Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1899-02-17
Comprehensive Review of the Import
ant Happenings of the Past Week
Culled From the Telegraph Columns.

The battleship Iowa has arrived at
San Francisco. 1t is expected she will
be sent to Manila with supplies for
Dewey.
The American losses in killed and
wounded in the recent battle at Ma
Mia, is officially given at 25O and the
losses of the insurgents at 1000.
Gen. Gomez will arrive in Havana
in a few days, where he will meet Sem
ator Proctor, and aid in carrying out
his promise to disband the Cuban
army.
In the New York assembly resolu.
tion urging the unseating of Congress-
man-elect Roberts, because of his iden-
t!fcation with polygamy, was adopted
by a viva voce vote.
Representative Stallings, of Ala
bama, has introduced in the house a
bill to authorize the president to ap-
point General Wheeler a major general
in the regular army.
The government forces defeated and
captured the Colorados, who recently
provisional president of Uruguay.
Tranquility Is now restored.
Agoncillo, the representative of the
so-called Filipino government, and who
left this country for Canada, upon hear
ing of the outbreak at Manila is being
closely watched by secret service de-
tectives. Agonoillo was in Montreal
at last reports.
Mrs. Botkin's attorneys have given
notice Of an appeal from the conviction
and sentence of lite Imprisonment re-
Gently passed upon her. Judge Carroll
Cook allowed 10 days. stay of execu-
tion, and 20 days in which to prepare
bill of exceptions.
President Mckinley has pronounced
sentence on Gen. Eagan, recently tried
dismissal from the army, but the presi-
dent commuted this to suspension for
Fix years, which covers the time prior
to Eagan's retirement in 1905.
The steamers Justin and Celtic, now
at Mare island, are being overhauled,
and in few days will be ready to sail
for the Philippines, following the sup
ply vessel Centennial, which left on
the 9Th. The Justin will carry coal
for the feet and the Celtic frozen meat.
Rear Admiral Dewey has captured
another schooner from Hong Kong load
ed with arms and ammunition intended
for the insurgents in the Philippines.
1t is reported that the German consul
at Hong Kong was concerned in the
procuring and dispatch of the arms to
the islands.
The peace treaty was ratified by the
senate by a majority of three votes over
the required three-fourths. The treaty
was ratified without amendment.
business in Portland, Or. was held up
and robbed in his store about $3.50 in
the evening by a lone highwayman.
John NJ. Comstock, for 40 years
chief of the customs division of the
treasury department, died in Washing.
ton after an illness of several weeks.
A monster petition to President Nc
Kinley and the members of the joint
high commission is being signed, ask
ing their assistance in securing the re
peal of the alien exclusion act recently
passed by the government of British
Columbia, in which the Atln mining
district is located.
According to recent dispatch, II
iron and steel sheet manufactures il
Pennsylvania. Ohio, West Virginia
Kentucky and Indiana, controlling al
aggregate annual output of $4,000
tons of steel and iron sheets, are pre-
pairing to consolidate. This action, i
is added, is made necessary by the com
bination of tin-plate plants, and it il
believed that the proposed consolida
tion will eventually be absorbed by tn,
tin-plate trust.
Local representatives at Tacoma ad
NIT that the street railway systems o
that city are to be consolidated, will
Eastern capitalists in control. A com
pany with 50, 900, 900 capital has beer
organized to operate all street-cars anC
furnish power to manufactures. 4
water-power plant will be constructed
Representatives of J. p. Morgan & Co.
the Northern Pacific railway, Uniol
Pacific and the o. Il. & N, with loca
men, are interested in the deal.
The two highwaymen who for tn
past two months have been holding u
citizens and stores and terrorizing al
Portland are safely lodged in Jail. On
of them, Harry Tracy, was arrested b.
Detective Weiner, after shootin
affray that stonnad n nassanoar troit