Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-09-29
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

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Hawaii will endeavor to secure set
tiers from northern Italy and Sweden.
Mark Hanna says it would be more
than disgrace for us to sell the Phillip
pines.
At lumber yard fire in Los Angeles
three men were injured, two of them
fatally.
One battalion of the Thirtr-fifth will
sail from Portland on the Elder within
10 days.
Scheurer Kestner, chief exponent of
the cause of Dreyfus, died on the day
the captain was pardoned.
A prominent Filipino has approached
General Macarthur in the matter of
releasing the American prisoners.
The empress dowager of China is
said to be seriously i'll and Earl Ii
Hung Chang has been recalled to
power.
President Kruger has been informed
that the will receive no help from Ger
many in the event of war with Great
Britain.
Labor unions have ordered all work
in connection with the Chicago fall fes-
tival stopped until an agreement is
reached.
After six weeks siege Jules Guer-
in, the French anti-Semitic agitator,
surrendered when the army was about
to attack his fort.
Mrs. Mary Brooks, who has been in
Michigan prison for 23 years has been
pardoned. She Immediately married
the man who had her convicted.
Representative Dalzell, of Pennsyl-
vania, says that both the senate and
house will present bills in regard to
currency legislation at the next session
OF congress.
G. N. Peck, a prominent farmer liv-
ing near Lexington, Morrow county,
Oregon, died from hemorrhage of the
lungs. The neighbors thought he had
smallpox, became frightened and re-
fused to bury him, and two physicians
performed the task unaided.
Over 5000 persons are dead and
missing as result of the recent ty-
phoons in the Orient. Much damage
to shipping is reported. The appalling
subsidence of tn eBesshi mine in the
island of Shikoku entailed the loss of
$50 lives. From some parts of the
south reports still come in of thousands
upon thousands of houses destroyed,
while every prefecture counts by hun
dreds its dead. An interesting Incl
dent in the Beshi mine catastrophe
was the final saving of five miners,
who had been imprisoned in the earth
for six days by the caving in of the en-
trance.
Cuba is suffering from long.con-
tinued drought.
The Nashville will not be sent to
Venezuela till needed.
China has protested against General
Otis exclusion order.
Japan is being urged to secure rail-
way concessions from China.
James NJ. Nixon, once famous
Snowman, is dead in New York.
The battleship Kentucky will have
her first run about the 1st of October.
The Indian hoppickers in Puyallup
valley, Washington, are sun dancing.
Almost the entire business section
of Farnham, N. Y, was wiped out by
fire.
The sovereign grand lodge of Odd
Fellows met in Detroit, Mich, IN an
nual session.
The steamer Alpha has arrived from
Alaska with 200 passengers and half
a ton OF gold.
The American ship George Stetson
was burned at Loochoo, China, No
loss OF life resulted from the disaster.
Major Jones, who has been quarter
master at Manila, has returned. He
thinks $4,000 men will be needed in
the islands for 10 years.
Hon. Daniel Ermentrout, congress.
man from the sixth congressional dis.
tIiot Of Pennsylvania, 10 dead. He
was serving his sixth term.
Officials say that Admiral Sampson
will not be suspended by Admiral
Howison and that the newspapers are
making mountain out Of mole hill.
A boat containing the captain and
IL men from the French steamer Dunra
is believed to have been lost near the
island Of Elba in the Mediterranean
sea.
Thirty transports are scheduled to
sail for the Philippines before Novem-
bre |, and il is predicted that the sol