Lincoln County Leader
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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.
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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.
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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.
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