Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-07-01
CURRENT EVENTS Of TIE DHI

A Louisville & Nashville express
train was held up by a lone robber,
who secured about $4,000.
Mrs. Henry Scott, of Chicago, and
Mrs. Maria Hay, formerly of Chicago,
were killed by runaway at Du-
buque, la.
John H. Moss and Levan Berg have
been arrested in Seattle, charged with
the murder of Michael J. Lyons, the
Port Blakely saloonkeeper.
Charles Peterson, a Swedish laborer
about % years old, committed suicide
on farm near Ellensburg, by cutting
his throat with pocket knife.
President W. II. Cromwell of the
Blackburn university, and instructor in
Latin, has resigned, to take the Latin
chair in Puget Sound university, Taco
ma.
John Quincy Adams, Northern Pa
cific switchman, while running over
the tops Of cars at Missoula, Mont. slid
and fell between the cars and was
killed.
Louis Sickmiller was instantly killed
and Albert Sickmiller, Charles Faille
and George Steinhelder fatally injured
by the Erie fast express near Mans
field, o.
The River Kur has overf1owed its
banks near the railroad depot of Naw-
thig, Russia. Nineteen men belong
ing to the Mini Novgorod dragons
were drowned.
Every boat brings to Port Townsend
men to look over the proposed 70 tifca-
lions sites with view to bid for the
contracts for construction. All the
Western, as we'll as several Eastern and
Southern states are represented.
A meeting of representatives of G.
A. r., Loyal Legion and Woman's Re-
lief Corps, has been held at Indianap-
oils, Ind, to perfect plans for the erec-
tion OF monument and care of the
grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother
OF Abraham Lincoln, in Spencer coun.
ty, this state.
Christian Ross died of heart disease,
at his home in Philadelphia. He was
the father of Charley Ross, and up to
his last illness Mr.. Ross never gave up
the search for his missing boy, whose
abduction startled Philadelphia on july
l,l874, and became an unsolyed mvs.
terry the world over.
A terrible explosion of torpedo on
the Mexican International, near Eagle
Pass, Tex, completely wrecked loco
motive and killed the engineer and fire.
man.
A sidewalk collapsed in Chicago and
100 people, mostly children were
thrown to the ground, ten feet below.
A number were seriously injured and
one fatally.
Mrs. Know, wife of ]. w. Know.
living near Latah, WASH, gave birth
to three girls and one boy. Each child
is we'll formed and weighs u pounds.
Mother and children are doing we'll.
The walls of a saloon gave way with
out warning in Watertown, S. D., bury
ing number of persons in the ruins
The place was crowded at the time.
The work of clearing away the debris
resulted in the finding of one body.
Five Others were seriously injured.
1t has been discovered that the act of
the last session OF the Colorado legisla.
ture in regard to negotiable instru.
ments, repealed the statute establish
ing the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving,
Christmas, New Years, Washington's
birthday and Memorial day as legal
holidays.
A mob of 300 infuriated peasants a,
Odessa, Russia, seized and savagely
iynched one Dunkirk, murderer, who
was being conveyed by the police to
jail. Dunkirk was charged with the
commission of l3 murders. The no.
lice have arrested 80 ringleaders of the
lynching party.
Alma Fallmer, 10 years old, has been
convicted of theft, and ordered sent 10
the reform school at Whittier. Cal
From the bottom of a mortar box she
took an old plank, with which to buil6
playhouse. She was convicted of
petty larceny by an Alameda Judge.
and now she is behind the bars await
ing her removal to the reform school,
A telegram received in Seattle from
United States Senator Wilson says that
plans for the Notifications at Magnolia
piuu, the army post near Seattle, have |
been approved, and an assignment of
100000 made. General Weeks, quar-.
termaster-general United States army,
has been ordered to Seattle, and direct
ed to proceed with the work immedi.
ately.
The basement and entire lower por.
tion OF the postoffice building in Port.
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