Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-08-18
THE NEWS OF THE WEEK
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past WOek
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.


opposing whisky trust.
Quiet has been restored in Cleveland,
but the strike is still on.
Thirty thousand Firms will form a
colony in Newfoundland.
Former Governor w. Y. Atkinson,
Of Georgia, died at Newman.
A woman Of noble birth died in a
hovel in Chicago. Up to the last she
refused all favors.
Cavalry horses for Manila will be
taken via the Aleutian islands and
Japan to allow rest
Encouraged by the movement in 9TH
er cities the messenger boys of Buffalo.
N. Y, are on a strike.
A tank car loaded with naptha ex-
ploded in tunnel near Somerset, hy.,
wrecking train of 20 cars.
A Washington special says Bitishers
are getting firm hold on Cuban trade
and American capital is slow.
Carlisle, KY, was visited by a half
million dollar fire, which destroyed
nearly the entire business portion.
A Chicago man has been taken with
fit of laughing and is unable to check
it. He is unconscious, but continues
to giggle.
J. G. Hildebrand, an advertising So
licitor in the employ of the Portland
Oregonian, fell from a veranda and met
with instant death.
The coroner's jury has found that
the cause of the Bar Harbor catastro-
phe was due to insufficient construc-
ton of the ferry slip.
Ambassador Choate says there will
be Lo war over the Alaskan boundary
dispute. Negotiations are always slow
in such matters, but are progressing.
Aguinaldo has appealed to the pow
ers for recognition of "Filipino inde-
pendence" in document dated Tar
lac. July 81, and signed by Buencami-
hio.
The Santo Domingo rebels have
taken possession of Dajabon, driving
the garrison before them. The foreign
population and Hsytian consul have
left the place.
A broken fange on wheel caused
wreck on the Southern Pacific near
Dos Palos, Cal. Engineer Ford and
Fireman Wood were scalded to death.
Two others we've seriously and mum.
ber slightly injured.
An Eastern syndicate will build q
railway 252 miles in length in Mexico.
Troops A, D and NJ, Third cavalry
will embark from Seattle for Manila.
The New York Sun is badly tied up
by the strike OF the printers and stereo-
typers.
The new Samoan treaty will not be-
coma effective until ratified by the
powers.
Catholics and freethinkers INDUCED
in riot in Spain and number were
injured.
In race riot five negroes and one
white man were wounded at Green.
vile, S. G.
During the examination OF the secret
dossieI the Dreyfus court will sit In
secret session.
Marshal de Campos. president OF
the senate. predicts a ministerial crisis
in Spain in November.
An American is to be tried in Japan
Tor numbering three people. 1t is the
first case under the new treaty.
Dewey will next 90 to Genoa or Nice.
He refuses positively to discuss any
public questions. He was banqueted
by the Italian vice-admilal
President Mckinley will he In Chi.
cago during the fall festival in Oc.o.
Der, and will participate in the laying
of the corner stone OF the new federal
building.
The Lake Shore & Michigan South.
ern Railroad Company has placed an
order with the Brooks Locomotive
Works for 10 l0-wheel passenger en-.
gines, to be delivered as soon as posi-.
BILE.
The returning Samoan comm ission-
ers say that an agreement to the pres
ent form Of government has been
signed by the chiefs from all tribes and
factions, among whom there are mum.
ber Of intelligent men.
The situation in Santo Domingo il
grave. Thee thousand soldiers are
under arms to prevent an insurrection,
and armed steamers are patrolling the
coast. The interior is reported quiet
but business continues depressed.