Lincoln County Leader
J. F. ITKffAKT. Publisher.
TOLEDO OREGON
THE NEWS OF IDE M
OeasarehsnslTe Review or the Import
aal Happenings of the Past .Week
Called Froin tho Telegraph Columns.
la a collision between an express and
an excursion train on the Great East
ern railroad, near London, seventeen
persons were seriously injured.
Dr. Lewis Swift, of the Mount Low
obseravtory, Pasadena, Cal. , has dis
covered two new comets close toegther,
both being about one degree from the
un.
A terrific gale has swept the coast
of the United Kingdom. The storm
played bavoo with the trees in London
parks, and caused great damage among
coast and fishing craft. The loss of
life is reported Blight.
The Clyde line passenger steamer
Frednrink IVBurry, New York to Jack
sonville, was wrecked at Kittyhawk,
N. C. The crew of seventeen men
were taken off by a life saving boat.
There were no passengers or cargo
aboard.
In a pitched battle between a squad
of policemen and a gang of hoodlums,
at Philadelphia, Pa., Michael Pizza
was shot and killed and five others,
three of whom were officers, were seri
ously injurod. The scene of the affray
was a dingy three-story brick bouse in
the heart of the Italian distriot.
Charles Pfeifer, living at Bright
wood, Iucl., cut his wife's throat and
banned himself. Both are dead.
Pfeifer was an operator on the Big
Four. The couple were married a
year ago and lived happily. It is be
lieved that Pfeifer was temporarily in
sane. The boiler of a ninety-ton ten-wheel
locomotivo on the Big Four road burst
at Pokin, 111, hurling the engine more
than 100 feet, partly demolishing a
factory, killing the fireman and break
ing nearly all the glass within a quar
ter of a mile of the scene Pieces of
the engine were pioked up 1,000 feet
away and one of the big drive wheels
was hurled 400 feet from the track.
lhe turnpike rioters are out again i
in tiuwrenoeburg, Ky., and have de
stroyed twenty of the twenty-four toll
gates in Anderson oouuty. The county
last fall voted to make the pikes free.
Proceedings for appraisement con
demnation and purchasing have been
made, but the people did not wait for
relief in that way. Under the laws of
Kentucky the county will have to make
good the loss and damage by the mob.
Kiohard Williams, the ex-customs
Inspector, of Ban Francisco, convicted
of extortion, bas been sentenced to six
years' imprisonment and (10,000 line.
A bakery at Woodbum, Or., was
destroyed by fire, and a baker named
Kuhl was burned while trying to save
Boiue of bis effeots from the building.
The loss ia $3,000.
HopB aggregating in quantity over
75,000 pounds have been contracted by
Marion county growers to Charles
Green & Son, the purchase price being
6 cents a pouud.
Edson Keith, for forty years a pronii
nent oitizen of Chicago, threw himself
into the lake at the foot of Thirteenth
street in that oity, while temporarily
insane, as a result of chronic dyspepsia
and iusomnia.
The American ship Luzon, Captain
Park, whioh loft New York May 21
for Shanghai, passing Aujeron AuguBt
18, grounded on a bai at Woo Sung.
It is probable the ship will be floated
after she has been lighteued, but she
muBt be drydocked before putting to
sea again.
"Kill me, kill me; shoot me out of
this misery." This was the agonizing
cry of Anton Dusback, who has been
employed in the Ouggeuheiin smelting
works near Woodbridge, N. J. Dus
back was working near a tank of sul
phuric acid, when be lost bis balanoe
and plunged headforemost to a fate
more horrible than death. His eyes'
were badly burned and bis hair eaten
off. He oannot recover. i
From Pittsburg, Pa., oorues word !
that KnBsian spies sent out by the gov- j
eminent of the ozar have stolen Ameri-1
cau armor-plate secrets and propose to
turn their acquisition to profit by fur-1
nishing information by means of whioh
Kussia may make her own sheaths for
battle-ships. This in brief is the dis-!
covery which bas been kept quiet for
omomonthB by the officials of the Car-;
negie Company, aud which bas worried ,
the naval authorities and officials of j
this oountry and of the steel company. '
The engineer and ordinance depart-!
meuts of the army are preparing for i
the exeoutiou of the legislation of the '
last oougress, looking to the improve
ment aud strengthening the fortifica
tions and coast defenses of this oountry.
Plans for these important works have
been formulated, aud in most instances
the approved projects are uuder head
way. The appropriation of 113,000,000
made by the last congress has been al
loted so as to accomplish the greatest
good with the means and facilities at
band.
A Negro Boy's Awful Crime,
One of the most heinous murders in
the history of Louisiana was committed
by a negro boy named John Johnson
in a farmhouse four miles south of In
dependence Joe Cotton, bis wife, her
brother and two sisters were killed,
the first by a pistol shot and the other
four with an ax. The fiend who com
mitted thi) quintuple murder is a negro
boy who has been in the employ of
Cotton since April 2. He was allowed
to sleep in the same house. Tbe mo
tive is a mystery, as no attempt at
robbery bad been made. Tbe only
member of the family who escaped
was little Maud Miller, 14 years old.
She darted from the house and gave
the ala-m. She says she saw Johnson
begin the butchery by striking her
mother with tbe ax. The murderer is
still at large and is being tracked with
bloodhounds by a mob. He will prob
ably be lynohed if caught.
One Killed, Three Injured.
By an explosion of gas at the Phila
delphia & Heading Company's Middle
Creek colliery, near Tremont, Pa. , five
men were burned. Two of the men
died two hours later from their in
juries. Two of the others cannot recover.
FINDS IJ1 FIR
Gladstone's Solution of the
Turkish Problem
DISCUSSED BY THE JOURNALS
Fatal Accident at Sea.
The ship Pythomene, from Sydney
which has just arrived at San Fran
cisco, reports the death at sea August
13 of Henry B. Moyingbam, an 18-year-old
apprentice, who fell from the
foreyard to the deck. He lived forty
eight hours, and was buried at sea.
Flihermen Indicted,
Trne bills have been returned by tbe
grand jury at Astoria against four
fishermen for inoiting to riot and as
sault with dangerous weapons, tbe
orimes being alleged to have been com
mitted at Booth's oannery during the
reoent strike of the fishermen.
A Young Bear Hunter.
Louis Hartwig, a 18-year-old boy
living at Astoria, killed an old bear
and a cub in the outskirts of that city,
after an exciting battlo with the
mother bear, in which the daring
young nimrod narrowly escaped beinir
killed.
A Thousand Armeiiiaua Killed.
It appears that a thousand Arme
nians have been killed in a recent
massacre at Egin, in the Kbarpoot re
gion. It is reported that a bundled
Armenians have been killed at Divrig,
in the same villayot.
Oil Tanka Hut-nod.
Ten largo tanks of oil boloncinor to
the Waters-Pierce Oil Company, of
East St. Louis, were destroyed by fire.
Many thousand barrels of oil were
burned, causing a loss of 1-10,000.
A Horrible Crime.
Joseph Bash, of Cleveland, O., for
some unknown reason, conceived the
ghastly idea of killing his whole fam
ily, and, securing a crowbar, repaired
to the room where his wife aud two
daughters were sleeping. With one
blow he crushed the skull of his wife
and then turned to the cradle of his
yonngeat ohild. The 19-year-old
daughter in another bed awoke and
sprang to arrest the fiend's arm, but
the blow fell across the infant's face.
A desperate fight between father aud
daughter took place. The girl's
screams brought assistance and tbe
man fled. The woman is at the point
of death, but the infant may live.
A Destructive Blaze.
The Missouri military academy, situ
ated about a mile south of Mexico,
Mo., burned to tbe ground, causing a
loss of 1(75,000 on the building and a
heavy loss in personal effects. The
iusuranoe is $87,000. Hnudreds of
students were in the building when the
fire broke out, but no liveB were lost.
Many had narrow escapes and received
injuries. The Are is thought to have
been of incendiary origin.
Rwirt Vengeance.
James Hawkins, a negrj, outraged
a 6-year-old white ohild in Gretna, La.
When the officers attempted to capture
him they fired into a crowd of negroes,
killing Alexander and Arthur Green. !
Hawkins was later lodged in jail. A
mob broke through and took him out,
hanged him and threw the body into
the liver.
Kate Again Advanced.
The governors of the Bank of Eng.
land have again advauoed the mini
mum rate of discount one-half per cent
to 8 per cent. This is an advanoe of 1
per oent in less than a month. Good
authorities say that this will but tem
porarily check the large gold with
drawals for shipment to the United
States.
Kiploslvea In Church.
Three bottles of nitric aoid, two bot
tles of sulpburio acid, fourteen pounds
of glycerine, two vessels for the manu
facture of explosives, some printing
type and some threatening letters were
fonud in an Armenian church in Con
stantinople. A Schooner Lost.
The South sea missionary schooner
of the Joscphites, Evanella. foundered
at sea, aud the missionaries aud crew
took to boats aud were saved.
Preparing to Celebrate.
Newfoundland is organizing to cele
brate the fourth centeunary of Cabot's
discovery of tbe island, which occurs
next year.
Better Keceived on the Continent Thai.
In Knglaml The Turkish Ships
Are Near the Bosphorus.
London, Sept. 29. The wearisome
Armenian question bas almost absorbed
public attention during tbe week.
Tbe proposal of Mr. Gladstone to with
draw tbe Birtish ambassador from Con
stantinople and dismiss the Turkish
amabssador here, is discusssed by all
the newspapers, but finds little favor,
and is looked upon as being simply a
policy of crying "boo," which will
bave absolutely no good effect upon the
sultan.
All eyes are now tunred toward Bal
moral, where the arrival today of the
Marquis of Salisbury, it is hoped,
marks a taniiiig puiut ui Great iirit
ain's position towards tbe powers.
The British premier will stay several
days at Balmoral, and there is little
doubt that he will utilize his time in
endeavoring to win from the czar a
recognition of the disinterested charac
ter of Great Britain's policy toward
Turkey, and arrange a basis -for joint
action, which will render further mas
sacres impossible.
On the Continent Mr. Gladstone's
speech was received differently in the
various countries. The French press
expressed unusually favorable opinions
of it and even tbe notorious Anglo
phobe organ gave it a generous praise.
The Libre Parole describes it as the
finest Mr. Gladstone has ever made and
one which stigmatizes most magnifi
cently the orime of European diplom
acy in past years. In faot, the com
ments of tbe press generally indicate
that France has at last awakened to the
enormities of Turkish rule, and she
will welcome an understanding be
tween Russia which will enable them
to take joint and effective action at
Constantinople.
In Austria and Germany, however,
the newspapers scoff at Mr. Gladsotue's
proposal regarding the ambassadors,
which is characterized as fanatical and
frivolous.
The remarkable violence of tbe Eug
i lish agitation which has been conduot
! ed against the sultan is shown by the
i character of the epithets whioh have
: been hurled at him by the usually moderate-speaking
English people. Mr.
Gladstone's epithet of "the great as
sassin" seems to have set the fashion,
the Duke of Westminster following
; with "fiend incarnate," Earl Spencer
preferring "representative of a diaboli
cal and atrocious government."
The term applied by William Wat
i son, the poet, "Abdul the Damned,"
in his series of sonnets on the Armeui
an question, perhaps finds the most
frequent repetition of any of them.
The press is not behind in its sensa
tional dealings with the subjeot by the
most lurid headlines in the newspapers
and posters to advertise them. The
Chronicle is printing a series of "mur
der niapB" on (he subject.
Miss Wlllard'a Appeal.
Chicago, Sept. 29. A cablegram
from the London International
Women's Christian Temperance Union
says Miss Frances E. Willard sent out
the following call to the 10,000 local
niiious in tbe United States:
"Comrades: The cup of wrath ia
full. In these two terrible years, when
the massacre of tho iunooent had been
done under the eyes of our paralyzed
rulers in Christian lauds, we have
thought men alnue could help, but it
is womeu who are dying two deaths in
the bloody East, and we, their sisters,
cannot longer wait You have nobly'
responded to my earlier appeal in the
name of Christ and humanity, of home
against harem, and I earnestly and ten
derly call upon you to organize meet
lugs in every locality, urging our gov-'
eminent to oo-operate with England in
putting a stop to tbe massacres and giv
ing protection henceforth to Armenian
homes. Let those meetings be ad-i
dressed by pastors, business men and
the most capable women. Let money
be raised by systematio visitation as
well as by collection, and forwarded to
our national treasurer, Miss Helen M.
Barker, Woman's temple, Chicago,
and may God deal with ns at least as
we deal with our Armenian brothers
and sisters aud their little ones, in this
hour of their overwhelming calamity
ours for God aud home and every
lau.1. Frances T. Willard."
Ai the Mouth of the Kosphorus.
Berlin, Sept. 29.-The Frankfurter
e-.tuug's Constantinople correspond
eut confirms the report that the Bus-!
sian Black sea fleet has been cruising
at the mouth of the Bosphorus. Com
munication with the Russian embassy
at Dnyukbere is maintained by carrier
pigeons.
The porte has forbidden the oircula-;
tiou of any foreign newipapers contain- !
1D8, 2,. Glil(,8toie't speech at Liver-'
pool Thursday.
A serious outbreak oFBubo'nio plague1
has occurred in Bombay, 800 deaths
having already occurred. ;
Cubans Were Victorious.
Havana, Sept. SO. Thirty-five
Spanish volunteers, commanded by
Lientenant Romero, were surrounded
by a superior force of insurgents at
they were leaving the town of Qaivi
can, provinoe of Havana. A desperate
fight ensued, the Spaniards attempting
to cut their way through the rebels.
Their efforts were without avail, but
they did not cease firing nntil twenty
three of their number were killed and
four wounded. Among the killed
were Lieutenant Romero. The volun
teers who escaped report tbat severe
losses were inflicted on rebels.
LOWEHEDDYJQHB
fho World's Pacing r(
Reduced to 2:00 lj
DONE AT
PORTLAND.
less lie
Strong Wind
Captured a Kohber.
Chicago, Sept. 30. A Metropolitan
L" train on the North-avenue divi
sion made a thrilling run in the dead
flie Fastest Mile k .. . (I
"lnl.hed win, '
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Portlau l, Me , Sept 28 -u
Glentrv torUv ot i?ii. r, ,'
Faatnat milo j .
1""" "Ja wunu h record at
hours of the morning with a robber rhe da7 was cold, and a light
3 i a . ...... , westerlv wmrl m
cugea in. me motorcar irannouuy en- "owing n
rloQvni-incr trt moqm fho nliir-lrv rtin.
nretob, when Gentrv. with i.,
torman and conductor prevented him I Denln( him, oame out to go agaitij
from leaping through the window to AV on SePtf
nrnhahla Hoath ,! ofto- r,m,.lnn tho W t GlenS Falh. N V
train wild np and down the line they The famo"8 paoer "cored ott,
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of the nolice bv furiously tootinir the i bi.m' and then went UP tbe ttt,1
whistle. : "fiat wai to be the fastest mil, 1 icod ri
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A Sensational Suicide.
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1 .--T a liiiuntiaiK.
Westminster, Md., Sept. 29. Miss : 'heymade tD "rst turn on thetej
Carrie Horner, daughter of .Charles j uulrT- went steaauy and with ,r
Horner, of thiB place, committed sui- ; ?nt, ease! r" rnnner hvilJg bard );
cide by taking strychnine today, nnder w ep. n" Psln-
nonnliar rvirnnmetar.r.00 Sho tr. i lne JUdgeS CaUgbt the ODHlB
1 " ,w nni. j .. i . , -I a-t
married at 11 o'olook today ; " u me second fa
rocer. Brock w-, , ln u:au maliill8 M fisin
have been
to William
Brock, a grocer.
suggested they take a walk in the oem- uul "0J ADe "naet.bj
otorv ortrt tha ha ,t.r.miA feat. ... "U,J wi nmu. vvaa XHHnini, n
cording to her father's statement, that ; aen,try'B wheel, but was makingti
omi-lr nf it Tko tu;HJ
ne was not in a position to marry her. I " . . . " "'lu qoiraii
Upon this she became nervous and said !maae "V0 8'H Beoond. making f
she wishnrl rn ho oinno svmrtiv of tor quaiers in i.au
Brock heard a scream and found her Aa the7 turned int0 the horneto
in convnlBions. The father of the eirl I nd oauBht the wind in the Kelt,
was so incensed that he started In auest .r?w,i beSan t0 elx mJ-
of Brnok. awnarino tr, nil him Vmt tho i nnvera began to enoourage their hi
latter bad left town. ' 1 with the 8n0uting of the crowd, t.
was now cheering like mad, tbe p
iron Mines closed i).,n. spurteQ lor we wire, and, coniifc
IshDeminir. Mich.. Sim. 90. Tho that ne had tho wind in his hoe, an!
Lake Anrml.no irnn mio ,u;.,v, ; the most remarkable quarter oi
former years paid $500,000 dividends i heat in V4' the mile in iM
annually, closed down all its works to
night, throwine GOO men out nf wnrlr
The oomnanv had sunk its .nrrdn. in 'WIPED OUT BY INSURGENT
improvements, and was unable to soil
ore or secure cash advances thereon.
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MANY OF HIS KIND.
News of One Buttle That fl jler Cn
'ot Bupprnss.
Key West, Pla., Sept. 28. Adr,
from Havana last night per ste:
Masoott state that late on Mondai
ternoon eighty-seven Spanish tr
started lor Calabazara, eight k
from Havana. On Tuesday mm.
five of the eigbty-Beven returned
Havana and reported that their a.
panious had been killed by insmgt:
shortly before reaching Calabazui
The Spaniards said they werec
rounded by about 200 insurgenti, i;
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An Unscrupulous Adventurer Itobs a
Denver Widow.
San Francisco, Sept. 29. Robert
Snowden, who claims to be a journal-;
ist, was arrested last night on a war-
rant charging him with felony and em-;
bezzlement. The oomplaining witness
is Mrs. Sarah B. Williams, a middle
aged widow, of Denver. She claims
that Snowden, who is 28 vears old. :
induced her to come to San Franoisoo ; poured in one volley and then ch'J
. r,","" W marry, ann men i witb maohotes. The five who return
uijowa ner out oi ner money and were badly wounded and were left Ij
;DB.ry ana csappearea. ; dead by the Cuban8,
uing 10 me woman's story, she 0n hearing the story a Spaniih itfl
. u,uouiu uvuyoi some monuis ' ment was Bent to the scene, andta
oBU, "", aiier a Drier acquaintance, bodies of the eighty-two Spaniui
wunomcu iu marry mm. tie was In a i r- a j . i rru
hurry to get back to the coast at the made by the maohetes were frigbth.1
w-,, -u prom.sea to join mm at I several of the Spaniards having I
on, unions sent lor ner. in pursn- beheaded. The captain waskilledi
----- m. wiiuams; this manner. Captain-General Hi
"", arriving ier bas issued orders to newspaper!
Ca " 0"mPaDy W1,n snowden, who to publish a word about the tragedy,
e"" Mviawvum lomeet ner, on ' This morning five prisoner! n
UgUBIi 1U. . tJ l . ,.J nJ th..k.1
tuiymt" mat00k tbe widow to i Two thousand people, mostly Sptw
the Palace hotel, where she registered offloers and their wives witneaaedli
"uu proourea a room, ij'or some rea-' executions
son or another, her intended husband j "
put off the marriage from time to time ' M's Message to Americini.
"8 Eaa succeeded in borrowing i Washington. Sent. 28.-Aotin
t'. money and jewelry, on one I retary Rockhill has received W
iZ..S ,,uu.. lnen fte dlBaP-i United States Commercial Agent f
r?.ntw i.TL t ""m81. r1 811 Pa- i Vancouver, B. C, the follow
7ui .. Vr7 .A ' . BI . 1 Bev" ; diBpatch. under date of September :
u "?" lu ze lnat eue nad I "At an interview iriven the oc
uobu ueirauaea ana thai; shn tn . .... . . : .,.
j1-l . , , . , , , , " ui tins oity on Doara me sieauiuii
in hr.'b h0t6 Vwith noth-! V of China, just previous to herd,
Mrs wniio W?trrrk he,r Vy- 1 Pture for Hong Kong today, bii a
Wl1 "Lm.B ted nntil her bill i oelliiov. Li Hunt Chan. the vicero-
rr,6" ea. hotel "quested me to become" the wM
-n v "inaaKu uu uaviiient. i iia -h i nvn-
widow explained her position, and was! Znt 8 '
" 'I was greatly impressed bj
courtesy and kindness extended ton
sent away from the hotel, her baggage
being held for her bill. The woman
was utterly penniless, and was com
pelled to seek shelter in a charitable
institution.
Snowden says he met the woman in
Denver through a newspaper personal.
LITTLE TOWN BURNED.
by the sovernment of your ocmnW'
whioh I regard as a model govurnmffli
of Western civilisation. I shall
retain most pleasant rnemorifS of '
visit to the United States, and I d,tK
Ton to males mv orooHnostOVOUrOOlt'
try most oordial, aa I will take lest1
America. "
Tho Woman Ws Drunk.
Walln Wnllo Ron sa Thiincn'
ing a few miles east of Walluls, an j
woman jumped through a window I
the tourist ort nf -thn O. K. & N.
received injuries whioh resulted i
death a few hours after. When!
tinnrrlorl tho tn t Pnrtlaud l"1 1
Not Much Left of Cleveland, In Kllckl
tat County.
Arlington, Or., Sept 29 A disas
trous fire occurred at Cleveland, a
small town about twenty miles north
of this place, in Klickitat county.
Nine buildings went up in smoke, in
eluding the prinoipal store, two black
smith shops, a hotel and li,,.- i
ft-L - . . uaru. uuurutm
no VotIn na' nfire aepurtment, and I night, she was very drunk, and doril
W. thrn n ..u Whflt the alht bad a"ack of lP
was thrown on with buckets. Tho Sh wanrio-o,! o to anotb
'io'T iS b0l,ilTe,1 10 be the disturbing other passengers. FlnaW
clew o the no? aUh0n,gb th6re 18 no'Bhe down! andfshortly
clew to the persons guilty. Those whn ' th t,in lof. tb.i i tho norteri
H BlomB losses are: covered that she was missing.
Coolev buXf i.h ni0handi8e: 8.i train was run back several railM.
Cooley, blacksmith; A. Dodge, black, no trn nf tho wa. fonni
When the train reached Walli w
smith.
In iiuuu t V! "ueuine train reacnea yy" -.
l.n n-.Lt0,' 8 ore' Mr' Blone : the railroad officials were notified.
tivory oarn nnri nnA a . i u
liluplm.ni.h i . Z, ui youai irain was sens
.v..i,iiU nop,. ine ,08S .
property is a severe blow to the own-1
ers a. there was little or no insurance, j
The blaze was started in tbe livery
found her lying near the track at SoO'
mit, suffering; from injuries. Sb '
pioked np, but died a few mf"1'"
later. The name given on her tic"
was Mrs. Annie Tobin.