Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-05-11
Strike on the Union Pacific
Satisfactorily Settled.
A CONSCIENTIOUS HoRsETHIEF.
Pennsylvania Iron Trade Expects
Much Trouble This Year in
Strikes-C. w. Harris.

Kansas is filling up this spring with
Germans.
"Gum-chewers' lockjaw" has made
its appearance.
The new directory Of st. Louis con-
tains 19l ,523 names.
A 100000 postoffice is TO adorn the
city OF Buffalo, n. Y.
Boston is planning to Lr;ld an elevated
| railroad to cost S25,0O0.000.
Nut culture is attracting attention
on the Delaware peninsula.
George Gould says the Union Pacific's
floating debt is only 100000
The New York Legislature has dried
up the pool rooms in that State.
Missouri crop prospects are most dis
couraging, owing to heavy losses.
1t is said the railroads will ignore the
Nebraska maximum freight rate law.
Eastern capitalists are said to be try
ing to buy the st. Louis street railroads.
The water is very low in the South
Pass at the mouth of the Mississippi
river.
There are seventy-seven branches of
the TheoRophical Society in the United
States.
The strike on the Union Pacific is at
an end. The terms Of settlement have
not been made public.
Pittsburg capital, controlling 10000
acres Of gas territory, will build great
iron mills at Munice, Ind.
Governor Flower OF New York will
commute the sentence of Carlyle w.
| Harris, the wife murderer.
The 1,027 electric-light lamps of
Chicago are maintained at the expense
to that city Of il02 each per year.
Louisville will offer $1,OOO,00O in
bonds and building site, il the State
will move its capitol from Frankfort.
The Populist women of Kansas have
begun organizing women sufferage clubs.
The first was organized at Topeka last
week.
| The Pennsylvania iron trade expects
much trouble during this year in strikes.
Manufacturers will attempt to reduce
wages.
General Harrison has been invited TO
make the chief speech at the unveiling
Of the new soldiers monument at Ath-
ems, o.
Cargoes of horse meat, it is said, are
being shipped from New York TO Bel
gium as food for the poor people OF that
country.
The Goodland Rain-making Company
ls said to be contracting with farmers in
Western Kansas counties at an average
OF 900 per county.
A Kansas woman, who held a man up
at revolver point and went through
his pockets, has been sent to the peni-
tentiary for two years.
Governor Nelson OF Minnesota has
signed the anti-scalper bill, which be-
comes law April Is next. Scalpers
say they will contest it.
According to recent decision it is an
oilcnse against the laws of the United
States to send dunning or scurrilous
message on II postal card
Electric roads in Ohio are 80 numer-
GUS that there is Il prospect of so many
being iammed together as to form a
continuous line across the State,
As II result of the immense crops OF
grain harvested the last two seasons i'm
south Dakota, that State is this spring
having the heaviest immigration in ten
years.
The first grain fleet OF the season has
cleared from Chicago with 100000
bushels. Notwithstanding the severe
winter navigation has opened earlier
than usual.
The wonderful influence of the sun on
earth is shown by the fact that during
| ha L.
eclipse was total the temperature fell
three degrees.
! The receipts from water rates in Chi
| cago during the last fiscal year aggre-
gated q, ,569, ,952, and the operating ex-
penses were onlySll7000S. This leaves
u profit OF Sl,309,S54.
Steel caskets for the bodies of those
who die suddenly ON shipboard are
being carried on many of the transatlan-
tic liners. The remains are placed in
them and Theoretically sealed.
TheSupreme Court of the United States
has had occasion to declare itself on the
question whether singular or plural pro-
nouns ought TO be used in speaking of
the United States. The Court sustains
the constitutional form, "The United
States are"
John Railey, Il Tennessee farmer in
hard luck, has just been made happy by
the receipt of S6Sb from Frank X. Wall |
dram OF Reading, Pa, being in full pay
mcnt with per cent interest for u horse
which Walldran, then n soldier, appro-
priatcd from Railey's stable in 1864,
In the effort to keep New York's
streets clean four hundred red barrels
have been placed at the corners OF Union
Square for passers by to throw their
banana skins and papers into. Ii the
experiment prove useful, barrels will be
placed ut street corners all over the
city,
In y suit in Washington State against
several saloonkeepers the Northern Pa |
citc complains that the employees OF |
the company, who must necessarily use
dynamite and steam in the construction |
oi the company's railroad line through |
Nittias county, were induced by the |
presence OF the defendants saloons
along the line of work TO become un-
fitted for the safe use Of these instru-
mentalities, and prayed that the sale of |
liquor be stopped. The Sta,e Supreme
Court decided against the road, and the
Supreme Court OF the United States has
sustained the decision.
The Sheriff OF Akin county, S, c..
seized train on the South Carolina rail
road upon warrant issued by the State
authorities for the collection OF taxes
which wec in controversy. The road
WAS IN the hands OF a receiver appointed
by the United States Court, and the
Sheriff was adjudged guilty OF contempt
for failing to release the property under
orier OF that Court He went to the