Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-04-28
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Comprehensive Review of the Import.
ant Happenings of the Past Week
CulIed From the Telegraph Columns


premature explosion in blasting opera
tions on the railway from Bilboa to
Santander, Spain.
Ed Hawthorne, charged with about
40 burglaries in various parts of the
country, mostly in San Francisco, is
under arrest in Denver.
James J. Hill is reported to have ac.
quired control of the St. Paul & Du-
luth road, thus shortening his line
from Duluth to the Twin cities.
At Moontown, Mo, Frank Yeager
shot Mrs. Yeager three times. and
then cut his own throat. Yeager was
jealous.
Governor Tanner has signed the bill
appropriating $3.50, 1000 to pay the IIli-
nois volunteers from the time they
were mustered into the service of the
United States.
Andrew Carnegie has promised to
give $1,750,000 to cover the cost OF
the proposed addition to the art, sci
ence and literary departments of the
Carnegie library at Pittsburg.
At Bedfold, Ind, stone quarry
train was pushed over 40-foot en-
bankment by the elper. Charles
Meinser, engineer, and d. ]. Menough,
were killed. Three men were hurt.
Five thousand Indians, dissatisfied
with conditions in the reservation of
the Indian territory. left in body for
Mexico to establish union reservation
on large lot of land near Guadalajara.
In Chicago three people were
smothered to death by smoke in a
small two-story frame building. They
had been drinking together, and it is
thought one of them upset a kerosene
lamp.
Governor Stephens, of Missouri, has
signed the Farris insurance bill. This
measure makes the antitrust law apply
to st Louis and Kansas City, and will
practically destroy boards of fire under
writer's in both cities.
San Francisco Baptists are making
preparations for the receptions of 8, 900
people next month to attend the an
nual meeting of the Ma tional Baptist
Societies. The celebrate on this year
is the golden jubilee, for it is 90 years
since the work OF the Ba ptlsts was be-
gun on this coast. The meetings will
open May "a, continuing to June l.
President Mckinley was entertained
at dinner given by Associate Justice
Gray, of the supreme court.
The Canadian Pacific railways
roundhouse at Fort William, Manitoba,
was destroyed by fire. Seven new Mo-
gul engines were ruined. Total loss
about $S0,000.
An order for $4,000 rifles of light
power has been placed by the Mexican
government in New York. The order
is the largest one in this country Ivy a
foreign power in the last 20 years.
Herr Polack, a well-known engineer
and electrician, has discovered, saws
the Vienna correspondent of the London
Chroni Gle, means of telegraphing
10000 words per hour over single
wire.
While the Denver fire department
was working to eXtinguish fire at the
Pintsch gas works, an explosion of gas
occurred inside of the building. injur.
ing eight men. all connected with the
department.
The British house of commons has
passed to second reading the bill in.
uoduced by mberlain, empowering
local authorities to advance money to
enable occupiers to acquire ownership
of small houses.
Mrs. Catherine Woods. aged "A
years. was burned to death at Sacra.
mento, and 4-year.old grandson was
so badly burned that his recovery is
doubtful. The child dragged lighted
lamp from table.
Walter Gray, aged 60, assistant
bookkeeper in the subtreasury at st.
Louis, was arrested for embezzlina
$7oo He admitted having taken til,
money, to get medical attention foi
his crippled child, and intended latel
to repay it.
The Twenty-first United States in.
fantry, the famous Indian fighting regi
ment of early days, and later very ac
tive participants in the Cuban cam
paign, have departed from San Fran.
cisco for the Philippines on the trans
port Hancock.
During election riots at Bilboa,
Spain, 80 persons were wounded. Pop.
ular feeling runs high in Valencia ant
surrounding districts. There was q
serious affair in the town of Portos
province Of Tarragona, where the Off