Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-03-25
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DAY
Comprehensive Review Of the Important
Happenings of the Past Week CulIed
From the TeIegraphic Columns

of commons rushed the Yukon railway
bill through committee in less than
half an hour. A clause in the bill
provides that majority of the direct
Ors of the road must be British. The
bill now stands for third reading.
The Wolff g. Zwicker iron works of
Portland. Or, have received an order
from the secretary Of the navy to rush
work on the three torpedo boats they
are now building, with all possible
speed. By working night and day the
22 H-knot boats Davis and Fox can be
made ready for service in three months.
General Superintendent MCGUIRE has
announced that large gangs of men are
at work all along the line of the Astoria
81 Columbia River railroad, and only
IL miles of rails are yet to be laid
The last spike will be driven about
April !, with appropriate ceremonies.
The man to drive it has been selected
from the ranks of the men who have
worked faithfully during the winter to
push the line through.
The Republican leaders of the house
are pressing for an early adjournment,
and it is said that their course meets
the full approval of the president. All
save three of the appropriation bills
have gone to the senate. The action of
the appropriations committee in prepar-
ing the general deficiency bill at this
time is the best evidence of the inten-
tion to secure early adjournment,
The construction of five modern dry
docks has been agreed on by the house
committee on naval affairs. They are
to he located at Portsmouth, N. H.;
Boston, League island, near Philadel-
phia; Algiers, La, and Mare island,
Cal. These docks are to be of wood.
except those at Algiers and Ports
mouth. The material of construction
OF these will not be determined upon
until later.
Charles E. French, formerly prom
inent citizen of Redlands, Cal, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself
through the heart, after making care
ful preparations for his end and attend |
ing to the minute details of his busi.
ness affairs. He first mangled his wrist
with pocket-kniie and lost over a
quart OF blood, but fearing that death
would not come, he fired shot from a
pistol into his body.
A ledge Of gold-bearing quartz has
been found by men engaged in grading
Seventeenth street, in San Francisco. |
The street is being cut through bluff
varying from 40 to 90 feet high, and |
about 800 feet long. Three years ago
a tunnel was sunk through the hill to
allow the laying of large water main
TO the reservoir on Clarendon Heights.
and low-grade quartz was then uncov-
cred. The quartz which is now declared
to show traces of gold was uncovered
by blast.
A patient at the Oregon State in.
sane asylum, @. b. Chatfield, pushed
an attendant, Arthur Moore, through a
window and jumped out himself. The
tall was from the third story, and the
attendant and patient are now in the
asylum hospital, under treatment for
fractured bones and bruised flesh.
Two estimates of appropriations to
meet the cost of the recent addition NJ
TWO regiments OF artillery to the army
have been sent to congress bv Secre.
tary Alger. One was OF a supplemental
estimate of $40, 1871 for the pay OF the
army for the fiscal year, and the other
OF deficiency of Sl54, $50 in the cur.
rent year appropriations to defrav the
expenditures for the remainder of this
year.
= The Washington state superintend.
ent has refused to issue certificates n
applicants in the recent examination
on account of violation of the rul,s
which prescribe that no communication
shall be allowed during the time the
candidate is writing upon the ones.
nons. This is the third time the su.
perintendent has enforced the law re-.
iating to ceitification. One of the
cases is held in the courts of Pierce
county still undecided, upon the die.
cision OF which rests the superinteud.
ents rights in the premises.
Benjamin Cluf, jr., president of the
Brigham Young academy at Provo,
Utah, has returned from n visit to the
Hawaiian islands, where he went Mt
the solicitation of United States Sepa.
tor Frank j. Cannon, to determine the
status of the annexation sentiment
among the Hawaiian islands. He said;
AS a result OF my investigation |
would say that probably one.hali of the
intelligent natives of the islands ara
pronounced advocates of annexation.
vi the remaining onc.half | would saw
that the great majority are primarily
In favor OF the restoration OF the mon.
archy, and secondly they would much