Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-09-30
CURRENT EVENTS Of THE DAY
Comprehensive Review of the Important
Happenings of the Past Week CulIed

tOnprenenhlNe review OF the important
Happenings of the Past Week CuIled
From the Telegraphic Columns.
Commander Booth-Tucker has ar
rived in Denver to complete the ar.
Tangements for establishing Salvation
Army colony in the Arkansas valley.
In Joseph Hayward's saw mill, near
Macon, Mo-, a large boiler exploded
and killed three workmen, Charles
Heator, Walter Ferguson and Albert
Yost. The mill was blown to frag-
ments.
The graduates of the deaf, dumb and
blind asylum at Berkeley, CAL, have
organized novel society. Its purpose
is to influence wealthy people, and. if
possible, the federal and state govern
ments, in establishing scholarships for
the blind in leading educatioanal insti-
tutions.
The United States steamship San
Francisco, the flagship of the European
squadron, has arrived at Tangier,
Morocco, in order to investigate and
obtain redress, if necessary, for the re-
ported fiogging of American citizens at
MOgador, and also to enforce the prom
ised settlement of former claims of the
United States against Morocco.
The inexorable discriminating law Of
China, which condemns a paracide to
death by the slicing process, whether
he be the perpetrator of wilful crime
or the victim of an accident, is terribly
illustrated by case now vexing the
people of Shanghai. A boy of IL was
swinging some article about his head in
play, when it happened to strike his
mother, who died from the effects of
the blow. He was condemned to be
sliced to death, and, though efforts have
been made to save him from this fear
ful end, so far they have not been sue
cessful.
A dispatch from Vienna says that
the steamer Ika, with a crew of 10,
and carrying 90 Australian passengers,
was entering the port at Fihme, on
the river Flumara, while the bora was
blowing hard, when she collided with
the English steamer Tira, which was
leaving. The bows of the Ika were
stove in and she sank in two minutes.
Boats hastily put off and saved the
captain and seven others, but most Of
the passengers perished. The casualty
took place in full view of thousands
who crowded the pier in the greatest
excitement and alarm.
According to E. Baldwin, the we'll
known authority on polar expeditions,
there are many reasons for believing
Andree, the Swedish aeronaut, is now
on his return trip from the polar re-
gions, and may soon be heard from.
Mayor Phelan, OF San Francisco, has,
in very pointed way, warnd the board
of education that if it does not keep
strictly within the letter OF the law in
the matter of appropriations it may be
ousted from Office, as was the board of
supervisors.
Three daughters of Preston Howard
were burned to death in their home at
Port Alma, Ont. The rest of the fam
lily escaped from the burning building.
The girls were aged IS, 10 and years.
One of them had escaped, but met her
death in returning to assist her sisters.
Acting upon the request of the secre-
tary of agriculture the treasury depart
ment has requested the secretaty Of
state to instruct all the consular officers
of the United States to refuse authenti-
cation of invoices of hides of meat
cattle from districts in which anthrax
exists.
The unclaimed Jewels and curios to
the value of $3.50, 900 which were found
in the ruins after the fire at the charity
bazaar in the Rue de Goujon, have been
sold at auction. The money realized
will remain bonded for 80 years, after
which all the money unclaimed goes to
the state.
Congress will be asked at its coming
session to make large appropriation
for the manufacture of modern high
power guns to be installed for service
on board auxiliary cruisers of the
United States navy in time of war.
Captain Charles O'Neil, chief of the
bureau of ordnance, proposes to make a
recommendation in his forthcoming an
nual report that at least $500, 900 be
appropriated for this purpose. 1t is es
timated that $4,000, 900 will be re-.
quired to equip with modern batteries
the 2S steamers now enrolled in the
government service as auxiliary
cruisers.
Fire was discovered in the main
slope OF mine No. ., at stockton, Ala.
About 100 men were employed in the
mine. AT once an alarm was given.
A panic followed among the workmen
and hundreds gathered ut the main en-.
trance of the smoking mine, while
rescue parties We're at once formed "a
relieve the miners. More than bO wars