Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-03-18
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Comprehensive Review OF the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
CuIled From the Telegraph Columns

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placing of all the newspapers in the
state under the censorship or supervi-
sion of state authorities.
Captain General Weyler's latest edict
is said to be an order that all women
arrested in Cuba as suspicious" shall
be tried by court-martial. Weyler says
that women are harder to subdue than
men, and that if he had his way he
would kill them first and try them af-
terward.
Agent Randlett, of the Uintah and
Ouray Indian agency, telegraphed
Washington authorities there were fif-
teen men VINO had made locations on
the lands of the Uncompaghre reserve;
that they had refused to leave and that
there would be trouble unless troops
were sent to eject them.
The expense of the Oregon Soldiers
Home for February was $1,038, as
shown by bills audited by the executive
committee. The board estimates the
government fund will keep the house
six months. The terms of Galloway,
Robertson and Rust, as trustees, have
expired, and their successors will be ap-
pointed soon.
Mrs. Thomas Driscoll attempted sui
eide at Heppner. She first tried to take
carbolic acid, but was prevented by
her husband, and directly afterward
took quantity of rough on rats. A
physician was Immediately summoned,
and, by vigorous use of the stomach
pump, her life was saved. Domestic
troubles are said to be the cause.
A Swedish officer committed suicide
at the Astor house, New York city, un-
der remarkably sensational conditions.
He shot himself while detectives were
breaking into his room to arrest him
for embezzlement. His assumed name
was G. Anderson, and his real name
was Gustav Rinnblad. He was married
and came from good family. He was
paymaster OF battalion of the Swedish
army.
Greece has replied to the identical
note of the powers and it is regarded as
of most favorable nature. 1t is be-
lieved the crisis will soon be past, as
the Greek note at least furnishes basis
upon which compromise satisfactory
to all concerned can be speedily reached
Thomas Condt, of Beloit, Wis, died,
aged 80 years. From 1886 to 1856 he
was missionary to the Hawaiian islands.
He was the last of a company of thirty
missionaries who left for the islands
in 1886. He was the first white person
the natives of Maui island ever saw.
The well-known pioneer and his
torian, Hon. Nineveh Ford, died in
Walla Walla last week. The cause of
his death was old age. He was 81
years and months old. His was the
first wagon to drive into the Grande
Ropde, and the second across the
Rockies
At st. Patrick's day convention,
held in San Francisco last night, reso.
lutions were passed urging all true
lrishmen to unite in discountenancing
the Corbett- -Fitzsimmons fight, which
will take place at Carson on the day
made sacred to the memory of Ireland's
patron saint.
The navy department has issued ad.
vertisements calling for over 5000 ton,
of Iarveyized steel armor for the thre,
battle-ships now building. The Law
fixes the maximum price to he paid q
$500 per ton, and the officials of thu
department are now sanguine of return
to their advertisements.
Mrs. Henry Ward Beecher died n
her home in Stamford, Conn, on tn
tenth anniversary of the death of he
famous husband, and she was SO year
of age. Mrs. Beecher passed ava
peacefully, surrounded by her childre
and friends. Her life had been d,
SPARED OF for several weeks precedin
her demise.
Representative Kruse, of Clackam.
county, died at the hospital in Salem
where he went to attend the session ,
the late attempted legislature. He hs
been confined to his bed with typhoi
fever for three weeks. Representa-,
Kruse was sent to the legislature |
the Populist party, and was memb
of the Davis house.
Joseph N. Dolph, ex-United Stat
senator from Oregon, passed away
his residence in Portland. His left Il
was amputated about four inches abo
the knee--a heroic course that offer
the only possibility of saving his Ii
from blood poisoning from gangren
sore in his left foot Owing to his a
vanced years, the shock proved t
great and he lived but short while.
From Havana comes word that t
Santa Clara court having jurisdicti
of the charges against Sylvester Scov
the New York World corresponds