Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-04-23


revolver upon himself, and sent bull
let through his heart, killing himself
instantly.
Meager reports from the lower Bru!e
agency in South Dakota, state that
Handsome Elk, an Indian belonging 10
that agency, shot TWO Indian police
who were trying to arrest him. Indian
t Commissioner Browning and United
States Marshal Peemiller have been
notified, and deputy msrshals have
gone TO the scene of the difficulty.
More trouble is feared.
/ The house committee on ways and
means has decided TO report favorsbly
[ the bill introduced by c. ". Stone, 10
repeal that section OF the Wilson act
which gives free alcohol for the use in
arts and manufactures. The internal
revenue officials acknowledge their in.
ability TO carry out the provisions Of
the law. Great frauds are said TO be
possible under the law, and many
large claims have piled up against the
I Government.
Austin Abbott, Ii. D.. died at his
late residence. 16 East Fifty.frst street,
New York city, after an illness Of ten
weeks.
a postofice has been established at
Chase, in Ysmhill county, Or. Will
liam o. Chase is the postmaster and
the Office is a special one from McMinn.
vile.
The young ladies' club Of the univer.
sity Of Washington defeated the young
ladies Of the EIlensburg normal school
at basketball by score of six points
TO three.
a New York Herald special from
Cairo, Egypt, says: a telegram TO the
war department states that Colonel
Lloyd defeated the dervishes near Sua.
kin.
Joseph D. Higgins, one of the oldest
Of the pioneers of Oregon. died in AS
toria. He was 10 years of age, having
been born in Fulton county, H., in
1923.
a Madrid dispatch says: 1t is an
nounced that the royal speech TO be de.
livered at the opening of the new cortes
will promise political and administra-
tive reforms for Cuba and Porto Rico.
Judge B. F. Dennison, ex.chief jus.
tice Of the supreme court of Washing
ton territory and one Of the ablest jur.
lists Of the state, died in Olympia, sged
IS. He was native of Vermont aud
one of the Argonsuts Of California.
An old fiintlock gun, smooth bore,
and bearing the date of 1916. was
found in cabin on the Colville Indian
reservation by two prospectors, They
also found string Of curiously carved
beads and scalp.lock of woman.
From Washington, D. c., comes the
news that the postoffice at Excelsior,
in Pierce county, Wash, will be dis.
continued April 80, next. 1t is TO be
consolidated on May l with the post.
office at Tacoma, to which all mail
should be sent.
Sir Hercules Robinson, governor Of
Cape Colony, telegraphs to the English
government that there is no sign that
Buluwayo is endangered, and that pre-.
cautions are being taken to keep the
road TO Buluwayo open in order to sup.
ply it with food.
The first sleeping car porter is dead.
He was John D. Mitchell, and ne was
with the Pullman company over thirty
years. He began his service as porter
on the Pioneer, the first sleeping
car ever built. the rolling foundation
Of its inventor s vast wealth.
The arrest of the Baptist missionary,
Bishop Disz, in Havana, was due TO
the declarations by some prisoners who
were Captured at Vivora, near that
place, and TO the documents which
were found in their possession. His
case will be summarily pushed.
A dispatch TO the Volks Zeitung,
Cologne, dated from Shanghai, declares
that II is true, as has been before re.
ported, that Ii Hung Chang, who is
on his way to Moscow to be present at
the coronation Of the car, bears with
him secret Russo.Chinese treaty.
A dispatch from Rome TO the Pail
Mall Gazette, London, says the papal
nuncio at Madrid has been instruc'e /.
to propose the mediation of the pope TO .
bring about a settlement Of the trouble .
in Cuba or to urge upon Spain the &C.
ceptance Of President Cleveland's re.
ported offer of mediation.
A dispatch from Havana says: Three
prisoners OF war, Gregorie Birges, Es.
tabsn Hernandez and Jose Pacallao. I
were executed at Cabans fortress. They
belonged to the insurgent band com.
msnded by DR.. Bruno Zayas, and were
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