Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-04-29
CURRENT EVENTS OF TIE Day

Happenings of the Past Week CuIIed
From the TeIegraphio Columns.
Two boys were drowned in a slough
near Marietta, Wash.
The 3-year-old child of Frank Floyd,
who lives in Arroyo valley, California,
was killed by the bite of rattlesnake.
Edward Neill was mangled to death
at Wallace, Idaho, by line shaft in
which his clothing became entangled.
Two elderly women were knocked
down and robbed in their home in Gin
cinnati, o., by three men, who escaped
with jewelry valued at So, 900.
Governor Adams, of Colorado, has
vetoed the bill regulating the manufac-
ture and sale OF oleomargarine passed
at the recent session of the legislature.
The veto me sa re is sensational as the
governor shows in his message that the
most barefaced bribery ever attempted
was employed to secure the passage of
the bill.
At meeting of prominent Parnell-
ties in Dublin, Ireland, resolution
was adopted providing for the forma-
tion of an independent Irish league, in
which agrarian interests are not to be
dominant, and which will be founded
on the broader and sounder basis of
independent political action for the
benefit of the whole Irish nation" The
object of the league will be "civil and
religious liberty, and absolute inde-
pendence of all alliances with any En-
glish party"
The famous "hat-trimmings case,"
which indirectly invovled between $2O,-
100000 and $50, 900, and which
has been postponed from time to time
for the past three years, has been
finally decided in favor of the govern
ment by jury in the United States
circuit court in Philadelphia The suit
was brought as test case by an i'm
porting firm, who sought to recover
from the government difference of 30
per cent in customs duties. The firms
contention was that the importatons
In question consisted solely of hat trim
mings, on which the duty, under the
Mckinley tariff act, was only 20 per
cent, but the federal officials prov ed
that the merchandise was used chiefly
for dresses, and dress trimmings, on
which there was duty of so per cent.
A number of Japanese have left San
francisco for Mexico, where colony
Will be formed on land granted them by |
the Mexican government.
y The body of Captain Evan Davies, of
the British four-masted ship Delcairnie.
who drowned over four months ago in
the harbor at Astoria has been picked
up by fisherman. The remains were
positively identified by papers found in
the pocket.
The great coon and varmint hunt on
Fox island, Washington, in which sew
erai hundred hunters participated, was
anything but a success as varmint-
killing bee, though all who attended
were well satisfied, as the courteses of
the islanders made the outing most
enjoyable one.
Seth Il. Milliken, representing in the
house of representatives the third dis
trict of Maine, died at Washington.
For some time he had suffered from
serious affection of the bronchial
tubes, which last week deyeloped
alarmingly, and was accompanied by
kidney and liver complications.
Bernardino Asseuro, a Mexican set
tier on the tract of land near Hollister.
GAL, claimed by Portuguese, was
found murdered in the charred re.
mains of his hut. Investigation shows
tnat Asseuro was murdered with an AK,
after which the body was laid on the
oed' and the hut fired, to conceal the
crime.
The first wool of the season has been
dehvered to n warehouse in Heppncr.
or. 1t is said the wool is lighter and
oi better staple and brighter than the
CLIP from the same sheep last season.
lhe rain has greatly delayed the shear
ing IN that section, Few sheep are be-
ing sold, owners holding firmly for
small advance, about 10 cents head,
more than buyers are willing to pay.
A dispatch from Baker City, Or,
says that Powder river is higher than
1t has ever been known to be, and is
dong great damage. Only one bridge
remains in the city, and if the warm
weather continues, it will 80 out. The
sumpter Valley railroad is flooded for
miles, and trains will not be running
for weeks. The northern residence por-
uon of the city is inundated.
Chief Justice Fuller, of the United
states supreme court, has refused
writ OF habcas corpus in the case of El- /
verton Il. Chapman, broker. who re-
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