Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-12-14
Edward Parker Deacon Now
in the Social Swim.
THE WHITECAPS IN THE STRIP.
Large Number Of Idle Miners on the
GOgebic Range-Illieit Stills
DestrOyed-Etc.

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Texas people demand cut in railway
rates to attract immigration.
Rhode Island has voted by large ma
jority in favor of plurality elections.
Several theaters at Cincinnati have
sued local union for damages for boy
colt.
The driveways of Central Park, New
York, are to be lighted by incandescent |
lamps.
A concise" report of the Worlds |
Fair in twenty-five volumes is to be pub
lished.
The Kansas State Board OF Dentistry
is prosecuting the unlicensed dentists Of
that State.
The President has removed Postmaster
Thomas Of Topeka for violating the civil
ervice law.
The next session of the Ohio Legisla-
ture is likely TO pass an act providing for
biennial sessions.
There is one child dependent on char
ity for support in every 100 inhabitants
in New York city.
The sale Of Columbian postage stamps
was only 81 ,00O,000 instead Of y, SOC, 900,
AZ had been estimated.
A whaling captain says 100 whales
were killed and let go adrilt in the Arc
tic seas the past season.
The widow OF Jim Fisk is living in
poverty in little wooden house in Sc
cluded part Of South Boston.
Kansas City does not pay for her wa
ter, and the water-works company
threatens to cut off the supply.
Whitecaps are making things lively
for "sooners and lot jumpers in the
recently opened herokee Strip.
There is a gigantic scheme to connect
New York and Chicago with an electric
railway. The time can be shortened ten
hours.
Pneumatic-tube mail-carrier service,
which Postmaster Coveney favors adopt
ing in Boston, can be made almost self
sustaining.
| Officers of the Guarantee Investment
Company at Chicago have been con ricted
Of using the mails in the interest of Il
lottery scheme.
Cincinnatl's Mayor wants that city's
population to be swelled by 22,00O by
tnnexing seventy-five square miles in
Hamilton county.
Chicago hotel men complain that their
houses are deserted. A house that had
5000 guests Il month ago now has but
3O0 and SO it runs.
1t is estimated by the Register of the
Treasury that only about $l5,S00. 900 OF
the registered bonds Of the United States
are now held abroad.
The discussion still goes on at Chicago
about retaining the Worlds Fair struct-
ures in jackson Park as long as they can
be preserved against decay.
The strike of catchers and hookers
against 10 per cent reduction in wages
throws 800 men out Of employment in
the Newport (Ky.l rolling mills.
As result Of alleged bOodling the
Mayor ol Omaha has been enjoined from
approving franchise granted the local
gas company 10y the City Council.
The idle miners on the Gogebic Range
in Wisconsin number about 1900. They
are in II helpless condition, and measures
are being taken to give them relief.
The Boston and Maine road will alb
sorb the Concord and Montreal and
Maine Central together with another
road yet unnamed, by longtime leases
Prof. Marowe of the High School o
Terre llaute, Ind, who sent his Young
wife TO her parents recently, telling her
he no longer loved her, has been dis.
missed.
The number OF distileries operated
during the year was 4, ,74S, decrease o.
| 1872 compared with 1892, but the de.
crease was wholly in the class Of fruit
distillers.
Predictions are made at Philadelphig
that the Knights OF Labor rs an order
cannot long exist. The way the manage
ment has conducted business has beer
very unsatisfactory.
According to the last report of tn,
State Auditor OF Iowa there were lS-
farmers mutual insurance companies il
the State, which in 1892 carried ovel
Sl00, ,000, 900 Of risks.
The New York market il perceptibl,
feeling the results of the destructiy,
methods that have for years been en-
: ployed in taking fish on the chief ground,
ON the Atlantic Coast.
Seven hundred and TWENTY-FIVE Illicit
stills were destroyed during the year anC
cighty-iour were removed. The number
oi persons arrested was 4S7, and thre,
Deputy Collectors were killed.
; \ special agent OF the general land Of
flee, who has been examining the Rainy
Lake region OF Minnesota, reports thai
It is invaluable only for minerals an,
} unfit for any other purpose whatever.
Edward Parker Deacon, who shot ant
killed NJ. Abiele in France, has beer
cordially received in society at Newport
K. |. He has been introduced and wei
coined ut the swell clubs on Belleyu,
avenue.
The General Assembly Of the Farmers
Mutual Benefit Association, the nstinna
head of the Farmers Mutual Benef
Association OF Illinois, Indiana, Ohio
West Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri an,
Iowa, is IN session in indianapolis.
The people of Kansas CITY have de
cided that park system is necessar,
r adjunct 10 the prosperity of the town
that the city must own its water works
, and that the ring which has contro
, Of the municipal government must 20.
The persistent ravages OF diphtheri.
? in Philadelphia and the heavy rcsultin,
= mortality during the last two year
make II imperative that no means shout,
, be- neglected which will give promise o
, efficiency in the effort to stamp it out.
On each day OF the Chicago Fair tn
, net receipts averaged S65,O96, The tota
| receipts from all sources were $2S, lSl,
. l6S; total expenditures, s2S,5l0 6S7
d balance, Se,6l0,6Sl, From this are de
, ducted obligations 10 the amount q
. NlS, ll7, leaving net assets. 81, ,S6s, ass
| Governor nllman OF South Carnhn,
Y roaSts the Supreme Court, using u