Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-03-30
EASTERN ITEMS.
Anti-Lynching Leagues Being
Formed in Texas.
MAINE WANTS BLAINE'S BODY
The Plan of Farm Colonies for the
Regeneration of Social
Outcasts.

A legislative investigation has dis
closed shocking cruelties practiced on
conVicts in the Nebraska State prison.
The Vassar girls have recently been
engaged in dressing dolls for children
among the poorest classes in New York
city.
The statement OF the Reading Coal
and Iron Company shows the excess OF
current liabilities over assets to be $2,-
693 003.
White Caps have notified the vendors
OF whisky at Providence, Webster coun-
ty, KY, to quit the business or take the
consequences.
The Black Hills OF South Dakota will
eend as part OF their mineral exhibit q
sold block OF gold, weighing 800 pounds
and worth 100000.
Mrs. James Corbett has been sued for
money due for newspaper clippings
which che had ordered Henry Romerke
at New York to gather for her.
1t is said the shoe manufacturers Of
New England are proposing to conduct
their own tanneries and to fight the pro-
posed 500, O,000,0 900 leather trust.
/ Lionel Sartoris, cousin of the late
husband of Nellie Grant, proposes to
colonize with English farmers tract of
about $4,000 acres in Central Wyoming.
| General Buckner is said to be assidu-
ously studying German in anticipation
OF being sent to Austria to represent the
dignity of the United States at Vienna.
The VIII sky trust will pass its dividend.
| 1t has manufactured more whisky than
the trade demands, and it takes lots of
money to carry the excess until it is
disposed Of.
The Lexington (Ky.) grand jury has
indicted sixty saloonkeepers for selling
three indictments for the sale OF cigar.
cites to boys.
Congress not having appropriated the
necessary expenses for the Civil Service
Commission to hold the examination
they had scheduled in several States,
the dates have been cancelled.
In the Minnesota Senate bill has
been introduced to prohibit the prefer.
ence of one precious metal over another
in the making OF contracts, the inten-
tion being to abolish gold mortgages.
In anticipation OF a heavy movement
OF Southern cattle to Montana and Wy
oming Governor Osborne OF the latter
State has pu blicly announced the reg la
tions under which the shipments will be
admitted.
The Postmaster General has decided
to lease 30, ,750 square feet in the Indus
trial building, adjoining the Forty-sec-
ond street railroad station, in New York
Tifu for a tho hronah nf
the New York city postoffice.
The Alabama National Bank at Mobile
has closed its doors by direction OF Bank
Examiner Campbell. The depositors
will be paid in full, but the capital stock
Of the bank is impaired to the amount Of
$4,000, or about AZ per cent.
Texas people have finally undertaken
TO prevent lynching by the formation OF
anti-lynching leagues at Rio Grande
City. 1t is expected that the movement
will spread throughout the State and
eventually throughout the South.
Frederick Douglass is the President of
company Just organized for the pur-
pose OF establishing large manufacture
ing enterprise near Newport News, Va,
building town and giving employment
20 young colored men and women.
The electric lighting question is again
being agitated in Kansas City, owing to
the inefficient service and extortionate
rates OF the private company. Another
company has offered TO light the city
hall for about one.third Of present prices.
BallinGton Booth proposes to try in
this country the plan OF farm colonies
for the regeneration OF social outcasts
D.. l. F.Nl 1
in Darkest England" and the first
colony will probably settle in New Jer-
sey.
The Russian Jews who formed the
Chesterfield colony near New London
are beginning to leave. 1t is said that
the physical sutlerings of the colonists
during the past winter have been acute,
and the outlook for the future has dis
hcartened htem.
The grosI earnings OF all the railroad
lines in the Pennsylvania system ior
lS02 we're SlSS,97i, ,52O.65. The expenses
were SOS, So, ,OSS ~. The gross tonnage
moved was 1871 ,Si6 tons. The num-
Der OF passengers carried was $500, ,34l.
These are bewildering aggregates.
| General Frank Wheaton, Commander
OF the Military Department at San An.
tonic, has received dispatch from Fort
Ringold stating that six more members
OF the so-called Mexican revolutionary
army of Ca,arino Cara have gone into
that garrison voluntarily and surren.
derel.
Acting under the terms OF a resolution
adopted by the Legislature OF Maine,
Governor Cleeves OF Maine has written
q Mrs. James q. Blaine requesting per
mission for the State officials to remove
the remains OF her late husband from
the Oak Hill Cemetery in Washington
TO Augusta, Me.
Pttsburg has organized a municipal
ownership league. It's purpose is TO have
the municipality own and operate gas
works, water works, electric plant, street
RAILWAYS, telephones and all ether pub
lie utilities that are in their nature a
monopoly. Many OF the best citizens in
the town are in the movement.
All winter the shantymen on the ice
bridge at Niagara Falls have sold their
International beverage" to tourists un-
restricted and without securing govern.
ment license. Recently two Deputy
United States Marshals from Lockport
kidnapped John Fox and Charles King
sley, whom they carted Off to Lockport
They claim they were neither on land
nor water, were on the boundary line
and could not be hsI3 amenable TO the
lava