Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-02-03
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
CulIed FrOm the Telegraph Columns.

Inc second annual convention OF the
National Livestock Association is in
session at Denver. Nearly 1000 dele
gates are present.
Governor @. A. Culberson has been
elected by acclamation in the Texas
Legislature to be United States senator,
to succeed Roger Q. Mills.
Amalgamation of the copper mine
interests of the Houghton, Mich. dis
trict and OF Montana has been delayed
by the severe lness of Levy Mayer.
Judge E. w. Woodbury.. who framed
the first prohibitory liquor law enacted
by the Maine Legislature. is dead at
his home in Bethel, in that state, aged
81 years.
The fourth annual convention of the
National Association of Manufacturers
is in session in Cincinnati. 1t is
thought a full attendance of 1900
members will be present.
The Spanish minister of war has de-
cided to abolish military marshals. to
retire half of the unattached generals
and to greatly reduce the number of
officers on the active list in the interest
of retrenchment.
A dispatch from Washington says:
There is reason to believe that the va
cancy in the Anglo-American joint
high commission caused by the death of
Mr.. Dingley will soon be filled by the
appointment of Representative Tawney,
of Minnesota.
The commissioners sent by the Cuban
assembly to Washington to learn what
the United States government will do
about paying the Cuban army. have
sailed for Havana. General Gomez
secretary, Captain Kohly, said that the
commission had obtained part of what
they asked.
No more names will be considered
for appointment to any branch of the
postal service in Cuba. The postof1ice
department has been overwhelmed with
applications for these appointments,
and enough eligible names are now on
file to fill all possible emergencies for
five years to come.
Heavy rains, unusual in this lati-
tude at this time of the year, have in
jured the spring crop of sugar cane in
Nicaragua. The coffee crop in Mica
ragua, now being gathered, will not ex-
ceed half of the annual crop. Laborers
are asking high prices to gather the
harvest, and are indisposed to work.
Boston capitalists are said to have
made an offer of $4,000, 900, Spanish
gold. for the San Jose warehouses and
wharves at Havana.
Hundreds of cattlemen are in Dem
yer to take part in the convention OF
the National Livestock Association.
The attendance will be large.
General Russell Hastings, of Massa-
chusetts, has been chosen for appoint
ment as director of the bureau OF
American republics, to succeed the late
Joseph Smith.
Bank notes to the value of EGO, ,00C
have mysteriously disappeared from
PARIS bank, in Bartholomew Lane
London, England. 1t is supposed that
they have been stolen.
A dispatch from Omaha says: The
Twenty-second infantry has received
orders to move at once for San Fran
e cisco. The regiment has orders to sail
from San Francisco on the 2Sth.
A bill has been introduced in con
gress which provides that mo person
living in or practioing polygamy shal
be eligible to be member of eithe
house OF congress, nor shall such per
son be permitted to hold seat therein. >
The secretary of war has completed
the organization of colonial commits
sion to undertake the adjustment OF al
matters of detail respecting the govern
ment of territories acquired during tht
war occupied by the United States
forces.
Rev. Edward II. Budd, who wa
thought to have been lost on the Pau
Jones, is alive. The vessel was de
tanned in Pass La Outre so long b,
foggy weather that Mr.. Budd grew i'm
patient and left the party, returning t,
New Orleans.
AS result of the assignment of the
battle-ships Iowa and Oregon to tn,
Pacific and Asiatic stations respective
ly, and the decision to dispatch TIN
cruiser Newark to the Pacific coast, tn
commissioned naval force of the UniteC
States is about equally divided be
tween the two oceans.
The treasury department has givel
instructions to the customs officials a
Sitka and Skagway to stop the trans
portation Of liquor under convoy iron
Canadian ports through the White Pas
to the Northwest territory. Informa