Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-01-21
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
CulIed From the Telegraph Columns.

TNiiNN EOhdloi wv III lhtllOJ 4NCN'
two years ago, has been pardOned.
Charles A. Warriman, cashier at the
Great Northern depot in Butte, Mont.
committed suicide in his room. Au-
ditor Frey had just begun the examina-
tion of his accounts.
Princess de Chimay, who eloped last
summer with Janos Rigo, Hungarian
gypsy musician, has been engaged to
appear in tableaux vivant at winter
garden in Berlin Immediately after her
divorce from her husband She will
be paid $3.50 a night.
The nomination of David r. Francis
as secretary of the interior has been IA
vorably acted upon by the committee
on finance and reported to the senate in
executive session. The nomination has
been held up ever since the session be-
gan at the request of Senator Vest.
After long and animated session in
Olympia the presidential electors of
Washington agreed upon James E. Fen
ton, Democrat, of Spokane, as messen-
ger to convey the vote of the state to
Washington. The choice was COM
promise, as the electors were at first
unable to agree upon any one of the
four elected, each one striving for the
honor. The sum of $500 is allowed
for expenses.
The trial of Mrs. Walter Carew
charged with poisoning her husband
by administering arsenic, and which
has caused great sensation among the
American inhabitants of Yokohama,
has been brought to dramatic close
by the appearance and confession in
court of Miss Mary Jacobs, the gov
erness of the family, who, it seems,
was the real murderess and the person
who wove the chain of evidence around
\ the widow.
Attorney-General Harmon was asked
about the probable course the govern
ment will pursue with respect to the
Pacific railroads, now the funding bill
has failed. Beyond the statement that
some action would probably be taken
within thirty days, he declined to dis
cuss the matter. 1t is believed how
ever, the first step will be against the
Union Pacific, inasmuch as foreclosure
proceedings instituted by the first lien
holders of that road are now pending in
the courts.
The Inauguration of Governor Tan
ner in Springfield, ILL.,, developed Il
sensation at the close of the statehouse
ceremony, when the retiring governor,
John P. Altgeld, was not permitted to
deliver the farewell address which has
been one of the features of the pre-
vious inaugurations in Illinois. Gov
ernor Altgeld had prepared his speech
and had brought copy of it to the
hall but he was not called upon by the
presiding officer to speak. Much in
dignation was aroused by the occur
renee.
Lord George Hamilton, secretary of
state for the Indian department, has
sent to the lord mayor of London the
statement upon which the appeal for
subscriptions for the relief of the fam
inc sufferers in India is based. He
says that districts with population of
$4,000, 900 will be sufferers from the
famine until the end of March. and il
may continue in some parts to the end
of June. In other districts, having
$4,000, 900 population, the distress may
deepen with famine for Il shorter or
longer period, while 5000 900 people
IN the native states may be victims of
famine
The house committee on public lands .
has authorized n favorable report on the
bill providing that settlers on.Northern
Pacific railroad lands, whose right
would have been forfeited January |,
1897, for noncompliance with law,
shall have an additional term of two
years in which to comply with the
regulations. The committee also or
dered favorable report on bill allow
ing settlers ON Indian lands opened to
settlement in the Dakotas to acquire
patent by paying the minimum price
provided by law any time after the ex-
piration of fourteen months from the
date OF entry
The four presidential electors OF Ore.
gon met in Salem and cast their ballots
Tor William Mckinley and Garret Ho-
bart Hon. I. I. Gcer was elected
messenger to carry the vote to Wash.
ington.
A dispatch from Nice says that
eighty-two persons, including the
mayor and the mayors assistant, to-
gether with many prominent citizens,
have been arraigned for corruption in
the municipal elections.
Advices received from Manila show
that the Philippine insurgents who
were deported to the Landrane islands,
the Spanish penal settlement in the Pa