Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-11-05
THE NEWS Of THE WEEK
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.


An official dispatch from Manila
says a conspiracy has been discovered
in the Sooloo archipelago, a portion of
the Spanish colony of the Philippine
islands.
Perry Bathalow, United States con.
sui at Mayence, is being prosecuted for
severely injuring an inmate of his
house by striking him ON the head
with a revolver.
The price of bread has gone up half
a penny a loaf, and the increase is be-.
ing actually felt in the poorer districts
OF London, whose many families have,
IN consequence, been obliged to reduce
their supplies.
An explosion of natural gas at Ava
Ion, Pa, killed Bessie Osborne, aged
Is, seriously injured her brother Dale,
aged 8, and her sister Edith, aged 6.
The house was badly wrecked. The
explosion was caused by a leak in the
kitchen pipes.
Thomas p. Gillespie, superintendent
of the Sterling Mining & Milling Com
pany, at Montgomery. New, was shot
and killed on the road between the
Johnny and Chispa mines, by unknown
parties. The shooting was done from
behind some bushes.
Advices received from the Arctic
ocean whaling fleet state that the en-
tire fleet has taken only 80 whales up
to October /. In consequence of the
poor catch, the price of whalebone will
be in the neighborhood of . cents per
pound. AS the fleet had only one
week for operations after this news was
dispatched, the Arctic season is con.
sidered a failure.
Paul lsenberg, the wealthy Ha.
waiian sugar-planter, who with his
family has been spending several
months in Europe, has arrived in San
francisco. MIR. lsenberg's European
trip was for the purpose of interesting
foreign capitalists in the gigantic Oahu
plantation scheme, of which so much
has been written lately. His mission
was in n measure successful, for he is
now returning to Honolulu with a
guaranty of about 81, 500, 900 from sew
eral Dutch millionaires.
1t is stated by officials that the
United States will have the co.opera.
ton and support of both Russia and
Japan in the approaching issue over es-
tabllshing adequate protection for the
fur seals of the North Pacific ocean.
The question is about to be brought for.
ward, as two commission y, one Ameri.
a and one British, have returned, af.
ter an investigation of the conditions in
Behring sea. Aside from the informa.
tion they have received, Assistant Sec.
rotary of the Treasury Hamlin has re.
Gently made a report after personal in.
spection of the seal islands, stating that
If notifications of the Paris award ne.
EQUATIONS were not agreed to the fur
seal will in II or two seasons be
commercially extinct"
The north. bound Houston & Texas
Central passenger train was wrecked
sixty miles from Houston, Tex. The
engine jumped the track, but the
coaches staid on the rails, Engineer
Z. Il. Clark was badly hurt, and Wal.
ter Matthews, his fireman, was killed.
No passegers were hurt.
At n cost of two lives four masked
robbers stole So, 900 from MIR. and Mrs.
Anthony Monagan, in the mining viii
lage of Rappahannock. The heads of
MIR. and Mrs. Monagan were crushed
with a sandbag, and they are in n criti.
cal condition. The robbers are still nc
large, but n posse is in pursuit.
A bull fight with fatal results &C.
CURED at Nogales, Ariz., and for Il
short time caused a panic in the audi.
ence. One Of the bulls becoming more
enraged than usual, rushed about the
arena goring everything within its
reach. A horse was disemboweled. A
picador III an attempt to place u thorn
IN the side Of the wild animal, was
caught on one its long horns, which
pierced him like u sword. He was
tossed and fell to the ground bleeding
and mangled, where the beast held him
between his horns and paved him. He
was frighttully injured and died A few
minutes later.
The Venezuela government has for.
warded to Washington Il brief prepared
at Caracas by II commission of five emf.
nent ~Jurists on the British. Venezuela
boundary question. 1t will be sub.
mitted to tho United States commission
as soon rs the translation is completed.
The brief covers 800 pages and is said
10 be II forcible presentation of the case.
Aside from this brief coming direct
from Venezuela, Messrs. Scruggs and
S%torhrow, counsel for Venezuela in
this country, are about to submit final
arguments. Heretofore the arguments