Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-02-18
CURRENT EVENTS OF The DAY
Comprehensive Review of the Important
Happenings of the Past Week CulIed
From the TeIepranhic CnluInns

OF Providence, has filed a petition il
insolvency.
Dordane, a nephew of ex-President
Duensk, of Salvador, is insane in Sa1
Francisco hospital
G. S. Kellogg, aged rs, was found
frozen to death near Reno, New, in
the Silver Hill mountains.
Potter Palmer, of Chicago, is to
build mansion at Newport which will
cost between $4,000, 900 and So, ,OOO,-
900.
John Mulligan, aged 81, Lee Multi
gan, 10, and Ethel Baker, II, We're IA
tally asphyxiated by fumes from char
coal at Modoc, Thursday night.
The sugar bounty conference an
nounced to begin February 10 at Brus-
sells, has been indefinitely postponed,
France having rene wed her objections.
Judge Mcmahon, in the high court
at Toronto, has decided that union is
not liable on the charge of conspiracy
for expelling man from the order
According to trustworthy intelli-
gence. says st. Petersburg dispatch,
China has finally abandoned the idea
of raising loan in London or else
where.
/ A New York Herald dispatch from
San Juan del Sur says: Conservative
refugees who have been threatening an
attack on the government since their
failure last September rushed through
the village without the slightest warn.
ing and surprised the barracks. There
was one fatality on each side Further
fighting is anticipated. A force of ma
rines from the U. S. battleship Alert
has been landed to protect American
interests.
r Judge Hanford, of the federal court,
sitting in Tacoma, has rendered a deci-
sion in the case of the Tacoma Grain
Company VS.. the Oregon Railroad
& Navigation Company and the Great
Northern railway, which is vital inn
portance to wheat growers of the state
and shippers. The decision sustains
the constitutionality of the recently
enacted railway transportation law,
fixing maximum charge for hauls
within the state.
A Peking correspondent says poor
old China is afraid to borrow from
either Russia or England. She is en-.
deavoring to secure an extension from
Japan in the payment of the war in
demnity.
News has been received of landslide
at Quesnelle Forks, Cariboo. Three
miners, William Allen, Joe Rich and
Alex Mclean, were buried. The slide
was 1000 feet wide, 800 feet long and
25 feet high.
Insane jealousy prompted the wife of
William V. Place, an insurance ad-
juster of Brooklyn, to kill her 17-year-
old stepdaughter and almost take her
own life and that of her husband.
The crime was fiendish in its nature.
the weapon being an AK.
The steamer Capilano, which has
just returned from the northern halibut
fishing grounds, reports the drowning
OF two of her fishermen, named Robert
Loughead, of Ontario, and Michael
Driscoll. The captain of the Capilano
reports the toughest weather in his ex.
perience.
The house of representatives has re.
ceived the official report of the death
of Colonel Ruiz, the Spaniard who
was executed for carrying message
from Blanco imploring the Cubans to
accept autonomy. Aranguren, the Gu
ban general, who is supposed to have
ordered Ruiz put to death, is not CEN
sured in the official report.
1t is annouced that Hetty Green will
build railroad through Oklahoma.
The proposed road will run from Med.
ford on the Rock Island to Sherman.
Tex, where it will connect with l.. r..
Green's road. There the line will be
connected with the Hutchinson & Okla
homa, and will give the territory an
other connection with the Gulf. The
road it is said will be built the present
year.
One of the biggest silk manufacture
ing houses in Europe, with mills at
Cienfeld, Germany, is to remove to
this country. locating at Paterson, n.
j., and build what is intended to be-
the largest silk mill in the United
States. The incorporation papers filed
IN Paterson give the name of the con
cern as the Andiger-Meyer Silk Com.
pany, Employment will be given to
1900 weavers.
The trial of NJ, Emile Zola and NJ
ferrelux, manager of the Aurore, who
are being prosecuted by the French
government as the result of letter
which the novelist caused to be pub.
lished in Aurora in Decovb,r -.