Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-12-16
LATER NEWS.

tour of Porto Rico and Cuba.
Only two men we're killed in the
Wardner (Idaho) mine disaster.
Ten deaths as a result of suicide,
and accident is the record of one Sun.
day in Greater New York.
Germany is now said to be seeking
an ally and wants the friendship of
Uncle Sam. German Ambassador Won
Holleben has been commissioned to
settle whatever differences exist.
An area of 20 blocks in the 28th
ward in Brooklyn was inundated by
raging waters, which washed out the
fundations of houses, tore down trolley
and telegraph poles. imprisoned people
in their homes.
Charles W. Miller, of Chicago, last
years six-day champion. won the great
bicycle race at Madison-Square Garden
again this year, beating the worlds
record (his OWN by "a miles. He made
2,007 miles, and rested but "a hours
in the 142.
Unprecedented secrecy obtains as to
the conditions of the construction of
the Shamrock, the challenger for the
Americas cup. Not merely are the
most strict precautions taken to pre-
vent leakage of the details of her con-
struction, but even the place where she
is being built is kept secret.
The foreign exhibitors have been seri-
ously affected by the decision of the
Paris appeal court in rejecting the suit
OF Swiss EN- mbroiderer against French
manufacturer who copied his designs.
The effect of the decision is that de-
signs and patterns in the foreign ex-
hibits of 1900 may be copied with i'm
pnnity by French manufacturers, un-
lessthe exhibitors possess manu-
factory in France.
The batte-ship Massachusetts struck
reef or sunken obstruction near Dia-
mond reef, off Castle William, Cover
nor's island, N. Y, while on her way
from the navy-yard to the naval an
chorage off Tompkinsville, S. l. The
damage wrought was considerably
greater than was at first supposed.
and it is believed fully 90 days will be
required to put the vessel in condition
to go to sea, even if is not vitality
hurt.
The authorities are making an effort
to break up witchcraft III Alaska 1t
is practiced among the Indians, who
are very superstitious. News from
Alaska. says: Charles Watson, John
McCubin and John Halpin lost their
lives by the premature explosion of a
blast. They were working on the
grade of the White Pass q Yukon rail-
road, between camps 8 and 10. They
were charging hole when the explo.
sion occurred. Their bodies were hor-
ribly mangled.
A big gale in San Francisco harbor
caused much damage to shipping.
The pottery trust has completed it's
organization under the laws of New
Jersey; capital, $20,000,000
Steamer Roumania has sailed from
Savannah for Havana with the first
regiment, North Carolina, to help gar
rlSOn the LurDulent city.
The Paris court of cessation has
granted stay of proceedings in the
Picquart trial, and thereby invoked the
fury of the anti-Dreyfus press.
A mining suit involving property
valued at So, 000, 900 has been entered
in the courts of California by a Mon
tana syndicate against prominent Cali
foInia capitalists.
In recent public address in Wash
ington Count Won Goetzen said that the
only good volunteers among the United
States troops during the late war were
the Rough Riders,
1t is now understood that Major-G Gen
eral James f. Wade, president of the
United States evacuation committee,
will be appointed by President McKin.
ley military governor of western Cuba.
The supreme count of Nebraska has
decided that the bondsmen of ex-State
Treasurer BARLEY will have to make
good that officials shortages and steal.
ings from the state, amounting in all
to about S700,000.
d. II. Howard, a New Mexico cattle
dealer, with two detectives, is on the
trail of Gilett, the Kansas plunger, on
whom Howard is $40, 900 short. How.
ard will ask the governor of Kansas to
issue reQuisitlon papers for his extradi-
tion to New Mexico
The British Columbia mills are again
receiving lumber orders from Cape
Town, South Africa, after period OF
two years, during which little or nc
lumber was shipped to that district.
Two vessels are at present under way