Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-06-08
EASTERN NEWS.
Internal Revenue Collections
for Past Ten Months.
FOREST FIRES IN MICHIGAN.
An Underground River, Strongly I'm
pregnated With Iron, Found
in North Carolina.

Cincinnati dedicated a new city hall
last week.
The ice dealers Of Boston have formed
an ice trust.
Philadelphia has granted 2, ,1Sl licenses
Tor the coming year.
Admiral Gherardi is to have charge Of
the Brooklyn navy yard.
There is hay famine in Maine, owing
10 the long and cold winter.
The Manhattan Club building at New
York has been sold for $740,0OO
A Chicago woman has got divorce in
Minnesota, with $35, 900 alimony.
a society has been formed at New
York TO beiriend Indians and homeseek-
ers.
Grave erobberies in the principal Omaha
cemetery have excited the people Of that
town.
Pennsylvania has spent $441 900 in the
marking and preservation Of Gettysburg
battlefield.
A vigorous fight against the intrusion
Of cholera will be made by the New York
health authorities.
The whisky trust i. in state Of dis
solution, several distillers having given
notice Of withdrawal.
The Legislature OF the Wooden Nut
meg State refuses TO allow electric rail-
roads to carry freight.
Governor Hogg OF Texas has commut-
ed the sentence OF a convicted negro
raplst TO LIE imprisonment.
The Fifty-third Congress contains
twenty-seven Representatives and Sena-
tors born in foreign countries.
Tennesseeans have raised fund Of
81 900 TO cancel the mortgage on Kirby
Smiths homestead at Sewanee.
The Legislature not having made an
appropriation, Delaware will have no
State militia during the ensuing.
A decision handed down in the Kansas
City Court of Appeals holds that shay
ing on Sunday is not necessity.
DIR. Talmage announced to his congre-
CATION Sunday that the debt OF the Tab
ernacle had been cleared, whereupon he
was cheored.
Governor Tillman OF South Carolina
is testing the new liquor law in the SUI
preme Court OF the State before putting
it in operation.
The Commercial Club OF st. Paul ap-
proves trade mark of that city which
shows q star contained within lines rep
rescnting the geographical boundaries Of
Minnesota.
Valuable concessions for agricultural,
mining and industrial colonies, granted
| by Mexico to Americans. have been for
feited by failure to make the necessary
cash deposit,
Two hundred feet of land on Michigan
avenue, Chicago, sold the other day for
$500, 900, or S2, 500 per front foot. Mr..
Primley, who bought it, has made for
tune in chewing gum.
An underground river, strongly inn
pregnated with iron, was found recently
near Charlotte, n. G. II is reported that
the stream, which Is forty-five feet below
the surface, is 700 feet wide and six feet
deep.
1t is apparent from reports received at
Albany from the interior OF New York
State that plant lice are almost as abun-
dant on the foliage as they were in 1885.
The situation is especially disquieting to
hop growers.
Hundreds OF students of the Illinois
State Normal University are depositors
OF small sums in SChureman's Bank at
Normal, H., which failed last week, and
many OF the students are now penniless,
temporarily at least.
A number of workmen who were drill
ing All artesian well at Centerville, Ia,
tapped n subterranean cavity at depth
of nearly 800 feet that was completely
filled with live bats OF the common gray
species and of extraordinary size.
The Merchants and Manufacturers
Association OF Cincinnati has estab-
lished two funds-a working fund, for
the purpose OF bringing merchants to
the city, and n promotion fund, for the
entertainment of them while there.
For the first ten months Of the present
fiscal year collections from internal rev.
enue sources aggregated 1882, 49,, 1866, an
increase over the corresponding period OF
last wear OF S6,937 ,0S9. The receipts for
April were $27l ,00S less than in April,
1892.
Foreign naval commanders dread TO
grant shore leave TO their sailors when
they come TO America. The four British
ships have lost $50 men in New York.
Dcscrtcrs from most OF the other ships
Of the foreign squadron are also re-
ported,
Frederick Walter, y lens grinder, was
found dead in his home in Philadelphia
recently. His neighbors believed he was
poor, and his demented wife said they
had no money; but the police discovered
;bl 500 in cash, bonds and mortgages in
trunk in the old mans workshop.
Forest fires in Michigan are doing inn
mcnso damage, Artigo and Bryant have
been nearly wiped out, and quantities OF
lumberdestroyed and many mills burned.
At Dollar Bay people buried their house
hold effects, and were forced 10 fight
their way ont through suffocating heat
and smoke.
In the case of discharged letter car
rier st Washington, d. c., the Circuit
Judge has ruled that an employe OF the
government appointed under and subject
tu civil-servicc laws cannot be dismissed
from the service without Just and sutli.
cient cause, and that the courts have q
right to pass upon the sutliciency OF the
cause,
Resolutions were adopted at the gen.
eral synod OF the Reformed Presbyterian
Church In session at New York that no
church funds be hereafter invested in
stock which cause unnecccssary work on
Sunday, such as railroads aud many
others, and that all meMbers OF the
church represented hy the synod with
hold their patronage from the Worlds
Fair Il il were opened ON Sunday. The
Geary act was also condemned.