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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (March 25, 1897)
Lincoln County Leader J. P. STEWAICT. fuhlUlier. TOLEDO OREGON CURRENT EVENTS OFTHE DAY Comprehensive Kevlew of the Tmportnnt Happenings of the Past Week Culled From the Telegraphlo Columns. Five men were injured, two fatally, in a railroad accident nt La Grange, 111. A meat train bound for Hammond jumped the truck on the Bolt Line of the Chicago, Hammond & Western road. The engine was ditched, two of the cars were telescoped, and the re mainder of the train thrown from the trout A small band of unemployed work men have begun the construction of a boulevard in Golden Gate Park, San Francisco, to pay for which pnblic sub scriptions have been taken. Ex-Mayor Sutro warned the workmen to keep off his land, and as the boulovard extends across Sutro's property, work had to be suspended. Sutro has promised to siga a deed for the strip, however. miss Blanche Berard, the oldest postmistress in tho country, who has held office for a half century, has re signed. Administrations and presi dents changed, postmaster-generals came and went, postoffices were reor ganized and reclassified, great political upheavals annihilated every branch of the government, but she remained un disturbed at West Point, N. Y. A Havana special to the Now York World says: Through Cubans here it is learned that a train carrying Spanish troops was blown upbydynamitu while passing over a deep gorge south of Can delaria, Piiiar del Itio province, and neary 250 soldiers were killed or in jured. The locomotive and six cars were demolished. The tragedy occurred about the 10th inst. In the executive session of the senate, Senator Stewart offered an amendment to the Alaskan boundury treaty, which is in the nature of a substitute for the provision for ascertaining the meridian. It provides for tho survey of the whole boundary line, but fixes definitely the boundary as provided in the treaty of 1857. The boundary lino in that treaty is incorporated in tho amend ment of Senator Stewart, and, if car ried, is made a part of tho treaty. - Governor Rogers, of Washington, has Issued his Arbor day proclamation, recommending that Friday, April 80, 1897, be devoted by the people of Washington to planting trees, shrubs and vines and in other ways beautify ing their homes. In connection with the governor's proclamation, State Su perintendent Brown has prepared a programme to be rendered in the dif eront grades of the public schools from the first to the grammar grade, inclu sive. The report that the O. R. & N. Co. was contemplating an extension of its lines to the Kootenai country has been officially denied at the offices in Port land. No such enterprise is at present nndcr consideration. The Mississippi river is on the rise. At Memphis it has reached 30.3, the highest record since tho establishment of the weather bureau. Along the low lands of Arkansas there is great suffer ing among people who have been driven from their homes by tho oncoming wa- vvrs. A Missouri Pacific passenger train ran into a bunch of horses near Wolf Creek, Kan. Tho engineer and fire man were killed and a score of others injured, mostly train employes. All the cars but tho sleepers were over turned. The passengers escaped with comparative ease. In revengo for being ejected from trains, tramps caused a wreck on tho Louisville fc Nashville railway this morning. They spiked a switch, do railing and demolishing a freight train and causing heavy damage. The tramps had intended wrecking the Chi cago limited. They have been cap tured. Postmaster-General Gary has made tho definite announcement that the ad ministration had decied to adhere to the four-years-tenure-of-omee policy for all postmasters, except in a few cases where removal or cause was required on account of delinquency, incompe tency or unsatisfactory conduct of ad ministration of office. Professor J. B. MeMastrrs, of the university of Pennsylvania, will arrive in Chicago this week with a hundie of manuscripts of tho new school history or tho tinted States, in which patriot ism is the keynote. Tho making of this history has been undertaken at the urgent request of a committee of the Grand Army of the Republic, An expedition is to be sunt to North eastern Asia and Northwestern America to discover if possible tho ancestry of tho American Indian. Morris .lessup, president of the American Museum of Natural History of New York, is the originator of the expedition, and will pay all the bills connected with it, which during the six years of it con tinuance, will reaeh considerably over 150,000. A Polish Centenarian. Chicago, March 22. Adam Adam- J icek, a Pole, has just celebrated his j 112th birthday. His wife is still liv- ing and is 87 vcars of age. Both are i almost totally blind, and yet their gen eral health otherwise is remarkably good. Adamicek is believed to be the oldest man in Chicago, and as far as known tho oldest in the United States. Until recently, none but the parish priest and his Polish neighbors knew his remarkable story, although his habitation had stood in the stretch of muddy prairie near the railroads for over thirty years. Adamicek's abnormally large head, his short stature and bent form gave him a brownie-like appearance. This is heightened by a surprising activity. His long gray hair straggles out from under a poked hat, and he wearB a thin gray beard. For the last twelve years, ever since he passed the century mark, Adamicek has remained within his muddy cabin. His musolcs are not shrunken, nor his form shriveled. It is pitiful to see the uncertainty which his blindness gives to his walk, but he steps firmly about the house and the palisaded enclosure. The old man is an inveterate sniifftaker, and has smoked nearly all his life. He has not been a total abstainer from liquors, Kan Into an Open Bridge. Chattanooga, March 22. News has just been received here from Colo City, Ga., of a terrible railroad accident there at noon. A switch engine of the Dade Coal Company, running between the j mines and the iurn.ii.LB, ran into an ; open bridge, washed away by high wa ter. Hie locomotive plunged down an embankment, carrying with it the en- pineer, oiewart, ann uie nreman, agie. I The locomotive turned upside down, : and tho coal from the firebox fell across the engineer's breast. The fireman was pinned to the side of the cab, and could not render Stewart aBsintance. Stewart begged the fireman to kill him. Stewart was burned to death. Bartender Let Him Drink. St. Joseph, Mo., March 22. "Either , give me whisky, or I'll drink this," ex- j claimed Frank Lewis, 26 years old, as he stood before the bar of a saloon this j afternoon holding a small phial in his hand and addressing the barkeeper who ' had asked him to pay for a round of . drinks. The barkeeper did not see fit ; to forgive the debt and Lewis poured the contents, three ounces of carbolic ; acid, down his throat. Lewis was carried to the police station, where he died in a few minutes in horrible agony. His father is one of the i wealthiest business men of King coun- ty, Mo. No reason is assigned for this act. ! A Bay Collision. Sun Francisco, March 22. A colli- ' sion, fortunately unattended by loss of life, occurred on the bay this afternoon between the stern-wheeler Sunol, bound for Napa, and the bark Olympic, in ward bound from Philadelphia, while the latter was beating up tho harbor. Although the Sunol's engine-room was wrecked, she only partly filled, and was towed to the flats. Her passengers and crew escaped by climbing over the bows of the Olympic, after bIio crashed into the steamer. The accident was due to carelessness of the Sunol's cap- tain, who tried to cross the Olympic's, bows li llled by His Brother. San Luis Obispo, Cal., March 22. : P. H. Dalidet, jr., one of the best-' known business men of this county, i and member of a well-known and : highly respected family of this city, was fatally shot by his younger brother, j John Dalidet, at the family residence yesterday. The shooting was the re sult of a family difference. The tragedy caused a big sensation hero, owing to tho prominence of the family. Spanish Defeat In Philippines. New York, March 23. A special cablo to the Herald from Manilla says 2,000 troops under Solodo were led on March 9 by tho native guides into an ambush near a strong position occupied by the rebels. The latter, 8,000 in i number, attacked the Spaniards and defeated them. Tho Spaniards re treated in confusion, nfter almost a hand-to-hand fight. The extent of the Spanish loss is unknown. Purls Has a Genuine Duel. Paris, March 22. A duel with swords was fought this afternoon in the park of St. Quen, between the Chev alier Pinea, master of the Italian school of arms, and M. Thomageux, a French amateur swordsman. The meeting which excited intense interest, arose from a letter insulting Pinea as the out romo of a recent assault at arms. Thomageux was wounded in the face. Misery of Turkish Troops. Constantinople, March 22. The Im perial Ottoman bank advanced only at the last moment the 600,000 required bv tho porte formilitarv exiionses. Th j misery of the Turkish troops is intense. xiu-ir wages nnVe noi oeen paui lor the last nine months, and many officers are selling their arms and uniforms to get food. The Largest Schooner. Bath, Me., March 22. Tho schooner Frank A. Palmer, the largest of its class on the high seas, was successfully launched here this morning. The ves sel measures 261 foot on the keel, and from the end of the jibboora to the end ef the spinnaker 413 foot. Ex- ONLY FOUR WERE RESCUED Terrible Experience of Those on the Ill-Fated Ville Ste. Nazaire Whs ITnseaworthy When She Left Port. New York, March 22. Of eigty-two persons comprising the passengers and crew of the steamer Ville Ste. Nazaire, which sailed from this port March 6 for Port au Prince, 'Hayti, only four are known to have survived the disas ter which befell the craft a few hours later. These four passed through an experience such as fortunately has been the lot of but few, seeing one after an other of the thirty-one others who left the steamer in a large boat perish of exposure to the cold or die of hunger, some suffering, during the seven days in which they drifted helplessly with out sail or compass, pangs that drove them to madness bclui'o Jcul.li vuwu to their relief. Among the survivors is SenorTagado, a San Domingian, who was compelled to witness tlu) death of his wife and four children without being able to al leviate their sufferings. What became 0f ti)0 forty-four persons besides these mentioned above can onlv be surmised. although there is a remote possibility that ono or more of the three boats in which they left the sinking steamer in the midst ot a fierce 8torm off Cnpe tinrtrn im wn r,i,.fcn,l ii n Viv a an Si. ing vessel The Ville Ste. Nazaire was a single- screw bark-rigged steamer of 2,640 tons register. She was owned by the Com pagnie Trans-Atlontique Generale. The accident vividly recalls the fateof the same company's steamer Ville de Havre, which went down November 23, 1873, with 226 people on board. The Ville Ste. Nazaire was commanded by Cap tain Juguena, a sailor of experience and ability. Hard weather was experienced from the time the steamer left this port until the water began pouring into and over her, and it was determined to abandon her. The passengers and crew took four boats, the fifth having been crushed in the attempt to lower it. There had been no time to provision the boats. It was night, and in the midst of a storm the transfer was made. ! Captain Berri, manager of the West Indian line of the Compagnie Trans Atlantique Generale, was one of the 85 men who embarked in the larger of the boats, and upon him developed the command of that frail refuge for so many souls. He, Senor Tagado, Lautz, the third engineer, and Maire, the ship's doctor, are the only ones surviv ing. They were brought to Perth Am boy yesterday by the schooner Hilda, which came upon them March 14, as they were drifting at sea with the dead bodies of four of their fellow-passengers in a small boat. The survivors were almost dead from starvation and expo sure, and were too weak to relieve the small boat of the weight of the corpses. The four rescued men were brought to this city from Perth Amboy in the tug Idlewild last night. Captain Berri is being attended bv Dr. L. Deplezze. who entertains doubts of his recovery, and declares that he must have endured most terrible harships. The Ste. Nazaire cleared from New York for Port au Prince on March 6. I On Ihe following day, according to the ! story told by one of the survivors, the j leak was discovered, but it was not ' thought to be sufficiently serious to war- j runt a return to port. By the middle ; of the second day, however, the leak j had inoreased to a dangerous extent, ; and a portion of the cargo on the port . side of the vessel was damaged by the water, which had commenced to ponr in in great quantities. A terrible , storm arose on the night of the second day, and the heavy seas, together with the big leak, rendered the escape of the vessel from shipwreck an impossibility. Realizing that the ship was doomed, ! the captain ordered the four lifeboats to be lowered, and into them crowded ' the passengers and crew. The boats j were soon swept apart by the wind and ! waves. The boat which was found by the Hilda six days after the sinking of the i steamship is the only one of the four j boats that has been heard of. Thirty-; five persons, it is said, were crowded j into the boat from whioh the survivors I were taken. One by one all but the i : four rescued men died from exposure or I j hunger, or were swept into the deep by waves which broke over the small boat. ! The bodies of the dozen who died in the boat during the first days of its ter rible voyage were thrown over board by the survivors. But those who with-' stood the elements and managed to live without lood or drink, at last became too weak to rid the boat of its ghastly i freight, and were compelled for days to ( gaze upon tho stiffened corpses of their i unfortunate companions. Agent Forget, ! of tho French line, is doing all in his power to make the survivors comforta-1 ble. I Captain Berri, who is 55 years of age and a trusted employe of the French j line, is under tho care of a doctor, i An Ocean Tragedy of ceptional Horror. at-.ii iimwiuu aim uio iuub la mo same condition. THE BILL REPORTED. Tariff Debate Will Continue Five Dajs House ltules Agreed Upon. Washington, March 22. This was a stormy day in tho house of representa tives. The Republican leaders, before, adjournment, secured the adoption of a special order fixing the limits of the tariff debate, and two of the regular appropriation bills which failed to be come laws at the last session were passed and sent to the senate. The sundry civil bill carried $53,147, 551, and the general deficiency bill $8,166,214. The galleries were thronged and there was hardly a vacant seat on the floor. At times partisan feeling ran high, and the hall echoed the cheers of the majority or opposition as their re spective spokesmen made effective points. All the premonitory symptoms that the house was about to plunge into the work before it ceased when the speaker rapped the members to order today. The desks were piled high with the ap propriation bills that failed. Immediately after the reading of the journal, Dingley, amid some applause, reported the tariff bill. After a good deal of crossfiring be tween Dingley and McMillin, it was finally arranged that 5,000 extra copies of the majority and minority reports, and also 5,000 copies of a comparative statement of the tariff, should be printed. Dalzell, from the committee on rules, presented the special rules under which the house was to operate during the tariff debate. The rules provided that general debate will continue five days, with night sessions, after which the bill should be open to amendment un der the five-minute rule (committee amendments to have precedence), un til March 81, when the bill, with pend ing amendments, should be reported from the committee of the whole and the previous question be considered as orrdered, on the third reading and final passage of the bill. The rules also gave leave to print for twenty days. Dalzell demanded the previous ques tion, which was ordered by a strict party vote, the Populists voting with the Democrats. In deference to the request of the minority, Dalzell agreed to an extension of debate on the general order to be thirty minutes on a side. The Senate Proceedings. Washington, March 22. The first copy of the senate calendar was on the desks of senators today. The two Pa eiflo railroad bills, reported yesterday, were numbered 1 and 2. These and Turpie's resolution for the election of senators by the people constituted the calendar. The claim ot Edward Addicks to a seat us senator from Delaware made its reappearance by a petition from Ad dicks, presented by BurrowB of Michi gan. Following this, Chandler presented a memorial from Governor W. P. Lord and the secretary of Btate of Oregon, detailing the circumstances of the, re cent failure of the legislature of that state to organize and elect a senator. The document stated that as a result of this failure, no session of the Oregon legislature had been held, since Feb ruary, 1895. The purpose of the I memorial was to establish the right of I the governor to appoint a senator. The memorial, like Addicks' petition, was referred to the committee on privileges and elections. The early opening of the tariff work in the Benate was indicated by the agreement to a resolution for the prepa ration of a comparative statement on revenue questions and for an increase of the clerical staff of the finance com mittee. A resolution by Gear was agreed to, calling on the attorney-general for in formation as to the Pacific railroad foreclosure suits. A resolution by Pettigrew for a com mittee of five senators to look into the Pacific railroads questions, was re ferral. At 12:50 the senate went into executive session on the arbitration treaty, and at 4 o'clock adjourned. Senator Davis, chairman of the com mittee on foreign relations, spoke at length in the executive session of the senate today, presenting the views of the majority of the committee favorable to the arbitration treaty, and he was listened to with the utmost attention by the senators. AFTER TWENTY YEARS. A. Husband Returns to Find His Wife in Kntckerboekers. Vineland, N. J., March 22. Twenty years ago Captain Moses Lucas went away. Ho was not heard from and it was supposed he was dead. When lie went away he left behind a wife and dauglUer. They have continued to work the farm which gave them sup port. To facilitate movement about the fields and barnyard they donned many years ago a more fitting style of dress for that work than skirts. Since knickerbockers became fashionable they have mollified their dress to knicker bockers. Lucas suddenly returned and in a carriage was driven to the door. Mrs. Lucas answered and in a minute she and the stranger were clasped in each other's arms, the man being her long- Lucas is laid te have become wealthy. Incipient Insanity. SICK AND AILING GIRL-Hf! MOTHER'S ADVICE. t An Interesting; Story Told Vntirt lifjie barrassing Clreumstuiires.'jt j From the Express, Los Angeles, ('alitor,, I The interviewer's lines somctijf fall in queer places. People who;' to be talked to may be in all aorta LE conditions and frames of mind, but fl.J J cannot conceive a muph mni-i imk,.. i V ing thing for all parties concerned M9? an assignment to interview a mother a two days' old infant. Sumo thingsa too sacred for even the callous n. paper man to lightly ignore. But Mr C. C. Reeder had a story to tell .. 1 Ko Me! night victir. four their wjiilf trestl the p child yonn iTh this paper wanted that story. The baij was asleep, ana tne motlier express! ushered into the room. Mrs. Reeder used to be Johan Rinker, and lived for several yean Riverside, Cal. She was u domesi ana woruea very nara. Perhaps itt; mo urn, peruaps uie onmate, at if 4j,,i ( events, she fell sick. . Doctors ail cnti medicines did her no good. Her a; rjver petite vanished. Steep elndH hc;10t night, always and ever that drcaJh', "TV. reeling or lassitude and depression, si 6 heav familiar to women, made itself appam midi Nort whic the i Ont to her. And then she began to it? agine things. One night while driv'n across a bridge that she knew perfect!' well was there, she cried out in frigl Because sue could see nothing. Ti in tl doctors might call this insanity, btf and until the hallucinations and delusioi. iest atre: On grow to be a menace to life or pan not much heed is paid to the Imagining of weakly girls. upui Last spring Mrs. Reeder, for she hi? and married in the meantime, concluded ti t visit her old home at Daleville, lml. t 1 and it was while thero that her mother! at I Mrs. Caroline Leaser, told her of tli,! as t wonderful properties of Dr. Williams! snui Pink Pills for Palo People. Mr?.' flov Reeder began to take them. When 1 started in she could not walk the threw fori quarters of a mile to the postofficc, sht' flvs was so weak. In about three weeks slit, 'hVi took according to directions about rm' ijea boxes of the pills, and at the expire! qbti tion of that time could go down intc rfco town and come back and do a big day'sj bar washing over the tub at her liomcfobn Her blood came back into the pal lie' cheeks, sleep once again refreshed hel tpe at night, the cold sweats left, and M J could eat and enjoy all the pleasure? suf and diversions of life where before sh rel had been averse to society and amurf noi ments of nil kinds. The awful notion.' opt and hallucinations left her, her brait tfc again resumed its normal functions! gt From that time to now she has tatai f no medicine and sue is well in au spects. "See my baby, God bless its heart, said the proud mother. it is strong and healthy as any baby eve born. It weighed nine pounds." A it lay there, its little pink fists olenchy ed over its thumbs, its little eye. puckered up in sleep, a bundle of pink! satiny infantile loveliness, thero cool' j be little doubt of the physical health of its parents. f ), Mrs. Reeder lives at a cottage nam-'' 1 bered 407 East Pico street, W Angeles, Cal., and the last wors slut said were, "Oh, you are perfectly ex t cusable. I am just as glad to endor A Dr. Williams' Pink Pills as you carl X possibly be to hear my story. If al!( suffering women only knew their poweit J and good, there would be leBs sieknepsf T, and misery in the world, I'm sure jj Good-bye." I j Dr. Williams' Pink Pills contain.0, in a condensed form, all the element j, necessary to give new life and richne j, to the blood and restore shattered t nerves. They are also a specific fort suppressions, irregularities and si! forms of weakness. They build up tin blood, and restore the glow of health t pale and sallow cheeks. In men the; effect a radical cure in all cases ariainf from mental worry, overwork or ex cesses of whatever nature. Pink Pill? are sold in boxes (never in loose bulk at 50 cents a box or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all druggists, ot direct by mail from Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Schenectady, N. Y Roentgen ray photographs weread , mitted as evidence in a Denver, Col., t; court recently. f-t HOME I'UODUCTS AND PURE FOOD. -1 AU Eastern flvrnrt. sosllpd. usiisllv varTf light colored and of lietivv body, is maile from . glucose, "'if a tjarrim tiripn" is miide (mm-;1 buititr One and Is strictly pure. It Is for snl'i' i by rirM-elsts trrocers. In csnsonlv. Mrtnin'ac-S tured bv the Pacific Coast Sykcp ('o. All f en-i uine "fen unnlin Drim" have the nianufscj turcr's name lithographed on every can. I believe my prompt use of Tiso's Curt prevented quick consumption. Mrs. l.iii'J Wallace, Marquette, Knns., Uec. 12, 18SIS. We can afford to say: "Get every sort of Schil ling's Best tea of your gro cer, and get your money back on what you dqVt like." Your tea-trade for the rest of your life is worth the risk and there is no risk. A Sdulliut & Compxnf en I'll CO) th Te I 1