Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-26
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY.
Comprehensive Review of the Important
Happenings OF the Past Week Culled
From the TeIegraphie Columns.

happenings OF the ta>t eek NulleC
From the TeIegraphie Columns.
The bubonic plague shows no abate-
ment in the Poonah district Of India.
Within As hours there has been 1874
new eases and "a deaths.
The official vote for governor at the
Ohio state election is thus recorded:
Bushnell, Rep, 429, SIG; Chapman,
Dem, 4Ol, 7l5; Holiday, Pro-, 1865;
Coxey, Peo., 1884; Dexter, Nat. Dem,
1861; Watkins, social, 4.242; Lewis,
negro protect, 476; Liberty, 3,l70.
Bushnell's plurality was rs, lOl.
The final act upon the part of the
government in the ratification of the
treaty adopted by the recent universal
congress was taken Tuesday, when
President Mckinley signed the formal
convention or treaty and Secretary of
State Sherman had the government
seal affixed. Postmaster General Gary
had already signed it. The treaty
takes effect January l, 1898.
AT a session of the knights OF Labor
council, at Louisville, it was voted
unanimously to set apart the last Sun
day in June as labor memorial day.
This day will be observed by all the
district assemblies in the United States.
1t was expressly stated that the day
should not be regarded in the light of
a holiday. 1t was fixed upon Sunday
SO it could not be made a holiday, with
its attendant festivities.
An immense claim, embracing
1000, 900 acres of land in the North
west, including the cities of M~inneapo-
lis and st. Paul, has been brought be-
fore Commissioner Hermann, of the
general land office, and the assistance
of the government in securing official
data is called for. The claimants are
G. B. Hollo way, of Holland, o., and
A. Gum. OF Momee, o. THY are
making an examination of the general
land Office records with a view to secur-
ing copies of certified paper, which,
they assert, will establish their title
to the lands claimed by them. Their
ancestor, through whom they claim
title, was Jonathan Carver, an English
man, a well known explorer in the last
century.
Political excitement is intense in
Brazil and martial law is in force.
Koon Sang, a Chinese priest, was
killed by highbindeIs in San Francisco.
]. r. Sovereign, the recently retired
master workman of the Knights of La
Dor, has declared his intention to run
for president of the United States in
1900.
The blue and gray have met again on
common ground. Military triumphs
were honored at Orchard Knob, Tenn,
Monday, and monuments to the
achievements at Chickamauga and Mis-
sionary Ridge accepted.
A. j. Sage, a well known .,rancher,
living a few miles below Sand Point,
Idaho, was shot and instantly killed
while out hunting, An old acquaint.
ance, named John Snyder, who went
out with him hunting, and who became
separated from him for a. short time,
seeing what he supposed to be a deer
moving among the trees, fired atit, and
upon reaching the spot was horritied to
find that he had shot his friend dead.
Rev. Myron W. Reed, pastor of one
OF Denver's leading churches, during
his discourse Sunday created somewhat
OF a sensation while discussing the kill.
ing of the Ute Indians by deputy game
wardens in Colorado recently, by de-
claring that he intended to see that
Warden Wilcox and his deputies are
tried for murder. He also denounced
the preachers who have remained silent
in the matter.
Fifty-two families have arrived in
North Yakima, Wash, from Polk
county, Minnesota, to make new
homes. Many have already selected
lands along the Yakima valley canal,
west of the city, and others will locate
In the vicinity OF the Mckee artesian
wells. The colony is made up almost
wholly of French people, and they will
be the means of bringing many more
settlers to Yakima county ii their ex.
perience proves satisfactory.
The state supreme court OF Montana
mas sustained the constitutionality of
the inheritance law passed by the last
legislature. The law imposes a tax of
b per cent on requests to any benefci.
AIRY, not u relative, where the estate
amounts to over 800. The tax ON es.
tates directly inherited, where the value
of the estate is over $500, is l per
cent. 1t is estimated that the decision
will yield the state $40, 900 from es.
tates already in process OF settlement.
The Wyoming supreme cour has de-
cided that foreigu-born citizens must
be required to read the constitution in
the English language in order to vote.
One hundred and fifteen Firms, who