Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1896-06-11

steady and always.increasing revenues
of the imperial maritime customs
which are now mortgaged to the full
extent to French, Russian, English and
German bondholders, from the i'm.
perial exchequer, to pay the interest
on the various foreign loans, has Grip.
pied the government until now it does
not know which way to turn for money.
In an interview with a press repre-.
sentative, Thomas A.. Edison said: Il
have succeeded in solving the problem
of the new white light. The lamp is
finished. That is the scientific part of
the work and that solves the problem.
The remainder is mechanical. The
new light, or fuorescent lamp, as Edi-
son has named it, is somewhat similar
to the incandescent lamp now used
everywhere. There is not SO perfect
vacuum as in the incandescent lamp.
Unlike the electric lamp, the whole
globe glows with a pure white light of
marvellous Illuminating power. The
light comes from a metallic crystal
known as "tungstate.
Thiede, who was convicted of the
murder of his wife in Salt Lake, must
hang. This is the decision of the
Utah supreme court.
Fire destroyed the Boylston brewery
and mammoth icehouse, in Boston, and
damaged many buildings. The total
loss is $50, 900.
An emergency club has been organ
lied in Des Moines, Ia, its object be-
ing the care of sufferers from tornadoes
and similar public calamities.
The French Niger expedition from
Salaga, West Africa, has been routed
and many of its members killed by
poisoned arrows, in the Borgeo coun.
try.
Two midgets, each less than four
feet high, were married in Niagara
Falls. They are NJ. l.. Comfort, of
Oswego, N. Y, aged so, and Miss Eva
B. White, of Monroe, Mich, aged "A.
They have known each other for twen-
ty years. They met by appointment
and are spending their honeymoon
there.
A bare. knuckle fight to a finish be-
tween two youths was successfully
brought off in vacant store near the
Olympic Clubs ground, San Francisco.
Bad blood had existed owing to an ex-
change of compliments over dog fight,
and the youths met to settle their diff.
terences in accordance with an agree
ment then made.
Manacled, but struggling fiercely
with guards, Joseph Windrath was
executed in Chicago. Even to the last
second Windrath feigned insanity,
crying, hang up Mannow, etc. Not
until the drop fell and the rope tight
ened the last time around Windrath's
neck were the awful cries stilled. 1t
was fourteen minutes later before the
heart ceased beating.
Nearly all the settlers ON lien lands
in the neighborhood of Garfield, Wash,
have received notice to prepare to
either buy or vacate their homes. The
notices state that under date of April
2, 1896, the government issued patents
to the Northern Pacific Railroad Com.
pany for these lands The railroad
company offers the lands to settlers for
~ an acre to be paid in either five or
.en annual payments with interest at
J per cent.
A Cape Town dispatch says that in
he assembly Mr.. Spring in announc.
'lng the budget said that the available
surplus was el, ,250, 900, estimated sur
plus net for the year, eS22, 900. He
llso produced statistics showing an un.
'recedented prosperity in all directions
md expressed the opinion that the high
price of Cape stock was partly due to
5he fact that the colony was part of
he British empire and he added that
.he power which commands the sea
must dominate South Africa.
The American line steamer st. Paul .
mas again broken her record across the .
Atlantic. The st. Paul left Southamp. /.
ION at noon May 30 and passed The
Needles about :25 p. NJ. June .. Her
time for the trip was days. . hours
and 80 minutes, beating all records by
over y hours. The best previous
western record of the St Paul, made
on her last voyage, was days, hours
and D minutes. She has, in the pres.
ent trip, reduced that time 3D. hours,
and also made a new western record
from Southampton.
Alarming news regarding the plague
which is raging in China and other
of Southern Asia was brought
by the steamer Peru, which arrived
from Hong Kong and Yokohama in
San Francisco, seven days late, on ac.
count of being detained at quarantine
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