Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-03-17
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

broke through the ice where three riv-
ers meet, and 106 were drowned.
Continuous skirmishing is reported
at Manila. A few Americans are
wounded and occasionally one killed.
Another rebellion has broken out
in China. An army 10000 strong is
committing serious depredations in the
central provinces.
The Argentine training-ship, with
President Sarmente, has arrived at
Valparaiso, where great festivities
have been prepared in his honor.
The republican deputies at meeting
held at Madrid, have decided upon a
vigorous republican propaganda. Pals,
the republican paper, has been seized.
A message received at Harvard COL
lege observatory from the European
Association of Astronomers announced
the discovery of faint comet by DR..
Wolio.
A severe earthquake shock was ex.
perienced at Yokohama, the disturb
ance visiting localities of the great
shock of 1891, with some loss of life
and property.
Governor Smith, of Montana, has
vetoed bill passed by the late legisla-
ture legalizing boxing contests. Such
contests are absolutely forbidden by
the law in force.
Ex-Commissary- General Eagan, who
has remained in Washington since the
court-martial suspended him from the
service for an attack on General Miles,
has left Washington for the West He
will go to Honolulu, where his son has
large interests in coffee plantations.
A sensation has been caused in
France by report that 10 dynamite
cartridges were found behind the Tou.
lon arsenal recently destroyed, and by
the further report that some person not
yet identified fired three revolver shots
at an arsenal sentry. none of them,
however, taking effect.
A suit for $40, 900 damages against
James }. Hill, as president OF the Great
Northern Railway Company, has been
commenced in the superior court at
Seattle by w. f. Hays, who claims that
the state granted him an exclusive con-
tract to fill in tidelands at Smith Cove
recently purchased by President Hill
for docking purposes.
PaymasteT General Carey will 90 to
Cuba with $4,000. .O00-to pay the dis
banded Cuban soldiers.
Josephine Kipling, the 6.year-old
daughter of Rudyard Kipling, and the
oldest OF his three children, died in
New York from pneumonia.
A dispatch to the New York Herald
from La Guayara. Venezuela, an
nounces that the United States gum
boats Annapolis and Vicksburg have
sailed from La Guayara for Jamaica.
The insurgents made an attempt to
capture the waterworks near Manila,
but were repulsed by the Oregon and
Nebraska troops. Seventeen rebels
were killed, and many wounded. Two
Americans were wounded.
The British cruiser Talbot, Com.
mander Gamble, has arrived at New
York, from Bermuda. The Talbot was
ordered there by the British govern.
ment to transport the body of Lord
Hershell to England.
1t is announced that more than "a
per cent OF the entire stock of the Ore.
gon Short Line Railroad Company has
been deposited for exchange under
the offer of the Union Pacific Railway
Company, previously published.
BY the explosion OF powder maya.
zine near Toulon, France, more than
so people were killed. 1t is rumored
that one Of the soldiers guarding the
magazine caused the explosion as an
act of revenge. He is one of the vic.
tins.
General Otis has perfected plan Of
campaign which is designed to crush
the offensive power of the insurgent.
near Manila. AS soon as his rein,
forcements arrive he will make gen
eral assault on the enemy's jungl,
stronghold
Admiral Won Diedrichs, in command
OF Germany's Asatic fleet, and whit
has given Admiral Dewey much troubl,
at Manila, has been suspended, anC
Prince Henry put in command. Th,
change, 1t is said, is to show Emperor
williams friendship for America
Prince Henry, who is brother of the
emperor being popular in the Unit
ed States.
From reports which have been com
ing to the headquarters of the Ma
tional Live Stock Association at Den
yer, for the past month the ofioars ~