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About Lincoln County leader. (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1897)
Lincoln County Leader ADRIFT IN A GALE. J. K. HTKWAKT. Publisher. TOLEDO OKKGOS r Comprehensive Itevlew of the Iiuiiortant Happenings of the Past Week Culled Front the Telegraphic Columns. No appointments will bo made by the president during the recoil of con gress except in case of emergency. Da spite the announcement of this fact, the number of visitors at the White IIoubo are unusually large. The long-continued cold and heavy snow of the past month aro beginning to have a serious effect upon sheep in Wyoming, and it is feared that, unless there is a break in the weather soon, the losses will bo heavy. Sheepmen report that a number have alrealy perished. The controller of the currency has received information of tho failure of the First National bank, of Pembina, N. D. The bank has a capital of $50, 000, ami, according to i ta last state ment, had deposits aggregating $95, 000. Bank Examiner Anheiser Inn been placed in charge. Mr. Coffin, the acting controller of the currency has called attention to the fact that the retirement of national bank notes during the first 20 days of Decem ber reached the sum of $3,000,000. This is said to be the first timo during tho last 10 years that the voluntary re. tirement lias reached this amount in any one mouth. After a week of conference in Bos ton, Justices Putnam ami Kins', the commissioners for tho United States ami Canada, respectively, in the arbi tration of the Behring sea claims, have completed their work for the present, Hiid it is understood will soon begin tho preparation of their reports to their respective governments. The first meeting of the National Building Trades Council was held at St. Louis, and was marked by a scath ing denunciation of the American Fed oration of Labor for having passed a resolution at Nashville opposing the formation of the national council. 'J he Federation of Labor opposed the now organization as tending to create n fur ther division in tho ranks of labor. Fireman Martin J. Oakley was killed at a lire in a live story tenement on , East Foity-fouith street, New York city. Oakley was suffocated by Bmoko and escaping gas. Assistant Fireman Thomas Head, James Davis and Peter Connolly, of the same company, were rendered unconscious by inhaling Htnoko and gas, and we're with diffi culty revived. They are in hospitals, ami their condition is serious. While skating on tho ice near Gard ner, Miss., three young people sudden ly broke through, and before assistance could reach them wore drowned. At Tonawanda, N. Y., while a party wero skating, tho ice gave way and precipitated four young people into the water. Three of them were drowned. China approves of tho Russian fleet wintering at Port Arthur, being per suaded that this action is taken in tho interest of China, and necessitated by the German occupation of Kiao Chou. A rato war is on between the various river transportation linos running to Tho Dalles. A reduotion of faro Irom The Dalles to Portland is tho result. This out in rates has been looked for by tho public since tho opposition line was put on, some two months ago. F. M. Gidoon, tho clerk of the gen eral land office, who was referred to by Thomas Heddington in tho testi mony beforo tho senate Pacific railroad committee, Saturday, as having changed tho land-oflloe records po as to throw 6,000,000 acres of government laud to tho Southern Pacitio, has nude dear denial of the charge. A dispatch from Christiania, Nor way, to tho London Chronicle, says the political situation, since tho failure of tho united committee on foreign affairs, has become critical, and it is feared that Sweden will seek an occasion for armed intervention in Norwnv. Tim dispatch adds that the Swedish press impes ior assistance Irom Emperor William. The committee appointed nt the house civil service conference 10 days go to draft modifications of the civil service law nave met and gone over tlio Various lulls iicndmir iiefnm th house. The committee expects to have measure framed by tho time congress reconvenes, its members aro omiosed to tho present law as including too many oinees within Us scope. A freight train of 21 loaded oars traveling down the mountain i ai toomt, Pa., became unmanageable in consequence ot ttio slippery condition of tho tracks, making the 13 miles irom ualltu into Altoonn inns many mniuu-n ami crashing into a freight train directly in front of the passenger u.uimi. adoih oo cars were Com pletely broken up, ami tho Holidavs burg passfimor train.- which nix uiim.l ing on tho track near- tho passenger -mil. hi inrown ovi'r " oh its Aide Three of the train crow were fatally iu Hough Experience of the St-nmer Kai ser V il li el in llor GritNwo. New Ymk, De. 27. The giantess of ocean liners, the Kaiser Willielm der Grosse, of the North German Lloyd line, arrived from Bremen a day late. She brought over 4(!1 cabin and tt'J'A steerage" passengers. The passengers told of a terrible experience. From Cherbourg she met gale after gale. On tho third day out from Cher bourg, while a heavy sea was running and nearly all of the passengers wero seasick in the berths, the ship's ma chinery was eudneiily stopped. Some of the officers thought the niahcinery had broken, others that the engines had (juo to pieces, and still others that the rudder was disabled. After the ponder ous vessel was hove to she began to drift. For eight hours she was adrift till she was Co miles out of her course, when she started again. The facts in the case are tiiat on tho evening of the 19th the head of the main boiler was wabbling, investiga tion showed that one of the steel 'bands had broken off. To prevent the boiler fiuiii Vimuliiii: uiid a puhsihiu explo sion, it was necessary to draw the tiro, stop the ship and allow the parts to cool. Captain Englehart laughed when the idea of danger in conni.ction with the break was mentioned. THE METHOD WAS FIENDISH. Jaeob Weinan Strangled With Cloth lliliuiiieil Itowll His Throat. St. Louis, Deo. 27. A post mortem was belli yesterday on tho remains of Jacob Weinan, who was found dead in his kitchen Friday evening, having been murdered. At the time a towel was found tightly twisted about his throat, but the post niortoui revealed a peculiarly fiendish melhod the mur derers had resorted to. Fur down in the man's throat, tightly imbedded in the bronchial tubes, was a wad of thick cloth, which had been wrapped with horsehair. Fingers could not hnvo reached that far, and a stick was prob ably used to rani the wading down. In 181)3 a soldier at Jefferson barracks was murdered in a similar manner, and the similarity of the murder of Friday with the latter has caused excitement in police circles. TO CONTROL COAL MARKET. Mans of a Great Combine Perming In the Kot. New York, Dec. 27. It has de veloped that a big coal-selling combina tion of tho anthracite railroads where by the production is to be doled out by the supremo head, is only a part of a vast project for control of the entire coal industry in the East. .1. Pierpont Morgan's plan involves tho creation of a similar central selling agency to cover each of tho great bituminous ooal listricts of Pennsylvania, Ohin, West Virginia, Indiana and Illinois and a uniform working arrangement be tween them that shall put a stop to rato cutting and demoralization ot trade. Tho com panics are to agree upon tho proportion each is to mine and haul, and tho buying company is to caU upon them accordingly as fast us it needs coal for the market. TRAIN WRECKERS AT LARGE. Futile Attempt Made to Pilitlt a ltui-1- Ington Passenger. Thayer, la., Dec. 37. An attempt was made between here and Murray last night to throw from the track the Burlington train No. 2. Whether tho attempt was mado for tho purpose of robbery or for maliciousness is not known at present. About U::iu o'clock as the train was approaching the foot of Murray hill, the engine left the track. Fortunately no particular dam age was done to it or to tiie train, nor was anyone on board injured. On ex aminations it was found the track had been tampered with, and footprints of men were seen on tho hill leading away from tho roadbed. Spikes had been )ulled out of tno ties for threo rail lengths, the work being done with a wrench and pinchhar, which had boon stolen from the carhouse at Thayer. Would Almllali Coroner's offlre. New York, Dec. 27. Tho December grand jury handed to Judge llurd, in tho county court today, a recommenda tion that the oflice of coroner be abol ished, because that oflice is of no prac tical effect iu ferreting out crimes; the methods aro open to tho most severe censure; the manner of conducting the business is inetheient, and tiie power of tho coroner is delegated to subordi nates, whoso chief functions seem to be to collect fees incidental to their office for their chief. inml News for Hawaii. Honolulu, Dee, 27. The Mariposa arrived from San Francisco yesterday, bringing news of tho opening of coil press. Kegarding the annexation treaty, tho Hawaiian government re ceived advices from Washington on tho day the steamer sailed, which state that the opposition is not lis strong as indicated in tho press dispatches. Wages In the South lio I p. Birmingham, Ala., Dec. 27. The Ceronna Coal Compai.y and tho Vir ginia & Alabama Coal Company, em ploying about 1,200 coal miner., in Walker county, today announced that January 1. they will advance wages from (10 to 70 cents per ton. Made Known to the State Department. END OF A LONG CONTROVERSY rho Award Is Final, and Disposes or all Cases Itefore tho Commission The Award Nearly Haifa Million. Washington, Dec. 27. Tho findings of tho British-American commission chosen to asscrs the damages for seiz ures of British ships in Behring sea have been received by the stato depart ment and tho British embassy. Tho strictest reticence is maintained, how ever, on the general character of tho findings, though it is admitted the total award against tho United States is 404, 000, which includes principal and in terest. The finding against this gov ernment is no surprise. Tho cnntrn'prr has occupied tho at tention of the authorities hero and in London for the last 11 years. At tho outset the tone of the controversy was belligerent, suggesting a possible re sort to arms. This was following the seizure, by the United States steamer Corwin, of the British seniors Carolina and Thorn ton, on August 1, 1880. The facts of the seizure wero not known until somo time later, and in the mean time, the Corwin had taken the On ward and Favourite. The samo policy of seizure and confiscation occurred during the next scaling season, despite the protests of Great Britain, the United States steamer Hush taking the Sayward, Grace, Anna Pack, Dolphin, Alfred Adams, Triumph, Juuita, Path finder, Black Diamond, Lilly, Arctio and Kate and Minnie, and the cutter Bear taking the Ada. The claims for these seizures took a wide range, beginning with the value of the vessels and outfits, and includ ing not only the value of sealskins con fiscated, but also the skins which might have been taken if the ships had not been seized. This last feature of prospective dimage caused the main contention, in the case of each Brit ish ship, tho largest item of the claim was for estimated future catch. For instance, in the ease of tho Carolina, the claim for tho ship was only $4,000, while that for skins which might have been taken that year it she had not been seized was ' $10,(ti7. Each ship estimated a prospective catch of from 8,500 to 5,000 skins, the valuo being from ;j.50 per skin in 1887 to 1 3.23 in' 1881). The total of the claims, without interest, amounted to $439, 161, and with interest nt 8 per cent and other charges, the total reached 78,16(1. The only official statement that could bo secured here of tho judgment reached by the commissioners is con tained in tho following announcement given out at the state department: "Tho award of the Behring sea claims commission has been filed in the department. Tho claims as pre sented by the British government on account of British vessels seized in Behring sea, aggregated, with interest, 1,500,000. These included several cases not embraced in the settlement proposed by Secretary Greshani. The award now made amounts to $294, 181.91, to which will increase the total about 50 per cent. The award is final, and disposes of all cases before it. Pay ment under the treaty must be made within six months." ' Tho departmental officials, it is as sumed, will proceed at once to prepare a bill or an amendment to one of the appropriation hills for submission to congiess, covering the necessary appro priation to pay the judgments, for, be ing bound by treaty not only to pay any judgments rendered, but to pay them promptly, tho government is in honor bound to take the remaining steps toward a settlement in short or der. There appears to be little doubt that the United States carried its point on the question involved, as tho virosnni.- tive damages were evidently scaled down to an insignificant amount, or rejected entirely. Whilo the depart ment officials will make no definite an liouneenient to this effect, intimations are given that the sinallness of the award precludes the possibility of any allowance having been made on account of prospective damages. The-American claims commissions established the precedent that no prospective damages could he included in a claim, and the present award is evidently on the same line. General J. W. Foster, who is now in general charge of Behring sea affairs said tonight, as to the award, that he was not surprised at the result. Presi dent Cleveland having officially de clared that f425,000 was a just and equitable sum in settlement, and hav. UK appointed as the American comin is loner to adjudicate the claims a close personal and political triend, it could hardly 1,0 expected that the latter would strenuously contend for an award of a less amount. Mr. Foster was absent from the country i ,ilipilI, when congress took action on Presi dent Cleveland's recommendation, lint ho regarded tho commission as the proper method of reaching a settle- country' " OUR ONLY INTEREST. Government Sounded on Its Attitude Toiviii-d China. Washington, re '.24. It is understood the authorities here have been unofii jially sounded as to the attitude of the United States toward the complications in the Far East, with the view of Warn ing whether American interests in China were regarded as sufficient to warrant uny active step by this govern ment. From what source the inquiries have como is not disclosed. If from Great Britain, they must have come through Colonel Hay, the American ambassador, as tho British officials hero have re ceived no instructions as to the Chinese situation. It is well understood, however, that Great Britain would look with favor on any active step by the United States which would serve as a check for the advances of Germany and Russia. The British interests in China aro ten times greater than those of Germany, Knssia and tho United States, and yet, with Germany and Knssia firmly located on Chinese soil, Great Britain is left in a sort of cut de sac. it is known also that the Chinese authorities would wel come a movement by the United States, n ml that this has been communicated to officials here. Altlirough theso Foundings, for they amount to nothing more as yet, have not taken official form, they have been sufficient to gain a pretty general un derstanding as to the attitudo of this government. This, in brief, is that the United States has uo interest in territorial extension now going on in China; that she will not land at any of tho coast ports of China, as Germany and Knssia have done, and that her only consideration is to guard fi:ib lished American interests in China. GRADE CROSSING ACCIDENT. Twenty Persons Injured on the I.aeka waua Itailroad. New York, Dec. 24. Twenty persons wero injured, three perhaps fatally, at a grade crossing on the Delaware, Lack awanna & Western railroad, between Passiao and Delaware, N. J., tonight. They were in a stage whicli was struck by a train. That any of them escaped is regarded as a miracle. All the victims aro employed in the Wothern & Aldrich mill, at Deluwnna, two miles from Passiao. They rule to and from their work in a big covered stage. There were 86 persons crowded into tho stage tonight. The party re lieved the monotony of the trip by singing, and it was not until the horses were on the track that the engine was Been by tho driver. The driver struck his horses sharply with the whip, and they leaped forward, and then stopped abruptly as tho gate closed on the other side of tho track. The locomotive struck the stage almost in the middle, hurling it several feet ahead, then struck it again, throwing it from the track. The occupants of the stage were scattered in all directions. BEHRING SEA AWARD. Arbitrators Agree on the Amount Can ada Claimed. Ottawa, Deo. 24. The government has received a communication from the arbitrators appointed to deal with the claims of the Behring sea sealers against the United States government for losses caused by the seizure of their vessels, submitting the award. The arbitrators were Judge King of the su preme oonrt of Canada, and Judge Put nam of the United States. The award is $404,000, with two reserved oases, those of the Black Diamond for $5,000, and the Ada for $1,000. It will be re membered that in 1800 the Unitel States offered $400,000, and Canada claimed $450,000. Afterward, a com promise was reached, and the amount placed at $125,000, but congress refused to vote that sum. The present award is virtually what Canada agreed to ac cept, with interest. And Now a Milk Trust. Chicago, Dec. 24. A special to the Tribune from New York says: A milk trust lias been incorporated with a cap ital of $15,000,000. The articles of incorporation have been filed. John D. Gilmer, the promoter of the new com pany, is a rich baker of 203 Greenwioh street. Ho formed the famous corpora tion known as the New York Biscuit Company. Mr. Gilmer and his asso ciates hnvo been busy for over a year in organizing the new company. His eon, W. P. Gilmer, says they will be gin business at once. He says ho has control of the milk delivery of over 1,000 wagons, ami that a large major ity of the milkdealers of the oity are in tho corporation. Three hundred creameiies and 800 retail companies who deliver milk to consumers are to be consolidated in one great company. The present price of milk is Bix cents, and Gilmer says tho trust could do business at a profit by selling at three cents a quart. Three Deaths Itesnlted. Altoona, Pa., Dec. 23. As a result of last night's freight wreck, caused by a runaway train on the Pennsylvania road, three men lost their lives, and damage to the amount of $75,000 was done to the rolling stock. The dead are: R. Kuster, Charles J. Nnmer and 8. C. Corbin. Three locomotives, four passenger coaches and 28 loaded freight cars were wrecked. Battle of the Cautoty u'usninp- " Spanish DefeJ AMERICAN OFFICER'S BRAV! J s li'li Though "fronted by. 8upMln J ..... ....urgent, Innieted I, Punishment on the Eneu,,, - i - " lorn, uec. 23. TheCnh, sion of tho battle fonht ut v... .'' on tho Canto river, Dscemta, U J has been received tl.ri, .i.. .1 ll,.n,.i a i ,-"'r",""Mii aniniu lioiiriguez, i " lul,8' rushing i inflicted upon the Spanish fi ramie. Captain Bodriguei' J "A part of General Calixto fta- iuico miner ijleutenant-tJolnnel vador Kios was holding the Yaeu ui toe atiui river. It was W. for Pando's forces to reopen the a in order that reiforceniems mi.i'. sent to the city of Bayaino, b5J .- "vc miniu. ueneral Cah Garoia's main force was a little fan up the river, protecting a ford ttti ened by General Pandc, Get Aldave, in command of J.OM'Sfr wianiry, "regulars," a sonaiW cavalry and 8,000 guerilla volnJ 23 cannon and six light gunboatiJ tacked Itios. 1 "Disposing his artillery on tin! oomin Hiding the Yacta fun!,AI opened a hot firo on the in. "' n me uppusne siueoitlier?: Kios and his 500 Cubans retired h tho cover of tho woods, and lie 1 was open for the Spaniards' passajt' "Aldave advanced a column ol i fantry across the ford, holding tia rilles and ammunition bcltsaboveii! hea Is, the men being protected ii oontinual artillery tire. Kios, that he could not liohl Ms poii; without help, sent a volunteer com, Lieutenant Charles Hickman, American, to General Calixto Gai, up the river. Hia courier had tot directly through the- enemy's fire, tj made the passage safely. "Meanwhile General Aldan W 1,500 more men on the further i: and General Pamlo, with a largo 1;: at this time made a feint on the o;; ford. General Garcia, deceived Pando's movement, decided that oould spare only a small reinforcem; to Colonel Kios, and sent Cok Carlos Garcia with only 200 inc men down the river. This reinta ment, small as it was, renewed hopes of thedofenilersof the facta, they charged the Bpauish with bavonet. "The Cubans, however, were heavily outnumbered that they j forced to give wav. Carlos uarc horse was shot from under him, Colonel Kios was slightly woundw tho le.'. Colonel Garoia's escoit i newed the chnrgo with machetes ti time, and held the Spanish torn check for a short while. "By then, General Calixto On hud HBun thrniiL'li General Pu- feint on the upper ford, and dspilftj General Kabi, with 1.0UU tboir mlinf. Theso arrived jnitr Rnatiisb were recovering from the ta ohete charge, and fell suddenly m their rear, throwing the troop" ' had crossed tho ford into a' Ti.o ....;), I, to cive erooml became exposed to the tire from ' own artillery from the liilla. ndlr1 the six gunboats, which had jo tho bombardment of Kios' men. l eral Aldave ordered this fire to reformed his attacking panj. patched a messago to General l i..- : ;.. ,.,-ruinir (lie W lur upniHimiuo ii oosition. nt i nn late. The CoM reforming, raised their battle i ..'i...... ,!, lilire."w upon the Spanish ranks with terr y b fleet. "A body of 1,000 guerillas wM off from Aldave's force, ana ,i i. m General juwu men )w i a.... h. Kulf.liparted low"! these volunteers, told them twp n-i.t ti..,;- nam immrailes or o"1. pieces, and they obeyed. fought dosperately on n " r.i ..i 1. 1., sceinir ueuerai iaiun.. - men would bo annihilated, thein across the ford, again I by the artillery lire. Genera. . sith an escort, rode down from" per ford and directed the bp "The Cuban loss in thi P' was 108 killed ami about aw Uoneral Kabi's men found ;l . -.i ...,.! 41, hive, in hi"" to Havana, said his wounded nu 300. The Cubans Dent . . , u -...-a ilntnaftei 9 luniotoa miicu imi - . roa1 Spanish troops carried Hi their dead, and minim'"" ... -.1 ,..,h.,l MMuirtintt only ontr Among the Cubans kill?d" ,; r.l,I,. and Charles Garcia, , , . rich planter. The Spanijb W field Lieutenant-Colonel , :.,-., siimeon," tains ana oneusBiBmo. - standard oi anus llanoros. "d.-nMrnl fJurchi oroin' ;ho daring oourier, to capt'B Sold. noted Hi' 1 ! i ; hig r fib i na