Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-05-06
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY.
Comprehensive Review OF the Important
Happenings Of the Past Week CuIIed
From the Telegraphic CoIumns.


The banking firm of Sehar, Koch &
Co. failed for $50, 900 in Chicago.
Fire consumed the elevator and other
property of the Iowa Elevator Company
at Peoria, ILL.,; loss, 100000.
Lieutenant Etoff, grandson of Presi-
dent Kruger, has been acquitted of the
charge of slander against Queen Vic
toria.
Trainwreckers threw a switch and
wrecked train on the Houston & Tex
as Central and killed one man and in
jured several.
The schooner Annie was crushed in
an ice foe off st. Johns, N. B. The
crew of twenty-five men barely escaped
with their lives.
N. Burris, Son & Co., Of Norfolk,
Va, one of the most prominent and
widely known banking firms in the
South, has failed.
The insurgents against Spanish rule
in the Philippine islands are still 3d.
900 strong and offering stout resistance
nm the mountains.
The Hansard union of printers and
publishers in London, which collapsed
in 1891, has paid quarter OF million
sterling of its Indebtedness.
The mineowners of Leadville, COL,
met and subscribed $4,000 toward
draining the mines, and it is estimated
that opening the mines will put 75O
men to work.
The Democratic members of the
finance committee object to reporting
the tariff bill direct to the senate.
They rely upon the Nevada senator to
secure amendments in full committee.
The French fishing vessel Valiant,
Captain Pierre, from st. Malo for Mi
quelon, struck an iceberg on the Grand
banks, near st. Johns, N. F., on the
lSth inst, and almost Immediately
doundered. She had seventy-three
Fishermen on board, and all took to the
boats. Only one OF these boats has so
Tar been heard from. When it left the
vessel, its complement was ten men.
Three perished from exposure and hun
ger. The bodies OF the first two were
thrown overheard, but the survivors, in
their desperation were driven to can
nibalism, and ate the third. The boat
was picked up by schooner. The sur
vivors are in shocking condition, and
are so badly frostbitten that their arms
must be amputated.
1t is reported that the Oregon deleca-
tion in congress has recommended Pro-
fessor II. b. Miller, president of the
state agricultural college at Corvallis, |
Tor diplomatic appointment to Ger
many
Company G, Oregon National Guard,
Allan j. Walker, captain, has been dis |
banded by order of Governor Lord.
The company's headquarters were at
Myrtle Point, Coos county. The
resignation of Captain Walker, made
necessary by his removal from the
state, was the cause for making the Or
der.
The president has sent to congress the
report Of the boundary commission ap-
pointed to locate the boundary line be-
tween Mexico and the United States.
west of the Rio Grande river. The
presidents message merely transmits
the papers filed by the commission
with the state department, consisting of
printed volumes and maps.
A dispatch from Coulee City, Wash.
says that while Griff Jones, Charles
Deeter and Ray Weston were rounding
up band of young horses on lower
Grab creek, they undertook to swim the
horses, below Rocky ford across the
stream While crossing the horses be-
came entangled and unruly, and Jones
and Weston We're thrown into the water
and drowned, while Deeter managed to
reach the shore.
Private John N. Stamm, of Walla
Walla barracks, was accidentally shot
during target practice, and it is not
possible for him TO recover Sergeant
Names pistol snapped while aiming
at the target. He returned to where
stamm was standing, and was explain
ing to him the reason why the car
fridge failed to explode. In doing this
he pulled the trigger, and the revolver
was discharged, the bullet striking
stamm in the groin, and passing entire.
iy through the body, perforating the
tntestines, and coming out of the back
The governors OF Oregon and Wash.
ington have received copies of the call
Tor the annual meeting OF the trans.
Mississippi congress, to be held this
year in Salt Lake City, July IA to Is,
with request that they designate a
number OF citizens to represent the
states including, lat least one speaker,
who will be prepared to present some
general subject in which the state is in.
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