Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-10-28
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DRY.
Comprehensive Review of the Important
Happenings of the Past Week CulIed
From the TeIegraphic Columns.

perlntendent OF Alaskan schools, who
has just returned from Alaska, says:
There is but one solution to the trans
p~ortation problem in Alaska, and that
IL the reindeer.
A special to the Kansas City Journal
from Muskogee, l. T., says: The
treaty between the Dawes and Creek
commissions, which was concluded
here last month, was rejected by the
Creek council in session at Okmulgee.
A patrol of dervish horsemen raided
a village seven miles from Berber, kill
ing IL men and capturing many
women, children and cattle. A detach-
ment of Anglo Egyptian cavalry sent in
pursuit of the dervishes overlook them
and routed them with heavy loss. The
dervishes abandoned their booty and
fed.
The body of William J. Lyons, an
employee of the Pacific Gas Improve
ment Company, of San Francisco, was
found in the hills back of Berkley with
a bullet-hole in his head. He was
short in his accounts and attempted to
burn his books to hide his crime. Be-
ing discovered in this he killed him
self in despair.
Senator Morgan, who has Just re-
turned from an extended visit to Ha-
wall, has expressed himsetlf as we'll
pleased with what he saw and the man.
ner in which he was entertained on
The islands. He is more than ever en-
thusiastic on the subject of annexation,
and intimates that Hawaii will become
a part OF this country before the close
Of the coming year.
According to Chinese advices Just re-
ceived in Tacoma, Earl Ii Hung Chang
will no longer take an active part in
government affairs.
Twenty million feet of hemlock and
1000 cords of bark have been con-
sumed, resulting in a loss of 500, 900
by a forest fire near Austin, Pa.
The government has completed ar
engagements with the Canadian author
tiles to have letter mail taken into
Dawson City once a month during the
winter season. The first carrier has
just left Dyea for Circle City and Daw-
son.
By an explosion at the Colma fuse
works, at Colma, Cal, Mary Beck was
killed and eight were SERIOUSLY and four
slightly wounded. The remains of the
dead girl have not been recovered from
the building, and it is believed they
burned.
The London Daily Mail says it has
information from a reliable source that
cholera has attacked a battalion OF the
Shropshire regiment, which is stationed
at Sitapura, Northwest India, and that
40 non-commissioned officers and pri-
Yates have already succumbed.
The Nueste Nachrichten, of Leipsio,
has published a report of a converse
ton in which Prince Bismarck ia
quoted as saying that the Monroe doc
trine is uncommon insolence towards
the rest of the world, and does violence
to the other American interests"
A census OF the Russian empire has
just been completed. The population,
as now published, is 1919, 2ll,ll3 of
which 64,6ll6, $50 are males and GA
5S4, 1873 are females. The population
OF Russia in Europe is nearly 100, 00O,-
900, or more than three.fourths of tho
whole.
Telegraphic advices from the New
York lleradl's correspondent in Rio de
Janeiro state that u servant in the en-
ploy OF William I. Townes, tho United
States consul-general in Rio Janerio,
made an unsuccessful attempt to MUIR
dor the consul-general. Mr.. Towne's
Rssailant was placed under arrest.
Admiral John L. Worden, retired,
died in Washington. He commanded
the Monitor during its engagement
with the Merrimac in Hampton Roads
during the late war. In 1886 he was
retired with full rank and the pay Of
an admiral, the only instance of the
kind.
The director OF the mint has submit
ted to the secretary Of the treasury n
report for the fiscal year covering tho
operations of the minis and ASSAY Off.
ces, together with statistics of foreign
countries relative to production, coin.
age and monetary condition. The value
OF the gold deposited at the mints and
assay offices during the fiscal year 1897
was Sl29, lo5, 800. OF this amount
$S7, 00S, 1897 was original deposits, and
$40, l0a, l62 redeposits.
BY the explosion of the boiler Of tho
steamer G. b, Force, in Charleroi. Pa,
the captain, James Ryan, and the cook,
William Patterson, were killed. The
body of Patterson was found buried in
the sand and terribly mutilated. The
body OF the captain has not vet been
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