Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-08-31
The Kansas Coal Miners Strike
Nearing an End.
ACT OF A RELIGIOUS LUNAT IC
A Nebraska County Treasurer Skips
With the Swag-DrOught in
New York State.

| cashier OF New York's postoffice.
General Booth Of the Salvation Army
is coming TO this country in October.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
| proposes TO reduce wages 10 per cent.
The late Thomas J. Morse Of st. Louis
carried 10000 insurance on his life.
The Health Officer OF Florida declares
there il no yellow fever at Pensacola.
Moberly, No., has two banks which
are said to actually turn away depositorH.
At Lancaster, Pa, recently hundreds
OF acres Of tobacco were ruined by hail.
The iron and steel mills in Pennsyl-
vania that were shut down are starting
up.
The New York Tribune declares that
racing is going downward in public esti
nation.
Nearly $4,000 damage was done at
Lynn, Mass, by floods following a re-
cent storm.
Representatives Of Egypt are studying
Southern methods OF cotton-raising near
Atlanta, Ga.
The New York Recorder (Rep.) advo-
Gates the free coinage Of silver at rea-
sonaOle ratio.
B. 2. Hutchinson, or cold Hutch, ;"
has sold his membership on the Chicago
Board Of Trade.
Two OF the 5,000-horse- power turbine
wheels for the great Niagara power plant
are nearly done.
The Rock Island switchmen threaten
to strike il an attempt is made to re-
duce their wages.
Mining experts are actively at work
inspecting the gold region OF the Rocky
Mountain States.
A fine quality Of coal in seeming in
exhaustible quantity has been found in
Kerr county, Tex.
The New York banks will soon in
crease their circulation to the extent OF
$4,000, 900 or 0,000, 900.
Philadelphia Italians have been try
ing to wreck cable cars, because their
children were killed by them.
A company has been formed to intro
duce the sliding railway system exhib-
tied at Chicago into this country.
A movement is in progress to intro
duce improved machinery in the gold
districts OF Alabama and Georgia.
One thousand saloons have suspended
business in Chicago this month. They
could not stand 5000 year license.
Galveston is experiencing an excess of
rainfall and New Orleans drought. A
year ago these conditions were reversed.
The Kansas coal miners strike is near
ing an end. The strikers are trying to
return TO work ON the best terms obtain
able.
There il great apprehension at Omaha
lest the foundation of the new Federal
building IL not on ground stable enough
to support it,
A Chicago statistician figures that
wheat at the price it is now selling-$l0
II ton-is only 50 ton more than timo-
thy hay is bringing.
The employees of the bureau of en-
craving and printing at Washington
have been ordered to work till O'Clock
every working day until further notice.
At Philadelphia Rachel Boyle, 25 years
of age, during n period of religious ex-
citement cut oil portion of her lips,
and then broiled it rs an offering to God.
The State officers OF Kansas have de-
cided TO send out Il commissioner to So
licit seed wheat for farmers of that State,
taking notes from the farmers in pay
ment.
The women of Hiawatha, Kan, are
raising funds TO send all of the drunk
ards OF that town to the Kelley cure,
and they expect to make money by the
operation.
The American Bankers Association
Convention, announced to be held in
Chicago September and Z, will not
take place because OF the present finan-
cial situation.
Barrett Scott, Holt county (Neb.)
Treasurer, has disappeared, and an in
vestigation OF his accounts shows short.
age OF about 10000. 1t is thought tina.
Scott has gone to Mexico.
Topolobampo colonists have reached
Kansas, and have asked Congressman
Broderick TO investigate the methods
pursued by the managers OF the colony.
The refugees say il is swindle.
Only Massachusetts,, Virginia, Ohio,
and Iowa will elect Governors
& his fall, Only three Legislatures to be
Virginia, Kentucky and |
lowa-will elect United States Senators.
Local bankers at Mobile, Ala, ridicule
report OF n probable crisis
in the cotton region, owing TO want of |
currency, When the time comes they |
say all the necessary funds will be forth
Chicago has been so overrun with car
nonters that the unions OF that CITY
1lg 60
out the country for financial aid to en-
able them TO pay the fares OF some of
the unemployed TO other cities.
The rouud-trip fare from ST, Louis to
New Orleaus-a distance OF 200 miles
during the International Exposition in
The Crescent City in 1885 was $40, and
the rcund-trip fare from st. Louis to
Nhicago-distancc 80 miles-is now $40.
There are $500 employees of the Fed
,ral government in New York city, ex-
elusive of the letter-carriers in the post
office department. OF these 800 have
places covered hy the clvil-service law,
and | 900 arr removable on demand or
ior cause,
Reports from all sections Of Ulster,
Orange, sullivan, Delaware and Grcene
'ouutics, \. Y, show that the streams
are drying up, and growing crops are
suffering for moisture. Wells that were
never known to fail in giving bountiiul
supply arc now useless.
The commencement Of the public
work on the sewers at Denver was a
scene OF unusual excitement. Fully
; ,OO idle men werc on hand eager 10
iud employment, and when team drove
mp hauling wagon loaded with tools.
'uSh was made for picks and shovels.
Those who were unable to secure tools
vent to work pulling up weeds, showing
heir disposition and anxiety 10 work.
Forty.two men were put to labor in the
trenches, and they worked with hearty