Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-08-26
LATER NEWS.
The Manila cable is again workin


Accompanied by his staff he will leave
Porto Rico in few days.
The natives control the water supply
Of Manila, and refuse to allow the wa
ter to run except for few hours each
day. They have demonstrated that
they are incapable of self-government.
The president has promoted Captain
Charles d. Sigsbee, U. S. N, now COM
manding the St. Paul, by advancing
him three numbers on the list of cap
tains in the navy, for "extradordinary
heroism."
Dave Speagle shot and killed Bob
Penix at Wilbur, Wash. Speagle is
said to have been too intimate with
Penix's family. Penix started out to
kill speagle, and the latter killed him
IN eelf-defense.
A tremendous explosion at the plant
OF the Chattanooga Powder Company.
at Coltewah Station, killed two men.
Lucius B. Eagan and Harton Mortchke,
and injured seriously, if not fatally,
six others. The plant was destroyed
by fire.
A dispatch from Buda Pesth to the
London News agency says that while
a regiment of soldiers were crossing a
pontoon bridge over the river Moras,
near Homd, the bridge collapsed.
Three hundred men were immersed
and over 80 were drowned
Our warships may soon coal at
Pango-Pango. The contract for the
building Of station there is 10 be let
Immediately. Work Will be carried
forward rapidly and completed next
year. Naval officers declare the harbor
secured by the United States is the
only land-locked port of refuge in
Samoa.
The monitor Monadnock has arrived
in Manila. On the way over she
stopped at the Ladrone island of Guam,
which had been seized by the first ex-
pedition. She found that Spaniard
had repudiated American rule, and set
up government on his own account.
Captain Whiting, of the Monadnock,
promptly upset this new government,
and made the usurper prisoner and
brought him to Manila.
The hospital-ship Relief has arrived
in New York from Porto Rico with
sick and wounded soldiers.
A resort in Stockton, CAL, known as
Jackson's baths, covering almost city
block, was destroyed by fire. Loss,
$40, 900.
Another detachment of Spaniards are
off tor their native land. A steamer
carrying over 1000 of them sailed from
Santiago Saturday.
The victorious fleets of Sampson and
Schley have arrived at New York.
They were accorded an enthusiastic
reception by the populace.
The Cubans are to disband. Orders
for the execution of such a movement
have been sent to the island emissaries
from the junta in this country.
The hardest fighting at the battle Of
Manila was done by the Astor battery,
which led the advance. Brigadier-
General Macarthur, commanding the
brigade, complimented the men in the
highest terms right in the midst of the
battle for their vdlor and success.
A cloudburst over saw mill run in
Pittsburg caused tidal wave in the
stream and endangered the lives of a
dozen persons. Five children were
drowned. They are: Irene LOTUS,
Regis Lotus, Conceive Shaughnessy,
Margaret Shaughnessy and Nellie Sauls.
There is considerable work ahead OF
the new Cuban commission. The ad-
ministration of the affairs of the island
will be no easy task, and the Cubans
must be held in check after the Spanish
troops are withdrawn. The notorious
practices carried on under Spanish rule
are to be abolished and the Co-opera-
tion of Cuban leaders must be sought.
Nathan Hollenbeck, deputy pound
master of Oakland, CAL, was shot dead
by Quang Mon, Chinese gardener,
who was watching for vegetable thieves.
Hollenbeck was passing through corn
patch, and was fired at four times by
the Chinese, one OF the shots proving
fatal. The murderer surrendered him
self.
A Madrid dispatch says the govern
menth as resolved to insist that the
capitulation OF Manila, after the sign
ing Of the protocol, shall have no effect
in the peace negotiations unfavorable
to Spain. In any event the government
holds that capitulation, signed by the
commanders of the two forces, does not
entail the surrender of the whole Phil
ippines.
A Ponce special says; Reports are
coming in from all directions of out
rapps committed within tha Spo,,; 81,