Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-09-14
Huge HailstOnes Fall in the
State of New York.
RADICAL METHOD FOR RELIEF.
Amount and Mileage of Railroads
in the Hands of Receivers
at the Present Time.


held in Chicago September Is.
A Kansas editor boasts OF being a
graduate Of the Kelley Institute.
The rate of taxation just fixed in New
York is the lowest in thirty years.
Active measures are being taken to
enforce the health laws Of Kansas.
Another gas well with powerful flow
has been struck at Stronghurst, Ill.
Governor Turney OF Tennessee is out
in proclamation denouncing lynching.
About 1900 men who were idle in
Pittsburg two weeks ago are at work
again.
During this year 714,O36 silver Treas
ury notes have been redeemed in silver
dollars.
Senator John Sherman has decided to
say very little at present upon the money
question.
A sea turtle, weighing 1000 pounds,
was captured near Portland, Me-, the
other day.
Frick, the Carnegie manager at Pitts
burg, has had his salary of $50, 900 year
reduced to $4,000.
Senator PETER has asked that the sal
aries OF all government officers above
81, 900 a year be reduced.
Atlanta is about to celebrate her fif-
tieth anniversary. Her population is in
close neighborhood of 10000.
Much dissatisfaction is found with the
| registration requirement by intending
settlers IN the Cherokee strip.
The counties of Western New York
report plague OF grasshoppers that is
doing much harm to the crops.
Last year the total valuation of the
railroads of Kansas was $4,000, 900.
This year it s increased sl0000,000.
Il. d. Kathrens, Secretary of a large
oil company, says that the supply of pc
troeum in Wyoming is inexhaustible.
Railroad Commissioners of Kansas
have not yet been able TO secure seed
wheat for the western part of the State.
Francis Murphy, the well-known tenn
perance advocate, claims that the excess
siye use OF intoxicants is on the decrease.
But 600 men are now employed in
the Santa Fe shops at Topeka, Kan.
Last year at this time 1000 men were at
work.
There is an organized kick all over
Kansas about the celebrity with which
the State Board of Pardons is letting out
criminals.
Secretary IIoke Smith has declined to
execute asphaltum mining leases on the
Indian reservation in Utah. He says it
is illegal.
Railroads with u mileage of over 49,
600 miles and capital OF 81 ,000, ,000, 900
have gone into receivers hands in this
country this year.
The Javanese village in Midway Plai-
sanCe at the Chicago Fair is unable to
meet the exactions OF the management
OF the fair, and will close.
The city OF Cleveland has filed claim
to land on the lake front occupied by the
Pennsylvania, Lake Shore and Big Four
railroads and worth $2,000000.
Rome, N. Y, reports fall OF hail
stones weighing one quarter OF pound.
Every exposed window was broken and
roofs damaged. Rain fell in torrents.
The New York Sun has been making
n study of the debts of the various States,
and finds that in the last ten years there
has been total decrease OF 100000
W. W. Ogilvie, the milling king of
Canada, estimates the yield in wheat in
Manitoba and Northwest Canada this
year at about twenty bushels per acre,
or total yield of about $4,000, 900 BUSH
els.
The recent "hunger riots" in New
York had their comical side. One OF the
loudest clamorers for bread, who was
taken. into custody by the police, was
searched, and was found 70 have $35 in
his pockets.
New York's Dock Commissioners have
built on several different piers peoples |
pavilions. In these structures iron pill
lars support the roof the building being !
open on each side to let the breeze enter.
The pavlions cost $500 each, and are
to serve rs public promenades.
DIR, Warmers corset factory at Bridge
port, Conn, employs 1000 women. IL
now ls running only part OF the time,
but for all OF the workwomen who do
not make enough to pay their living ex-
penses DR.. Warner furnishes the meals
until the factory shall bo running full
time again.
\ movement is on foot in South Caro-
lima to have John G. Calhoun's body,
with the sarcophagus erected over it by
the State Legislature some years ago,
removed from st. Philips neglected
in Charleston to Fort Hill,
where was his home and where the col
Icgc he wished tor has lately been estab-
.ished.
typographical Union No. l6 Of Chi
ago, including all the large English pa
ners OF that city, adopted radical
method for the relief of the unemployed
n the shape Of rule, TO hold good for
i've weeks, that none of the regularly
Employed shall work more than four
lays each week, putting on subs" the
,ther three.
The Cherokee Strip will he opened for
'ettlcrs at II NJ. on Saturday, September
Ia. There are altogether 5000, 600 acres
VI land to be opened. One-third, or
:, 900 eco acres, is arid land, unfit for set
lement, leaving l,OOO,OO0 available for
purposes, There will be land
enough for about -, 600 persons to make
selections, and with the town lot squat.
.crs, altogether not exceeding 5000,
The man X, W. Parker, or Wilbur
Prescott Koockogey, who committed SUI.
eide At the Grand Hotel, san Francisco,
according to Philadelphia dispatch tig.
ircd in many scandals in the East. lie
VAS convicted OF bigamy and sent to the
for the oHense. His mother
5 wealthy, but was forced to ~ to France
o live, owing to her sons misconduct.
lie was well known in Philadelphia as
' The Count"
Horace Johnson, the Middletown
Conn., weather prophet, who predicted
he recent big storm, says there il an ,
'ther OF still greater severity to come ,
Netwren Septcmher h and 10. He np.. ,