Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-06-09
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Comprehensive Review OF the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

WASH, was CT rushed to death by tree
falling on him.
Major Marchand was welcomed with
enthusiasm by the French on his ar
rival at Toulon.
At Paris ex-President Harrison de-
lvered the Memorial day Grafton at
the tomb of La Fayette.
The United States cruiser Brooklyn
was damaged by striking hidden OBJ
srtuction in New York harbor.
Frank Bouts, brutal parent, was
killed while he slept by his two young
children, whom he had almost starved
to satisfy his own wants.
A tramp assaulted the 12-year old
daughter of f. w. Mespelt, near Scio,
Or, as she was returning from school.
The girl broke away and escaped.
The winter wheat crop of Southern
Russia has been completely destroyed
by protracted drought. The spring
wheat crop is also in jeopardy from the
same cause.
AS result of the tests made at the
Chicago stockyards by the livestock
commissioners and health officials. it
has been discovered that all of 23 COWS
examined were suffering from tubercu-
losis.
M. de Beaupre created a deep sensa-
tion in the French court of asszes by
soemnly declaring that he had become
convinced that the bordereau was writ
ten by Major Count Ferdinand Walsin
Esterhazy.
Reform in the navy is being talked
of in Washington. A plan for reor-
ganizaton of that department is on
foot. Dewey, it is said, may be placed
at the head of a board to pass on bu-
reau matters.
A dispatch from Manila says that
the men from the hospital ship Relief
captured by the insurgents off Para
naque were the third engineer, another
officer and boats crew. They were
sailing in catboat, and natives from
the shore set out in boats and took
them.
Abraham and Oscar Juntti, brothers,
are the first Columbia river fishermen
reported drowned this season. Theil
boat was oapsized on Peacock spit, and
they sank before the lifesaving crew
could reach them. Another fishing
boat containing two men was carried
over the bar. The Point Adams life
saving crew went out after them. but
was unable to pick them up and re-
turned. What became of the men is
not known.
The run of salmon in the lower Co.
lumbia is increasing.
The total number of plague cases re-
ported at Alexandria is eight. Two
have died and two recovered.
A Paris dispatch says Dreyfus will
certainly be acquitted at his second
trial. All his accusers are dead, or
have fed the country.
Two score scientists of note, con-
stituting the Hartman exploring ex-
petition to Alaska. have arrived in
Portland. They will embark from
Seattle on the steamer Elder.
Baron Won Munohausen's Sperbers-
bruder won the race for the grand
prize of Hamburg, valued at 100, 900
marks. The baron married Miss Net
tie Crosby, of Chicago, some years ago.
President Mckinley has issued the
long amendment to the civil
service rules which he has had under
consideration for about year. 1t re-
leases from the operations of civil serv-
ice rules about 1000 offices.
An order has been issued at Manila
re-establishing the Philippine courts,
which have been closed since the
American occupation. 1t revives all
the Spanish system not conflicting
with the sovereignty of the United
States.
Secretary Alger has received cable
gram from General Otis in response
to his inquiry, announcing that q ma
jority of the Oregon regiment of volun-
teers at Manila have decided to return
by steamer directly to Portland. The
Washington regiment decided to come
first to San Francisco.
Within one week the states OF Ne
braska, South Dakota, Iowa, Wscon-
sin, Minnesota and Northern Illinois
have experienced seven OF the most vo-
lent storms known in years, resulting
in the loss of nearly dozen lives and
doing damage to property and crops
that will run into the hundreds of
thousands.
The steamer China, from Hong Kong
and Yokohama, via Honolulu, brings
news to San Francisco of the murder of