Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-08-20
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings Of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

Malloh Rezza, who assassinated the
shah of Persia in May last, was hanged
at Teheran in the presence of an i'm.
mense concourse.
Ben Meyer, who was arrested upon
suspicion of having robbed the Wilhoit
stage, has been released from Jail with
out having been given an examination
upon the charge.
In fight at Vodena, Macedonia, be.
tween 100 insurgents and 500 Turkish
troops, the former were reinforced after
four hours and routed the Turks, fifty
Of whom were killed.
Frank Farnsworth Barnard, aged AZ,
tenor singer well known in theatri.
cal circles, committed suicide in New
York by shooting himself in the right
temple with revolver.
The cyclists of Olympia, Wash. have
formed club, with a membership Of
100, for the vigorous prosecution of a
good roads crusade. They propose to
Immediately begin the improvement Of
the various roads leading out of the
city.
The four.story mill of the Sperry
Flour Company, at Paso Robles, CAL, =,
was burned together with three adjac.
ent cabins and a blacksmith shop.
The mill was valued at $35, 900, and
the stock Of wheat and -four on hand
was worth $4,000, and it was a
total loss. There was $40, 900 insur.
ance on the building.
A dispatch from Egypt says "To
show the futility of any hope of arrest.
ing the course of cholera at present,
during the week before last fresh out.
breaks occurred in sixty-nine different
places and last week in eighty. y.seven.
During the seven days to August /,
1900 deaths were reported, and in the
following six days l,700 Deaths"
Judge Noble denied the application
OF the Brown Hosting Company's
locked.out employees for an injunction
to restrain Mayor McKisson, of Cleve.
land, from calling additional militia
into service; to restrain the Brown
company from arming its employees
and to compel the company to carry
out the agreement made with the
locked-out men on July 81.
! The cannery and machinery of the
Anderson (Cal.) Canning 81 Packing
Company, owned by Dan Grover and
b. 7. Ryan, burned. The cannery was
worth $4,000. A stock Of dried fruit
worth 300, 800 sacks Of wheat and a
large quantity of tin was also de.
stroyed. There is no insurance. Two
adjacent cottages owned by Dan Grover
and j. I. Ryan, valued at $500, were
also burned
AT San Antonio de los Banos, pro.
prietor named Domingo Hernandez,
who was 70 years old, has been hanged
by the insurgents.
AT the Novelty theater, London, in
stabbing scene, the spring dagger
made for stage use failed to act and an
actor was stabbed to the heart 80 that
he died in few minutes.
Senior Marcel dc Azacarra, Spanish
minister of war, is considering q
scheme to introduce conscription in
order to facilitate the recruiting of
forces for the Spanish army service in
Cuba.
Miss Clara Barton, president of the
American branch of the Red Cross So.
ciety, has started on her return to the
United States, her mission of distribut.
ing relief to the Armenians having
been ended.
A. w. Fawcett, the recently deposed
mayor of Tacoma, announces that the
fight for occupancy of the office is not
yet ended by any means, and that he
will immediately carry the contest to
the supreme court for settlement.
John Thompson and Jay Leonard
were killed by lightning in violent
storm at Sandusky, o. They were
working on the new government pie,
at Cedar Point, with augers in thei,
hands, which attracted the lightning.
The body Of newly born male in
FAINT WAS discovered floating in the
Willamette river near New Era one day
last week. A coroner's inquest wa,
held over the remains, but nothing wa,
developed which would tend to throw
any light upon the mystery, as to VIII,
the body of the babe was thrown into
the river.
The steam schooner Point Arena
bound from San Francisco to Mendo
elmo, went on the rocks near Poin
Reyes. Captain johnson, her master
was on the bridge when she grounded
He At once began to back her, ant
within ten minutes she was free Of tn,
rocks. As soon as the vessel wa
loosened the water began to rush il
through hole in her port bow, jus
forward OF the forward hold. Captain
.IOhnson headed for San Eranciscn an