Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-12-17
THE NEWS Of THE WEEK
Comprehensive Review OF the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Quilted From the Telegraph Columns.

Quilted From the Telegraph Columns.
Butte, Mont, is also organizing ii
company for the Cuban service. Two
hundred names have already been added
to the list.
A company of twenty young men left
kanakee, ILL.,, bound for Cuba, where
they will enlist in the insurgent cause.
They are under charge of an ex soldier.
A report comes from Sing Sing, N.
Y, that the Rev. T. Dewitt Talmage
and Miss Susie Manan, Of New York,
are to be married. The event will hap.
pen within a week.
VIM. G. Powers, conductor on the
South Mount Tabor (Or.) line of the
East Side Railway Company, was shot
by one of two highwaymen at the end
OF the line. His injuries are. for.
Tunately, not fatal. Robbery was the
purpose OF the thugs who fired the shot.
In Keswick. CAR, there was an ex.
plosion of gasoline, resulting in the
burning of twelve men, among them
Arthur Dean, of Redding. Dean had
charge OF the electric plant, and it is
presumed that the explosion took place
in the power.house.
Lieutenant. Commander Drake, of the
battleshlp Oregon, has enlisted the
services of the police of San Francisco
in finding Edward Perry, steward of
the vessel. He deserted the ship after
having squandered about 500 which
had been given him to purchase pro.
visions.
An attempt was made to wreck a pas
senger train on the Iowa Central rail.
road, near Latimer, Ia. Iron rails
were laid on the track ON the upper end
OF a curve, where the obstruction could
not be seen by the engineer. An extra
freight train ahead of the regular pas.
senger train ran into the obstruction,
without damage. Robbery was the
evident motive of the wreckers.
Frank Il. Cheeseman, of South Berk.
ley, CAL, has made an eighth ATTEMPT
at suicide and his life is now ~despaired
OF. In a fit of dependency he shot
himself through the lung, indicting
what is thought to be a fatal wound
Chees1man is only "a years of age, and
the physicians give insanity as the
cause for his repeated efforts to end his
life.
Powers OF Vermont, chairman of the
house committee on the Pacific rail.
roads, heartily approves that portion
OF President Cleveland's message relat.
ing to the Pacific railroads Some.
thing must be done at once" said he.
we will bring up the bill agreed upon
by the committee in the session az the
earliest possible moment" He feels
confident that the measure will be set.
tied at this session.
Liquor dealers in California are m
In arms over the announcement that
Governor Budd has on hand a plan TO
secure the enactment by the next legis-
lature of a law establishing a state
liquor license. The liquor men say
they now pay federal taxes, and also
local, county and municipal licenses,
and they propose to fight the proposed
state license, the proceeds of which, il
Is proposed, shall go towards the main
tenance of the public asylums.
The steamer Dalles City, that sank
last week opposite Sprague's landing,
on the Columbia river, has been sue.
~cessfully raised by the aid of several
soows. The damage to the hull, while
1t Is considerable, consisting of a hole
more than evenly feet long, can be re.
paired without injury to the boat. The
Dalles City has been towed to the Cas-.
cades, where a temporary bulkhead
will be built around the damaged nor.
ton. 1t is possible she may be taken
to Portland that she may undergo per.
manent repairs.
A tragedy occurred in Schuyler, Neb.
As Il result of a rejected lovers insane
attempt TO murder his sweetheart and
exterminate her family, Deidrick Giles.
ing is dead, his mother and father,
brother M sister dangerously wound.
cd by a terrible clubbing, another sis.
ter almost crazed by being repeatedly
fired upon at close range and CLANS
Destefef, the murderer, is being pur.
sued by a determined posse. The muir.
derer Is a young man of the neighbor.
hood, who was infatuated with Miss
Closing. His advances had been re.
fused, and for months he had threat.
ened murder.
Several members Of the Miners
Union of Leadville, Colo, have been
arrested under indictments by the spec.
ial grand jury, for their alleged con.
nection with the attack on the Coro-
nsdo and Emmett mines a few months
ago.
The New York Herald has a dispatch
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