Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-01-14
CURRENT EVENTS Of The DAY
comprehensive Review of the Important
Happenings of the Past Week CuIIed
FROM the TeIegranhic CnIu,nna

From the Telegraphic Columns
The sultan is negotiating for the
building of first-class armored
cruiser.
The steamer Concho has arrived in
New York from Havana with 969 bales
of Cuban tobacco.
The English engineers announce that
they have plenty OF funds and intend
to continue their strike.
1t is reported that the Afridis are
assembling in tribal council, with
view to concluding peace.
Eight of the principal buildings in
Lebanon, Tenn, were destroyed by
fire Thursday night, with loss OF
$4,000.
The death rate of Chicago for the
year was IA in the thousand, the lowest
recorded for any city of over 200, 900 in
habitants.
The British bark Taymount, bound
from Liverpool for San Francisco, is
now 224 days overdue, and her owners
have given her up.
John Williams, at Marseilles, O., at
tacke1 Mrs. Flint and cut her so badly
with knife that she is not expected to
live. He then fatally cut himself.
British bark Samaritan, from San
Francisco. arrived in Liverpool consid-
erably damaged from hurricane
which she encountered December 22.
Walter Gregory and Philip McNely
were instantly killed by switching
engine on the track in the yard of the
Murden Boiler Works at Philadelphia.
A thief stole $4,000 worth of jewelry
from the house of Volney Mallett, pres
ident of the Indiana National bank, of
indianapolis, while the family were at
dinner.
Joseph Lockley, clerk of the manager
Of the McIienry Estate Association, has
disappeared from New York, after se-
curing several thousand dollars by
raised checks.
A fortnightly steamer service be-
tween this coast and Australia will
commence in February, the Canadian
Pacific line and the Oceanic line alter
mating their sailing dates.
French bark Lombard, from Mobile,
Ala, sunk while entering the port of |
Cette, France. Five of the crew, in.
cluding the captain, were drowned,
and eight were saved.
Mrs. Sarah McGovern, wife of one
OF the wealthiest residents of Rankin,
Pa, was shot and killed at her home
Friday night, and her husband has
been arrested for murder.
A new law went into effect on the
first OF the year in Massachusetts, pro-
viding that not over 30 per cent of the
inmates of any penal institution in
the state shall he employed i'll any one
industry.
A line of steamers is to be estab-
lished between Valparaiso and San
Francisco.
Five shots fred by an unknown per-
son into saloon at Picton, Col, killed |
Robert Mandolin, the proprietor, and
Dave Evans, and carried away portion
OF the chin of Dick Owens.
A council of tho Uintah and White
River Utes was held Friday, and an
agreement finally made to consummate
the sale OF their lands on the terms pro-
posed by the commission.
A destructive wind storm visited
Chattanooga Friday. A large frame
Rht1rph nd
damage was done, The wind WIS fol-
lowed by heavy snow storm.
Vladimer Bourtzeff, editor OF tho
Narodnaya Voltz, and Wierzbecki,
printer OF that paper, have been com.
mitted fc" trial in London for publish.
ing articles melting persons to assas-
sinate the czar.
The trustees appointed by Mrs.
Phoebe Hearst to obtain architectural
plans of the buildings and grounds for
the University of California have COM
pleted the plan of an international COM
petition which ia to be issued immedi-
ately.
Colorado will not join the combina-
tion proposed among certain Western
states to biennially inspect the books
of large Eastern life insurance COM
panies rs condition precedent to per-
mitting them to do business in those
states.
Morris Mueller and Victor Goldstein
attempted to drag William Smith, a
passer-by, into secondhand store in
st. Louis. Smith drew pistol and
fired several shots. Mueller is in the
hospital dying, Goldstoin has some
bullet holes IN his arm, and Smith is in
Jail.