Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-06-03
CURRENT EVENTS OF The DAY
OsmprehensiveR Review of the Important
Happenings of the Past Week CuIIed
From the Telegraphic Columns.

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A dispatch from Berlin says that
the powers, including Turkey, have as
sented to the appointment of Prince
Francis Joseph of Battenburg as gov
ernOr-general of Crete.
A dispatch to the Daily Mail from
Rome says the king of Greece is be-
ginning to reassert himself and will
soon DC able 10 dismiss NJ. Rail- and to
appoint NJ. Kalaptano as premier.
At Colfax, Wash, John Leonard,
who murdered Jacob Malquist last
July, was sentenced by Judge McDon-
aid to be hanged July 2. The sentence
did not affect the prisoner. He had
nothing to say,
While5GeOrge Allen, George Warren
and his son Willie were crossing the
Grand river at Fruita, Colo, in tenn
porary ferry, the cable broke and all
three were drowned. The river is very
high, and is half mile wide at that
place.
The New York Herald's correspond
ent in Guatemala cables that the gov
ernment has issued decree sunspend-
ing specie payments for six months.
The banks lend the government l,5OO,-
900 pesos to be repaid in six months in
silver
Officers of the Cuban league have de-
cided to attempt the raising of fund
of 81, 900, 900 in the United States, be-
lieving that this will enable the Gu.
bans to establish their independence.
The fund is to be raised in two ways
by donations and by the sale of gold
bonds at 9 per cent, payable "ten years
after the evacuation OF Cuba by the
Spanish troops"
Il. G. Brice, whose claim to pro-
cess for making gold and silver from
chemically pure antimOny and other
base metals has been under investiga-
tion by a committee of experts, with
only negative results, has made appli
cation to the commissioner of patents
Tor another test. In his request he as
serts that the other commission did not
follow his directions in important par
ticulars.
The decree of the Turkish govern
ment calling for the expulsion of all
Greeks from the Ottoman empire, has
been suspended, in view of the peace
negotiations.
Governor Ellerbee has announced
that he will appoint Congressman
John Ia. McLaurin to be United States
senator, In successin to the late Sena-
tor Earle.
The Cretan chiefs have sent dozen.
ment to the Greek government declar.
ingsthat they are almost unanimously
IN favor of political union with Greece,
but asking the advice of the govern.
ment as to the best course to pursue
consistently and with due regard to ma.
tional interests.
President Mckinley sent a cablegram
to queen Victoria, congratulating her
on the celebration of her 10Th birthday.
The message was as follows: 'To the
Ambassador of the UnitedsStates, Lon.
don: The president desires you to con-
Vey to the queen his sincere congratula.
lions and those of the American people
upon the celebration of her roth birth
day"
Governor Lord has appointed ]. V.
b. Butler, of Monmouth, to succeed
himself; Judge John J. DAILY, of Dallas.
vice j. g. White, and Il. G. Pentland.
ot Independence, vice p. Haley, mem.
bers of the board of regents of the state
normal school at Monmouth, Or, each
TO hold for six years. Judge G. C.
Blakely, of The Dalles, has been an.
pointed member OF the Oregon state
board OF pharmacy, vice NJ. NJ. Davis.
The 7O-year-old widow of Colonel
Samuel Colt, the millionaire firearms
manufacturer, has been sued by Nor.
man Colt, OF Seattle, and James n
Colt, of Washington, d. c., for a biy
slice OF the estate which has been in
control OF herself or her son since the
oolonels death in 1869. Mrs. Colt is
accused Of alternating her husbands
affection from his nephews by fraud
and deceitiul statements, while he was
in weak mental and physical state.
Plaintiffs also aver that the million.
aires death was fastened by an over
dose of medicine.
Seven years ago James Brazell made
proposition to the English govern
ment to send out $4,000 prospectors
covering an area OF 10 miles through
British Columbia, in nothwesterlv
direction from Rossland, The cost OF
such an expedition was such that the
English and Canadian governments
would have nothing to 10 with it, the
hazard being one that the home sec.
retary would not countenancc. The
proposition, however, has met with
the approval of syndicate Of English
capltallsts. who sounds forth LEO mnn