Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-04-13
Discouraging Statistics From
the Bureau of Statistics.
THE MARRIAGE OF COUSINS.
Bill Providing for Election of Presi.
Dental Electors by Congress.
sional Districts.


In 1892 the railroads in Pennsylvania
killed l ,439 persons.
A case Of malignant typhus has ap-
peared in Cincinnati.
The Worlds Fair has taken in $780,
600 in admissions already.
A syndicate is reported TO have pur-
chased the New York Times.
Nearly 400 applications for patents
were made last year by women.
The Treasury Department has plenty
OF gold for all practical purposes.
Arkansas proposes TO tax all sleeping
car, express and telephone companies.
The new iron-pipe combine in the
Southwest will have $20,O0O,OOO capital.
Americans can now buy bait in New
foundland without taking out license.
An artful New York Italian has made
about $4,000 by raising 81 bills to 50 bills.
A bank, exclusively for the colored
race, has been organized at Admission,
Ala.
Cattle in the Colorado country win
tered exceedingly well during the late
cold spell.
New York's Board of Electric Control
is still laboring to get the wires under
ground.
The Cherokee Strip will not be opened
to settlement in time for the planting of
spring crops.
The Atlanta Constitution is earnest in
declaring that Georgia is entitled to $500
Federal offices.
Two ex-Auditors of Illinois are being
sued for the recovery of interest on State
money placed in banks.
Thomas Helm of Austin, Tex, offers
$500 to any one who will secure his APP
pointment as Postmaster at that place.
Governor Northern of Georgia is tired
OF politics, and has become enamored
with the life OF religious missionary.
The right of a saloon-keeper to eject
female crusaders from his premises is TO
be tested in the Illinois Supreme Court.
The trial trip OF the cruiser New York
has been every way successful. All
cruiser speed records have been sur
passed.
A Chicago syndicate of capitalists is
contemplating the establishment of an
extensive packing-house plant in the
City Of Mexico.
1t is learned positively that dispatch
has been received from Oxford by the
Yale Boat Club opening negotiations for
an international race.
The City Electrician of Nashville,
Tenn, states that it would be very dan
gerous for women wearing Crinoline to
cross the electric car tracks.
Rumors of a shortage have led the
Randolph County MOO Court to begin
an investigation of the books of County
Treasurer Matlock OF that county.
For long time hitherto New York
city bonds have sold at premium in all
the markets of the world. Some new 8
per cents have been selling at par.
A Washington special to the New York
Herald says that President Cleveland has
finally made up his mind to call an extra
session of Congress next September.
The Union Club of New York has en-
gagged Captain Charles Perry Smith, late
of the Palace Hotel, San Francisco, as
its Superintendent at a salary of 5000
a year.
The Delmonico Restaurant at New
York will have to move from its we'll
known stand in May. The Wormser
Brothers, bankerc, have bought the
property.
A friend of the PENNSYLVANIA Hospital,
Philadelphia, has presented the institu-
tion with $4,000, with which to pay for
new building for the Out-patient De-
partment.
A bill providing for the election OF
Presidential Electors by Congressional
districts has passed the Nebraska House,
and is likely to pass the Senate and be-
come law.
The Lower House of the Kentucky
Legislature has declared against the
marriage OF cousins on the ground that
children OF such marriages are frequently
weak-minded.
The United Brotherhood of Switchmen
held secret meeting at Philadelphia.
No definite resolution was formed as TO
q strike when business is crowded dur
ing the Worlds Fair.
There are on file in the Postoftice De-
partment more than 5000 designations
of PoStmasters. These cases will be
considered and disposed OF before any
cases of removals are taken up.
The admission fee to the Worlds Fair
grounds will shortly be raised from 25
cents to 80 cents, TO discourage visitors
until the work, which must now be
pushed night and day, is completed.
John j. Rhodes, General Manager of
the Minnesota Bureau of Coal Statistics.
has been arrested on the charge OF COM
mitting perjury in giving testimony be-
fore the Legislative Investigation Com
mittee,
Statistics prepared by the Bureau of
Statistics for the year ending February
- show a balance OF trade against the
United States OF $50, 900 900, against
balance of N7l 10000 in favor OF the
United States for the previous year.
The Florida orange crop this season
will probably be the largest ever known.
The trees are now in blossom, and are so
full OF bloom that should only hall of
them mature the trees would not hold
the fruit without considerable proppins
and bracing.
The discovery is reported to have been
made that the peninsula OF Michigan
west of the Sault and Mackinac 10 the
Montreal and Menominee rivers and
from Lake Superior 10 Lake Michigan
and the straits has never been legally
eeded 10 the United States.