Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-04-21
LATER NEWS.


Sarmeinto, Brazilian village, has
been destroyed by an earthquake.
Three persons perished.
S. W. Ginst cad, a Humboldt, New,
bank cashier, committed suicide. His
accounts were $40, 900 short.
The president has appointed Law
renee Townsend, of Pennsylvania, to
succeed Bellamy Storer as United
States minister to Brussels.
Mrs. Ida Ewing, charged with hav-
ing murdered her sister I-in-law, Mrs.
Lizzie Ewing, was acquitted by a
Maryville, Mo-, jury.
The schooner Mary Bidwell, that left
st. Michaels, Alaska, in August last,
for Alaska ports, has been heard from
at Port Clarence, waiting to sail for
the south.
Arrangements have been completed
whereby President Mckinley will
push an electric button which will
start work on the San Pedro break
water.
Vice-President Hobart, who is sick
at Washington, is holding the gain
shown last week. He is able to par
take of more hearty food, and sits up
about half an hour daily.
The Americans plan to trap Agui-
naldo by sending troops via the sea
route to the north Of him. Then he
will be between two lines OF Ameri-
cans, and it may besult in his capture.
A verdict of S., 900 damages against
7. ]. Carson, a Kentucky racehorse
breeder, in favor of w. F. Singleton,
photographer, who was shot by Car.
SONS, was return ed at Lexington.
By the explosion CT sawmill boiler.
near Chippewa Falls, Wis, Lem Will.
cox, John Brisnois and William Olson
were killed and Engineer P. A. Briggs
and four others were injured.
Naval orders posted at Washington
announce the promotion to the rank OF
rear-admiral Of Sam pson, Schley and
Farquahar, the latter commandant OF
the Norfolk nsvy-yard.
The Madrid official gazette con.
tains a royal decree appointing the
Duke de ARGOS to be Spanish envoy ex-
traordinary and minister plenipoten-
tiary to the United States.
The United States consul-general at
Berlin, Frank Mason, has revised fig.
ures showing that in the last three
months there was an increase OF
$4,S07,0 ,034 in the expectation to the
United States from Germany.
The 26th annual meeting of the ma
tional conference of charities and cor
rections will be held in Cincinnati
May II to %. Every state in the
Union will be represented except per-
haps Idaho, Montana. Nevada, Utah
and Washington.
In order to controvert the claim of
the Washington agricultural depart
ment that German toys contain certain
poisonous dyes and paints. the German
minister of commerce has ordered an
investigation to be made in all the toy
making centers of Germany with q
view of gathering evidence to the con.
trary.
The bospital-ship Missouri has ar.
rived at Fortress Monroe from Havana,
with 212 sick soldiers.
One thousand United States militia.
men will take part in the queens birth.
day celebration in Kingston, Ont.
The sixth annual convention of the
Association of Railroad Air Brakemen
is in session in Detroit, with about 100
delegates present.
The British house of commons re-
jected the bill providing for the COM
pulsory reinstatement of Irish tenants
evicted since 1879.
A miner has reached Dyea, Alaska,
who claims to be the survivor of a
party of three, two of whom were mur-
derd by Chilkat Indians near the vii
lage of Klukwan. The men killed
we're Sidney Vance. an Englishman,
and Chalres Erickson, Swede.
In the battle between the revolution.
lists under Pando and President Alon.
eos army, near Oruro, Bolivia, zoo
were killed. General Pando occupied
Oruro without confusion. President
Alonzo, with small body guard, is a
refugee at Antofagasta. bay of Morena,
Chile.
Ensign Monaghan, who was brutally
killed at Apia, Samoa. was born al
Chewelah, WASH, in 1878. He was
educated in private schools of San
Francisco and Portland, and in Con.
zaga college. Jesuit institution of