Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-03-25
CURRENT EVENTS Of THE DAY
Comprehensive Review of the Important
Happenings of the Past Week Culled
From the Telegraphic Columns.

in q railroad accident at La Grange,
Ill. A meat train bound for Hammond
jumped the track on the Belt Line OF
the Chicago, Hammond & Western
road. The engine was ditched, two Of
the cars were telescoped, and the re-
mainder of the train thrown from the
track.
A small band of unemployed work.
men have begun the construction of a
boulevard in Golden Gate Park, San
Francisco, to pay for which public SUBJ
soriptions have been taken. Ex-Mayor
Sutro warned the workmen to keep off
his land, and as the boulevard extends
across Sutro's property, work had to be
suspended. Sutro has promised to sign
deed for the strip, however.
Miss Blanche Berard, the oldest
postmistress in the country, who has
held Office for half century, has re-
signed. Administrations and presi-
dents changed, postmaster-generals
came and went, postoffices were reor-
ganized and reclassified, great political
upheavals annihilated every branch of
the government, but she remained un-
disturbed at West Point, N. Y.
A Havana special to the New York
World says: Through Cubans here it
is learned that train carrying Spanish
troops was blown up by dynamite while
passing over deep gorge south of Can
delaria, Pinar del Rio province, and
neary $50 soldiers were killed or IN
jured. The locomotive and six cars
were demolished. The tragedy occurred
about the 10th inst.
In the executive session of the senate,
Senator Stewart offered an amendment
to the Alaskan boundary treaty, which
is in the nature of a substitute for the
provision for ascertaining the meridian.
1t provides for the survey of the whole
boundary line, but fixes definitely the
boundary as provided in the treaty of
1857. The boundary line in that
treaty is incorporated in the amend
ment of Senator Stewart, and, if car
ried. is made part of the treaty.
Governor Rogers. of Washington, has
issued his Arbor day proclamation,
recommending that Friday, April 80,
1897, be devoted by the people of
Washington to planting trees, shrubs
and vines and in other ways beautify-
ing their homes. In connection with
the governors proclamation, State Su-
perintendent Brown has prepared a
programme to be rendered in the diff
erent grades of the public schools from
the first to the grammar grade, inclu-
sive.
The report that the o. r. g. N. Co.
was contemplating an extension of its
lines to the Kootenai country has been
officially denied at the offices in Port
land. No such enterprise is at present
under consideration.
The Mississippi river is on the rise.
At Memphis it has reached 36.3, the
highest record since the establishment
OF the weather bureau. Along the low
lands of Arkansas there is great suffer-
ing among people who have been driven
from their homes by the oncoming wa
ters.
A Missouri Pacific passenger train
ran into bunch of horses near Wolf
Creek, Kan. The engineer and fire.
man were killed and score of others
injured. mostly train employees. All
the cars but the sleepers were over
turned. The passengers escaped with
comparative ease.
In revenge for being elected from
trains, tramps caused wreck on the
Louisville ~ Nashville railway this
morning. They spiked switch, de-
railing and demolishing a freight train
and causing heavy damage. The
tramps had intended wrecking the Chi
cago limited. They have been cap
tured.
Postmaster-General Gary has made
the definite announcement that the ad-
ministration had decicd to adhere to
the four-years-tenure-oi-office policy for
all postmasters, except in few cases
where removal for cause was required
ON account of delinquency, incompe.
tency or unsatisfactory conduct of ad.
mlnlStratlon OF Office.
Professor j. b. McMasters, of the
university of Pennsylvania, will arrive
in Chicago this week with "A bundle o.
manuscripts of the new school history
of the United States, in which patriot
ism is the keynote, The making o
this history has been undertaken at tn,
urgent request of committee of tn,
Grand Army of the Republic.
An expedition is to be sent to North
eastern Asia and Northwestern Americ
to discover if possible the ancestry o
the American Indian. Morris Jessup
president of the American Museum o
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