Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-11-19
THE NEWS Of THE WEEK
Comprehensive Review OF tho Import
ant Happenings OF the Past Week
Quilted From the Telegraph Columns.

The British steamer Strathclyde,
from Calcutta for Galveston, went
ashore in the Calcutta river.
General Weyler has taken personal
charge of the Spanish army in Cuba.
He reviewed the troops at Mariol, and
then took up the march to the interior.
The Chicago Tribune prints a list of
275 mills and factories which have re-
sumed business within the past ten
days, giving employment to l55,495
men.
A Constantinople dispatch says
while counseling American mission.
aries to remain at their posts in Ana
tolia, Minister Terrell has advised the
removal of the children of missionaries
to places of safety.
Three men were injured by the BURST
ing of a naptha retort in a straw fac
tory in Milford, Mass. Their injuries
proved fatal. The men were blown out
OF the building, and when picked up
the skin peeled from their faces and
breasts.
Fourteen buildings in the business
portion of Traverse City, Mich, were
destroyed by fire, entailing a loss of
B O,000. Ed Newberry, a hotel porter,
was burned to death. 1t is rumored
other lives were lost, but no other
bodies have been recovered. Thirty
guests escaped through the windows Of
tho Frnnfctraat hokal -, @Ln,, .,ulA
clothing.
From Greer county, Oklahoma, comes
the news of a battle between officers
of Greer and Washita counties and a
large body of Mexican ho~rsethieves, in
which one robber was killed outright,
several wounded and two officers
wounded. The Mexicans had been
stealing horses and committing numer-
GUS d~epredations in western counties in
Oklahoma.
Rev. e. L. Benedict shot and fatally
wounded Harry McWhorter, a promi-
nent druggist, of Larrabee, la. The
shooting was in self defense.
President Zelaya, of Nicaragua, has
issued a decree making lard duty free
from October to April, and flour and
corn, which are also scarce, are made
free of duty.
The country home at Clover Bend,
Lawrence county, Arkansas, of Miss
French, authoress and magazine con.
tributer. we'll known as Octave
Thanet.' was destroyed by fire. A
large and valuable library was burned.
Serious rioting has occurred at Shot
aput, near Bombay. Five thousand
men looted 800 bags of grain. The
police fired upon the mob, killing four
men and wounding six. A further
outbreak is feared as Shotaput is one of
the worst famine tracts.
"A st. Petersburg dispatch to the
London Times quotes the Novosti as
saying that towards the close of the
war with Japan, China offered to cede
the island of Formosa to England with
out condition, with a view to excluding
the Japanese, but that Lord Rosebery,
then prime minister, promptly declined
the offer.
Mrs. Walter NJ. Castle, of San Fran
cisco, recently sentenced in London to
three months imprisonment without
hard larbor, after having pleaded guilty
to a charge of shop.lifting, has been re-
lea 'ed from prison OF medical grounds,
by order of the home secretary, Sir
Matthew White Ridley.
The report that was recently sent out
from Constantinople that sixty Arme-
mans were massacerd there early last
week was not exaggerated. On the
contrary, the affair turns out more seri.
GUS than was at first announced. The
massacre occurred at the village of
Eyerek, where nearly one hundred per.
sons were killed and all the Armenian
houses pillaged.
A tramp, while going over the Balti-
more " Ohio, neal Mitchell, Ind,
found enough dynamite on the track to
blow an engine to pieces as soon as it
struck 1t. He ran to the nearest
switch, tore of a lamp, and returning,
signaled the approaching express train.
He was shot Mt by the wreckers and
was found unconscious by the train.
men.
In Richmond, Mo-, n mob collected
around the Jail and attempted TO get
hold Of Jesse Winner and Lon Lackey.
charged with the murder of Mrs. Eva
Winner and her two children. Their
evident purpose was to lynch them. A
brother Of the murdered woman nd.
dressed the mob and pleaded with them
10 leave the law take its course. They
accepted his counsel and retired.
Samuel 5. Tucker, a painter, met
DIR. James s.. Wintermute on the street
in Tacoma, and suddenly drew a re.
~volver, shooting Wintermute through