Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-06-04
THE NEWS RESUME
a DIGEST FROM ALL PARTS OF
THE WORLD.

Comprehensive Review Of the Import
ant Happenings Of the Past Week
CuIIed From the Telegraph Columns
At Home and Abroad.
Petitions are being sent from all the
towns of South Africa to the govern
ment of the South African republic in
favor of leniency to the reform prison.
ers.
Mrs. Mark Frost, the wife of a
prominent farmer, residing at Cleve-
land, Mo-, drowned her two children
and herself last evening. No cause is
known.
A storm struck Cairo, Ill. There
was terrific wind and rain. The opera
house and union depot were unroofed
The ferryboat Katherine capsized in
the Ohio river and nearly all on board
were drowned.
A dispatch to the London Times from
Athens says the Greek cabinet has de-
cided not to send warships to the island
of Crete unless it becomes absolutely
necessary. 1t is added that twenty
five Christians have been killed in the
massacre in Crete.
James Ellington was hanged in
Boise, Idaho, for the murder of
Charles Briggs. December 80, 1894,
Ellington shot Briggs in front of the
latter's home in Boise Ellington met
his victim, passed and then turned and
shot him in the back.
Owing to the fact that congress has
decided to transform the battlefield of
Shiloh into national park, the officers
Of the Shiloh Battlefield Association
nave rendered their designations for the
purpose of discontinuing their associa-
tion.
Liutenant John Miley, in charge of
the heavy artillery at the Persidio, San
Francisco, has just completed the work
of mounting 50.ton rifle ON the ridge
near Fort Winfield Scott. This is the
second modern rifle to be added to the
heavy artillery ON this coast, within
two years.
A Valparaiso dispatch says: The
supervisors of accounts have discovered
that the telegraph of the government
has been defrauded of more than 1OO,.
900 pesos, and it is thought that a
closer investigation will bring more
roguery to light.
The event of the Queens birthday
celebration at Rossland, b. c., WAS
miners drilling contest for a purse of
$3.50. Five teams were entered. Cog.
gin and Reilly, of the War Eagle,
drilled hole 81 a inches in 10 min.
utes, winning thereby,
Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, has re-
ported favorably from the committee
on postoffices and postroads the bill to
increase the pay of letter. carriers
throughout the United States. The
bill is similar to the one already favor.
ably reported in the house.
Captain John Wilson, the hero of
Lookout mountain, who has been suf.
ering from cancer on his face, died
at his home at Station camp, Ken
tuoky, aged "A. He was the man who
first planted the federal flag on the
summit of Lookout mountain.
Il. b. Palmer, farmer living near
Atwater, Cal, walked into his stable
and slapped horse on the back. The
horse kicked him, one hoof landing
squarely on his chest, the other on his
ear. Palmer died, suffering untold
agonies for many hours. He was 80
years old, we'll known and generally
respected.
Two troops of cavalry have been or.
dered from Fort Custer to round up
the Cree Indians SO they may be de.
ported to Canada in accordance with
recent federal legislation. The Crees
say they will not go unless Canada
proclaims amnesty for their participa-
tion in the Riel rebellion. They fear
death sentences if they return to Can.
ada. and prefer the alternative of flee.
ing to the mountains and becoming
bad" Indians.
1t Is believed in shipping circles in
San Francisco that the British bark
Cambusdoon has been lost Mt sea.
She left Java January for Vancouver,
and has been neither sighted nor heard
from since. She has been out l45
days. The London underwriters have
offered 30 per cent for reinsurance of
the bark and her cagro, which carry
about 100000 insurance. She was
commanded by Captain Macdonald,
and carried crew of thirty men.
Nine four.horse teams, loaded with
Yakima wool, sheared within four
miles Of Northern Pacific railroad
station, passed through Goldendale 10.
Gently en- route to The Dalles to save