Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-09-30
LATER NEWS.

The work OF raising the Cristobal
Colon has now been taken up by the
navy department.
The steamer Rosalie has arrived at
Seattle with 110 passengers from Klon-
dixie, and $40, 600 in gold dust.
A recapitulation of the reports OF the
board of health shows a total OF 1874
cases in the state of Mississippi.
The war department will not enter
tain applications for discharge, ex-
cepting they reach it through military
channels
News has been received from Ju-
neau, Alaska, OF the drowning of w.
Nutling, of Michigan, and W. H. Lock
wood, of California.
The Louisiana board of health makes
the official announcement that Frank
lin has had 1O1 cases to date. Five
persons have died there
General Gomez gives emphatic de.
NAL to the published reports that he
had presented his resignation as COM
LaLiuOl .l'l'OllASl VI I4lO OuDau aIu!
An official dispatch from S.. Louis,
Senegal, in West French Africa, says q
force of Soudanese sharpshooters in
the French service defeated an army of
Sofas under one OF Samody's chiefs,
capturing 5000 men.
The most beautiful of the souvenirs
of the great naval battle of July 5, off
Santiago, has reached the navy depart
mnt from Guantanamo 1t is a bronze
bust Of Christopher Columbus, taken
from the flagship Cristobal Colon,
which lies below the surface of the
ocean, 20 miles from Santiago.
Advices firm San Francisco say Gen.
eral Shafter will soon return to resume
his station az commander of the depart.
ment of California, relieving General
Merriam, who will probably be as
signed to his former duties as COM
mander Of the department of the Colum-
bia.
The steamship Topeka has arrived at
Seattle with 100 Klondikers, 90 per
cent of whom have little or no dust.
The passengers report that H. Fraser
and E. l.. Tolner, both of Seattle. were
held up by two men near Haines' mis-
sion and robbed of $4,000 in gold.
The body Of Ike Martin was found near
the scene with a bulet-hole through
the head. He had been robbed OF
$4,000.
AT meeting Of the French cabinet
Monday, all the ministers being pres
ent, decision was taken in favor OF a
revision of the trial of former Captain
Dreyfus, and the documents in the case
will be sent to the court of cessation.
Crowds of people outside the ministry
of the interior, where the cabinet coun-
Gil was held, loudly cheered the minis
tiers. The legality OF the proposed re-
trial proceedings must be passed upon
by the court.
Over 10000 people witnessed the
opening of the Portland exposition
Thursday night.
The state fair opened at Salem,
Thursday. Most OF the stock. poultry
and exhibits are on the ground.
Fifty men We're entombed in mine
| at Brownsville, Pa. as q result of an
explosion of fire damp. Several bodies
have been recovered.
Mr.. Angel, our late minister to
Turkey, reports that the sultan repudi-
ates the American claims, and recon-
mends a naval demonstration to bring
him to time.
Major General Miles, commanding
the United STATES army. has completed
his plan for the reorganization of the
volunteer forces into corps, divisions
and brigades. This plan has been sub
mitted to the war department for ap-
proval. 1t contemplates reorganlza-
tion of the volunteer force which has
not been ordered mustered out.
Frank p. Myers shot and killed John
Lenhart, constable. and NJ. Kerns, by.
stander, at Garrett, Md, while resist
ing eviction from a house which was a
subject OF family dispute. He then
barricaded the doors and windows, but
was finally captured by the sheriff. AS
he was being taken to Jail, some one
in the crowd shot the prisoner and he
fell dead.
According to special dispatches from
Peking, members of the European com.
nunity there believe the emperor OF
China is in danger, 1t is added that
the dowager empress desires to place
Prince Kwang's grandson on the
throne. The emperor realizes the
strength of the conspiracy against him
and has ordered the guards at the pal.
ace strengthened.
A dispatch to the London Globe from
Hong Kong ports gives the details of q