Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-10-21
LATER NEWS.


church for $4,000 for excommunicat-
ing him.
1t is said in London that the French
must either withdraw from Fashoda or
go to war with England.
The German government has now
decided to appoint permanently naval
attache at Washington, who will reach
his post in January.
The British ship Blengfelt, from New
York, burned off Margat, England,
early Monday morning. Eleven of the
crew, besides the captains wife and
children, perished.
Seven barges, containing 8Oo,0
poods of naphtha have been burned at
the petroleum port of Astiakhan, Rus.
sia. Three persons were killed in the
confagration, and several others in
jured.
The war department has received q
detailed description of the fortifica.
tions of Havana. Besides old guns,
there are 49 new guns. These guns are
principally OF the Hontoria and Ordonez
pattern, but there are few Krupps
among them.
In head-end collision between two
freight rains near Great Falls, Mont.
due to Misunderstanding OF orders,
Engineer Charles Goddard and Brake.
man Robert r, June were killed, and
Fireman A. L. Ritchie was probably
fatally injured.
The government will undertake the
transportation of Christmas boxes for
soldiers at Manila. A steamer will
start from San Francisco early in No.
vember. so packages must be forwarded
soon. Only small quantities of sweet
things will be accepted.
1t is announced that Montreal and
Quebec are to be thoroughly fortified
as part of the scheme for the defenses
of Canada. Colonel Dalton, chief of
the imperial defense commission, is in
Montreal, completing plans for the
Notifications of the cities.
A curious method of aiding charities
has been initiated in Paris, where, it is
announced, the saloons of the high
aristocracy, which have hitherto been
extremely exclusive, will be opened to
strangers, on reception days, for
money consideration, which will be ap.
piled to the charitable works of which
the lady of the house is patron.
A reception was rendered the army
heroes at the Omaha exposition.
Colombia will risk no future trouble
and diplomatic relations with Italy
have been reversed.
1t is reported that Gen. Maxine
Gomez has been selected for president
of the Cuban republic.
A military plot against the French
government was discovered and flus.
trated by prompt action.
The International Typographical
Union in biennial session at Syracuse,
N. Y, voted to abolish the referen.
dunn.
A cabinet crisis has occurred in Cape
Colony, South Africa, and the assembly
has voted want of confidence in the
government.
Murderer John Miller was hanged al
San Quentin, Cal, for the killing Of
James Childs in San Francisco, in No,
vember, 1896.
The American peace commissioners
were entertained in Paris with a pri.
vate theatrical performance, arranged
in their honor by Figaro.
Frauds amounting to millions of dol.
lars have been discovered in the Chilean
arsenal. Senor Navarro, the chief ac.
countant, has committed suicide.
The Paris peace commissioners can.
not agree over the Cuban debt ques.
tion. The Americans claim the matter
is irrelevant, because the United States
Is not annexing Cuba.
1t is reported in Manila that Macab.
ulous, chief of the five northern prov.
inces of the Philippine islands, has
rebelled against Aguinaldo, and that
fighting has taken place between the
opposing factions.
News to the effect that large num-
bers of political prisoners have been
horribly tortured in Ecuador by order
OF the government, has been brought
to San Francisco by the steamer Pan.
anna.
Han Ky, the Corean minister of
justice, has been dismissed for having
permitted the brutalities perpetrated
by the populace on the bodies of the
men recently hanged for conspiracy to
poison the emperor.
Chief Sweenie. OF the Chicarn fire.