Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-06-22
EASTERN MELANGE.
Total immigration During Ten
Month Ended April 30.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC's REPORT
Reduction Of Freight Rates From
New Orleans to Pacific Coast
Points Does Good.

The church taxation bill was defeated
in the Michigan House by vote Of 32
TO 35.
The Texas Central is looking over
ground for its proposed extension in
Mexico.
Philadelphia wants new mint build
ing. The money is appropriated for
new site.
Governor Flower OF New York is worth
several million dollars, and he is taxed
for 10000.
Thousands of acres Of land have been
laid waste in Southern Arkansas by the
recent foods.
Joseph Pulitzer Of the World has given
800, 900 TO the building fund OF the Co
lumba College.
The Railroad Tax Assessors Of Kansas
are being urged by popular clamor to in
crease the taxes.
Dunn, chief Of the weather bureau,
promises one of the warmest summers
we have ever experienced.
The Bell Telephone Company has ae-
cured an injunction against the McKees-
port Company at Pittsburg.
A company has been chartered in
Kansas TO print and circulate campaign
matter for the Peoples party.
Kansas crops are improved. Wheat is
giving better promise, and the corn acre
age will be larger than usual.
Seventy furniture factories at Cincin-
natl have closed. This is the answer to
the demands OF the workmen for nine
hours and other concessions.
Tammany is in clover. The Governor
OF New York did not veto the bill that
gives Tammany sl0,000,0O0 dock i'm
prOvemcnts.
Since Jay Gould's death the "Gould
stocks" heve suffered n shrinkage OF
more than S50,000000 and one-half OF
this falls upon his estate.
Rev. DR.. Lyman Abbott in Plymouth
Church. Brooklyn, Saturday referred to
| DR.. Briggs as a modern prophet, fit 10
rank with the prophets of the Bible.
Michigan health officers are accused
by Canadian papers of working" Do
minion railways under threats of inter
fering with their traffic arrangements.
Hundreds of English sparrows have
| built their nests in the Worlds Fair
buildings, and before the show closes
they will have increased to thousands.
Representative W. l.. Wilson of West
Virginia, who is Cleveland's choice for
Chairman of the Congressional Ways
and Means Committee, fayors an income
tax.
The Kansas millers are buying wheat
outside of the State for July and Sep
tember delivery for fear that the home
crop will not meet their grinding require
ments.
Late reports from South Dakota and
Nebraska state that cholera has wiped
out whole herds of hogs, and that the
scarcity will be greater than it was
year ago.
The st. LulIe's Hospital property on
Fifth avenue, New York, has been sold
for -, 400, 600 in cash to an unknown
millionaire; one report says to Coils p.
Huntington.
n call from some OF the prominent la
dies OF Boston for fund to provide
rocking chairs for aged women unable to
buy them was responded to by contribu-
tions amounting to over 800.
General Boynton in letter in the
Washington Post says the demand Of the
old soldiers is that the pension roll shall
he made roll of honor, and wedding
out of the undeserving il necessary.
The total immigration to the United
States during the ten months ended
April 30, 1898, was 334 ,S25, decline OF
ll0, 1873 from the immigration OF the cor
responding ten months OF the previous
year.
The annual report OF the Southern Pa
Citic Company (the entire system) for |
the year ending December 8, 1892, shows |
net earnings OF $l7,60S, ,906, against $40,
2S6, 6,2Oi in 1892, being a decrease of ST.
502, ,20S.
1t is reported in Washington that At |
torney-General Olney and Assistant Sec |
retary OF state Quincy will resign at an |
early date, and that there is n chance for
Pacific Coast man getting one OF the |
positions.
The Carnegie Land Company and the
Carnegie Iron Company OF johnson |
City, Tenn, have made assignments to |
j. w. Cure. The liabilities of the two
concerns are due largely to Eastern and |
Northern parties.
The Confederate Memorial and Liter
AIRY Society of Richmond, Va, proposes
to restore the old Confederate White
House, where jefferson Davis lived in
that city, and keep il as q memorial hall.
1t is now occupied 10y u school.
The Society OF the Daughters OF the
American Revolution proposes that the
Columbian Liberty Bell, which is to bc
exhibited at the Worlds Fair, shall aft
crward be transported from place to
place throughout the world as mission
AIRY OF freedom.
Government Inspectors have been
pushing an investigation into the affairs
of the poStotlice at Kansas City. Eight
postotlcc clerks and five carrier. have
already been discharged for duplicating
and hypothecating their salaries with
moncy-lenders,
senator sherman was asked concern
ing rumor that he intended to resign,
and he responded: There is no use in
discussing this matter. have SO little
intention to resign that have not given
the subject moments consideration.
Indeed, It had not occurred 20 me-"
The Eastern railroads lind it difficult
to maintain rates during the Worlds
Fair. The latest scheme for getting
around the agreed schedule is imported | {
from Cincinnati, where one railroad dis.
tr!huted circulars offering trip TO the
fair and return and weeks boani for
$40.
nr. Briggs, who was convicted OF her
esy 10y the last General Assembly, saws
Il is high time that all broad.minded l,
men should organize and work together
for their own safety as well As Tor the
honor ot Preshyterianism. He calls upon
the Prcsbyterians 20 resist the cncroach-
mon,s upon their rights by the General
Assembly.