Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-10-14
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE Day
Comprehensive Review Of the Important
Happenings of the Past Week CulIed
From the TeIegraphic Columns.

In an insane asylum.
Japan has named two delegates to
attend the international sealing confer
ence at Washington, d. G.
At Dixon, Ia, the dead body of Rob-
ert Parks was found in his burning
house. 1t is believed he was murdered
for his money.
During a quarrel at their home in
st. Louis, George p. PETER, a stenog-
rapher, shot his father-in-law, Robert
Delaney, through the brain, and then
killed himself.
Eddie Bostey, the 20~-months-old
child of Mrs. George Bosley, was killed
at Bothell, Wash, by a Seattle e. Inter.
national train. The child's head was
severed from its body.
The Union Pacific committee has
acceded to the governments contention
that its lien on the Union Pacific road
includes the Omaha bridge, and that it
has increased its cash bid so as to make
tn entire concession approximately So
600, 900. This would make its guaran-
ty offer for the property, including the
sinking fund, now in the treasury, about
$50, 600, 900.
The United States circuit court has
decided that tapioca flour must be taxed
a duty of 2 cents per pound. This
Will increase the government revenue
many hundreds OF thousands of dollars
per annum This flour Is used almost
YplnCiy nlu IL, oil tho Tls,o,al .x.
in the United States because of it's
cheapness, as starch, and it has been
the most formidable obstacle to the
starch manufacturing industry in the,
United States.
The numbering town of Austin, Pa,
was nearly wiped off the map by fire.
Only five dwellings remain. Fully
500 persons are homeless.
The Hotel Lafayette, at Minnetonka,
MINI. the largest summer resort in the
West, was totally destroyed by fire.
1t was owned by the Great Northern
railway.
For the month of September, the at
tendance at the Nashville exposition
was 253, 724, and the total attendance
since the opening up October l amount
ed to 1,196. $50.
The emperor of China has forbidden
all sorts of banquets and junketing be-
cause an eclipse will occur on January
%, 1898. An eclipse of the sun is said
by the Chinese to De proof of the
wrath of heaven at the lack of virtue
in a ruler.
Five hundred thousand acres of fine
land along the Big Piney, Lebarge,
Fontanelle creeks and Green river,
which have recently been surveyed,
will be thIown open to settlement
under the United States land laws after
November /, when plats of the land
will be filed in the local land office.
The lands comprise eight townships, all
in Uintah county, Wyoming.
A vessel carrying supplies of medi-
cine, clothing, arms and ammunition
for the Cuban army has left Montreal
for Cuba. The scheme was not author
lied by the Cuban junta in New York,
but was undertaken on behalf of two
gentlemen, n a Canadian, who de-
cided on running an expedition to the
coast of Cuba, and, if successful, iden-
tifying themselves with the cause.
Neal Dow, the great temperance ad.
vocate, died at his home in Portland,
Me. 1t was through his efforts that in
1884 an amendment to the constitution
of Maine was adopted by a popular vote
of nearly three to one, in which it wal
declared that the manufacture, sale and
keeping for sale of intoxicating bever-
ages was forever forbidden, and COM
handing the legislature to enact suit
able laws for the enforcement of the
prohibition.
The topic of the day in Paris has been
the refusal OF NJ. LOCO, French ambasa-
dor at Vienna, to accept the appoint.
ment rendered him as governor Algeria,
on the ground that he does not desire
TO leave his aged parents. He declares
that he will remain in Vienna, but the
Marquis d'Reversau has already been
appointed to replace him, and the cab.
met has decided that this appointment
must stand. NJ. Lozo, therefore, will
have to make an ig%nominious retreat.
The ~Orange-Judd Farmer, in it's
final estimate of the years crop, SAYS
that figures, based on actual threshinp
returns, indicate u total yield of 5S9,-
900, 900 bushels OF wheat, Of which
S73. 900, 900 bushels in winter, and
2l5,47o, 900 bushels in spring wheat.
The report says the corn crop is exceed
ingly disappointing, and an outside es-
innate is 1850, 900, 900 bushels.
Drought during the past two months
reduced the average condition from
1878 a month 6 to 7S.9 on October /.