Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-12-02
LATER NEWS.

-Four companies of engineers have
been ordered by the war department to
Havana.
Ex-Queen Lilioukalani has arrived
in San Francisco on a visit to this
country.
The president has appointed John
Morgan collector of customs for the
Southern district of Oregon.
Policeman Luke Curry, of Great
Falls, Mont, was mistaken for bur-
glar, shot and instantly killed by Isaac
Shaeffer, merchant.
Rear-Admiral Joseph N. Miller. who
hoisted the American flag over Hawaii
on August IL last, has retired after
spending Al years in active service.
The London Chronicle criticizes the
action of the United States in killing
Canadian shipping trade with Porto
Rico, and speculates as to the meaning
of the action.
Sixteen families of Canyon City, Or,
left homeless by the recent fire, are
shelterless and in dire distress. A
Portland evening paper is collecting
contributions to relieve them.
Acting on the recommendation of
Captain Dickens, Secretary Long has
increased the age requirement in the
case of apprentices admitted to the
naval service from IA to 10 years.
According to plan of Secretary
Gage, paper money\is to be made uni
form, and bills of one denomination
must all look alike. 1t is thought this
will make easier the detection of coun-
terfeits.
1t is represented by dispatch from
San Jose, CAL, that the prunegrowers
of that vicinity charge that Oregon
prunes have been sold there and
shipped East as Santa Clara county
prunes.
The San Francisco Examiner saws:
No less than five new sugar companies
have been incorporated in the Hawaiian
islands, and within two years from
now the output of raw sugar will be in
creased considerably.
A Philadelphia dispatch says that
American vessels are in scanty supply
and that shippers are forced to resort
largely to foreign ships. Over $780,
100000 will be paid this year to own
ers of vessels under foreign flags by
Americans.
England is rushing munitions of war
to Esquimault. The intention appar-
emily is in case of war to fit out war
ships and transports at Esquimault for
service in Eastern waters, and to draw
whatever troops are needed for the
British forces in India.
Rios, president of the Spanish peace
commission. has refused to continue
the peace negotiations, in view of the
severity of the terms proposed by the
United States commissioners. The
American demands call for cession of
the Philippines and payment to Spain
of $40, 100000, one of the Carolines and
cable rights in other islands, and COM
pliance by Spain with all of these de.
mands not later than November %.
DR.. Stephen B. Tying, president of
the American Chamber of Commerce
died in Paris,
Trouble among the miners at Pana,
Ills, has broken out anew, and troops
have been sent to the scene.
The First Illinois volunteer infantry,
which saw service in the trenches at
Santiago, has been mustered out of
service.
Advices received from Seoul say the
Corean government has issued orders
that foreigners are to be stopped from
trading in the interior.
The Canadian cruiser Petrol has
seized a number of fish nets near San
dusky, O., belonging to American
fishermen, and which, it is claimed.
were in Canadian waters.
The four-masted schooner Talofa,
Captain Fletcher, from Guantanamo
for Port Tampa. in ballast, has been
totally wrecked on Cozumel island, off
the eastern coast of Yucatan, and the
captain and seven of the men have ar
rived at Progreso, two of the men hav-
ing been drowned.
The ship Atlanta, which sailed from
Tacoma, loaded with wheat for Cape
Town, IAN ashore near Alsea bay. She
had crew of 81 men, only two of
whom got ashore. The vessel was
broken in two, and is probably a total
loss. She was commanded by Captain
Charles Mcbride.
Two freight trains on the Chicago,
Rock Island 81 Pacific collided at Mos
COW, Ia. One man was killed and one
injured. A wrecking train which was
about to start to the scene from Wilton