Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1899-04-13
LArEa NEWS.

mitted suicide at the Millard hotel,
Omaha.
The Twenty regiment will
leave Plattsburg, N. r., for San Fran.
cisco, whence they will proceed to Ma.
Mia.
The controller Of the currency has
issued call for report Of all the ma
tional banks at tho close OF business
April o.
Major General Shafter has arrived
at Washington. He will testify before
the army court Of inquiry into the beef
charges.
The operators and conductors OF the
Wheeling. w. Va, Railway Company
have struck for an advance In wages.
and the road 10 tied up.
The London Mining 81 Manuiactur-
Ing Company's property, at Ducktown.
Tex, has been sold to the Levisohn
Bros. the copper kings. for $ll0, 600.
At the bimonthly meeting Of the
Association Of Steel Shafting Manufac-
tureIs, In Pittsburg. 1t was decided to
make an advance in prices, averaging
0 per cent.
Public sympathy Is with the EN-
ployes to such an extent in the street
railway strike at Bay City, Mich, that
the sheriff can secure no men TO act a.
deputies.
Judge Field, the great American
jurist Ia dead at his home in Washing.
ton. He had served longer term on
the bench than any judge ever ap-
pointed.
George Reid was killed, Mack Reid
probably fatally wounded. and two
other men hurt in q pitched battle be-
tween the Preacher and Reid factions
at Brunson, $. @.
Jack Macmillan, well known in
Europe and the United States az u
curler, was caught in belt in a -four
mill ut LINDSAY, Ontario. and 80 badly
mangled that he died.
James Elsey. the English messenger
boy who left London, April l. for Cali
fornia, TO rival the recent trip Of Jag
gers, the messenger boy sent to Chica-
go. has arrived at New York.
Miss Marie Burroughs, Of the Stuart
Robson company. accidentally stabbed
Harold Russell, OF the same company,
in the face at the Broadway. theater,
Denver. Mr.. Russell's injury is slight.
Topmen in tie mines in the South
ern Illinois coal district have decided
10 strike as the result OF their employ
ers' refusal to grant raise OF 90 cents
day. This will tie up at least 5000
men.
Hollister Mcclure, fish commission
er. and State Senator Reed, Of Oregon,
were drowned In the North Umpqua
river. Their boat upset in the rapids.
w. #. Hubbard saved himself by
swimming ashore.
There has been heavy fall in the
price OF wheat in the Chilean market.
Fire at Lead, S. D.. destroyed prop
thky NOItu vAVb10VNs Nuu OLttto DlVNA
OF buildings was consumed.
The Keystone Slate Company, OF
Bethlehem, Pa, has increased the
wages OF its employees 10 per cent.
1t is stated that $4,000 has been
subscr ibed toward the construction Of
the alumni hall at Yale university.
A secret movement is under way in
Hawaii to food the islands with Portu-
guese laborers from the Azores islands.
One hundred and eighty -four Amer
leans have been killed and 976 wound
ed In the Philippines since hostilities
opened.
A decision was rendered by Judge
Peabody in the st. Louis city police
court that under certain conditions q
husband has the right to beat his wife.
After attempting to murder his wife
and baby, Walter Miller, foreman in
the Detroit soap works, sent two bullets
into his own brain and died almosI in
stantly.
The three largest Of 30 pearl button
factories operated at Muscatine, Ia.
have advanced wages 10 and 30 per
cent. Six hundred button workers are
employed in the factories.
The bill providing for the incorpora-
tion Of the st. Louis Worlds Fair. to
celebrate in 1908 the centennial Of the
Louisiana purchase, has passed the
Missouri senate. Il has already been
passed by the house.
The Kilauea Plantation Company
has been incorporated at San Fran.
cisco. The capital stock Is 81. 600. 600.
The directors are A. b. Spreckels. j.
D. Spreckels, William Irwin, O. A.
Hugg and w. ID. X. Gibson.
A large number OF Spanish officers,
who had been prisoners in the hands oi
the Tagals, have entered the service
Of the latter. Among the prisoners were
some Of the chiefs Of the Spanish gen.
erals staff and officers OF artillery.
There are persistent rumors in Ma
nila that Aguinaldo has been supplant-
cd In control of Filipino affairs by
General Antonio Luna, commander In
chief Of the Filipino forces. Luna II
described as being typical belligerent,
Unless the testimony Of several i'm.
portant witnesses shall be impeached,
something which is very unlikely. the
beef inquiry board will be obliged tc
sustain the charges OF General Miles
that the soldiers were fed upon en-
balmed or preserved beef, says Wash