Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-05-14

illuminated General Weyler, the gov
ernment and army, and attributed the
insurgents crimes to the Spanish
army. They have been ordered to
leave Cuba by the first steamer sailing.
a monster sea lion, in quest of
salmon, became entangled in a fish
trap, near the mouth of the Columbia
river. The trap was badly wrecked.
The militia patrolling the beach at
nwaco, on account of the strikers, as.
sisted in killing the lion, which is the
largest ever seen near the Columbia
river. 1t took eleven rifle shots to kill
the lion, which weighed over 2,1OO
pounds.
Edwin f. Uhl, the new ambassador,
was formally presented to the emperor
of Germany. The emperor replied
briefly to Mr.. Uhl's address, joining in
the hope the latter had expressed, and
speaking very appreclatively and ad-
miringly of the United States and
Americans. He trusted, he said, that
Mr.. Uhl's activity would rebound to
the better understanding and more in
innate relations between the two coun.
tries.
]. Simons, the cook on the pilot boat
schooner San Jose, was washed over
board and lost while the schooner was
crossing the Columbia river bar bound
in. The weather was rough outside,
and havy swell ON the bar tossed the
little schooner about considerably, one
huge wave striking her midships and
turning her over almost On her beam
ends. Simons was standing at the
time in the cockpit, and the receding
wave carried him over the side. The
crew was unable to render any assist
ance, the unfortunate man disappear
ing as soon a he went over the schoon-
er's side.
1t is said that the war costs Spain
500, ,000,o annually and 10000 sol.
diers every year
A fight between negroes and Hun
garians at Keystone, w. Va, resulted
in two negroes and one Hun being
killed. Wilson Worthington and Geo.
Manard were also injured.
Rear Admiarl Kirkland has been Or
dered to command the Mare Island
navy.yard in place of Captain H. L.
Howison, who is ordered to special
duty in connection with the Oregon.
Carl Albrecht, who killed his wife in
Marshtield, Or, February Is last, was
convicted in circuit court at Empire
City of murder in the first degree.
The jury brought in a verdict after fif-
teen minutes deliberation.
The railroad station in Florin, Cal,
was entered by burglars. The bur-
glars robbed the railroad station, the
postotfice and Wells-Fargo express
office, which are all in the same build
ing. A small sum of money was taken.
Crazed with drink and brooding over
trouble which he considered disgrace
to himself and relatives, Frank Wal
ton, aged 80, threw himself in front of
an engine ON the Rock Island track
near Lincoln, Neb., and was ground to
pulp.
In the Canadian prohibition case,
the privy council has decided that par.
Lament cannot pass general prohibi-
tory law, nor can the provinces abolish
the traffic in liquor, but they can pass
laws to regulate it by licenses, under
reasonable conditions.
Notice has been given by the 500 line
of its intention to put into effect a
round!trip rate of 500 from st. Paul
and Minneapolis to Kootenai points.
The tickets will have limits in both di.
rections of forty days and final return
limits of ninety days.
The city of L'Anse, at the head of
kewana bay, Michigan, has been wiped
out by fire. The L'Anse company's
lumber mill and nearly all the business
houses were bunred. Two hundred
persons are homeless. The total loss is
$3.50, 900; insurance small.
A dispatch from Panama says:
Puerto WHO, the capital of Manabi,
with population Of 10000, has been
entirely destroyed by two earthquakes.
The shocks We're succeeded by floods,
inundating the city. Many lives are
supposed to have been lost.
In boxing match between John
Houlihan and Pat Nolan, which came
off in Pennington, Conn, Houlihan
was knocked out in the eleventh round
and rendered unconscious. He was not
resuscitated, and it is believed his in.
juries will prove fatal.
1t is stated in Kansas City that the
firm of Swift Il Co. will shut down
their big packing plant at that point
for an indefinite period. Their plant
gives employment to 1900 men, and in