Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-07-27
EASTERN NEWS.
Orders for Imported Drugs
Must be Paid in Gold.
MANY IDLE MEN IN PITTSBURG
Destructive Prairie Fire in Kansas
Caused by Lightning Bolt
Female Notaries.

semble at Chicago September 4.
There are $7,Sl7 ,43499 in the Penn
sylyania State Treasury.
Five women were qualified as notaries
public in Philadelphia last week.
New York city has spent $4,000 in
entertaining the Infanta Eulalia.
The Treasury Department has decided
that the tomato is vegetable and not a
fruit.
Kentucky farmers are talking about
feeding wheat TO hogs because OF the
low price.
The assessed valuation of property in
New York city is approaching the s2, ,OOO,-
00O, 900 mark.
Oklahoma has quarantined against
Texas cattle, owing TO Texas fever
among the herds.
Many Eastern towns are now making
use Of the electric cars for keeping the
streets sprinkled.
The Grand Army people OF st. Louis
propose to raise fund for a monument
TO General Sherman.
The silver bought by the government
under the Sherman law is worth S55,-
| 900 600 less than was paid for it.
Hinckley, the crop expert Of the st.
Paul road, says the spring wheat crop
will he the poorest in twelve years.
1t il said that neither Cleveland nor
Hill will take any especial interest in
the campaign in New York this year.
The now vacant position Of Chaplain
Of the House is going a-begging,
but one candidate having appeared SO
| far.
A decision of a Baltimore Judge that
"no kissing" be allowed in the parks OF
that city has been sustained by higher
court.
The syndicate which bought South
Carolina's bonds has completed the
10, 250,0O0 payment, and the State feels
richer.
The ravages Of the chinch bug in Kan
sas this year have aroused the farmers
TO u more general trial Of the infection
remedy.
The Mexico Land and Improvement
! Company of Kansas City will expert
ment with collee-raising on II large
scale in Mexico.
Mrs. Rodney, who is walking from
| Galveston to Chicago on y, 900 wager,
| IL ahead Of time. She sells her photo
graphs en- route
A physician in Brewsters, n. Y, has
invented an electric dislniectant that
promises TO be OF great importance in
! killing disease germs.
Jerry Simpson denies that a deal has
been made by which he IL to run Tor
Governor OF Kansas and Governor
Lewellng is to become Senator,
OF the thirty-iour counties OF South
Carolina only seven have complied with
/ the regulations oi the new liquor law Ol
the State, which went INTO elect July /.
| Successful experiments have been
made in several States in stimulating
the growth OF such plants as wheat,
corn and tobacco by means oi electro
Panama has had u water famine.
The aguadores, or water carriers, were
compelled to pay about 20 cents each to
have their plpotes, or barrels, washed
ana dlslnlrcted'
1t il estimated that there are $4,000
men idle in Pittsburg and its immediate
vicinity, awaiting agreements rs to a
new scale OF wages ior the coming year
III the iron mills.
The New York Central will furnish
transportation and sleeping-car privi-
lcgcs to all its employees who wish to
visit the fair. Each employc can take
one member OF his family.
4 Harvard law student, who acted as
his own attorney in the case against
him, was sentenced to five days in the
Boston House OF Correction for causing
disturbance in n horse car.
An Indianapolis dispatch saws that
"as result OF the continued stringency
in the money market" nearly 5000 men
employed in the various manufacturing
industries of the city are out OF work.
The destructive prairie fire reported
in Kansas week before last, devastating
an area of territory five miles wide and
ten miles in length, was caused by Il
bolt OF lightning setting fire to the dry
prairie grass.
Prof. 4. !. Biyney. nm instructor at
Johns Hopkins University. has analyzed
the "blnck rain" that fell in the vicinity
of Moore's Hill, Ind, recently. He has
found traces oi carbon and also traces OF
hydrogen sulphate'
Out OF Si,7N alien steerage passen-
gers landed ut New York in 1892 only
l,ll6 gave their destination as the
Southern States. So far this year the
proportion OF southward.bound immi-
grants is no greater.
Secretary Herbert has appointed Miss
Lcutia c. TYLER OF Alabama, grand
daughter OF ex.Prcsident Tyler, to
minor clerkship, below the classified
grade, in the bureau of supplies and
account, Navy Department.
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