Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-12-30
LATER NEWS.

The recently appointed register of
the Nulato land office in Alaska is
missing.
In a trainwreck near Lexington, KY,
nine trainmen were injured, two p1ob.
ably fatally.
lmportations of manufactures from
Great Britain into the United States
seem likely to show an unusually small
total in the year 1898.
The United States troops have begun
regular patrol of the city of Havana.
in order to guard against possible dis
orders. General Lee is arranging for
the evacuation day parade.
Public men in office, especially those
in congress. newspaper correspondents
and everybody who is supposed to have
influence in shaping legislation or with
the administration are being flooded
with literature from foreign countries
In relation to our changed condition of
affairs as result of the American
Spanish war.
Fire destroyed the house occupied by
Senor Don Carlos Morla Vicuna the
Chilean minister, at the corner of Con-
necticut avenue and N street, Wash
ington. The roof and top story were
destroyed and the furniture of the
whole house was ruined by smoke and
water, entaiing loss of $40, 900. The
minister and his family barely es-
capped.
AT Brookline, Mass, by the sudden
breaking of the ice on Loverett pond in
the park system, 80 young girls and
boys were thrown into eight feet of wa
ter, and though numerous spectators
and the police worked hard to rescue
the children. three were drowned before
help could reach them. They were j.
w. Clattenburg, jr., 10 years old; Ar
thur Collins, IL years old, and Emma
Miller. IA years old.
The cotton receipts at Houston, Tex,
since the beginning of the present sea-
son have been 1000, 600 bales. record
never equaled by an interior town or
port of the United States, and which
will be celebrated by'a banquet to
which all. the the prominent civic Off
cials and cotton men will be invited.
1t is estimated by Secretary Warner, of
the cotton exchange, that 500, 900
bales will yet be received during the
remainder of the season.
Senator Mcbride of Oregon, has in
troduced bill making Astoria the ter
minus of the trans-Pacific cable.
According to a new time card of the
Great Northern to go into effect Janu-
ary l, the transcontinental schedule
will be reduced IL hours.
Congress has adjourned until Janu-
ary 4. After the holiday recess the
rights of General Wheeler and others to
hold their seats will be inquired into.
Among network of wires 20 feet
above the ground, Roderick Chisholm,
a Chicago electrician, was slowly
burned to death in sight of several
hundred spectators.
Colonel E. S. Barrett, national pres
ident of the Sons of the American Rev.
olution, was killed by falling from a
window of his home at Concord, Mass.
He was 60 years of age.
In Louisville, KY, it is estimated bv
the health department. that there are
10000 cases of grip. The 1avages OF
the disease have been so widespread
that in some cases business has beer
seriously impeded.
Hereafter brooms will cost 2 cents
more apiece. Members of the Broom
Manufa Cturers' Association of the
United States met in Chicago and de.
cided to advance the price of brooms %
cents a dozen.
A rear-end collision occurred on the
pennsylvania railroad three miles
from Railway, n. j., which resulted in
the loss OF two lives and injury to MANY
persons. The killed are William G.
Dewol(, railway clerk; and f. Knight,
colored porter of the sleeping
While examining state documents of
the 10th century in the Vatican library
recently, Able Co22auzzi, assistant
librarian, found the original manu-
script of treatise by Galileo on the
tides. The manuscript is all in Cali.
leo's handwriting, and ends with the
words written at Rome in the Medici
Gardens on January s, 1916.
The president has nominated Ethan
A. Hitchcock, of Missouri, to he secre-
taIy of the interior. Nj. Hitchcock is
ut present ambassador to Russia. He
was appointed minister more than a
year ago, and when the rank was raised
to an embassy, he was re-appointed.
He is a wealthy lawyer and business
man of st. Louis, and was fol some