Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-03-04
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
CulIed From the Telegraph Columns

five negro labOrers and wounded as
many more.
A house OF i'll repute was burned near
Wheeling, w. Va, and two girls and
two men were burned to death. A
number Of others are reported seriously
injured.
A Calcutta dispatch says that cholera
has broken out among the people en-
plOyed at the relief works among the
natives, in the state of Rewah. In
two days 100 deaths occurred.
Again an offer for the lie Roi gold
mine has been refused This time the
would-be purchasers, the Royal Tinto
Company, of London, made an offer Of
$4,000, 900, Of which 500, 600 was to
be cash and the remainder in thirty
days.
Eighty-two passengers, more than
half Of them Outiitted with dogs, sleds
and other paraphernalia necessary for
the invasion of the Yukon country,
crowded the steamer Al-Ki on her last
trip to Alaska. This is said to be only
beginning of the vast numbers who
will leave for that country the coming
spring.
Louis Mansfield, who was confined in
the county Jail in Baker City, Or,
awaiting the action of the grand jury
on charge of robbery, committed sui
eide. He told his fellow prisoners
some days before that he preferred to
be dead rather than 90 to the peniten-
tiary. Mansfield leaves u wife and two
daughters.
The East has again been visited by
floods, resulting in great loss of life
and property. Many plants at Pitts
burg are under water, and cloudburst
at the headwaters of the Monongahela
has caused great damage. More than
10000 men have been forced to quit
work in Pennsylvania on account of the
rapidly rising waters.
At the annual meeting of the Lum-
ber Manufacturers Association of the
Northwest, held in Tacoma, the secre-
tary was instructed to formulate an in
vitation to Eastern lumbermen to visit
the Pacific Northwest next July. An
executive committee was appointed to
make suitable arrangement for enter.
tanning the eXcursionists, who are to
be shown the great forests and mills of
the Northwest.
A special from McMurray, Skagit
county, WASH, says that sad accident
occurred there by which the 3-year-old
daughter of w. +. Merry was instantly
killed and his wife seriously injured
Merry was engaged in falling tree
which endangered his house. In fall
ing, the tree struck another, which
stood in its path, the latter falling in
the direction of the woman and child.
The child's neck and back were broken.
Mrs. Merry now lies in critical condi-
tiOn.
A mail train on the Pennsylvania
railroad crashed into a box car near
Ebensburg, Pa, and was badly wrecked
Five persons We're seriously hurt.
Charles +, Miller, sailor. brutally
murdered his wife ut Port Blakclv.
Wash. Much excitement was OCCASION
ed, and lynching was prevented with
great difficulty.
Stephen Rnghotrcr, aged Il, the son
of Joseph Ringhoiler, of Walla Walla,
was shot and killed by Charles Woody,
who is l6ycars old. The boys were out
hunting when the accident occurred.
White settlers at Yerington, in Ma
son valley, Nevada, have appealed for
help, fearing an outbreak of the Pinto
Indians in that ncighborhood. One of
the Indians was killed in u quarrel and
the Indians have begun gathering in
numbers. Governor Sadler has sent
AdJutant-Gcncml Galusha ON a spccial
train to investigate.
The Chesapeake & Ohio wcst.bound
passenger train encountered washout
opposite Portsmouth, o. The engine.
baggage and express car, mail car and
one coach We're dcmilcd. A. q. Stout
supervisor OF the G. X o., was killed.
The engineer fireman, mail clcrl, and
express messenger were all injured, but
not seriously.
While making desperate effort to
avoid arrest for some trivial ofrcns,
Nicholas Meutgen lost his life under
the wheels of a train in Chicago. Fol
lowed 10y an excited crowd and a patrol
wagon containing officers. Mpntprp ram
To the tracks and did not see the train
approaching. The locomotive knocked
him thirty feet and the train passed
over him.
Charles kreinor was drowned in tho
Willamette river at the Atoms wharf
IN Salem. lie was cook ON the steamer
Ramona that plies between Portland
and Independence. An effort was made
to save the man with small boat
without avail. The river was dragged
and dynamite used but tho L,l,, ~,