Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-08-17
Secretary HOke Smith Hanged
in Effigy in Ohio.
NEGROES sUPPLAYTING WHITES.
Trouble Apprehended Between the
Whites and the SeminOles in
Southern Florida.

Canada's total wheat crop this year
will be about 100000 900 bushels larger
than last year.
Baby Ruth is to have Shetland pony
thirty-eight inches high, which has been
sent to the President from Scotland.
Louisiana has a large prospective su-
gar crop in sight, and she is anxious to
know what Congress Is going TO do with
10.
Three negroes by stratagem robbed
the Pacific Express Company at Wich-
ita, Kan, Of about $500 in currency
and silver.
1t is said that fully $4,000 whites have
settled on the Cherokee Strip and threat
en- to make trouble il the government
attempts to eject them.
A radical reorganization Of the coast
survey is contemplated by Secretary
Carlisle. Some Of the changes may re-
quire Congressional action.
The Pennsylvania railroad system is
said TO have decided to substitute the
long-distance telephone for the telegraph
in the operation Of its lines.
The death rate OF children under 5
years OF age in New York week before
last was % per cent OF the total number,
or 793 out OF total OF 1887.
For the first time on record passengers
have recently been able to breakfast in
London on Sunday and dine in New
York on the following Friday.
From present indications the country
will have fully 400 000, 900 bushels more
OF corn and 10000 900 bushels more OF
oats than were produced last year.
Two hundred and three inmates of the
Kansas Soldiers Home, who have been
treated for alcoholism, have left the
home, able to maintain themselves.
A st. Paul special says it is estimated
that 5000 to 1000 idle men are there
and hundreds more arriving daily. Many
are from railroads and mining regions.
All fears OF trouble from idle working
men at Denver have disappeared. Those
who have not left the city will be given
employment in contemplated public i'm
provements.
The new Chinese Minister, who will
arrive in Washington about the middle
OF this month, will replace the present
legation OF nine persons with much
more imposing suite.
There is apprehension that trouble
may arise between the whites in South
ern Florida and the Seminole Indians
over the thrashing OF one OF the chiefs
sons, who was caught poaching.
The slaughter of the innocents now
going on in Cleveland is something ter
rible. Twenty-Five deaths from cholera
infantum and kindred diseases were re-
ported at the health office the other day.
A defalcation of 0,6OO has been dis
covered in the cash OF the National Bank
OF Paterson, n. j. Abram Pardon, the
paying teller, was arrested, and con-
lessed' He is 90 years old and unmar-
Because reporter ut Denver had crit
lclscd the conduct of Governor Waite
the latter and his nephew threw the re.
porter out OF the Governors office when
lac called to see II there was Il news item
to be got.
II is reported at Springfield, Ill.,, that
William Whitman, the American Ex-
press Company's absconding cashier
from that place, is In Mexico, and requi-
sltlon papers will be applied for to cap
ture him.
The reported robbery of Mrs. Ammon
Mt Chicago by men who personated de-
tectives is said TO have been simply a
ruse OF the woman to secure a present to
make up for the supposed loss from an
old and wealthy friend.
The fight of the minors in Southeast
ern Kansas is still on, but the importa-
ton OF negro miners from Alabama has
weakened the strikers, for the new ma
terlal are good workmen and ill the
places OF the men who quit work.
The Brooklyn pharmacists are endeay
oring to break up the practice of selling
drugs to the big dry. goods stores, and
have asked the District Attorney To
make q charge against one of the mer
chants in order to make test case.
II is stated at Providence, r. l.. that
$4,000 600 worth of certificates of the
Northern Pacific Grain Elevator Com.
pany OF Minnesota are atloat in the
country and there Is but 80 per cent of
their value in wheat in sight as security.
For the first time since the passage Of
the sherman silver law the Treasury in
July Jailed to buy the full quota OF 4,5OO,-
ovO ounces OF silver, The total pur-
ehases for the month were 2.Ssi, 900
ounces, leaving shortage of PIG, 900
ounces,
Secretary lioke Smith was hanged in
ctigv 10y enraged citizens OF Rome. a
little town in Adams county, o.. Satur-
lay night A number OF pensions had |
been suspended there, and the climax
was reached when the pension OF j. l.. |
Reed u veteran OF the Eleventh Illinois (
Cavalry, aged SO years, was dropped,
The value of the hay crnp of the
United states this year promises to be
u least ten times that OF the production
II its silver mines. But our cattle eat
ip all the hay, and we eat the cattle,
while the silver is kept in store and per
sheth not,
Governor Lcwelling OF Kansas has de.
ided to appoint a commission to go To
'hicago and "open negotiations through
he representatives OF the Worlds Fair
nth the governments of Europe con.
crning the exchange OF commodities
Nth Kansas by way of the Gulf OF
lexico."
The navy officials DO not admit that
he krag-loreensen is a satisfactory gun,
nj they believe that American invent
~ can supply much better one. The
,ng-Jorgensen gun will have to show
isclt Tar superior 10 all other arms TO
nsue Us adoption by the navy, whose
'rard will soon convene at Newport, X.
=, TO examine the latest inventions in
hat line.
Assistant Secretary Of the Interior
'cynolds IN answer to questions con-
erning recent pension suspensions SAYS:
We arc simply correcting abuses and
lacing all pensions under the act OF
unc ~, lSsO, ON an equality. We are