Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-04-16

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News has been received that 1900
immigrants are about to leave Naples
for the United States.
Two masked men entered a saloon in
Astoria and robbed the crap game of
the bank roll, amounting to $3.50.
Governor McGraw, of Washington,
has issued proclamation designating
April "a as Arbor day for the year
1895.
An explosion occurred in the engine
room of the Murphy Varnish works, in
Chicago Several men were seriously
hurt and two fatally.
Count Mattel, the discoverer OF the
system of medicine which bears his
name, died in Bologne The system
was development Of homeopathy.
Philip Heppner, a well-known ware
houseman of Arlington, Or, commit
ted suicide by shooting himself through
the brain with a 38-caliber revolver.
The house committee on military
affairs has decided to report favorably
the resolution to bestow the rank of
acknowledgement on General Nelson
A. Miles.
The expedition of the Russian Geo
graphical Society, equipped for the ex-
ploration of the Irkutsk REGION of ST.
IBERIA, has started, and will be absent
three years.
The first report of the battle at
Mount Mocran, April 2, stated that the
Italians lost 100 killed and wounded.
Now it is admitted that ten officers and
800 men were killed.
w. Ii. M. Christie, astronomer royal,
will leave London in July next, and
pass through British Columbia en- route
to Japan in order to witness the eclipse
there in the autumn.
Canada has taken official action in
regard to the Cree Indian matters, and
the present outlook is that all Crees IN
the United States will be deported
within tho next four weeks.
The Assembly has passed the bill
limiting the hours of labor of women
and children to sixty hours per week,
and puts all establishments under con.
troll of the board of health.
Charles Parkin and Patrick Cordi-
gan, two members of wrecking crew,
were struck by a fast freight train on
the pennsylvania road near Downing
ton, Pa, and instantly killed.
The secretary of the treasury has
asked for an appropriation of $3, 900 to
be expended under the direction of the
United States marshal of Alaska for
the repair of public buildings in
Alaska.
The navy department has received a
report from Passed Assistant w. p.
Arnold, that the black plague has
made its appearance in Hong Kong,
but that the fact is being concealed for
business reasons.
The board of health of San Francisco
has been notified that Chinese pas
senger on the Gaelic died Mt Yokohama
March 81 of the plague. The steamer
sailed for San Francisco the same day.
She will be quarantined on her arrival
The Northern Pacific Office in Spo-
kane has advices that general ad-
vance in freight rates to the coast over
the transcontinental lines of about 20
per cent will be made in few weeks.
The statement comes from unquestioned
authority.
James |. Dozier, on his preliminary
examination on charge of killing
Frank Kelly Mt Butteville, Or, on
March 81, was acquitted in Justice
Johsnon's court in Salem. The evi.
dence proved that the shooting was in
self.defense.
At the city election in Cimmaron,
Kan, Mrs. G, A. Curtis was elected
mayor by small majority over DR..
Lawrence The election board is com.
posed of women, who were out in full
force. Mrs. Curtis is over 60 years of
age and is quite wealthy.
The instructions to United States
revenue vessels for the patrol of the seal
waters during the coming season have
been completed by the treasury depart.
ment, and will shortly he issued to the
captains of the vessels. They are sub.
stantially the same rs those of last
year.
The steamer Empress of Japan, from
Yokohama, brings word that Mount
kirishima was in eruption March 10.
NJ. Lievre, of the French warship Far.
fait, was ascending the mountain when
the crater broke forth, and was seri.
ously wounded, his guide being in
stautly killed.
Dispatches from Constantinople say
that an imperial trade has decreed
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