Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-04-06
Prof. Totten Predicts the End
of the World.
BISHOP WlGGER'S CIRCULAR.
The Case Involving the Mormon
Church Property Advanced
on the Calendar.

The Colorado Senate has passed bill
aboiishing capital punishment.
Prof. Totten predicts the end of the
world some time in September next.
Fifty thousand hotel rooms will be
available near the Worlds Fair grounds.
The Oke6nokee swamp in Georgia is
reported to be overrun with wild hogs.
A big Boston syndicate is trying to se-
cure control of the Canadian steel indus
tries.
Washington newsboys are forbidden
by law to sell papers except on the dats
OF issue.
The city OF Boston is making a hard
fight against the trolley system OF cleo
trio cars.
The Arkansas Pass railroad has virtu-
ally passed into the possession Of the
Southern Pacific.
In the Lower HOUSE OF the Pennsyl-
vania Legislature the anti Pinkerton bill
has finally passed.
A strange disease among cattle il
Central Illinois is believed to be due to
the feeding Of millet.
Estimates as to the cost OF the hotels
in the Worlds Fair district range from
| $500, 900 to $4,000,000.
The heaviest immigration that ever
flowed into Northwest Iowa and South
Dakota is in progress now.
A crinoline- e-manufacturing concern has
been established in Rhode Island, the
first OF the kind in America.
1t is thought that the coinage OF
Worlds Fair souvenir halidollars will
be completed in three months.
About $50 Cinnamon living in Boston
have intimated that they intend regis
tering within the prescribed period.
South Carolina has issued bonds COW
ering its new loan, amounting to $780,
0O0. bearing Az per cent interest and to
run for forty years.
Some one has gone off with all the coin
and records Of the noted Tenderloin
Club at New York, and it is now in the
throes of dissolution.
By a vote OF 81 to 10 the Minnesota
Senate has passed the Senate bill ex-
tending the full suffrage at all elections
in Minnesota to women.
The case involving the Mormon Church
/ property has been advanced in the
/ United States Supreme Court to the sec
ond Monday OF the next term.
The receivers OF the Reading road
have definitely decide on the issue of
receivers certificates. The bondholders'
committee will probably fight it.
a corporation with capital Of $15,-
| 0 O,OJ0 has been formed to cover New
/ jersey in the neighbnrhOod OF jersey
Ciry and Newark with electric railways.
1t is Propo'ei by the organized tin
AMI sheet-iron job workers and cornice
workers OF St Louis to establish a train
! ing school where apprentices will be
taught the trade.
The Canadian Pacific and Grand Trunk
roads have agreed upon rate of ~
fare for the round trip from Canadian,
points to Chicago during the Worlds
Fair. Tickets will be good for one month /.
The Kansas Legislature has passed a
bill making it illegal TO require a gold
contract in notes, mortgages or otler Oh
legations and making silver, as we'll as
gold, legal tender for all debts in Kan
sae.
A committee appointed by the House
OF the Tennessee Legislature to invest.
gate the charges against Judge Duboise
OF the Shelby County Criminal Court
hes reported that there are no grounds
for impeachment.
Reports to the bureau OF statistics of
the Treasury Department show dec ded
increase in the number Of imm gran ts
Nntering the port Of San Francisco, while
in the other Gorts of the country there
has been fslling-of.
Ii is thought probable that at the con.
clusion OF the naval review Secretary
Herbert will divide the ships into three
fleets, put new officers in command and
send the vessels away at once 10 the Pa
c,iic, the South Atlantic and Europe.
Plans for the America cup defenders
sh1w that some radical changes have
hetn introduced over the former type of
yachts. The new boats are nearly all
l24 feet in length. % to % feet beam.
aud have q mean drsught of l2 to IA
feet.
The customs officers at New York are
holding the trunks of q number Of Ital.
ian opera singers under the belief that
the clothing in the trunks is not the
property OF individual members, but of
Henry Abbey, who has charge OF the
troupe.
Judge Dallas in the United States Cir
cult Court ct Philadelphia has denied n
motion to require John +. Searles, Jr..
Treasurer OF the American Sugar Retin.
inS Company, to show cause why he
should not be compelled to answer i'm
portant questions in the suit OF the gov
eminent against the sugar trust.
Bishop W gger OF the diocese OF New
ark, \. j., has issued a circular letter.
addressed tn each priest in the diocese
resembling his former order in which
priests were ordered to refuse shsolution
n those members of q pSri,h who sent
their children to the public schools in
preference TO the parochial schools.
On charges OF having sSindled wealthy
Jews all over the country to the tune az
sNo,NO, while pretending 10 collect
funds for the relief OF needy Russian 90
relision'sts, Phneas Hanucsh. who
claims to he the son OF wealthy mann
lecturer OF Persian carpets and rugs Of
Salinas, Persia, and Slso OF New Yo,k
mas been arrested at Chicago.
The government patronage herst,fora
u''dered the sacred property of Sana.
tors, irr instance, As MarshAls and Dis-
trici Attorney, is now declared free for
AZ, and according 20 the ruling OF the
President humble mem hers Of the WNrss
ami even SrouD ot private citizens NAV
present the names nt candidates with
some nope o! success in the application.