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Lincoln County Leader .1. F. NTKWAIIT. I'ulill.lKT. TOLEDO. oi:i:iON" Comprehensive Itevlew of the Import ant Happenings ot the Pat Week (stilled From the Telegraph Columns. Rioters are again rampant at the Brown Hoisting Works, in Cleveland, O., and sorious trouble is feared. Cinoinnati and vicinity have been visited by heavy thunder storms and at several places there is reported Iosb of life and property. Near Portsmouth five personB took refuge in a shed, which was struck by lightning, killing all of them. Captain-General Weylor haB issued deoree that all foreigners in the island are to register in a special book in the government's charge previous to their being justified in appealing to ar- iiuiti 7 ot lliu uuuieu itiltttivti U XulcigU citizenship in November, 1894. James Harvey Sherman, a famous spy in thewar of the rebellion, who resided near Charlotteville, Mich,, is dead. Before the war broke out Sher man resided in Virignia, where he ac cumulated a fortune, which was after wards entirely swept away by the war. Albert Olsen, 85 years of age, an em ployee of the Willamette Casket Com pany, of Tacoma, was caught in the machinery, whirled rapidly around the revolving shaft and instantly killed. The body was horribly mangled, the left leg and right foot being torn off completely. A little boy of Marshall, Mich., when herding cattle, tied two of hia sisters, 4 and 6 years old, and another little girl with a rope, the end of wbioh was attaohed to the saddle on a pony. The pony ran away, dragging the three girls half a mile. Two of the girls were killed and the other badly injured. The colored people of Cinoinnati held a memorial meeting in honor of Harriet Beeoher Stowe. It was in this city that she wrote "Unole Tom's Cabin," also spending her early life here when her father was president of Lane tboologioal seminary. She was married in Cinoinuati, Professor Stowe being connected with Lane seminary. He was 70 years old and leaves a wife and six ohildren. Another bond issue is boing spoken of as a result of the heavy gold with drawals. The rebel impi is gathered in battle array near Buluwayo, and a fight is probable. The barkentine Eliza MoManemy was sunk noar Mouiory Kook, Pa. No lives were lust. A terrillo wind and rain storm in Ohio badly damaged orops Light ning struck a number ot buildings. The deadly yellow jaok is playing ad havoo with the Spmiish army in Cuba, and many of the soldiers are dy ing. Two cabin-boys of Pomoroy, O. , shot and killed Peter Whittaker. The kill lug was tho ruBult of rivalry over a woman. More silver is to be coined. The Ban Francisco mint will Boon resume operations and it is said that about 1(100,000 will be coined during this mouth. Intense heat prevails throughout the southern portion of Great Britain aud ; in France aud Germany. In London the mercury marked 80 degrees in the shade aud 135 in the sun. In Paris the heat is so great it has been fouud necessary to close many workshops. On July 4, the inmates of the oity infirmary in Cinoinnati were treated to green apples, lemonade aud other lux uries. The inmates drank and ate too much; sickness followed, and eight liavo since died from the effects of the festivities on that day. Noah McGill, sheriff of Tishomingo county, I. T., reports that three white men were found hanging to the limb of a tree near Keagau postoftloe, a few miles from TiBhoiningo county, Chicka saw nation. It is generally believed that they were borsuthievea, oaptured by a party of Texaus, and swung up on the spot. It is understood that the secretary of rtato has instructed the United States minister at Lima to demand a prompt ' settlement of the olaim of Victor C. Maccord, the Amoricau citizen, for al leged brutal aud inhuman treatment by the Peruvian authorities. Mr. Mao oord'a claim is tor f 300, 000. It grows out of bio luiprisonineut by the Per uvian authorities iu 18S5, while hs was acting superintendent of the rail road at Arequlpa. Felix Kau re, presideut of the French republic, was tired at from a dlstauoe of ouly a few feet by an unknown man, bat the bullet fortunately went wide of its mark, aud the presideut escaped unharniMi. Presideut Kaure had gone to the Champs to review the troops. He bad no sootier entered the field when a man in the crowd stopped forward aud flrod at him. The shot did not take affect. The would-be assassin was arrested. Hs declared that he only fired blank cartridge. Fired on the Tog. It is rumored at Astoria tnat the tug Relief, while on a trip from Astoria to Port Townsend, was fireri upon by some fishermen whose nets the tug had just passed over. Jofte Mucfo Killed. Private dispatches from Havana say that General Jose Maceo, the Cuban patriot leader, was shot through the head and ius'antly killed during an attack which he led upon the Spanish forces in Gato Hills. The report says that Colonel Caratagena, another in surgent officer, and several members of Maceo's stuff, were killed at the same time. Mysterious Poisoning. In Cincinnati an unknown blonde woman was found by a Fort Thomas soldier lying unconscionB on the ground on a farm, within a few feet of the spot where the beheaded body of Pearl Bryan was left by her murderers. The girl was taken to Newport, where it i was found she had either been drugged or had taken poison herself. 1 Kz-Ooveruor Russell Dead I Ex-Governor William E. KuBsell, of Massachusetts, was found dead in bed in a fiahinj rump wT (4rwnd Putins, Quebec When he passed through Mon- . treal on his way to the salmon grounds in Gaspe, he was in the best of health. It is supposed he died of heart disease. ' He was well-known in publio life, and took a prominent part in the national Demooratio convention recently held in Chicago. Hanged at Folsom. John E. Howard was hanged in the prison corridor at Folsom, Cal., for the murder of Martin DeLanina, in Tulare oounty, in June, 1894. Only ! twenty persons besides the prison officials witnessed the execution. Howard walked firmly to the scaffold and stood calm and composed till the drop fell. A slight twitching of the hands gave the only evidence of ugita tion. New Steamship Line, A St. Paul dispatch says S. Iwanaga, of Tokio, Japan, general manager of the Japanese Mail Steamship Company, limited, has just signed acontraot with the Great Northern Railway Company for the establishment of a steamship line between Tokio and Seattle. Thus the Great Northern system extends its operations into the far east, and its bills of lading are iu force from Tokio to Buffalo, N. Y. An American Itnrk Afihore. A dispatoh from Zanzibar reportB that the American bark John D. Brewer, went ashore at Pangawani. The government has sent a vessel to the assistance of the Brewer. Scraped From the Hand Wagon. The band which accompanies Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show attempted to drive under a bridge in Miissillon, O. All the men were sorapod oil. Five or six are reported dead or dying and in jured. 1'olsoned by Drinking Lemonade. News has been received of the fatal poisoning at Santiago, Minn., of a family of nine children, caused by drinking lemonade. The children died one after another, and the parents are not expected to live. A Fatal Call ornla Fire. Fire broke out in the residence of John Coyle in Fresno, Cal. Coyle was in the house asleep at the time and was burned to death. He was a pioneer citizen of Fresno county and possessed of considerable means. Fiendish Woman Hanged. News from Coeburn, Va., says that Mary Suodgrass was hanged there for the murder of a 6-moutha-old child by burning it iu a stove. The woman was 28 years old. The Suodgrass woman was a disreputable woman and was compelled to leave Pikoville, Ky., on that account. Itnnd InveHtigatlou. Senator Harris, chairman of the sen ate committee to investigate the recent bond issues, says he has not yet deter mined whether the committee will wait until the fall before going on with its investigation or will complete its work, frame its report aud make it publio this Hummer. The last meeting artjonrucd Bubject to the oall of the chairman. The Messenger Crucified. A Londou dispatch from Wady Haifa reports that the messenger who cairied the news to Khalifa at Om duran that his army had been defeated at Firket, was immediately put to death by crucifixion. Khalifa an nounced that the same fate would be imposed upon any one who mentioned the Firket iu his hearing. A Prominent Lawyer Dead. John Cameron Simmonds, formerly of Chicago, and a member of the bar, died at the Ward islaud insane asylum,' New York. His business iuterests were largely in the West He was iu terested in mining and railwav con struction iu California, but did'much of his business iu New York, and was well-kuown to Wall-street bankers. Mr. Simmonds was an authority on criminal law aud wrote a great deal on that subject. His writing, on prison reform have also made him noted. r Great Northern Railroad Sys tematically Robbed. WERE SUCCESSFUL FOR A YEAR The Gang Operated Through the Train men -A. C. Edwards, IU Head, Hal Keen Arrested, and Is Held In Jail. Seattle, Wash., July 21. By a smooh gang of rogues, of which a number of railroad men were members, the Great Northern railway has been robbed systematically for a period cov eirng at least a year past, of a sum of money estimated at from $3,000, at the lowest, to 15,000, at a reasonable esti mate. The gang operated through the trainmen running from Seattle to Spo kane. Over this portion of the road men have been carried for the nominal fare of $7.50, while the regular rate to Spokane is 115.30. But not a dollar of the money ever found its way into the coffers of the company. It was taken by the ringleaders of the gang in Seattle and divided among the train men, who were in on the deal. That the company was thus being robbed regularly by its employes and others outside the service, first came to the knowledge of the officials of the road about June 1 this year. Detec tives were at once employed to ferret out the conspiracy and within six weeks confessions had been obtained from the ringleaders of the gang and from a number of men who had been carried over the road by paying to the boodlers $7. 60. The gang of swindlers was primarily oomposed of gamblers, "con" men and variety theater em ployes and hangers-on. The general publio was not taken into the scheme. The class of people who travel from town to town on the Sound circuit of variety theaters and men who for vari ous reasons had to keep moving profited by the operations of the gang. The head of the gang was A. C. Ed wards, who was arrested this morning. He is now in the county jail in default of bail. Edwards is a son of United States Commissioner EdwardB of Alaska, who was appointed from Spo kane by President Cleveland. Ed wards is a well-known character, both in Seattle and Spokane and Tacoma. Ho was formerly editor of the Spokane Sunday Sun, a sensational sheet. He waB arrested several times in Spokane, charged with libel and slander. At Seattle he conducted a job printing office. Mrs. Edwards has the appear ance of being a lady of refinement and education. It is not believed that she had any knowledge of her husband's doings. RHODES FOUND GUILTY. Itepoi-fijg - - " Car comm point static a rep was tiouf direi panj of tl , Ruti com, pron ; that from tion mou Ther that Pitsi. vaal. was ) man. raid, draf com i not , Jamt come Cecil Rhot of tl govey Jacol toria, alone sent telegrams to arrest Dr. Jameson's advance. The Chartered South Africa Com pany the committee finds, supplied all the funds for the raid? with the knowl edge of its London office. Cecil Rhodes afterward refunded fhe amount to the company. The report of the select oomunttee ooncludes with n expression of regret that Cecil Rhodes did not at tend the committee's meetings to give evidence. The committee is therefore forced to the conclusion that this oon duot was not consistent with the duty of a Cape premier. Shot 111 tieir Deletes. i La Veta, Col., July 21. Dr. J. W. Collins, a prominent citizen, this after', noon shot and killed Captain F R Coleman, a well-known hunter and an old soldier. The shooting occurred in Dr. Collins' house. No one except Dr Collins aud his wife witnessed the tragedy, aud 'he d n-tor claimed it was done in self defense. The parties bad been eating dinner together and drink ing. Collins claimed Coleman com menced abusing Mrs. Collins, and Cole man fired the first shot, and be (Col hnsi fired in self-defense. Maddened by Fear. Athens, July 23. Dispatches re ceived from Canea Btate that a panio occurred there Sunday in the Plantza I quarter, owing to a fire which was mis-; taken as a signal for carnage. The houses were forthwith barricaded. British Captain Drury landed boats, carrying armed sailors. Austrian and Russian ships also landed men in Canea and Haleppa. The Turks were finally dispersed. The shops were closed and nobody daied stay in the streets. A correspondent says that aa he passed through the town the dead and wounded were lying about, and the panio continued. A number of Cretans arrived here, making demands to the committee for perfected guns. To Tbelr Old Reservation. Chamberlain, S. D., July 22. A clause in the Indian appropriation bill granted permission to the Lower Brule Indians, who prior to July 8, 1890, , lived south of White river on the Rosebud Indian reservation, to return there and select the allotments of land occupied by them prior to that date. About 400 of the Lower Brules have just taken advantage of this olause and removed to their former homes. The government will have to pay the Rose bud Indians at tne rate ot f 1 per acre for all lands settled upon and occupied by the Lower Brules. - Wants to Wear the Belt. New York, July 22. J. H. Hilde brand, the Johannesburg, sporting man , has arrived in this city, accompanied , by Denver Ed Smith. Hildebrand claims the championship for Smith, saying that he had $1,000 up for over a month and nobody would cover it. Smith himself deolared hiB ability to defeat anything in the world, Corbett, Fitzsimmons, Jackson, Goddard, Sharkey and so on preferred in that order. Woman Attempts Suicide. Chioago, July 22. Because her hus band abused her, Mrs. Henry Well-: house attempted to drown herself and four children last evening in the lake at the foot of Twenty-fifth street. She was intercepted by the police in the act of leading the children into the lake. COMMITTED SUICIDE. But First John Becker Burned Ills Dwelling House. Roseburg, Or., July 21. John Beck er, a native of Bavaria, living at Cleve land, fifteen miles west of Roseburg, committed suicide yesterday, after hav ing burned his dwelling-house and its contents. He had trouble with his wife in the : forenoon, and beat her over the head with a revolver. His 16 year old Bon took the weapon from him. The mother and youngest child then went ' to a neigbhor,' half a mile distant, and a 19-year-old son came to Roseburg to have the father arrested. Meantime, Becker set fire to the house and disap peared. His body was found early this ing a mile from home, and BOO J from Von Pessel's vineyard. ' r went to Von Pessel's house, took and shot himself. He had been i strangely for some time, and vidently insane. An Arkansas Town Burned. tie Rock, Ark., July 21. Mai Ark., at the junction of the Hot gs railway, was almost entirely out by fire early this morning. rn was a city of about 0,000 in-; ints, the business portion of the being olustered around the rail itation. All this section was de id. ouly three business-bouses re ing. The total loss is variously ated at from $200,000 to $400, mly a Bmall portion of which is ed by insuranoe. The burned ings inoluded the railroad depot, lotels and the bank. The fire was )ut doubt the result of a plot to oy the town. The blaze broke out 5 midnight, in three different s, and as there was no apparatus, re burned itself out. WORK AT THE LOCKS. on as the Water Goes Down.Oper atlons Will Commence. I e Dalles, Or., July 21. The ...000 appropriated in the last river and harbor bill for completing the canal and locks at the cascades of the Columbia river are now available, and : Mr. McDonald, superintendent of stonecutters under Day Bros., informed a Dalles man who was visiting at the Locks a few days since, that work would be resumed on the canal, he thought, about August 1, or as soon as the water had receded sufficiently so that the canal between the upper guard gate and the lock gate can be drained of water. The engineers have determined to construct walls of aolid masonry be tween the upper guard and lock gates and it is estimated that these walls can be completed in two or three months. 1 The construction of these walls will be under the supervision of Day Broa., on ; the basis of their former contract for similar work. A force of from fifty to sixty men will be put on the stone work within two weeks, and the building of the walls will be pushed to completion Then the work ot rip-rapping the outer bank on the river side will be com menced, and it is estimated that six months will be required to complete the entire job. Forty-Five Hundred Armenians-Slain. BITLIS VILLAGES ARE PILLAGED The Dlarbeklr District Ravaged by th Sultan's Soldiers City or Egn w dered Massacre Imminent iu Autab London, July 20. The Chronicle publishes a dispatoh from Constantino pie whioh asserts that massaorefl ham ooourred at Egin, in the Diarbekir dis triot of Armenia, in which 4,500 per. sons were killed, and the city was nil" laged. The Turkish authorities are trying to keep the report of the massacre seoret, according to the Chronicle' correspondent. He also reports that in the Bitlis Hi. triot almost every village has been ruined and that a massacre is imminent at Antab, the beginning being deferred until an order is received from ths ml. tan s palace. No Signs of Peace. Canea, July 20. Tuesday evening after a consular oouncil one of the con suls declared the situation to be very grave. The military authorities are assuming an aggressive attitude. The general sentiment is that Abdullah Pasha is striving, in conjunction with the Mussulmans, to prevent an entente from being brought about. The Turks were repulsed yesterday by the Christians. The affair was a serious one, a large foroe of troops be ing engaged. The military authorities are aoting contrary to the instructioni received from Constantinople. The Mussulman population is working ac tively with the Turkish army with the usual vexatious results. Seven men and two women who were engaged aa harvesters have been mas saored at Kostani. Reports come in giv ing accounts of fighting and pillaging in five other villages. These have ren dered the consuls and the native Chris tianB pessimistio regarding the possi bility of making peace. Under the pretext of removing the bodies of the sailors who were killed yesterday by insurgents when pursuing a resone boat containing fugitive Chris tians, Turkish troops are advancing to Apokorana. The oonsuls are holding a council. Behrlng Sea Claims. Washington, July 20 The repre sentatives of the United States and Great Britain on the commission to ad just the olaims of British subjects for damage sustained through seizure ol their vessels while sealing in Behring sea before the adoption of the first modus vivendi, have at length been selected. The treaty ratified by the last session of congress provides for the appointent of two commissioners, one from Great Britain and the other from the United States. The British commissioner will be Hon. George F. King, at preBent one of the justices of the supreme court of Canada, while the United States commissioner will be Hon. William L. Putnam, United States judge for the first circuit in Upper New England. Judge Putnam was a member of the international commission of 1886, which negotiated the fisheries convention, during Secre tary Bayard's administration of the state department. It is understood that Don M. Dickinson has been select ed as counsel for the United States be fore the commission. A Sky Scraping Skeleton. Chicago, July 20. Chioago is to have a tower, the highest of its kind ever con structed. It is to be called the Setb tower, and will be 1,150 feet high and 600 feet square at the base. The towel company iB an incorporated one, capi talized at $800,000, having for its pres ident D. B. Proctor, and will rear this iuny sieei skeleton on the old baseball park property owned by the New York people, for whioh a lease for a term oi years has been seoured. This enter prise is based on business lines.and the projectors of the soheme intend to equip the tower with a theater, restau rants, searohlights, and telescope; while such entertainments as aerial flights, balloon ascensions, parachute drops and high tightrope performances, as well as electrical and pyrotechnical displays will be given. Chicago's tower, its promoters say, will surpns the Eiffel tower, in Paris, in point of design, magnitude and appointments, and will oontain fourteen elevators, as against six in the Eiffel. A Murderer Killed. Spokane, Wash., July 2o Train men on the Great Northern train, which arrived today from the West, re port the killing of David Leroy, a fugi tive murderer, by a sheriff's posse, from Snohomish. The killing is said to have occurred near Wilson creek. It is said the sheriff's posse ran Leroy into the rooks, where a running fight took place. Leroy barricaded himseli behind some boulders, where he was shot and killed by the officers. On June 29, at Monte Cristo, Leroy killed a peddler named Nathan Phillips, putting three bullets into his victim, after wihch he robbed him of bis pack. Governor McGraw offered $500 reward for the capture of the murderer. A