Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-12-02
Comprehensive Review OF the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

VIM. Fink, a farmer living near Ty-
fer, WASH, was killed by runaway
team.
A corporal and three merchants Of
Guantanamo we're arrested for steal
ing government supplies.
The spruce lumber exhibit of the
Clatsop Mill Company, of Astoria, has
been awarded the first prize, gold
medal by the Omaha exposition direct
ory. a
While gang OF 30 track hands was
at work on the Pennsylvania railroad
line, near Jersey City, they were run
down by train. Eleven workmen
were killed outright and six seriously
injured.
Conductor William Hatfield and
Brakeman Harry Crogin were killed in
the wreck of caboose attached to a
northbound train near Ardmore, l. T.
The caboose left the track and was
overturned.
There iss leper scare IN Mani!a.
Through neglect of Spanish officials
nearly 200 lepers escaped confinement.
Orders have been issued that all lepers
be arrested and sent to a small unin-
habited island southeast Of Luzon.
Advices by the steamship Empress
OF China tell of terrible disaster on
October %, when the steamer Kinshui
Maru came into collision with the
steamer Myagawa Maru, off Takami,
sinking the latter. Seventy persons
were drowned.
The secretary of the navy has ord
cred court of inquiry to meet at the
navy-yard at Norfolk for the purpose
of investigating the circumstances at
tending the abandonment of the Span
ish cruiser Maria Teresa, with a view
to determining the necessity and re-
sponsibility therefor.
George W. Lake. an American, re.
siding at Chemulpa, has been mur-
dered. Lake kept big store near the
Chinese consulate. The murderer en-
tered for the purpose of robbery. With
an iron weight attached to q Chinese
steelyard he killed Lake with one blow
as he slept.
Charles S. Cross, president of the
First National bank OF Emporia, Kan,
shot and killed himself near that city.
An hour previous the bank had been
closed by order Of the controller of the
nha poiluro 80 loI
and all the county and city funds are
involved.
An electric street-car of the Tacoma
railway line was derailed five miles
from the heart of the city on the Stella
COON line, by the controller refusing to
shut off the current on heavy down
grade. The Car was smashed to eplin.
ters by striking the side of cut 10
feet deep, through which it was travel
ing. Seven persons were aboard, and
all received injuries.
John Collins, an employe of the o.
r. IL N. Company, was fatally injured
by premature blast near Meacham,
Wash.
War preparations continue at Hong
Kong without abatement, and the
mines in the Lai Mum pass have been
charged.
General Miles in speech delivered
at the New York chamber of commerce
banquet, says the United States must
protect the Cubans.
The survey of the west entrance OF
the proposed Nicaragua canal has been
finished, and the map, with soundings,
plated and the contours put in.
The rumors circulated in London that
the American fleet was on the point of
starting for Europe, caused great ex-
element in commercial and social cir
cles.
Fumes of burning sugar on board the
American ship Kenilworth, from VAL
paraiso to New York, caused the death
of three men and nearly that of
fourth.
Baron Waldeck De villamil, an Aus
trian. noblemaR and captain of the
Seventh volunteer infantry (immunes),
is in disgrace, and has left Lexington,
KY, for parts unknown.
There is report in Washington that
during the delay which has occurred,
Spain has been able to form some sort
of coalition with the European powers
to back up the pretensions she has been
making in the negotiations. An inter-
esting feature of the matter Is the re-
fusal of the authorities to order the
muster out Of the volunteers who re-
Gently returned from Porto Rico.
There has been remarkable activity
about the war department for several
days in the way of preparing the troops
for service in lands beyond the United