Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-11-30
CURRENT EVENTS Of THE DAY
Comprehensive Review of the Important
Happenings of the Past Week CulIed
From the TeIerranhic CnIn-nna

From the TeIegraphic Columns.
The great trial Of Arroyo's murder.
ers is over, at the City of Mexico, hav,
ing terminated with the sentence OF
death pronounced on 10 of the police
officers and policemen concerned in the
butchery of the hapless wretch whose
audacious attempt on the presidents
life caused so profound a sensation
there. The jury was out over seven
hours.
One Of the most important features
of the Behring sea negotiations not
heretofore disclosed is that in the event
that Great Britain aud Canada consent
to a suspension of pelagic sealing for
one year, the United States for the
same time Will agree to a suspension
Of all taking of seals for one year ON
PribylOff islands, constituting the
American seal possessions in Behring
Sea.
Postmaster General Gary is receiving
many letters regarding the postal-sav-
ings bank proposition strongly urged
by him in his annual report. Many
people throughout the COUNTRY have
written commenting on the projected
radical extension OF the postal service,
and have submitted some suggestions
calculated in their opinion to make the
scheme more feasible. As a whole.
the correspondents indicate a rather
general commentator.
Ex-Governor Crittenden. OF Missouri,
who was consul.general to Mexico
under the last Cleveland administra.
ton, announces that he will leave
Kansas City next week for san An.
tonic, Tex, where he will be Joined nv
W. j. Bryan and Mrs. Bryan. and that
the three will depart from San Antonio
on a weeks tour of Mexico. Aided Nv
the ex-cOnsul's knowledge of the people
and country, Mr.. Bryan will make A
careful study OF Mexico's financial sys-
TEN
Passengers On the steamer Mascotte,
which has arrived in Tampa. repors
that Engel Pasee, who BETRAYED Gem
eral Castillo to the Spaniards for
5000, was captured BY insurgents on
-AS a ~ SAtAAANENss NOuEE-MAT- .
tailed on = drum-head and hanged.
A great fire broke out at Melbourne.
Australia, and in a very short SPACE of
time did enormous damage. 1, is ssti-
mated that the loss will reach 81.
600, while the trade in sof, goods has
received a serious setback. Hundreds
OF employees Of all sorts have been
thrown ont Of employment.
Changing its name and principles the
American Railway League has become
4 f~ull-feigei political organization.
Hereafter it will be known as the Rail-
way Employees and Te~legraphers Poli,-
zeal League OF America. Its object is
TO deal entirely in state and national
politics, chiefly on legislative lines
A big masonry wharf. having 4 front.
age Of 500 meters on the river Ta-rs.
opposite the custOm-house in Lisbon.
suddenly subsidized and completely dis
appeared in the riverbSi. The wharf
which WAS recently constructed al a
cost OF $50, 900, rested On mud. For
tunstely, no one was hun. in the col.
lapse
The hostility between the Christian
socialists and the social democrats.
which exists in all paris OF Aus,ri.
and frequently leads to sharp collision.
between the rival psrtisSns, has result
ed In serious rioiing al Gratz. the capi-
tai city Of Sitirs, and the ses, Of i'm.
portant cotton and wooden manufsc-
tories.
The official programme for the re-.
ception Of lS9S ST the White Hons Nv
President and Mrs. Mckinley has b--n
issued. All Of the events, executing
New Years reception and the public
reception, will be by card Invitation.
Only those invited will be given an Oh
portunity TO be present at leas, opcs
during the season. The avoidance Of
excessive and dangerous crowdins will
add to the sttrsctiyeneSs of all the re-
ceptions.
The theosophists Of San Francisco
are taking very active interes, in the
fate of Ouruant. 1t is a tene, of their
faith that capital punishment is wrong.
and they are getting up a peti,ion
praying Governor Budd to stay the exc
cution and to commute his sentence to
life imprisonment The petition WAS
prepared by DR.. Jerome A. Anderson.
president Of the San Francisco Thep-
%sophieal Society, and it has already re-
eeived 4 number Of signatures
The commission appointed to revise
the criminal code Of the United States.
in the partial report which i, will make
to the president and congress, will
present a cole for criminal justice in
Alaska. The commission is authorized
~ DO this in the act which creates il as