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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 29, 1896)
Lincoln Coanty Loader ' ,1. V. M i:V,l!T. I'lllili.li-r. TOLEDO .)i:i:i; HE m OF lit WEEK Cuniirelif HHi va ltevieiv of tbe Import Hnt lliipimiilnei of tlie I'HHt Week Culled I'l-oin ti TKlfi;rjth Columns. I. H Kouk, white, wtis shot and killerl by a ugro near Sunnyside, Miss. A posso hanged tbn negro. It is said that iu consequence tlie negroes have onalleuged thu whites and a nut is i:u iui limit. Saturday, October 31, has boon de clared an (lag day by tho national chairmen of the Republican, Dumo oratio and I'opulisc parties. It is re quested that tho national colors b dis played on all residences aud places of business on that day. The lierkey & Oay furniture factory, of Grand liapids, Mich., the largest iu the world, has resumed operations after a period of enforced idleness dur ing t'i tarir!C33 acprC33itii. Thu luo tory employs more workmen than any other institution in that eity. It is now certain that the lumber combine, known as the Central Lum ber Company, of California, will have a new lease of life January 1, 18U7, aud that it will early in the spring attempt to hold prices at a higher fig ure than they have been for years. W. T. Rumbusch, the defaulting banker of Juneau, Wis., shot and killed hiinHLdf iu Fredericksburg, Vt. Me left a note expressing a desire that he be identified in order that his wife might get his life insurance. About $100 was found on his person. While the Dunham family was do ing its aerial bar act in Baruuui'a cir cus, at Chicago, one of its members, John, met with an accident that is likely to prove fatal. He dropped eighty feet into a net, alighting on his head. Ilia spine was injured aud low er limbs paralyzed. T. P. Farnsworth, of Cresoo, la., ac cidentally killed his wife in that city. Just as they were going to dine Farns worth was in the act of loading his re volver, when the cartridge exploded, the ball striking his wife nearly iu the center of tho forehead, killing her iu tantly. Hamlin J. Andrus, president of the Arlington Chemical Company, Yonker.s, N. Y., was instantly killed by the ex plosion of a bomb iu his ollice. Ho was alone when the tragedy occurred. Wbo placed the bomb iu the office, or whom it was intended for is unknown. John Andrus, a brother of the victim, was generally the iirst to enter the office, aud as the dead man is very well liked, it is supposed that his brother is the one whose life was desired. The loss occasioned by the burning of the flouring mill and wheat ware house at Weston, (Jr., has been placed at about $20,000. Tho mill was owned principally by I. E. Waling and P. A. Worthiugtou, and there was no insur ance. The mill was equipped with modern machinery, aud was almost constantly operated. It had 100 bar rels daily oapaoity. The warehouse contained 10.000 bushels of wheat that were iusured for half their value. The origin of the fire has not been dis covered. General Carlos Ezetu has taken quar ters iu Oakland, Cal., and says he it prepared to meet his enemies. He im agines he is being pursned by hired AHsassinB in the employ of Mr. Lopea the minister from Salvador. Lopez as sorts that the general is a bluffer and ii afraid to make a move. The board of supervisors of San Francisco has appropriated $ii00 foi the purchase of a supply of tho Gott remedy for leprosy. It will be used for the relief of the thirteen men and two women iu the leper colony at tlx peathouse. The remedy as far as tried by the physicians has had good effect aud mauy of the afflicted will recover Weyler aud Blanco wilt be recalled Premier Cnuovas will fall, and gravt eveuts will occur iu Spaiu, Madrid dia patches say, it is believed there, unlets 1 the rebels in Cuba and the Philippine islands are conquered within a mouth. The Madrid press openly attacks Cauo vas aud Weyler because of their in ability to check the Cuban revolution. Albert Hence Downing, a highway man arrested in Denver, Col., has con fessed that he murdered Joel G. Ash worth in that city aud committed numerous robberies, besides having murdered a luau in 1885 at San Jose, Cal., and committed other crimes there. He promises to plead guilty to all the crimes which he has committed aud says he wants to be hung. The people of Albuquerque, N. M., paid their homage to a true hero at the funeral'of John H radon, who sacrificed his own life to save those of women and children. During a parade iu that city Harden was driving au ammuni tion wagon, the contents of which ex-; ploded aud set tire to the wagon, The team started to ruu, iu the direction of a crowd of women aud children, but Hrarien stayed at bis post until he had checked the freuzied animals, aud then tell from the lent, burued to a criini Speaker CrUp Dead. j Charles F. Crisp, ex-speaker of the house of representatives, died iu At lanta, Ga., His death was pot alto- i gether a surprise in political circles, as it has been known for some lnontha that he had not long to live, and never , aKain could be an active figure in pub- j lie affairs. The speaker had several j spells of illneta in Washington. He , suffered from asthma and later from heart trouble. His ill health, how ever, did uot become a matter of put-lie ; notoriety until tbe past spring, when he was compelled to abandon a series of joint debates arranged with ex-Secretary Hoke Smith by reason of the ad vice of his physician. Ciisp had been in the sanitarium for five iveeks, suffer ing from malarial fever. The immedi ate cause of his death was heart failure. TRIED 10 0MI III A Narrow Escape for the Passengers. SOUTHERN PACIFIC BLOCKED Suicide of a .MlnUter. Rev. Thomas Stoughton Potwiu, M. A., tine of the best-known Congrega tional clerymen of New England, has committed suicide at his home in Hart ford. Conn. Rev. Potwtn had been in poor health for some time, and, since the recent developments of melan cholia, bad been under the care of Dr. Stearns, of the insane retreat. While his family were away he went to an upper room and hanged himself with a rope fastened to tbe drmr knob. The Table Were Turned. Dr. T. W. Bowman, of Savannah (ia., tried to kill his wife. He was i prevented from bo doing by W. T. Haskell, a eommercial traveler. Has kell Beized bowman's pistol and wrenched it from him. Mrs. Bowman and her mother then assaulted the doo tor. They blackened his eyes and beat him ubout the head very badly. Bow man waH arrested and taken before a judge who gave him twenty-four hours to get out of the state. Must Kt-leaNe Huu Vat Hen. The Marquis of Salisbury has de manded the immediate release of Sun Yat Sen, the Chinese physician, said to be a British subjeot, who was, ac cording to the statement of his friends, kidnaped while passing the Chinese legation in Loudon, and is held a pris oner in the legation on a charge of having been engaged in a conspiracy to overthrow the Mautchu dyuasty. A St. I.ouln Itroker AflMlgim, L. A. Coquard, a well-known St. Louis broker, has filed an assignment. He gives his assets as if 100,000; liabil ities not stated, but may exceed the as sets. It is claimed that during the last six months he lost heavily iu wheat and stocks, the total amount being esti mated at $300,000. A MiMHourl ItMllk Looted. Robbers entered the bank at Cass ville, Mo., aud blow open tho safe, se curing its contents. The amount was large, but the bank officials refuse to say how much. The robbfry was the work of professionals. Oriental Ollentlon Nettled. The Paris correspondent of the Lon don News reportB that he hears the czar's visit to Queen Victoria at Bui moral resulted in Russia, England aud France agreeing on the basis of a policy in Japan and China, while the Levant, Mediterranean and African questions are being arranged. The czar wants the results obtained without bloodshed, says the correspondent, aud is support ed by Italy aud Austria. The sultan is likely to die hard, but he will be obliged to yield. Killbu-ler- to Ke Tried. Admiral Navarro, president of the naval court of Havana, has cansed no tice to be served upon forty-one fili busters aud others, including the crew aud passengers of the Competitor, that they must answer charges of piracy and rebellion against the government Consul-Gonoral Lee, in au interview iu a Spanish paper, deuies having insisted upon his recall to the United States, and says his relations with Captain General Weyler are cordial. A FntHl Can Ivxploniwu. In Chicago George McWhorter turn ed on the gas iu his room and lay down to die. The odor of the gas was deteoted by Chalres Collard.who oalled Geftrge Holt. Lightiug the gas in the room adjacent McWhortor's, they burst iu his door. Au explosion fallowed, blowiug out a section of the rear wall of the building, aud burning Collard badly. Holt escaped injury. Mc Whorter died while being taken to tbe hospital. A MtllioiiHire Armenian. The most sensational trial ever known in Turkey has just been con cluded in Constantinople. AfikEffeudi, the millionaire Armenian, has been condemued to three years' seclusion in a fortress. He was accused of being chief of the revolutionary committee. This latter was cousidered not proved, but his connection with the movemeut was established. He was given the minimum penalty possible. The Wrerkem Kvidently .Minciileiiluted Their Time and Were Interrupted by Approaching Traill ISIi;ht Damage. Portland, Or., Oct. 27. A dastardly attempt, which, fortunately was un successful, was made last night to wreck the southbound passenger train, No. 16, two miles south of Drain. The attempt was well-planned aud intended either for revenge or robbery, and had it been successful, would no doubt have cost mauy lives. As yet there is. no clew to tbe would-be train wreckers. The train, hauled by engine No. 1225, left Portland at 8:60, and reach ed Drain, ltil miles south of here, about 8:45 the next morning. When the engine rounded a curve two miles south of tho station, Engineer Robert MeCauley saw, by the glare of the headlight ou thu Uuck ahead, what ap peared to be a fallen tree lying leugth wiae between the rails. He at once reversed the engine and threw on the air brakes, but the momentum of the train was o ereut that it could uot be stopped before it reached the obstruc tion, and the pilot struck it with a jolt that woke up everybody on the train. In spite of tbe reversed engine and brakes, the train was carried nearly three lengths ahead, pushing the ob struction in front of it. The latter, as it caught the ties ulong the track, jolt ed the whole train, so that everyone on board thought the engine had jumped the track, aud the commotion caused general consternation. The engineer finally succeeded in bringing the train to a standstill, and climbing down from the cab, he ran forward to see what he had struck. He discovered that it was a stick of timber a fiot through, and eight or ten feet long. Across the track ahead of it was a heavy plank, which had evi dently been used to prop the larger stick up iu a standing position, so that it would better throw the traiu from the track. This plank had also been carried forward by the pilot. The train first struck the obstruction on a sharp curve, iu a mountainous and heavily wooded country. There is a sharp declivity on one side of the track, aud had the pilot been broken by tho obstruction, a terrible wreck must inevitably have followed. The trainmen and Buch passengers as were out of their beiths, took lanterns and searched the track for some dis tance both ahead and behind trie train, but no sign of any one could be dis covered. Thero were a few planks and timbers scattered about near the place whero the log lay at first, and the gen eral appearance of the track where the obstructions were placed, indicate that the wreckers' were at work on a big ob structiou to ensure the ditching of the tiain, and having miscalculated their time, were interrupted by the approach ing train, and quickly abandoning their devilish work, ran away. The way in which the two timbers found on the track were piled, and the fact that they were placed on a curve and at an unusually dangerous plaoe in the track, indicate that there could have been no intention but to wreck the train. The traiumen have been bothered i great deal of late iu that vioiuity by stutbbouud hobos who jump brake beams of freight trains at watering sta tions, day times, aud ride on the blind baggage of passenger trains at night. The train men thiuk it was some of these who made the attempt to wreck the traiu, while others think a geueral robbery was intended. The engine returned to Portland yes terday, uud beyond a little damage to the paiut on the pilot, ia all right. Cargo Took Fire at Sea. New York, Oct 28. The British ,'teamer Worsley Hall put into thiB port this morning with her cargo on fire. She left New Orleans for Havre, Octo ber lti. On October 23, S50 milos east by south of Saudy Hook, during a southerly gale, smoke was found issu ing from the ventilators under the bridge. An examination showed that the cotton stowed forward in the hold, which constituted the major portion of the cargo, was on fire. The ship was put befoie the wind to lessen the draught and the hatch lifted. The iuoke was almost overpowering, but the 6ailors managed to hoist out twenty bales of cotton and pile them up on the deck. The ship was rolling with a heavy cross tea. Soon a huge wave broke over the steamer and washed tbe bales overboard. TO VISIT THE COLUMBIA. A Cowardly Nulrlde. Alfred G. Audrew, a carpenter of Sau Francisco, euded his own life be cause of misfortunes that had reduced hint to poverty, and left a widow aud three grown children to struggle for the living he had grown weary of en deavoring to make for them. He took i carbolic acid aud died iu great agony. I His wife was a witness to bis suffer ings. I llattle .Ship Oregon Left San KrancUeo for a Short CruUe. San Francisco, Oct. 27. The battle ship Oregon steamed out to Bea today for the first time since her famous trial trip. Nothing could be learned positively of her destination, but it is common gossip that the prime object of the trip is to test her batteries, from the big guns down to the smallest, aud to try her in all the theoretical maneu vers that could be anticipated in a reg. ular engagment. It is also stated that the Oregon, be fore return'ng to this port, will visit the Colombia river, in order that the Oregouiaus may iuspect her and bo given an opporutuity to preseut her with the silver service about which so much has been said and written. The departure of the big battleship did not attract much attention, as during the past few weeks she has steamed about the bay mauy times. t.nlveitou Cotton Klr. Galveston, Oct. 37. The inoBt dis astrous cotton fire in the history of Galveston occurred early this morning, resulting iu the destruction of 4,-ioo bales, aud the warehouse in which they were stored. The origin of the fire is unknown. A Resume of Events j Northwest. EVIDENCE OF STEADY GR0 rw Crontted the Troelm. Key West, Oct. 28. Well-informed passengers who arrived from Havana last night confirm advioes received by : mail that Maceo baa crossed the trocha at Artemisa and joined other insurgent forces in Havana province. They de clared that the report circulated by Maceo of his encampment at Cacara jacara and a contemplated attack on that town was merely a feint of the ; rebel leader to cuiiCciiUale the Spanish troops at that point. That the ruse j was successful iB proved by the fact that General Gonzales Muuiz, with large forces, was seut in that direction ; to attack Maceo, but upon their arrival nt Cararajucara the Spaniards found uothiug but a deserted camp. l'reventeft a I'miiIo. Chicago, Oct. 27. By rare presence 1 of miud, Rev. Dr. James Vila Blake , prevented a pauio aud the possible aw ful results of a fire, which broke out just as the morniug service was begin- ! uiug at the Third Unitarian ohurch to day, and which destroyed the main ; part of the building. When the pastor took his place in the pulpit, his atteu-. tion was drawn to smoke in the lobby leading to the Suuday school room. He remained standing until the orgau ist had ceased playing, and then re quested the cougregation to retire quietly by the rear exits. His manner so reassured those assembled that a pauio was averted. The ohuroh was ! eutirely destroyed. The loss ia $25,000. ' Large (Juantlty of Lumber Iturned. Saginaw, Mioh., Oct. 27. Fire broke out early this eveniug in the lumber pile and on the mill plant premises of tho Center Lumber Com pany, at Zilwaukee, six milea down the river. It spread into a very large conflagratiou, which destroyed about 8,000,000 feet of lumber. The saw mill aud Bait works were in iminient danger, but were saved, aud only (mall buildings were burned. The fire departments of Saginaw and Bay City assisted in fighting the flames. The loss will approach 1150,000, and is un derstood to be fairly covered by insur ance. Boy Muiderer. CorniBh, Me., Oct. 27.-On Ootober 5 Mrs. Betsy P.. Hobos was found dead. She lived alone about one and a half miles from Effingham, N. H. When found the house was burning, and her body was half cremated. The mystery was cleured yesterday by the coufessiou of Charles Savage. He accuses Frank J. Palmer of the murder. A coroner's jury has brought in a verdict agaimt Palmer of murder in the first degree. Savage was held as a witness. Palmer is 16 years old, and lives at West Par eoufield. Savage is 20 years of age. At the iuquest Savage unflinchingly withstood half au hour's cross-examma-tiou. but at last the corouer discovered weakness, and ho perBiBtently quea turned him till he finally succumbed and related a tulo implicating himtelf aud Frank Palmer in the murder and attempted cremation of Mis. Hobbs He aud Palmer, he said, had been drinking together the day before the tragedy. Monday morning Savage took his shotgun to go shooting. They called at Mrs. Hobbs'. Savage left Palmer in the houso while he went to the woodshed on au errand. While there he beard the report of a gun aud soou after found Mrs. Hobbs bleeding upon the doorstep. Palmer soon a p peared, and with an oath declared that now he had squared the grudge he owed her for pulling 3 out of him in payment for the glass he broke in her house three years ago. Palmer asked b'tvage to help him carry the body in the house, he says be was so fright eufd he did not realize what he wag do g. hut they got the body into the house. Savage then took to the wood,, be ug shortly overtaken by Palmer. who deleared that nobody would ever know what bad happened, for he had act fire to the bouse. ton Nw tiathereil la wnr neighboring Stat. mem Noted In A I ult( A number of hogs wer . week iu Milton for 2 cent.J: William Frazim- , . . "u " eastern ur- buymg horses to be nbd iu thefr The county iudie of .tnui.. ty was lined recently fioo for b a oiumi piece oi .losephinecount. The John flow ..-:.. ... j uuuriug g,, Grant county, is running sixteen J ....j, ami is grinding 400 bjsliil. wheat a day. Lee Mitchell, of Grant's Pas. . ceived a painful wound from a sal bite on ti:e leg below tlie knee fishing last week. ' Two Albany boys have shipped r the naval service, and are off oi three-years' cruise on a man-of-war ui oau rrancisoo. As the cannery at MsrsbdeU i overstocked, the tug Trinmph tt 2,000 salmon from that place to; Coquille cannery last week. The new auartz mill mnetitn.i. - ..uuj Lt all been put on the ground at the B':, cutte nuue, with the exception ! small wheel, weighing 4,500 ponndi The salmon cannery at Alueahu makiug a iiue pack, and nearly io oases will be put un if there imin.k.',' meut iu the run before the BeasoncW Most of the farmers of Powdentt have about finished the full rouDii: of cattle and have now in paste fine-looking lot of beef steet! and L cows. A movemeut ia on foot among lots of music iu Long Creek, Orantcooir to organize a band. A subscript paper for that purpose is being tit;. laieu. City Marshal Logan, of Weston,! sists that boys under 18 years of if muBt keep off the streets after7 o'elw in the evening, and warns parents il, he iutends to enforce the curfew o:t ance. There passed through Athena In week a f an entire trip to Florida by team. Ik make their expenses of the triphjp iug musical performances, the em: family being musicians. The semi-annual report of thecoir clerk of Josephine county shown tb there were, on September 30, outstu: ing unpaid countv warrants to it amount of $04,504.87, the estimiK interest on which is $7,000. A number of the country papers v fully alive to their own interests n the present gratifying wheat sitnatix Such notices as this are being rt: "Don't negleot to settle that little n't Bcription account when you sell jrc wheat." There are in tho office of the tm nrer of Benton county funds atnonsi ing to $2,824,with which old ootstu: ing warrants oould be Daid were 4? presented for redemption. Bonn i these warrants were issued as far tw' as April, 1887. THf ho I hi' be co la Iff t : : Vletlu,. Wa.hed A.hore. Marshlleld, Or., Oct. 27.-Earlv this on the ocean beach the remains of three ill-fated steamer Arago. They were brought to Empire City, and a To ". ner's inquest held. The name. oUhe unfortunates are: Patience and Speck steerage passengers, and Sanders seal man. Tbe three were buried at Em P.re City this afternocn. The Ararn t. "ill in the same position. An iZ. .ion from here today reports the bar very smooth, and it is probable tha tre?'ure 11 in ,he "earner will b. recovered by divers. ' Washington. A dredger will begin work onOljt l pin harbor next month. The school tax of the city of Spoktf I for next year amounts to f 05,000. William Hopkins has establi6beJ' broom -handle factory in Burlington- Blanche Benuet, a typewriter, 'l put in jail in Spokane Patordi'l charaed with smokinir nninm. Si 1 was found in Lee Jim's "joint," np nea by the drug. The superintendent of schooli t Whatcom county ia strongly sdvititil teachers to observe Admission : thiyear. Washington was admittf-l as a state November 11, 1889. Tbe commissioners of Kings coanr I have fixed the tax lew for 189b I 15.85 mills on all nrnnHrtv within I limits of Seattle. The rate on f-1 property in the county entaide o'l cities, and not inoluded in school dif-1 trict specials, is 12 mill'. The mills for making oatmeal n( Hour in Tacoma and Seattle are run ning night and day, and yet are benin in their orders. The demand for 6' from the Orient has been simplT P1 I nomenal, and the rolled-oat trade c not be supplied by the present mil"- Bishop CranBton and a oommiitM0' I thlrrnian (,l.i. !..;... hnus COH I pleted a thorough investigation of',! affairs of the Puget sound nniveriPl resulting in an unanimous appni" and indorsement: of the method! a management of the college in " "' departments. The Northern Pacific will conrtJ A bia fltntia wall A.f.nJinn nver l,f feet along the bank on the wet iid the wharves in Tacoma. The will be of solid masonry, and wiM thirty feet high and four aud one-"" feet wide. It will be placed o solid rock or hardpan foundation.
