Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-10-22
The NEWS OF THE WEEK
0OmpFshsnsiVO Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Quilted From the Telegraph Columns.

Governor Ben Tillnan, the Populist
politician of South Carolina, is in Ore
gon in the interests of the party.
An Athens dispatch says that insur-
gent Greeks and Turks fought all day
October 3, near Greavena, Macedonia.
Both sides sustained heavy losses.
Baron Nicholas Knebitsky, governor
Of the Russian fur seal islands, is in
San Francisco on his way to Washing
ron, where he intends to present,
through the Russian ambassador, the
form of a new treaty between his coun.
try and the United States.
Is is expected that 10, 900, 900 salmon
fry will be turned into the Columbia
river this year. OF this number, o.
GOO, 900 will come from the Clackamas
hatchery, 1900, 900 from Sandy sta
ton, 5000, 600 from Little White
Salmon, and 1000, 600 from the head
waters of the C~lackamas.
II is believed that %, 900 persons are
without the neGessaries of life in Quay
"i'tA ~ q t'Suib VI JnC IOCCuI uI6 lu6It.
Ten thousand persons have already left
the city, fearing pestilence will follow
the fire. Everything possible is being
done to relieve suffering among those
who have remained.
The grand jury has indicted eleven
directors of the Bank of Commerce, of
New Orleans, which closed up last
month with n loss of 1910, 600. CASH
Ter de Blanc was also indicted for
falsely swearing to bank statements.
The indicted directors are some of the
most important business men of the
community.
In his annual report to the secretary
OF war. General Greedy, the chief sig
nal officer. says the military telegraph
lines running through mountainous and
desert regions have been maitained in
excellent order. The commercial BUSH
ness over the lines has largely increas.
ed, and the receipts now mount to
one.twelfth of the cost of operation Of
the entire signal corps.
An %east-bound Union Pacific pas
senger train was held up a short dis
tance east of Uintah, Utah. near the
mouth of Weber canyon, and about
eight miles from Ogden. No passen-
gers were molested, the robbers con.
timing their opera lions to the mail and
express cars. The baggage and express
cars were uncOupled by the robbers and
run ahead of the train a few hundred
yards and both cars broken open. The
robbers failed to open the safe in the
express car. Railway officials say the
booty secured WAS a few mail bags, but
as a great portion of the mail was cor
r%espondence between banks, inclosing
exchanges and remittances, and always
a good proportion Of cash, the loss is
supposed to be of consequence.
Three men were instantly killed in
Wilkesbarre, Pa, by "A fall of rock.
The Republican headquarters at
Chehalis, Wash, were broken into bv
some m~iscreants and n quantity of lit.
postage stamps taken.
BERTHE Trip, whose right name is
supposed to be Helen Forest, IA men,
Der of the Salvation Army, committed
suicide by taking poison in Butte,
Mont. No cause for the act is known.
The Italian government has address,
ed IA peremptory note to the porte in
reference TO Il young Italian subject
who was murdered in the recent mas
sacres. The note a Y that the young
man was beaten ON the head and felled
To the ground by a man in Turkish uni
form until he was killed. The note
demands the punishment of the guilty
persons and the payment of indemnity
for the murder of IN Italian subject.
An unsuccessful attempt at wholesale
poisoning by paris green has been dis.
covered in Almond, Wis. While pre-.
pairing n can of milk for shipment,
John Bibby, n wealthy milk shipper,
noticed II peculiar color, and, on in.
V~estigation found n large quantity Of
paris green at the bottom Of the can.
John Burns, another farmer, found a
score OF piles of paris green and salt
scattered in his pasture land. and
Thomas Brown lost five of the most
valuable cows of his herd from the
same poison. deposited by unknown
parties ON his grazing range. No clew
as yet to the perpetrators of the ont.
rage has been found.
Boston has refused to accept the
bronze B%acchante by Macmonnies. for
the new public library. The statue is
too suggestive of immortality and thirst
for the Puritan town. At a meeting
of the art committee it was decided to
reject it. The curator of the museum
sent the following note to the trustees
of the library; Voted, That the
secretary be instructed TO inform the
trustees Of the public libary that, while