Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-12-21
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE Day
Comprehensive Review OF the Important
Happenings of the Past Week CuIled
From the TeIegraphic Columns.

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production of cotton.
Gold has been discovered ut Skagway
which goes 81 to the pan.
Mormcns have secured 5000, 900
acres of land in Mexico for a colony.
John Cross, of Cove, Or, was Arrest
ed for having counterfeit money in his
possession.
Bates Soper, who murdered his wife
and two children at Aschie, Mo, in
1891, and who was recently arrested in
Oregon, where he married again, was
sentenced in harrIsonvllle, Mo-, to be
hanged on February A.
The Spanish government, it is again
announced is negotiating with the ARM
strongs, this time for a cruiser of
400 tons, said to be worth $500, 600,
built for Japan, but which Japan does
not want. The vessel is said 20 be
practically ready for sea.
About 100 wholesale druggists from
the cities of the Central West held a
conference in Chicago for the purpose
OF considering the cut rates at which
drugs and patent medicines are being
sold by the department stores, as well
rs by many retail druggists, and to take
steps to stop the practice if possible,
The Dingley tariff law will not be
changed in any of its custom features
at the present session of congress. A
general understanding to this effect
has been reached among the Republi-
can members of the ways and means
committee, who feel that it is most de-
sirable to avoid what is generally
known as tariff tinkering.
The subcommittee of the senate COM
mittee on Indian affairs, appointed to
consider the problems, presented in In
dian territory have practically decided
to recommend amendments to the pres
ent law, providing for the apportion-
ment of all the lands held by the five
civilized tribes among the members OF
these tribes, and aslo an amendment
providing that all valid leases shall be
recognized by the government of the
United States, and the money paid on
account of them covered into the treas
ury OF the United States for the bene-
ut Of the various tribes as such.
Wheat fell we z cents per bushel in
Chicago Monday.
Senator White of California has in
troduced a bill in congress to strengthen
the eight-hour law as applicable to gov
eminent work.
The controller of the currency has de-
clared dividend of 10 per cent in favor
of depositors of the Moscow National
bank, Moscow, Idaho.
Judge Sanborn in the court of ap-
peals at st. Louis has granted a post
ponement of the proposed sale of the
Kansas Pacific for 60 days.
One of the interesting items in the
agricultural appropriation bill is pro-
vision for $40, 200 for an agricultural
experiment station in Alaska.
Brigadier-G General Otis, stationed at
Denver, has received a telegram from
Fort Duchesne stating that all the Ute
Indians have returned to their reserva-
ton.
A dispatch from Havana states that
Gomez is being hard pushed by a
Spanish column under command of
General Pando, in the province Of
Puerto Principe.
George c. Green, a carpenter of Mo-
desto. Cal, fatally shot his wife and
wounded his daughter, Mrs. W. E.
Liedman with a revolver. He then
turned the revolver upon himself, but
only inflicted a scalp wound.
The agricultural department issues
the following: A special wheat in
vestigation instituted by the depart.
ment of agriculture indicates a crop of
$50, 900, 900 bushels. These figures are
subject to slight modification in the
final report.
The Legislative, executive and Judi
cial appropriation bill, as reported to
the house by the committee on appro-
priations, carries a total of $2l, 562 1875.
being $3.50, SCI less than the former
bill. The number of salaries provided
for is 10000, being 1893 less than the
number provided for in the current
law.
Hans Frohman "curled" a pair of
eight-pound dumb-bells $4,000 times
in an hour and 40 minutes in a New
York gymnasium. When he had fin.
ished his IL, 900 curl in one hour and
20 minutes, it was proposed that Froh.
man stop, but he insisted on continu.
ing, and executed the IA, 000th curl In
the time stated.
The United States supreme court has
rendered II decision in the case of
Thomas Bran, under sentence of death
in Massachusetts for murder committed
at sea. He was accused of numbering
the captain, mate and captainis vifs