Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-04-20
Amount of Real Estate Owned
by Virginia Negroes.
NATURAL GAS IN KANSAS.
Battle Between Farmers and Rail.
road Men Over the Erection
of Warehouse.

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The grave OF General Winfield Scott
Hancock in Norristown, Pa, is yet un-
marked.
The building Of electric roads in Ohio
is said TO be " developing the proportions
Of a craze"
The Colorado Senate has passed the
Railroad Commission bill over the Gov
ernor's veto.
1t will require forty cars to carry
Krupp's exhibit for the Worlds Fair
from Baltimore to Chicago.
A great flow of natural gas has been
struck at Cherryyale, Kan, and the cit
izens are expecting a boom.
Secretary of the Interior Smith does
not expect the Cherokee Strip TO be open
10 settlement before July next.
Rev. DR.. Parkhurst of New York has
organized corps whose business it will
be 10 see that all local laws are obeyed.
The Legislatures of New York, Con-
necticut and several Western States are
making efforts to suppress the pool
rooms.
Reports from Southern Illinois an
nounce that the prospects for good
wheat crop this season are most promis-
ing.
Lands which were selling two years
ago in the Red River Valley, n. D., for
so to $l2 an acre now bring double those
figures.
The capital OF the lumber trust, which
seems destined to control the lumber
business of this country, is understood
to be $32, 100000.
Jay Gould's children are about to
build a church to their fathers memory
at Roxbury, Delaware county, n. Y, the
place where he was born.
Mrs. Jane L. Fowle of Dedham, Mass,
has been awarded $3.50 by Boston jury
against dentist who extracted sound
tooth instead of decayed one.
The new regulations for the govern
ment OF the navy provide, among other
things, that naval officers shall not act
as correspondents for newspapers.
The Chicago packing firm, which
started thirty years ago in little butch
er-shop with one wagon, increased its
capital stock last week to SIS, 100000.
Evidence has been secured of whole
sale registration frauds in Chicago. OF
"a, 500 names added to the list 5000 and
possibly 5000 are said to be fraudulent.
1t is reported from Guthrie, o. T.,
that hundreds of Texas cattle are being
unloaded at Ponca in the Cherokee Strip
to Craze, and waiting settlers are indig-
nant.
The Massachusetts Senate has-A to 8
passed bill providing for the submits
sion to the people of constitutional
amendment establishing biennial cleo
tions.
According to the report of the Auditor
OF Virginia the negroes of that State pay
taxes on real estate valued at $9,425, ,6S5
and on personal property valued at $3,-
342, $50.
The wreck of gunboat which was
sunk during the late war, and which lies
in the regular channel near the Cape
Fear bar in North Carolina, will soon be
removed.
The large petrified snake, claimed TO
have been unearthed in Colorado some
time ago, turns out to be fossilized
palm tree which grew in that State be-
fore the climate changed.
The three vessels OF the United States
and Brazil Steamship Company were
sold ut auction at New York. The ALI
ance sold for sSS,000; Virginia, $Sl 900,
and the Advance, $4,000.
The petition for the rehearing of the
celebrated Chicago lake-front cases was
oyerruled by the Supreme Court OF the
United States, but second petition will
be filed il opportunity offers.
Philadelphia members of the Sons OF
the Revolution are about to start move
ment against the removal of Liberty
Bell and the original Declaration of In
dependence to the Worlds Fair.
A brakeman on the Central Railroad
OF New Jersey has obtained verdict
against the company for S25, 900 for the
loss OF leg which was crushed by some
cars cut loose in violation OF the rules"
The Wisconsin Legislature has adopted
n memorial TO Congress asking sub
mission OF an amendment to the Federal
Constitution providing for the election
OF the United States Senators by a popu-
lar vote.
At West Union, Ia, there was battle
between the farmers and railroad men
over the erection of warehouse. Seven
or eight were severely injured, and one
will die. The railroad won the point in
contention.
According 10 the Baltimore News the
new city directors indicates an increase
OF population for Baltimore during the
past year OF $4,000. The gain is attrib- 4
utcd largely to the growth of manufac- |
turing interests in the city and suburbs. |
Senator Roach of North Dakota.
whose record Mr.. Hoar wants TO have
investigated, is accused of embezzlinc
a large amount OF money from national /
bank in Washington, OF which he was an
officer nearly II not quite twenty years
ago.
The Supreme Court Of the United
States has decided that a fugitive from
Justice removed under eXtradition pr,.
rceiingS from one State 20 another NAV
bc cOustitutionally tried in the latter
State upon a warrant charging another
ohenSe than the one set forth in the war.
rant of extradition. without being first
returned TO the State whence he came.
In contest for title to quarte,
section OF land on the Creek Reservation.
T., which was thrown open 10 settle.
nent, the supreme Court OF the United
States has decided that "anyone who
Was within the Territorial limits at the
hour OF noon April - was, within both
he letter and the spirit Of the statute,
disqualified to take . homestead there
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