Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1898-09-23
LATER NEWS.

to the powers that immediate action be
taken against anarchists.
Mail advices from Japan state that
another formidable rebellion against
japanese rule has broken out in For
mosa.
Aguinaldo still maintains that his
government is kindly disposed towards
ours and that relations will continue
friendly.
The president has appointed Fred
Page Tustin, of Oregon, commissioner
for the district of Alaska, to reside
at Wrangel.
The London Daily Telegraph's st.
Petersburg correspondent says that Lui-
gini, the assassin of the Austrian en-
press, belonged to an organized gang of
anarchists, whose purpose is to murder
crowned heads of Europe.
The streets of Havana are crowded
with beggars since the closing OF the
soup Kitchens. There is almost a total
lack of food and clothing, and men,
women and children are dying by
inches from disease and hunger.
With fierce fire in it's hold, the
steamer Evelyn, Captain G. F. Horner,
from Huelva, Spain, heavily loaded
with sulphur ore. has put into its pier
at Locust Point, Nd. 1t is remarkable
that the ship and all those on board
were saved from d terrible death IN
mid-ocean.
The Spanish minister of war, Cen
eral Correa, has issued instructions for
the return of the Spanish troops in the
West Indies. The sick are to leave
first and the archives will be brought
to Spain with the arms, ammunition,
flags and material stored in Cuba and
Porto Rico.
1t is no longer secret that Germany
is the only nation from which the gov
ernment apprehends trouble in the set
tlement of the Philippine question,
and it is to avert the commitment of
an overt act that the president deter
mined to so strengthen Rear Admiral
Dewey's command as to make it super
ior to the German feet in Asiatic
waters.
More troops are to go to Manila at
once. The Fifty-frst Iowa, Twen-
tieth Kansas, First Tennessee, First
Washington and the Oregon recruits
will comprise the expedition. The
late order of the war department on
the subject has been directly reversed.
There is much conjecture as to the
cause for the sudden change of policy.
The war department announces that
the move is merely in furtherance of a
plan to garrison the Philippines, Cuba
and Porto Rico. 1t is also said the
new plan includes 10000 men for the
Philippines, II, 800 for Porto Rico and
60, 900 for Cuba.
A Jesuit priest has been shot for per-
suading rebels to desert Aguinaldo.
At the coming meeting of rebel lead
ers at Malolos, the majority, it is said,
will vote for autonomy under the pro-
lection of America.
An edict has been published extend
ing the postal operations throughout
the Chinese empire, and replacing the
present system of government couriers.
Sagasta. at council of ministers at
Madrid. drew attention to tire desire
of the Duke of Veragua, as direct de-
scendant, that the remains of Christie.
pher Columbus be removed from Ha-
vana to Spain.
The former rebel chief, Isabelle Arta-
cho, who was condemned to death bv
Aguinaldo for treachery in May, and
was reprieved and escaped, is leading
$4,000 men against Aguinaldo. Arta-
cho is backed by priests.
Secretary Long has directed that the
battle-ship which is to be built by the
Union iron works, San Francisco, shall
be named the Ohio. The Cramps will
build the Maine, and the Newport
News Company the Missouri.
Hopes are entertained that the sunken
Spanish cruiser lnfanta Maria Teresa
can be saved. 1t is reported that her
bottom is firmly fixed on rock and
the wreckers have been doing every
thing in their power to repair the hole
so that she can be floated.
The steamship Gloucester, which ar
rived at Boston from Baltimore, re-
ports that she collided with the Glou.
cester schooner Alice Jordan off Mar
tha's Vineyard, and that nine of the
Jordan's crew were drowned. Seven
of the crew We're saved by the Glou.
cesteI.
The insurgents are reported to have
changed their plans, and instead of
evacuating all the suburbs of Manila.
as expected by Otis, have moved from
Ermita to Santana, where thev amman