Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1893-10-26
The Eighty-fourth Parallel of
the Pole Reached.
MARY WASHINGTON MONUMENT
Large Number of Deaths Caused by
the Recent Storm Below New
Orleans, Louisiana.

The cotton crop IL 40 per cent short OF
last years yield in Southwest Texas.
For 10 cents each children under IA
are now admitted to the Worlds Fair.
Dengue or break-bone fever has made |
its appearance at Corpus Christi, Tex.
Ex-Treasurer Green McCurtin OF Ok
lahoma is short $l04,727. He has dis
appeared.
A public library and literary resort ex
clusively for the blind has been opened
in Chicago.
The Ferris wheel at the Worlds Fair
has taken in the 100000 it cost and
100000 beside.
New York city will spend $40, 900 to
make her day at the Worlds Fair a
memorable success.
Many railway bridges have been swept
away by floods in the Indian Territory
and Northern Texas.
Denver has contracted to ship to Eu-
rope by the way Of Galveston, Tex, 6, 900
tons OF Colorado hay.
The Welsh in the United States claim
that they are in number as many az their
countrymen in Wales.
The manufacture OF cigarettes shows
remarkable and steady increase over
other forms Of tobacco.
The cruiser New York will be the first
United States vessel TO receive battery
Of Whitehead torpedOes.
Eight thousand men are employed on
the canal that will carry the sewage of
Chicago to the Illinois river.
In New York the grand jury has made
a presentment recommending that the
Office OF Coroner be abolished.
Francis Murphy, the temperance
worker, has induced over 800 persons to
sign the pledge at at-Tuscola, Ia.
A Portland (Me.) furniture man, who
has failed for nearly $500, 900, shows up
with less than IS 900 worth OF assets.
The employees OF the Denver and Rio
Grande railroad have agreed to accept a
10 per cent reduction in wages until jan
uary.
The chilly autumn weather has
brought sickness and death to the
Orientals on the Midway Plaisance,
Chicago.
The diminished price of silver has
caused the shutdown OF many Mexican
mines and also greatly decreased the
revenue.
Contracts have recently been made for
between 500 and 1000 cars in Nebraska
for transportation Of last years corn and
hay crop.
Mrs. Samuel Bennett OF Tanner, w.
Va, gave birth to her twenty-ninth
child few days ago. All the children
are alive.
1t IL aafe now to number the deaths in
the recent storm below New Orleans at
1000 and over, and the loss in property
will be many millions.
The house Of the late Justice Bradley,
formerly the Washington home Of Ste
phen A. Douglas, has been purchased by
Papal Delegate Satolli.
The Texas Associated Press has con-
tracted with the Associated Press for Il
period OF ten years and severed its con-
nection with the United Press.
A correspondent of the New York Tri-
bune suggests the holding Of Il great
Worlds Fair ut New York in 1900 to eel
ebrate the closing Of the nineteeth CEN
tury.
There isa movement in Canada for
having a national park created in the
Nepigon country, in order that the
trout fishing there may be eternally per-
petuated.
The New York Herald announces that
President Mcleod OF the New England
railroad has secured an entrance to the
center OF New York city with good termi-
nal facilities.
Fourteen members OF the Board OF
! Freeholders OF Patterson, y. j., have
been convicted OF making $20,0 900 fraud
ulcntly in the purchase OF courthouse
for that town.
Captain Porter OF the whaler Newport
claims to have sailed TO the eighty
fourth parallel OF the pole. Navigators
are getting there by degrees. This is
within ak OF it.
John d. Rockefeller, the Standard Oil
millionaire. IL To purchase at Tar
rytown, y. Y, about 500 acres for 1850, =
0O0. lie will build mansion which will
cost over 81 100000.
Every member OF Congress has re-
ceived an anonymous printed circular
threatening United States Senators rs
enemies OF the people for not acting on
the silver purchase repeal bill.
Two hundred prominent citizens OF
Austin, Tex, have asked Governor
llogg to accept the sugar bounty ac-
cumulatcd at Washington TO Texas
credit, which he refused last spring.
Mrs. Mathilda Cross MacConnell has
presented to the city OF Pittsburg five
long squares OF ground ~ II Is described
for u public park. She is the third lady
in the city who has given land for park
purposes.
II ia announced that more than 81 900
| patents We're granted on inventions in
Volving the industrial application OF
electricity between January l, 1875, and
December 81, 1892, and the number Of
new ones is increasing at the rate OF
1900 per annum,
At present there are seventy-one pub
lie buildings in course OF construction in
the United States, aud the plans for
torty-nine new ones, for which appropri-
ations have been made, are being pre-.
pared in the Treasury Department.
Representative Caminetti has discov-
cred 4 way TO avoid the heavy expense OF
deportine Chinese who refuse to register.
lie proposes that the government send
some ot the old war vessels going out OF
commission for that purpose.
The Standard Oil COMPANY has bought
1900 scrcs OF land near the lake front at
Ashtabula, o., with the intention OF
erecting u big steel plant capable Of turn.
ing out 1000 tons per day. The location
is favorable Tor securing supplies Of
cheap coal and orr.
The Old Mary Washington monument