Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-04-01
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Comprehensive Review of the Important
Happenings of the Past Week Culled
From the TeIegraphic Columns

An explosion occurred at the Mano-
wan coal mine near Monongahela City
Pa. Two men are known to have been
killed. Five were injured, and from
Is to 25 are said to be entOmbed in the
mine.
An explosion TOOK place at San
Rafael, Cal, at the United States
smokeless powder works, which result
ed in the death of two men, Charles
4. Jonks and Charles Nelson, who were
employed in the material room. Two
buildings were completely destroyed,
and the roofs torn off the other build
ings close by and windows broken for
miles around.
A Havana dispatch alleges that Cap.
tain-General Blanco and General Man
terola have notified the Madrid govern
ment that they will resign their offices
if the Spanish torpedo fleet is to be de-
tanned at the Canaries in obedience to
the demand Of President Mckinley.
Captain Eulate, of the Vizcaya, is also
alleged to have sent similar message
W IlC DJuulSl uNlllllIdlbJ.
Chaplain Chadwick, of the Maine,
has completed his mortuary report,
which shows that 257 men and two
officers perished in the catastrophe.
Six suCcumbed to their injuries while
lying in San AmbrOsio hospital; one
died on the Spanish transport; III
bodies have been recovered from the
wreck, of which 81 have been identified;
l61 have been buried in Colon cemetery
and II at Key West. This is the Off
cial report, made public after careful
correction.
Rev. Orsen d. Taylor, of The Dalles,
Or, who has been in Jail in Saginaw,
Mich, for several months, and against
whom proceedings for securing money
under false pretenses have been drag
ging along in the circuit court for a
year or more, has at last been SEN
fenced to six years in the jackson state
prison. The complainant alleged that
Taylor induced him to buy $4,000
worth Of shares in the Interstate In
vestment Company, of The Dalles, Or,
concern which did not exist.
Roland Worthington, the veteran
journalist, died at his home in Boston.
Representative King, of Utah, intro
duced Tuesday joint resolution recog-
nizing the independence OF Cuba.
The submarine boat Holland has
made another trip in New York. At
depth of 10 feet under water she showed
good speed, and was handled with ease.
A dispatch to the Berlin Vossiche
Zeitung from Dare's Salaam, 20 miles
south of Zanzibar, East Africa, SAYS
that last month party of German for
esters was attacked, and three Germans
and many OF the native carriers were
massacred.
While returning home from church
in Wellsville, o., Oliver Reed asked
Sarah Walton to marry him, and upon
her refusal he shot her through the
heart, He then blew his brains out
dying in short time. Papers found
on his body show the deed was premed.
itated.
Tho house committee on naval affairs
has completed the naval appropriation
bill. The bill is calculated as carrying
between $86, 900, 900 and SS7, ,OOO, 900,
of which about $4,000, 900 will be ex.
pended on this years work ON the three
battle-ships, six torpedo boats and six
torpedo-boat destroyers.
Replying to resolution of inquiry,
the attoruey.general sent to the senate
Tuesday statement that the records
Of his department do not show that any
writs of injunction or restraining or
ders have been issued by United States
courts against labor organizations or
their members engaged in strikes In
1897 and 1898.
y dispatch to the New York World
from Madrid says; Instructions have
been given since Friday night to the
press censor to stop all foreign and do.
mestic press telegrams-and even tele-
phone mcssagos-containing news un-
palatahle to the government. Unau-
thori2ed details Of naval and military
preparations of the movements of war
ships, particularly of tho flying squad
ron, of the purchase of vessels of war
and stores abroad are especially inter-
dicted.
The British Columbia, Seattle X Pa.
cito Coast Railroad Company has made
application to the city council of So.
attle for II franchise 80 feet wide over
Railroad avenue, 1t was stated TO the
council that 1t was the purpose OF the
company to construct railroad from
Portland, Or, to Seattle, and thence
to the British Columbia boundary
The company was willing that q condi.
tion be imposed in the franchise thai
the work OF construction should besir