Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1894-01-04
EASTERN MELANGE.
Pittsburg Churches Unite in
Practicing Charity.
THE WHEAT CROP IN OKLAHOMA
The President Thanks Senator Mills
for Defending His Hawaiian
Policy in the Senate.

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Baptizing through the ice has begun
up in Maine.
Cinnamon are being brought to Flor
ida from Cuba.
A phosphate combine is being organ
lied in Florida.
The Kansas State exhibit at the
Worlds Fair cost $62, 800.
The Cherokees have sustained the
House impeachment OF Chief Harris.
Samuel Gompers has been reelected
President Of the Federation OF Labor.
Twenty-Five women have founded a
communal home on the Cherokee Strip.
A move is on foot looking to the de-
velopment of the coal fields OF Ardmore,
1T.
The shootings and hangings OF negroes
amount to about twenty per day in the
south.
Beaver county, Oklahoma, known as
No Mans Land, wants to be annexed to
Kansas.
Thousands of homeless and penniless
men sleep on the tiling floor Of Chicagos
| city hall.
The national government is running
behind at the rate Of about $4,000, 900
per month.
Roston proposes to have closer connec-
tion with her suburbs by means OF cleo
trio railroads.
Work on the erection of the Grant
monument at New York has been dis
continued for the winter.
Seventeen Pittsburg churches united
Sunday week in raising funds for the
poor and collected 5000.
Hon. William +. Cody, "Bufalo Bill"
is seeking the Republican nomination
for Governor of Nebraska.
The wheat crop for next year, as far
as observation goes, appears to be in
fairly healthy and promising condition.
In North Park, Routt county, Col.
about two dozen buifaloes are protected
by the farmers, who feed them regularly.
II is estimated that up to December |
the government made S48S, 159 out of the
Worlds Fair through custom-house du-
ties.
Georgia will try to recover 100000
from the Federal government for terri
tory which is now Alabama and Mssis-
sippi.
100000, ,000-candle- power electric
light, the greatest in the world, will be
placed in Fire Island lighthouse off New
York.
The number OF suicides in East Side
tenements, New York city, has been
greatly increased by lack of employ
ment.
A carload of beef was recently sent by
Jesse Spalding, Chicago bank presi-
dent, to the destitute of Iron Mountain,
Mich.
Foreign capitalists will build a 81 ,000,-
600 beet-sugar factory at Omaha, ii
farmers will raise 5000 acres of beets
annually.
The highest court in Missouri has de-
cided that debts contracted in option
deals are gambling debts and not collect
able at law.
Five tons of the curtains hung under
the skylights OF the manufacturers
building ut the exposition have been
sold for old rags.
The Kentucky Court of Appeals has
decided that the purchase of lottery
franchise by authority of the State Leg
islature will not stand.
Topeka has ordered its police TO give
the unemployed entire freedom in com.
ing and going. The rock pile and bull
pens have been abolished.
The President has sent to Senator
Mills letter thanking the latter for his
recent speech in defense of the admins
tration's Hawaiian policy.
The wheat crop in Oklahoma is re-
ported to be in excellent condition. A
much larger acreage has been planted
this year than was sown last year.
A bill has been introduced in the Vir-
ginia Legislature providing for submis-
sion OF u constitutional amendment
which will insure white supremacy in
politics.
The discovery that one of the Jurors
in the Meyer poisoning case on trial ut |
New York had been been confined i'm an |
insane asylum has brought the case to u
standstill
The comet medal of the Astronomical
Society of the Pacific has been awarded |
to Prof, Brooks Of Geneva, n. Y, for his |
discovery of an unexpected comet ON |
October IL, 1898.
Another bill to provide for the sub
mission OF the question OF consolidation
of New York and Brooklyn to u popular
vote has been prepared for introduction
in the Legislature which will shortly as
semble at Albany.
Mrs. Grant has sold General Grants
cottage ut Elberton for $SS,000 to Mrs.
T.. j. Price OF New York. The place was
the gilt OF q. W, Childs, General Horace
Porter and Thomas Murphy, and cost
them $50, 900 in 1869.
Reports to the Department of Acri-
culture show that there is a decrease of
10 per cent from 1892 in the area
sown in winter wheat in Illinois. Ii all
the States follow the example, wheat
will be high-priced next year.
Senator Allen q. Thurman has
subscribed $4,000 to the building OF an
opera house 10 take the place OF the Hen
rietta Theater at Columbus, o., which
was burned recently.
The students OF Exeter IN. H. Acad-
emy posted flaming pictures OF ballet
girls ON the walls in the recitation halls
a few days ago, and severe steps will be
taken to discipline the culprits.
ihV NNN lOlh hoNtN OF uCAltn mas !
notified the New York Central railroad
that il will no longer be permitted TO
use soft coal in firing up its engines in
ts yards in that city ON account OF the
'oot and snoke.
The Court OF Appeals at Albany, y.
y, in the case OF Edward :. Stokes
against John W. Mackay and others, ap-
reversed the Judgment OF the
over court and ordered new trial.
This is an appeal by the several defend
,nts from the decision OF the general