Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-09-28
Foreign Demand for Silver
Rapidly Increasing.
THE DROUGHT IN KENTUCKY.
Railroad Earnings Still Show Dis.
appointing Results-Mexican
Officials Released.

! ptIiCtdIg pIerhdlu IL preparing re-
port on the Hawaiian question.
/ The promise of immigration to Texas
is considered to be very flattering.
The army worm has made its appear
ance in portions Of Red River county,
Tex.
| Factories are to be built near the Ala
bama penitentiary TO be operated by
convicts.
Nashville will probably issue 100000
OF city scrip to supply the demand for a
local circulation.
The Keeleyites are to have day at
the Worlds Fair, when 10000 OF the re-
formed are expected.
An Indiana bank which recently sus-
pended began business on capital OF 81
and failed for $4,000.
The wheel trust, organized less than q
year ago, has dissolved as result OF the
action OF outside companies.
Five hundred Presbyterans have left
Colorado for the Cherokee Strip, where
they propose to found colony.
An alarming epidemic OF typhoid and
intermittent fever is now prevailing al
the military prison, Leavenworth.
The Comptroller Of indianapolis has
gone East to make one more attempt To
sell 100000 of city refunding bonds.
Rival electric-light and power compa-
MES at Findlay, o., have consolidated,
and consumers expect increased rates.
No bids having been made for convict
labor in Minnesota, the State has 40C
prisoners for whom they have no work.
Rev. Robert Mcintyre Of Denver has
requested that his salary be reduced from
$4,000 to 81 600 on account Of hard times
Water has been selling at 10 cents q
cupful and % cents for canteen along
the Cherokee Strip near Arkansas City.
Employees of the Nashville, Chatta-
nooga and st. Louis railroad have agreed
to a 10 per cent reduction for ninety
days.
The Pennsylvania Commissioners have
| decided to present their State building
to the city OF Chicago after the exposi-
| ton.
The Memphis banks have been notified
from New York that they can have all
| the money necessary to move the cotton
crop.
Bank circulation increased 1000 900
in August and s5, 600, 900 in July, or 500,
600, 900 since the financial trouble reached
the critical stage.
The recent burning of Chicago
dwelling-house by prairie fire is sig
niiicant commentary upon the magni-
tude OF that expansive city.
The City Judge of Savannah, Ga.
fined himself $l0 the other day for being
late, and then RENTED the fine on the
ground that 1T was his first oiIense."
Railroad earnings still show disap-
pointing results. The fallng-olT is felt
in all sections OF the country, 80 per cent
OF the roads reporting smaller receipts
than year ago.
Mrs. Frank Rheinhardt, widow of
st. Paul, Mimi, has been notified that
by the death of her brother-in-law an
estate in India, valued at $25, 900 900, has
been left to her.
New York city's saloonkeepers have
started Il strong movement to abolish
the free lunch. They assert that the
free lunch is II needless expense, which
brings in no adequate return.
A movement is on foot in New York
to form trades union including the
young women in sweetstuir shops and
retail stores generally, where the hours
are very long and the girls ill-paid.
The foreign demand for silver is rap
idly increasing. The United States has
exported $4,000, 900 more of silver dur
ing the past eight months than during
like period in 1892.
Estimates are being prepared at the
Nevy Department for the fabrication of
n sufficient number OF modern guns for
the wooden vessels which can be used
for cruisers for five or ten years more.
Ex-senator Thomas w. Palmer has
presented TO the city of Detroit for park
purposes farm of 100 acres, which was
entered by his grandfather in 1870 and
has been owned by the family every
since.
The Mexican officials who were ar
rested for having captured n lot OF sheep
on the Rio Grande owned by Americans
have been released, and the boundary
limits will be settled by mixed COM
mission,
w. j, Davidson has just returned to
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ing in Siam the first electric railroad in
Asia. The motormen and conductors
are natives, who were trained by Mr.
Davidson.
As an induccment 10 put wide tires on
their wagons New York taxpayers are
offered n yearly rebate OF one-hali their
assessed road taxes, provided the rebate
shall not exceed the amount OF four days
statute labor,
The weekly weather crop bulletin OF
the Kentucky State weather service
states that the present condition OF crops
is discouraging, owing to the drought.
No rain OF general character has tal-
len in Kentucky for nearly three months.
rawnbrokers in Minneapolis report
that the average number OF watches
pawned every day in that city has been
eighty. This is higher average than
usual, and 1t is suspected discloses
financial stringcncy in the Flour City"
Philip Wentworth, mineralogist OF Iii.
ram, Me-. reports that while prospecting
for gems recently he discovered large
diamond, 1t is estimated to be worth
several thousand dollars, but its true
value cannot be determined until il is
cut.
George Nandcrhilts purchase OF the
Paul Cameron estate near Ashville, \.
c., inr $4,000, il is thought, will make
him the largest land owner in the State.
This property is in the immediate vicin.
ity OF his great chateau and hunting pre-
serves.
Circulars have been issued hy the De-
partmcnt ot Agriculture making inQui.
rics regarding the existence IN various
parts oi the United States of hroois OF
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