsen, state treasurer OF
Colorado, was married to Miss Emma
Storck, aged 2b. After the war, Wal
sens broken health was nursed back by
the brides mother.
|. The burgomaster Of Wieschowitz, a
suburb OF Prague, has been arrested.
Many compromising papers concerning
the recent riots In Prague were found
In his possession. 1t is alleged that he
assisted in placing the bomb under the
German schoolhouse at Wieschowitz,
which the Czechs attacked and at-
tempted to denolish recently.
Fire destroyed the large pipe organ
in the Great Northern hotel, Chicago,
entaiIing loss Of $4,000. Although
the fire was confined entirely to the
organ, II sent out such clouds Of smoke
that many Of the guests became
alarmed, and serious panic was mar
rowly averted.
.Sheepmen in Southern Colorado are
losing thousands OF sheep by snow and
extremely cold weather
The Northern Pacific Railway Com
pany has reduced wages Of car repairers
at Superior 20 cents day.
The schooner Ballora Loherman,
Captain Plummer, from South River,
N. j., for Boston, foundered without
warning Sunday morning off Highland
Lights. No lives were lost.
Charles W. Winkler, brakeman on
the Columbia a. Puget Sound railway,
WAS run over by a coal car and killed
in the Seattle yards. Winkler form
erly lived in Butte City, CAL, where
he has relatives.
A bomb, made Of gas Pipe and filled
with powder, was exploded in the Ger
man theater, in Olatuez, Monrovia.
Little damage was done, but the inci-
dent caused grsst excitement among
the German residents.
The Turkish government, replying to
the representations Of Greece, has ex-
planned that the firing upon the Greek
gunboat Actium by the Turks at Per-
yassa. on Saturday last, as the vessel
was leaving the gulf of Ambracia, was
due to misunderstanding.
Jacob Sarigs, OF Ooramiah, Persia,
now in Cincinnati, giving talks on
Persia and Armenia, has just received
letter from friends in his Persian
home, informing him that a band of
raiders from Koordestan had massacred
oil the inhabitants OF Persian Chris.
tian town. 800 souls, near Salinas.
Persia.
Peter French, prominent cattle-
man and landowner OF Harney county,
Oregon, was killed by q man named
Oliver. 1t Is reported that the deed
was coId-hiooded murder. The vic.
tim was shot In the back OF the head.
the bullet coming out between the eyes.
A land dispute is said to have been the
cause Of the trouble.
| The Overman Wheel Company, Of
Chicopee Falls, Mass, has made an as
signment for the benefit of its creditors.
Henry b. Bowman, president of the
Springfield National bank, has been
appointed trustee. Albert ii. 0ver-
man is president Of the company, and
1.-THE principal owner and has given out
a statement showing that, on Novom-
Der 10, last, tho assets were $l,3lS,000
and the liabilities $3.50, 000
Frank G. Farley was accidentally
shot and instantly killed by Ed. Alvord,
in Tekoa, Wash, Both men were o.
r. a. N. conductors. At the coroner 8
inquest, the evidence showed that AL
word was turning the cylinder OF il re-
volver 30 the hammer would not rest on
a cartridge. The weapon was dis
charged. and Farley fell and expired
without uttering word. The jury ex-
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