Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-02-01
EASTERN MELANGE.
A Methodist Minister COnfesses
That He is a Murderer.
FEEDING WHEAT TO THE HOGS
An Approximation Of the Gross
Earnings Of the Chicago City
Railways for 1893.

Congress is costing the country So, 900
a day.
Gambling-houses have been closed by
the Chicago authorities.
FL Paso, Tex, is excited over a rich
strike Of gold in the neighborhood.
There is movement in the Ohio Leg
islature to tax certain classes OF street
cars.
A new oil well near Fostoria, O., flows
1895 barrels day, and the section is
wild.
| The Boston subscription fund for the
relief OF the unemployed amounts to
$40, ,525.
The municipal expenses of Chicago
last year were $422, ITO more than the
receipts.
The opposition to tacking the internal
revenue bill onto the tariff bill is getting
stronger.
The Chicago papers call the San Fran
cisco Midwinter Exposition "dainty
little fair"
Five Kansas counties have compro-
missed with the Atchison Company on
the tax question.
Many farmers are feeding wheat to
their hogs in Western Texas rather than
sell it at 30 cents bushel.
The gross receipts of the Illinois Cen
tral for December were 81 ,702, 500, a de-
crease OF $10l 900 from 1892.
The erstwhile Worlds Fair hotels of
Chicago nave been changed into fats,
and 1000 OF them are now occupied.
The total yield of wool in this country
last year amounted to 364, 1876, ,666 pounds,
the largest American clip ever raised.
Philadelphia's School OF Industrial
Art is holding an exhibition of laces.
There are 1000 pieces in the exhibition.
Recent census figures SHOW that the
population of the city OF Washington
has increased $4,000 during the past
year.
Attorney General Olney has decided
that Chinese laborers may legally go
through this country to any country OF
destination.
Among the unemployed are $4,000
men and boys who are waiting for the
Hudson river TO freeze over, so that ice
cutting may begin.
The membership of the Boston Fruit
, and Produce Exchange has jumped to
500; new fields OF enterprise were
broached the past season.
An attemnt nv the Carnegie Steel
Company to roll a six-inch beam OF alu-
minlum at Homestead has failed, but
another trial will be made.
Nova Scotia is suffering from decline
of the wooden shipping industry. The
registry of the province shows a shrink
@ .So !" 'i'o '"s' year vi he"r'y oo'ooO
: 'omo' ,.
Inc difference IN ages between the
, oldest ana the youngest United States
senator ls iorty-iour, years, The Oldest
senator Is Republican; the youngest
Tho Vanaaa e.. c.. .,
innisin, Is ,ta s"ploio pt Iouiv nds ms iila'e I
,',or,,,a''n n;' 80 !. ~ 'ro "oi u;i1 " =. "
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. A preliminary fund of 5000, 900 has
l ,Im SIn,p p''os'' Gs V o1I,ss Tn,s S iouses lli
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r nronnsad ~ hoiJ T. ,iv, ,ha, -, Ti ,ook - &c
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One dollar from Washington to Balti.
more is the promise of the projectors oI
doop tn p'oPosIa ,no ] ovosn 'oaa; ne ~ '.sl, ,s
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, The Atlanta Exposition will possibly
: be graced by pipe tower that from
4 plans made by ID. s. Paul, plumber,
= will measure | ,l60 feet in height. II is
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: II seems incredible, but it is fact,
that men cannot be hired in Chicago to
work on the drainage canal at wages OF
10 cents an hour. The number of the
s unemployed is estimated TO reach into
Q the tens of thousands.
| Nam yorL ,h,.;,,. ,,t, ,.,;
> coal and food depot, where bread, tea
= and coal are sold at cost. 1t is said ]
. Pierpont Morgan furnished $50, 900 Il
run il, About 1000 unemployed have
used its advantages thus far.
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riJnnI" ny w. - "eo,",e1 osnay, s .as, rnn so't
cnnor Nm vi 's s7na S' 0Hn M .. FUSt Sas wv & ~
, fire insurance company dividends were
$565, 900, the same in both wears.
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