The Dalles times-mountaineer. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1882-1904, 1890-03-08
LITTLE ABE LINCOLN DEAD.

LITTLE ABE LINCOLN DEAD.
LONDON, March 5.--Master Abraham
Lincoln, son of Robert Lincoln. United
States minister, who has been suffering
from poisoning arising from malignant
carbuncle on the left side below the arm
pit. died at II o'clock this morning.
During the morning the lad was In com
atose condition, and unable to retain
nourishment, but suffered no pain. The
Lincoln family was at the bedside from
early morning until he died. He passed
away quietly. The body will be enbalm
ed and sent home for interment.
The queen sent Message of sympathy
| to MIR. Lincoln.
The funeral services will be held Fri
day next. Only intimate friends OF the
family and officials OF the United States
legation will be invited. The body will
be deposited temporarily in the catscombs
at Kcnsal Green, whence it will be trans
ferred to the family tomb at Springfield
| Ill.
WASHINGTON, March 5.-The president
has sent message of coincidence to Min
lister Lincoln
The death of Abraham Lincoln. tn.
| Is year.old son of Robert r. Lincoln
American minister to England, Is partlc
ularly sad, as he was his fathers only
son, aud, with the exception Of Minister
Lincoln, The only descendant OF the mar.
tyred president, his grandfather. Minis.
ter Lincoln married IN 1869 Miss Mary
Harlan, daughter of cx Senator Harlan
OF Iowa, whom President Lincoln ap-
pointed his secretary of the interior, al,
though he did not take the Office until
President Johnson's administration. The
fruits Of this union are three children
A handsome girl, the eldest child, now
budding into womanhood; Abraham, the
dead boy, and second daughter, still
younger.
RESTORED TO HER MOTHER.
SPOKANE FALLS, March 5.-Eight
years ago little girl was kidnapped
from her parents either in Montana or
Nevada. She has always retained a
shadowy remembrance of her parents and
the old home, and her heart has never
ceased longing for mothers lOye. Her
abductor was man named Davis, but
his motive remains mystery. On the
17th Of February Cora Davis-for that is
the name she now bears-was brought
here by man named Northcott and
placed IN All SANTA boarding school, an
institution under the control of the Epis-
coDal church. Recently she gained a
clue to the whereabouts of her mother,
and learned that she was living at North
Yakima with her second husbrnd, gen.
tleman named Griffin. Cora wrote to
Mrs. Griffin and in her letter reeited Incl
dents OF her early childhood. Mr.. Griffin
came here few days ago and established
the identity of the lost child beyond a
shadow of doubt. To protect the school
against the man Davis writ of habeas
corpus was sWorn out to-day IN the su-
perior court, and Cora was taken before
Judge Blake. 1t there appearing that
Mrs. Griffin was her mother, and she de.
string to be reunited, the Judge so ordered,
and tomorrow mornings tram will bear
the long lost child to the arms of hey
parent.
She IS handsome girl, just budding
into womsnhood, of modest demeanor,
and beloved by her associates 1T All
Saints school.
THE PARNELL COMMISSION.
LONDON, March Gin the commons
this evening the debate on the Parnell
commission was resumed by Professor
Bryce, who praised Parnell and Davitt
for rendering great service to England in
bringing about the good feeling between
the two couptrles.
Sir Charles Russell said he could not
regard the commission judges as men free
from prepossessions aud prejudices. a
bad precedent had been made in tue Selac.
tion of three judges to decide questions
having chiefly q political aspect. The
whole case had been conducted with per-
linacious rancor by the attorney general,
manner in which 1t would not have been
if the political character of the
had not swept away its judg- !
ment.
Attorney General Webster said be had |
been represented throughout by the
speakers of the opposition as the villain
If the whole piece, although only doing
lis duty as counsel. Throughout the
,ase no step has baen taken in behalf of
he Times. The government bad aimed
olely to throw the clearest possible light
lpon the doings of the lesgufrs. Truth,
lot Misrepresentation, had been its aim.
The commission had provided impartial
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