Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-08-10
New York City Disturbed Over
It's Water Supply.
THE CORN CROP OF KANSAS.
Grant Family to Visit the Worlds
Fair in September - Cable
Cars in New York.

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An old Gilman says the number of dry
wells in Western Pennsylvania is amaz-
ing.
Some OF the recently suspended Kan
sas City banks are beginning business
again.
The engines Of the big armored cruiser
Maine are pronounced every way salts
factory.
The Argon Mine Company at Norway,
Mich, has closed down. 1t owes $50, 900
in wages.
Caterpillars are numerous throughout
Pennsylvania, and are doing great dam
age to crops.
New York's postoffice received 81, &c.,
200 for the year ended on June 80, an in
crease Of $4S6, ,445.67 in a year.
The new Internal Revenue Collector
for the Louisville district has already re-
ceiyed 5000 applications for positions.
Thomas Burns, Superintendent of Po-
lice at New York, is about to retire. He
has accumulated fortune Of 100000.
New York city Is much disturbed over
its water supply. The water looks bad,
and 1t has very disagreeable, marshy
taste.
The resignation of Hon. William A.
| NJ. Maurick, Assistant Attorney General,
has been rendered to Attorney-G General
Olney.
Kansas corn crop promises to be the
largest in the States history except for
! the year 1889, when it was 273,000, 900
! bushels.
The Oxford Iron and Nail Company at
Belvidere, n. j., il in the hands OF re-
ceiver. About $50 men are thrown out
OF employment.
Governor Carr has commissioned forty
| physicians as delegates to represent
North Carolina at the Pan-American
Medical Congress at Chicago.
Powderly, it is stated, will resign as
General Master Workman at the next
convention OF the Knights of Labor. The
order is said to be in bad way.
The acting Secretary of War has APP
| proved the allotments OF the Missouri
River Commission for the improvement
OF the river to the amount OF 800, 900.
The Marquis de Barboles, brother of
| the Dude dc Neragua, wants slice OF
the fund that it is proposed to raise in
the United states for the benefit OF the
Duke.
The Manhattan Bank at New York
has ordered II. A. We'll, broker, to
withdraw his account, owing to false
statements he has made about the insti-
tuition.
Since January | nearly 200 national
banks have closed their doors, against
less than fifty during the same period
last year; five have been United States
repositories.
New Workers have begun to write to
their daily papers asking that the city
be protected from cable cars, complain
ing that the lives Of citizens are Gin
constant jeopardy"
Juan Andreon, alias Juan Daodat,
alias Giovanni Cavaero, said to be one
OF the most noted safecrackers and all !
around thieves in Europe, has been ar
rested in New York.
Congressman who were most inter-
csted in defeating the force bill, it is re-
ported, may aid their Western colleagues
in opposing the unconditional repeal of |
the Sherman silver bill.
The people of lronwood, Mich, after
about 400 had been Frustrated by typhoid |
fever and many had died, found that the |
standpipe Of their water works was part |
full OF dead fish, crabs, lizards, snakes
and other carrion.
Eleven hundred commercial organiza-
tons throughout the country have been
invited by the New York Board OF Trade
and transportation to send delegates to
u convention which is TO meet in Wash
ington ON or about September /.
John h. Koeting, the cashier of the
detunct South Side Savings Bank at Mil
waukee, has disappeared, and simulta-
neously the discovery has been made
that the general ledger of the institution
is not among the effects OF the bank.
Misses Lizzie and Emma Borden have
voluntarily transferred, il is said, about
Sl,OOO worth of property, which belonged
To their murdered stepmother, to Mrs
Whitehead OF Fall River and Mrs. Fish
OF Hartford, who were hali-sisters OF
Mr0. Borden.
Mrs. L, $, Grant, who is still at West
Point, will hc joined later by her son,
and they will 20 to the Worlds Fair in
September, In October they will be
joined in Chicago by Mrs Nellie Grant
Sartoris, her daughter, who is coming
over to see the fair.
In shelby county, Tenn, the Criminal
Court has suspended the Sheriff, and the
grand jury has been called upon to in
,ostlgate the lynchiug OF the negro {
Walker, who was taken from Jail and I
hanged by mob, Several men sus-
'ected of completely in the lynching
nave been arrested. .
II has Just come to light that there are
nom twenty to thirty Chinese entering I
III PNso, Tex, nightly from Juarc8, Mex. I
90, and the importation is being han I
Ued 10y a very rich company vt Chinese l
md cN-otlicials OF the United States GUS /
oms service, l
The government has begun an invcsti- f,
,ation into the immigration OF Chinese =.
" New York, Extensive frauds are I,
hanged in the administration OF the A.,
lhlucSc exclusion act, and hundreds OF
,hinesc are alleged 10 have been Snug.
,lcd at that port. Charges have been {
made against two deputy coll,cto and :
hiet clerk.
Dr. Walter MAY Reid has been AR. ;
cstcd az New York for selling hogus di. U
'lomas conicrriug the titlcof VI. u. upon .
'crsons utterly ignorant OF medicine !
.nd turning them loosc on the world 10 =
iestroy human life. nr. Reid is a gray. \
'aird expert scholar, linyuist, poet. :
lnvclist and graduate OF the Medical q
'ollcge of the University OF New York. "
The Treasury Department at Wash. n
ngton has instructed Collector Hendricks n
I New York tina, hereafter the certificate /,
4 the Chinese Consul at that port, Chau h
hang rscng, is not To bc r,crivcd in N
moot OF Identification OF any Chinese II
iho have gone from this country TO %