Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-09-16
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE Day
Comprehensive Review of the Important
Happenings of the Past Week CuIIed
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Happenings of the Past Week CulIed
From the Telegraphic Columns.
A terrible explosion oI nitroglycerine
occurred in Cygnet, o., resulting in the
death of six persons and the injury of
large number.
1t is said that John w. Mackay, the
American millionaire, will lay Cana
dian Pacific cable from Vancouver, B.
c., to Australia.
Count Okuma, of Japan, has notified
his minister at Honolulu of the terms
and conditions of Japan's acceptance of
the proposal to arbitrate the dispute
with Hawaii.
A New York Herald special from
Barcelona says that il is stated on the
highest diplomatic authority that the
present Spanish government will go
out within a fortnight, and that the
liberals will come in.
Customs inspectors at Laredo, Tex,
have found an unclaimed grip on a
train, containing 100000 worth of
diamonds, jewelry and other valuables.
The papers in the valise indicate that
it belonged to Spanish officer 1t is
believed it was stolen by a man who
lacked the courage to claim ownership.
w. P. Atwell, commercial agent of
the United States at Robaix, France,
sends to the state department a report
on the short wheat crop in France.
He says the crop in France, and in fact
all Europe, has fallen much below the
average, and that it is estimated that
the United States and Canada will be
called upon to export from 1870, 900, 900
to 10000, 900 bushels more than they
exported to Europe last year. France
will require about 60, 100000 bushels
to meet the deficit in that country.
A Portland company has offered to
build sugar beet factory in La
Grande.
q. ]. Layzell was killed and Claude
Hawthorne severely injured by fire
on launch in Astoria, Or.
Falls Company, manufacturers of
cotton goods, in Norwich, Conn, have
started up on full time, giving employ
ment to 500 hands.
The New Orleans health authorities
have sent out notice of death by vel
low fever in that city. Quarantine has
been declared by several Southern
cities.
A rich strike is reported in the
Schroeder mine, in Yreka, CAL, on the
l,2OO-foot level, the vein averaging
four feet in width, and running $l3O to
the ton.
Edward Lyons, patient at the Ore
gon state insane asylum hung himself
to tree in the asylum grounds. He
was committed from Multnomah county
last March.
In the Milford labor union, at its
games in Milford, Mass, II. S. Dono-
van, OF Natick, ran 100 yards in 91s
seconds, breaking the worlds record by
one-tenth of second, according to the
timekeepers.
George w. Clark broke the worlds
high-dive record by jumping off the
railing of the Halstead- street life bridge
in Chicago, when the structure was
raised to an elevation of 1875 feet above
the Chicago river. The diver was
taken out of the river uninjured, and
was placed under arrest by the police.
The Washington Star SAYS: 1t is
stated that S. d. North, of Boston, has
been selected as superintendent of the
next census, and that his appointment
Will be made as soon as necessary legis-
lation can be enacted. The president
Is said to favor the establishment of a
permanent bureau on census, and is
likely to express some views on that
subject in his next message TO congress.
Wild horses have become nuisance
in Northern Arizona, and Attorny-
General Frasier has been asked if they
may not be legally slaughtered. That
vicinity has been overrun by several
large bands, hundreds in number, un-
branded and unclaimed bv any one
They have rapidly increased in number
and have become wilder than deer and
vicious as we'll. The matter has been
referred to the livestock board.
a Phoenix, Ariz., dispatch says it il
expected that work will be resumed
within 60 days on the great Rio Verde
irrigation enterprise which is to redeem
200, 900 acres of the finest land in tho
Salt river valley. OF the l5O miles OF
canals that will constitute the Rio
Verde irrigation system, 90 have b,en
aug, and large amount of work. cost.
Ing altogether $500, 900, has been done
at and near the headworks.
I'VE are on the verge of great min.
ing era" remarked Clarence King.
former chief of the United States geo.
logical survey, in Denver. The time
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