Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-04-01
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Comprehensive Review of the Important
Happenings of the Past Week Culled
From the Telegraphio Columns.

From the Telegraphio Columns.
In anticipation of an increase in the
American tariff, Canadian distillers are
shipping large quantities of whisky to
the United States.
Senator Lindsay, from the committee
on judiciary, has reported the bankrupt
cy bill substantially as it was reported
by Senator Teller, during the last con-
gress.
Nineteen business buildings in
Bloomington, Wis, were burned. The
fire originated in saloon at l O'Clock
in the morning. The total loss is $50, :
900, with light insurance.
The senate in executive session con-
firmed the nomination of Willis Van
deventer, of Wyoming, to be assistant
attorney general, Charles Schaller to
be major, ordnance department of the
army.
Representative Evans, of Kentucky,
has introduced resolution in congress
requesting the president to give notice
that the United States would terminate
at the end Of twelve months the exist
ing commercial reciprocity convention
with the Hawaiian republic.
A draft of the treaties between the
Transvaal republic and the Orange Free
State have been concluded at Bloemfon-
tein, the capital of the latter republic,
and are published in Pretoria. They
give the burghers in each state fran
chise in either republic and the two re-
publics agree to support one another in
case of attack. The treaties must be
ratified by the volksraads of both re-
publics.
The secretary of the treasury has au-
thorized the collector of customs at Fer
dinando to issue clearance papers to the
suspected filibuster Bermuda, now IL,
that port. These instructions were is
sued upon receipt of an affidavit made
by the captain OF the Bermuda, pledg-
ing himself not to enter Cuban ports nor
to take on arms or ammunition to be
transferred to another vessel on the
high seas or to do any act in violation
of the laws of the United States.
The strike on the Erie canal, at Pen
dleton, N. Y, has assumed serious
aspect. The stonemasons were attacked
by sixty Italians, because they refused
to quit work. Sheriff Kinney ordered
the Italians to return to their cabins.
They refused, and We're reinforced by
Polacks, whereupon the sheriff and
posse fired volley at them. The men
ran from the field. Three Italian pa
drones have been arrested and brought
to Lockport. Twenty-Five men are at
work on the canal under guard of
dozen deputy sheriffs.
Samuel Cozine, an old Yamhill coun-
ty pioneer of lS43, died at his home in
McMinnville, at the age of 70 years.
The Illinois legislature is considering
bill giving free school books to all
pupils of the public schools of the state.
Mrs. Marcy Smith was dragged from
the bedside of her dying son in Oak
land, CAL, in crazed condition. For
week she had stood guard in little
cottage where her only boy, Harry, has
been at deaths door from pneumonia.
The mother, worn out by much watch
ing and suffering for want Of food,
gradually lost her reason and was taken
away by force to prevent her doing
harm to those who had come to nurse
her boy.
Police Telegraph Operator Harry
Greenhotf, of the East Chicago avenue
station, narrowly escaped death while
making heroic rescue of child from
beneath the wheels of an engine on st.
Paul bridge. So near did he become to
being crushed that his coat was torn off.
The child he rescued was but wears
old, and had wandered on the bridge in
front of the fast freight train, when
Greenhoff saw its danger and rescued it,
at the peril OF his own life.
The question of opening the Cascade
timber reserve for the herding of stock
Is creating a stir among prominent
stockmen OF Eastern Oregon. The vari-
Gus stock associations in Wasco, Gil
liam, Crook and Sherman counties pro-
pose to raise fund OF $500 to pay the
expenses of delegate to Washington TO
properly present the matter to con-
gress. The question is vital one to
sheepmen, as the closing of the reserve
TO them means such scarcity of range
that successful sheepraisng in Eastern
Oregon will be impracticable on large
scale.
Theodore Durrant has by no means
given up the fight for his life. George
a. Knight has been added to his coun-
sci, and is now preparing petition ask
ing the supreme court for Il rehearing
of the application previously made and
denied, for Il new trial. Ii this petit