Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-10-05
Work on the Great Bridge at
New Orleans, La.
THE MELON CROP OF GEORGIA.
Huge Cucumber-Female Anarchist
in LlmbO-SOuth CarOlina's
New Liquor Law.

y IAailSao Coih CIop tIlls year VIII DE
l30,OO0,0O0 bushels.
New York is now sending out more
foreigners than she receives.
Awholesale removal of pension agents
is expected in the near future.
The bees around Waterford, Mich, are
dying Of an unknown disease.
Texas reports that the pecan crop this
season will be the finest in many years.
The German Catholic Central Society
of North America is in session at st.
Louis.
Governor Waite will call an extra ses-
sion Of the Legislature OF Colorado in a
short time.
Attorney Olney has decided
that bicycles are entitled to free entry as
personal effects.
French Canadians are returning to
Canada in large numbers from the New
England States.
The Worlds Fair has nearly paid off
its floating debt and largely reduced its
other liabilities.
The New York Central is going to
Withdraw the exposition fier" at the
close OF the fair.
Acucumber weighing iifty-two pounds,
raised by Houston-county farmer, has
been sent to st. Louis.
Treasurer Barrett Scott, who stole
Sl04 900 from Holt county, Va, has been
arrested at Juarez, Mexico.
Wisconsin's Worlds Fair Commissions
ers have spent $40 200, and the people
are asking, Where is it at?"
Saloonkeepers are not allowed to do
business in the Cherokee Strip until
they have formally taken out licenses.
1t is estimated that the Georgia melon
crop this year amounts to $3.50, 900.
About 5000 carloads have been shipped.
1t is proposed to have national dedi-
cation OF the Chickamauga and Chatta-
nooga National Park October II and 18,
1894.
Reports Of murders in the new Chero-
kee strip are frequent. The causes are
attendant on the final settlement of
claims TO land.
Boston has issued 81 100000 per cent
bonds for improvement purposes. She
finds ready market at par and in some
cases II premium.
There has been u remarkable revival
Of interest in the abandoned farms"
Of New England since so many mills
closed their doors.
The financial situation ut Vickshurg,
Miss, has so improved that the banks
have ceased TO issue certified checks TO
be used as currency.
Congress will possibly ask Secretary
Gresham for the correspondence with
the Chinese government on the extradi-
tlon and registration laws.
The Columbian souvenir coins, which
it was anticipated would be boarded by
people OF patriotic turn, are rapidly
drifting back to the Treasury.
Emma Goldman, the anarchist in iail
in New York city for melting riot, is pre-
pared to plead her own case. She says
che needs no help from anybody.
South Cardinals liquor law seems to
be financially failure. Instead of turn
| ing 5000, 900 into the State Treasury il is
not likely to yield more than s25, 900.
Work on the great bridge over the Mis-
sissippi river at New Orleans will COM
mence at an early day, the engineers
having finally decided on the exact loca-
tion for it,
The city of st. Louis has sent repre-
sentative to Europe to float 81 ,250, 900 OF
her municipal bonds. She did similar
thing in 1890, and got out with per
cent interest.
A representative from Liberia COM
plains at Washington that France has
absorbed some OF Its territory, and goes
back with assurances that the United
States will render aid.
The hop crop of Central New York,
now largely harvested, is unusually ex-
excellent in quantity and quality, the
yield being estimated at 10000 bales,
against l25,000 bales last year.
The employees of the textile mills in
Philadelphia and vicinity have prepared
II petition TO Congress to refrain from
making any alterations in the tariff 80
far rs it affects the textile industry.
Warden Chase of the Kansas peniten.
tiary says that the number OF prisoners
is rapidly decreasing. The number is 100
less than 1t was last spring, and is fall
ing off at the rate OF iorty u month.
Miss Minnie c. Rankin is suing James
X. keene ut New York for $20, 900, half
of which she says he received to invest
for her and made no accounting, and the |
other half is for her services from 1888 |
b. 1880.
A pensioncr OF Clcartield, Pa, who |
signed patent medicine testimonial |
certifying that he had recovered his |
health through use OF the preparation,
finds his pension stopped on the strength |
of the certificate.
Cornelius Ryan OF Waltham, Mass,
found in railroad station four years ago
a wallet, which he returned to the owner,
whose name and address were among
the papers il contained, and recently
found himself named for 5000 in the
mans will,
The Worlds Fair directors met in spe-
cial session ut Chicago recently, and
voted down motion to lower the en-
trance Zee for children, and tabled by Il
heavy majority proposition to lot peo-
pile in ON Sunday at half rate. The mat.
ter OF extending the fair until January
went over.
Edmund $, llincks, the late clerk OF
the Whatcom Board Of County Commits
sioners, has started from Fairhavcn for
Mashonaland, Africa. lie will take in
the Worlds Fair en- route, and does not
expect TO reach Cape Town, South Africa,
before January /, 1894.
Charles I. o'Ferrall, whom the Demo.
Gratis have nominated for Governor Of
Virginia, is u native OF Frederick county,
and is ~ years OF age. lie enlisted bc.
fore he was 81 in the Confederate cav
AIRY, and at the surrender OF General
Ice was in command OF his cavalry de-