Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-01-18
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Comprehensive Review of the Important
Happenings of the Past Week CuIIed
FrOm the TeIegraphic Columns

NatlOnal bank OF Helena, Mont, of lC
per cent.
The Field Columbian museum al
Chicago has put in series of casts OF
Pueblo Indians, clad in garments pur-
chased from Indians.
County Judge j. Fl. Carpenter, of
Madison, Wis, has decided that a
child cannot be legally adopted without
consent OF both parents, if living.
The Western Union Beef Company
mas sold 5000 head of steers off its
Texas ranch TO Clinton Anderson, OF
Wyoming, and will retire from busi-
ness.
Ore assaying $652 in gold and $7O in
silver to the ton was discovered two
miles from Adams Springs, Lake coun-
ty, California, and the district is wildly
excited.
George Dobbs and Mrs. Emelie New,
jointly indicted for the murder of the
latter's husband at Eureka, Kan, have
been convicted of murder in the second
degree.
Patrick A. Largey, president of the
State Savings bank, and one of the best
known citizens of Butte, was shot and
killed in the bank building by Thomas
]. Riley.
The Steer mansion at Nyatt, one of
the best known residences along the
shore of Narragansett bay, Rhode
Island, was burned to the ground Sat
urday night.
An insane man named Ramon Vivesa
created sensation in the cathedral at
Madrid, by firing several revolver
shots He was arrested and will be
sent to an insane asylum.
Civil Engineer A. G. Menreal, U. s.
NJ, will be brought to court martial on
account of the faulty character of the
work of construction of dry dock No. 3,
approved by him.
The Spanish minister of finance has
abandoned the idea of floating A loan
on the guarantee of the Almaden quick
silver mines.
The members of the family and the
immediate friends of Secretary Alger
are seriously disturbed about his i'll
ness. His physicians now fear that
he has typhoid fever. General Alger
has been confined to his bed for more
than three weeks.
The mule spinners of Lowell and
New Bedford, Mass, were given per
mission to strike by the mule spinners'
union, and an assessment of 20 cents
per week was levied on the members
Of the union. Delegates representing
every mill center in New England were
present.
A dispatch to the London Mail from I
Hong Kong says it is reported there
hat England, Japan and Russia have
arrived at an agreement respectipo
Jorea. The details of the agreement
ire not known to the correspondent, y
mt the dispatch says the British fleet
S returning to Hong Kong.
The Creek council, in spite of the
Message of Secretary Bliss, through In
liam Agent Wisdom, warning them not
o do so, has passed an act appropria-
ing $4,000 to be used in employing
ttorneys to fight the constitutiounlity
II the act of congress giving the United ,,
states courts full jurisdiction after
January l.
Francis d. Newton, prosperous
armer of Brooktield, Mass, his wife
sarah, and their l0-year-old adouted
laughter, Ethel, We're found murdered
n their beds. The crime was discov.
red by neighbors, whose curiosity was ;
!roused by the believing of unfed cat. {
le' The three had been killed with
IN AK. A hired man named Paul is
Missing.
John Lincoln, of Bolshow, Mo has
pplied to the Marysville board of ex.
mination for pension. Lincoln and
lis sister, Mrs. Washington Hoshor. of
We're second cousins of
ABRAHAM Lincoln. John Lincoln en-.
isted early in the '6O's in the Fourth
lissouri and served in that regiment
or three years. He then enlisted in
he 18th Missouri cavalry, and served
o the end of the war. Before he wos
lnally mustered out he fought Indians
IN the plains for some time.
Fred Lewis, a prisoner in the Seattle ,
lty Jail, committed suicide in his cell
" hanging himself with pocket hand
'erchief, which was fastened to hook
lsed in suspending hammock. Lewis.
Who was n waiter in hotel, had t.xht
m New Years day with Joseph Kurtz.
he head cook, in which he struck
>urtH ON the head with an icepick,
nhicting wound from the effects of
which kurt2 died, Lewis was arrested
out no formal charge had yet been made
sgainst him, pending the result OF