Lincoln County Leader J. K. S I i:VA 11 1 . I'liltlMirr. TOLEDO OKKCON J. B. M'CULLAGH DEAu. HE NEWS Of 1HE WEEK Comprehensive Review of the Import ant Happening! of the Pant Week Culled From the Telegraph Columns. The stramer Caranza, from Rotter dam, ia reported lost off Cape Abjoa. Biz members of the crew were saved and fifteen are missing. Police Officer Bratton was badly shot while trying to capture two bur glars in a store in Tacoma. He fired at one burglar, when another, who was watching, opened tire and shoe Bratton twice in the back of the head. He will probalby die. Eddie Chandler, about 11 years old, was drowned in Portneuf river, in Po catello, Idaho. He threw his hat on the ice and tried to got the dog to get it, and, failing in this, be went on the ice and broke through into deep water. The river was dragged and the body fonnd in about an hour. One of the last official acts of Mayor .Racier -of Lob Angeles, Cal., will be to attach hiB signature to an ordinance making expectorations upon the side walks of publio streets, enhances to pnblio buildings or the floors of street cars a misdemeanor, punishable by either fine or imprisonment, or both. Chief Hazen of the secret servioe at Washington, has issued a circular warning against a new counterfeit $10 national banknote on the Union Na tional bank of Detroit. The note is the product of the same hand which produced the recent counterfeit on the National Bank'ot Commerce of New York. One distinguishable feature is that the back of the note is upside down. Miss Celia Strahra was killed by her brother-in-law, Klilen Buroker, at Dixie, eighteen miles west of Walla Walla. Miss Strahm was visting the family, and after the family had re tired nhe went out of the door, and upon returning the noise awakened Buroker, who drew a pistol from under his pillow and shot Miss Strahm. He mistook her for an enemy, whom he had heard waB intent on doing him barm. Japan has a larger oarrying trade on the Pacific than the United States, and Americans who are near enough to watch the shifting scenes in this new and rapidly developing contest for com mercial supremacy find little matter for pride in present tendencies. This is the statement of United States Consul Bell, of Sydney, contained in his report to the state department upon the open ing of the new Japanese Bteamship line between Yokohama and Australia. The president has extended the oivil service rules so as to include all officers and employes in the federal peniten tiary at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., though it is to apply to all such gov ernment institutions and to all peni tentiaries hereafter created immediately upon their establishment. Attorney Ueneral Harmon is subjecting the re cent oivil service schedule as affecting the department of justice to a rigid scrutiny. The present amendment is to overcome a defect in the rules pro mulgated and further amendments on similar lines may be expected. Radioal changes in the procedure of the pension office have been made. All claims for inorease, save in extraordi nary oases, hereafter will be sent direct to the medical division of the bureau, without having to be passed upon by the board of review. This action is taken on the ground that the bulk of increase cases involve only medical ao tion. Hereafter there will be no ne cessity for cases before the board of re view being passed upon by three or four examiners. Commissioner Mur phy has fixed tho number of examiners, who must review each claim at once. The Mexican government, recogniz ing the increasing importance of its west coast commerce, is determined to improve the harbors. Arrangements have been made to raise a considerable sum for this work, in addition to the $5,000,000 for the improvement of Ccatzaooalcoa and Saliua Cruxz, the eastern and western termini of the Te buautepea road. The move to improve the harbors is also caused, it is said, by the rapidity of railroad building to ward the Mexican Pacific coast, which Will open fertile country ami develop a large commerce through the porta be low Macallan. A strike instituted at Georgetown, Mass., has thrown out of work 200 men, and promises to embrace the en tire six shoe factories of the towu. A threatened cut in wages was the canse of the strike. The constructors of theSiheriau rail road have undertaken to build a line through Mautohuria, starting from a point on the river where the Siberian road joins tho trans-Baikelia line aud terminating at Mikolskaya, Russia. The ministerial press of St. Peters burg poiuts out that this line will make Russia the intermediary of peace ful oiviliiation between Europe and Asi. The St. Louis Kill tor Fell From a Second Ntory Window. St. Louis, Jan. 4. Jospeh B. Mc Cullagh, editor of the St. Louis Globe Demoorat, and one of the best-known newspaper men in the country, is dead, as the result of a fall of twenty-five lottt frnti .1 Dunnnd.atnrv nrinrlnur nf hlR apartments at the residence of his sis- , ter-in-law, Mrs. Kate Maniou, of 8837 West Pine boulevard. ! There seems to be a difference of opinion as to whether Mr. McCullxgb's death was due to an aocident or was the result of his own act. The latter story is scouted by the dead man's friends. The body, which was cold in death and clad only in a nightgown, was discovered by Mrs. Manion's colored man-servant about 7 o'olook this morning. Waters, the ooloied servant, without touching the body, ran frightened into the house, where he told the conk of the discovery She immediately called Mrs. Manion, who had not yet arisen, and told her that Mr. McCollagh had "fulleu out of the window and killed himself." Imme diately up on being notified by the ser vant, Mrs. Manion dispatched her coachman to summon Dr. C. H. Hughes, who resides in the neighbor hood, and who was Mr. MoCullagh's p'ujoiuiau during his last illness, rie hastened to the house, and, after ex amining the body ordered it removed to the house. A SALOON RIOT. Tripl PERPETUAL MOTION. The Clever Device o Inventor. a Minnesota St. Paul, Jan. 4 J. G. Kaller, of Mankato, Minn., has applied for a patent for an invention which he says will take the place of steam engines and electrio motors. The. device is called a hydraulic motor, and the principle upon which it works is the natural one which causes lighter substances than water to raise to the surface. An endless chain of small air-tight tanks iB placed over two sprocket wheels in such a manner that on one side it will pass upward through a large tank of water. As each air tank enters the water tank from below through a water-tight valve, it will be forced to the surface by the superior weight of the water and in this way the chain Will be in per petual motion, revolving the sprocket wheels to which shafts are attached. Thus, if the claims of the inventor are true, the motor will run on indefi nitely without feul. He claims that the first cost will be less than of a steam engine, while the operating expenses will be so small that all other motive powers will be driven out of use. Hydraulio motors to furnish any horsepower required can be con structed. A MINISTER DEPOSED. Two I'ollmn.tfn Mearlv Killed While Doing Their Duty. Grand Rapids, Jan. 4. Two po- t I . U..1 n .la.ifrl. V.n e murder in an Auaiita i"" " i ui ,. .. a crowd today, ana two ui weir ii Boarding HOUSe. I ants were shot. The trouble was the ! result of a crusade, which the police have been waging apainst saloon keepers, who have been violating the law. Today Patrolmen Viergiver and Har rington found the saloon of Sommors & Treadwell doing a thriving backdoor business. As the officers entered the air was filled with olubs, bottles and glasses. Officer Viergiver whs struck on the head and felled with a club. He was drawing his revolver as he fell, THE ACT OF AN INSANE MAN Uueats Were at Dinner When One of the Boarders Concluded That All Must Oo Two Badly Hurr. Atlanta, Ga.. Jan. 4. A triple mur der was oommitted New Year's eve in a boarding-house kept by Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Allen, at Poplar Springs, a sub-, aun- aa he fen ne pulled the trigger. urb of this city. Just as the inmates of the house were sitting down at the supper table, Theo dore Flancagan, a boarder, entered the dinjng-room, smiling and greeting the guests with "Good evening, my friends." He added: "The old year is going, and I think all of us would be better if we were done with it." He then whipped out a revolver and shouted: "Prepare to meet your God tonight" Without further warning, he fired into the affrighted people. The first hnltpt went crashing thmngh the brain of Mrs. Allen, an old lady of 65. She fell to the floor dead, without a word. G. W. Allen, aged 70, was the next victim to fall. The next bullet killed Miss Ruth Slack, the 18-year-old daughter of Colonel Slack, of Greens boro, Ga., who bad arrived at the house on a visit. Other boarders ran out into the street to seek safety, two of them badly wounded by the flying bullets. iTlannagan is now in jail, having narrowly escaped lynching. He feigns drunkenness, but the testimony of all who were present was that the man was perfectly sober when the shooting occurred. THE BLIND SAW. An "X" Bay Penetrated Sightless In Now York. Eyet His Faith Cure Doctrines Opposed by His Cougregatton. Monmouth, 111 , Jan. 4 At a meet ing of the Monmouth presbytery of the United Presbyterian church, Rev. J. G. Stewart, of this city, was deposed from the ministry and also from church membership. Owing to the peculiar features in connection with this case, much interest has been manifested in church circles as to its final disposition. About two years ago Mr. Stewart was a prouiiueut divine of the United Pres byterian faith, doing service as an evangelist. Suddenly he espoused the cause of faith oure, healing through prayer. The church reprimanded and admonished in vain. Several trials en sued, resulting in bia suspension from the ministry. Last fall he made appli cation before the Illinois synod for re instatement. That body referred the oase back to the Monmouth presbytery, which was unanimous for expulsion. For the past year Stewart has been engaged in the formation of what is known as the Full Bible church, which advocates his peculiar doctrine. He has organized a church at St. Louis and one iti this city. He has also sent out several missionaries. New York. Jan. 4. The Herald says: The "X" ray has given a glim mer of light to eyes that had been sightless for ten years. The subject of the test was John F. Martin, who is submitting to experiments as a substi tute for Charles Broadway 'Rouss. Martin has submitted to a series of tests, perhaps half a hundred. Two atttnduuts took him to the office of Dr. David A Edsou. The blind man, though he has grown acoustomed to experiments, was visibly nervous. J He was placed in front of the electrio apparatus, the lluoroscope was placed at his eyes and the "X" ray turned on. There was an instant of the snapping of the current, then absolute Btilluess, as all in the room watched the face of the man in front of the electrio glare. At length Dr. Edson said, "Do you see anything?' "Nn," answeied Martin. His lips had scarcely framed the re ply when there rang from him, "I can see I can see light," aud the joy in the tone moved all who heard it. Dr. Edson at that turned off the ray. Martin was deeply moved by the gleam which had penetrated his long darkness and he was led to a seat to compose himself before the experiment was continued. . Dr. E isou questioned him about the effect of the ray, but the blind man only repeated that he had seen light. Again the fiuoroscope was placed be fore him. This time he received the impression of light more quickly, and when be had reveled in it for a moment l'erlshed In a Mine. City of Mexioo, Jan. 4. A terrible disaster has oooarred in the Santa Ger trusi mine at Pachnca, one of the most famous silver mines in the country. For some cause not known fire broke out in a level of the old southern work ings yesterday, shutting off the exit of thirteen Mexican miners. Miners on the ontBide went to work to try to put out the fire and save the men. One Englishman named Richardson, an ex perienced miner, went down in charge of the rescue operations, but perished from suffocation. All the Mexicans died from the same cause, or from burning. The bodies have not yet been recovered. Tho affair caused great excitement, as it is one of the worst accidents in the history of Paohuca. Seveial shots were fired from the crowd aud Harrington managed to get his revolver out and pulled it upon Treadwell, who was pounding him on the head with a bottle. The next mo ment Harrington went to the floor. A great crowd had gathered in front of the saloon, and the excitement was in tense. One offloer outside guarded the door and sent for the patrol wagon. A squad of eighteen policemen responded, with orders to arrest every one in tho place, but most of the orowd had man aged to slip away. Culoel Yiuigivo ljuil ail aim biukoii in two places, a finger broken, his nose dislocated and an awful gash across the scalp. His injuries are not necessarily fatal. Officer Harrington was cut with broken glass. He has a severe scalp wound and serious bodily in juries. Treadwell was shot in the right lung. An examination late to night showed that be is Buffering severe hemorrhages. He is not likely to re cover. The Nicaragua Canal. Washington, Jan. 4. One of the main objects of the formation of a new ! Greater Republic of Central America I ta -..;.! u u 1 .1. XTjn la DHIU IV UD tUD UUW UlOblUIl Ui IUO 111U aragua canal. Senor Roderiuez, re cently recognized as the diplomatic representative of the new oountry in tbe United States, is said to be charged wi'h the duty of interesting this gov er iinent in the enterprise. This aid to the project comes at a time when it is needed. The support ers of the measure on both sides at the capital have hopes that the great peti iton sent to Speaker Reed, asking that time be given for disoussion of the bill after the funding measure is disposed of, will be heeded, and at least two days so allowed. There are enough friends of the plan on the senate side to bring it up if there is any hope of getting in a few hour? while the funding debate is on in the upper house. Trains Wrecked by Hobbers. Austin, Tex., Jan. 4. An interna tional & Great Northern freight train was wrecked four miles south of here this morning, presumably by trainrob bers lying in wait for the passenger train. A brakeman, Fred Joynson, was killed, and Engineer Smith seri ously injured. A switch was left open and rocks piled on the track. Raleigh, N. C, Jan. 4. Fireman Alexander Overby and Engineer John Robertson were seriously injured in a wreck early this morning on the Ra leigh & Augusta division of the Sea board Air Line, just east of here. A rail had been displaced by train wreckers. Bloodhounds have been put upon the trail. New York Mall Hobbery. New York, Jan. 4. The postoffloe inspectors have arrestnd William w a piece of metal was passed in front of j Post, aged 82, a mailwagou driver, on the fiuoroscope. Martin deteoted the charge of mail robbery. A quantity movement instantly. j of inoomiug mail from the West was "It is shadow," he said, "but it ! stolen on December 20. Many rifled is like the sun going behind a cloud." packages were found on December 22 Enough had been doue for a day, and in the water off Brighton beach. The the man, rejoicing in even this little keys to the mail pouches are said to relief that had come to his Years nf have been found nn Pn . n blackness, was led from the offioe. OUTRAGE AND MURDER. A Man aud Womau Charged With Kill, lug a Ml tie Olrl. Topeka, Kan., Jan. 4. Al B. Wil liams, aged 82. and Mrs. Jane Mayes, aged 21, living north of this place, weie arrested today, charged with the outrage and murder of Anna Belle Williams, the 12-year-old girl whose Dooy was louna Wednesday near Ea oora. articles, probably Christmas presents, in ma room, rost denies robbing the mails. It is believed he threw the rifled letters into North river from the ferryboat. He has been held in $5,000 bail. Cot Half of the Interest. Washington, Jan. 4. The Crow-Creek-Sioux delegation of South Dakota Indians have not gained their an nounced object, of seouring a per capita cash payment of 187.nnn l The body bears evidence of a I tliSOOO for expenses, now to their The Official Vote. Chicago, Jan. 4. The official can vass of the vote of Maryland for presi dent was completed today. Maryland was the last state to report. The total vote of the United States was 13,888, 762. The vote was oast as follows: MoKiuley, 7,101,401; Bryan, 6, 470, 666; Palmer, 135,056; Levering (Pro hibition), 130,500; Bentlev (National), 14,893; Maohette (Socialist), 88,639. MoKinley's plurality was 680,742, and hi majority 810,399. uieauiui assault on its person, finger marks on the neck and snows tnat the murderous fioni committed the assault covered up bis foul work in sealing her lips with death by strangulation. Williams iB the father of the girl and accuses the Mayes woman of the deed. The pair agreed to take the girl to Kansas City, in order to have her placed on a poor farm, the woman to accompany the girl. She says that when they reached Eudora she became sick, and a strange man offered to take care of the girl. That is the last she saw of Belle. The pair are in jail, and the officers expect to prove a deliberate scheme to make away with the girl. The . oredi' the treasury, but they have body , secured a payment of about $4 or $5 per capita, representing half of the ac crued interest on the money. Paid Interest With Coffee. Hamburg, Jan. 4. There was an important sale here yesterday of 24 000 bags of Brazilian coffee on board reamers now in this harbor The coffee is believed to be a consignment of the Brazilian government, in lieu of I bill, to pay interest on the Brazilian i I 1 00ffee wa' con8igned to the Rothschilds, of Loudon, who sold it here. Russia's Gold Standard Scheme. St. Petersburg, Jan. 4. Most au '""'"" quarters oenv that M r . - oionenam, juass.. Jan. . Th tc;... m. ue strike at the shoe factory of B Jenkins : .hlV a "aDaaM PrJt has been & Co. wa, settled today, over Z n mZ ? " P ,r0m here" operatives returning to work n .1 " n fT"1 ?' ,he 000,1011 of strike was ordered because of . ,0 per e. TZ llkT '"l the 'tatn cant reduction in wage,, and V com L haTe ""rgone the ill Venezuelans Not Ratify the Treaty A DELAY IN THE PROCEED, "7 ","'"t MUi tin tin ui.uii s . . ..-. a , 7. " """- "'- Treaty C..,, Washington, Deo. 80. Secretary ney left the state department o'olook today and went aiJ . 1 " British embassy, where he held .i!1 conference by appointment with 7 Julian Pauncefote, the British uhZ .t tuo uiatua o the Vai of Venezuela, and James J q.Jt counsel in the Venezuela oase 2 raa,haA Wool, ;.. ... c' " - ...nuiuK-iuii una last evenio. The result of the oonfe,. Z guarded with the usual seorecy J prevails at meetings between ti, tary and an ambassador, bnt there ii good reason to believe it was ths sion for going over several new pbaM cf tho V&IiCZuoin uuuHlion. The officials are reticent, and say only in general terms thatthept peot of an acceptance of the settlement by Venezuela is good. It is undo. Btood, however, that there are irapor. tant limitations to the accepunce which appear to make the ease lea hopeful of an immediate and satisfac tory oonolusion than has been expected. The plan of an extra session of the Venezuela oongress to ratify the treitj has been praotically abandoned. Then appears also to be a question as to the nature of Venezuela's acceptance, President Crespo and the government authorities have expressed satiafactioa with the general settlement, so fat ai they secure arbitration, yet they hate not yet expressed official approval ol all the details of the Bettlement Ol the contrary, there seems a verr earnest deiire at Caracas for more u act information of the terms of the treaty between Venezuela and Gteat Britain. At present there is no disposition k await the gradual maturing of thii complete treaty, and it ia littl, ihott of settled that the treaty will have K be forthcoming, and all the incidental negotiations olosed before the desired Venezuela ratification is seonred. In official and diplomatic circles, there continues to be a satisfactory ud honefnl view of the situation. II ii felt all obstacles will be cleared awi in time, and there is a disnosition to minimize obstacles as being under the bead of minor details. At the same time, the practical nrinnrlnnmpnt nf the nxtrA session of the Venezuela congresB and the diipo- sitinn tn nlnna nil negotiations OB the final treaty before acceptance is giw do not increase the prospect of at conclusion of the case. Hnn Vmr.wann thn Hllitfid States IDO Clraat T3iitain Ti OlnAV find SIX Hn their final draft of thn trnatv. and it ia in the bands of Lord Salisbury, awaiting his appwal "Mr. HnnM aviafa nf ita flTinrnVS.1. SlU it is expeoted to oome daily. THE PACIFIC ROADS' DEBT. i.u... n...i.nJ Pr.nrlns to Brill the Mattir to a Settlement. Wi.hh.tnn nan S(l The EvCD ins Star today savs: Tli. n.A.1Anf Vtaa had SAVAral 000 AUU U1QOIUQUI UCB - " fonn i.t. Toith the sttomeT'ien 1 mnA th anratarv nf the n4 -V.. .anHl-... nf tli a trAASnrV. Vlw nuu bus BCUAOvn&j a view to unftfidv Action for the it -, n f t-hu PmiiuQI.il rnniin tn tha t7nvrnmpnt. ihmt atfDAflU una uccu bcimcw shortly be taken for the foreclosure Ua HA-n.nn.An mmtulBM Oil tUCK A. 1... .,.,,.. .hull Dili ni-nviairtn fnr BAftlAmnnt of the QO 1, i j. tn With tM - .i j i more thU . x... .iin.l of tie m I al.llllll.llllll III II1M UI K" v i i i j i voVioif of tb HtinNinv nciiinn ikhuhu iu TTIr. D;fl 1 in a atlri TTinrfl thflQ V An AAA -a 1 Jn icanaA ill lid utiii. nun or similar uuuun iw fftllftn Axm and been oaid Or must .i J l.nnart 1 Wit Withonlt reference to the application UA .iMbinn 4nA tinm .T1 thfi tX6&1' orntn n fT 1 vfl ill tilO OP10 , . . . , . .... in hu via. lUU uitjoauouvf - - . . --B-l ----- on tne part oi tne cuniyo"'" - cnvflrnmAnt as will crive it the rig"' ?t -Jlnna tO Br- at once institute pruuccu"B- olose its mortgage lien." In a.lHilinn tn tho abOV Stated i . , ? l.nnart 1 DC imniHnri.'uu mainriitir .inuun.j tuere win mature - i icn'n .-omQinina priDf-l oi soon suDsiay nonas u ho mat y.v tha onvflrnmPDt The' " - n ' T . . . a.i vMni,a til nun nun ni wuiw- - nun. mill nrn nn hiuhiuuii v p;. o.,j oi nnn nnn on account the Central Faoiflo Company. . ii. . rtnajt. i-i n 1 1 ii'nn aian an nil. son line -teamship Volo it at Wingu, off the coait oi o" The crew and passengers were M The Volo was a sorew steamer M Hull in 1890, registering 841 ton"1" 1 jf