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Lincoln Goanty Leader
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TOLEDO OREGON
Comprehensive Itevlew of the Important
Happenings nf tile Iast Week t'tillml
From the Telegraphic Column.
A Louisville & Nashville express
train was held up by a lone robber,
who secured about $4,000.
Mrs. Henry Scott, of Chicago, and
Mrs. Maria Hay, formerly of Chicago,
were killed by a runaway at Du
buque, la.
John II. Moss and Levan Berg have
been arrested in Seattle, charged with
the murder of Michael J. Lyons, the
Port Blakely saloonkeeper.
Charles Peterson, a Swedish laborer
bout 25 years old, committed suicide
on a farm near Ellensburg, by cutting
his throat with a pocket knife.
President W. H. Cromwell, of the
Blackburn university, and instructor in
Latin, has resigned, to take the Latin
ohair in Puget Sound university, Taco
ma. John Quincy Adams, a Northern Pa-
cino switchman, while running over
ine tops 01 cars at Missoula, Mont., slid
and fell between the cars and was
killed.
Louis Sickmiller was instantly killed
and Albert Sickmiller, Charles Faille
and George Steinhelder fatally injured
by the Erie fast express near Mans
field, O.
The River Knr has overflowed its
banks near the railroad depot of Naw
thig, Russia. Nineteen men belong
ing to the Nijni Novgorod dragoons
were drowned.
Every boat brings to Port Townsend
men to look over the proposed fo lifica
tions sites with a view to bid for the
oontraots for construction. All the
Western, as well as several Eastern and
Southern states are represented.
A meeting of representatives of Q.
A. R., Loyal Legion and Woman's Re
lief Corps, has been held at Indianap
olis, Ind., to perfect plans for the erec
tion of a monument and care of the
grave of Nancy Hanks Lincoln, mother
of Abraham Lincoln, in Spencer coun
ty, this state.
Christian Ross died of heart disease,
at his home in Philadelphia. He was
the father of Charley Ross, and up to
hig last illness Mr. Ross never gave up
the searoh for his missing boy, whose
abduction startled Philadelphia on July
1,1874, and becume an unsolved mys
tery the world over.
A terrible explosion of a torpedo on
the Moxican International, near Eagle
Pass, Tex., completely wreoked a loco
motive and killed the engineer and fire
man. A sidewalk collapsed in Chioago and
100 people, mostly children were
thrown to the ground, ten feet below.
A number were seriously injured and
one fatally.
Mrs. Know, wife of J. W. Know,
living near Latah, Wash., gave birth
to three girls and one boy. Eaoh child
is well formed and weighs 4' pounds.
Mother and children are doing well.
The walls of a saloon gave way with
out warning in Watortown, S. D., bury
ing a number of persons in the ruins.
The place was crowded at the time.
The work of olearing away the debris
resulted in the finding of one body.
Five others were seriously injured.
It has been discovered that the act of
the last session of the Colorado legisla
ture in regard to negotiable instru
ments, repealed the statute establish
ing the Fourth of July, Thanksgiving,
Christmas, New Year's, Washington's
birthday and Memorial day as legal
holidays.
A mob of 300 infuriated peasants at
Odessa, Russia, seized and savagely
lynched one Dunkirk, a murderer, who
wag being conveyed by the police to
jail. Dunkirk was charged with the
commission of 13 murders. The po
lice have arrested 35 ringleaders of the
lynching party.
Alma Fullmer, 10 years old, has been
convicted of theft, and ordered sent to
the reform school at Whittier, Cal.
From the bottom of a mortar 1kx she
took an old plank, with which to build
a playhouse. She was convicted of
petty larceny by an Alameda judge,
anil now Bhe is behind the bars await
ing her removal to the reform school.
A telegram received in Seattle from
United States Senator Wilson suvs that
plans for the fortilications at Magnolia
bluff, the army post near Seattle, have
been approved, and an assignment of
$400,000 made. General Weeks, quar-termaster-general
United States army,
haa been ordered to Seattle, and direct
ed to proceed with the work immedi
ately. Tho basement and entire lower por
tion of the postofrW building in Port
land, Or., was wrecked by a terrific ex
plosion of gas Monday. The head jani
tor, whose thoughtlessness caused the
explosion by taking a lighted candle
into the basement, was severely burned
about the head and arms. A clerk in
the stamp department was also hurt,
but not seriously.
GHnrnoFiD
M'KINLEY AND LABOR UNIONS.
The President Khows Ills Friendliness
Toward Them.
New York, June 28. A Washington
dispatch to the Journal says:
"I regard the organization of labor as
the natural and legitimate effort to se
cure its rights," said President McKin
ley today.
This strong declaration in favorof or
ganized labor was made in the course
of a conversation with Samuel Gom
pers, president of the American Federa
tion of Labor, and Frank Morrison, the
secretary of the organization. Gompers
and Morrison came to the White House
at 4 o'clock. They were admitted at
once and the meeting became so inter
esting that the president neirlected his
drive. For an hour, labor interests
and labor legislation were discussed in
all their various phases. The anti
pooling bill, to restrain the operation
of pools and trusts, caused the labor
people some anxiety. Gompers ex
plained that the labor organization'
were afraid that they themselves would
be classed as trusts, and the penal ites
of the act applied to them, rather than
to the large combinations usually
known as trusts. He thought, nn
amendment should be made specifically
exempting labor unions. President Mc
Kinley agreed that labor onions should
be protected, and spoke of measures in
which he had taken an interest in
former years. He did not, however,
seem to think there was much danger
of their being classed as trusts or sub
jected to penalties.
"Unless you believe as some peopie
do," said Gompers, "that labor union
are an evil, I think you will agree
with me that their existence is being
endangered by this bill."
"I do not desire to be classed with
those who consider trade unions an
evil," replied Mr. McKinley, and he
emphasized it with the words At tho ho.
ginning of this dispatch.
BURNED AND SANK.
Fate wt
the Lumber Schooner
Appii
and Amelia.
New York, June 28. Fathoms deep
on a bed off the treachnrnnn FWiHa
Keys lies the charred hnlk of tin.
American schooner Appia and Amelia,
wnicn Durnea to the water's edge and
sank June 15. Hor mmtuin w n
Williard, and his orew of eight men!
wno Dareiy escaped with their lives
from the burnimr vessel inat o;n,i
here on the Mallory liner Concho.
The Annia and Ameliu mili mi r,i
the port of Pascagoula, Miss., June 3.
bound for this port. Lumber filled
every available space below decks, and
it was piled high on the decks. When
the fire broke out near the after hatch,
Jnue 15, Captain Willard was deter
mined to save his schooner if possible,
and while three men were told to form
a bucket brigade, the others with their
felt hats soaked with water and drawn
down over their faces, to protect them
from the heat, made a bold dash at the
smoking hatch, succeeding in tumbl
ing the lumber overboard, while their
mates kept them drenched with water
drawn from the sea.
It was all in vain, however, for the
flames crept along the deck beams and
burst from the forward hatch. It was
then apparent that the schooner was
doomed, and the longboat was hastily
provisioned. Without waiting even to
secure the ship's papers, her skipper
and crew piled into the boat and were
soon afloat. Thpv were nicboil nn Vtv
a pilot boat and landed at Key West,
iiere iney obtained passage on the
Concho.
To Spread the Gospel.
San Francisco, June 98. The Morn
ing Star, with its captain and crew of
Christians, is ready to make another
tour among the cannibal islands of the
South seas. The vessel will be manned
by men who will preach the gospel to
the natives. Three vounir ladies will
also go out as missionaries. They will
make their future residence on some
of tho little islands, where tlnv ivill
continue their work for life.
The Morning Star is a barkentine
riggod vessel with auxiliary steam en
gine, and is owned and maintained by
the American board of missions.
The ladies of the party areMiss Cha
pin, who will start a training school
on Kosale, of the Caroline group, and
Miss Bon kill Logan, who has been at
tending school in Buffalo. Miss Logan
will join her mother on the Caroline
group, and take up kindergarten work
among the natives.
Third-Class Wool.
Washington, June 28. After a con
test lasting throughout the dav, the
senate completed the paragraphs'of the
wool schedule relating to raw wool nd
advanced to the features relating to
manufactured woolen goods. The day
was devoted largely to a discussion of
the effect of the rates on the price of
wool, and the speeches were on techni
cal lines in the main.
Quay made a strong effort to have
the ad valorem rates on third-class wool
adopted, but he was defeated, 19 to 41.
The committee rates were then
agreed to, vi: Four cents per pound
on third-class wool valued at 10 cents
or less per pound, and 7 cents per
pound on third-class wool valued abnva
7 cents per pound. The schedule wag
completed up to paragraph 364, relat
ing to cloths knit fabric, etc
Pension Measure Favorably
Reported.
THE SURVIVORS MADE HAPPY
The Bill Provides for Tensioning- Sur
vivors of Orugon and Washington
Wars of 1847 and 1856.
Washington, Jnne 28. The senate
committee on nensinns has rerjorted a
general bill for amending an act grant
ing pensions to survivors of Indian
wars. The bill was introduced by
Senator McBride, and provides for pen
sioning the survivors of the Oregon and
Washington wars of 1847 and 1856.
Senator Gallinger, who made the re
port, said:
"It will be gratifying to the Indian
war veterans to receive a mesance thnr.
this bill has been favorably reported,
ana that this long-delayed act of jus
tice is in process of settlement.
These veLerans average lis vooria nlilor
than the veterans of the late civil war,
and that statement alone is sufficient
to show that at least the hnnntv nf tho
lovernment can be bestowed upon them
for a very brief time."
Of the Cayuse war the report says:
There were 682 volunteers and no
regular troops engaged.
The estimate as to Cayuse war is
based upon the percentage of survivors
of the Mexican war and widows of sol
diers of that war, who are now alive
ind have pensionable service, the Cay
use war having occurred while the
Mexican war was in progress.
It is shown that 12 per cent of claims
filed by Mexican war survivors and 10
per cent filed bv soldiers' widows hv
been rejected on conditions that do not
enter into the Indian war act, towit, a
service of less than 60 davs and acre
limit, etc.
Taking this estimate and computing
with the American table of mortality,
there should be 144 survivors and 82
widows now living.
These volunteers were not miint.prpd
into the United States service, but un
der a subsequent act of congress the
state oi uregon was reimbursed for
their service by the United States.
The following is what the rnnnrt.
of the Oregon and Washington terri
tory wars:
The war department rennrta Hint. RKfi
regulars were engaged, and the auditor
for the war department 6,897 militia.
Of the regulars probably 75 per cent,
or 637. served in the Mexican ur ami
other wars, leaving 213, and of the mi-
niia zu per oent, or 1,276, served in
other wars or rendered more than one
service in the Oregon and AVashington
territory wars, leaving 5,103 militia;
a total of regulars and militia of 5,316.
Of this number deduct 6 Der cent, nr
319, for desertion and casualties.
which would leave 4,997 survivors at
close of the wars.
From an examination nf a nnmhor nf
claims it appears that these survivors
Bnouiu now be 65 years of age, and
from the American table of mortality
48 per cent, or 2,899, are now living .
ine numoer or. widows is baBed upon
the pe-centage of widows of Mexican
war soldiers who are living, which
would show 1,840 widows of soldiers of
Oregon and Washington territory dig.
romances living.
THE CUBAN ELECTION.
Cuban Exiles In America May Vote for
Representatives.
New York, June 28. Cubans who
live in the United States. pn,l
been contributing toward the expenses
in ine war, are to have a voice in the
direotion of affairs of the young repub
lic, whoso constitutional asseiublv is to
meet at Caniaguay September 2. There
will be a general election of members
of the assembly before long throughout
those parts of Cuba whom tho i..
gents are strong enough to hold one.
aim u naa ueen decided that represen
tatives may be elected Viv rnh,.n. ;.,
the United States.
Orders will be issued containing all
details as to nnllinir tho vnto on v..
Cuban above 16 years old who two
months previoug to the election has
contributed a certain
oause of the patriots will be entitled to
vote, as to the nominations, they are
not yet made.
The local junta is issuing a fine sou
venir coin to commemorate the strug
gle. It is the same sixw m tU tt..;. i
- a wiu UlllbCU
States dollar, and containg the nam
amount of silver. This coin will be sent
to different bankers in this city who
are in sympathy with the cause, and
any customer who is willing to acoept
one for $1 will get it.
Killed In a Rossland Mine.
, If8.A"gL'lcs' J,,ne 28 Manacer
Jack illiams, of the Columbia opera
company, who is now in this city, re
ceived a telegram from Frank 1 urtisg
a member of the company, now at
Rossland, B. C, which states that Cur
tiss wife, who also was a member of
the company, and known on the stage
as Pauline Williams, was killed in a
mine shaft at Rossland. The couple
were married in San Francisco two
weeks ago, and were on their wedding
trip. The identity of the girl is not
known, even to her husbani, who ask
Williams for information.
CORBETT'S CLAIM.
Further Consideration Has Been Post
poned l.ntil Next Session.
Washington, June 28. The senate
committee on nrivileces and elections
today cosidered the report prepared by
Senator Hoar in the case of Hon. H.
W. Corbett, recommending that Cor
bett be seated as senator from Oregon.
The committee declined to act upon the
report, but ordered that it be printed
for the use of the committee, together
with any views which might be sub
mitted by the members opposing Cor
bett. The result of this proceeding1 will be
to postpone further consideration of
the Corbett claim until the next session.
The Union Pacific Question.
Washington. June 25. The senate
committee on Pacific railroads today
agreed to report favora bly a resolution
introduced by Senator Harris, of Kan
sas, expressing the sense of the senate
that the United States should redeem
the Union Pacific from prior liens and
take steps to foreclose the government
mortgage.
- The resolution was amended by the
addition of a provision at the instance
of Senator Morgan, requesting that the
president suspend proceedings to carry
into effect an agreement alleged to
have been made to sell the interest of
the United States in the Union Paoific
railroad and in the sinking fund until
the further action of congress had refer
ence thereto.
The action of the committee was
unanimous.
THE HOUSE CHAIRMANSHIPS.
Speaker Reed Will Name the Heads of
the Committees.
New York, June 28. A special to
the Journal from Washington says:
Speaker Reed will name his commit
tees the day the present session closes.
The new list of the most important
chairmanships of committees is given
below:
Accounts, B. B. O'Uell, New York;
agriculture, J. W. Wadsworth, New
York; appropriations, J. G. Cannon,
Illinois; banking and currency, J. H.
Walker, Massachusetts; claims, C. N.
Brumm, Pennsylvania; District of Co
lumbia, J. W. Babcock, Wisconsin;
coinage, weights and measures, C. W.
Stone, Pennsylvania; education, G. A.
Grow, Pennsylvania; elections, No. 1,
L. W. Royce, Indiana; eleotions, No.
2, G. W. Prince, Illinois; election of
president, vice-president and represen
tatives, W. C. Arnold, Pennsylvania;
enrolled bills, A. L. Hager, Iowa; for
eign affairs, R. R. Hitt, Illinois; im
m gration, R. Barthoidi, Missouri; In
dian affairs, J. Sherman, New York;
interstate, W. P. Heppburn, Iowa; in
valid pensions, Wiltred S. Kerr, Ohio;
judioiary, D. B. Henderson, Iowa; la
bor, J. J. Gardner, New Jersey; manu
factures, G. W. Farris, Indiana; mer
chant marine and fisheries, Sereno E.
Payne, New York; military, J. A. T.
Hull, Iowa; militia, B. F. MarBh, mi
nus mines and mining, R. G. Cous
ins, Iowa; naval affairs, C. A. Bou
telle, Maine; Paoific railroads, H. H.
Powers, Vermont; patents, Josiah D.
Hicks, Pennsylvania; pensions, H. C.
Loudenslager, New Jersey; postoffices
and postroads, Eugene F. Loud, Cali
fornia; public buildings and grounds,
David B. Mercer, Nebraska; publio
lands, John F. Lacy, Iowa; railways
and canals, C. A. Chickering, New
York; territories, W. S. Knox, Massa
chusetts; rivers and harbors, W. B.
Hooker, New York; war claims, E. m!
Mahone, Pennsylvania.
Relieved to Have Starved to Death.
San FranciBpo, June 28. Fortune
de Conte, an artiBt, highly educated,
once patronized by New York's aristoc
racy, erstwhile dean of the art depart
ment of the university of Southern
California, and for some months past
an earnest worker here, is dead. P-v.
alysis is given as the cause of death,
but it is believed he was a viotim of
starvation.
Papers found among his effects in
dicate that he was a member of the
famous Orleans family and that his
name was Sainte Salm de Conte. His
father was Carlos de Conte, at one time
ambassador to England, and who died
about 30 years ago.
Three In One Day.
Seattle, June 28. There were three
violent deaths in Seattle and immedi
ate vicinity today. .
A Chinaman, who was a prisoner in
the county jail, borrowed a razor from
the jailor, so that he might shave him
self, but slashed his throat with it and
died instantly.
The second case was that of a 4-year-old
boy who fell into Cedar river, at
Maple Valley, and drowned.
The third was that of an old man
named Skinner, whose body was picked
op on the tideflats this afternoon. He
had probably fallen through the trestle
t night. He had a sister living in
Milwaukee. 8
Storms In Missouri.
Kansas City, June 28.-A passenger
train on the M., K. & T. wad near
Montrose ran into box cars that had
been blown from a sliding, and killed
an unknown man who had sought shel
ter in the carg. Mrs. Rickabaugh wag
instantly killed by lightning near AN
Duny while sitting t Vi,;j a ,
bert. Rooster, 8 aer, was also killed
Large
Ostrich Eggs Fell
MANY WERE SERIOUSLY h'J
Roofs Were Pierced and Dog, ,,,,
Killed Runaways Occurred',, 7
Parts of the City. J ',' '
Topeka, Kan., June 28. The ,,
hail storm known in this section'
Kansas struck this city shortly
o'clock tonight. The shower oil
.. voi, i. iiujimujieB weighing j
16 ounces stripped the trees of their
liage, smashed windows on every ha-'
including the finest plate-glasa tt
fronts: cut down teWmnh .j .',
, o - "t" auu If,
phone -wires, riddled awnings,
many persons and inflicted unpit
dented damage throughout, tho n;..
great was the weight of the falling
ment many of the hailstnn
to the height of 20 and 80 feet i1
were struck in the streets and ioBUn;.
killed. Horses were knocked to
knees, to rise again and dash awaj ;
mad fright. Many runaways occnm
throughout the city. When the (,
of the storm passed, those who tt
tured out found dead birds everyrtp
and on every hand was the scene ofi
wreckage of the storm.
The storm oame from the Bouthw?
Dense. greenish clouds
of disaster, and as the day had be!
extremely not and close, many forem
a cyclone and sought shelter in th(
cellars. The storm came nn vitl
heavy wind and terrifio lightning, u
then came rain, together a with ado!
ening crash of hail that was mnhm
to the senses. So crent. vm tho A.r
age to telegraph wires that the city u
out off from the outside world form
eral hours. Topeka tonight looks lit
a city that has withstood a sieienf.i
guns. There are not a dozen buildiw
in town that are not almost windo
less, and many roofs were caved
Ihe roofs of many structures. k
were pierced. The damage can be it
aginea wnen it is known that the hi
stones raneed in size from that nl
hen's egg to that of an ostrich egg, a
that, 30 minutes after the Btorm m
hailstone was picked up whioh mea-
ured 14 inches in circumference.
Sureeons are busy dressing
til
wounds of persons injured in the store
and reports of injuries continue to k
received. Many were hurt in the m
aways on tne streets.
The damage cannot be estimated, bs
win amount to thousands of dollu
Window glass is already at a premii
here, and tonight three carloads w
ordered from Kansas City. Street
traffic is stopped, and eletric lights
out, owing to demoralization of
eleotric light systems.
Cyclone In Another Section.
Kansas City, June 28. A special I
the Star from Sal inn. Ran., ssvs: i
terrible cyclone passed 15 miles non l
of this city last night So far as heiri
three are dead and a number
ously injured. The dead are:
Mrs. Anna Geesey, aired 84; Kl
Geesey, 18; Ida Geesey, 9.
Four members of this family W
also badly hurt. Mr. Geesey was an;
from home. The remainder of thi
family had retired, and when theston
Btruck they made for their cave. Bt
fore they had gotten out of the hoiF
the tornado had destroyed it.
The wnrlr nf rlAst-iinti
known till this morning, when neigh-
uors iouna tne aead and injured men
bers of the family lying about in tli
debris. The three dead were found
feet away, east of the house, and net
them the body of a girl, alive, bis
buried in hpr wniot in rlif
There are rumors of other casualties,
but particulars are meager.
Intense heat prevails in Central Kac
sas. At Borne points farmers are com
pelled to abandon their harvest work.
BOHANNON BOYS CAUGHT.
Leadvllle Crowd Wanted to Hang Thi
but Were Driven Back.
Leadville, Colo., June 24. Leo rf
Frank Bohannon, who escaped from tl"
custody of the officers and shot
mortally wounded Deputy Fahey, wen
captured this afternoon, two miles be
low Granite by Deputy Sheriff McDon
nell. The officer took the trail tb
morning and about two miles above tbf
town of Granite he caught sight of tb
desperadoes. Returning to Granite, k
secured the services of John Gilbert,"
ranchman, E. Shaul, a deputy, 'J
the trio soon caught up with the B
hannon boys. When they saw the off
cers they made an attempt to dr
their guns, but the officers had the dm!
and they were quickly disarmed W"
shackled.
There was a very large crc ' i
depot when the train arrived.'e J"?'11
in the prisoners. A large ion dep
uties and policemen was cn '.'")'
there had been rumors of trouble. Th
two men were quickly hustled into"
carriage and none ton nnn. for tb
crowd made a rush ami were onL'
driven back after a ihi ),n.lo. Tb
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jail is closely guarded tonight.
Asparaeus is the nl.loat innim nlid
Chunks of Ice as
"ww for food.
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