Condon globe. (Condon, Gilliam Co., Or.) 189?-1919, 1903-04-23
EVENTS OF THE DAY
GATHERED FROM ALL PARTS or THE
Two HEMIsPHEREs.
cOmprehensAs Review Of the Import
ant liapHn'ngs Of the Past Week,
Pressnte4iu condenssd Form. EiOss
Likely 10 prove interesting to Our
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Masy Rssdsfs.
woodburn N T., National Bank Of
ficials say 4 man deposited 31s,5OO,
roarly all ID $40 gold pieces. that had
lain buried IN bis back yard for years.
Burton Parker, q sortar IN the Chi
cage Pogtoffice, has been arrested on
the charge OF robbing the mails. He
confessed. He Is supposed to have Sc
cured $500.
General ]. G. Bates, the new COM
SiAnde OF the Department of the
Lakes. has arrived at Chicago. Cen
eral Sumner succeeds him as com.
mander OF the Department Of the Mis-
souri,.
Passenger train No. 4. on the North
ern Pacific. ran into freight on sid
ing at station IL miles west OF Dick
inson. N. d. Fireman Gleason was
killed and the engineer injured. A
switch had been left open.
| The recent high tides at Coney Is
| land. N. Y, burst through the Bright
on Beach bulkheads, and the inrush-
1 ing waters flooded the cellars and de-
stroyed the work of the gardeners at
Brighton Beach Hotel. The waves
rose as high as 20 feet.
The big bronze statue of Atlas,
which has stood on the fourth floor of
the old Times building, Chicago, for
more than third of a century, and
which was placed in the structure by
Wilbur r. Storey, has been stolen.
The statue weighed more than ton.
A Chicago man proposes to capture
Havana's stray dogs, use them as bait
for sharks in the harbor, and when
sufficient are gathered, blow them up
with dynamite The Havana Munici. |
pal Council pays SO for each female
shark destroyed. and So for each male. |
There's millions Id H."
An immense flow OF oil was struck |
at 1900 feet in well at Hartford, o..
In new territory.
An explosion has. occurred at the |
military powder factory near Lisbon, |
Portugal. Several persons were
killed.
Sir Chen Tung Liam Cheng, the new |
Chinese Minister, has accepted the in
vitation OF the Worlds Fair Commits
sioners TO participate in the dedica-
tion at st. Louis.
Two carloads Of military tents.
promised BY the militia department |
for the use of immigrants have been |
received at Winnipeg. Fourteen hun |
dred more are expected.
Canada proposes to retailiate for
German tariff discrimination by add
ing one-third to the duty on German
imports. Machinery for placer min
ing will be admitted free for one year.
The fast mail on the Louisville G
Nashville for New Orleans, ran into
an open switch near Castleberry, Ala,
and was wrecked. Mail Clerk Dono-
van and the Negro fireman were kill
ed. Engineer Wright and mail clerks
Byers. Eaton and Stratton were pain
fully injured.
The Cripple Greek Tunnel Trans
portation & Mining Company, OF Grip
pie Creek, Colo, has obtained an in
junction against a number of mining
companies to prevent them from driv-
ing big district tunnel through one
of its claims. The company has also
brought suit against the Ell Paso Con-
solidated Gold Mining Company for
water supplied.
Kansas bank deposits now amount
to $30,000,000, or over $50 for every
man, woman and child in the state,
The Methodists propose to merge the
Methodist Book Concern of New York
and the Western Methodist Book Con-
cern of Cincinnati and Chicago.
Nearly $500 was found in searching
a hovel occupied by Patrick Flynn,
near Belvidere, N. J. He was 81 years
old and hermit. He was found dead,
Fire which started in the Capital
Hotel at West End, a summer resort
near New Orleans, La, destroyed that
building and a number of business
houses. The loss is $4,000
Rocks from blast at cutting in
/ Bronx, New York City, street, broke
many windows, wrecked house, in
jured baby and scared woman near
ty to death.
Two Hungarians were killed and two
injured at Pittsburg in q belated ex-
plosion Of dynamite at the New Mount
Washington tunnel of the West Lib
erty Traction Company.
The Washington theater at Rome, N,
Y, was destroyed by fire. The loss is
between $125,O0O and $150,000, about
half covered by insurance. A score
of people were injured when the walls
of the theater fell.
Brigadier-GeneralF Frank D. Baldwin
has taken charge of the Department
of the Colorado, succeeding General
Frederick Funston.
Governor Peabody, Of Colorado. has
ordered the members Of the Denver
Fire and Police Board to answer
charges OF malfeasance and misfeas-
ance in office in permitting gambling.
The trial of DR.. Joseph Alexander,
Of Indianapolis, on the charge Of
grave-robbing has been Indefinitely
postponed, because the Negroes un,
der indictment have refused to testi.
fy against him.
The body of Rear-Admiral George
F. Balknap was buried with military
honors at Arlington cemetery.
A tornado in the vicinity OF Bloc,
ton, Ala, wrecked several houses and
did considerable damage to farming
property, The towns of Coleanor and /
Carney also suffered. No fatalities
were reported,
An anonymous letter, threatening to
burn the town"by fire and dynamite,