Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-03-18
CURRENT EVENTS OF THE DRY
Comprehensive Review of the Important
Happenings of the Past Week Culled
From the Telegraphic Columns

Charles Cutten, night agent OF the
Adams Express Company at Orrville,
o., disappeared with a $4,000 pack
age.
The United States supreme court has
affirmed the decision of Judge Bellin-
ger, Of the circuit court, uphOlding the
mortgage tax law OF Oregon, passed
October 28, 1892.
Joseph Hoye, a Chicago plumber,
who committed suicide by shooting
himself, is the third of three brothers
to meet such a tate. 1t seems to be
case of family mania for self-destruc-
tion.
The Pacific cable bill has been
agreed to in the house committee on
interstate and foreign commerce. 1t
provides for the construction of a cable
from San Francisco to the Hawaiian
islands.
Representative Tongue, Of Oregon,
is trying to arrange to have the
veterans Of the Indian war taken at
soldiers homes under the same regula-
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can and the late war.
Advices from the Orient, brought by
the steamship Empress of India,
which has arrived in Vancouver, b. c.,
tell of the almost complete destruction
of Manila, Philippine islands, by fire.
Five million dollars worth of property
was destroyed.
There has been heavy fall in stocks
of all kinds in London in consequence
OF rumors from China, West Africa,
Spain and America, with rumbling
thunder all around the sky. There are
signs OF alarm in every section OF the
stock list, American securities showing
the greatest weakness. Nothing short
of a miracle can preserve the peace of
the world, it is believed among British
statesmen and politicians, wires the
New York Worlds London correspond
ent. Not since the Napoleonic wars
has danger threatened from SO many
quarters.
In case of war between Spain and the
United States, England, it is said, will
at least lend us her moral support.
The Washington Post says Mary
Ellen Lease, of Kansas, will speak in
Oregon during the coming state cleo
tion.
A London dispatch to a New York
paper says that in an emergency Paris
would supply Spain with money to
carry on war with the United States.
The navy department will send the
dispatch boat Fern to Cuba with pro-
visions for the starving people, 1t
was at first intended to send the cruiser
Montgomery.
A dispatch to the London Mail from
Hong Kong says that fresh rebellion
has broken in the Philippines, and that
63 Spanish soldiers have been killed.
No further details are known at Hong
Kong.
The Royal Canadian dragons of
Winnipeg have been ordered to prepare
to move to the Yukon. They will
form part of the military expedition
which the federal government contem-
plate sending to that part OF the do
miniOn.
Recent heavy contracts for Los An
geles petroleum made by producers ut
Los Angeles with San Francisco have
encouraged the development OF the oil
fields there. Several wells have been
put down since the first of the month
and others are being sunk.
A Teheran dispatch says: The gov
ernor of the province of Herman routed
the insurgents at several points in
Persian Reluchistan. There were seri-
GUS riots at Hammadan, February 90,
due to quarrel between partisans OF
rival priests, during which 81 priests
were killed.
News was brought in to Salt Lake
from Browns Park, on the Colorado.
Wyoming boundary line, that three
members of the Robbers Roost" band
of outlaws, who last week murdered
Stockman Herr, had been captured and
lynched by n posse OF lIerr's friends
and some OF Sheriff Edgar's deputies.
The British sealcrs Auuka and San.
tiago, from Victoria, bound south, pu
into Monterey, Cal, to avoid storm
at sea. While five miles off Point Su
light on Saturday the Anoka lost tw,
boats, containing four men, in dens
fog, and turned north to find them
Both boats landed safely near Poin
Sur.
An unknown man was shot in tn
leg by u mob near Princeton, Idaho
He fell, and, when called upon to sur
render, fired bullet into his let
breast, missing the heart, and then
placing the revolver to the right sid
of his head, just above the ear, BILE,
his brains ont. He was suspected 4
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