Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-06-17
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Oonprehensive Review of the Important
Happenings of the Past Week Culled
FROM the TeIegraphic Columns.

Proof is positive that DIR. Rulz, the
American, was murdered in Spanish
prison in Cuba.
A boiler exploded in the print works
of Norcega Bros, Puebla, Mexico, kill
ing go or more persons.
Fire destroyed $50, 900 worth of prop
erty in Cairo, Ill. twenty-five head
of horses and number of dwellings
were burned.
A cloudburst, which caused the river
Norge in France to rise suddenly,
wrecked over 500 factories and work.
shops and desolated many small towns.
1t is said in Astoria, upon what is
apparently good authority, that NAL
colin w. Sale, of Youngs River whose
disappearance in March last created
somewhat of sensation, is alive and
we'll.
Earthquakes were experienced in the
state of Oaxaca, Mexico, and some dam
age was done on the isthmus of Te-
huantepec, where slightly constructed
houses were cracked. One shock lasted
40 seconds.
Jerome Smeathers, his wife and seven
children were poisoned at Yelvington,
KY, with Paris green, which acci-
dentally fell in bucket of water. One
child is reported dead, two dying and
possibly none will recover.
Owing to engineer and conductor for
getting orders freight train crashed
into work train, both going at high
rate OF speed, near Hudson, Wisconsin,
and four workmen were instantly
killed, three bodies being burned.
There was collision between Ameri-
can and Spanish marines in Vera Cruz,
Mexico. The Spanish hurrahed for
Weyler and the Americans for Cuba.
The latter were helped by Mexicans and
d the marines were put to fight.
The department of state has been
officially informed that an internation-
al conference will be held in Berlin
from October i to 16, 1897, to discuss
the leprosy question. There will be
lectures and exhibits connected there.
with.
Spanish captain and two lieuten-
ants were tried by court-martial in Las
Cabanas fortress and sentenced to be
shot for cowardice in having, after IL !
days siege. surrendered the government
forts at Casa Orro in eastern Cuba, to
the patriot forces of General Calixto
Garcia.
More than three score of men have
recently deserted from the warships
New York and Massachusetts, together
with those who left the Texas while
she was in New York. Twenty-eight
men took French leave of the Texas
and 30 are missing from the New York.
1t Is not known how many are missing
from the Massachusetts. In every case
the deserters are of foreign birth.
Alfred Pearce, in attempting to
board train at Mendoza, Cal, was
run over and horribly mangled. He
died at the hospital few hours after
the accident
Lansing, Ia, was visited by sup
posed earthquake. An explanation has
been found in the fact that a meteor
was seen to fall near the city at the time
of the shock
James Williams, editor of the Chron-
icle, of Armore, |. t., was shot and
Killed by prominent attorney of that
city for an attack made through the
columns OF Williams paper.
The grasshoppers are doing consider.
able damage in Morrow county, Or.
Gardens have been completely ruined
around Lexington, and in many places
entire fields of wheat have been eaten
up.
The pleasure steamer Hermoso, Of
San Francisco, while 20 miles off the
Golden Gate, was shaken up consider
ably while on her last outward trim bv
colliding with whale. The whale
was nearly cut in two and the steamer
Will have to go to the drydock for re.
pairs.
News comes from Grant county, Or.
of the tragic death of JEFF Conley n
sheepman, at his cabin in the NOM.
tains. He went to the creek to get wa.
ter, and as he stopped over, his pistol
fell from his belt against the pail he
was carrying, and the weapon was dis.
charged, The bullet passed through
his body, resulting in death the follow. |
ing day.
An Astoria dispatch says the past
week has seen a radical change for the
better in the run of salmon. The de.
liveries of fish have been remarkably
large, even for this time of the wear.
The canneries are all running at full
capacity Not only are the fish un-
usually numerous, but the run as to
quality is extraordinarily fine. As an
example, fisherman one mornino NJ.