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

Culled From the Telegraph Columns
AT Home and Abroad,
George Haag, 20 years old, killed
himself in San Francisco by taking
strychnine. He was member of sui
eide club.
The controller of the currency has
declared a dividend of 10 per cent in
favor of the creditors of the insolvent
Stock Growers National bank, of Miles
City, Mont.
At Alonzo province, in Huelva,
Spain, miscreant set fire to build.
ing in which dance was in progress.
Six persons were burned to death, and
many were injured.
A telegram received from Santo Do
mingo says that the president, Ulysses
Heureaux, has had the minister of
war, Castillo, and Governor Estay, of
Macoris, shot for conspiracy.
Senator Kyle, from the committee
ON forest reservations, has reported IA
vorably the bill authorizing the pur-
chase of toll roads in Yosemite Ma
tional Park, and making them free.
Twenty special agents of the general
land Office in Washington, d. c., have
been ordered suspended from May 10 to
June 80, inclusive, on account of an
inadequate appropriation for the cur
rent fiscal year.
The Denver chamber Of commerce
authorizes the statement that no con-
tributions for the Cripple Creek fire
sufferers from other states are needed.
The contributions in sight in Colorado
amount to nearly $50, 900.
The Northern Pacific & Manitoba
Terminal bondholders have been ad-
mitted to the Northern Pacific reorgan-
ization and have accepted 90 per cent
in new threes and like amount in pre-
ferred stock as basis of settlement,
The senate committee ON public
lands has agreed to press upon the SEN
ate steering committee consideration of
the bill granting per cent of the pro-
ceeds of the sale of public lands to the
states where the sales have been or may
be made.
1t is said, ON what is considered good
authority in Washington, that the ex-
pert accountant employed by the secre-
tary of state has found shortage of
$4,000 in tho trust fund account of
+. J, Kieckhoefer, until recently the
disbursing officer of the state depart
ment
The schooner Viking, which arrived
probable loss of the schooner Norma.
The Norma sailed ON February with
ten persons aboard, for the South seas,
and should have arrived at its destina-
tion six weeks ago.
A dispatch from Havana says: An
American newspaper man named Ham,
ilton, captured ON board the Key West
filibustering schooner Competitor, will
be released, but the other persons cap
tured at the same time will be shot, in
spite of protests from Washington.
A dispatch from Valparaiso says:
The statistics of the general army
staff, which have just been issued,
show that the national guard now
numbers throughout Chile 400, 900
men. The figures were made up i'm
mediately after the late enrolment.
The New York Herald's correspond
ent in Salvador Writes that congress
has approved the treaty of Amalpa
which unites the republics of San Sal.
vador, Nicaragua and Honduras, which
will henceforth be called by the name
Republica Major de Centre America.
The American Medical Association
met in its 47th annual session in the
Grand opera house in Atlanta, Ga.
The association has over 800 men,
bers, being the largest body of physi.
clans and surgeons in America. and
probably in the world, DR.. BeveI ly
Cole, of California, presided.
The Herald's correspondent in Quay.
aquill, Ecuador, telegraphs that the
province of Manabi suffered terribly
from earthquakes. In Puerto Viejo
houses were thrown down, many per.
sons were buried alive in the ruins and
many injured. The province of Man.
abb is in the northeastern part of Eoua.
dor.
All Of the transatlantic steamship
lines have advanced the rate ON gold
from l.32 to 5.Se. For some time past
the companies have held the opinion
that the rates charged were not fair to
them. considering the risks involved.
The opinion is expressed that this sd.
vance in freights may check the pres.
ent outward movement of gold.
James Creelmsn. correspondent Of
the New York World, and Frederick
w, Lawrence, correspondent of the