Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-09-30
EPITONE OF THE DISPATCHES
Interesting Collection Of Items From
Many Places Culled From the Press
Reports of the Current Week.

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Washington, is to be transferred to
Vienna.
Gomez has issued general order to
the army under his command to the
effect that Spaniards must have con-
sideration shown them, and American
orders obeyed.
The navy department has ordered
400 sailors to be sent to Admiral
Dewey's squadron at Manila to take the
place of sailors whose terms of service
have expired.
General Blanco hos issued an order
authorizing the soldiers of the Cuban
army to travel unarmed on railway
trains in the provinces OF Pinar del Rio
and Havana.
AS far as new discoveries went, the
expedition sent out by the university of
Pennsylvania to study North Alaska
from scientific standpoint has been
failure. Three men OF the party re-
turned to Seattle on the Excelsior.
Nearly $4,000 specimens, weighing
1lR tons, were brought back.
The report that the last Spanish gar
rison in the island of Luzon had sur
rendered is premature. The Spaniards
still hold seven seaports in Albay prov
ince, the principal hemp district.
The distur Dances have already resulted
in the diminution of the output of AL
bay hemp by 100000 bales, as COM
pared with last years figures.
Advices from the Orient state that
China and Japan have been visited by
thunder storms and destructive floods,
in which many hundreds OF people have
lost their lives. The region north of
the Anshang mountains has been inun-
dated for hundreds of miles by the yell
low river. Several hundred thousand
persons have been plunged into the
deepest distress. and many into abso-
lutte penury, which local authorities
are unable to alleviate.
News received at San Francisco re-
ports the loss of the schooner O. @.
Funk, on Flanders island, on July 81,
with 10 of her crew. Only two seamen
were saved, and but one body has been
recovered. The list of the drowned is
as follows: Captain and Mrs. Nesson
and two children, aged and years,
respectively; A. Hansen, chief mate;
j. Stump, second mate; Charles Olsen,
Peter Nelson. Charles Joahansen and
Peter Anton, able seamen. The vessel
was driven ashore by gale and went
to pieces in the surf.
The cabinet council has reappointed
General zurlinden, eX-minister of war,
military governor of Paris.
James Wyland, living near Climax,
Or, committed suicide by shooting
himself in the head with a rifle.
A threshing engine on the Collins
farm, near Vancouver, Wash, ex-
ploded, seriously injuring four en-
ployes.
Calixto Garcia has arrived at Jiguani
on his way to Santiago. He will prob
ably visit the United States, where
his daughter is ill.
FL Provence, a Santiago paper, de-
clares that the fruits of victory shall
not be snatched from the grasp of the
Cubans after they have fought and bled
for 30 years to obtain them.
The coalminer's strike in the third
pool at Monongahela, Pa, is over and
work has been resumed in all the pits
pending settlement of the differences
by arbitration. Two thousand miners
are affected.
The wreck Of the American shiI
Emily W. Whitney is reported flom
Shanghai, and number of the crew
lost. She was lost in typhoon, which
caused the abandonment of the Ger.
man ship Trinidad.
Pittsburg conductors and brakemer
are on the eve Of strike. They de-
mand that their wages be increaset
sufficiently to place them on an equal
ity of the pay received by their bretherr
in other parts of the country.
According to the report current it 1.
believed at Samoa that If her majesty.
chip Ringdove had not been at Apia
the Germans would have hoisted the
German flag there on Malietoa's death
and proclaimed the annexation of Sa
moa.
General Lawton intends to receiv,
General Garcia as an honored guest
As he now holds no official position II
the Cuban army, he will be treated b,
the American commander rs distin
guished private citizen and grea
soldier.
The southern part Of Spain has beer
visited by terrible floods. At the vii
lage OF Herrera, near Cadlz, 80 por
sons were drowned, and great mum