Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-10-21
CURRENT EVENTS Of The DAY
Comprehensive Review of the Important
Happenings of the asst Week CulIed
From the TeIegraphic Columns.


Turkish minister to the United States.
Hon. Charles w. Jones, former
United States senator from Florida,
died at Detroit, after a sickness of sew
eral weeks.
The national council of Switzerland
has adopted a bill making insurance
against sickness compulsory in cases Of
all dependent persons.
1t is reported that an English syndi-
cate has purchased, for 50, 900, 600, the
big plant of the j. l.. Case Machine
Company, AT Milwaukee.
Jackson and Williams, the o. r. &
N. trainrobbers, were sentenced to the
Oregon penitentiary for a term OF 80
years and seven months each.
Heavy shipments OF wheat to Europe
continue. Over 60 grain-laden vessels
have left San Francisco during the last
two months, and six more are ready to
sail.
The naval armor board will leave
Washington oon for the South to look
at certain places, with a view of ascer-
tanning their adaptihility for sites for
the proposed armOr plant.
The cruiser Baltimore has been put
into commission with Com
mander Gottfried Blocklinger, her first
lieutenant, in command. The Balti-
more will meet the Philadelphia in San
Francisco on the ~latter's arrival.
The monthly treasury statement Of
the principal articles of domestic ex-
ports shows that during September last
the exports of breadstuffs from the
United States amounted to $34, 500, 946,
an increase, as compared with Septem-
Der, 1896, of over 100 per cent, and an
increase of about 800 per cent over Sep
TENDER, 1895.
General Weyler announces that he
will embark from Cuba on October 20.
Benjamin Nelson was found dead on
the floor of his cabin lea Hendricks,
Or.
The general grand chapter of Royal
Arch Masons is in session at Baltimore.
Delegates are present from all parts
of the world.
The whalers that wintered in the
Arctic last year are having hard luck
this season. Only one of them succeed
ed in killing a whale this summer, and
the fleet hat will return this fall will
bring only a small revenue to their
owners
Sunday was the sixth anniversary of
the death of Charles Stewart Parnell.
Five thousand nationalists paraded the
streets of Dublin to the bleak Glasnev-
in cemetery, where they heaped high
the grave of their famous and talented
leader with flowers brought from all
the counties of Ireland.
Senorita ~Evangelina Cisneros, the
Cuban girl who escaped from Casa de
Recogias, in Havana, is said to have
arrived in New York city. American
friends accompanied her by train from
New Orleans. On reaching Jersey City,
Miss Cisneros was taken in a closed car
riage to the headquarters of the Cuban
sympathizers.
Cubans Of New York celebrated the
goth anniversary of the beginning OF
the 10 years. wal by a mass meeting,
presided over by Tomas Estrada Palma,
president of the junta. All the speak
ers emphasized, amid great applause
from the audience, the firm resolution
of the Cuban people to carry on the
struggle until absolute independence OF
Cuba is accomplished.
A dispatch from Long Valley, Idaho,
says there has been a battle between
settlers and sheepherders, and that
three OF the farmers were killed. Phe
trouble is the outgrowth of the strained
relations that have existed in that sec.
tion between the settlers and sheepmeu
for some time. 1t has been no uncom-
mon thing for stock to be manned and
haystacks to be burned, and even FOL
settlers and sheepmen to exchange
shots, but nc one has heretofore beer
killed.
The United States board of geogra.
phical names, which meets at Washing,
ton, ID. c., at state intervals, has JUS
rendered decisions determining tn,
spelling of l49 geographical names
These include u number in Alaska, sig,
nificant at this time in view OF tn,
Klondike excitement. Many varia
tions of nomenclature for the sam,
place are encountered, and the board,
action settles the uniform usage. Al
to Klondike, the decision is to spell i
MS here given, and not Clondyke. Tn,
inlet, river and village at the head o
Linn canal, which now appears in tn,
newspapers almost daily under tn,
form OF Dyea, the starting point TO
the overland route, is an Indian wor,
which has appeared in many forms
Alnulrnl Alnnln In 1870 urnaL. .