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-J Lincoln County Leader ,1. K. xlKWAKT. Punll-he TOI.KI'O iii:i'.iiiN I NEWS OF lit WEEK BareheBalve Kevlew of the Import at Happenings of the Fut Week Called From the Telegraph Columns. Returns from the Florida election give Bloxham, Democratic candidate for governor, a plurality of 25.0o0. A coiiHtitutiorjal an)endnj'nt abolishing October elections wan ratified. The tetlegraphers' strike on the Can adian Pacitio has been declared off. A settlement was armed at through a board of conciliation. The company agrees that all men will be taken bac' except those guilty of destroying prop erty. It also agrees to recognize the Order of Railway Telegraphers and it; members. Seven men 6tarted in a skiff to cross the river from Canton, Mo., where they bad been attending a political meet ing. About fifty feet from the Illinois aide the boat upset. John Reed, George Witbrow and .lohn Simms were drowned. All were in the government river service. In a fog at Argentine, Kan., five east-bound Santa Ke traiDs were mixed up in a re ir-eud collision just outside the railway yards, the trains following each other closely. Several cars and two of the engines were wrecked, but miraculously enough no one was killed. Four persons were slightly injured. A dispatch from Lowell observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz., announces that the astronomers of the observatory have discovered that the planets Mercury and Venus each turns once on its axis during one revolution of the sun, mak ing the day just equal to the year on these planets.. They lind further that Venus is not cloud covered, as has been reported, but has about it a thick at mosphere, while Mercury has none. It has been seiiii-oflicially announced in Constantinople that the Turkish gov ernment, Hfter weighing the matter and consulting certain advisors, came to a decision not to admit the United States warship Bancroft through the Dardanelles, und therefore she will not be able to nut as the gunrdship of the United States legation in these waters. The porte, it is said, also decided not to admit the guanlships of Greece and Holland. The British ship Kilburn, which has juBt arrived in San Francisco, reports the loss of two of her crew on the voy age from Newcastle. She was only nine days out when she ran into a torm. The two men were sent aloft to stow away the topsail, and whilo they were so engaged a violent lurch caused Johu Anderson, a Swede, to loose his hold, and falling he struck against John Harvey, an American, knocking him off the yardarm and to gether they fell. Anderson wag thrown into the sea and drowned and Harvey truck on the deck, but died in a few honrs. The killing of Frank Hepburn, son of Congressman Hepburn, at Chester, Ark., is now attributed to a political conspiracy. The first report stated that a duel was fought. Lee Ah Mee, a waiter, was shot and instantly killed by unknown assassins in San Francisco, as a result of a high binder war. Another Bhootiug affair occurred the same evening, but no one was killed. Three dead bodies have beeu taken from the Chicago river, and men are at work dragging the stream for more. The remains ate those of infants and had been in the water for some time. The doctors assert that they had all been drowued, and it is thought that they have beeu the victims of a baby farmer. A fatal collision occurred on the Southern Paoiflo lailway, half a mile south of Green's station, Oregon, re sulting in the death of John MoUon igle, of Portland, fireman, and A. N. Toy, a brakeiuau. Five othera were seriously injured. The collision was due to a conductor's carelessness in miBlaytng his papers and orders. Cases of poisoning from eating nuoked wbitettsh continue to be re ported from Wisconsin. At Merrill, in that state, Albert Radlotf and an other man died of poisoning. Twenty five cases in all are reported from that town. Tweuty additional oases are re ported from Krotherton, on the east hore of Lake Wimiebago, Home of whom cannot recover. Milwaukee has also received her share, and fifty peo ple have been poisoued in Oshkosh. The news is causing a pauio among fish eaters and dealers. For the third tune in six months the Sonora stage has beeu held up, near Cloudinau, Cal. Two masked ineu suddenly appeared on either side of the road and covering with shotguns the driver, ordered him to "hold up." He was then ordered to throw out the mail aoka aud told to drive on. The mail acka wore rilled of registered lettois aud left on the road where they were subsequently found by the postmaster of Cloudmau. The amount secured by the robbers is uukuowu, but i believed lo have beeu large. Thousands Are Homelrfts. Three-fourths of the my '(.j. qiul, Ecuador, has been rerlured to ashes by a fire which r&gi d ' r twenty four hours, weeping everTthu.it in it path. Some estimate the firrHiicial log at upwards of f 50.0MJ.O00. Manv lives were lost in tne fire, :iid 85,00ft people are homeless. Two thousand bouses, including every bank in the city, of which there are five, were burned. It is impossible from the present food supply there to feed all the victims, and the snflering will un doubtedly be great. Chirac lay Celebrated. Chicago day, the anniveissry of the pre.at fire twenty-five years ago, was celebrated in that city chiefly as a po litical holiday. Republicans and Democrats celebrated separatey, each party haviDg its own big street pirade, as well as monster gathering indoors. Practically every factory and store in the city was closed, also the board of trade and banks. From ealry morn ing the streets were jammed with cheering thousands, struggling to gain some point of vantage. An Oierrealoue I'aron. The Rev. Lang, an evangelist, who had beeu holding a revival at Seward, o. T., aunng one of his sermons de clared "that all women who dance are immoral." A storm broke at onje, and Lang was chased to the Santa Fe station by fifty enraged church mem bers. At the station he was beaten al most to a jelly by two farmers and a number of women. Subsequently he was rescued from a coat of tar aud feathers by a train crew. Crime of a Madman. Albert Bray, aged 80, of Noblesville, Ind., a farmer and a very religious man, cut the throats of bis wife, 9-year-old son, Carl, 2-year-old daughter, Edna, and himself. The wife and chil dren died without a struggle. Bray, with a gaping wound in bn throuc lived for some hours without regaining consciousness. Bray crushed the skulls of his victims with an ax after he had out their throats. She Fought a Kurgliir. Miss Ella Emerson, 18 years old. of Fruitvale, Cal., battled wirh a burglar who tried to chloroform, ga and bind her, and after a desperate i:rale. she suoceeded in making her escape by leaping through an open window and dropping to the ground, a distance of twelve feet. I'll Maurler U Dett. George Du Manner, a nisi;, ucTeu.it. and author of "Trilby," died ia Lcn dou. His end was pa in wan. Ha passed away surrounded by hn fr.er.tia. For days he has beeu hovering benw-wn life and death, at insterva'.j &'.nvrr.ni with friends regarding his w :ri. Cjc.u one occasion a friend at jzi man's bedside referred to trie s;o:sh :f "Trilby" as a book and a play. vez-:.-upon Du Maurier replied: "Yftj. it has been successful, but popularity has killed me at last." The imnwdiar. cause of his death is given a heart trouble. For the tjoml of the Cow. Instructor Winterhalter, of the agri cultural college at the university of California, is making a comprehensive dairy report which will cover practic ally the entire state The work is be ing done under the supervision of Pro fessor E. W. Hilgard, who is advocat ing the us of the Babcock tester to dis cover disease in cows. Professor Hil gard says the report will show the value of such tests and suggest methods of recompensing the dairymen for the loss of cattle. Freight Thieves aptnred. Secret service agents of the Chicago & Northwestern railway have arrested in Chicago the members and stopped the operations of the moat skillful as well as successful gang of freight-car pilferers with whom the railroad de tectives of that city have had to deal with in many years. It is known thus far that five railroads have suffered through the (Derations of the gang, and it is believed not less than 1 10,000 worth of property has been stolen with in the last six months. In Klei-li'tn l.ynrlilng. The state election caused a murder aud lynching at Mount Junction, lis. Gns Williams, Populist (negro), struck a ticket out of a Democratic negro voter's hand. The Democratic negro struck Williams for his iusolence, and Williams tired at his assailant, but missed his aim and shot aud instantly killed Engineer Middleton, of the Cen tral railway, who was an onlooker. Bystanders took Williams and lvnched bim aud riddled his body with bullets. Wheat U .dvauring. Manitoba wheat is advancing daily. At some points where competition is unusually keen as high as tST cents has beeu paid to the farmer, while 0 cents i now the general price for No. 1 hard throughout the province. Ten Were lr ned. In a collision between the steamers Alexander ai.d Eindeii, on the Ham burg, uear Hull, the former sank drowning ton of the crew. A l.lK1it.hl, Fnini,rr,, It is reported in y tieentown that the Daunt', rock lightship, hiving board a crew of eight nun, ha. fovm. dered. I Hungarian Woman Tortured On Farm Near Spokane. ONE MASS OF CUTS AND BRUISES (rriiirn of Stealing Several Hundred Hollar From Her femuloyrr and Thru lleaten to .Make Her Confess. Spokane, Wash., Oct. 13. Marie Vovaid, a Hungarian woman, unable to speak English, tells a story of bru tality which is unparalleled in the city's history. She came to Spokane several months ago, and was induced to go to the farm of one Lombardi, living ten miles from town, to cook. When she reached the place, Lombardi com pelled the woman to be his mistress, she says, and also the mistress of others about 'he place. Lombardi's barn was burned a few nights after the woman arrived, and he claims several hundred dollars in bills and silver were stolen. The woman was accused of thnft by pnntVjor S2:IS, VfhC EUliiO Cdil- not be learned. To force the woman to tell the whereabouts of the money, Lombardi used a penknife to jab her in the face, and, according to the woman's story, he jumped on her stomach and brutally kicked her. An unknown employe waked her in the middle of the night and forced her to go to the place several miles dis tant, and tried to make her tell where the money was supposed to be hidden. The woman had not stolen the money and says the last assailant abused her even more shamefully than the first. She is in such a condition that she can not be moved from the house. Her head is one mass of cuts, and her body, from neck down, is black and blue. Her neck shows the marks of fingers, where one of her brutal as sailants clutched her by the throat. The authorities so far have not moved in the matter. The woman was visited today by a reporter, who took her story, and the women of Spokane will prob ably take care of the case. A MYSTERIOUS SHOOTING. .. Uftrnian Count Killed. Apparently by Ai-cldeut. San Francisco, Ooc. 13. A dispatch from Monterey says that Count Balles trem, an arnst, was shot and killed U night by a man named Abiger, who lived with him. Abiger has beeu arrwed. He says the shooting was accidental. It is said that both men ar we'd known in Berlin. Abiger t, of good German family. Hi Mji he was preparing to go hunt i JT I at dusk, and had a playful imrsgie with his friend for the gun. The. weapon was discharged, aud a load of birdshot entered Von Balles creni's breast, killing him instantly. The dead man's full name was Count Wolfang von Balleatrem, and he came of a prominent German fam ily. He served in the German army, and came to the Pacitio coast about ten years ago. He spent his money lavish ly", and it was soon gone. For a time he led a precarious existenoe, working as a housepainter and bootblack, and finally enlisting in the United States army, where he served as a private. Lately be said he bad become recon ciled with his family, and that he was receiving money from Germany. He went to Monterey a few months ago and lived with his friend Abiger. The latter'g story of the shooting is believed by the police, but there are a few discrepancies in it. He 8ays the shooting occurred at sundown, while neighbors say they heard the shot after H o'clock. Von Ballestrem's clothes were not powder burned, as they would have been had the shot been fired at close range. HELD UP CONDUCTORS. The IMan of Three Highwaymen In Council II I u II a. Council Bluffs, la., Oct. 13. The police have been assisting the officers of the motor oompany in an effort to disoover three fellows, who have beeu holding up motor conductors with painful regularity, and getting all the money they carried with them.' Many robberies of this kind have oc curred within a few days. But the motor people and the police officers have kept the matter quiet until yes terday. The plan pursued bv the highwaymen is for two of them to board a car together aud take positions on the rear platform. Wheu the car reaches the point where they want to tap the conductor, one of them reaches up and pulls the trolley from the wire Tim shuts off the current, the lights go out and the car stops. When the conductor goes to the rear platform and is beudiug over the railroad trviug to adjust the trolley, the highwaymen" seieze him, grab his money from the side pocket of his coat and jump from the train. A Plot of Tilrkl.li Students. London, Oct. 13-An Athens dis patch says the governor of Myteleue has discovered a plot of Turkish stu dents to bring about a general massacre of Christians and that four of the ring, leaders have beeu arrested. Oil In Oklahoma. Perry, O. T., Oct. 14. Great excite ment exists in the eastern part of this county and in Payne and Pawnee coun ties in the Osage Indian nation, over the discovery of oil in great quantities. It hss leaked out that the Standard Oil Company has secured leases on thou sands of acres and twenty other com panies have purchased haies consisting of many thousands of acres. At Cleve land, a wonderfully rich flow of oil was found by a farmer, who was bor ing a well. A Settlement 111 i k ri t . London, Oct. 14. It is learned that A conference yesterday between the Marquia of Salisbury, Secretary of State for the Colonies Hon. Joseph Cnaniberliu aud British Ambassador to Washington Sir Julian Puncefote, was most satisfactory. It is believed in highest quarters that at least the gen eral principle of arbitration and set tlement of the Venezuelan question will be decided upon with the United States before the end of the month. For Stealing Turkeys. Nashville, Oat. 14. At Columbia, Teuu., Mary Moore, a white woman, worth $50,000, and the owner of 600 acres of fine hind, was convicted ol ""hH'JS six turkeys fiuuj a neighbor and sentenced to one year in tLe peni tentiary. An appeal was taken to the supreme court. This is the finale of a most remarkable career, unrivaled in the history of the criminal courts of the state. Left the Trark and Upset. Chicago, Oct. 14. An electric cat on the Madison street electric line while going at a high rate of speed, jumped the track near Fifty-second street yesterday, crashed into a tree and then rolled over on its aide in a ditch. Of the passengers on the car eight were seriously injured. WHOLESALE JAIL BREAK. Four Hang-emu Criminate Kseupn From Yaiieouver. Vancouver, B. C, Oct. 13. A wholesale jail delivery this afternoon, whereby four leaders of a gang of saf j breakers, who have been operating here for the past month or two, es caped. The escape was made about 5 o'clock, during the few hourB the pris oners are allowed recreation in the yard, and it was not till half an hour later when Jailer Noth went to look up before supper, that the escape waB dis covered. The men's names are: Ab bott Smith, King alias Clark, McGar ragh and Kelly. Smith has already escaped once, and King had nearly got away, but fell inside of the jail fenoe instead of out. Smith aud King had iron on, and Smith was also locked in his cell, but the iron was riled off and the lock of the cell wrenched. The escape was effeoted by outting out a board in a cell to a hole in the yard. A confed erate, who had been released a few days ago, evidently furnished a saw to the prisoners While the cell lock and irons were being wrenched, one of the men spoke to the jailer about some medioine, and thus kept his attention. The men had a good Btart, and being desperate oharaoters, and having Borne revolvers which were stolen recently and hidden away, thev will don hrlnaa make a bard resistance if followed. A description of the men has been Bent all ' over the country, and the officers are soouriug the outskirts of the city, but it is thought there is slight chanoe of ! capturing them. Spanish Veralnn of a Battle. Havana, Oct. 13. A meager report baa been received of another important ' sngageraent between the Spanish forces j under General Echague and Antonio Maceo, in which it is claimed the in- i su'gents Bustained heavy losses, and ! the losies of the Spaniards were ad mittedly severe. The battle occurred October 8. General Echague reports that be found ' insurgents very strongly intrenched un- ! der Maceo himself on the heights of j Gualitos, in Pinar del Rio. These heights were bombarded for three hours with all the means at the com j mand of the Spanish commander. At : the end of that time he took the heights by assault, and put many in surgents to death with bayonets, caus ing them a heavy loss. It is supposed 1 they suffered a still further loss by a . heavy cannonade which waa directed 1 at their retreat. For Weyler'. Removal. Havana, Oct 13. The conservative i Spaniards who are against General) Weyler are asking for hia removal on I the ground that his continuing in office means the sure loss of the island A large part of the Cuban element will ' be willing to accept home rule if an-' other captain-general be appointed. , There is a positive assurance from friends here to the effect that General ' Martinez Campog is willing aud anx Ioub to return to Cuba, but that he will I not come until he brings the home-rule 1 concessions with him. An understand-' ing has exiBted between the reformists I here and the government whereby: President of the Cabinet Canovaa will ' send Martinez Campos and the home rule concessions if there is a surrender of some of the insurgent forces in the field, suffloient to allow the govern-! ment to state to the public that the revolution ia weakening, and that in itself means the final end of the Cuban I revolution." n Pint otHi III A Resume of Events in Northwest. 'flors 1 W EVIDENCE OF STEADY GR0r .ews (iathereil In An O..V NH.hb.,.,,, ,,.., menl Noted In All lnd,lrl0 ! A large buck deer that weigM pounds dressed was killed neatY view lust week. U The Milton Eagle sy3 that am, the .strawberry fields about JliW producing the second crop of trnitB': There wag but one case to come fore the grund iurv in Jnni,i. . ' irng I) u .:.ipa hud I vteri A nod lot ty at this term of court, and no indit uicuia were iuuua. JpOSI It is reported that the goveram,: on ai aw iisl ;bti win put, mine narbor lights ata. bay aa soon as the location is decii upon. They will be four in number The Fort Klam ath ewnw.- made this season about 9,000 ponndi.' butter and fonr or five tons ot chw During the season the supply of uu was from 250 oows. A Linn county honerower h. u strict account of all expenses attendir,' me picKiug, drying and baling olb 18,000 pounds of hops, and then cost figures up 3-4' cents per pound, Two small boys, while trollim the Rogue river, near Weddetbm last week, nooited and landed m ! pound salmon. They hooked auotbe one, which broke the line and eseaptd A party of elk hunters killed n fc six-point buok elk on the hesdwalni of Birch oteek, in Umatilla cow last week, and took the carcass to Pa dleton, where it was sold to a taiiie miBt. The contract for building a mill It: the Columbia Mining Compiwy, t: Fruit creek, in the Cable Cove minii; distriat, has been let to the Gates (k pauy, of Chicago, 111., and macbina' for the mill ia on the way. The Doles for sixtv miles of tote line have been landed at Warrentonb the Western Union Telegraph Con pany. Warrenton is to be made li base of supplies of the entire line Ik: tne Lower JNenalem to Goble. The new drift of the B. B. C. Co. mine, at Hivertou. Coos countv. im ported in about 100 feet, and isbeii; pushed steadily forward night and it About eighteen tons of ore from it' Gem mine is being crushed daily t the ten-stamn mill at Snarta. Th? Gem promises to become one of tt best mines in Union county. One rinv lunr. week the R-VftAT old KC of a German named Myers, who lite near Middleton, in Yamhill 00001; I touohed a lighted match to some ban ' one corner of the barn, and the ol- German was soon without a barn, bit a Wflffnn unil nr.har arr.ip.lpn of Valut 1 The little fellow said be had seen bi : father burn"Blaahings, and be thong! he would bnrn one. Washing-ton. The total enrollment of the Eli'l schools is 1 40. Twenty carloads of sheep fromS lensburg to Chicago were shipped ltf I week. The lumber Bhipments of Washiii ton, this vear are slightly over 20,W.' 000 feet, larger than for a like period in 1895. The old Lake Shore Lumber Con pany's mill, at the south end of Ub Union. Seattle, burned last we The loss waa about $3,000. The payroll of the oity of Spofc for September amounted to fl0.ii!" In order to get the oash the city compelled to discount the warrami' per cent President Winter, of the Northern Pacific Railway Company, has, it said, dosed the deal for a site fori f" eenger station in Seattle, the pnrcbaie prioe being $167,000. The beach at Gray's harbor onenV last week was lined for miles run nf smalt ahnnr. fnnr feet Wide three to four incheB deep, that bd been driven in by the storm. The law against killing qn WjoMnofnn nrnirpd last week. The retically, they have been protected frr ntinallv the If1" game birds have had a oontinnal iw? gle for their lives. The reports of the harbor sod : toma business for the month of Sept"11' ber show Oriental imports aruoou,l.n to $360,855; Oriental exports, 000; total foreign exports, $3il,'1' total to all Doints. $-179,908. A subsidy of 850,0 feet of loirs W been pledged by the settlers, and ""( will be commenced on the removal the jam in the Willapa river w,T; The channel will be cleaned as not"1 ' there is anffloiont rise in the riv" float the debris. Competition among grainbuyen ra the price of wheat up to 45 centM' bushel in Garfield one day last and thnnsunrla nf hnnhels were SOW that figure. The amount of vrhM""' posed of since the price reached cents is estimated at between 5,000 -10,000 bushels.