Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1897-02-25
THE NEWS Of THE HEEE

CulIed From t" o Telegraph Column.
Governor Bradley, of Kentucky, has
fixed March 20 as the date for the exc
cution of Jackson and Walling, the
murderers Of Pearl Bryan.
The Havana authorities, in view of
the scarcity of beef, have decided to re-
quest the government to allow the free
importation Of cattle from the United
States and Mexico.
Frank CASTLE, stockman, stabbed
and killed John Beck at Cleveland,
Wash, in an alteration at mas
querade ball. CASTLE surrendered him
self to the sheriff and claims the act
was one of self-defense.
DIR. Arthur Duestrow, the st. Louis
millionaire, who on February IL, 1894,
shot and killed his wife and child in a
ut OF drunken rage, in that city, was
hanged in the courtyard of the county
Jail in Union. He broke down at the
last moment and confessed to the crime.
Secession has entered the proceedings
Of the convention Of the League of
American Wheelmen, now being held
in Albany, N. Y. Colorado will take
the initiative and will probably be fol-
lowed by California and several other
states. Sunday racing is the bone of
contention.
Before the legislative investigating
committee on trusts in New York, John
+. Searles admitted that the average
margin of profit between raw and re-
fined sugar during the five years before
the trust was formed was 1854 of a
cent pound and during the subsequent
five years l.96.
A letter received by an official in
Panama from La Paz, Bolivia, states
that the Bolivian congress will declare
war upon Peru. The letter also states
that there is great activity in military
circles, the army is being placed on a
war footing, and recruiting has begun
throughout the republic.
A special train form Chicago to Den
yer, distance of ,026 miles, made the
run in 18 hours 80 minutes. The jour-
ney goes into history as the greatest
railroad feat ever accomplished. The
train was special conveying Henry J.
Mayham, mining broker Of Chicago,
to the death bed Of his son. He arrived
few hours too late.
The battleship Oregon has returned
to San Francisco after her first long
cruise. She went as far rs Acapulco,
Mexico, and has been absent five weeks.
During her voyage she practiced with
her guns and has been tested as fight
ing machine and seagoing craft. The
vessel proved satisfactory in every re-
spect. She will soon proceed to Seattle
and enter the drydock.
DR.. Langley Hall, SO years Of age, a
pioneer of Oregon, died at Oakland.
The office of the Pittsburg Post was
almost totally destroyed by fire. The
loss is 100000, well insured.
Harry Banquist was knocked over
board by the boom of his fishing boat
and drowned in the Columbia near AS
toria.
j. Danach, travelling man, was held
up and robbed of $40 by three masked
men while driving through grove near
Roseburg.
Capt. Chas. Swanson, of the pilot
schooner Jessie, was drowned in AS
toria harbor while attempting to board
his vessel from q small rowboat.
Cuban sympathizers held an open-air
meeting in Tacoma and denounced Pre-
mier Canovas. The Spanish flag was
trailed in the mud and then burned.
A resolution was adopted praying that
Weyler might be subjected to the same
torture by his victims.
The arrangements for the inaugural
tion of President Mckinley are rapidly
nearing completion, and the indications
are that in point of brilliancy and at
Effectiveness the ceremonies, the decora-
tions and the festivities incident to
Inauguration week will be more lavish
than those of former years.
Appointment church member of PEN
dieton, Or, has headcl subscription
list with SIS for the reISS Of Jim HENS
worth, the Rossland miner who saved
the lives of his two companions by
thrusting his arm into the coys of n
rapidly turning windlass and in that
way prevented heavy bucket of ore
from falling on the heads OF his com
panions in the shaft below.
Charles Frohnan and his manager,
@. b. Dillingham;, OF the Garden thea
ter, gave special performance of
"Heartsease" (by courtesy of Henry
Miller and his company, to the clergy.
men of New York. The theater was
closed to all except the clergy, and no
seats were sold. The box Office men
and ushers Mcre dressed in lnnr hlnck