Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-01-20
LATER NEWS.

IOrK, en- route 10 tne PnlnpplneS.
The entire military department of
Santa Clara, Major General j. G. Bates
commanding, is quiet. Twenty seven
thousand Spaniards still remain in the
vicinity of Cienfuegos, but one trans
port has loaded and IL others are ex-
pected to arrive at an early date. 1t
is impossible, however, that the evacu-
alton will be completed much before
the middle of February.
Great fear is felt for the safety of
the naptha launch Paul Jones, hailing
from Louisville, which left the mouth
of the Mississippi river January 3 for
Pensacola, Fla. with a party of ladies
and gentlemen from Chicago and In
dianapolis on board. Nothing has been
heard there of the launch, and one of
the fastest tugs has left to make thor
ough search on the Gulf.
A train of empty cars on the Oregon
Short Line, while leaving Butte, ran
into an open switch near the city, and
crashed into switch engine. Both
engines and some of the cars were
wrecked The crew of the train and
that of the switch engine all jumped.
Conductor Joseph Grant, of the freight,
was thrown under the wreck and
killed. Fireman Dowling was injured.
The rest escaped unhurt.
A Madrid dispatch says the govern
ment, on the reassem bling of the cor
tes, will Immediately ask La Reforma
for authority to sell the Marianne
(Ladrones), Caroline and the Pelea
islands, since Spain is powerless TO
maintain sufficient force to defend
them. The government arrived at this
decision in consequence of advices from
General Rios that an army of 1000
men, a man.of-war and two gunboats
would be necessary for the purpose.
Official dispatches from lilo Ilo, is
land of Panay, indicate that the ma
tiges are disposed to be friendly, al.
though absolutely opposed to the land
ing of the United States forces without
order from Malolos, the seat of the So
called Filipino native government.
Some of the officials at lilo Ilo are not
in accord with the revolutionary gov
ernment, but are willing to accept an
American protectorate, and will 90 to
state the case to Aginaldo if furnished
transportation by the Americans.
The Berlin correspondent of the Lon
don Times quotes from the Cologne
Gazette that "rumors as to the annex
alton of Vauva, one of the Friendly
islands. by Germany, are an invention
OF those who desire to stir up ill-feel-
ing between Germany and the United
States. He says, how ever, as the
Cologne Gazette was among the most
active originally spreading reports of
Germans intention to annex the Phil
ippines, its excessive indignation in
the present instance is somewhat over
done.
At Furley, Kan, Thomas Greene
killed his wife and then shot himself.
Jealousy was the cause.
Rev. DR.. William Maxwell Black
burn, president of Huron college at
Pierre, S. D., died at the age of 60
years.
Margaret Livingston Chanler and
Anna Bouling, heroic women who
served without pay as nurses in Porto
Rico during the war, have been recon-
mended for that rare honor, the thanks
of congress.
1t is reported from Peking that
Russia has demanded lease of the
Miao Tao islands as torpedo station.
These islands lie across the entrance
OF the Gulf of Pe-Chi-Li, south of Port
Arthur. The acquisition of these
islands would still further strengthen
Russia's hold on the approaches to
Peking.
The quartermaster's department is
to disinter and bring to this
the remains of the 200 heroes
of the Spanish war who We're either
killed by bullets or died of fever in
Cuba and Porto Rico. Colonel Moore,
assistant quartermaster. general, says
the expedition of disinterment is well
under way.
Senator Teller, of Colorado, has in
troduced bill for the amendment of
the war-revenue act, so as to provide
for tax upon the actual value or sell
ing prices instead of the nominal
value of certain stocks. The bill is in
tended to relieve the cheaper mining
stocks from what is claimed to be an
enormous burden upon them.
A petition from ex-Queen Liliouka-
lani OF Hawaii has been presented to
the house, protesting against the Unit
ed States assertion of ownership to the
crown lands of Hawaii as taking of