Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-06-25
THE EVENTS OF THE day

ant Happenings OF the Past Week
CuIled From the Telegraph Columns.
President Cleveland will take no ac.
tion as to the Cuban rebellion.
John M. Thurston, of Nebraska, was
made permanent chairman Of the Re.
publican national convention at st.
Louis.
Adolph Padelford is dead in Paris.
he was the the husband of Bettina
Girard, the actress, whom he paid
$4,000 to drop her name.
The pump house of the North End
Water Works, Tacoma. was burned
down, leaving that entire section of
the city without water for day.
Sarah Blackburn obtained a verdict
at Oregon City from the Southern Pa.
cifc Railway Company for 81, 1000 for
the killing Of Marx Blackburn, By .
trsinsat a street crossing.
As result of the recent warm
weather rivers and creeks in Idaho are
booming, and lands in many places
are overfowed. 1t is estimated that
damage to the amount of $12, 900 has
been done to the road between Wallace
and Osborne.
Owing to poor attendance and bad
weather, the Portland baseball club Of
the Pacific leauge, has been disbanded.
The Seattle club followed suit. Ia.
coma will make an effort to hold to.
gether. An effort will be made to
have desultory games throughout the
summer.
John Connors shot Mamie Mulligan
three times in the head, in Chicago.
He then shot himself through the right
temple. He is dead. The girl is not
expected to live. The deed was com.
mltted because the girl would not
marry him. Connors is 45 years old,
and Miss Mulligan is l6.
The British steamer Drummond Cas-.
tie, Captain N. NJ. Pierie, from Cape
Town, for London, collided with an
unknown steamer near Brest, France.
She sank in three minutes with IA
passengers and 103 officers and crew on
board. Two men were picked up by
fishing boat. The fate Of the steamer
with which she collided is not known.
News Of terrible earthquake. in.
volving the loss of over thousand
lives, has reached Yokohama from the
island OF Yesso, which contains the
northern provinces of Japan. The
subterraneous disturbance lasted about
twenty hours, and during that period
the utmost terror prevailed. Ground
rumblings are described as resembling
tho roar of distant cannon. Shock fol.
lowed shock almost in uninterrupted
succession. In all it was estimated
that about l50 shocks occurred. The
whole town Of Kumaishi is DESTROYED
by tidal wave, which accompanied
the earthquake Many disasters 10
shipping are reported from the tidal
wave.
A year.old baby fell out OF a fourth.
story window in Chicago the other day
and sustained no serious damage. He
Lit in mudhole.
The banks at Cheney, Wash, sus.
pended payment and failed to open
their doors. Hard times and inability
to make collections are the causes as.
signed for the failures.
A young man named Conway,
brakeman on a gravel train, fell be-
tween two cars Of the moving train
near Arlington, Or, and had his
right leg crushed in two places.
The coroner's jury impaneled to in.
yestigate the fatal shooting of Charles
Rice, near Roseburg, returned verdict
Of willful murder against James Dix.
on, the boy who fired the fatal shot.
A l6.year. old boy named Charles
Wyatt accidentally shot and killed
himself with 22.caliber rifle near
tentralia, Wash, while out hunting
IA company with another lad Of about
his own age
By a fire at Hoquiam, Wash, the
mill OF the Northwest Lumber Com.
psny WAS destroyed, and the barkentine
North Bend, which was taking ON
cargo at the dock, was damaged to the
extent Of $1,000. The amount of the
damage to the mill has not been esti.
mated.
The Goodrich reservoir, fifteen miles
from Baker City, broke, and great
volume Of water rushed down the gulch
about four miles, where il jumped
from Goodrich creek to Pine creek.
About three miles further the flood
struck X Frenchs house and dashed
IL to pieces, drowning the family, son.
nsting OF the parents and five child.
rem, ages ranging from to l2 years
The bodies were found scattered along
she creek distance OF two miles. The
clothing was torn of and the bodies