Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-09-16
EPITOME OF THE DISPATCHES
Interesting CO11oc4aon Of Items From
Many Places Culled From the rress
Reports of the Curre44 Weak.

been destroyed by forest fires along the
lower Columbia.
Thomas H. Wheeler. son of General
Joseph Wheeler, and Second Lieuten-
ant Newton D. kirkpatrick, First cav.
airy, were drowned while bathing near
the camp at Montauk Point.
Hawaiian advices announce the death
of Sergeant Ormond Fletcher, of the
Second Oregon volunteer engineer
corps. He was formerly county sur.
veyor of Multnomah county, Oregon.
A cable from Hong Kong announces
that committee of three Filippinos,
appointed by Aguinaldo, has left Hong
Kong to confer with President McKin-
ley upon the future of the Philippines.
Several salmon, averaging % pounds
in weight, have recently been caught
in the Sacramento river. From the
fact that the adipose fin had been re-
moved from each they were identified
as marked fish liberated from the hatch
cries on the Clackamas river, in Ore
gon, in 1897.
The president Of the Cretan executive
committee has notified the foreign ad-
mirals that in view of the massacre at
Gambia it is impossible to continue the
effort to organize the administration
until the Turkish functionaries and
troops are withdrawn. He demands
the convocation OF the Cretan assembly,
and proposes to place a force of Cretans
at the disposal of the international ad-
ministration.
Joseph Chamberlain says an Anglo
German understanding has been per-
fected, and a treaty has been signed.
England is to support the KaiseI's pre-
tensions in Egypt. Chamberlain also
gave 1t out officially that England
favors American retention of the Phil
ippines. One thing the Continental
powers most fear is that the United
States and Great Britain may enter
into an international understanding.
A report is published in London of q
daring plot to assassinate the czar at
Moscow last week. The plan of the
conspirators was to allow gas to escape
into house on the route of the czar's
procession until the atmosphere in every
room was saturated. One OF their
number was to remain in the house
and strike light when the czar was
passing in the expectation that the
house would be blown to pieces and
the czar killed. The conspirator
would perish himself as a sacrifice to
the cause. The explosion was mis-
timed and a staff officer and his wife
were killed, together with the conspir-
ator. Thirty people were injured.
In large fire at Madaloni, near
Casera, Italy, seven men, two women
and two children We're killed.
The international encampment of
the Grand Army met in Cincinnati, ..
Every section of the Union was repre-.
sented.
1t has been decided that the govern
ment vessels which won fame in the
war will not be sold. The Gloucester,
formerly Morgan's yacht Corsair, one
of the Auxiliaries, will be retained,
because of her prominent part In the
destruction of Cervera's fleet.
The official record of the war depart
ment, as completed, shows that there
were 33 officers and 23l enlisted men
OF the army, 264 in all, killed in battle
during the war with Spain. These
casualties include all the lives lost by
the army in the battles in the Philip
pines, as we'll as those in Cuba and
Porto Rico.
General Miles and part OF his' com
mand have reached home. The general
confirms sensational reports regarding
himself and Alger, and refers to two
pointed snubs. The war department
refused the requests of Miles that his
forces be allowed to parade in New
York, and that the Wisconsin regiment
be allowed few days in New York
before returning TO its home state.
A riot occurred in the Colorado
Springs opera.house between 22 men
representing State Chairman Blood and
the Teller faction of the Silver Repub-
lican party, and Sheriff Boynton and
Chief of Police Gastright, with about
90 men representing the Wolcott-Ste
vens faction. Charles Harris, of Den.
yer, was killed, and an unknown man
was seriously injured. The opera.
house was then taken possession of .by
the police, deputy sheriffs and support
ers of ex-Chairman Broad.
At Cincinnati, O., the middle. .of-the.
road Populsts reorganized The Peoples
party, renewed its former declaration
OF principles, and nominated its nation.
al ticket two years and two months in
advance of the date of election. The
object of this early action was to head
of any such fusion as that of 1895.
The Western and Southern delegates
nominated Wharton Barker and Igna-