Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-08-27
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings Of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

l.. E. Sanger, of Summit, Wash,
near Olympia, left his home to go hunt
ing and has not since been seen or
heard of. 1t is feared he has acci-
dentally shot himself.
Peter Ryan, foreman of the st. Law
renee mine, the property of the Ana
conda company, Jack Campbell and
John Manning, two miners, were killed
by the fall of cage in shaft.
1t is stated that measures will be
taken by the New York exchange to
secure the importation of large
amount of gold, variously estimated at
from 5000, 900, 900 to $25, 5,OO0,O 900.
The president has appointed Colonel
Charles q. SSwtelle quartermaster.ge
eral of the army, vice General Batch
elder, retired. Colonel Sawtelle is
now stationed at Governors island,
N. Y.
An 81, 100 gold brick was brought to
Baker City recently from the Baisley-
Elkhorn mine, it being the result of a
ten days run. The average yield of
the ore taken from this mine is about
$50 per ton.
Six cars of Rock Island stock train
were derailed five miles west of To-
peka, Kan, and four white men, rid
ing in the feed box, were crushed to
death. The head and limbs were com.
pletely torn from one body.
Mr.. Harrison, the owner of the Santo
Domingo gold mines in the province of
Carabaya, department of Puno, and
other rich gold mines in Peru, has dis
covered whole hill in the Andes
mountains, extending at least two
leagues and full of veins of rich quartz
In consequence of frontier disputes
beween Bulgaria and Turkey, the Bul.
garian government has notified the
Turkish government that unless the
latter appoints delegates to the frontier
commission by certain date, Bull
gaIian troops will be ordered to re-
occupy the positions recently occupied
by the Turkish soldiers on the territory
Bulgaria claims.
Miss Matte Overman, of San Fran.
ciso, of the celebrated Brown case fame,
has at last confessed to the intimacy
with the ex.Congregational minister
that finally caused his downfall and re.
tirement from the church. The con-
fession is in her own handwriting, COW
ering many sheets of legal cap, and for
the present is in the safe keeping of
Rev. w. w. Scudder, of Alameda,
chairman of the Congregational com.
mittee on credentials.
A movement is on foot among promi-
nent clubmen of Chicago to extend an
invitation to Iii Hung Chang, the
Chinese viceroy, to have him stop over
a couple of days in Chicago while en-
route to the Pacific coast.
Eugene Burt, wanted at Austin,
Tex, for the murder of his wife and
two children, about Il month ago, was
arrested in Chicago. The dirk with
which the crime was committed was
found ON his person, and blood stains
were visible on his straw hat
A threshing engine, together with
Its driver and team of horses, went
through bridge over Kriese creek,
about nine miles west of Oregon City.
The driver was slightly injured and
one of the horses so badly wounded that
IL was found necessary to kill it,
John j. Brough, a well.known mer.
chant OF Manchester, Conn. has re.
turned from n trip around the world
which consumed exactly year. Mr..
Brough travelled on bicycle wherever
possible. OF the 60, 900 miles covered
by him, 10000 were by water; II, 900
ON his wheel and the rest by railroad
in the different countries.
Adyices have been received by the
war department from General Wheaton
stating that three prisoners, supposed
to be iaqui Indians, were brought
from Tubac, Ariz., to Nogales. They
will be taken before the United States
commissioner on charge Of violating
the neutrality laws. They are be.
heved to be members of the raidinr
party that attempted to loot the Mexi.
can custom-house.
According to private advices received
in Philadelphia ten Of the crew o,
twenty'one Of the British bark Flors
Stafford, burned at sea several week.
ago, perished. Captain Oscar Smitl
took one boat with ten men. and tn,
mate with nine other men got in til,
second boat. Captain Smith and te,
men were saved, but nothing has eve
been heard from the others. The Sc!
was rough and probably the boat cap
sized.
BY a collision between the yacht
Meteor and Isolde during the race TO
the vice'commodore's cup, at Southsea
Baron Won Zedwitz. the owner o
Isolde, was so badly injured that h,
died before he could be taken TO hos